I'm a Ravenclaw, and wisdom says you gotta keep the loyal friends. Killing off Hufflepuff would be a huge mistake. You've got to have the backing of your friends. Slytherins' ambition would serve well in a world where progress and forward thinking would be prized, backed by the wisdom of Ravenclaw to further those ambitious advancements. And both Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff united could keep the Slytherins' power-hungry tendencies in check. So you'd really have no need for Gryffindors to be brave, as Slytherins wouldn't have much opportunity to do Voldemorty-type stuff. So logic and reason dictate that Gryffindor is done.
Me too, the offical web site put me in RavenClaw, lost my account and made me take the test again, then put me back in Ravenclaw. Maybe they were trying to tell me something. Hufflepuff are decent and the or two houses just cheat. There are really only two honourable houses.
I'm a Ravenclaw too, but I never saw the Hufflepuffs as loyal. In book two they all turn against Harry, and Zacharias Smith is just a horrible person. The only Hufflepuff I actually like is Tonks, who is the least Hufflepuff-like character. She's a Slytherin, except Rowling hates Slytherins, so of course she was shunted aside into Hufflepuff. Cedric is just boring to me, and Ernie, Hannah, etc. are just filler characters, none of them do anything important. Despite this, Hufflepuff is a super-hyped up house, and Ravenclaw is by far the most underrated. The Hufflepuffs "traits" just don't show in the books for me, except in Cedric, who dies anyway.
I feel like Merphy took the Hufflepuff demise as a personal attack. Being a Hufflepuff myself I agree. I chose Gryffindor because being brave for no reason is stupid. All the other houses can be brave but they have a reason for it rather than just, "I must not show fear."
Exactly! Hufflepuffs are brave when it takes courage to do the right thing. Ravenclaws, when they explore new ideas and mysteries. Slytherins, because it takes courage to pursue your ambitions. Grys are in it for fun
RIGHT? like OUT gryffindor, also their main purpose for bravery besides for loyalty is for clout... like bitch WTF. Ilove them all but gryffindor is the one who has to go
I don't think all Gryffindors are like that at all, and generalizations that wide are illogical since each house has many variations or ranges on each value. For every ego maniac there are also those with a soldier mentality, where acting bravely is a duty or call to action, which is very selfless. I don't think Neville's bravery is out of an avoidance of admitting fear, or to show off, for instance. He acts because someone needed to, and it had to be done, no matter how terrified he was. Harry is also the perfect representation of an A+ Gryffindor, as he does what he does because it is required and he feels a deep personal investment in doing what's right. Even those that act bravely out of adrenaline or ego can be valued too, because regardless of why they go into danger a lot of people wouldn't dare try, which proves their use. I just see more good in Gryffindors than bad, and it's weird to see such extreme takes on them given that Harry is the exemplification of all the best of the house and proves how valuable they can be.
Your Hufflepuff defense speech was the most passionate and moving thing I have ever heard. Also, as befits a true Ravenclaw, your arguments were well funded. :D
Thank you for defending us Hufflepuffs. I was shocked at the results, but then again why was I surprised? It reminded me of that time a Slytherin told me that "Hufflepuffs are cute and kind and that's LAME". Oh wow okay cool. Anyway. Great video. Had fun playing on insta 😊
Omegaroth666, well, the best stories of all time would include Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Homer’s The Odyssey, George Orwell’s 1984, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and Jane Austen’ Pride and Prejudice, along with a few other choice works. That sets the bar really high for the best stories of all time. Now, suppose we were to make the list best fantasy stories of all time. Even then, ATLA wouldn’t make my list. I believe that The Lord of the Rings stands head and shoulders above every fantasy story ever written, followed by Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, Malazan, and finally the Gentleman Bastard sequence. There are a quite a few more stories that I would put before ATLA that I didn’t mention, but I think that my list should cover it. Don’t get me wrong, though. I like ATLA, but bestowing it the honor of “one of the best stories of all time,” even if just fantasy stories, is inaccurate to say the least.
Same. For some reason like... the majority of my friends are hufflepuffs, and the rest are fellow slytherins like It seems like slytherins just are hufflepuff magnets And I'm grateful bc they're pure
I knew Hufflepuff would be eliminated but I think anyone who is friends with a hufflepuff in real life knows better. And I agree, for me its bye bye gryffindor 💛🖤💛🖤💛
For the HP houses, I figured you meant which house doesn’t exist, but like the people still exist so they’d all be sorted into another house instead. So the people with Hufflepuff traits would be in another house but they would still have their loyalty traits.
Same. And in that case, eliminating Hufflepuff could be a good thing, since then the loyal people who would have been in Hufflepuff could get distributed between the other houses and keep them all in check :)
@@Yora21 What about James Potter? He can also be considered a bully who did everything to impress a girl. Slytherin is also about loyalty to your close friends and family. If you look at Regulus, he wanted Sirius to fit in the family. We don't know friendships between Slytherins because JK wanted to have an easy escape. However we have bad guys from all the houses except Hufflepuff (e.g. Lockhart for Ravenclaw)
I chose to eliminate Water because that’s the only one you can get rid of and still have Earth, Wind, and Fire as a band. And they rock too hard to break up.
Derek Walter I would say that, for a show aimed at younger viewers, it’s complex. It deals with morality, whether or not it’s justified to take human life even if it’s for a supposed greater cause, genocide, losing and recovering one’s identity, the effects of war, revenge, losing loved ones, political corruption, the importance of peace, protecting the environment, etc.
The first season is the worst since they were still following the boring episodic format all cartoons followed at the time. Also to the guy saying it’s not complex... even with a rather straightforward plot the world building of all the cultures and how it clashes with the magic system was genius. Although, it’s probably the easiest part to overlook within the series.
