Popularity Power: Difference between revisions

'''Bender:''' ''"You mean I'm not a great fighter? I just won 'cause I'm popular?"''

'''Manager:''' ''"Bingo!"''

Have you ever gotten [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|into an argument]] where you have to defend your beloved Local Sports Team's honor and superiority against the "merits" of that honorless and inept [[Opposing Sports Team]]? Time consuming and [[Natter|pointless debates]] ensue (they really should just accept that that Local Sports Team is better and move on with their lives). If things get really bad, you can always wait for both teams to play against each other to settle the issue.

* [[GameFAQs]] has the Character Battles which seemingly pit two characters against each other and have users vote for the winner. While there is some debate going on, popularity ultimately decides the winner. This is sometimes ridiculed to the degree it's practically a subversion of itself, such as a Tetris piece winning the contest.

** And now sister site Gamespot is doing [https://web.archive.org/web/20110703114059/http://uk.gamespot.com/greatest-video-game-hero/standings/index.html the same]. Though it has become a subversion of itself with heavy interference, first from 4chan who managed to have the ''[[Bubble Bobble]]'' beat [[Halo|Master Chief]] and [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] before bowing down to Samus, and later from '''Valve themselves''', who pushed a massive rally call for [[Half-Life|Gordon Freeman]], which went to... well, it allowed Valve to proclaim [https://web.archive.org/web/20111116091618/http://store.steamgames.com/news/2959/ this]: "[[Kanye West|There are other great game heroes, and we're gonna let you play with them, but Gordon Freeman is THE BEST GAME HERO OF ALL TIME"]]

== [[Western Animation]] ==

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