Sunday, July 13, 2014

Geekdom Madness: Miscellaneous Left

It's the penultimate preliminary.

This week's match-up: The Candy-Hearted Rag Dolly vs the Bloodthirsty Count






Let's meet the combatants:


RAGGEDY ANN




A rag doll who belongs to a little girl named Marcella. She has many adventures with her brother Andy and various other toys in the nursery, and always with a positive attitude.

Pros
* Is extremely sweet (candy heart, after all)
* Is very accepting and forgiving
* Surprisingly proactive

Cons
* Very little physical strength
* Kind of creepy face
* Sometimes appears a little TOO close to her brother



COUNT DRACULA



A Romanian nobleman, suspected to either be or be connected to Vlad Tepes (pictured), renounced his faith for unknown reasons and gained the powers of darkness, turning into a vampire. After silently terrorizing nearby Carpathian villages for centuries, he invites some real-estate brokers from London to help him get a change of scenery...

Pros
* Has great physical strength
* Can enthrall the unsuspecting
* Has shapeshifting abilities

Cons
* Requires human blood to survive, and thus regards others as merely a food source
* Not overly fond of religious artifacts
* While he can move about during the day, it is not his natural time and his powers are weakened


Final Thoughts
Hmm, a girl's toy against a vampire. If I didn't know any better, I'd say they were just standing in for two OTHER massively popular franchises with a haterbase as big as their fanbases, neither of which I am familiar enough with to feel comfortable including on this list. But of course I actually do know better than that....right?....RIGHT?!

As always, make sure you're viewing the WEB version of the site and vote in the poll on the right-hand side of the screen. Poll closes Friday, and results posted on Saturday. Feel free to discuss your pick in the comments below.

2 comments:

  1. Well, dang, if they're gonna be stand-ins for what I think they're stand-ins for, I'm gonna go with the one that's not actively harmful (albeit with that sad male contingent of fandom that seems to strive to *make* it actively harmful...alas).

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    1. I urge people to judge the contestants as they are, and not what they might have been.

      Though I would probably do the same in your shoes.

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