-The Infinite Sakurai Theorem-
The Idea
The Idea
"The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a particular chosen text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare."-Wikipedia
Now if we assume that there is an infinite number of alternate universes, that means there's also an infinite number of Sakurais, which means that there's an infinite number of Brawls, which means that every character who has ever existed will somehow make it into Brawl!
Now let's bring this totally scientific theorem to its completely illogical conclusion, right?
-Make Your Move-
The Thread
The Thread
Brawl is out. By now, you all know the roster. By now, you all know that it lacks something.
For instance, it lacks all the shoe-ins that we defended so much in our spare time!
But, actually, it also lacks some less likely characters as well.
In fact, it shows a remarkable lack of completely obscure characters.
In fact, Brawl would be the best game ever if it had the hero from my favourite cartoon, or the antagonist from that novel I'm writing, or even better, myself!
So thinks the Smash fanatic and giggles to himself.
This thread welcomes all crazy Smash fanatics who like to let their imagination run wild! If you love a certain fictional character, person, animal or inanimate object, and you want to show the world how awesome they'd look in Smash, here's the place to do it.
Just show us the character and give them some moves!
Any submission with a bit of effort put into it will join the list of current submissions in the appropriate category, with the name and author, a snazzy avatar, and a rating on a three-star-scale, plus a link to the respective post that will allow people browsing the first post to check out what you wrote!
Assist Trophy/Secondary Character Section:
You can also enter Assist Trophies, or Secondary Characters, whatever you want to call them!
If you have a character idea that doesn't have as much potential as some of your others, or if you're not willing to put too much effort into a character, here's your section.
This also opens up possibilities for a possible Subspace Emissary plot: Give your character a non-playable boss... or maybe a non-playable ally!
As I said, no limits.
CHARACTER IMAGE SHOP:
As a little addition, if you don't have an image of your character, you can ask me to draw one for you. I'm not an extremely good artist, but I get better.
And that's all you need to know about this part!
-Super Smash Boards Brawl-
The Contest
The Contest
The Super Smash Boards Brawl contest is a contest held within the thread of Make Your Move.
When the thread was born, the goal was to amass at least enough high-quality submissions to be able to create a mock Brawl character select screen after the image of the true select screen.
By now, the deadline is over, and over 120 characters from all manners of origin have qualified to participate. It's truly amazing to look back at it to see some of the fantastic work people have delivered.
Of course, such awesomeness cannot possibly be contained within 35 character slots.
The final Super Smash Boards Brawl character select screen will hold 50 characters!
But that's not all.
With the help of Comrade Canada's flash skills, the select screen will become interactive, to show all the 50 winners in all their splendor.
For a unified style, all winners will be drawn by me.
An announcer will emphatically shout out their names when selected.
It will be awesome.
And even until that select screen is finally completed, a complete Adventure Mode plot will be written starring the winners and all their related characters.
Now, the question is... who will the winners be?
-The Voting-
The voting!
The voting!
To qualify for the contest, characters had to have gained a 3-star rating before the end of the deadline.
Now, the rest depends on you. Vote for the ones you deem worthy. Here are the rules:
- Out of the list of eligible characters, you may choose up to 50 to give normal votes to.
- You don't have to make a full list. You can also vote for just a handful of characters who caught your attention if you like. You may also vote for your own submissions.
- You can turn a normal vote into a Super Vote with more influence on the final result. The condition is that you have to write a review of at the very least three whole lines for the submission in question. Turning a normal vote into a Super Vote does not give you any more normal votes. In the end, you can only have 50.
- The review must contain valid points regarding the quality of the post. "I like the character" is not a valid point. "I like the character and the post has managed to perfectly capture the reason I like him because..." is a valid point.
- Since you obviously can't review your own submissions, giving yourself a Super Vote is out of the question.
- If you chose 50 characters and there are still some submissions that you think deserve some recognition, you may list them as runners-up, which gives them votes with less effect on the final outcome.
- The deadline for voting is March 14, the same time the Dojo! updates go up. Until then, no votes are final. You may post to list your current list of votes, give feedback to those you are unsure about, do whatever you like. Until March 14, no votes are counted. Keep checking back here to see whether anyone updated their submissions!
Additionally, please take into account these guidelines:
- Please respect Original Creations. While you probably didn't know them before coming to this thread since they were made up by other members of these forums, coming up with an Original Creation takes far more creativity than just grabbing someone from an already existing story and coming up with stuff for them. If you see a potentially interesting OC in the list, go ahead and check them out. Chances are they're more interesting than characters you already knew.
- Vote for quality! It's only natural for you to vote for characters you love. But please take into account that there are authors around here who spent a good few hours working hard on their submissions. Be nice to them.
