http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=4317
Ganon's the site's #1 favorite Nintendo villain (thus ensuring only Sephiroth outdoes him as a villain here). Considering how often it was once suggested LoZ-fans wouldn't support Ganondorf against Bowser due to the LoZ-fanbase "not being THAT blind" (which is an unfair way to put it), this can't be bad for Epona.
So, let's restack the evidence Epona's riding on for hope in a GameFAQs-contest...
CHARACTERS:
1) Link is the site's biggest hero (and proved so six times before), thus Nintendo's biggest hero.
2) Ganondorf is Nintendo's biggest villain, thus GameFAQs's second biggest villain (Sephiroth's #1). He was also the Villain Contest's runner-up.
3) Zelda is Nintendo's second biggest woman, thus GameFAQs's #3 woman (Samus's #1, Tifa's #2). She was also the Female Bracket's runner-up.
4) Midna has advanced past the first round twice before, plus a vote-in.
5) Tingle has made two contests without board-support.
WHY IT MATTERS: LoZ's big three have a lot of history with our contests, and Epona's got more face-time with players in the LoZ-series than anybody mentioned here not named Link.
GAMES:
1) Loz:OoT is the site's biggest game, thus Nintendo's biggest game.
2) LoZ:MM is the site's biggest game of the past decade, thus Nintendo's biggest game of the past decade.
3) LoZ:TP is the site's biggest game from 2004-2006, thus Nintendo's biggest game from 2004-2006. You could arguably extend both of those to say 2002-2007 if you look outside of BGE2.
WHY IT MATTERS: Epona's been an important figure in three of the site's biggest games. In fact, if you were to look at the period from 1998-2007, that's a decade of dominance only a select few games could overcome; RBY, FFX, SSBM, and maybe MGS would be the only games capable of preventing the series from owning the top three spots in such a time-frame.
SERIES:
1) LoZ is the site's biggest series, thus Nintendo's biggest series.
WHY IT MATTERS: ZELDAFEAR...the series matters to a lot of people, so Epona's got a good starting point.
COMPANY:
1) Nintendo is the site's biggest company.
WHY IT MATTERS: NINTENDOFAQS...while we've seen a lot of weak Nintendo characters, we've also seen a lot of strong ones. I think Nintendo has had both the most characters in our contests from one company and the most match-victories from one company -- ranging from humans (Link) to animals (Charizard) to items (Sandbag) to glitches (MissingNo) to jokes (Sandbag/MissingNo) -- so don't let the misconception that nobody cares about Nintendo's characters fool you. They care about a whole lot of them.
...watch out for Epona.
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Nominate E P O N A.