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Khuutra on 06 September 2010
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Carl2291 said:
Khuutra said:

THis is about video games, not other forms of media. If we get into other forms of media, I can get into a number of literary figures who are considerably more iconic villains than Darth Vader is.

You base your statement about Bowser on... what?

Darth Vader has appeared in plenty of Video Games so... Yeah.

On opinion. Just like it also is for you.

But he's not iconic as a video game villain, which was the entire point. He's a movie villain, even in video games. I mean, you realize some video games have had God as the final boss, yeah?

And no, mine isn't based solely on opinion; subjective opinion on iconography is less than useless, it's actively deceitful because thee's no way for iconography to be meaningfully measured subjectively. One of the best ways to determine iconograpy is through recognizability, and without a meaningful level of study the only real way to extrapolate that is via

Wait for it

Waaaaait for it

Waaaaaaait for it

Sales.

Which meanns of course that the Goomba gets as much rrecognition as Bowser (or more), but that doesn't make it an iconographic villain, just an iconographic enemy.