Board 8 > ^King of the Mountain^ - Save My Shapeshifter - FINALS: Alucard vs. Kirby

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Rules:
-You may vote for 1 character.
-The character with the most votes after exactly 24 hours will be declared the winner.
-The final character is eliminated.
-No rallying or vote trading.
-I will make changes to the rules when I feel it is required.
-Have fun and tell your friends about the contest. ":>"

In Contest (2):

Alucard (Castlevania)

vs.

Kirby (Kirbys Dream Land)

Eliminated:

3. Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
4. Miss Martian (Young Justice)
5. Pennywise (IT)
6. Ditto (Pokmon)
7. Doopliss (Paper Mario TTYD)
8. Mystique (Marvel Comics)
9. Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat)
10. Vincent Valentine (Final Fantasy VII)
11. Renamon (Digimon)
12. Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist)
13. Dracula (Dracula)
14. Bowser Jr. (Super Mario Sunshine)
15. Martian Manhunter (DC Comics)
16. T-1000 (Terminator 2)
17. Morrigan (Dragon Age)
18. Remus Lupin (Harry Potter)
19. Queen Watevra Wa'Nabe (LEGO Movie 2)
20. Yuri Hyuga (Shadow Hearts)
21. Genie (Aladdin)
22. Yoruichi Shihoin (Bleach)
23. Dante (Devil May Cry)
24. Jake the Dog (Adventure Time)
25. Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
26. Minerva McGonagall (Harry Potter)
27. Inkling (Splatoon)
28. Tiki (Fire Emblem)
29. Eren Yeager (Attack on Titan)
30. Plastic Man (DC Comics)
31. Beast Boy (DC Comics)
32. Aku (Samurai Jack)
33. Mr. Game and Watch (Super Smash Bros.)
34. Toga Himiko (My Hero Academia)
35. Freddy Krueger (Nightmare on Elm Street)
36. Jaqen H'ghar (Game of Thrones)
37. Hulk (Marvel Comics)
38. Venom (Marvel Comics)
39. Ranma Saotome (Ranma 1/2)
40. Eddie Van Blundht (The X-Files)
41. Merlin (Disney's The Sword in the Stone)
42. Loki (Marvel Comics)
43. Sun Wukong (Chinese mythology)
44. Morgana (Persona)
45. Shantae (Shantae)
46. Rachel Berenson (Animorphs)
47. The Djinn (Wishmaster)
48. Pantalaimon (The Golden Compass)
49. Jafar (Aladdin)
50. Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
51. Myrrh (Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones)
52. Goku (Dragon Ball)
53. Elongated Man (DC Comics)
54. Oolong (Dragon Ball)
55. Elastigirl (The Incredibles)
56. Gatomon (Digimon)
57. Grace (El Goonish Shive)
58. Annie Leonhardt (Attack on Titan)
59. Shampoo (Ranma 1/2)
60. Garcian Smith (Killer7)
61. Alien Bounty Hunter (The X-Files)
62. Clayface (DC Comics)
63. Cosmo (Fairly OddParents)
64. Ben Tennyson (Ben 10)
65. Gumby (Gumby)
66. Carnage (Marvel Comics)
67. The Man in Black (LOST)
68. Alex Mack (The Secret World of Alex Mack)
69. Puar (Dragon Ball)
70. Link (Legend of Zelda)
71. Wanda (Fairly OddParents)
72. Tibarn (Fire Emblem)
73. Bigby Wolf (Fables)
74. Queen Chrysalis (My Little Pony)
75. Metamorpho (DC Comics)
76. Amethyst (Steven Universe)
77. Naesala (Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance)
78. SpongeBob SquarePants (SpongeBob SquarePants)
79. Finn Balor (WWE)
80. Haku (Spirited Away)
81. Bayonetta (Bayonetta)
82. The Thing (The Thing)
83. The Entity (It Follows)
84. Tobias (Animorphs)
85. Tony Tony Chopper (One Piece)
86. Morph (Marvel Comics)
87. Peter Pettigrew (Harry Potter)
88. Gnar (League of Legends)
89. Morgan Yu (Prey)
90. Jacob Black (Twilight)
91. Zeus (Greek Mythology)
92. Hulkling (Marvel Comics)
93. Ethan Chandler (Penny Dreadful)
94. Elasti-Girl (DC Comics)
95. Lucifer Morningstar (Lucifer)
96. Nowi (Fire Emblem Awakening)
97. Sandman (Marvel Comics)
98. Mimi (Super Paper Mario)
99. Madame Rouge (DC Comics)
100. Penny (Gumball)
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Kirby
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Kirby

