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Two separate matches pitted two of my "just outside the top 25"s against each other--#28 Commander Shepard over #27 Urdnot Wrex and #29 Dick Gumshoe over #32 The Boss. Shep looks like s/he should be in, but Gumshoe still needs some help.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

...Whoa, seriously? How did I miss this topic for so long?

...And how did they manage to f*** this up that badly? I was excited when I first saw this topic, but then I saw what anime they actually had here and it's either stuff that I haven't even heard of--a rarity for someone who spends as much time on TV Tropes as I do--or stuff I already know to be s***. And Cowboy Bebop which has been in reruns on adult swim for over a decade despite having only 26 episodes.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers, In-Conference DLC)
The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear ACE)
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#16 Commander Shepard (Mass Effect, No-Life 2: Effect 3)
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Sora (Kingdom Hearts, Playstation All-Stars)
N (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
Professor Oak (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear ACE)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

TWEWY

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Crash Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot, Game Jumping)
Shulk (Xenoblade, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
#5 Mario (Mario Bros, Smash Bros)
Pikachu (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
Rikku (Final Fantasy X, Playstation All-Stars)
#20 Vivi Orunitia (Final Fantasy IX, Playstation All-Stars)
#14 Kefka Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
Kingler (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
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#11 Amaterasu (Okami, In-Conference DLC)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

FF7

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Zack Fair (Final Fantasy VII, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
Mewtwo (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
Catherine (Catherine, Shadow Bombplex)
Rydia of Mist (Final Fantasy IV, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
#18 Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear ACE)
Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic, Game Jumping)
#6 Kirby (Kirby, Smash Bros)
Alicia Melchiott (Valkryia Chronicles, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
Travis Touchdown (No More Heroes, Shadow Bombplex)
Lightning (Final Fantasy XIII, Playstation All-Stars)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Well, Link continues to drop. Slowly.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Right, I forgot that that was the year where the Big East actually had three teams still undefeated at the start of November--West Virginia, Louisville, and Rutgers. #5 Louisville knocked off #3 West Virginia on November 2, moving up to #3 themselves--and remember, #1 and #2 at that time were Ohio State and Michigan, who would still have to play each other--and then one week later, they took on #15 Rutgers, who'd been off the previous week.

Louisville led 25-7 late in the first half, but failed to score at all in the second half. Still, as time wound down, the game was tied, 25-25. Rutgers got a first down in the Louisville red zone and began rushing to burn up the clock, Louisville calling timeouts after each rush. After getting third and four and burning Louisville's last timeout with just over a minute remaining, Rutgers took a knee for a loss of three, then let the clock run down before calling their own timeout and lining up for a 33-yard field goal.

Wide right.

Flag on the field.

Offsides, Louisville. Ito's second attempt from 28 yards was true. 28-25, and it's Rutgers that's still undefeated.

Rutgers would go on to lose the very next week to Cincinnati, but a West Virginia loss to South Florida gave the Scarlet Knights a second chance at making the BCS. All they needed to do was beat the Mountaineers.

Rutgers never beats the Mountaineers. 41-39 in triple overtime was the final, so Louisville, which didn't lose again, got the BCS bid.

Think about that again. Louisville didn't lose again after that heartbreaker against Rutgers. And the only other major-conference team that went undefeated was Ohio State.

It's no sure thing because the Cardinals would've still had to pull off the win in overtime, but it's quite possible that that one offsides call cost Louisville--and the Big Least--a bid in the national title game.

This was the season that made me a college football fan, by the way. I'd never really bothered getting into it before, but I did always read the sports section of my local paper and that year Rutgers actually managed to steal the headlines away from the pro teams. The Scarlet Knights went back to being hopeless the following year (though it would take a few years for them to return to being truly awful), but I was already hooked--and Oklahoma-Boise State might've been part of the reason for that.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

swirIdude posted...

Hmm.

