Board 8 > B8's Best New Character 2022: NOMINATIONS

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It's back!

The character must have premiered in the year of the contest (2022), though there are exceptions.

• Characters who previously premiered in literature or comics are eligible based on their film/tv/game appearances.
• Characters who previously premiered in media appearances may be considered new if the interpretation of the character is new (ex. Gotham's "Batman" characters) but only that particular version of the character is eligible (just use your best judgment).
• Characters will typically go by their American release date (though it gets tricky in some cases; as long as they haven't already been nominated in the previous years I'm not gonna fuss one way or the other).
• Real people are only eligible if they're highly fictionalized (so no biopics, but Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is fine)

Biannual disclaimer: Yeah, the rules are always gonna have some detractors (and I'll admit that it's not a perfect rule) but we're [insert number] years in now so please for the love of god let's just roll with it.

• Each user gets 10 nominations every 24 hours.
• Please specify what each nomination is from
• 3 nominations will guarantee a character gets in
• More than 3 nominations will get the characters higher seeding
• First 64 characters with 3 or more will make it in.

Any questions, just ask!

Previous Results

2007 - Nathan Drake (Uncharted) | GLaDOS (Portal)
2008 - Walter White (Breaking Bad) | Tony Stark (Iron Man)
2009 - Saul Goodman (Breaking Bad) | Hans Landa (Inglourious Basterds)

2010 - Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad) | Rapunzel (Tangled)
2011 - Louise Belcher (Bob's Burgers) | Cave Johnson (Portal 2)
2012 - Ralph (Wreck-It Ralph) | Clementine (The Walking Dead)
2013 - Ellie (The Last of Us) | Anna (Frozen)
2014 - Oberyn Martell (Game of Thrones) | Valka (How to Train Your Dragon 2)
2015 - Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road) | PC Principal (South Park)
2016 - Deadpool (Deadpool) | Lyanna Mormont (Game of Thrones)
2017 - 2B (Nier: Automata) | Laura/X-23 (Logan)
2018 - Erik Killmonger (Black Panther) | Spider-Gwen (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
2019 - Edelgard (Fire Emblem: Three Houses) | Claude (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
2010s - Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad) | Wheatley (Portal 2)

2020 - Joe Gardner (Soul) | Zagreus (Hades)
2021 - Seong Gi-hun (Squid Game) | Yelena Belova (Black Widow)

Carmen Berzatto (The Bear)
Komaram Bheem (RRR)
Alluri Sitarama Raju (RRR)
Amleth (The Northman)
Chef Julian Slowik (The Menu)

Inu-Oh (Inu-Oh)
The Grabber (The Black Phone)
Angrboda (God of War: Ragnarok)
Marissa Marcel (Immortality)
Lazarus Herst (The Case of the Golden Idol)

Evelyn Quan Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Waymond Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Pdraic Silleabhin (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Colm Doherty (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Helen Brand (Glass Onion)
Mark Scout (Severance)
Harmony Cobel (Severance)
Mei Lee (Turning Red)
Ming Lee (Turning Red)
Ratatoskr (God of War: Ragnarok)

RRR's main leads are fictionalized versions of real people, so unfortunately they don't count. (Edit: Just saw the Vampire Hunter exception, and I guess that could apply.)

Mythiot posted...

RRR's main leads are fictionalized versions of real people, so unfortunately they don't count. (Edit: Just saw the Vampire Hunter exception, and I guess that could apply.)

