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Whats really buoying Palutena up to near the top of the list, though, is the way shes written in Uprising. And those Smash codecs, I guess. In the original, Palutena is a complete noncharacter. Now, though? She jokes around, has fun, teases people, shows off her intelligence (not that she has much competition in her game for smartest character), and is just a really cool, pleasant person. I can imagine her personality not gelling for everyone, like not everyone is going to be as much a fan of 1980s video game references and stupid jokes as I am, but its my waifu list, so Palutena scores a lot of possibly unfair points based on the strength of her writing in 1/3rd of her appearances. Although I suspect this wont be a problem for anyone reading this. I suspect lol Im an omnipotent anime goddess who likes video games and ironic humor is probably well within Board 8s waifu demographics. I guess I just foresee zero like compatibility problems with Palutena as a person, which combined with her beauty rockets her up to the top ten.

What keeps her out of the top five, though, is obvious. Shes the only waifu left with a sub-70 score, and its because she is indeed an omnipotent super goddess worshipped by all the mortals everywhere. First of all, Im an edgy atheist who snuck out of synagogue literally every single time I could get away with it and got into trouble a lot with the rabbis and Hebrew school teachers, so right away Im going to encounter some problems here. And then you have the fact that Palutena gets kidnapped a lot. I dont know, she gets kidnapped at least twice, I assume shes kidnapped in the second game as well, but I never played it, correct me if Im wrong here. And Im counting mind controlled by aliens into shooting lasers at you as a kidnapping, sue me.

But even ignoring that, Palutena has basically all of the problems you could possibly have as a princess, but ratcheted up to the maximum possible, because she has one of the few jobs that ranks above princess. I guess from the perspective of Palutena, you are purely a trophy boyfriend. Is that okay with you? Then youll probably rank her Girlfriendness above a 65. Palutenas army is super unimpressive aside from Pit, but she still has an army and an entire floating kingdom or whatever. Im probably underranking her because Im not considering what its like to be, like, I dont know, Prince Phillip. Its probably really nice. Is Prince Phillip really the closest analogy I can come up with? Goddamn. Imagine having a waifu who has the maximum possible amount of power in literally every way, be it magic power, religious power, political power, etc. That's Palutena.

Anyway, we have three pages of Palutena analysis here, so Im going to stop. What we have here is a classic anime waifu designed to appeal to nerds, which is fine, combined with what if your girlfriend was not only omnipotent, but also the single most famous and recognizable person in the universe? And Ill just admit to you straight-up that the first part of that sentence makes a much stronger waifu case than the second.

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Started: July 6, 2005