A Contest For A Loved And Hated Blorbo

I now have a ko-fi

I love the idea of polls for characters that wouldn’t win otherwise because they’re too obscure, so I want to know what character people have the most strong opinions about, specifically who can split a room between negative or positive opinions the best.

For example: i haven’t heavily interacted with fandom since steven universe days so I’ll use Rose Quartz as an example. People either think she’s a soft uwu mom victim of the diamonds or an evil irredeemable space despot. I have never met a steven universe fan with a neutral opinion about her.

So that’s how your blorbo can win this poll: by being divisive. They don’t have to be popular or from a popular media, they just need the people who know them to have a strong opinion about them. In this poll, the character with the MOST EVEN balance of votes wins. I’ll post an example poll to show what I mean, but basically you’re encouraged to submit a blorbo if you love them or hate them! Either one helps them in this poll!

Here is where you can find the list of all characters with 2 or more submissions who made it in! Those with one submission who made it in will be added to this list in phases so I can check them.

Form has been removed from under the cut due to being closed but the rules remain up for reference:

RECENCY EXPLANATION: Campaign 3 ended earlier this year, and although he was the villain, the heroes' choices and the eventual ending of the show were somewhat in line with his philosophy and he kinda got off scott free.

WHY PEOPLE LIKE HIM: His stated motivation was to bring down the gods, he occasionally had some points (some of the gods are assholes, and he had lived through the apocalyptic god war that happened a few centuries ago) and was generally affable. Also, the critical role fandom is full of people with religious trauma who dislike long-held power structures.

WHY PEOPLE DISLIKE HIM: His plan was to unleash a god-eating eldritch abomination on the world by becoming its vessel, which a lot of people read more as him jockying for personal power than acting out of an altruistic motive. People also consider him a hypocrite as one of his strongest arguments against the gods (they destroyed a city for making a different god-killing weapon) is something he did himself (he unleashed something during his research, destroying a city and tainting the forest around it for centuries).

Submissions have petered out so let’s vote in the top six here to join our fight!! Remember that they should be DIVISIVE, there should be some fans that love them and some that hate them. Not just villains that people like, nor characters whose actions are morally dubious/controversial, those guys probably won’t do well in the tournament so I suggest voting for the ones you think fit best. Or just vote for who you like the best I guess, idk I’m not your mom.

Fuuta however, is the one I've seen the most range of opinions on so far? He cyberbullied and doxxed a middle schooler into suicide over a hat. He spends a good chunk of his screentime denying the fact that he could in any way be blamed for said death. He joined a cult about it that resulted in the death of two separate main characters. He first portrays himself as a hero of justice, then an unfortunate victim, and finally an unsympathetic villain.

Does this mean he actually realised what he did was shitty? Has he learned anything? Would he genuinely like to make amends for what he did or is he just offering up empty excuses? No one can really agree.

Death game hosted by a talking rabbit???

www.reddit.com/r/Shiki/comments/1c3nw66/id_probably_feel_slighty_sad_for_sunako_if/

www.reddit.com/r/Shiki/comments/1mj48l8/shiki_vs_humans_which_group_is_the_true_villain/

www.reddit.com/r/Shiki/comments/jvzfqc/thoughts_on_shiki_and_sunako/

www.reddit.com/r/Shiki/comments/18tv8ng/everyone_here_hates_shikis_sunako_seishin/

Also in these posts is lots and lots and lots of discourse on the two other big, controversial characters: Seishin Muroi and Toshio Ozaki. Honestly, everything related to Shiki is one big controversial clusterfuck, and you could even posit "the villagers" and "the shiki" as controversial character-like entities.

Propaganda with SOURCES CITED. I love to see it

REASONS AGAINST:

She tries to drown you

She attempted suicide after breaking up with her girlfriend, who then instantly leapt after her (none of them died)

Got amnesia and forgot she broke up with her girlfriend (all routes end in divorce)

REASONS FOR:

She deserved to kill you, god forbid girls have fun

For real she kind of realized that she should probably work on herself if she's drowning people and she did

Also you were in her house and she asked you to leave when she drowned you

Working on herself made her realize that maybe she should break up with her girlfriend since her girlfriend is not in love with her

She does help a lot in the local evil team trying to commit mass murder. She's really good at it, actually

since you were last accepting submissions, 911 fandom has exploded into a ship war with:

new(ish) character as of 2024: Tommy Kinard, accused of racism, being patronizing to the guy he dates. the same guy that many fans have been shipping forever with:

existing character Eddie Diaz, newly controversial as of May 2025. accused of future intimate partner violence for grabbing his friend and putting a finger in his face during an argument, also being mean to that friend

These are great suggestions because I have personal vendettas against 911 not because I’ve ever seen it but because I can’t go into any Peacemaker tags without seeing these guys instead for some reason (? guys help me out on the why of that one. Just lots of fandom overlap I assume?)

She's funny, she makes anti us political commentary (the literal personification of war is in love with the us because they remade the atomic bomb from scratch) but she also assaulted Denji. 💀 Hum.

Until I straight up forget for a year again…

A lot has changed since I left, media has come and gone, I bet some of these blorbos aren’t even controversial anymore

So for the rest of round 2, some of round 1’s biggest sweepers will now belatedly earn a bye so that eight ALL NEW competitors can join in the fun

Because I don’t have my finger on the pulse of every fandom (or even most of them), I would like YOU, yes you, to suggest characters who are either 1. new to this world or 2. newly controversial to be 6 of the newbies. 6, because our new eight begins with…

Jax and Ragatha, who it seems like not a single person can be normal about. How do YOU feel? Does Ragatha’s toxic positivity make her a gaslighting abuser or traumatized and well-meaning? Does Jax’s trauma mean it’s totally okay the he bullies people or is he a literally irredeemable monster? If your take is nuanced or anywhere between these two extreme poles you better get the fuck outta here, we’re taking off our media literacy hats and celebrating No Nuance November a week early here at Wish.com Jackbox

I’ve somehow, like, blinked, and this tournament has now been abandoned for a fucking year and a half