Main Theme: Bizarre and mysterious entities of unknown origin which manifest within narratives as they please for opposing reasons

Connections:

• Bizarre and mysterious entities of unknown origin (Nutty Ned’s origins are purposefully left vague to keep him mysterious, and the Anafabula’s origins are unknown due to it destroying any narrative it goes through including its own original one) which manifest within narratives as they please (Ned constantly jumping from narrative to narrative to flee the Guardian of Silence, and the Anafabula constantly ascending through narratives as it destroys them) for opposing reasons (Ned is a heroic figure who will help those in need wherever he finds them, an the Anafabula is a destructive force that erases any narrative it comes in contact with).
• Contrast in their personalities (Ned being highly empathetic and being willing to help any innocent he meets during his travels, and the Anafabula being highly destructive and obsessed with erasing narratives).
• Often deal with opponents on a different level of “reality” from them (Ned fighting the Guardian of Silence, which are imaginary and thus lack form, meaning they will be invisible until the person imagines a form for them, and they will then take upon such form, and the Anafabula having to ascend through different levels of narratives within narratives to keep devouring and destroying).
• Often interact with narrative beings (Ned having the Narrative Bird as his valuable ally, and the Anafabula being one of the reasons for the creation of the Overvoid Lurk), and butt heads with another being with narrative abilities that lives within a tower (Ned believing the Man in the Tower wrote his entire life’s story since his childhood, including creating the Guardians of Silence to be the antagonists of said story that Ned must overcome, and the Anafabula clashing against the Scarlet King while he was inside SCP-5317).
• Have a relation of conflict with their writers (the Man in the Tower is not exactly seen as a villain by Ned, but Ned does constantly try to defy the story that was written by him, and the Anafabula straight up wants to kill the SCP writers).
• Often make those around them question their own sense of reality (Ned often making Jimmy wondering if he is asleep and dreaming, and the Anafabula leaving behind online discussions of the narratives that it destroys that made the Foundation initially think that its anomaly was creating discussions about fake stories).
• Hold the exact opposite ability (Ned being able to turn fiction real, such as turning a graffiti on a wall of arrows into actual flying arrows that he could ride, and the Anafabula having the power of destroying fiction and making it cease to exist).
• Turned out to have been secretly linked to old famous stories (Ned being implied to have played a major part in Don Quixote, which will apparently be expanded upon in his next graphic novel, and the Anafabula having destroyed a precursor to One Thousand and One Arabian Nights, causing SCP-3366).
• Are able to access seemingly any story they please through a realm outside of space-time (Comic Book Limbo, which links to any narrative in the Omniverse, and the Wanderers' Library, which houses all knowledge in existence).
• Focus on themes of madness (Ned being known for supposedly being nuts and crazy, and the Anafabula being able to cure SCP-3812’s madness, which allowed it to find a way to keep it trapped by constant media creation).
• Often clash against their antithesis to whom they exist in direct opposition against (Doctor Bikkuri as Ned’s ID Monster, and the Cosmic Starfish as the light that casts the shadow that is Anafabula), to whom their life is also linked to (Doctor Bikkuri is Ned’s ID personified, meaning he will cease to exist if Ned ever dies, and the Cosmic Starfish is the opposite balance to the Anafabula, meaning that if one dies the other also vanishes).
• Names carry a hidden meaning (“Nutty Ned” is implied to not actually be his real name, with the “Ned” part seeming to be something he made up on the spot when asked, and the “Nutty” being a comment made by Jimmy that he liked and decided to keep, and the Anafabula’s Greek name is a hint that she is actually a mathematical-based entity represented by the Greek letter “Theta”, meaning she was being worshiped by SCP-3380-A without them even realizing they were worshiping her).
• Eventually end up settling for a comedic story (Ned constantly coming back to the Mônica’s Gang narrative, as it is his favorite comic, and the Anafabula possessed SCP-6747-C becoming trapped in the “lolFoundation” parody universe).
• Ned fought and overcame narrative oblivion (The Guardian of Silence), while the Anafabula fought and was overcome by narrative creation (SCP-5875).
• Contrasting personalities (Ned is a lively jokester, and overall peaceful person, while the Anafabula is a serious and sadistic figure).
• Strangely have interacted with the United States government (Ned first showing up dressed as Uncle Sam, indicating the last narrative he had just left were American war propaganda posters, and the Anafabula being given a chance to try leaking into reality because the United States government blocked two Foundation operatives from doing their job).
• Originate from metafictional universes that constantly break the fourth wall (Mônica’s Gang pretty much having no fourth wall, and SCP having narrative layers be literally part of its cosmology), often not for comedic purposes (Mônica’s Gang does break the fourth wall for comedy most of the time, sure, but it also often does it to explore metafictional concepts, and SCP breaks the fourth wall mostly to explore bizarre concepts).
• Old long-running story vs New long-running story (Mônica’s Gang has been going on non-stop since the 60s, having over 2000 issues and counting, and SCP Foundation has been constantly growing since the 2000s, with over 13,000 articles and counting).