@@neetfreek9921 hi, that's me. Don't be afraid to address me directly. I feel like you're twisting my words and misinterpreting them. I only meant that I wouldn't consider the complexity to be one of the shows defining characteristics. I heard out the other guys reasons, and then I agreed with him. For the record, avatar is one of my favorite western cartoons. I think it's brilliant.
I am glad I voted Hufflepuff out coz the effect it had on you is truly amazing 😂 Btw I chose Hufflepuff because I thought their absence wouldn't make a huge differences to the plot, after all this is the most under represented house in the entire series
Merphy, I notice you're talking about the Mistborn metals as though we voted for which ones we would keep, even though the question was which one we would eliminate. And I think when you take that into consideration, voting for getting rid of the one where you can see your future makes sense. That's why I voted for it - I don't want to be able to know my own future. I feel like that would give me more anxiety than not knowing, because if my future isn't great, I would spend so much time dreading it. Same with the soothe metal. I don't think people would want to be able to manipulate others like that, or at least not me. I also didn't feel like it was just that necessary
"keeping peeta alive was pretty boring" LOOOOL i'm crying, poor peeta i love your explanation of ravenclaws haha. as long as it can be justified, they'll do it -- yup! (i am also ravenclaw)
Everything was going well when Elizabeth visited Mr Darcy's house, they were fine. If it wasn't for Lydia they wouldn't have gone through all that stress and wouldn't end up related to Mr. Wickham.
Merphy, water has BLOODBENDING which can let you control someone and TAKE AWAY SOMEONE'S BENDING. Water is the most powerful bending in Avatar and has many subsets of bending. The other bending arts don't have as many subsets - mostly one - as water.
@@carrina1006 yeah but someone like Amon can bloodbend with their mind to stop you from bending or knock you unconscious and take away someone's bending. Bloodbending gives me more nightmares on how much it can do
That'd be a good reason to get rid of it, honestly. If I was deciding to get rid of something, no matter what it was, it'd be based on whatever I find to be the most dangerous in the wrong hands.
12:33 "Let's think about a world run by Ravenclaw. People who care about wisdom, people who care about knowledge, people who care about--about--finding the answer to things. Very dedicated to logic and being led by the mind. We're gonna have a world where there's going to be tons of opportunity for darkness because, as long as it can be rationalised and reasoned in their mind, they can do whatever they want!" OBJECTION! The core value of Ravenclaw, as you stated, is not knowledge, but WISDOM (11:55). Wisdom is markedly different from knowledge, in that it is knowledge *tempered by morality, experience, and self-control*. It is synonymous with *good judgment*. Knowledge (and, by extension, curiosity) is what leads a wizard to discover that the Cruciatus curse can cause excruciating agony in the victim and is deliberately for torture (as the more sadistic the caster/the more they enjoy causing pain, the more powerful the curse). Wisdom is when a wizard works out the theory for the Cruciatus curse and then *doesn't do it* because it's an *awful thing to do* and no good can come from it for either caster or recipient. Wisdom is the application of knowledge in ways which are exclusively moral and good, and is literally the *express opposite* of rationalisation and justification. Ravenclaws are not the amoral Erudite faction from the Divergent series. They do not quest for knowledge for knowledge's sake, and especially not at the expense of all else. They quest for WISDOM so they can know how to apply the knowledge discovered--and especially when NOT to apply it. A world run by Ravenclaws would be a place where there is virtually *no* opportunity for darkness, because people would know better--and, most importantly, they would *do* better. --Signed, A Proud Ravenclaw.
Finally someone who understands. I also disagree with people who think Ravenclaws care about intelligence the most, as if we all just enjoy bragging about IQs. I couldn't agree more with what you said.
Hufflepuff probably suffers from a silly sounding name at least in part. All the other houses sound really cool and at least slightly BA, but Hufflepuff reminds me of a mix between the Heffalump from Dr Seuss and Jigglypuff the pokemon haha.
Don't forget, it was which would you eliminate! When you were talking about the Mistborn question, I think you got it mixed up. You were talking about the one you like the best, not the one you would eliminate. haha
With eliminate I thought you meant: doesn't exist. And not what you don't like so I thought about how everything would have influenced the world and story.
Hold up hold up, loyalty is the best trait to avoid evil? There sure are a lot of death eaters that were super loyal to Voldemort. Super loyalty means you can be loyal to evil
Merphy, I will fight you on your house order. We get rid fo Slytherin first, then Gryffindor. We keep the Ravenclaws cause they're smart and the Hufflepuffs cause they're kind and they will keep Ravenclaw's hubris in check. Fight me :P
Atium is far more important than just seeing your own future. It's actually used to see what others are about to do. This makes you really powerful in a fight.
I chose to get ride of gryffindor purely because all the house tests put me in gryffindor and I Am Not A Gryffindor!!! Also for the pride and prejudice I chose Lydia because I can never choose to eliminate anyone with the name kitty ever, or any name that at all relates to cats.
I too am a Ravenclaw who would get rid of griffindor because most of the people in griffindor (specifically the 3 most main characters) also fit into the other houses fairly well. Also it’s just my least favorite house :P
I couldn't decide on the first question. While Charms and DADA are important if not even essential in the life of a witch/wizard, I absolutely love the idea of Transfiguration and always thought it was so underrated and underrepresented in the series. Also, how dare these people wanting to eliminate Hufflepuff?! 😥 I consider myself a Ravenclaw and I always imagine Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw pupils sticking together (more or less) and making jokes and rolling their eyes at the Gryffindor/Slytherin rivalry...