Hmm indeed. Looking back at the Google Doc, I think I overreacted to Charizard's performance. Move him up to #12 and bump the five ahead of him down a spot.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

1. Bowser (1)
2. Phoenix Wright (3)
3. Solid Snake (2)
4. Miles Edgeworth (5)
5. Mario (4)
6. Kefka Palazzo (7)
7. Kirby (8)
8. Big Boss (9)
9. Amaterasu (16)
10. Luigi (6)
11. Auron (12)
12. Frog (14)
13. Knuckles the Echidna (10)
14. Vivi Orunitia (17)
15. Leon Kennedy (18)
16. Samus Aran (21)
17. Charizard (11)
18. Fox McCloud (27)
19. Squall Leonhart (13)
20. Revolver Ocelot (23)
21. Mega Man (25)
22. Professor Layton (20)
23. Yoshi (22)
24. Sephiroth (NR)
25. Pikachu (15)

Dropping out of top 25: #19 Maya Fey, #24 Dick Gumshoe
Also in consideration: Ike Greil, Urdnot Wrex, Commander Shepard, Dick Gumshoe, Mewtwo, Manny Calavera

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

What do you expect? It's a holiday. Nobody comes to these boards on holidays.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Yep. Big drop for Char coming.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Recette Lemongrass (Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
#1 Bowser (Super Mario Bros, Smash Bros)
#6 Luigi (Mario Bros, Smash Bros)
Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
Banjo (Banjo-Kazooie, Game Jumping)
GLaDOS (Portal, No-Life 2: Effect 3)
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Alicia Melchiott (Valkryia Chronicles, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
Manfred von Karma (Ace Attorney, Metal Gear ACE)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Shulk (Xenoblade, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
#9 Charizard (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
Mewtwo (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
#16 Knuckles the Echidna (Sonic, Game Jumping)
#13 Samus Aran (Metroid, Smash Bros)
Etna (Disgaea, Shadow Bombplex)
Dunban (Xenoblade, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
Raiden (Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear ACE)
Guybrush Threepwood (Monkey Island, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
N (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

At this rate Pikachu might not be in my top 25 even if he remains undefeated. Should still be there this week though because he built up a good buffer with a lofty preseason ranking and a near-doubling in week 1, but the past two weeks have been...eeergh.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

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Laharl (Disgaea, Shadow Bombplex)
Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic, Game Jumping)
Wheatley (Portal, No-Life 2: Effect 3)
Crash Bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot, Game Jumping)
Fox McCloud (Star Fox, Smash Bros)
Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong, Smash Bros)
Rin Tohsaka (Fate/Stay Night, Shadow Bombplex)
Professor Layton (Professor Layton, Nintendo Power)\
Mr. Game and Watch (Game and Watch, Nintendo Power)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Pokémon RBY

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

268 - Stantler
267 - Froslass, because everything that actually fits this clue has already appeared (Meloetta, Gothitelle, f*** even Lopunny and Jynx fit this clue better than Froslass does. Kirlia fits this clue pretty well, but Gardevoir doesn't; it looks more like an adult woman.)
266 - Ditto

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Bonus Question
Biggest loss where you think you would have won if team or best player was 100%

Gonna go to way back before I was born for this one. Back in Game 7 of the 1946 World Series, Boston centerfielder Dom DiMaggio (yes, the younger brother of the Yankees' Hall of Fame centerfielder) got hurt during the game and had to come out early. Late in the game, Harry "The Hat" Walker came to the plate for the Cardinals. DiMaggio recalled trying to tell his replacement, Leon Culberson, what adjustments to make from the dugout. Walker hit a ball deep to centerfield, and Culberson took too long to retrieve it; by the time he'd gotten the relay throw in to shortstop Johnny Pesky, Enos Slaughter, who had been on first when Walker came to the plate, was already on his way home, against Pesky's expectations. Pesky was long the "goat" for "holding the ball", but in reality, it was the absence of Dominic DiMaggio in center field at the end of Game 7 that allowed Slaughter's famed "Mad Dash" to come to fruition.

