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First off, theres two notable characters I forgot to mention in part 1. KOS-MOS, who you already mentioned you intended to remove, is a character I would also recommend cutting. At first, I thought she was important enough to have a reasonable argument for staying, but the more I think about it, the more I realize even her few relatively unique niches by video game standards aren't distinct when considering broader media.

Likewise, Ness is another character who has a strong argument to be added, for his enduring positivity, kindness, and general idealism as a child protagonist, distinguished further by his unique weaponry, his own mind being the source of his magical talents (iirc), and his games setting.

I would also like to defend Erdrick as a worthy choice for inclusion, despite the fact that I didn't even guess him as the second Enix character. In short, while Erdrick was contemporaneous with Link, who admittedly steals his thunder in many ways, he justifies his inclusion for me due to his status as a recurring presence throughout the initial Dragon Quest trilogy, at a time when video game stories tended to essentially repeat rather than explicitly acknowledge the events and plot beats of their predecessors.

There's a lot more I might feel differently than you on, but I chose to limit myself, because much of this is about subjective opinions regarding characters who have very similar claims to a given seed. Plus, I'm not that knowledgeable about the influence of many characters from games I haven't played, with exceptions where their importance is obvious. Those reasons contribute to why I'm not suggesting characters such as Blinky, Diablo, and Dr. Wily, all of which I frequently guessed. In addition, there's nothing that definitively says to me that they were highly influential characters, as opposed to merely being prominent parts of popular and significant series.

I guess that about wraps up my thoughts. Sorry this turned into a three-post novel - it was certainly interesting to follow along with this bracket, and I wound up having plenty of things to say about it once fully unveiled. Props for your effort on it, which shines through to the final product; in particular, I never would have thought of some of these characters, and yet they make perfect sense after reading your explanations.
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You proved yourself more statistically metal-minded than I ever have been - well done!