I think that the mistborn question instead of cadmium it should have been bendalloy, it's a bit counterintuitive in the explanation but if you want to have more time you want to speed up time, not slow it down as you only affect the area around you, not the whole of the time. When you read the books it very well explained and demostrated^^ and electrum appears in the first trilogy, in book 2 *spoiler alert* it's the metal they use to counter atium and it is the opposite of gold :)
oh pls continue reading acotar 🥺 i know im only on the second book, but its getting a lot more interesting! and you'll understand why everyone eliminated the spring court too!
I just finished Beartown on your reccomendation and I just feel so overwhelmed by it. The story was amazing, and the characters were some of the most well written I've ever read, but the language and the human depravity was just so off the charts that I just couldn't enjoy it. I felt both bad and good about reading it.
@@merphynapier42 I agree his emotion was amazing. He writes better characters than any other author. I just wish it was a little less Rated R with the language and sexual allusions. I get the need for "the incident", but the book just seemed to be drenched in innuendos and swearing.
I would eliminate: 1. Transfiguration 2. Fighting the dogs with human eyes 3. Gimli 4. Idk so Brass 5. Idk the sisters so Jane 6. Idk so I'm going with Bug 7. Air 8. Idk the series but I'll go with Matt 9. House Tyrell 10. Autumn Court 11. Gryffindor (proud Hufflepuff here)
Well, thank you for the noble defense of my House. Hufflepuff for life, babes. You CAN have loyalty to the wrong people, mind you: if loyalty is unthinking, you're lost. You can (like I did) get into abusive relationships, just as one example. But I had the intelligence (Ravenclaw) and the integrity (Gryffindor) to get out and realize who my real friends were (Hufflepuff). I think they're all important, really: I just align most with Hufflepuff. Slytherin too, because I'm currently pursuing a Masters degree and I want to be a professor (Slytherin/Ravenclaw). And anyway, my best friend is a Ravenclaw and we get along swimmingly.
Im hufflepuff and I usually feel disrespected by the other houses, you all are mean with us hufflepuffs. In my opinion you underestimate us, some day you’ll see...
HP tangents - Yay! 🙌 In the context of the books either Gryffindor or Slytherin had to go. Way to stand up for the Puffs! I’m Ravenclaw, but most of my friends are Puffs, overlapping values and whatnot. Great video!
5:30 Electrum was brought in in Hero of Ages. Vin and Elend used it as a counter to, and substitute for, atium. Like atium, it only shows a few seconds into the future, so anxiety about your life doesn't really come into play.
Hahaha I hope you do more of these 😂 they're so funny! 😂😂😂 still haven't read HP, but I did the test and put me in Hufflepuff. I plan on reading it next year! Or at least starting the series ☺️
I would most definitely be in Ravenclaw. My goal in life is to understand as much as possible. To become as wise as possible and then pass that wisdom onto others. I'm not a Hufflepuff fan but I can understand why we might keep them. I can also understand why we wouldn't keep them. What would be the deciding factor for me is how we are going to define wisdom.
okay so the first question was regarding hp so i assumed in my head all of them were hp related. so when the second question came i was VERY confused for a minute. 'peeta? who is peeta? i've read hp multiple times and don't remember that name'. OOF
Atrium is in the first 3. Also the lord ruler's braces are made of it. It shows shadows of future actions in the immediate future. You turn left and a bolder falls on you vs right and you get shot M with an arrow or straight and you walk between the 2 enemies
Cadmium only slows down time for you, though. That is, what everyone else experiences as an hour, you might experience as a few minutes. Even the books acknowledge that it's a pretty useless power.
I actually think Transfiguration is the most important magical subject! It's the only thing that muggles cannot accomplish without magic. Changing the innate nature of an object into something infinitely more useful is fascinating! Charms is your everyday magic, but most of it could be accomplished with muggle means and technology.
OK but...loyalty is not a purely good trait. One can be loyal to bad ideals, blind loyalty can be a major fault. They all have their benefits and they all have their downfalls.
I too love all the houses. I that note though I chose Ravenclaw pretty due to the same issue you brought up with them. As a book lover I do think knowledge is extremely important but if Knowledge is similar to power welp power can easily corrupt. Also I’m Hufflepuff 😁
I also would have voted to eliminate Hufflepuff, not because I don't appreciate the virtues of the house, but because there are so many fewer important Hufflepuff characters. Ravenclaw would be my second choice for elimination, because all of the important Ravenclaws could have been re-sorted without major plot mangling. I do agree that merging Slytherin and Gryffindor makes some sense thematically, but if you do that, Harry winds up in Slytherin, Hermione winds up in Ravenclaw, and Ron in Hufflepuff; and not a great recipe for their friendship, and the good guys and the bad guys have intel on each other way too easily. If you eliminate Slytherin, Malfoy gets separated from Crabbe and Goyle and wherever he goes becomes the "bad" house at least for the years Harry is at school.
Merphy is friendly even when she rants lol. By the way, it is Ok to have few more of them :). I am not into HP (not books, not movies), but I would never get rid of loyality.
your reaction to the hp one (last one) was hilarious XD I've already told you why I chose my own house (Hufflepuff), but it's because I didn't want anyone else to be eliminated! ahaha
For only reading the first book I think your choices for the Houses were great Merphy! Tyrell isn't a big presence in AGoT but the rest of the books they are. Although, imo, not nearly as important as the rest on the list.
Merphy @ 11:30 : "And we're finishing it off..." Me: But there's still like four minutes left in the video Merphy: *goes on Harry Potter rant* Me: How did I not see this coming?
AaaAaAAAaaaahhhhHHHHhhhh I thought I was the only one that believes Griffindor and Slytherin were basically the same!!! 😅 It's so AWESOME!! I'm glad I'm not alone with this!! 😍 Thanks!