Bonus Question
Your favorite player that never won a title?

...I don't really think about those things. In the era of free agency, it's silly to make attachments to specific players. And my teams have been winning titles recently.

But I'm pretty sure that I've got all of you topped when it comes to personal achievements in high school, because I was on the 15-student team that won the American Regions Mathematics League in 2005. I can therefore truthfully call myself a "national champion", even though it's in mathematics and not athletics. I was sort of on a state champion athletic team, but only by dumb luck; seniors are automatically named to varsity regardless of skill level, and even though I had no real skill, I just happened to be a senior when we won the state title. I fenced in high school. It's a lot of fun.

I've got a few other assorted accomplishments, most of them in the field of math, though I did win my school's spelling bee in 7th grade and got to go to the regionals. But really, nothing's ever going to top the '05 ARML championship. Actually qualifies as one of my better sports memories, too, because I just happened to discover that Boston's UPN 38 was somehow broadcasting all the way to State College, PA, and by the end of the night I'd gathered Sox fans from all up and down the Atlantic Coast to watch the game in the lounge and talk Red Sox--naturally, the game ended with a walk-off home run by none other than Big Papi.

...Oh, my, June is just about over and I still haven't checked in on the results of the 2012 competition. I should do that...

...Lehigh Valley A1. Second Place. Not bad, though it seems like a disappointment after three straight championships. Starting with the win in 2005, they've been top 3 seven times in eight years including four championships. I'm proud to have been a part of this dynasty. A2 actually came in 21st this year, and 6th at the Penn State site...I think we're up to 3 teams at the A level now? A3 wasn't so great, and neither of our two remaining B teams did well enough to move up to Division A. So, not too much to get excited about, but a good year.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Dr_Football posted...

Bonus Question
Biggest blowout loss in a game you were super hyped up for?

Any of these people who say that 2004 is their answer to anything are hereby declared liars if they answer with anything other than Game 7. Unless, of course, they were like me and knew as soon as the Red Sox had closed to 3-2 that the Yankees had to close it out in Game 6 because they only had one decent starting pitcher left to trot out and if it reached Game 7 the Red Sox would demolish them.

So I guess for me, it would have to be...I don't know. We don't really do blowout losses, and when we do, they're usually pretty predictable. Probably the 24-0 loss to Dallas to finish the 2009 regular season, followed immediately by a 34-14 loss to the same team in the first round of the playoffs.

Bonus Question
Last time you cried over a sports loss?

Never. Sports don't come with their own soundtracks, or if they do, they're not sad enough.

Bonus Question
Biggest postseason loss by your team that you still remember that season and team fondly for making it as far as they did?

Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS. Literally never should have happened. The Oakland A's led 2-0. Game 3 went to extras in large part because Miguel Tejada got tagged out in between third and home while arguing with an umpire that he should've been awarded home plate, not third base, on the fielder's interference that had just been called (the second such call of the game, the first of which had awarded a Red Sox player the plate). It was one of two A's Tek tagged out in that inning, which was also the inning in which they got their lone run. So, by all rights, the Sox should've been swept out of that series. But they managed to luck out to get to extras, Trot hit a walk-off homer in the eleventh, and the Sox came back to win in 5 games to set up that series with the Yanks. 2003 sowed the seeds for 2004, and so I will never look back at "what could've been".