- You are encouraged to give feedback. Giving feedback does not automatically mean you're giving someone a Super Vote. The review rule was introduced to ensure that effort is more important than popularity. Simple feedback serves to give an author the chance to improve, or to simply make them a little bit happier.
Now to get to the actual list of characters.
-The Index-
Where you'll find all the shiny characters.
Where you'll find all the shiny characters.
First, let me explain some things about those images.
Categories: There are several categories. A character will always have a line inserted in one of the new, big category images. Fact: This is awesome. It allows for all characters to be displayed adequately, thus blasting away all previous boundaries, it allows for casual passers-by to look for what they're interested in in characters, makes the thread prettier and allows for me to update more easily and with less stress, which means more updates. Hooray!
Star ratings:
3 Stars: Movesets with 3 stars are solid and definitely worthy of a read-through. Submissions with this rating will participate in the final voting.
2 Stars: The line is often quite blurry between what is complete and what isn't. 2 star ratings mean that there is still something missing to make the submission complete.
1 Star: For very incomplete submissions.
No Star: ...
!Exlamation mark!
This sexy little sign denotes characters who are outstanding in some way. Got a backstory the size of a small novel? 5 movesets in one? Is it FUN to read? There are many things that make a submission outstanding.
The exclamation mark has no bearing on the contest, it's just a sort of trophy that draws attention to those who had original ideas or put a special kind of effort into their work. This piece is what all true warriors strive for! If you think you deserve an exclamation mark, go ahead and argue with me, and I'll listen and see what I can do about it. After all, I never claimed to be able to keep track of a hundred small pieces of art.
OC
The green OC sign denotes Original Characters, which were created by the writer himself. These deserve a special kind of attention, I believe.
And now that that's done with, let's get to the good stuff.
Ace Lightning - Anonymous - Astro Boy - Ben Ten - Chell - Conan & Ai & Heiji - Crash Bandicoot by Apdat - Crash Bandicoot by Moon/Sun - Buzz Lightyear - Dean - Dude - Farthing Fox - Edin Notn - Edward Elric - Eye Scream - Great Clay Monkey - Hiro - Ike - Joker - Kenji - Les Stroud - Megaman X - Naruto - Pink Panther - Roy Mustang - Somasu - Spyro - Taga - Winn
????? - Bass - Bill Brasky - Buddy - Chatu Ranga - Comrade Canada - Cromag - Feraligatr - King Leonidas - Motoko Kusanagi - Roronoa Zoro part 1, part 2 - Sam Fisher - Scrooge McDuck -
Stone Cold - Temali - Travis Touchdown - Tyranitar - Willis Brooke - Yoda - Yutabooz
Aku - Chaos - Cthulhu - Etheream - Keramon - Kurai Oscuro - Light - Malandros Nyclo - Mikelo Chrors - Phantom of the Opera - Rythe - Sasuke
Billy Hatcher - Birdo - Celebi&Mew - Furret - Haruhi - Hugo - Kero-chan - Konata - Pippi Longstocking - Viki - Vooze - Waddle Dee - Whismur - Yuki
a mage girl - Arceus - Aves - Cena - Elza - Fawriel - Flygon - Fuego - Howl - Luggage - Lupis - Mask Link - Polaris - Sailor Mercury - Sailor Moon - Sailor Venus - Sindel - Tale Team - Warxe
Fusajiro Yamauchi - Friedrich Nietzsche - Genghis Khan - Socrates by MetaLord - Socrates by TheOfficialSonicFanboy - Vladimir Lenin
Don Quixote - Mary Poppins - Odysseus - Ronia
Anthony Kiedis - Ludwig van Beethoven - Eddie - Eminem - Kelsi Nielsen - Miku - Tori Amos
Alien Guy - Angry Video Game Nerd - Bobobo - Chiyo-chan&Osaka - Captain Crunch - Cyberjunkie - Dwight Schrute - Flying Dutchman - Gir - Homestar Runner - Peter Griffin - Prince of all Cosmos - S0crat3s - Strong Bad - The Salesman - Tommy Pickles - Waldo - Warner Brothers - Woody Woodpecker - Yahtzee by simplicityho - Yahtzee by Kirby M.D.
Al Gore - Bill Cosby&Squirtle - CD-i Link - Christer Lindarw - Cursor - Dave Chapelle - Firefox - Hitler - Hyacinth Bucket - King Ganonidas Boss - Landmaster - Loop aka Greg - Mario - Metapod&Kakuna - Mr. Mario Paint - Nog - Phaaze - Porkman - Steve Ballmer - Zero Suit Snake