When wind is air in A:TLA...also of course everyone would want to keep water, water is everywhere! They expand on it in the show, but it’s safe to say that water is over powered to say the least
Someone probably already brought this up, but the reason so many people prefer water and want to be water benders in The Last Airbender is because water has so many functions. It is truly OP. Waterbenders can move water, and make ice, that is like the most basic of their power. But waterbenders can also heal, pull water out of the moister in the air, or out if plants, or they can use their own sweat if it comes to that. They can also manipulate the water in living things, again such as plants, but also animals and people. They can actually control the bodies of living creatures and treat them like puppets. It is terrifying. No other element has so much power. My brother wants to be a water bender if he could be a bender. Me I would want to be an earthbender. You can build houses with ease, till the earth to grow crops faster. Make irrigation to water the crops. Earth is the most, well, down to earth element. As for people wanting to eliminated air. Well going by the show. Pretty much all the Airbender are gone, and the world doesn't really seem worse for it. Also they did separate themselves from the world, and didn't really seem to do much to make it better when they where there, apart from helping to keep the elements and nations in balance. And yes, all the elements are needed to to give the world in avatar balance which is what the show is about.
The site sorts me into Slytherin but I'm totally a Ravenclaw. Though the site thinks the love of learning = good grades and only use books to learn. 🙄 (Seriously, who would want a book over a mysterious chest?) It helps that my favorite character in the whole series is Luna. I see myself a little too much with her.
Okay so I'm on the 12th minute and I just need you to read the Air Awakens series. Like. The further you get into the series the more you understand how much you're right. The people who are hungry for power and information will doom our world!
I should probably put out there that Gryfindor is my second house and even though I was picking on them for this video I love all the houses
Merphy's reaction to people voting out Hufflepuff is the best.
Like my mums a Hufflepuff so I literally couldn't exist in a world with no Hufflepuffs.
Gryffindors are the worst and the one I would’ve gotten ride of.
I'm offended because I'm a Hufflepuff
@@xaviercopeland2789 I'm offended because I'm a gryffindor
There've been described as the house for the ones who don't fit anywhere else so they are the obvious choice
“Unless you’re JK Rowling, in which case, only Slytherins are evil.” HAHA!!
Slytherins and Peter Pettigrew 😄
And I oop
Phelie315 I believe Qirrell was a Ravenclaw
Quirrel is a Ravenclaw and Petigrew is a Gryffindor so...
Pettigrew is not a gryffindor. Why would he be a gryffindor? Why would hermione be a gryffindor? This sorting system makes no sense :D
“people wanna get rid of earth. totally agree” this is very weird out of context
Wait so you support climate change and human destruction of the earth?!
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The earth wouldn't be destroyed per se, just rendered uninhabitable. In the words of George Carlin: the planet is fine, the people are fucked
i mean now i would
Why do people not like earth jeez if had to get rid of one it would probably be fire
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Yeah I hated that set up
I'm a Ravenclaw, and wisdom says you gotta keep the loyal friends. Killing off Hufflepuff would be a huge mistake. You've got to have the backing of your friends. Slytherins' ambition would serve well in a world where progress and forward thinking would be prized, backed by the wisdom of Ravenclaw to further those ambitious advancements. And both Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff united could keep the Slytherins' power-hungry tendencies in check. So you'd really have no need for Gryffindors to be brave, as Slytherins wouldn't have much opportunity to do Voldemorty-type stuff. So logic and reason dictate that Gryffindor is done.
Me too, the offical web site put me in RavenClaw, lost my account and made me take the test again, then put me back in Ravenclaw. Maybe they were trying to tell me something. Hufflepuff are decent and the or two houses just cheat. There are really only two honourable houses.
I feel useless as a gryffindor.
But why not just get rid of Slytherin. I a Gryffindor am offended.
@Timothy Miller courage without motivation is stupidity. Loyalty can be a great motivation for courage, so I guess the Puffs will get that covered.
I'm a Ravenclaw too, but I never saw the Hufflepuffs as loyal. In book two they all turn against Harry, and Zacharias Smith is just a horrible person. The only Hufflepuff I actually like is Tonks, who is the least Hufflepuff-like character. She's a Slytherin, except Rowling hates Slytherins, so of course she was shunted aside into Hufflepuff. Cedric is just boring to me, and Ernie, Hannah, etc. are just filler characters, none of them do anything important. Despite this, Hufflepuff is a super-hyped up house, and Ravenclaw is by far the most underrated. The Hufflepuffs "traits" just don't show in the books for me, except in Cedric, who dies anyway.
I feel like Merphy took the Hufflepuff demise as a personal attack. Being a Hufflepuff myself I agree. I chose Gryffindor because being brave for no reason is stupid. All the other houses can be brave but they have a reason for it rather than just, "I must not show fear."
Exactly! Hufflepuffs are brave when it takes courage to do the right thing. Ravenclaws, when they explore new ideas and mysteries. Slytherins, because it takes courage to pursue your ambitions. Grys are in it for fun
RIGHT? like OUT gryffindor, also their main purpose for bravery besides for loyalty is for clout... like bitch WTF.
Ilove them all but gryffindor is the one who has to go
Quindarius Jones why?!
I am not even a slytherin but I know the ambition is more important than bravery
@@hussainvirk8598 PERIODT
I don't think all Gryffindors are like that at all, and generalizations that wide are illogical since each house has many variations or ranges on each value. For every ego maniac there are also those with a soldier mentality, where acting bravely is a duty or call to action, which is very selfless. I don't think Neville's bravery is out of an avoidance of admitting fear, or to show off, for instance. He acts because someone needed to, and it had to be done, no matter how terrified he was. Harry is also the perfect representation of an A+ Gryffindor, as he does what he does because it is required and he feels a deep personal investment in doing what's right. Even those that act bravely out of adrenaline or ego can be valued too, because regardless of why they go into danger a lot of people wouldn't dare try, which proves their use.
I just see more good in Gryffindors than bad, and it's weird to see such extreme takes on them given that Harry is the exemplification of all the best of the house and proves how valuable they can be.
