Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 481 ft Hulk Hogan, Austin Powers, Dry Bones

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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 480:

Namine (Kingdom Hearts) is Low Fodder
Koffing (Pokemon) is Mid Fodder
Skee-Ball (Skee-Ball) is LAW Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Hulk Hogan (WWF/WCW/WWE games)
Austin Powers (Austin Powers)
Dry Bones (Mario series)

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Low fodder for all three

Hogan is still a relevant name, but we all saw how bad an A-list wrestling game did in 2010.

Austin Powers might get nostalgia votes, but the fact that he hasn't appeared in 18 years hurts him greatly.

I'm almost tempted to put Dry Bones in mid fodder, but he really is just a random baddie with a few appearances in Kart and Party games.

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Let me tell you something Brother people will still vote for the Hulkster. He was the biggest wrestling name from the 90s and even people who are not modern wrestling fans still recognize Hulk Hogan and know some of his promos. And it seems like everyone forgot about the controversy over him making racist remarks 10 years ago or so. Mid Fodder.

Low Fodder for Austin. He hasn't been around in 18 years baybee - just like his daddy who wasn't there.

I will say Mid Fodder for Dry Bones. It's recognizable and has some playable spinoff appearances, and is a prime meme pick for the Bones heh, B O N E S

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Hulk Hogan (WWF/WCW/WWE games) - Low fodder
all hail the gawkerslayer
I've got little belief in wrestlers without much relevant to gamefaqs' current interests, though. I'd honestly kind of expect modern gamefaqs in general (lots of Nintendo and RPG fans) to have less overlap with wrestling than the general population with similar ages, gender, and location ranges to gamefaqs would. Sheer recognition probably puts Hulk Hogan on the high end of low regardless but...can't get that No Mercy result out of my head.

Austin Powers (Austin Powers) - Low fodder
This franchise was really big and widely quoted for awhile but no particularly notable games and how long it's been on ice suggest it's probably not worth much here at this point.

Dry Bones (Mario series) - Low fodder
I have difficulty seeing Dry Bones being one of the Mario enemies people care about.

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Agree with ZSig and Axem.

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Day 482 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79030927

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