I guess the law of calamity is still impossible to overcome lol

Well anyways…

Angel Dust◊ (Safe, Male, from Hazbin Hotel)

Octavia◊ (Lime, Female, from Helluva Boss)

BOB THE BUILDER
CAN HE WIN THIS?
BOB THE BUILDER
YES HE CAN(?)

• Bob the Builder◊ (he/him; safe)
• After spinning a wheel to decide who the second Build the Bobder tribute would be, I landed on Lofty!◊ (he/him; safe)

Going to delve into some Kafka here :)

Gregor Samsa◊ (Source: The Metamorphosis; Male; seems Safe to me)

Josef K.◊ (Source: The Trial, based on the story by Franz Kafka; Male, Safe)

~J99908 Tang is actually 19 at the end of her game's 10-year cycle.

• Gobi◊
• Football Zombie◊

Both male and safe.

[1] Sorry about that, I'm promising to never rave and rant and rage ever again.

Now, let's get on with my tribs this season.

Now, here comes the first tribute. He is a rather shy boy, who is quite skilled in piloting his mighty robot. Unfortunately for him, his giant robot is in the repair shop needing to be fixed. A member of the Three Children, it's Shinji Ikari◊ (male, yellow)!

The second tribute is a guardian. Of what? Memes. Lots, and lots of memes. He is rather cool and relaxed, until you push him too far. Hailing as the fourth of the Meme Guardians, it's SMG4◊ (male, safe)!

~Troper No 9001

Fixed it.

Alexstrasza

Deathwing

Time for some tributes from the Kirby Light Novels..

Princess Marona◊ (Female, probably orange flagged, from Kirby (Light Novel))

Merengue XIII◊ (Male, Safe, from Kirby (Light Novel))

And since they're daughter and father, please don't have them shipped with each other.

Edited by Owen23 on May 4th 2024 at 2:50:01 PM

Team name: Anomaly Hunters Because they're from anomaly-hunting games

Unnamed Exit 8 dude◊ (Male/he/him, a middle-aged man with unknown age, The Exit 8)

Naoki◊ (Male/he/him, a young boy/red-orange, Shinkansen 0) It's the boy, can't find an online picture with only him though

Edited by LucasdaKool on May 4th 2024 at 12:07:17 PM

Garuda got a podium finish? Yay!

• Cycloid Beta◊(it/its, Street Fighter, safe)
• Cycloid Gamma◊(it/its, Street Fighter, safe)

It was a while ago at this point, but still, here's my late celebration of ULTRAKILL's Full Arsenal update, by way of two enemies who both got a glow-up in the new Brutal difficulty.

Demon Days

• Malicious Face◊ (sim nickname: Maurice) (it/its, nonsapient^note Despite its appearance as a humanoid head, the lore entries for Ultrakill demons explicitly state they are animalistic and lack sapience.)

• Cerberus◊ (it/its, nonsapient^note See above.)

Well it is Star Wars Day so...

• Cad Bane◊ (Male, safe, from Star Wars: The Clone Wars)

• Dark Helmet◊ (Male, safe, from Spaceballs)

x11 NGL, I thought you were also gonna nominate Star Wars tributes for May the 4th.

Wonder if Dooku'll interact with Dark Helmet, seeing as the latter's a parody of the guy who killed him in canon.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on May 4th 2024 at 11:49:39 AM

Nominate The Satellites again, but this(and last) time, I'll nominate them as the group, as well as a scientist who created them

The Satellites◊ ^note Top:Lilith, Pythagoras, York. Bottom:Shaka, Edison, Atlas.

Pronoun: Plural

Flag: Atlas is orange, the rest are safe

Source: One Piece

Vegapunk

Pronoun: Male

Flag: Elderly, 65

Source: One Piece

terrible item and a space probe

• Unrigged untextured blender brick◊
  • Source: item asylum
  • Pronouns: Neuter
  • Flag: Safe (inanimate)
• Nine◊
  • Source: 17776
  • Pronouns: They/Them
  • Flag: Safe?

God damn, 9th place. That’s a damn good run right there, even got a kill near the end. Proud of you Centro. A shame Zino died immediately, but eh, one sacrifice for a higher placement is a good exchange.

How about another Fossil Fighters team? Guess this is my gimmick now for a few more seasons.

Going Down Hissing

• Dunkle (Dunkleosteus)◊
  • or: Dunkle
  • Source: Fossil Fighters
  • Pronouns: it/its
  • Flag: Non-sapient animal

• Tophis (Gigantophis)◊
  • or: Tophis
  • Source: Fossil Fighters
  • Pronouns: it/its
  • Flag: Non-sapient animal

These two also share a gimmick: they have skills, Dunkle Down and Tophis Hiss, respectively (get it it’s like the team name) that normally deal no damage but have a 12% chance of being an instant KO move.

For next round, since I just reached 96 unique tributes and ran another All NTC season, I'm sending in the winner and Mass Murderer I got from it.