Your Hufflepuff defense speech was the most passionate and moving thing I have ever heard. Also, as befits a true Ravenclaw, your arguments were well funded. :D
"Eliminate Samwise and we lose!" Bold of you to assume we're on the Fellowship's side
And why shouldn't we be?
@@banjotiki3910 because chaos reigns
Only a psychopath would be on Sauron’s side so, yeah pretty safe to assume.
Thank you for defending us Hufflepuffs. I was shocked at the results, but then again why was I surprised? It reminded me of that time a Slytherin told me that "Hufflepuffs are cute and kind and that's LAME".
Oh wow okay cool.
Anyway. Great video. Had fun playing on insta 😊
Here's a slytherin telling u that hufflepuffs are alright. Edgy kids gonna be edgy
Everyone likes loyalty and kindness even if they don't admit it. You keep being you.
That's the most defence of Hufflepuff I have ever seen.
Rowling herself is actually Hufflepuff. True story
😁😂😁😂😁😂😁
Avatar: The Last Airbender is easily one of the best stories of all time.
Agreed
It was good, but I definitely wouldn’t say that it’s one of the best stories of all time.
@@vyrtilanyrwen3071 which stories would say were better?
Omegaroth666, well, the best stories of all time would include Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, Homer’s The Odyssey, George Orwell’s 1984, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and Jane Austen’ Pride and Prejudice, along with a few other choice works. That sets the bar really high for the best stories of all time. Now, suppose we were to make the list best fantasy stories of all time. Even then, ATLA wouldn’t make my list. I believe that The Lord of the Rings stands head and shoulders above every fantasy story ever written, followed by Wheel of Time, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, Malazan, and finally the Gentleman Bastard sequence. There are a quite a few more stories that I would put before ATLA that I didn’t mention, but I think that my list should cover it. Don’t get me wrong, though. I like ATLA, but bestowing it the honor of “one of the best stories of all time,” even if just fantasy stories, is inaccurate to say the least.
“Maybe I should be a Hufflepuff” we will wait for your coming out as a Hufflepuff video 🤣
I would eliminate griffindor. Love the rant at the end lol.
ABHAY K I would probably do the same
i'm a slytherin and my best friend is a hufflepuff so i fully agree with what you said
Every Slytherin should adopt a Hufflepuff
Same and our second houses are Ravenclaws.
Same. For some reason like... the majority of my friends are hufflepuffs, and the rest are fellow slytherins like
It seems like slytherins just are hufflepuff magnets
And I'm grateful bc they're pure
I think my sister is a hufflepuff but she's not super into HP
I am a Hufflepuff too
"Let's keep the Hufflepuffs and the Slytherins together..."
Slytherpuffs. humm.. you might be onto something.
They make a snager together
I knew Hufflepuff would be eliminated but I think anyone who is friends with a hufflepuff in real life knows better. And I agree, for me its bye bye gryffindor 💛🖤💛🖤💛
For the HP houses, I figured you meant which house doesn’t exist, but like the people still exist so they’d all be sorted into another house instead. So the people with Hufflepuff traits would be in another house but they would still have their loyalty traits.
Same. And in that case, eliminating Hufflepuff could be a good thing, since then the loyal people who would have been in Hufflepuff could get distributed between the other houses and keep them all in check :)
Emma Elizabeth they could be the community’s conscience 😜
Bit maybe in the other houses they’d be influenced and molded by the rest of the house, and then they’d be less Hufflepuffish.
How would anyone want to keep Slytherin around? Isn't the only good thing it does to keep the bullies somewhat separated from the rest?
@@Yora21 What about James Potter? He can also be considered a bully who did everything to impress a girl.
Slytherin is also about loyalty to your close friends and family. If you look at Regulus, he wanted Sirius to fit in the family. We don't know friendships between Slytherins because JK wanted to have an easy escape. However we have bad guys from all the houses except Hufflepuff (e.g. Lockhart for Ravenclaw)
I chose to eliminate Water because that’s the only one you can get rid of and still have Earth, Wind, and Fire as a band. And they rock too hard to break up.
What? 🧐
Joel Katumba earth, wind, and fire is a band 😂
@@audsrose oh! Didn't know
Joel Katumba check out their song “September”! You may have heard it before, it’s pretty famous.
@@WisecrackJax I'll check it out
Yes! Proud Slytherin and I will hurt anyone that lays hands on my sweet little Hufflepuffs. They are sweet and kind little cinnamon roll goodness.
This was a fun video. Loved your Hufflepuff rant at the end. You're so right.
I'm a Slytherin by the way and voted to eliminate Gryffindor.
I totally got rid of the gryffindors! Ravenclaw & Hufflepuff are my faves! (Ravenclaw myself)
I couldn't agree more, did the same thing
I mean, intelligence, hard work, and kindness; what more do you really need?
I would eliminate Slytherins (sorry not sorry)
@@killer92173 same
I would eliminate ravenclaw...no hate
You’ve got to finish Avatar: The Last Airbender if you get the chance! It’s so good and gets very complex as the series goes on.
Idk if I'd say it's complex, but it is very good! Definitely a fun series
Derek Walter I would say that, for a show aimed at younger viewers, it’s complex. It deals with morality, whether or not it’s justified to take human life even if it’s for a supposed greater cause, genocide, losing and recovering one’s identity, the effects of war, revenge, losing loved ones, political corruption, the importance of peace, protecting the environment, etc.
@@7_ty_ okay, that makes sense. Considering the target demographic, I'd agree with you on that.
The first season is the worst since they were still following the boring episodic format all cartoons followed at the time. Also to the guy saying it’s not complex... even with a rather straightforward plot the world building of all the cultures and how it clashes with the magic system was genius. Although, it’s probably the easiest part to overlook within the series.