Yeah the characters from RRR are definitely in that category of very loosely based on real people but basically being almost entirely fictional (and in this weird case also being based on characters from folklore)

Blaidd (Elden Ring)
Malenia, Blade of Miquella (Elden Ring)
Sir Gideon Ofnir, The All Knowing (Elden Ring)
Ranni the Witch (Elden Ring)
Chef Julian Slowik (The Menu)
Evelyn Wang (Everything, Everywhere All At Once)
Sienna (Terrifier 2)
Pinocchio (Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio)
Sebastian J. Cricket (Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio)
Charlie (The Whale)

Jobu Tupaki (EEAAO)

Evelyn Quan Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Waymond Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Jobu Tupaki (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Death (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Goldilocks (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Larry (Pokemon Scarlet & Violet)
Ryme (Pokemon Scarlet & Violet)
Anya Forger (Spy X Family)
Loid Forger (Spy X Family)
Denji/Chainsaw Man (Chainsaw Man)

Clodsire (Pokmon Scarlet/Violet)
Irida (Pokmon Legends: Arceus)
Kleavor (Pokmon Legends: Arceus)
Ursaluna (Pokmon Legends: Arceus)
Wiglett (Pokmon Scarlet/Violet)

Evelyn Quan Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Waymond Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Jobu Tupaki (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Larry (Pokemon Scarlet & Violet)
Anya Forger (Spy X Family)
Loid Forger (Spy X Family)
Yor Forger (Spy X Family)
Denji/Chainsaw Man (Chainsaw Man)
Power (Chainsaw Man)
Aki Hayakawa (Chainsaw Man)

Anya Forger (Spy X Family)
Cat (Stray)
Chef Julian Slowik (The Menu)
Eddie Munson (Stranger Things)
The Grabber (The Black Phone)
Jean Jacket (Nope)
Lucyna "Lucy" Kushinada (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)
Marissa Marcel (Immortality)
Pearl (X)
Vecna (Stranger Things)

Fuck there's so many good characters this year! I need like 30 more noms

Pearl (Pearl/X)
Frank (Barbarian)
The Mother (Barbarian)
Tess (Barbarian)
AJ (Barbarian)
Andre (Barbarian)
Santa Claus (Violent Night) (I feel like this is a different enough interpretation to count?)

Wanted to nominate characters from The Fabelmans but they're almost Steven Spielberg's family verbatim

still need to see Banshees of Inisherin

Ryuki (AI The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative)
Sienna Shaw (Terrifier 2)

jcgamer107 posted...

Wanted to nominate characters from The Fabelmans but they're almost Steven Spielberg's family verbatim

yeah, they're a tough one. I'd allow them, since they are technically fictional characters, but I'll leave it up to the people nominating whether they want to include them or not. Kind of funny how this year we got movies about fictional characters that are basically real people and also movies about real people that are basically fictional characters

jcgamer107 posted...

(I feel like this is a different enough interpretation to count?)

Oh absolutely, I don't think any other Santa Claus before has been an ancient viking barbarian cursed with near-immortality

Lanz (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Eunie (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Clodsire (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Annihilape (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Frederica Aesfrost (Triangle Strategy)
Serenoa Wolffort (Triangle Strategy)
Viserys Targaryen I (House of the Dragon)
Marc Spector/Steven Grant/Moon Knight (Moon Knight)
Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk (She-Hulk)
Jack Reacher (Reacher)

Hitori "Bocchi" Goto (Bocchi the Rock)
Waymond Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Evelyn Quan Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Jobu Tupaki (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Santa Claus (Violent Night)
Anya Forger (Spy X Family)
Mei Lee (Turning Red)
Chisato Nishikigi (Lycoris Recoil)

Cat (Stray)
Perrito (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Death (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Blaidd (Elden Ring)

Luthen Rael (Andor)
Namor (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Evelyn Quan Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Waymond Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Helen Brand (Glass Onion)
Miles Bron (Glass Onion)
Viserys Targaryen I (House of the Dragons)
Connie (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On)
Death (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Vigilante (Peacemaker)

Death (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Santa Claus (Violent Night)
Vecna (Stranger Things)
Chef Julian Slowik (The Menu)
Eddie Munson (Stranger Things)
Blaidd (Elden Ring)
Rebecca Owens (The Mortuary Assistant)
Cat (Stray)
Tess (Barbarian)
The Grabber (The Black Phone)

Wednesday Addams (Wednesday)
Enid Sinclair (Wednesday)
Mei Lee (Turning Red)
Miriam Mendolsohn (Turning Red)
Ming Lee (Turning Red)
Marion (Better Call Saul)
Penny (Pokmon Scarlet and Violet)
Gretel Grant-Gomez (Hamster and Gretel)
Ethel (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Kiri (Avatar : The Way Of Water)

What about a show that released in late 2021 but went into 2022??
I want to give a vote to my boy Prince Bojji (Ranking of Kings)

Obligatory annual shaking of my fist at existing characters. I cant see an argument for any of the non-original Wednesday characters being new for instance.

