Board 8 > Rate the Character Day 32: Urdnot Wrex (Mass Effect)

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Welcome to the most must-see recurring daily poll series on Board 8. I'm your host scarletspeed7 and this is Rate the Character. I choose a category, you pick a character. I post the character you rate them. These are characters, you are raters, and this is Rate the Character.

Yesterday, Saruman placed below fellow Lord of the Rings star Boromir with a 6.6 average.

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Today's character is Urdnot Wrex, a party member in the Mass Effect series.



Current Top Ten:
1) Han Solo (Star Wars) - 8.394
2) Scarecrow (DC Comics) - 8.293
3) Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones) - 8.141
4) Severus Snape (Harry Potter) - 7.962
5) Bowser (Super Mario) - 7.937
6) Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil) - 7.921
7) Doctor Strange (Marvel Comics) - 7.893
8) James T. Kirk (Star Trek) - 7.891
9) Darth Vader (Star Wars) - 7.817
10) Kevin Owens (WWE) - 7.708

Last Placement:
20) Saruman (Lord of the Rings) - 6.6
21) Midna (Legend of Zelda) - 6.5

Current Bottom Ten:
22) Sabrina (Pokemon) - 6.468
23) Poseidon (Greek Mythology) - 6.357
24) Link (Legend of Zelda) - 6.167
25) Donkey Kong (Super Mario) - 6.128
26) Phil Dunphy (Modern Family) - 6.036
27) Randy Marsh (South Park) - 5.792
28) Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes) - 5.447
29) John Cena (WWE) - 4.957
30) Kylo Ren (Star Wars) - 4.875
31) Akinator (Akinator) - 2.915

Hi MI.
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8.5/10

Shepard.
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Shepard/10.

(10/10)

Hi scarlet.
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Shepard is definitely worth a 10 should he (yes, he) be rated.
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There's a lot of Mass Effect characters I'd give 10s to.
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LeonhartFour posted...

Shepard is definitely worth a 10 should he (yes, he) be rated.

She's on the shortlist (well, it's not short at all but you get my meaning).

Anyways 8 out of 10. In the first game, Wrex is my fourth favorite of the main party. And he's STILL that good.
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I'd be interested to see an Andromeda character get ranked to see perception of those. I liked some of them, but I'm not sure if they hold up to the original trilogy of characters.

Of course, they only have 1 game compared to 3, so that might not really be fair.

I really liked Jaal and Cora.
Drak was pretty good, but didn't really feel different than any Krogan.
Vetra was pretty bland.
I hated Peebee at first, but she improved.
lol Liam.
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To be clear I wasn't necessarily saying that you should discount his votes. Just that if you were feeling like you should I wouldn't judge you for it when I would generally frown upon it. To me it's really whatever. It's like throwing a 1 into every rating which balances out and is ultimately fair.

I'll vote on Wrex later.
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9.5/10
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9.5/10

I love that he seems like a dumb, hard-headed jerk who only loves to fight on the surface, but deep down he really cares about the proper direction of his species and leading them to peace and unity. His relationship with Shepard really evolves nicely over the course of the series, turning from reluctant ally to to the battle-hardened old friend seen in 2 & 3, or even alternatively, having to shoot your friend dead in ME1 over a disagreement or suffer the consequences of betraying the krogan, Wrex, and your own friendship in ME3, both of which are equally as powerful conclusions.
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8.5
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9
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7.6 seems right for Wrex

It's based only off the first game, but I feel that's enough material to gauge him on since he has the biggest role there. I ultimately don't have a lot to say about him. His gruff badass attitude works, and I like his gradual opening up to you over the course of the game as you talk to him more. He was always in my party along with Tali.
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Shepard.

Bump.
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I have trouble rating him... having only played 1 and 2. Shepard/Wrex didn't feel that well developed through the first and ultimately came with that stand-off that was fantastically done (he opens up, but the companion mission didn't feel like it did anything overall), and ultimately made me turn off ME2 when I realized my save didn't transfer and the base game for me had dedWrex. In the second game he just keeps up this sworn brother attitude like he's an actually developed version of Darunia from OoT...

I actually like that comparison... It doesn't change my rating, considering even with the flaws of ME1 in my opinion, he was originally my favorite character and ended the first game in that position. 8/10
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10

Somehow stole the show in 3 despite only being in a small section of it.

Maybe the series' best character
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10
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8
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9/10

7.5/10

Pretty good I guess but not Garrus good
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