Duplex Character Elimination 50: Inside a Mansion

Duplex Character Elimination 50: Inside a Mansion was the 50th episode of Duplex Character Elimination. This episode is considered to be one of the most controversial episodes ever made by the Creator.

## Synopsis

Maren Morris was eliminated with 5.5 votes. After that, Ninja announced the next challenge, which was to survive a mansion filled with witches and bats. However, all of the male contestants, led by Xi Jinping and Goldnissan, chose against doing the challenge. Instead, they opted to pour lava over the mansion despite the other contestants still being in it. With the lava destroying the mansion, Xi proclaimed that he and the other male contestants were going to win. However, Ninja caught them and insisted that they were going to regret their decisions. The male contestants received massive penalties, which included losing immunity awards and lacking the ability to receive prize votes that would otherwise prevent elimination.

## Controversy

This episode received backlash from many fans. The main point of criticism was the decision to have Bowser and Waluigi, neither of whom were troublemakers, roped into the troublemaking scheme. However, there were a few other factors that made this decision much harder to accept. One factor was that by having the quadruple elimination this episode, the next episode would be the finale's voting, in which the contestant with the most votes of that voting period would be crowned as the season's champion, meaning that those who were eliminated in the quadruple-elimination were so close to making the finale. However, an even bigger factor was that a new penalty was introduced, in which the penalized contestants wouldn't be able to receive any prize votes; a contestant winning the prize would automatically prevent him/her from being eliminated the next episode, regardless of if he/she received enough elimination votes to be eliminated. These factors, combined with a good amount of voters favoring Bowser and Waluigi, led to accusations that the Creator rigged the season to prevent Bowser and Waluigi from potentially emerging as the winner.

Conversely, some fans praised the Creator for having a quadruple elimination. However, as of 23 March 2023, the video sits at 5 likes to 7 dislikes, indicating that the general consensus is against the quadruple elimination.

### Duplex Character Elimination 51: Plot Twist

In the next episode of the season, it was revealed that during Episode 50, Xi Jinping and Goldnissan managed to take over Bowser and Waluigi's minds offscreen, which helped explain why the latter two were involved in the crime scene. Episode 51 was well-praised for having one of the best plot twists, though some fans were still irate at Bowser and Waluigi being eliminated despite being proven to be innocent; the hosts tried to keep Bowser and Waluigi from being eliminated, but the Creator vetoed the hosts' decision.

## Legacy

### Immediate aftermath

With Xi Jinping, Goldnissan, Bowser, and Waluigi removed from the picture, only 5 contestants remained, prompting the hosts to immediately jump into the final vote-off. With all of these 5 contestants being female, Duplex Character Elimination became the first character elimination season to have an all-female finale. Rainbow White Mage ended up winning the season, which not only marked the first time a female contestant won a character elimination season, but also the first time a joiner won a character elimination season, as she joined in the middle of the season.

### Notable mentions of this episode

* During Episode 5 of Character Elimination: The Revenged, Waluigi chatted with Luigi and Light Blue Yoshi about their placements in Duplex Character Elimination, as all three of them participated in that season. When asked if he won that season, Waluigi revealed that he didn't thanks to Xi Jinping mind-controlling him and Bowser, which caused them all to get severely penalized, guaranteeing their eliminations.

### Notable episodes inspired by this episode

* During Episode 16 of Capital Gains Character Elimination, Goldnissan, who was heavily involved in Episode 50 of Duplex Character Elimination, rounded out several female contestants to join a school shooter in hunting down all the remaining contestants. This led to all 6 contestants getting heavily penalized, which also included losing their abilities to receive prize votes. Similarly, this episode occurred right before the Finale. However, the female contestants that joined Goldnissan didn't have their minds hacked.
* During Episode 1 of Ethereal Madness Character Elimination, Xi Jinping, who was heavily involved in Episode 50 of Duplex Character Elimination, mind-controlled his teammates to go out and sabotage the other teams' stoves to prevent them from winning. However, only Xi was penalized, largely because of Kristaps Porzingis snitching on him for hacking his teammates' minds. Unlike Episode 50 of Duplex Character Elimination, however, this episode actually showed Xi stating that he hacked his teammates minds, whereas Episode 50 of Duplex Character Elimination did not show any trace of Xi performing such act; it wasn't until the episode right after that revealed that Xi hacked Bowser and Waluigi's minds.
* In Episode 47 of Peach Vs. Piper, Xi Jinping, who was heavily involved in Episode 50 of Duplex Character Elimination, mind-controlled the hosts after being angry that he couldn't rejoin. Upon hacking the hosts' minds, he forced them to plant explosives in the maze, as that episode's challenge was to escape a giant maze. The contestants would learn that something was off with the hosts and their actions. Eventually, Gwen would free the main host, Fire Rosalina, from the brain chip and make her normal again. In the end, Hawk would find Xi and shove him into a volcano before the former got rewarded for his actions.
* In Episode 6 of Mardi Gras Character Elimination, Melissa Barrera would get Harry Lyme and Marv Murchins to join her in burning down a mansion in a near-exact re-enactment of Episode 50 of Duplex Character Elimination. In fact, most of their dialogue was the same as that in the episode this one was re-enacting, save for Harry addressing Melissa by her name in place of Goldnissan addressing Xi by his name, Melissa Barrera saying "no more discussion" in place of Xi's "end of story", and Ninja saying "your team loses" when catching them since this episode took place during a team section while Episode 50 of Duplex Character Elimination occurred in the merge section.

### Long-term aftermath

After Duplex Character Elimination, Waluigi, Bowser, and Goldnissan would not compete in a season together until Winner's War. Goldnissan would initially get eliminated in Episode 11 without any interactions with Bowser or Waluigi, but rejoined in Episode 27. The next episode, Goldnissan and his friend Darknissan would summon non-contestants to kill off the contestants. Upon Bowser and Waluigi learning that those two were behind the mess, they were extremely angry at them and chose to fight them. While Bowser fought and killed Darknissan, Waluigi cornered Goldnissan and began threatening him; Waluigi aggressively stated that Goldnissan started this mess and then proclaimed that it was time for Goldnissan to "pay up". Goldnissan insisted that if that were the case, Waluigi shouldn't even have existed before calling Waluigi an "immature lady". Even angrier, Waluigi snarled that he would delete [Goldnissan's] existence from the world forever. With all the built-up rage between Goldnissan and Waluigi coming to a climax, the two fought. Waluigi would break Goldnissan's lightsaber before knocking him to the ground. Goldnissan responded to the knockdown by kicking Waluigi back. Goldnissan attempted to get the upper hand on Waluigi, but Waluigi was able to stifle Goldnissan's attack and shoved him back to the ground. Distraught at how he was losing the battle, Goldnissan attempted to flee, but Hawk stopped him from leaving the fight and forced him back into the fray. Angry over how he was prevented from fleeing, Goldnissan threatened to kill both of them. Then, Bowser jumped from above and blindsided Goldnissan into the ground. Bowser then picked up Goldnissan and lifted him into the air before telling Waluigi to execute Goldnissan. Goldnissan begged them to spare his life, but Waluigi didn't listen and dismembered Goldnissan before telling him to shut up. Ultimately, although all of them were penalized, only Goldnissan and Darknissan got eliminated the next episode. In fact, Bowser would end up winning the season.

In Episode 30 of Mirror 3600 Elimination, Goldnissan would have a cameo as a therapy patient. The therapist, Dua Lipa, would help Goldnissan see the ways of his errors and finally drop his grudge against Waluigi.