Welcome to Feats N’ Faults!
(Point Description and Tier List at the Bottom!)
What do we do here? Well, I’m insane enough to watch through all of our favorite shows and movies and keep track of every character in them! That is right, I created a point system and will be scoring characters to see how they impact the universes that they are in. Then we can compare and talk about how our favorite characters stack up. This is not about who is stronger. No need for power scaling anymore. We have Feats N’ Faults scores to consider now! Now everyone is in contention. Who will score higher Scooby-Doo or Doctor Who? Han Solo or Roronoa Zoro? Hank Hill or Daredevil? The possibilities are endless, and the discussions will never cease. Welcome to Feats N’ Faults!
Point Descriptions and Tier List:
Welcome to Feats N’ Faults. This is an experiment that I have been taking for over two years now. It is the thing that makes me seem the nerdiest and the thing that I used to hide from anyone and everyone. So why not publicize it and share it with the world!? The Premise is pretty simple. Who has done the most good or changed the most in their respective Movies, Shows, etc..? To help compare I created a tier system to award points. It is based on how a character's actions directly affect themselves or the universe. I call these Feats and the tier system is as follows with examples at the end of the article:
1pt - Personal: Affecting the self or 1-2 others
2pt - Group: 3 or more
4pt - Colony: Colony/Town/City/ 100+
8pt - Country: Country/Half-Planet/ Species
16pt - Planet: Entire Planet
32pt - Solar System: Solar System/Star/3 or more Planets
64pt - Galaxy: Entire Galaxy
128pt - Universal: Universe/All Existence
256pt - Multiversal: Multi-Verse/ All of Every Possible Existence
Now characters can also lose points or receive Faults if their actions negatively impact their motivations, allegiances, or character. The tier list is an exact mirror of the above. And if their actions affect the requirements in a negative light, then they will lose those respective points. Now for this to work every action needs to be expected to fail so that any success can be considered a Feat. So just losing a fight does not receive a fault since that was expected. But winning a fight would be a feat since you did something positive, remarkable, or affecting the story. Now if you were to have lost said fight embarrassingly, did not listen to advice, or did something stupid, then you would receive the fault.
Point Examples:
Now for anyone to achieve the point, they must do the action themselves. If someone hands a magic button to someone and says, “Push it!” The one who pushed the device would get the points, not the main character who told him to. Now there is an exception. Most villains only achieve Feats or Faults through subordinates. So for villains or special exceptions, we will count points for their lackeys, if we hear or see the main villain give them the order. Anyway, now for some point examples.
1pt - Personal:
For one point it is pretty self-explanatory. Some examples might be:
If a person wins a fight, A person learns a new skill, builds something needed, A person grows, or gets past a personal hang-up, they achieve a goal.
2pt - Group:
If someone saves a group of 3 or more people, someone takes out a guard and saves 2, blows up the car with 3 or more in it, or heals/patches up 3 or more people.
4pt - Colony:
If someone captures or takes out 100 + people, If they save the town or colony from a disaster, or steals the food of an entire town. (Now if someone is elected mayor of a town, that would be considered a personal Feat since it mainly affects our main character’s goal. Now his actions as Mayor might let him achieve a feat worthy of the Colony point but that would be up to them.)
The higher-up Feats are pretty self-explanatory and rarer to come by. If you do an action that directly affects, saves, or changes the amount listed they would receive the Feat or Fault.
Lastly, achieving a point does not reset the scene. If a main character is in a battle and takes out 3 people, and then another 3 people, he does not get 2 group points. We would keep counting the number of people he beat in the scene until he either reached 100 kills, in which he would receive the Colony Point, or he didn’t reach that number and would be stuck with the Group Point. It is easy to stay within a tier but it is hard to move up one. If the scene or location changes or if the battle was won and then reinforcements arrived, the point tally would be reset and they would be able to try again for the group point. That should be the end of the base rules of Feats N’ Faults! If there is a need for any future clarifications I will be sure to give it.
Fused/Combined Characters:
Some of you might be wondering how we score a character that is just an amalgamation of two or more characters? Does the point go to one or both of the characters? This is a topic that I have struggled with for a while but have come to a simple solution. When a character morphs with another, I will count them as their own entity. Some good examples of this would be Gogeta and Voltron. They are one entity made up of alternate parts. So, I will score them like that. When Goku and Vegeta merge I will stop scoring for both of them. Instead, I will score whatever they accomplish to Gogeta. Then when I am adding up totals, I will share what Gogeta scored. Then I will divide his total score by the number of entities that created him and divvy them up to those entities.
Example:
Let’s say we are following Paladins of Voltron. There are five members that come together to create one robot. Let’s say the Paladins each have a FN’F Score of 5. Then they come together and form Voltron. In that form they earn a FN’F score of 50. After points are tallied their totals would look like this.
Voltron: 50
Keith: 5 + 10 = 15
Pidge: 5 + 10 = 15
Shiro: 5 + 10 = 15
Lance: 5 + 10 = 15
Hunk: 5 + 10 = 15
Since there are five characters, we divide the points of Voltron and add them to his parts equally. This gives us another character to track while also increasing the score of the parts. This will lead to an interesting dynamic and see if any of the parts can score higher than the whole. Or might show that the parts alone are inferior, and it is the combined character that will make a statement in Feats N’ Faults.
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My goal for this Substack is just to preserve the results I find and share it with anyone who finds it as remotely interesting as I do. I will give brief reviews of shows and movies and talk about the characters while I show you the best Feats they have achieved and the funniest Faults that have occurred. I will post polls to talk about what IPs I should do next, Harry Potter, Bob’s Burgers, Scooby Doo, etc… The possibilities are endless. The fun thing is I will be keeping Top 10 Leaderboards for Heroes and Villains from each IP with a Top 20 Leaderboard for every character ever tracked combined. Finally, I will post who the best teams are for the IP. Whether that be the best starting lineup of the Avengers from the MCU, The Best Tardis Team, or even who would be the best group in Star Wars? I hope you are as intrigued as I was when I started doing this. So please share with anyone who you think might be as nerdy, neurotic, or crazy as us, and let’s see how our favorite characters and IPs stack up!
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