#debatable character

While I couldn't find anything that implied Danny Fenton could circumvent Macbeth's prophecy, Danielle "Dani" Fenton from Danny Phantom definitely could!

She's a clone of Danny created by Vlad Plasmius, meaning she applies for Gender Clause, Unconventional Birth Clause, and Birth Parent Clause!

If Danny applies for anything, it's most likely going to be Unique Exception, considering the fact that his list of powers and abilities is longer than most high school essays, and there is a very real possibility that I missed something that could make his case, but unless somebody brings a detail forward, I'll be counting Danny himself as not being able to kill Macbeth.

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The crew is at least 51% made up of men of woman born

BUT the person who gives the order to fire is a woman

To me, this is a perfect excuse to discuss methods.

MacDuff kills Macbeth with a sword. The sword is not a man of woman born, but it doesn’t matter. MacDuff is the one doing it. Through MacDuff’s conscious action, Macbeth is killed. The sword has no conscious action to take, no agency. It’s merely the tool.

It also backs out a bit. It doesn’t matter if someone else tells MacDuff to kill Macbeth, because, again, conscious thought. MacDuff can choose not to kill Macbeth. His sword can’t, and no manager can force him to. Would it matter if the person who forged the sword was a man of woman born? Lady Macbeth certainly had a hand in the events leading up to all this, and I doubt she counts. In the end, only the person who takes the action that directly causes his death is responsible.

Now, imagine it was a gun, not a sword. Someone else loaded that gun and handed it to him. Also not a factor. A car? As long as it’s driven by MacDuff, I don’t care what the salesman has going on at home.

I’d imagine a superweapon like this must have a “fire” button. In any case, in the preparation of this weapon, there is a final step. If your goal is specifically to kill Macbeth, the person who takes that final step must not be a man of woman born.

What if the last step requires multiple people? Then I’d say they must all qualify. Let’s say there’s two buttons that must be pressed simultaneously to fire the weapon. If either person on either button does not press their button, the weapon doesn’t fire. This makes it a choice, by both people. Both are choosing to kill Macbeth, as both could choose not to. In that sense, the decision is shared. If either one is a man of woman born, then Macbeth cannot be killed by this, as that would be illegal and also very rude.

So here’s how I’m going to put it: the circumstances outlined are not enough to guarantee his death. Though I do appreciate the crew in their work and they will all have their names on the final draft sent to publication, only the last person in the chain is considered in the prophecy.

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Steg is... definitely a difficult one, yeah. For most Steven Universe fusions, we can fall back on them applying for the Gender Clause, but we can't do that here, so we have to actually think about stuff now.

Fusions are defined very vaguely in SU in terms of their identity as a person- as Garnet puts it a fusion is not two people, and not one person, but an "experience," which is great for the spiritual themes of the show, but not really useful for our purposes. Our verdict is really just going to come down to whether we consider a fusion a separate person from its components.

Fusions will usually operate with their own personalities separate from their counterparts, but under certain circumstances (usually moments of distress), specific counterparts will speak independently from each other, like in Keeping It Together, Know Your Fusion, and Malachite's entire existence. Now, we haven't seen Steg have this kind of self-interaction (he's really only shown up for one song and has never been seen or heard from again), but presumably every fusion has the capability for such a thing.

If we consider Steg to be one person: Yes, Steg Multiverse from the Steven Universe Movie could kill Macbeth. He would apply for Unconventional Birth Clause, being created due to the fusion of two other characters, as well as Birth Parent Clause, since neither of those characters are female.

If we consider Steg to be two people: No, Steg Multiverse from the Steven Universe Movie could NOT kill Macbeth. While we've determined that Steven can kill Macbeth through Unconventional Birth Clause, there's nothing to suggest that Greg isn't a man of woman born, and his status as such would override Steven's UBC verdict. To put it another way, Steg has been born twice, once conventionally and once unconventionally; in order to apply for UBC, it's not that you need to have been unconventionally born, but more specifically you need to have NOT been conventionally born. Since Steg HAS been conventionally born, through Greg, he doesn't apply for UBC, despite the fact that Steven does.