Bonus Question
Most memorable loss in a game that featured a statistical milestone or oddity

Can't really call this "memorable" because it was a couple of years before I was born, but as I learned last year when the Rangers came a strike away from clinching the World Series twice in as many innings in Game 6 and failed to win it, the only previous team to hold a lead with two outs and two strikes on the batter that would be the final out and fail to win a World Series was...the 1986 Red Sox. Schiraldi gives up three singles to allow the Mets to cut the deficit to one, Stanley comes in and throws a wild pitch to tie the game, then Mookie Wilson hits that damn infield single that gets through Buckner's legs for an error and Knight scores from second. (Yes, it was a single and an error; Wilson was quick, Buckner was slow as s***, and Stanley forgot to cover first base, so even if Buckner had fielded it cleanly Mookie would've reached. It's only an error because Knight would've had to stop at third if he'd fielded it. Everyone forgets that Stanley f***ed that game up just as badly as Buckner did.)

Bonus Question
Biggest or most memorable loss against a team considered the "bad guys"

See above. There's even a book about the '86 Mets called "The Bad Guys Won!" They were the bad boys of baseball and they knew it and reveled in it.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Dr_Football posted...

And hey, lets do this Leon style and add a question at the end

Whats your most depressing sporting event that you witnessed live?

Probably going to Tropicana Field in 2008 to see my Red Sox play against the newly rebranded Rays. Back when we'd made the plans, Tampa was still the hapless Devil Rays that had taken up personal residence at the bottom of the standings. 2008 was the year they became good. The Rays swept the series, and Florida is and always has been a football state so the home fans really had no idea what proper behavior for a baseball fan is and were absolutely unbearable. At least in the Bronx the fans go about their obnoxious business the right way.

Bonus Question
Most depressing or crushing loss in a sport you don't usually care about?

Don't know, but ESPN's Streak for the Cash was probably involved somehow.

...No, wait, that's not true. I think that the idea of high school players and teams being nationally ranked is ridiculous, but when one of the teams, namely the girls' cross-country team, at my alma mater became nationally ranked, suddenly I was excited to follow them. Actually managed to find a webcast of the nationals, which were being held in Oregon--seriously, people from my little New Jersey high school were being flown to a competition three time zones away for their athletic ability! ...Complete non-entity. None of our girls came even close to winning an individual medal, and as a team they were among the worst. I think they'd been ranked #5 in the country entering that competition. Somehow they remained in the top 25 when the following season started; they didn't stay there for long.

So, yeah, definitely watching a webcast of girls from the school I'd graduated from, most of whom I didn't actually know (the seniors that year were freshmen during my senior year), run long distances considerably slower than girls from high schools in other parts of the country is my most depressing loss in a sport I don't care about.

Bonus Question
Worst loss in a game or series you were 100% sure you were going to win?

Does it count if you do end up coming back to win the series? Because Game 2 of the 2007 ALCS was absolutely brutal in that I knew exactly how it was about to be f***ed up. Here's Francona going to a reliever, and you know that they'll send up Nixon--our former player--as a pinch-hitter, and he'll ruin our s***. Yes, the pitcher on the mound at the time was the awful Eric Gagne, but taking him out was only going to make things worse.

So I guess I'll have to go with the 2009 NFC Championship Game: Arizona 32, Philadelphia 25. Before the postseason started, that was actually the exact round in which I predicted that my Eagles would finally lose...to Carolina. Then Arizona upset the Panthers, and suddenly it was "Oh my god, we're gonna have an all-Pennsylvania Super Bowl!" And then everything just went wrong. Lost fumbles, missed PATs and Field goals...the Eagles just sucked in the first half, and somehow still managed to take a lead during the fourth quarter. They couldn't hold it. They never hold it.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

#24 Magus (Chrono Trigger, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
Manny Calavera (Grim Fandango, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
Rydia of Mist (Final Fantasy IV, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
Cecil Harvey (Final Fantasy IV, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
Rita Mordio (Tales of Vesperia, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
#21 Revolver Ocelot (Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear ACE)
#3 Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear ACE)
Ezio Auditore da Firenze (Assassin's Creed II, Playstation All-Stars)
#23 Frog (Chrono Trigger, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
#17 Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII, Playstation All-Stars)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