@@neetfreek9921 hi, that's me. Don't be afraid to address me directly. I feel like you're twisting my words and misinterpreting them. I only meant that I wouldn't consider the complexity to be one of the shows defining characteristics. I heard out the other guys reasons, and then I agreed with him. For the record, avatar is one of my favorite western cartoons. I think it's brilliant.
I am glad I voted Hufflepuff out coz the effect it had on you is truly amazing 😂
Btw I chose Hufflepuff because I thought their absence wouldn't make a huge differences to the plot, after all this is the most under represented house in the entire series
Merphy, I notice you're talking about the Mistborn metals as though we voted for which ones we would keep, even though the question was which one we would eliminate. And I think when you take that into consideration, voting for getting rid of the one where you can see your future makes sense. That's why I voted for it - I don't want to be able to know my own future. I feel like that would give me more anxiety than not knowing, because if my future isn't great, I would spend so much time dreading it. Same with the soothe metal. I don't think people would want to be able to manipulate others like that, or at least not me. I also didn't feel like it was just that necessary
I’m a Hufflepuff married to a Slytherin and it’s the ideal match for balancing each other out. Thank you for defending us Puffs so ardently
The question about choosing between Legolas, Gimli, Gandalf and Sam was the toughest one 😂 (I eliminated Gryffindor too, sorrynotsorry)
Not really. Just get rid of gandalf and he'll come back stronger anyway
@@jameskilgour387 Gandalf the pink
"keeping peeta alive was pretty boring" LOOOOL i'm crying, poor peeta
i love your explanation of ravenclaws haha. as long as it can be justified, they'll do it -- yup! (i am also ravenclaw)
Everything was going well when Elizabeth visited Mr Darcy's house, they were fine. If it wasn't for Lydia they wouldn't have gone through all that stress and wouldn't end up related to Mr. Wickham.
As a Hufflepuff, I'm slightly offended.
Same
The season people remove Gimli it's how they screwed him up on the movies.
The same could be said for Legolas. I feel like neither of them added anything to the story aside from being the -Tolkien- token elf and dwarf.
Merphy, water has BLOODBENDING which can let you control someone and TAKE AWAY SOMEONE'S BENDING. Water is the most powerful bending in Avatar and has many subsets of bending.
The other bending arts don't have as many subsets - mostly one - as water.
Joel Katumba I mean asphyxiation bending is scary as heck!
@@carrina1006 yeah but someone like Amon can bloodbend with their mind to stop you from bending or knock you unconscious and take away someone's bending.
Bloodbending gives me more nightmares on how much it can do
East has the most subsets, and only three people in the entire Avatar myth is could use that power, so it’s not something you’d have anyways.
Why would you give spoilers to her?
That'd be a good reason to get rid of it, honestly. If I was deciding to get rid of something, no matter what it was, it'd be based on whatever I find to be the most dangerous in the wrong hands.
12:33 "Let's think about a world run by Ravenclaw. People who care about wisdom, people who care about knowledge, people who care about--about--finding the answer to things. Very dedicated to logic and being led by the mind. We're gonna have a world where there's going to be tons of opportunity for darkness because, as long as it can be rationalised and reasoned in their mind, they can do whatever they want!"
OBJECTION! The core value of Ravenclaw, as you stated, is not knowledge, but WISDOM (11:55). Wisdom is markedly different from knowledge, in that it is knowledge *tempered by morality, experience, and self-control*. It is synonymous with *good judgment*.
Knowledge (and, by extension, curiosity) is what leads a wizard to discover that the Cruciatus curse can cause excruciating agony in the victim and is deliberately for torture (as the more sadistic the caster/the more they enjoy causing pain, the more powerful the curse). Wisdom is when a wizard works out the theory for the Cruciatus curse and then *doesn't do it* because it's an *awful thing to do* and no good can come from it for either caster or recipient. Wisdom is the application of knowledge in ways which are exclusively moral and good, and is literally the *express opposite* of rationalisation and justification.
Ravenclaws are not the amoral Erudite faction from the Divergent series. They do not quest for knowledge for knowledge's sake, and especially not at the expense of all else. They quest for WISDOM so they can know how to apply the knowledge discovered--and especially when NOT to apply it. A world run by Ravenclaws would be a place where there is virtually *no* opportunity for darkness, because people would know better--and, most importantly, they would *do* better.
--Signed, A Proud Ravenclaw.
Finally someone who understands. I also disagree with people who think Ravenclaws care about intelligence the most, as if we all just enjoy bragging about IQs. I couldn't agree more with what you said.
Ravenclaw too! I agree
Hufflepuff probably suffers from a silly sounding name at least in part. All the other houses sound really cool and at least slightly BA, but Hufflepuff reminds me of a mix between the Heffalump from Dr Seuss and Jigglypuff the pokemon haha.
Your Hufflepuff rant made my day! Lol thanks from a Hufflepuff!
Also Hufflepuff was the main house who fought in the battle of hogwarts.
Don't forget, it was which would you eliminate! When you were talking about the Mistborn question, I think you got it mixed up. You were talking about the one you like the best, not the one you would eliminate. haha
Oooh this is finally out, I was really interested in the percentage after I did the quiz? Picked the option idk😂
Whaaat, I love erthbending! Would get rid of fire cause it isn‘t even an element…
With eliminate I thought you meant: doesn't exist. And not what you don't like so I thought about how everything would have influenced the world and story.
No one has ever defended my house that much. Thank you for getting us 💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤
Hold up hold up, loyalty is the best trait to avoid evil? There sure are a lot of death eaters that were super loyal to Voldemort. Super loyalty means you can be loyal to evil
Merphy: Looks like people want to eliminate Airbending.
Me: Well have I got news for you!
