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For people who have only watched Phineas and Ferb, Doof returning to evil and Perry returning to stop him might seem like a perfectly normal, natural thing. But the thing is, it's not like nothing has been happening in between seasons. Dan Povenmire has already said that Milo Murphy's Law happened in between these two summers, and Doofenshmirtz was very much present for the events of that series! (To a sometimes intrusive degree, in my opinion.) And Milo Murphy's Law perfectly lays out reasons for why Perry would get legitimately angry at and disappointed in Heinz for returning to evil!

Because in between seasons, Perry has been actively supporting Heinz' turn to good! First by being Heinz' mentor as an animal agent at OWCA. And second, by unflinchingly supporting Doofenshmirtz future endeavors in inventing time travel!

Perry is Heinz's first and firmest believer in his capacity to do good!!! Perry just spent a lion's share of the past year taking time out of his day to check in on Heinz both on and off the clock to make sure that he was doing alright and staying on the path of good- Investing his own time, safety, and even money to make sure that Doof was doing okay! Have you ever wondered what Perry does with his OWCA paycheck? In Milo Murphy's Law, we see that he literally uses it to invest in Doofenshmirtz' future!!!!! No one believes in Heinz's capacity to do good more than Perry!!!

And what does Doofenshmirtz do after Perry has done SO much for him...? Literally the next summer, Heinz returns to evil as if nothing happened! Like, we know that he doesn't have the same kind of malicious intent that he had the summer before, and he isn't truly evil. (See the shopping cart scene.) But just because Heinz has the capacity to do good doesn't mean that he's stopped having the capacity to do great evil still!!! Doof returns to evil, and the first thing he does is literally vaporize a member of Perry's family (albeit accidently), and then deliberately uses said human being that he vaporized to create a Tri-State Area conquering storm!!!!! An action that could have easily killed or harmed people, ESPECIALLY Linda, who I must remind you IS A MEMBER OF PERRY'S FAMILY!

Perry wants Heinz to be and do good things! Perry wants to be on Doofenshmirtz's side! Perry has been nothing but patient, helpful, and supportive for Heinz through all of this! So Doof returning to evil HAS to sting for Perry! Hell, since we know that Perry has invested actual money in Doofenshmirtz's turn to good, is Perry now financially complicit in Heinz' evil actions!??? Did Perry's own money end up going into the machine that literally vaporized Linda!??????

Like... If we were to take doing evil as a metaphor for other self-sabotauging and self-destructive actions, this would be like Perry being the most kind, helpful friend in supporting Heinz through his like... I dunno... Deeply harmful drug problem, only for Heinz to decide to start doing a summer of cocaine after 9 months of being sober, and the first thing he does as part of this summer of cocaine is to punch Perry's sister in the face.

Like, yeah! When no one thought that Heinz could change or be better, Perry stood by and did everything that he could to help Heinz! (You know. Within reason and wouldn't come at the cost of himself.) And then Heinz just went back to do the very thing that Perry was helping him to not do! Heinz betrayed Perry's trust in him. So like... Yeah! After everything, Perry has a bit of a right to be mad at Heinz! And if this is what Heinz wants to do, for Perry's own sake, he had better put down some boundaries! If Heinz wants to be evil again, that's fine, but Perry won't be playing nice with him anymore! If he does something evil, no leniency, Perry will have to firmly put those actions down because that's his job. If Heinz is evil, they can't be friends. If Heinz wants to be nemeses with Perry again, then Perry will play the part. After everything that Perry did for Heinz, this is entirely fair and warranted! Because unlike a certain other doomed Dwampyverse pairing, Perry isn't a pushover and wouldn't take this kind of treatment laying down!

Color palette challenge requests finished!!

Presenting..... Time Traveling Perry!, because like Heinz said, he's needs an adventure buddy. (Fun lore stuff below the cut!)

There better not be some 3rd break up where Doof doesn’t see him for years only to return 15 years in the past and try to steal that timeline’s Perry because things with his own Perry are irreparable.

He better not disguise himself as his past-self to trick Perry and have an ‘existence collapsing in on itself’ type of disaster that needs preventing.

And it better not be revealed that Doof has barely become Professor Time and risked existence just because of a dumb misunderstanding with his own Perry.