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I'm posting this early this time so I don't miss the topic entirely.

I guess I'll agree with Ranticoot's votes for the three new rankings. Pokmon nostalgia is a force and a half here, and Gabranth is a major and seemingly well-liked character from a fairly strong Final Fantasy game, so I suppose he can reach Mid Fodder.

As for the reranking, though...

Ranticoot posted...

and Halo is a little more popular now than it was in the past

???

If you mean less hated, then sure. However, that's the only way in which Halo is more popular here, as maybe 10% of GameFAQs truly cares about the series nowadays. We actually had plenty of Halo fans back in 2006 when Cortana made her sole contest appearance (with a rather embarrassingly low seed, might I note), and indeed, 2006 Master Chief was clearly stronger than the current Chief who pretty much functions on respect votes alone. Even back then, Cortana utterly embarrassed herself by missing 40% on Joanna Dark, who proceeded to get nearly quadrupled by Yuna. I'm willing to give Joanna more credit than that by assuming Yuna inflicted some sort of weird waifu SFF there, and take her 19% on Mario from 2005 to indicate her 2006 strength. That still hardly gives Cortana a path to being Mid Fodder even back in 2006, though, let alone now.

Of course, there are two reasons Cortana could have possibly moved in a different direction from Chief. One is that she's the name of Microsoft's digital assistant, a point that no one has brought up because we all fortunately realize how evident it is that (pretty much) no one cares and no one will vote for her on that basis. The other is the TJF/waifu factor that half_silver mentioned in yesterday's topic. To that, I say that there's a distinct possibility it'll be neutralized by face shots in future contests just as it was in 2018. Even if we go back to more standard pictures (which Cortana had in 2006 only to prove hardly anyone has ever cared), a substantial proportion of this site hated Halo when they were teens and has maybe grown to grudgingly respect Chief and the original game now that they're mostly over 30. Bottom line, Cortana is almost certainly Low Fodder now, and probably not even good Low Fodder at that.

I'm not done writing just yet, though. I also wish to nominate Mr. Game & Watch for reranking. Basically, there's only so much Meat Boy could have possibly improved from 2013 without any major new releases, so G&W crushing even a weaker Meat Boy negatively impacted by match circumstances implies good things about his neutral strength. Likewise, G&W probably would have threatened 60% on Lee Everett 1-on-1 in 2013, which again is quite solid for a time when The Walking Dead was actually well-liked and generally relevant.

Additionally, I will nominate Archer (Fate/stay Night), who we seem to have missed among the veterans of pre-2018 contests. I'll also third Jessie (FFVII), Joe Musashi, and Seymour Skinner.

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