Theme: Creepy old murderers with supernatural reality-altering abilities tied to Hell that they use to take revenge upon a group of teenagers for a tragic event from the past.

Connections:

• Creepy old child murderers (Freddy killing children through dreams to absorb their pain into his body and become more powerful, and Berenice killing children as part of the ritual to try to bring her daughter back to life) with supernatural reality-altering abilities granted to them by animal-based creatures tied to Hell (Freddy’s powers coming from a deal he made with the Dream Demons, demoniac beings who resemble tadpoles, and Berenice’s powers coming from a deal she made with Satan, which in that story is called “The Serpent” and depicted with a snake motif) that they use to take revenge upon a group of teenagers for a tragic event from the past (Freddy trying to get revenge on the children of the people who burned him to death, and Berenice trying to get revenge on the kids who threw her daughter off a cliff).
• The hellish creatures that granted them their powers were attracted to them due to their dark emotions (Dream Demons took interest in Freddy due to his hatred at the point of death, and the Serpent was attracted by Berenice’s hatred of the children who killed her daughter).
• Powers are linked to an alternate realm (Dream World, the realm people go into while dreaming, and Umbra, the purgatory where souls go to if they don’t belong in neither heaven nor Hell); said powers are also linked to a threshold (Freddy meeting the Dream Demons in the threshold between life and death, and Berenice’s power coming from Umbra, the threshold between Heaven and Hell).
• Target small towns in the middle of nowhere (Springwood, and Sococó da Ema) which they despise (Fredy hated the people of Springwood, part of his motivation for killing children, and Berenice hated the people of Sococó da Ema due to the death of her daughter).
• Have become urban legends in such location (Freddy being seen basically as the boogey man of Springwood, to the point where kids will sing about him, and the Flying Donkey being seen as an urban legend ever since Berenice killed the first Children of Umbra years prior), which ends up being highly useful for their plans as a way to make them stronger (Freddy being remembered enhances his dream powers and allows him to kill, and Berenice used the legend of the Flying Donkey to trick families to go visit Sococó da Ema so she could curse more children to harvest their souls for her rituals), making them both a source of regional trauma and generational trauma.
• The house they lived in became abandoned and turned into a dangerous haunted house (1428 Elm Street, a house in which those who live in it are constantly made into Freddy’s victims, and Berenice’s burned down house, the abandoned building that houses a Door to Umbra).
• One specific teenager serves as their main rivals and the only one who could escape their grasp, at least initially (Nacy, and Jimmy).
• Tied with large fires (Freddy being burned to death in the Boiler Room, and Berenice setting her house on fire after she used the wrong ingredients the ritual because she had convinced herself that the kids had murdered her daughter on purpose, when actually it had been an accident, so their souls were not fully corrupted, and ritual needed fully corrupted souls as sacrifice, which caused her daughter to return in a corrupted form and become the Girl of the Lake).
• Origin of their stories is tied to a careless act from others (Freddy’s mother having him after being raped by a hundred maniacs, and the kids who would later become the Children of Umbra accidentally knocking Berenice’s daughter off a cliff during a Halloween prank).
• Face off against a team of super powered teenagers (Dream Warriors, and Mônica’s Gang).
• Are parents of other important character (Freddy being the father of Maggie Burnham, who is he protagonist of Final Nightmare, and Berenice being the mother of the spirit who would become the Girl of the Lake).
• Become more powerful by fusing themselves with children (Freddy fusing himself with the pain of those he kills, which is visible in his flesh, and Berenice eventually fusing with the Girl of the Lake to become the Pale Horse of Death).
