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VGCW Season 12 Character Evaluations
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Topic Started: Aug 8 2016, 10:15 PM (12,427 Views)
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PlasticAutomaton
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Aug 16 2016, 10:39 AM
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I've had this post waiting for a while, just haven't had a chance to actually finish it. Here's the King of Awesome, I'll have a few more guys up after Killscreen tonight. (If I have time, I'll post the Patron Saint of Glitches before Killscreen. Because what could possibly go wrong?)
Bowser Matches: Beat Toad (iron man), Beat Flint (MitB Qualifier), Didn't win MitB, Lost to Armstrong, Beat Bison, Lost to Ridley. Plot: "Friendly" pre-MitB chat with Ganon, Mocked Phoenix, Translated for Ridley then got pissed at him
Kind of an uneventful season for the King of Awesome, huh? Bowser's always been in kind of a weird pattern where he'll crush a few fools, gather momentum, then suddenly put some lowcarder over just in time to prevent himself from getting into the title scene. Then just when you think he's down, he'll turn around and bury someone else and remind everyone why he's the king. And then the pattern repeats. It's been kind of a thing for Bowser, and it's resulted in his only title reign through 12 seasons being marked with a gigantic asterisk due to glitch bomb.
This season was no exception, though his losses were to much bigger (literally) opponents at least. Crushing Toad and Flint put Bowser right into the mix in Money in the Bank, his eyes on his favorite enemy, Ganondorf. But instead of an epic confrontation between the two old enemies, Bowser kinda spent most of the match getting styled on by Toejam. Meanwhile, Ganon took advantage of an outbreak of mass stupidity to seize the case in about three minutes. (Honestly, given how cursed that briefcase is at this point, I half suspect Bowser threw the match so he wouldn't get saddled with it.)
From there, Bowser mostly stayed in the background, coming out to do his obligatory once a season put someone over for Senator Armstrong, in a fairly close hoss-off. After that, he proceeded to smash M. Bison into a fine paste, both putting him in prime position to start moving back up, and destroying the last shred of credibility Shadaloo had left. And now comes the fun part, as the biggest ego in VGCW took on the dragon that was just too big for smash in a short, but satisfying feud. Bowser brought everything he had to take down the new kid on the block, and at the last second... he tripped out of his comeback. That one mistake was enough to let Ridley hang around to finish him off and for the first time in a very long time, Bowser had been pinned at Endgame.
It's a win that means a hell of a lot for Ridley, and a loss that honestly doesn't mean that much for Bowser in the long run. But in the short term, it means that Bowser's once again shut out of a potential title shot, and he's going to just have to start Koopa Klawing his way back to the top once more.
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AntUnderTheMoon
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Aug 16 2016, 11:40 AM
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The amicable feuds leading to an Endgame match has resulted in some...interesting teams to say the least. PK Chu won the Co-Op Championships, but it did essentially kill Ness' career by just being Red's mouthpiece. The Dark Lords were a bust, but it was funny and an interesting diversion for Ganondorf and Dracula. Sonic Truffle and Final Fantasy 3 & Knuckles were also formed like this and they are both well-regarded teams.
I'm sure you know what I'm getting at when I'm bringing this up in regards to Bowser. Bowser and Ridley sound like they can be a great team. If they were a team, I'd think they would have the potential to be more interesting than the following teams currently in VGCW: Two-Timing, CXY, Deadly Alliance (don't break them up though, just give them plot), Salvations Ops, Shadow Ball Valley, Final Fantasy 3 & Knuckles, Fisherman's Horizon, and maybe even THE BEST team currently in VGCW: Sonic Truffle.
Bowser for 12 seasons has been constantly in singles. I mean people are fine with him just building momentum, then fucking it up at the last moment only to go back to the drawing board, but he could use a different direction. We don't know what's he like as a tag performer and his match with Ridley didn't have a lot of a build to it so this would be a way to continue it. Bowser is gold in plot and Ridley so far is gold in plot too. So it won't be a PK Chu/Dark Lords situation where they won't mesh well together.
How likely of a chance they will form a team? Probably not likely though since a lot of other new teams have formed in the past two seasons (though I think Two-Timing, CXY, Salvation Ops are not interesting teams right now) and make it seem like the tag division will get bloated by adding Bowser and Ridley.
