Results are in! Remember that if a character was voted in the #1 slot, they earn 5 points, #2 gets 4 points, and so on. This means the ‘most’ iconic in the poll is weighed more heavily.
From reviewing the results, the winner is unsurprising. What surprised me most is how many characters were voted, as there were 74 characters that you all thought were in the top 5 of most iconic characters. Neat stuff.
I did pull out rule-breaking votes, but did not toss out full ballots unless they were all against the rules. Vanilla characters (looking at you, Wolt) were also pulled.
With a sample size of only 85ish ballots, there’s some bias and clear outliers (and plenty of characters with only a single vote, 39/74 characters listed were only voted once in any slot), but I think this paints a picture of some of the community’s best known work.
Here are the Top 20 most iconic hackrom characters, as voted by you! There’s a 4 way tie for 20th.
| Game | Character | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|
| The Last Promise | Kelik | 310 |
| The Last Promise | Siegfried | 108 |
| The Last Promise | Anakin | 49 |
| Vision Quest | Honeydew | 33 |
| Void’s Blitzarre Adventure | Void | 31 |
| Order of the Crimson Arm | Boleslav | 31 |
| The Last Promise | Shon | 30 |
| Midnight Sun | Faratrass | 27 |
| Staff of Ages | Belle | 23 |
| Vision Quest | Storch | 22 |
| The Road to Ruin | Vance | 20 |
| Dream of Five | Garath | 17 |
| Bloodlines | Dewey | 15 |
| Vision Quest | Kitozawa | 14 |
| Vision Quest | Lera | 13 |
| Vision Quest | Titus | 13 |
| The Heroes We Deserve | Chester | 13 |
| Bloodlines | Bram | 10 |
| Justice & Pride | Luigi | 10 |
| Sun God’s Wrath | Mikey | 9 |
| The Road to Ruin | Captain | 9 |
| The Last Promise | Kevin | 9 |
| Dream of Five | Renair | 9 |
As promised, you can view the full results here.
Curious to see how this will change in 2021. Thanks again for voting.