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Kirby
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Alucard
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Alucard

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Kirby
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Kirby
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Alucard

<a href="https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/user/friends">Kirby</a>

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This is probably the most depressing contest I've ran out of all of these so far. This final match, in the host's opinion, does a disservice to the contest. King of the Mountain is meant to crown basically the ultimate best of trope defining characters that fit the category. Now yes, I could have chosen to be more strict with my inclusions but I tend to air on the side of making people happy. Unfortunately this time, it's come at a great cost of my own happiness in running this contest.

This is easily the poorest example of a finals so far I think. Usually, King of the Mountain is won by what's unarguably a good representative of whatever the category is. I don't always like them (Robin Hood, Snoopy, Bowser) but no one would question them obviously. This time, I feel the finals is between a character who fits the category but isn't particularly well-known for shapeshifting versus a character who can shapeshift but is much, much better known for doing something else. It's a fact that Alucard can at least completely change his shape in many of the games/content he's in, whether that's into a wolf, into a bat or into mist. He fits into the category well enough, but I feel he's much better as a swordsman or simply as a vampire. Kirby? Yeah, he's best known for copying abilities. Copying abilities and putting on a different themed hat and gaining a weapon. While he still looks exactly the same, like Kirby. Yes it was proven to me he can morph his body in certain games he's in, but he's in no way best known for this. Characters that failed here, characters who can morph into a huge multitude of things and fully change their bodies to fit many different forms just didn't do all that well here. As a category I sought to see ran for years now, this highly frustrated me and honestly, this is a depressing part of the day to me anymore. I've felt negative about the contest before, but usually it's because participation is poor. This time, I literally just dislike what happened here. No way around it. This shouldn't be the finals, and I don't really care if you feel it's "bad form" of the host to post this here, or if you want to call me out for "whining" be my guest I suppose. As the creator of this contest, I feel it was done a disservice this time around and there's basically no good way this can end. It can either end with a character who fits the category winning, even if he's a little limited or it can end with a character far too well known for what I don't consider shapeshifting winning. It sucks.

I'll vote for Alucard again but yeah.
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Oh hey, a GameFAQs match from 2003!

Let's right a longstanding wrong.

Kirby
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Kirby


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uhh..

Kirby

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Alucard
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Propaganda
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All part of The Plan

Alucard
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Kirby
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Alucard
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I vote Kirby in the finals of 'Save My Video Game Character Who Has Powerups That Are Sort Of Like Shapeshifting But Are Not Really Known For Them'
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Alucard

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Alucard

Alucard

from a shapeshifter perspective I think I like Pennywise more but I dig that backdash

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Alucard

The Plan Man Alucard
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Odo
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Kirby
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Alucard
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Alucard

p good finals.
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Alucard
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Kirby
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Alucard
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I think Alucard is pretty alright as an example of a shapeshifter honestly. It's pretty integral to the character.

Kirby I'm still somewhat on the fence as to whether he should have even been included, even if I eventually leaned yes, but oh well.
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Alucard

Alucard
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Kirby

Kirby

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Kirby
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Alucard
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kirby

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Votes Alucard

Kirby
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Alucard
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Kirby

Up top

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Kirby

what ever
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I was trying to make a list of my favorite shapeshifters-as-shapeshifters (not just characters I like who also happen to be shapeshifters)

- Ditto: THE iconic shapeshifter imo
- Bigby Wolf: okay he only has one major transformation scene in TWAU but I love that scene so much and it's a significant part of why I like the character
- Mega Charizard X (the black/blue one): I'm not even that big a fan of vanilla Charizard but his X form is the best
- I bet Gnar would be on this list if I actually played League
- why didn't we get any Transformers in the contest? (or do they not count)
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Kirby btw
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Kirby
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Kirby
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