Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 486 ft Gomez Addams, Johnny (The Room), Rex

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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 485:

Beatrice (Umineko no Naku Koro ni) is Low Fodder
Jowy Atreides (Suikoden) is Low Fodder
Scizor (Pokmon) is Mid Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Gomez Addams (The Addams Family)
Johnny (The Room)
Rex (Toy Story)

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Aquaman (DC Comics)

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Low Fodder for Gomez. There were a few popular Addams Family movies in the early 90s and some tv series and games of varied relevance. However the most relevance they have had since then is last year's animated movie, which I'm sure had no impact on Gfaqs. If he weren't played by Raul Julia in the live-action movies I would consider law fodder here.

"I did not vote her I did NOT. . . oh hi Cloud."

Law Fodder for Johnny. I don't think many people on this site will vote for a complete joke character like Johnny, and many people may not even realize he is the guy from The Room since he won't be named "Tommy Wiseau" on the match pic.

Low Fodder for Rex because he doesn't like confrontations. Most voters will recognize him but I don't think he's very well-liked as a character.

I'm still going to say High Fodder for Aquaman. He is recognized as a joke character thanks to Super Friends and the Aquaman game, but he should also get some legitimate respect from his appearances in the Justice League cartoon and Aquaman live-action movie.

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Gomez Addams (The Addams Family) - Low fodder
Johnny (The Room) - LAW fodder
Recognizability could be a big issue, yeah.
Rex (Toy Story) - Low fodder
I guess if you saw one of the movies, you'd probably at least know who he was? He's kind of amusing? And he's a dinosaur which is probably a plus? I still think Woody and Buzz are about all from that franchise that might be worth anything, though.

Today's Re-Ranking is:

Aquaman (DC Comics) - Mid fodder
I don't think Aquaman's the right kind of entrant to actually get a lot of joke votes here because he's just not important to any actual games people care about. And that Aquaman game is by all accounts bad but it's not exactly E.T. in prominence. For a lot of people he's just the one with kind of lame powers on that goofy superhero hero show they might have watched as a kid. And from what I remember (I missed large parts of Justice League and have never really gone back to it since back in the day) he's WAY, WAY less prominent in Justice League than he was in Superfriends, too.

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Re-rank Marth

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Agree with Axem. I'd actually argue The Addams Family is in quite a good place to curry up nostalgia with our voterbase, and if it had one clear central character, they'd probably be Mid Fodder. Also, I'd sooner consider Low Fodder for Aquaman than High Fodder, but he'd certainly be a step above Cyborg, and I suppose Cyborg could be on the high end of Low Fodder from general recognizability and apathy votes.

Third Rean Schwarzer.

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Day 487 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79040893

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