• Surprisingly, despite their acts, they were not born pure evil (Freddy at some point was an innocent child, before being adopted by Mister Underwood and being abused during his childhood that fed into his hatred, and Berenice was once a loving mother, before her child was killed and she was consumed by hatred), with the events that made them who they are being linked to their first kill (Freddy’s first kill being Underwood, and Berenice’s first kills being the Children of Umbra).
• Mocked by the children of the town they terrorize (Freddy having a song made by the kids to mock him, and Berenice being nicknamed “The Flying Donkey” by the kids to mock her).
• Have serial killed names that are used to make them more mysterious (“The Springwood Slasher”, and “The Flying Donkey”), and also link to an iconic aspect of their character (Freddy being a “Slasher” highlights his knife glove, one of the most iconic visual aspects of his character, and Berenice being a “Donkey” foreshadowing her ultimate plan of becoming the Pale Horse of Death that will bring upon the apocalypse).
• Known to be tricksters who use their assets to confuse their opponents (Freddy using the sheer absurdity of his powers to make anyone who tries to go to the authorities about him seem crazy, something he capitalized on multiple times such as making it look like Rod had been the one who killed Tina in the first movie or making it look like the Dream Warriors were self-harming so they’d all be sent to a mental facility, and Berenice using her appearance as a seemingly frail old lady to manipulate those around her, such as bringing the children into her home for the ritual by promising to give them candy, or tricking Mônica’s Gang into visiting Sococó da Ema by pretending to be a kind old grandma so she could use Jimmy’s soul in the ritual to become the Pale Horse of Death).
• Often psychologically torture their victims before killing them (Freddy, due to being cocky and overconfident, will often play with his food before going for the kill, and Berenice, due to needing to set the exact conditions to use her victim’s souls in a ritual, will often curse her targets first before killing them).
• Only weakness is a form of holy redemption for their past crimes (Freddy having his physical body exorcized, which destroyed him in the Dream World by the power of Christ, and Berenice having the innocence of the children she killed be proven, which weakened the Pale Horse of Death with the power of the Light of Innocence), a weakness that is fitting due to their established ties to Christianity (Freddy being the son of a nun who changed her name to “Mary”, and Berenice’s final plan literally being to become the Pale Horse of Death from the Book of Revelation).
• Initially worked regular jobs (Freddy being a power plant worker, and Berenice being a candy maker), which both ended up being useful for them after they gained their powers (Freddy being able to pull his victims into a dream replica of the Boiler Room, which he knows like the back of his hand due to experience, and Berenice using candy to trick kids into coming into her home, especially on Halloween, and giving them candy with sedatives in it to make them sleep so she could curse them).
• Have used Satanic rituals (Freddy used the Necronomicon in the Evil Dead crossover, and Berenice is self-explanatory).
• After being defeated, they were sent to an eternal prison dimension (Freddy being sent to Hell, and Berenice being sent to Tomb World), which ended up not actually being eternal, as they escaped (Freddy returning through Jason’s kills being confused for his own, making the people remember him, and Berenice being stated to have survived the destruction of Tomb World and used it to escape, although we don’t know what she’s been up to ever since, just that she is currently out there).
• A bit of a God Complex (Freddy straight up claims to be God, and Berenice’s ultimate goal is to literally become one of the Horses of the Apocalypse from the Bible).
• Fought time travelers (Ash Williams, and future Xaveco and Denise).
• One despises his family (Freddy hating his mother), the other loves her family (Berenice being a loving mother to her daughter).
• North America (United States) vs South America (Brazil).
• Have bad skin (more of a joke connection, but Freddy’s skin is all burned to reflect him dying in a fire, and Berenice’s skin is wrinkled to reflect the stress of the life she lived).