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(Bonus, Perry the Platypus definitely could because platypuses lay eggs)

I'm pretty sure the point of Phineas and Ferb's "Probability Field" is that it allows them to achieve the best possible outcome for their plans, not just that their plans automatically work, and I think that's a very important distinction here. Like, if Phineas and Ferb decided to speedrun Minecraft, for example, they could get the exact number of Ender Pearls that they would need from Piglin trades, but they wouldn't be able to just obtain End Portal Frames from them because that's fully impossible with the mechanics of the game.

There are many times in the show(s) where P&F are described to have done something "impossible," such as time travel, though in-universe, it's more likely that these feats were really just extremely statistically improbable. When it comes to Macbeth's prophecy, the implication is that it is entirely impossible for a man of woman born to kill Macbeth, not just statistically improbable.

So, since both of them are male and presumed to be naturally born of women, I'm inclined to say no, Phineas and Ferb from the eponymous Phineas and Ferb could not kill Macbeth.

(Perry could, but we've already covered him)

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Okay, I'm really glad you brought this up, since this is a topic that has... kind of come up before on this blog (See: Steven Universe, Zagreus from Hades) but not exactly so I think this is a great moment to address it:

I think that if being a C-section baby counted towards the Unconventional Birth Clause for MacDuff, then it should count for it when a character is delivered posthumously. Since Goncharov is this sort of situation, with his mother Viktoria having died during childbirth (the wording implies that she died slightly before childbirth, but either way it is explicitly said she died in the hospital), he would count towards the Unconventional Birth Clause.

As for the Gender Clause, I know someone is going to bring this up, so let me make this clear: Goncharov saying "I can no longer look in the mirror and see a man" in the balcony scene with Andrey is just him dramatically saying that he is disgusted with who he has become at that point in the movie. He's not saying that he's trans, he's saying that he's a monster/inhuman. You can headcanon this however you want, but the fact of the matter is that in canon, he's just saying he can't live with himself after what he did to Antonio. So, no, Goncharov does not apply for the Gender Clause.

So, long story short: Yes, Lo Straniero aka Goncharov from the eponymous Goncharov (1973) could kill Macbeth!

He applies for the Unconventional Birth Clause.

The most "canon" answer to who his second parent is is a joke by Shigeru Miyamoto where he claimed he himself was Junior's 'mother'. There's also a theory that koopas reproduce asexually. In either of those scenarios, Junior qualifies for the birth parent clause.

Additionally, it's suggested koopas hatch from eggs so that's unconventional birth clause, too.

Bowser Jr. is very difficult for us to quantify. He clearly doesn't apply for Gender Clause under our rules, but the other categories are hard to nail down.

For Birth Parent Clause, while either method you mentioned would work, neither is canon to the Mario Bros. series (Miyamoto's comment is a joke and asexual reproduction is a fan theory), so neither of them count for our analysis. In Super Mario Sunshine, Bowser Jr. goes through the game believing that Peach is his mother, though it's later revealed that this isn't the case and Bowser lied to him about this, so that doesn't really give us any info. Developers of the series have stated that "we don't know who the mother is," which could imply that there IS a mother that we just don't know about. Since this could go either way, we can't definitively answer BPC here, unfortunately.

As for Unconventional Birth Clause, I looked into what you said about Koopas hatching from eggs, and the research was... very confusing. The main problem here for us is what exactly we mean by "Koopa." According to the fanmade Mario Wiki, there are Koopas (Bowser, Bowser Jr., etc.), Koopas (a shorthand term for Koopa Troopas), and Koopas (an umbrella term encompassing both the previous groups and several others, with some more as potential but unproven relatives to the species).

While Koopas and Koopas are both notably reptilian in appearance, there doesn't seem to be much to go off of for either of them when it comes to how they reproduce. From what I've found, I don't think we've ever seen a Koopa or Koopa egg in any canonical material.