The Joker
Myotismon
Wolf O'Donnell

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Kay Faraday (Ace Attorney Investigations, Metal Gear ACE)
Blue/Green Oak (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
Pikachu (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic, Game Jumping)
Sora (Kingdom Hearts, Playstation All-Stars)
Rikku (Final Fantasy X, Playstation All-Stars)
Yoshi (Super Mario World, Smash Bros)
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Yuri Lowell (Tales of Vesperia, Tales of Democracy, Ho!)
Blastoise (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Also, SBell is so getting a Boardy for this.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Christopher
Frank
Gale
Jacob
Jake

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

#7 Kirby (Kirby, Smash Bros)
Falco Lombardi (Star Fox, Smash Bros)
Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic, Game Jumping)
Zack Fair (Final Fantasy VII, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
#20 Vivi Orunitia (Final Fantasy IX, Playstation All-Stars)
Naoto Shirogane (Persona 4, Shadow Bombplex)
#4 Mario (Mario Bros, Smash Bros)
Eevee (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
Professor Oak (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
#14 Kefka Palazzo (Final Fantasy VI, Ye Olde Squaresoft)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Well, it's official now: Beat Zero by one vote and you'll move up to #23.

And l3fty has no right to criticize anyone's ballot when he's got Bowser all the way down at #6.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Sacred Stones

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

And the ballots have dried up into a flurry of insults. I suppose we've cleared the FNV and are moving on to the LNV, that past-midnight mix where left-coasted insomniacs mingle with the occasional early morning European, up bright and early to prepare for another possibly soggy day in the stands at the All-England Club.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

1. Bowser (1)
2. Solid Snake (2)
3. Phoenix Wright (3)
4. Mario (4)
5. Miles Edgeworth (7)
6. Luigi (6)
7. Kefka Palazzo (5)
8. Kirby (8)
9. Big Boss (9)
10. Knuckles the Echidna (12)
11. Charizard (10)
12. Auron (15)
13. Squall Leonhart (13)
14. Frog (20)
15. Pikachu (11)
16. Amaterasu (17)
17. Vivi Orunitia (16)
18. Leon Kennedy (19)
19. Maya Fey (28)
20. Professor Layton (22)
21. Samus Aran (18)
22. Yoshi (23)
23. Revolver Ocelot (27)
24. Dick Gumshoe (26)
25. Mega Man (29)

Falling off the Top 25: #14 Sonic the Hedgehog, #21 Blastoise, #24 Zero, #25 Captain Falcon. Come to think of it, wasn't one of the ones who lost this week the one that Blastoise upset last week? Hope that Google doc is up soon.

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

So, we've finished up Sinnoh.

I wonder, are they going to go back to showing Chronicles episodes in America, or is Dawn's Cyndaquil's evolution to Quilava just going to be treated as an off-screen thing when Dawn returns to the show? (Assuming that she doesn't have a whole mess of new Pokémon, anyway.)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

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#19 Squall Leonhart (Final Fantasy VIII, Playstation All-Stars)
Donkey Kong (Donkey Kong, Smash Bros)
Rikku (Final Fantasy X, Playstation All-Stars)
Mewtwo (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic, Game Jumping)
#12 Charizard (Pokemon, Nintendo Power)
#18 Commander Shepard (Mass Effect, No-Life 2: Effect 3)
Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic, Game Jumping)
Sora (Kingdom Hearts, Playstation All-Stars)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

Falcon

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13

#3 Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear ACE)
The Boss (Metal Gear Solid 3, Metal Gear ACE)
Captain Falcon (F-Zero, Smash Bros)
#8 Samus Aran (Metroid, Smash Bros)
Rin Tohsaka (Fate/Stay Night, Shadow Bombplex)
GLaDOS (Portal, No-Life 2: Effect 3)
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Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII, Ye Olde Squaresoft)
Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII, Ye Olde Squaresoft)

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"Everyone has a dick although it may not be physical. You just have to learn to access it within your mind." - blindhobo13