Theme: Iconic child characters from long-running adult-themed, intentionally shocking but comedic animated sitcoms, who are known for being sadistic, malicious, and cynical.

Connections:

• Iconic (Cartman being one of the most popular characters in adult animation, and Fuckerson being pretty much the face of Brazilian adult animation) child characters (Cartman being 8, Fuckerson being 9) from long-running (South Park having 28 seasons and counting, and Fuckerson and Friends having 6 seasons, which is a lot for Brazilian animation) adult-themed and intentionally shocking but comedic animated sitcoms (the series are both known for their dark humor and profanity), who are known for being sadistic, malicious, and cynical (Cartman being an aggressive and prejudice psychopath, and Fuckerson being sadistic and shameless son of a bitch).
• Series are mostly slice-of-life, but have more fantastica spin-offs (Cartman becoming a fantasy wizard in the Stick of Truth video game, and Fuckerson becoming a futuristic space robot in the Fuckerson 2000 spin-off).
• Overall weird-looking (Cartman being a fat ugly kid, and Fuckerson being a living doll who walks around naked).
• Surprisingly intelligent (Cartman being a skilled manipulator when it comes to fulfilling whatever evil plan that he is carrying out that week, and Fuckerson being a skilled manipulator who often gets out of whatever trouble he created that week by playing innocent).
• Bigots (Cartman being antisemitic, and Fuckerson being homophobic) who walk around with a friend they have who belongs to the group they are bigoted against (Kyle being Jewish, and Mary Joseph being transgender), which leads to a lot of dark humor.
• Overall egocentric and spoiled kids.
• Murderers, often being willing to kill just to fuck with people to whom they have small personal grievances (Cartman has killed so many people that everyone lost count, including causing the death of Scott’s parents and feeding the to him, as revenge for tricking him into wasting 16 bucks, and Fuckerson has at least 29 confirmed kills, one of them being Bob Marley who he killed in the past just to erase Conrad’s birth by making so his parents never met at the Bob Marley show, just because Fuckerson doesn’t like Conrad).
• Outside of murder, they are also guilty of mutilation, shoplifting, theft, fraud, assault and battery, arson, animal cruelty, illegal gun ownership, breaking and entering, sexual assault, and attempted genocide.
• One of their cast members caused real world disease epidemics (Randy caused coronavirus, and Conrad caused swine flu).
• Spend a lot of their time just tormenting those around them (Cartmen tormenting pretty much everyone who crosses him, and Fuckerson tormenting Conrad whenever possible).
• Freed kaiju who went on to cause major damage (Cartman freeing Cthulhu and trying to use him to wipe out the Jews, and Fuckerson freeing Godzilla who turned out to be a giant rapist and went around sexually assaulting women).
• Voiced by the creator of the show (Trey Parker, and Thiago Martins), purposefully making weird voices (Parker purposefully gives Cartman the stupidest voice he can, and Martians has Fuckerson only say "Mi-Mi-Mi" which the other characters just understand perfectly for no reason).

Contrasts:

• Cartman is hated by pretty much all of his classmates (because he is an asshole to everyone), while Fuckerson is seen as a hero by his classmates (because everyone is an asshole, so they like seeing Fuckerson being an asshole).
• Cartman often faces consequences for his factions, often getting in his own way and messing up his own plans, while Fuckerson gets away with it most of the time, being incredibly lucky and often winning with incredible ease.
• Cartman once got tricked into thinking he had died (because the other kids were ignoring him, so he confused it for him being a ghost), while Fuckerson has straight up died multiple times (but he’s back and fine the next episode, because yes).