Board 8 > Rate the Character Day 36: Squirrel Girl (Marvel Comics)

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Welcome to the most must-see recurring daily poll series on Board 8. I'm your host scarletspeed7. Everyday, I choose a category, you pick a character. I post the character you rate them. These are characters, you are raters, and this is Rate the Character.

Yesterday, Rosalina landed behind Bowser but ahead of Donkey Kong with a 6.55 averaege.

All ratings are on scale of 1-10. You may rate any previous characters you have yet to rate at any point; please post them in the thread. No more than ten retro-ratings per day. View your ratings here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P47gZ8N7QcS-ShXYjvteOnd_aCJbv3AcJdipiUChhAg/edit?usp=sharing

Today's character is Squirrel Girl, a minor superhero in a children's title at Marvel.



Current Top Ten:
1) Han Solo (Star Wars) - 8.394
2) Scarecrow (DC Comics) - 8.293
3) Urdnot Wrex (Mass Effect) - 8.228
4) Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones) - 8.141
5) Severus Snape (Harry Potter) - 7.962
6) Bowser (Super Mario) - 7.937
7) Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil) - 7.921
8) Doctor Strange (Marvel Comics) - 7.893
9) James T. Kirk (Star Trek) - 7.891
10) Darth Vader (Star Wars) - 7.817

Previous Placement:
21) Boromir (Lord of the Rings) - 6.767
22) Will Smith (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) - 6.663
23) Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) - 6.6
24) Rosalina (Super Mario) - 6.55
25) Midna (Legend of Zelda) - 6.5

Current Bottom Ten:
26) Sabrina (Pokemon) - 6.468
27) Poseidon (Greek Mythology) - 6.357
28) Link (Legend of Zelda) - 6.167
29) Donkey Kong (Super Mario) - 6.128
30) Phil Dunphy (Modern Family) - 6.036
31) Randy Marsh (South Park) - 5.792
32) Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes) - 5.447
33) John Cena (WWE) - 4.957
34) Kylo Ren (Star Wars) - 4.875
35) Akinator (Akinator) - 2.915

Hi MI.
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1 out of 10

The last year and a half of unadultered Mary Sue drivel published by Marvel has been utterly atrocious. A character who used to be an average albeit humorous tertiary character, Squirrel Girl's joke has been so overplayed that she is utterly banal and derivative now. When given her own title, she has proven to be a two-dimensional and yet one-note character.
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Abstain. I haven't read anything with her. I like the idea of her but don't think that's fair to rate off of.

No clue how she won the poll.

Hi scarlet.
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My Immortal posted...

No clue how she won the poll.

I'm thinking there is occasionally a little vote stuffing. That worries me a little because the last thing I want is for one person to push less popular characters into these polls and get fewer overall votes. But hopefully these were individual votes.
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Yeah, this is what I meant. No votes.
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3/10
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4.5/10

Used to find her funny in her one-off joke moments but now she's so overexposed she's lost any value shes once had.
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I only know her from beating Doom and Thanos and banging Wolverine when she was like 16.

And Marvel considers her like the strongest character on their roster.

So she's not overexposed to me!

8.5
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4
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Beating Doom is not impressive.

Luke Cage beat Doom once because Doom owed him 50 bucks.

That's a real story.
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1
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scarletspeed7 posted...

Beating Doom is not impressive.

Luke Cage beat Doom once because Doom owed him 50 bucks.

That's a real story.

This is one of my favorite issues!
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Yeah, it might be my favorite Luke Cage story, honestly. Totally silly but for some reason very endearing.
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Conceptually I would rate her low as that sounds like a joke best left as an easter egg or very rare running gag rather than something you'd make a regular thing.

But I can't honestly say I've actually read anything with her in it (or off frame) so I can't rate.
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9/10

fuck all yall squirrel girl is awesome
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9.5
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10. She's funny, and I enjoy the tears of nerds taking her more seriously than the writers
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Used to be 8.5/10 for me because that absurdist quality is something I love in comedy...

...but she really is super overexposed now. 6/10.
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2.5/10
Basically for the same reasons Snake5 mentioned.

DeathChicken posted...

I enjoy the tears of nerds taking her more seriously than the writers

I take it you don't read the current series, then. And let's be extremely honest. No one takes this more seriously than the writers. If you don't think that's the case, you don't know comics.
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Meh, I found her stupid and her kit was bad in Marvel Avengers Alliance.

1/10
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1/10

Why are we rating some lifeless skank from comic books?

This is waste of everyone's time Scarlet. Are you purposely trying to make John Cena have a better ranking in this project?

I did a "Save My Comic Book Character" competition back in 2009 and it's on the Board 8 Wiki page (which none of you will care to look up) and I've never heard of this girl before.

Can this girl magically transform herself into a Kindergartner and into an Adult in a matter of seconds? No. Then why are we rating her then?

Is she attractive? Not really. Every squirrel has brown fur so what?

It's not like she ate Pinkin Berries on that one episode of Pokemon and she turned pink.

Is there ANYTHING interesting about this character? No.

Why is her tail bigger than her boobs? Jesus I know you people like furries but...seriously.

I don't have a problem with furries...

...But seriously who is this? This competition is getting terrible.

I'll seriously name a lot people we haven't rated yet I'll take over this sloot.

Marmalade The Cat (Cole & Marmalade YouTube channel -- he survived cancer)
Red Gyarados (not just ONE specific Gyarados but the red one)
Hardcore Holly (WWE -- dat slap on Cody Rhodes in 2007)
Joe Rogen (guy in UFC that yells a lot)
Matt Damon (we are rating real people like John Cena)
Male Combee (Not sexist. Just because you know they are useless and can't evolve)

Some other ones.

Roman Zolanski (Nicki Minaj's alter ego)
Krystal (Star Fox)
Buttercup (Powerpuff Girls)
Fluttershy (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic)
Jessie (Pokemon)
Misty (Pokemon)
Jean Grey (X-Men)
Shadowcat (X-Men)
Sheila The Scorpion (Red Vs. Blue)
Random Kitty (Sylvester The Talking Cat)
Sylvester The Talking Cat (Sylvester The Talking Cat)
Crunch (Crash Bandicoot)
Tony Hawk (Tony Hawk games)
Gir (Invader Zim)

Apparently the word skank isn't censored anymore on this website. Whatever. Haha.

To go back to an earlier discussion, this is an instance where he clearly has no idea who the character is and I wouldn't count his ranking.
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My Immortal posted...

To go back to an earlier discussion, this is an instance where he clearly has no idea who the character is and I wouldn't count his ranking.

Yeah, I won't be.
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