Anyway:

Ranni the Witch (Elden Ring)
Noah (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Eunie (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Pdraic Sillebhin (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Colm Doherty (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Waymond Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All At Once)
Marissa Marcel (Immortality)
Margot Mills (The Menu)
Luthen Rael (Andor)
Kino Loy (Andor)

Looks like Chef Slowik no longer needs the support so I went with Margot instead. This was a great year for new characters! I had a hard time getting it down to ten.

I'd say this interpretation of Wednesday herself is different enough to count, but not the other Addams family member.

Mr. Snake (The Bad Guys)

TAG to nom later, thanks for running this again!

Wednesday Addams (Wednesday)
Enid Sinclair (Wednesday)
Larry (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Iono (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Vecna (Stranger Things)
Eddie Munson (Stranger Things)
Morpheus (Sandman)
Death (Sandman)
Lucienne (Sandman)

Wednesday should definitely count as a new interpretation. While the rest of the family have mostly inconsequential changes, the premise of the show itself is different enough and it's centered around her that she should 100% count.

I dont really see the differences. Same look, same basic personality, no real changes to the backstory. I dont think being the protagonist is enough personally. However, the decision is Johnbobbs and I respect whatever that is!

Loid Forger (Spy x Family)
Yor Forger (Spy x Family)
Denji/Chainsaw Man (Chainsaw Man)
Mei Lee (Turning Red)
Ming Lee (Turning Red)
Soldier Boy (The Boys)
Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel (Ms. Marvel)
Blaidd (Elden Ring)
Rya (Elden Ring)
Pearl (X/Pearl)

Mei Lee (Turning Red)

In the case of Wednesday I'll leave it to the discretion of the nominaters, I don't think I'd personally nominate her but I definitely understand the argument (and characters changed less have gotten in before tbh)

I don't know why you'd even want to nominate Wednesday though when Enid is clearly the best character

To me, the "new interpretation" rule applies perfectly to Wednesday. I've always seen it as a chance for characters with huge years and a resurgent popularity that otherwise wouldn't be eligible to shine and get some attention, and media wise Wednesday (the series) was easily the biggest success story of the entire year. Including her makes perfect sense.

Larry (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)

Johnbobb posted...

In the case of Wednesday I'll leave it to the discretion of the nominaters, I don't think I'd personally nominate her but I definitely understand the argument (and characters changed less have gotten in before tbh)

I don't know why you'd even want to nominate Wednesday though when Enid is clearly the best character

I mean, Enid's my favorite too, but I love Wednesday and I had to nominate her XD

Hitori "Bocchi" Goto (Bocchi the Rock)
Shez (Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes)
Zero (Final Fantasy XIV)

Gordy (Nope)
Jean Jacket (Nope)

Eddie Munson (Stranger Things)
Yuri Ismaylov (Stranger Things)
Palina (Pokemon Legends: Arceus)
Ladybug (Bullet Train)
The Prince (Bullet Train)
Tangerine (Bullet Train)
Lemon (Bullet Train)
The Father (Bullet Train)
The Elder (Bullet Train)
The White Death (Bullet Train)

Luthen Rael (Andor)
Dedra Meero (Andor)
Reva Sevander (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
Siobhn Silleabhin (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Dominic Kearney (The Banshees of Inisherin)

Irving Bailiff (Severance)
Helly Riggs (Severance)
Kim Sunja (Pachinko)
Koh Hansu (Pachinko)
Ranni the Witch (Elden Ring)

