Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 534 ft Malboro, Dot Warner, Alice Liddell

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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 533:

Morton Koopa Jr. (Mario series) is Mid Fodder
Wendy O. Koopa (Mario series) is Mid Fodder
Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) is Low Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Malboro (Final Fantasy)
Dot Warner (Animaniacs)
Alice Liddell (American McGee's Alice)

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Marlboro - low fodder
Ugly, sometimes maybe a bit annoying, and not sure why people would care much.
Dot - low fodder
I was kinda close for me but the 20 year gap, the question of whether gamefaqs cares about the reboot, and the lack of any important gaming legacy (the 16-bit Animaniacs games are clearly not a match for, say, Duck Tales or TMNT) probably does the Warners in here and locks them in low fodder.
Alice - low fodder
People havent played her game and while easily recognizable Im doubtful Alice in Wonderland in general is actually popular here.

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Agree with Axem.

Nominate Buzz Lightyear for reranking. I doubt he'd be in the same tier as Woody given the differences in exposure throughout the Toy Story series, even if Buzz was playable in a game where Woody wasn't. As for why Buzz is the one misplaced based on that, the Toy Story series is a bit too new by their kids-oriented standards to truly foster nostalgia among the older half of our voters in particular. The average PotD voter (albeit perhaps a slightly older demographic than all contest voters) was close to 9 years old when the first movie released in theaters and more relevantly almost 13 years old when the second movie did so - let alone their later, predominant dissemination through home media.

Also nominate Anna (Frozen) and Kate Marsh (Life is Strange) for ranking.

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Agree with Low Fodder for Malboro and Alice. No one really likes Malboro and its an annoyance when it appears. And Alice would have to look more like the Disney version to draw much from the Alice in Wonderland series, since the Madness games are pretty niche.

Mid Fodder for Dot Warner. Animaniacs was very popular in the mid 90s - which is the perfect time period to get nostalgia support from the Gfaqs demographic. I'm not sure that they care too much about the reboot, but it has put the series back in the spotlight. All of the Warners are pretty recognizable, and Dot has her moments like the Finger Prince gag

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Second Anna and Kate Marsh

Day 535 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/79157167

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