Monk-y Island

• Guybrush Threepwood◊ (death◊)
  • Nickname: Guybrush
  • Male
  • Safe
  • Source: Monkey Island
• The Monk◊ (death◊)
  • Epicene (they/them; gender open to interpretation)
  • Lime
  • Source: Rain World

Going to try and continue the theme from last season... umm... does everyone's favourite track and another Super Crown-ified character count?

Mario Circuit 3◊ (race track from Super Mario Kart, it/its, inanimate)

Waluigette◊^note Art by RetroRocketStudio on DeviantArt (Gender-swapped interpretation of a recurring Super Mario character, she/her, safe) ^note Yes, the original art not titled as Waluigette, but I made up a name for clarity

Beat◊ (Jet Set Radio, Male, yellow)

Gum◊ (Jet Set Radio, Female, yellow)

7th place... Well, that's still higher than anywhere within the last 5 previous seasons from my tributes.
Now, back to your regular schedule... wait, I have something specific for Season 324 (and a perfect shot of opportunity for the pun: It's a puzzle crossover time! (Sorry, I won't be doing same-series tributes until a little while.)

24 = Puyo. The 3 before it could represent a Match-Three Game, but Puyo Puyo is a match four, not three! And, Puyo Puyo had still more than half of games in the series being a Japan-exclusive thing, but guess what else also got forbid from being properly released out of Japan? Panel de Pon (also known as Puzzle League, though at one point it got a dolled-up installment named "Tetris Attack"... which not only had nothing to do with Tetris, it caused a backlash that said game cannot be re-released on virtual console, and what's more, Puyo Puyo also collaborated with Tetris and has not one, but two Puyo Puyo Tetris installments!

They dolled up the original installments there because they thought it was "too light-hearted and girly for the western audience"! At least that's during these days, and seems to be toned down a bit now, and both of them still have a dedicated western fanbase. Plus, Panel De Pon hardly have any representation and is much more obscure than Puyo Puyo since the former has only a few number of installments, that you can count them on your hands.
However, it's at least quite heartwarming that both in Japan and outside of it, the two series' fans get along with each another and even made cross-references with each another... that's also part of the reason for today's spotlights together at once!
Well, there is going to be a bit of doubt about how I would flag these, so it could be helpful to double-check, but... here they are!

Puyo De PanePon (Yes, it's a Portmanteau Title!)

First up: The mascot(s) of the upper-hand series Puyo Puyo itself:
Arle and Carbuncle◊ - which unlike the previous times they're nominated separately, this time they're as one tribute slot, much like how they are treated with one character slot in Puyo Puyo Tetris. Though, the art here is instead from Puyo Puyo Fever 2, which also depicted them as one character slot.
Pronouns: They/Them (due to being non-singular tribute), Flag: Yellow/Safe (We know Arle is 16, but back then someone nominated Carbuncle and flagged them as Safe)
Defeat◊: "Batankyu..." / "Oh no..."

And now, representing Panel de Pon:
Lip◊! Yes it's a fanart and stuff, but I am a bit glossing over on how well it looks and gives Lip a somewhat more realistic proportion compared to her typically Super-Deformed artwork styles.
Pronouns: She/Her, Flag: Yellow
EDIT: This is a Vague Age character so it's not as easy to flag her, but her profile description says she's a "young girl" which means no more than Yellow flag.
Originally was flagged Orange, but I changed the flag to Yellow after further thoughts and decision. Defeat: "How could I lose here!?"

Trivia:

• There are fan-arts of unofficial crossovers between Puyo Puyo and Panel De Pon, this is because of similarities between both video game series.
• Panel De Pon is published by Nintendo. The latest Puyo Puyo games are directly published by Sega. What a coincidence!
• While Lip has not been nominated alone prior to this season, the cast of Panel De Pon have been nominated as a single tribute in OG Season 239 by Mk_97
• Arle and Carbuncle has been both nominated in the previous seasons as separate tributes. This season will mark the first time they are specifically paired together as a single tribute.

Edited by JustNormalMusicLover on May 7th 2024 at 9:50:57 PM

x11 NGL, I thought you were also gonna nominate Star Wars tributes for May the 4th.

If I'd remembered, yeah, I probably would have XD It was early in my day when I saw things and I'd barely woken up, IIRC.

Since I put some of Steve's friends the past couple times, here's a couple of Hayley's friends. Apologies for the slightly confusing flagging since their ages aren't outright stated so I'm basing them on context from the show.

Danuta◊ (she/her, lime-safe?) (based on the fact she needed a fake ID in one episode I am guessing she is 19 or 20)

Nerfer◊ (she/her, also lime-safe since she seems to be about the same age as Danuta)

TEAM NAME: The Mega-Powers

Hulk Hogan◊

Randy Savage◊ NICKNAME: The Macho Man

Both male, safe professional wrestlers

Edited by MatthewLMayfield on May 4th 2024 at 5:10:04 AM

Garfield◊ (Male, safe? [he's sapient and adult, so...I don't know for sure, sorry])

Andrew Garfield◊ (Male, safe)