When it comes to Koopas, what does and does not count as a Koopa is at least somewhat established, but there are still a few outliers where it is unclear whether or not they count, most notably Yoshi. If there was definite proof that 1.) Koopas, including Koopas, are all members of the same species and reproduce in the same way, and 2.) Yoshi is a Koopa, then we could say for sure that Koopas, Koopas, Koopas, and by extension Bowser Jr. are born from eggs, just as Yoshi is. But neither of these points are provable.

There is, however, one enemy in the Mario franchise that seems to canonically be considered a Koopa, and that we have definitively seen are born from eggs: Spinies. The Lakitu enemy is known throughout the series to throw what have been referred to as "Spiny Eggs," which will become another enemy called a Spiny upon hitting the ground. So, at least one member of the Koopa family is born from eggs, so it's plausible that other members of the Koopa family, such as Koopas, would as well.

While it is still possible that not all members of the Koopa family reproduce via eggs in the same way as Spinies do, I'm more willing to count this than I am anything for BPC. So:

TL;DR:

Tentatively, yes, Bowser Jr. from the Super Mario series could kill Macbeth under the Unconventional Birth Clause.

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Aside from Karen, no, the Johto Elite Four from Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver could not kill Macbeth.

Karen very clearly can, applying for Gender Clause, but the other three (Will, Bruno, and Koga) are all men of women born from what I've found. The closest thing I could dig up that would suggest otherwise is that in Pokemon Crystal, there was a system that kept track of each trainer class's gender (for dialogue coding purposes) that lists Will (and Bugsy) as female instead of male, though considering Crystal came out a year after Gold and Silver did, this is presumed to be in error. Though, if you want to consider that canon, then Will could possibly also kill Macbeth under Gender Clause.

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(An explanation of his stand if you need help understanding it: https://youtu.be/i-ZiDJw_Sns?si=FYm5EreW2LS119pt)

(his wiki page: https://jojowiki.com/Diavolo)

This is definitely an interesting one to jump back in with.

Diavolo is pretty firmly a man of woman born in canon, but considering this is JJBA we're talking about, that's never why this was submitted; we need to figure out if Diavolo is a Unique Exception here.

For a brief explanation of Diavolo/King Crimson's powers: In JJBA, "Fate" is equated to a gravitational force that pushes and pulls people and objects along predestined paths automatically. King Crimson can "erase" moments in time (up to 10 seconds from when it was activated), during which Diavolo is the only one conscious, though he cannot interact with anything while everything else goes along their predestined paths. This allows Diavolo to be immune to any attack during the erased time, reposition himself to somewhere he wasn't fated to be, and be the only one who can remember what happened. Anything that he was fated to interact with still reacts in the same way, regardless of the fact that it no longer has his input. The example of this given by the video (thanks for that btw) is that if Diavolo was fated to pick up a rock and throw it, but used King Crimson to erase that moment in time, the rock would still rise up and be thrown on its own, even though Diavolo wasn't able to interact with it, with the rock being pulled along by Fate.

The (assumed) idea here is that Diavolo would be fated to attack Macbeth- let's say with a sword for the sake of simplicity- but uses King Crimson to erase the moment in time where he does so. Would the sword animating itself via Fate to attack Macbeth be able to kill him, since Diavolo technically never picked up the sword at all?

To be frank... I don't think so. If Diavolo does not use King Crimson's ability in this scenario, Macbeth survives the attack due to Diavolo being a man of woman born, and therefore unable to kill Macbeth. So, if Diavolo is fated to attack Macbeth, Diavolo is also fated to fail at killing Macbeth, right? Since the world still acts as if Diavolo was going along his fated path during the erased time, the sword would still act as if it was being wielded by a man of woman born, and would therefore still fail at killing Macbeth.

If Fate attacking Macbeth without Diavolo were able to kill him, then Fate would still be able to kill Macbeth in ANY scenario, which effectively renders the prophecy meaningless, as any attack done against Macbeth is technically done by Fate. And besides, "the forces of Fate made me kill him" probably isn't gonna hold up in court.

For the record, Diavolo has other stuff going on (precognition, an alternate personality, etc.) but I don't really think any of it comes into play nearly as much as the time erasure power, and even then it probably wouldn't work.

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