Mei Lee (Turning Red)
Perrito (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Death (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Goldilocks (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Diane Foxington (The Bad Guys)
Rosa (The House)
Jen (The House)
Cosmos (The House)
Elias (The House)
Anya Forger (Spy X Family)

Marc Spector/Steven Grant/Moon Knight (Moon Knight)
Khonshu (Moon Knight)

This should be our update as of post #41, let me know if you spot any errors or overlap

Safe: 21/64

6
Evelyn Quan Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Mei Lee (Turning Red)
Waymond Wang (Everything, Everywhere, All At Once)

5
Anya Forger (Spy X Family)
Death (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)

4
Blaidd (Elden Ring)
Chef Julian Slowik (The Menu)
Eddie Munson (Stranger Things)
Jobu Tupaki (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once)
Larry (Pokemon Scarlet & Violet)

3
Cat (Stray)
Denji/Chainsaw Man (Chainsaw Man)
Loid Forger (Spy X Family)
Luthen Rael (Andor)
Marissa Marcel (Immortality)
Ming Lee (Turning Red)
Pearl (X/Pearl)
Ranni the Witch (Elden Ring)
Santa Claus (Violent Night)
The Grabber (The Black Phone)
Vecna (Stranger Things)

2
Clodsire (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Colm Doherty (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Enid Sinclair (Wednesday)
Eunie (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Goldilocks (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Helen Brand (Glass Onion)
Hitori "Bocchi" Goto (Bocchi the Rock)
Jean Jacket (Nope)
Marc Spector/Steven Grant/Moon Knight (Moon Knight)
Mr. Snake (The Bad Guys)
Perrito (Puss in Boots 2: The Last Wish)
Pdraic Silleabhin (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Sienna Shaw (Terrifier 2)
Tess (Barbarian)
Viserys Targaryen I (House of the Dragon)
Wednesday Addams (Wednesday)
Yor Forger (Spy X Family)

1
AJ (Barbarian)
Aki Hayakawa (Chainsaw Man)
Alluri Sitarama Raju (RRR)
Amleth (The Northman)
Andre (Barbarian)
Angrboda (God of War: Ragnarok)
Annihilape (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Augie (Mario + Rabbid Sparks of Hope
Captain Orion (Mario + Rabbid Sparks of Hope)
Carmen Berzatto (The Bear)
Charlie (The Whale)
Chisato Nishikigi (Lycoris Recoil)
Connie (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On)
Cosmos (The House)
Cyclizar (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Death (Sandman)
Dedra Meero (Andor)
Diane Foxington (The Bad Guys)
Dominic Kearney (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Elias (The House)
Ethel (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Frank (Barbarian)
Frederica Aesfrost (Triangle Strategy)
Gordy (Nope)
Gretel Grant-Gomez (Hamster and Gretel)
Harmony Cobel (Severance)
Helly Riggs (Severance)
Inu-Oh (Inu-Oh)
Iono (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Irida (Pokmon Legends: Arceus)
Irving Bailiff (Severance)
Jack Reacher (Reacher)
Jen (The House)
Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk (She-Hulk)
Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel (Ms. Marvel)
Khonshu (Moon Knight)
Kim Sunja (Pachinko)
Kino Loy (Andor)
Kiri (Avatar : The Way Of Water)
Kleavor (Pokmon Legends: Arceus)
Koh Hansu (Pachinko)
Komaram Bheem (RRR)
Koraidon (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Ladybug (Bullet Train)
Lanz (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Lazarus Herst (The Case of the Golden Idol)
Lemon (Bullet Train)
Leongar (Kirby and the Forgotten Land)
Lucienne (Sandman)
Lucyna "Lucy" Kushinada (Cyberpunk: Edgerunners)
Malenia, Blade of Miquella (Elden Ring)
Margot Mills (The Menu)
Marion (Better Call Saul)
Mark Scout (Severance)
Miles Bron (Glass Onion)
Miraidon (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Miriam Mendolsohn (Turning Red)
Morpheus (Sandman)
Mr. Piranha (The Bad Guys)
Mr. Wolf (The Bad Guys)
Namor (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)
Noah (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Palina (Pokemon Legends: Arceus)
Penny (Pokmon Scarlet and Violet)
Pinocchio (Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio)
Power (Chainsaw Man)
Prince Bojji (Ranking of Kings)
Rabbid Rosalina (Mario + Rabbid Sparks of Hope)
Ratatoskr (God of War: Ragnarok)
Rebecca Owens (The Mortuary Assistant)
Reva Sevander (Obi-Wan Kenobi)
Rosa (The House)
Rya (Elden Ring)
Ryme (Pokemon Scarlet & Violet)
Ryuki (AI The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative)
Sebastian J. Cricket (Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio)
Serenoa Wolffort (Triangle Strategy)
Shez (Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes)
Siobhn Silleabhin (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Sir Gideon Ofnir, The All Knowing (Elden Ring)
Soldier Boy (The Boys)
Tangerine (Bullet Train)
The Elder (Bullet Train)
The Father (Bullet Train)
The Mother (Barbarian)
The Prince (Bullet Train)
The White Death (Bullet Train)
Ursaluna (Pokmon Legends: Arceus)
Vigilante (Peacemaker)
Wiglett (Pokmon Scarlet/Violet)
Yuri Ismaylov (Stranger Things)
Zero (Final Fantasy XIV)

