Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 350 ft Mundas, Jareth, Jessica Rabbit

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This is a topic to rate the contest strength of potential newcomers in the current contest environment.

I will pick the characters to rate and discuss for each day from user nominations - whoever the 3 most nominated characters are at that time. If there are more than 3 I will pick randomly. You can nominate any number of characters at any time, but you cannot nominate the same character twice.

All characters who were present in the 2018 Character Battle will NOT be eligible. Otherwise you can nominate any character that has appeared in video games; even comic book characters. This will exclude real-life athletes who have only appeared in long running sports series, however I will accept those who have their own games such as Shaq. I will accept nominations for iconic gaming duos too, if there is a compelling reason for both characters to be linked (either co-starring in a game ala Banjo & Kazooie, or always appearing together like Callie & Marie from Splatoon).

Each day will have a separate topic, and nominations will carry over. As far as actually rating the character's contest strength; I ask that users rank a characters potential strength with one of the following qualifiers - LAW Fodder, Low Fodder, Mid Fodder, High Fodder, Fodder Line, Low Midcarder, Midcarder, High Midcarder, Near Elite, Elite, LAW Tier (capable of beating Link). I will average all the ratings given to a character to come up with their final ranking. I have included a highlighted entrant from Character Battle X on each tier of the strength rankings below, to provide a baseline for each.

Note that LAW Fodder is meant to be a tier reserved for the weakest possible characters to put into a contest. A character will only be placed there if at least 3/4ths of the voters for that day agree on the LAW Fodder rating, and no ratings above Low Fodder are given. If either of those conditions are not met, the character will not be eligible for the LAW Fodder tier.

Current Character Strength Rankings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1AIhHywBiLd6VAMZMNEGX-HW2td8u1D0Iw_tzHsORw/edit?usp=sharing

Nomination List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-KnSBDzppzPK5Ug1zmx8_x0bG4tqFDMPPH2k8J3s8sk/edit?usp=sharing

If you feel that a character has been over or under-ranked, or if a new development has come up that would affect their contest strength, you may nominate them for a re-ranking. You may nominate one character per day for this, and 3 votes are needed to get them on the slate. One character with 3 votes will come up for re-ranking today.

Re-ranking Nomination List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V6dx-tu-FD1rCxbX69eQwEzE7x1F6nNRNFochYHu1dc/edit?usp=sharing

Results from Day 349:

HAL 9000 (Space Odyssey/Lego Dimensions) is Low Fodder
Wilhuff Tarkin (Star Wars) is Low Fodder
Yellow (M&M's Kart Racing) is Low Fodder

Re-Ranking Result:

Charmander (Pokemon) is now a Midcarder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Mundus (Devil May Cry)
Jareth (Labyrinth)
Jessica Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Simba (The Lion King)

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Low Fodder for Mundas. He was the main antagonist in the first game and had a role in 3, but hasn't really been relevant since.

Low Fodder for Jareth. I don't think the watch rate of Labyrinth will be that high on the site, and the meme about David Bowie's bulge likely won't matter much either. I do think he'll get some votes from Bowie fans but I ultimately think Jareth will be recognized more as his own character than David Bowie himself.

Mid Fodder for Jessica Rabbit. She's a pretty recognizable character and a minor sex icon in her own right, and I think most people will know her even if they haven't seen her movie. And of course she's got TJF too.

For Simba I will say Fodder Line. I think he'll be a tiny bit behind Aladdin - both are popular Disney movie protagonists with a largely neutral reception from what I've seen. Aladdin is the namesake of his movie and has more popular games, but I think Simba is more memorable as a protagonist due to the emotional scenes he is involved in from The Lion King.

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Nominate: Ramon Salazar
Regina
Sir Dan Fortesque
Rick Deckard
Kingpin

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Re-rank hollow knight

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Mundas - low fodder
nobody cares

Jareth - low fodder

Jessica Rabbit - low fodder

im a little reluctant here. I demand some level of marginal popularity or recognizability for TJF characters to make mid fodder and Jessica kind of has that? But Im not sure just how much the general public actually remembers or cares about the movie and gamefaqs probably isnt a place where its bigger than in general.

simba - fodder line

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Jareth: LAW Fodder - Labyrinth is cult as cult can be, and the recent sequel announcement didn't change that. I don't see GameFAQs caring to vote for Jareth just because he looks like David Bowie.

Simba: High Fodder - Call it a hunch or whatever you may, I really don't think GameFAQs is the right place for Simba to show strength. I'd fully expect him to be weaker than Aladdin, who's named the same thing as his movie, one that feels like it's only marginally less popular than The Lion King here.

Agree with Axem otherwise.

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Day 351 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78730864

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