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Top 110 means, on average, a top 5 character in a season.

In post 647, BROseidon wrote:Chaffee next!

There were much worse D3f players than Lincoln. Some of them are still alive!

In post 643, CuddlyCaucasian wrote:What was his Dream Ability though

Eddie Riggs had some weird Bus Driver ability, apparently. Which is really boring since it's not incredible like Spyro's Master Sword or Kairi's Legendary Box, or really stupidly bad like Master Chief's "You can give up your vote to send your tribe to TC" ability.

But still, Eddie Riggs must have been notable enough to get a spot on (!!!) only to be the first boot.

then chafee is at least top 190

In post 653, Crazy wrote:But still, Eddie Riggs must have been notable enough to get a spot on

All-Stars

(!!!) only to be the first boot.

As I said, he got 6th place.

In post 641, Drench wrote:

358. James Gordon Jr. (DeasVail) - Arkham City

"It's been really hard to keep up with this game recently (also typing up long things is slower) and I don't know if this will affect things, but for the moment I will try my best!"

[leaning in so my lips touch the microphone] dv i love you but evacs aren't top 350

I want to idol this
Someone give me an idol

In post 655, animorpherv1 wrote:

In post 653, Crazy wrote:But still, Eddie Riggs must have been notable enough to get a spot on

All-Stars

(!!!) only to be the first boot.

As I said, he got 6th place.

Hey, an irrelevant 6th placer on MS returned for All-Stars and got booted first, while on the real show an irrelevant 6th placer returned for All-Stars and won!

I think this is adequate foreshadowing for a 6th boot to come back and win Season 34.

dont worry rory dv is a god of survivor and the end of this rankdown will feature a lot of him

MS should start using numbered "official" seasons
Not like every one only like one per year or so

In post 659, Cephrir wrote:dont worry rory dv is a god of survivor and the end of this rankdown will feature a lot of him

Gordon though!

#savegordon

In post 632, xofelf wrote:Poor Rocket Raccoon

I came out to have a good time, and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now 8(

In post 659, Cephrir wrote:dont worry rory dv is a god of survivor and the end of this rankdown will feature a lot of him

I think only one of my characters actually had her shit together though tbh

I've still got my fingers crossed for all of my characters making the top 350, even though I'm expecting to lose Jonny fairly soon once we're under that banner.

Low ranking but funny people are being put to the flames already
Are you sure you guys didn't miss a non-existent person or five still
You probably don't remember them. B)

Haha yeah.

In post 666, Shadoweh wrote:Low ranking but funny people are being put to the flames already
Are you sure you guys didn't miss a non-existent person or five still
You probably don't remember them. B)

If I had it my way these low ranking but funny people would last far longer than people still in the rankdown who actively hurt the quality of the games they were in

Like I said, it's time to take out people who actively diminished the seasons they were a part of, while having no interesting storyline. Fiona had more controversy revolve around her than Wonder Woman did throughout the whole game, all while being a vaguely positive presence like PrivateI tends to be, but more than anything his story is frustrating. The Heroes control most of the game, during which Wonder Woman is Starfire's right-hand woman, and refuses to turn on her, essentially being fine with losing. I almost cut Karamel Sutra this round, because she really had a similar story to Wonder Woman: both were vaguely positive members of the majority alliance throughout most of the game, making it all the way to Final Four, but I found Karamel's moral dilemma regarding the game ultimately much more intriguing than anything Wonder Woman did, who was really just done in by the fact that other people realized they needed to vote out Starfire, and since she wasn't a part of that movement, she swiftly followed.

In that same vein, I believe it's time we cut our first finalist, and one of the few we've ever had that even in retrospect appear not to have had anything going on in the game at any point. Gothmog didn't use his confessional really at all, but even reading Final Tribal Council is enough to see that he does not appear to have considered at any point that the game ends in the jury voting for a winner.

Gothmog was just a number in an alliance that happened to not ever get voted out. He is criticized for a poor social game as well as a total lack of strategic game, and it's really not clear that he did much of anything right to get where he did except just happen to not be voted out and be in the right places at the right times. Upon seeing at the merge that his alliance was in the minority, he apparently chose to believe they would be picked off and not do anything to prevent this. He played "lock in and wait" while the other two finalists played Survivor, and paid the price in being generally humiliated by the jury.

I really don't know how I feel about that cut. Seems.... IDK.

His not writing a closing statement for FTC (which led the mods to call him "a dumb") does say a decent amount. Maybe there are more fitting cuts here, but I don't think he deserves the big boost that he'd probably get if he got idoled.

I would idol Wonder Woman before Gothmog. But I'm probably the single most biased person that could make that decision.

It seems like the time to cut my worst character. While Nightwing is perhaps not technically the worst I've ever played on a technical level, Luigi and Scizor have the excuse of coming from a different era, and both were more impactful as characters than Nightwing was.

It's pretty surprising that Nightwing even made it to the merge. I survived my first tribe by not being Bane or Warlock's Daughter, and then at the shipwreck everyone was focused on the larger targets of Two-Face and Alfred. After a swap, I ended up with an easy tribe where I didn't have to do much to survive over the inactive Penguin and the clear outsider Red Hood, and I still almost got eliminated over Red Hood. Later, Red Hood returned to the game, and I was recruited to join his tribe so I could be the "easy boot" if that tribe ever went to TC. Luckily, we never did, and then I was in the merge, yay.

After the merge, I basically attached myself to the dynamic duo of Scarecrow and Phantasm, and proceeded to do nothing as they told me last minute whatever vote was about to happen. By the time F8 rolled around, I was having some sort of goat crisis as I was determining who I could most likely beat in a F2. (The answer was, of course, nobody, especially since it was a F4 jury vote) Then I went all Claire-from-Greece and formed two conflicting F4 alliances, until Scarecrow was elected in a Kingmaker round and booted my ass out.

Now typically, I like underdog characters, and I hope in some more recent games I've pulled off the "likable underdog" archetype better than I did here. But I don't think Nightwing fits that role in any sense, because Nightwing didn't do much at all until the round he was booted. Rootable underdogs have to be aware of their poor position and try to change things, and Nightwing didn't. Nightwing was simply a goat and a pawn to be used by the actual players, and that's typically a role I enjoy watching.

The only potential I see for Nightwing as a character is if he could be considered some sort of hilarious trainwreck. But I think Nightwing was too boring and passive even for that.