"Official" stats for Marvel characters??

#1 Posted by DEADPOOL (2574 posts) - 5 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio

I don't know who did these, but they're mostly f'd up. Wolverine, for example: 5/7 intelligence? 6/7 strength?? 7/7 speed??? WTF????

#2 Posted by Satyrquaze (4542 posts) - 5 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio

Fan-boys.

#3 Posted by -000 (226 posts) - 5 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio

The bios on the website are pretty good, but I don't get the stupid power rankings or the character clouds.

#4 Posted by Cosmic Sentinel (3743 posts) - 5 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio

The blue bars are the official ones, red voted by fans. I'm not sure why Marvel gave Wolverine the top rank 7/7 for speed. You can't even blame that on fanboys as it's the official one. Someone has been putting them into character bios on here, I really don't like them.

#5 Posted by Starleafgirl (1334 posts) - 5 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio

There are some really dumb official Marvel rankings out there, I agree.

#6 Posted by Forever (4332 posts) - 5 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio

I'd seen people using those ratings before but to see that on their official site... That's pretty sad.

#7 Posted by Vrakmul (23296 posts) - 5 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio

Maybe it's a low standard. Like the speed is how many times faster can the hero go than a snail.

#8 Posted by Superkitty (1057 posts) - 5 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio

I noticed that Mephisto had all 1's for official stats and for fan voted ones, at least four, usually at 6 or 7. I'm guessing someone got them transposed, with the fan ones at the "default" of 1.

The descriptions seem to be taken right from the Marvel Encyclopedia, but otherwise doesn't seem bad, even though some places seem incomplete (especially the DC stuff :)). The important issues is a nice idea (we could do it here in the description), but they cram the information in and its hard to read. I couldn't find covers, but I might not have been looking in the right place. It seems to have a fair amount of multimedia stuff. I think its fairly decent, just the stats need a lot of work.

#9 Posted by Starleafgirl (1334 posts) - 5 years, 10 months ago - Show Bio

Superkitty says:

"The important issues is a nice idea (we could do it here in the description), but they cram the information in and its hard to read. I couldn't find covers, but I might not have been looking in the right place. It seems to have a fair amount of multimedia stuff. I think its fairly decent, just the stats need a lot of work."

They don't have a Hollow a.k.a. Penance page, though. >.> Which is almost okay, considering how messed up her Marvel Encyclopedia entry is, including stats that don't reflect how we've seen her in the comics.

Regarding the "important issues" thing, I was thinking of doing that for a character, considering she tends to often get one or two panel appearances and that's it in an issue, but I think, ultimately it's more useful to have a helpful description.

If there was a tab for "important issues," though, that would be interesting...

You could attach issues then write in the little box why they're important.

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