Odin (God of War: Ragnarok)
Ratatoskr (God of War: Ragnarok)
Heimdall (God of War: Ragnarok)
Ladybug (Bullet Train)
Lemon (Bullet Train)
Tangerine (Bullet Train)
Leongar (Kirby and the Forgotten Land)
Fecto Elfilis (Kirby and the Forgotten Land)
Manny Torres (Babylon)
Vigilante (Peacemaker)

there's so so much more I want to nominate this year

Wednesday Addams (Wednesday)
Enid Sinclair (Wednesday)
Trudy Lightstone (Violent Night)
Scrooge (Violent Night)
Ursaluna (Pokmon Legends: Arceus)
Leongar (Kirby and the Forgotten Land)
Arven (Pokmon Scarlet/Violet)
Penny (Pokmon Scarlet and Violet)
Nemona (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Irida (Pokmon Legends: Arceus)

Rika (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Penny (Pokemon Scarlet/Violet)
Clodsire (Pokmon Scarlet/Violet)
Power (Chainsaw Man)
Namor (Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever)
Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel (Ms. Marvel)
Wednesday Addams (Wednesday)
Margot Mills (The Menu)
Helen Brand (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Emerald "Em" Haywood (Nope)

Sienna Shaw (Terrifier 2)
Tess (Barbarian)
Yor Forger (Spy X Family)
Aki Hayakawa (Chainsaw Man)
Gordy (Nope)
Jen (The House)
Malenia, Blade of Miquella (Elden Ring)
Margot Mills (The Menu)
Power (Chainsaw Man)
Rebecca Owens (The Mortuary Assistant)

Hitori "Bocchi" Goto (Bocchi the Rock)
Eunie (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Lanz (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Noah (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Mio (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Sena (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Taion (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Ryuki (AI The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative)
Tama (AI The Somnium Files: Nirvana Initiative)
Vigilante (Peacemaker)

Beta (Horizon Forbidden West)
Nemona (Pokmon Scarlet/Violet)
Arven (Pokmon Scarlet/Violet)
Big Man (Splatoon 3)
Eunie (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Taion (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Lanz (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Noah (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)
Odin (God of War: Ragnarok)
Dragon Lord (Tiny Tinas Wonderlands)

Soldier Boy (The Boys)
Morpheus (The Sandman)
John Dee (The Sandman)
Thing (Wednesday)
Alan Caprison (The Lost City)
Loretta Sage (The Lost City)
Aaron Shepard (Bros)
La'an Noonien-Singh (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)
T'Pring (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)
John/Master Chief (Halo)

Vigilante (Peacemaker)