Board 8 > Rate the Character Day 24: Bowser (Super Mario)

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Welcome to the most must-see recurring thread on Board 8. I'm scarletspeed7, and this is Rate the Character. I'll pick a category, you pick a character, and every day we'll rate one character. You are the raters, they are the characters, you rate the characters. Boom.

Yesterday, Randy Marsh sank to 21st place with a 5.611 average.

All ratings are on scale of 1-10. You may rate any previous characters you have yet to rate at any point; please post them in the thread. No more than ten retro-ratings per day. View your ratings here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P47gZ8N7QcS-ShXYjvteOnd_aCJbv3AcJdipiUChhAg/edit?usp=sharing

Today's character is Bowser, a frequent antagonist in the Mario series.



Current Top Ten:
1) Scarecrow (DC Comics) - 8.357
2) Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones) - 8.113
3) Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil) - 8.088
4) Doctor Strange (Marvel Comics) - 7.923
5) Severus Snape (Harry Potter) - 7.947
6) James T. Kirk (Star Trek) - 7.891
7) Darth Vader (Star Wars) - 7.863
8) Deathstroke (DC Comics) - 7.75
9) L (Death Note) - 7.659
10) Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy) - 7.328

Current Bottom Ten:
14) Boromir (Lord of the Rings) - 6.767
15) Will Smith (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) - 6.644
16) Poseidon (Greek Mythology) - 6.475
17) Sabrina (Pokemon) - 6.468
18) Link (Legend of Zelda) - 6.167
19) Donkey Kong (Super Mario) - 6.043
20) Phil Dunphy (Modern Family) - 5.885
21) Randy Marsh (South Park) - 5.611
22) John Cena (WWE) - 4.905
23) Akinator (Akinator) - 3.0008
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7.5/10
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6 - He can be pretty good in the RPGs where they give him more dialogue and stuff, but otherwise he's just an iconic boss that never manages to pose more threat than a Goomba

9

8/10

Mostly because of RPG Bowser, but he is pretty great in all of those.
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5.5 out of 10

Bowser is fine but he's never really done much for me aside from serving as a placeholder end goal in Mario games.
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5

How is today not Jack Bauer
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XIII_rocks posted...

5

How is today not Jack Bauer

He was not in the poll for yesterday.
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10
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9.5/10

RPG Bowser is perhaps the best character Nintendo (technically Square) has ever created, but even non-RPG Bowser is responsible for some of my favorite boss fights ever. There are very few villains I would rate this highly.
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10
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HI SCARLET

I don't know how I forgot that, I'm the worst =(
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My Immortal posted...

HI SCARLET

I don't know how I forgot that, I'm the worst =(

Do I even say Hi MI now?

I just did though.

But did I really say Hi MI or just the words Hi MI?

What is language?
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5/10

Serves his role well but not very interesting beyond that.
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10/10
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9.6
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Bowser 6/10 with a franchise this big he could have wayyyyy more development I feel.

Randy Marsh 1/10
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Dracula 8/10

Too many bad Dracula's to get a 10 but too many good iterations to get a 5. Is there a specific version to consider if so I may change my score
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Dracula - 9
Bowser- 10
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4/10

Not a novel villain. He resorts with stealing and kidnapping Princess Peach the same way pretty much every single time in every Mario game. Sorry for incising on the word every but, it's true.

Bowser doesn't really pull any real death-defying stunts in the games. He goes to the castle every time or rain on the parade of the castle in Super Mario Galaxy and...yeah.

I just don't see the appeal in Bowser.

I won't every wear a Bowser shirt in public. I'm done.

7/10

I really don't have much to comment on regarding him. There are games I haven't played, games I have... He's just... nothing special, not good and not bad.

6/10
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10

Not only does RPG Browser stand on his own as a 10/10 character but classic Bowser pretty damn good as well.

Randy Marsh: 9
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RPG Bowser is an easy 10. His non RPG appearances don't bother me all that much.
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9

Fantastic design and can be hilarious and inept or a total fearsome badass and it works. Plus he's my Smash main
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10
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9.5
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8.5
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6

he's fine
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10
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8.5/10

I dig RPG Bowser but he loses points thanks to Sunshine permanently etching "Bowser in a Bathtub" in my mind
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8/10

Randy Marsh 9
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