Merphy, I will fight you on your house order. We get rid fo Slytherin first, then Gryffindor. We keep the Ravenclaws cause they're smart and the Hufflepuffs cause they're kind and they will keep Ravenclaw's hubris in check. Fight me :P
I like this too 😊
Atium is far more important than just seeing your own future. It's actually used to see what others are about to do. This makes you really powerful in a fight.
Yaaas Queen of Hufflepuffs 👑
(I know you’re are a Ravenclaw, me too, but I so agree about your speech)
Your relationship with your sister-in-law sounds super wholesome.
Y'all seem to forget that if you got rid of Gryffindor
You get rid of Neville.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
But yes, also, be nicer to Hufflepuff you guys.
I really like how on one hand we should keep the people who are kind and loyal and on the other hand, let Peeta die. Why? 😂
I chose to get ride of gryffindor purely because all the house tests put me in gryffindor and I Am Not A Gryffindor!!!
Also for the pride and prejudice I chose Lydia because I can never choose to eliminate anyone with the name kitty ever, or any name that at all relates to cats.
I voted air on the avatar one bc there's only one air bender 😂
Honey8Cake 😆what about legend of korra!
@@libraryofadventures7800 I haven't watched it yet and don't know much about it so I'll stand corrected 😂
i accidentally clicked the wrong one on the first one 🤦♀️ i was skipping through stories and landed on yours oops
I too am a Ravenclaw who would get rid of griffindor because most of the people in griffindor (specifically the 3 most main characters) also fit into the other houses fairly well.
Also it’s just my least favorite house :P
I'm Ravenclaw too, but I still think Hufflepuff is the best.
I couldn't decide on the first question. While Charms and DADA are important if not even essential in the life of a witch/wizard, I absolutely love the idea of Transfiguration and always thought it was so underrated and underrepresented in the series. Also, how dare these people wanting to eliminate Hufflepuff?! 😥 I consider myself a Ravenclaw and I always imagine Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw pupils sticking together (more or less) and making jokes and rolling their eyes at the Gryffindor/Slytherin rivalry...
I think that the mistborn question instead of cadmium it should have been bendalloy, it's a bit counterintuitive in the explanation but if you want to have more time you want to speed up time, not slow it down as you only affect the area around you, not the whole of the time. When you read the books it very well explained and demostrated^^ and electrum appears in the first trilogy, in book 2
*spoiler alert* it's the metal they use to counter atium and it is the opposite of gold :)
This was great! Glad I participated on Instagram even though I got annoyed at you for the Instagram format issue before realizing I was wrong lol
The thing is, hufflepuff is unimportant. Atleast in the stories. I mean, hufflepuff is a synonym for fluff, filler.
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One name: Tonks
That Rant at the end came right out of you 😂😂😂😂 I loved it
oh pls continue reading acotar 🥺 i know im only on the second book, but its getting a lot more interesting! and you'll understand why everyone eliminated the spring court too!
I just finished Beartown on your reccomendation and I just feel so overwhelmed by it. The story was amazing, and the characters were some of the most well written I've ever read, but the language and the human depravity was just so off the charts that I just couldn't enjoy it. I felt both bad and good about reading it.
He really writes strong emotions. I always come away hurting but thankful I read it
@@merphynapier42 I agree his emotion was amazing. He writes better characters than any other author. I just wish it was a little less Rated R with the language and sexual allusions. I get the need for "the incident", but the book just seemed to be drenched in innuendos and swearing.
I would eliminate:
1. Transfiguration
2. Fighting the dogs with human eyes
3. Gimli
4. Idk so Brass
5. Idk the sisters so Jane
6. Idk so I'm going with Bug
7. Air
8. Idk the series but I'll go with Matt
9. House Tyrell
10. Autumn Court
11. Gryffindor (proud Hufflepuff here)
Thank you Merphy for defending the Hufflepuffs! Too many people think we are lame, so thank you :)
I would eliminate hufflepuff because I don't know a single relevant hufflepuff... Plus what were they known for?
Thank you for defending Hufflepuff. I'm a Ravenclaw, but I think that these traits are extremley important, if not the most valuable!
I am Slytherin first, Hufflepuff second, and this video was so endearing to me 😂😃
Well, thank you for the noble defense of my House. Hufflepuff for life, babes. You CAN have loyalty to the wrong people, mind you: if loyalty is unthinking, you're lost. You can (like I did) get into abusive relationships, just as one example. But I had the intelligence (Ravenclaw) and the integrity (Gryffindor) to get out and realize who my real friends were (Hufflepuff). I think they're all important, really: I just align most with Hufflepuff. Slytherin too, because I'm currently pursuing a Masters degree and I want to be a professor (Slytherin/Ravenclaw). And anyway, my best friend is a Ravenclaw and we get along swimmingly.
Ok Hufflepuff as a house did not have that many characters influencing the story (if we use the same type of thinking you had at Pride and Prejudice)
Murphy: The first book in the Gentlemen Bastards is The Lies of Locke Lamora if you don’t know.
Me: Like we don’t already know!
instagram: *eliminates hufflepuff*
Merphy: **TRIGGERED**
Im hufflepuff and I usually feel disrespected by the other houses, you all are mean with us hufflepuffs. In my opinion you underestimate us, some day you’ll see...
HP tangents - Yay! 🙌 In the context of the books either Gryffindor or Slytherin had to go. Way to stand up for the Puffs! I’m Ravenclaw, but most of my friends are Puffs, overlapping values and whatnot. Great video!
I love your reaction!! I’m a ravenclaw, although on my second pottermore quiz, I got griffindor! WHAT!
5:30 Electrum was brought in in Hero of Ages. Vin and Elend used it as a counter to, and substitute for, atium. Like atium, it only shows a few seconds into the future, so anxiety about your life doesn't really come into play.