I suppose the only other thing I want to actually say about Bowser's Season 12 is that him going to the top rope in his match with Ridley was fucking based. The King of Awesome always knows to deliver in big matches.
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Introbulus
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Aug 16 2016, 01:18 PM
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I would miss Bowser in the major belt run, but wouldn't mind him and Ridley together at all... difficult choice.
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Potatosaurusrex
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Aug 16 2016, 01:27 PM
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Fun fact, Bowser is the only wrestler on the VGCW roster to fly solo his entire career, if we discount people such as Kanji who haven't actually had time to assemble a unit, be it a stable or tag team.
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PlasticAutomaton
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Aug 21 2016, 10:52 PM
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So I know it seems like this project's collapsed before it started, but work has sucked massively. My day off is tomorrow though, so I'll have a fresh batch ready after some revisions to my stream of thought writing. Mostly hammering out some excessive venom from my Captain Falcon obituary.
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MaxOfFewTrades
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Aug 21 2016, 11:45 PM
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I feel like saying bad things about Two-Timing and CXY is jumping the gun. I certainly don't care about ether team but they've only ever had one match. Things can still happen.
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PlasticAutomaton
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Aug 22 2016, 09:44 PM
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Progress is a real thing. Ds later tomorrow. I have a lot I wanna say about Dante's fall from grace.
Break Man
In-Ring: Lost to Waluigi (MitB Qualifier), Lost to Fisherman's Horizon, Lost to Haggar (Triple threat, pinned Duke), Beat TJ&E, Beat the Fuckheads, Beat Sonic Truffle (Co-op Contenders), Beat SBV (Co-op TItles)
In-Plot: Laying low till Endgame, :smug:
There are few better people robots at working a crowd than the wrestler formerly known as Proto Man. He gets nuclear heat that would make Ganon jealous, and whenever he's in the ring, something... weird... tends to happen. But this season, his singles career took a dive as he ate a fairly embarassing loss to Waluigi, and got taken out by Haggar at the 11th hour of a match it looked like he'd run away with.
Fortunately, his partner happens to be the scariest thing on the roster. With Air Man doing most of the work while Break Man tends to play defense, interrupting pins, keeping his opponents off balance, and generally being a finisher-reversing dick. That dynamic blasted them through most of their opposition this season, and ended up winning them the tag titles, in the usual Glitch Man fashion: Using the same finisher point to hit both members of SBV with the Air Shooter and Break Buster simultaneously.
Laying low seems to have worked wonders for the Mavericks, but for Break Man's sake, they'd better hold on to those titles, as unlike his partner, he's far from first in line for any singles titles.
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Captain Falcon
In-Ring: (As Blood Falcon) Lost to Dan, Beat team Dad (3 on 3), Lost to the Dragons, beat Ezio, no contest with Mercenary Ops (As Captain Falcon) Beat Shin Bison
In-Plot: The Port Town Pipe Bomb, Life is like a stream..., acting as Bison's clone army, the real Falcon sacrificed himself to kill Bison
We're going to talk about Blood Falcon first, before we get to the Captain Falcon obituary. Let's be perfectly honest. Blood Falcon was the Starscream of Shadaloo, and his job was to be the goofy comic relief and generally get his ass kicked. Ironically, he probably did better than anyone else in the stable, actually winning a match post Mega-Evolution, even if he had the lowest card fight, it's still something, as the 11 match Falcon losing streak was finally broken.
And then he got killed... only to be replaced by a rowdy clone army. That was probably the high point of the entire Shadaloo arc, as the threat level of a few hundred Blood Falcons was balanced out by them being... well.. a few hundred blood Falcons. The utter hilarity of the Team Hell Yeah VS Mercenary Ops match that followed with the game breaking in the exact same way twice, cemented them as a VGCW fixture. HELL YEAH!
And then Bison killed them all, along with a brave clipboard. The real Falcon came back, fought Bison, and in a perfect replica of the F-Zero anime ending, took Bison with him in one last FALCON PUNCH.
