75. Percabeth -64
Percy Jackson & Annabeth Chase, the Percy Jackson universe
76. Hucklerobby
Dennis 'Huckleberry' Whitaker & Michael 'Robby' Robinavitch, The Pitt
77. Bunnydoll
Jax & Ragatha, The Amazing Digital Circus
78. Wangxian -25
Lan Wangji & Wei Wuxian, Mo Dao Zu Shi
79. Shadowpeach -19
Sun Wukong & the Six-Eared Macaque, Lego Monkie Kid
80. Eternalberry
Hollyberry Cookie & Eternal Sugar Cookie, the Cookie Run franchise
81. Odypen
Odysseus & Penelope, EPIC: The Musical
82. Mizisua
Mizi & Sua, Alien Stage
83. Sterek
Stiles Stilinski & Derek Hale, Teen Wolf
84. Shadowvanilla
Pure Vanilla & Shadow Milk, the Cookie Run franchise
85. Moshang
Mobei-Jun & Shang Qinghua, The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
86. Spideypool
Spider-Man & Deadpool, the Marvel universe
87. Davekat 0
Dave Strider & Karkat Vantas, Homestuck
88. Heavymedic
Heavy Weapons Guy & Medic, Team Fortress 2
89. Lumax
Lucas Sinclair & Max Mayfield, Stranger Things
90. Sonamy
Sonic the Hedgehog & Amy Rose, Sonic the Hedgehog
91. Rookanis
Rook & Lucanis Dellamorte, Dragon Age: The Veilguard
92. Zoeystery
Zoey & Mystery, KPop Demon Hunters
93. Poolverine -90
Wade Wilson & Logan Howlett, the Marvel universe
94. Everlark -12
Katniss Everdeen & Peeta Mellark, The Hunger Games
95. Clois
Clark Kent & Lois Lane, Superman
96. Johnlock
John Watson & Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock
97. Agathario -21
Agatha Harkness & Rio Vidal, the Marvel universe
98. Stolitz -64
Stolas & Blitzo, Helluva Boss
99. Devil's Minion
Armand & Daniel Molloy, Interview with the Vampire & The Vampire Chronicles
100. Skystar
Skyfire & Starscream, Transformers
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Okay, I know I usually yap about byler on here but I have a really cool easter egg for rovickie that I just discovered (and haven't yet seen anyone else bring up — apologies if someone already has!)
I'll start off by saying that the song Robin plays for Vickie in episode 1 is called "Pretty in Pink" by The Psychedelic Furs.
Clock the way Vickie smiles while shaking her head in this scene, as if Robin has just done or said something cheeky...
For one, Vickie clearly resembles a young Molly Ringwald who starred in the John Hughes movie of the same name (redhead with a pixie cut). Vickie's costuming also appears to be inspired by Molly Ringwald!
Secondly, "pretty in pink" is an innuendo for saying someone looks good naked. 👀
That's quite literally what it's referring to in the song.
It's also quite on brand for a John Hughes film to reference this kind of innuendo, as the reason his films resonated with teens at the time was because he took teenagers and their problems seriously, treated them as "young adults", and gave them a distinct voice in popular culture (at a time when films were typically either intended for children or adults).
Now, the easter egg doesn't end here. Robin plays "Pretty in Pink" for Vickie (singalling that she thinks Vickie looks good naked), before...
...telling her very directly that she wants to see Vickie naked after their date at Enzo's.
Guys... that song choice was 100% intentional.
It makes me really happy that we get carefully crafted tongue-in-cheek references like this for queer intimacy in Stranger Things.
Byler’s: The queer coding and hints at Mike’s character, their relationship being shown from the start as different than the rest of their friend group, Their character developments (especially Mike’s and the drastic sudden change and projection of heteronormativity onto Will ), parallels to other canon couples that weren’t canon at the start, Filmography clues to what both of them are struggling with (Mike being in front of closets a lot), Will being gay (we were called crazy for that and it turned out to be true which now makes the ship half-canon), Usage of romance tropes “We’re friends, We’re friends!”, Mike suddenly being weird and distant with Will the second El mentioned him having a potential love interest in California (Even though he hugged Dustin tightly in the previous episode, showing he’s okay with physical contact, but it’s different with Will), Mike continuing to ask Will for advice in S4 about his relationship with eleven and how he can’t say he loves her (Yet if him and Will were totally platonic why couldent he just say “I couldent say I love her” he stumbles around Will saying, “I didn’t know what to say” or “Maybe if I would’ve said that thing,” as if he can’t get himself to say something he doesn’t mean. And the mere fact that it’d be pretty gross and queer-bait up for them to add a shot like this in the show, have multiple official Netflix accounts referencing them as boyfriends, never addressing the homophobia and scrutiny that Byler shippers get, not have Will have his happy ending which proved him right when he said “I’m not going to fall in love”, not having Byler be endgame.
Milevens: “Well Mike’s in love with El and Byler would ruin the show”
remember when all of us including myself said over and over again that mike would have to make the first move because there is no world where will would. i’m sorry season 5 will byers i was not familiar with your game.
This scene between Robin and will set up a LOT, that there is something that will be (or should be) shown between byler.
The duffers bring up kissing too will, when He has never done it, or experienced anything in the form of that. There is something missing here, and that should be shown in V2 or 3. Why have Robin ask him and have him reply “yeah, to me” .. why even bring up kissing to Will, if you aren’t going to let that happen..?
absolutely flabbergasted that i’ve seen NO ONE bring up the most important callback of the season
THE ENIGMA?? ALAN TURING???
oh my god i just know she made will feel so safe with that one line like. comparing will to a gay historial hero that he made a whole presentation about 🥺
that’s the subtle importance of queer community right there