Hahaha I hope you do more of these 😂 they're so funny!
😂😂😂 still haven't read HP, but I did the test and put me in Hufflepuff. I plan on reading it next year! Or at least starting the series ☺️
I would most definitely be in Ravenclaw. My goal in life is to understand as much as possible. To become as wise as possible and then pass that wisdom onto others. I'm not a Hufflepuff fan but I can understand why we might keep them. I can also understand why we wouldn't keep them. What would be the deciding factor for me is how we are going to define wisdom.
okay so the first question was regarding hp so i assumed in my head all of them were hp related. so when the second question came i was VERY confused for a minute. 'peeta? who is peeta? i've read hp multiple times and don't remember that name'. OOF
Merphy: I hate when Rowling only has Slytherin bad guys.
Also Merphy: Hufflepuff can't possibly be bad...
i mean, all the air nomads are already dead 🤷♀️
“Yall want an evil world, yall want *darkness* “ - Our hero Merphy Napier
"Ravenclaws need Hufflepuffs" -- yes, we do. Balance head and heart.
Atrium is in the first 3. Also the lord ruler's braces are made of it. It shows shadows of future actions in the immediate future. You turn left and a bolder falls on you vs right and you get shot M with an arrow or straight and you walk between the 2 enemies
After that gryfindor rant, am I allowed to stay a subscriber.... lol great video
Cadmium only slows down time for you, though. That is, what everyone else experiences as an hour, you might experience as a few minutes. Even the books acknowledge that it's a pretty useless power.
I like that Wax and Wayne used it to plan their attack in the Alloy of Law. (haven't read further)
For the first question, Instagram somehow chose my answer (charms) but I agree on transfiguration (which was MY choice...)
"I have a deep love for chains." - Merphy
Lmao
I actually think Transfiguration is the most important magical subject! It's the only thing that muggles cannot accomplish without magic. Changing the innate nature of an object into something infinitely more useful is fascinating! Charms is your everyday magic, but most of it could be accomplished with muggle means and technology.
OK but...loyalty is not a purely good trait. One can be loyal to bad ideals, blind loyalty can be a major fault. They all have their benefits and they all have their downfalls.
I too love all the houses. I that note though I chose Ravenclaw pretty due to the same issue you brought up with them. As a book lover I do think knowledge is extremely important but if Knowledge is similar to power welp power can easily corrupt. Also I’m Hufflepuff 😁
I also would have voted to eliminate Hufflepuff, not because I don't appreciate the virtues of the house, but because there are so many fewer important Hufflepuff characters. Ravenclaw would be my second choice for elimination, because all of the important Ravenclaws could have been re-sorted without major plot mangling. I do agree that merging Slytherin and Gryffindor makes some sense thematically, but if you do that, Harry winds up in Slytherin, Hermione winds up in Ravenclaw, and Ron in Hufflepuff; and not a great recipe for their friendship, and the good guys and the bad guys have intel on each other way too easily. If you eliminate Slytherin, Malfoy gets separated from Crabbe and Goyle and wherever he goes becomes the "bad" house at least for the years Harry is at school.
Merphy is friendly even when she rants lol. By the way, it is Ok to have few more of them :). I am not into HP (not books, not movies), but I would never get rid of loyality.
your reaction to the hp one (last one) was hilarious XD I've already told you why I chose my own house (Hufflepuff), but it's because I didn't want anyone else to be eliminated! ahaha
For only reading the first book I think your choices for the Houses were great Merphy! Tyrell isn't a big presence in AGoT but the rest of the books they are. Although, imo, not nearly as important as the rest on the list.
Funny you say keep the hufflepuffs and slytherins together...Im a Raverin and my BF is a Huffledor. I think we balance quite well LOL.
Merphy @ 11:30 : "And we're finishing it off..."
Me: But there's still like four minutes left in the video
Merphy: *goes on Harry Potter rant*
Me: How did I not see this coming?
This is actually such a fun idea for a video!
AaaAaAAAaaaahhhhHHHHhhhh I thought I was the only one that believes Griffindor and Slytherin were basically the same!!! 😅
It's so AWESOME!! I'm glad I'm not alone with this!! 😍 Thanks!
When wind is air in A:TLA...also of course everyone would want to keep water, water is everywhere! They expand on it in the show, but it’s safe to say that water is over powered to say the least
Someone probably already brought this up, but the reason so many people prefer water and want to be water benders in The Last Airbender is because water has so many functions. It is truly OP. Waterbenders can move water, and make ice, that is like the most basic of their power. But waterbenders can also heal, pull water out of the moister in the air, or out if plants, or they can use their own sweat if it comes to that. They can also manipulate the water in living things, again such as plants, but also animals and people. They can actually control the bodies of living creatures and treat them like puppets. It is terrifying. No other element has so much power. My brother wants to be a water bender if he could be a bender. Me I would want to be an earthbender. You can build houses with ease, till the earth to grow crops faster. Make irrigation to water the crops. Earth is the most, well, down to earth element. As for people wanting to eliminated air. Well going by the show. Pretty much all the Airbender are gone, and the world doesn't really seem worse for it. Also they did separate themselves from the world, and didn't really seem to do much to make it better when they where there, apart from helping to keep the elements and nations in balance. And yes, all the elements are needed to to give the world in avatar balance which is what the show is about.
The site sorts me into Slytherin but I'm totally a Ravenclaw. Though the site thinks the love of learning = good grades and only use books to learn. 🙄 (Seriously, who would want a book over a mysterious chest?)
It helps that my favorite character in the whole series is Luna. I see myself a little too much with her.
Okay so I'm on the 12th minute and I just need you to read the Air Awakens series. Like. The further you get into the series the more you understand how much you're right. The people who are hungry for power and information will doom our world!