Good riddance. At this point, we were on Falcon revision #4. He's had more effort and time poured into him than most, more opportunities given to him, and has been treated like some secret top tier wrestler when he was on the biggest losing streak of all time. Unfortunately, though Blood Falcon works as a comedy jobber, Captain Falcon just couldn't cut it in that same role. And with no role but Ezio's buddy, no respect from the crowd, and no real ability to win a match after 12 seasons, it was about time for him to go. At least he got to leave with his streak finally broken, and about as respectful a departure as you can get.
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Chief Arino
In-Ring: Lost to Wily, Eliminated first in MitB Qualifier 6-man, Lost to Ridley, Lost to Two-Timing, Lost to Kefka (Triple Threat, second out)
In-Plot: Global Game Centres, drafted into Vegeta's court, witness in Wres Court
...You know, it's a good thing that Arino's one of the better plot characters, and TOH and co. are clearly having a lot of fun writing the game centre segments, because ho boy was this a rough season for the Chief Queen. Arino spent the season getting his ass handed to him in ring, and though most of his losses weren't too one-sided, it's still a brutal beating in the singles division.
Fortunately, he's been taken in by the noble King Vegeta as part of his royal court, giving him a safe plot and a good team to play straight man to. ...Unfortunately, that's also saddled him with the worst wrestler on the roster, Ebisu, as a tag partner. Their debut against Two-Timing went about as well as you could expect, which is to say, not a total squash. Maybe they'll improve and prove to be more than the sum of their parts, but they may just end up as the next Sonic Truffle. But jobbers or champions, one thing's clear... at least this means the Saiyans are mercifully out of the tag division.
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AntUnderTheMoon
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Aug 22 2016, 10:35 PM
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I'm just going to say this right now PlasticAutomaton, but who managed to get a #1 Contenders Match for the Co-Op Titles this season? Sonic Truffle.
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PlasticAutomaton
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Aug 22 2016, 10:42 PM
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They won one out of five matches. They're comedy face (ish) jobbers. But really fun jobbers. It's a good place for them.
EDIT: I also really want to see Arino and Raiden as a team now. I have no idea how that would work, but hey, why not.
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Soundwave
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Aug 23 2016, 06:10 AM
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Calling Blood Falcon the "Starscream of Shadaloo" is a really poor analogy because Starscream is an extremely important part of the Decepticon war machine and is also one of the more powerful Decepticons and is generally at a level when you can't step to him unless you're a big deal. Also, Blood Falcon didn't ever try to usurp control of Shadaloo.
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slashkamei
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Aug 23 2016, 07:54 AM
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Yeah...Break Man seems to be up and down when it comes to his singles matches, one moment he's finishing people with one sig, the next....he loses to Waluigi. I do think one of the reasons the Mavericks are so good in tag is mostly due to Air Man.
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Soundwave
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Aug 23 2016, 08:49 AM
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I don't think Break Man losing to Waluigi should be held against him. Waluigi's whole shtick is that he's the ultimate wildcard, capable of winning against anybody, but also losing against anybody.
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Aug 23 2016, 02:29 PM
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'Wildcard' sounds a lot better than 'jobber', is the thing.
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Aug 24 2016, 01:52 AM
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- Justin_Brett
- Aug 23 2016, 02:29 PM
'Wildcard' sounds a lot better than 'jobber', is the thing. A jobber doesn't ever punch above their weight though. Yes, Waluigi is the 2x Jobber Champion and we love him for it, but he's also held championships before and has beaten respectable opponents. If you look at Zubaz or old Gary Oak, people who are actual jobbers, there is a clear difference between them and Waluigi.
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Aug 24 2016, 10:57 PM
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- Soundwave
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'Wildcard' sounds a lot better than 'jobber', is the thing.
A jobber doesn't ever punch above their weight though. Yes, Waluigi is the 2x Jobber Champion and we love him for it, but he's also held championships before and has beaten respectable opponents. If you look at Zubaz or old Gary Oak, people who are actual jobbers, there is a clear difference between them and Waluigi. Yeah but the best people old Waluigi beat were Gerudo Skies with Wario, where he pinned the weak link of them, and Bazza-era Dracula, where he didn't need to pin him at all. Between those two are enough losses in a row to get a less popular character ridiculed, so I do think it is just popularity and not him actually being a wildcard. Rinoa got called that too, and she hasn't won a match in over a year.
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