Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 521 ft Carmilla, Bo Peep, Ms. Green

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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 520:

Citan Uzuki (Xenogears) is Low Fodder
Riddick (The Chronicles of Riddick) is Low Fodder
Conan the Barbarian (Conan games) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Carmilla (Castlevania)
Bo Peep (Toy Story)
Ms. Green (M&M's Kart Racing)

There may be a delay on the next few days going up.

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Carmilla - low fodder
even before Netflix she had some TJF pics that could have possibly salvaged a potential LAW strength. Nowadays she should be low outright.
Bo Peep - low fodder
would have gone LAW had Toy Story 4 not brought her back in a prominent role. Feel like there was pretty much absolutely nothing to care about before then.
Ms. Green - LAW fodder
red and yellow are one thing, theyve got a bajillion commercials with which to demonstrate their personalities. The rest are utter who cares? though and I refuse to consider any potential for an m&m character to have sex appeal.

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Nominate:
Toothless
The Blob
Mr. Do

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Agree with Axem, I guess. Carmilla probably would be Mid Fodder if she had actual relevant appearances in Castlevania games people care about, but Rondo of Blood and Circle of the Moon won't be cutting it on that front. At least voters will know who Ms. Green is, and she'd probably get a marginal apathy vote - emphasis on marginal, though, so likely not quite enough to avoid LAW Fodder.

I'm extremely reluctant to put any stock at all into Bo Peep, however. Sure, Toy Story 4 probably has a solid watchrate by 2019 movie standards here, but does that actually translate into memorability and votes for what's essentially a new character? It's not a video game and it didn't come out until well after the 90s (and it's clearly no Endgame or Game of Thrones for example), but we wouldn't be having this discussion about Lotso or even Ken honestly even though Toy Story 3 shares the same problems (and had very similar box office results). The difference there is that many of our voters were practically the perfect age for TS3 to hit them right in the feels after they grew up on its predecessors, whereas TS4 was widely perceived as just another Toy Story.

Nominate:

• Alex, Ivan, and Mia (Golden Sun)
• Alph (Pikmin 3)
• Iggy Koopa, Larry Koopa, Lemmy Koopa, Luma, Morton Koopa Jr., Roy Koopa, and Wendy O. Koopa (Mario series)

Also, second/third Airman, Alex Trebek, Ben, Bridget, Claude C. Kenny, Darkdeath Evilman, Flynn, Garet, Ken Griffey Jr., Malboro, Matthew, Red Pikmin, Rena Lanford, Saturos, Terry, and The Punisher.

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Agree with Axem.

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Second metal's nominations

Day 522 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79126273

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