And if you’re here because you like Moomin, allow me to apologize in advance for what I’m about to do to it.
— Misty Sparkles, Episode 1 : Spring Ruins Moominvalley
Ruining Moomin is a Affectionate Parody of The Moomins (mostly Moomin (1990)) made by Misty Sparkles.
This parody provides examples of:
- Adapted Out: Stinky has never appeared in this series. The end of episode 12 reveals this is because he was the one that Snufkin killed when he was a child.
- Adaptational Sexuality: Both Moomin and Moominpappa are bisexual, and Snorkmaiden is asexual, though still cares for Moomin (as well as admitting she finds Snufkin attractive.)
- Apocalypse Cult: "Groke's Children," a cult that worships the Groke and seeks to bring about the "Grokepocolypse." Snufkin is in it until episode four. Alicia is also a member if the illustration shown during Snufkin's explanation of the cult is anything to go by.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking:Moominmamma: Listen, I deal with enough bullshit around here! From being forced to temporarily adopt a child that wasn't mine, to magic hats that belonged to a goblin, to having to put up with Sniff, to feeling like I married too early and feeling so trapped in my life I just want to scream! Also you're killing my roses.
- Bisexual Love Triangle: Moomin is bisexual in this series, being in a relationship with Snorkmaiden but is also in love with Snufkin. He seems to have inherited this from his father, as he expressed attraction to Joxter, who, interestingly enough, is Snufkin's father.
- Blatant Lies: A good third of what Snufkin says for the first three and a half episodes, including:
- "I didn't want to miss spring in Moominvalley, let's go with that. I am not running from the police."
- "It's not mine and it's not a tool for the coming new world order."
- "Not that he partakes in that kind of thing, and does not have a stolen Disney World animatronic in his basement that he paid thirty thousand dollars for, he says."
- Break the Cutie: Moomin's dream sequence in "Find Yourself" reveals he has a lot of internalized depression and guilt over what's happened over the course of the series so far.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: There are frequent jokes about the writing, characters commenting on their "subplots," Moominpapa telling his son to "Point out your plotholes elsewhere," and Mymble commenting she has a "different voice actor in every episode."
- Cool Big Sis: Mymble Jr.'s apparently always been this to Snufkin, with her being one of the very few people who openly cared for him when he was a child. As such, she's one of the very few people Snufkin actually likes in the present.
- Disappeared Dad: Joxter left Snufkin on Mymble Sr.'s doorstep when he was seven years old with a note saying "I just can't do this anymore". In the present day, Joxter's in Vegas with Muddler.
- Frat Bro: The entire race of Hattifatteners.
- Hands-Off Parenting: Mymble (the elder).
- Incest-ant Admirer: Little My has plans on winning over and marrying her half-brother, Snufkin. She mistakenly thinks he's her adopted brother, which makes it not weird, according to her. She gets over this in episode 14.
- In the "Letters From Joxter" video, Joxter mentions that he learned that he's also Little My's biological father, making her infatuation with Snufkin even worse.
- Killed Offscreen: Stinky. See Adapted Out.
- Manchild: The Moomin family "watches over Sniff" despite him being an adult because his own parents don't trust him to make any financial decisions on his own.
- Married Too Young: With Moominmama and Moominpappa, lamented about by Moominmamma.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Snufkin goes through quite a lot of this once he realizes he was in a cult. Not that he killed people for that cult, just that he had been tricked.
- Mythology Gag: There are occasional references to the Moomin books and comics.
- Snufkin mentions Toffle as being in the Groke cult.
- Mymble Jr. has memories of meeting Moominpapa, Joxter, and Muddler in "The Exploits of Moominpapa," and is confused when she finds out she wasn't even born yet (as the 90s anime replaces her with Mymble Sr.)
- "No. Just… No" Reaction: Moomin, when Mymble (the younger) goes into a very detailed explanation of the mymble reproductive system.
- Raised by Grandparents: Moominmamma, whose own mother was a such a hoarder, she had to live with her grandmother for most of her teenage years. Apparently, Moominmamma's grandma is the only relative that she can tolerate.
- Shotgun Wedding: Heavily implied with Moominmama and Moominpappa.
- Shout-Out: "Fear & Loathing in Moominland" appropriately quotes Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:Snufkin: Your typical Hattifattener has two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers, and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls.
- The are a few references to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, such as Snufkin playing "Winter Wrap-Up" and "A True, True Friend" on the harmonica, and mention of Snork owning a Pinkie Pie body pillow.
- Suddenly Voiced: The Groke doesn't speak at all in the original series (save for one line and a few groans) but in this series, she's quite talkative, even having a lengthy argument with Sniff in episode 5.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Nobody tries to hide the fact that Sniff is this. Moominmama in particular just straight up can't stand him and his presence usually results in her being in a bad mood.
- Episode 8 reveals he more or less inherited this trait from his father Muddler, who clearly isn't very well liked by Joxter or Fredrickson.
