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"MordeTwi" is a portmanteau name for a crossover relationship between Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and Mordecai from Regular Show. "MordeTwi" started of as a friendship in a multi fandom crossover fanfiction titled "Earthworm Zim" back in June, 2011, with notable appearances of the two being in the latter portion of Chp. 14, part 1, Chp. 14, part 2, and Chp. 15. The fanfiction inspired fans to create shipping content for the two, including various independent fanfiction series – a notable example being Friendship, Disharmony and Sonic, and fan art depicting various random scenes. This eventually led to the creation of the MordeTwi fan group on October 24, 2011, for the need to accumulate many fan creations for the ship, and the ownership of the group was handed over to Cartuneslover16 – the author of "Earthworm Zim" – some time later. In about under a year later, the course of history will change forever...

Airplanes Meme/"Redraw MordeTwi" Trend

On August 6, 2012, several months after the founding of the group, bluedog444 posted an image titled "(MordeTwi) Airplanes". Since then, "MordeTwi" has become mostly known as the "Airplanes/Shooting Stars" meme due to a trend of redrawing bluedog444's art dating as far back as 2013. "MordeTwi" became easily dismissed as a "crack ship", a crossover relationship that is particularly odd, that is purely for the lolz; and the time when it was a genuine "rarepair" has since been forgotten. Most current art featuring this ship, therefore, stems from this tradition of depicting the relationship in a melodramatic light for comedic effect, or openly poking fun at the supposed absurdity of these disparate characters being romantically involved, with many of the images featuring lyrics from the 2010 B.o.B song "Airplanes", with the characters shown back to back (often in separate comic panels), tearfully pining for one another, referencing the original "Airplanes" art created in 2012. The "Redraw MordeTwi" meme trend grew stronger into virality in 2020 on Twitter, and reemerged around a year later as a TikTok hashtag and as a fully transformed trend with various re-inventions of MordeTwi.

Related Tags

• crossover ship
• crossover

Further reading

• MordeTwi Fan Group Posts
• Know Your Meme
• Shipping Wiki