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Freezer
Since: Jan, 2001
28th Jan, 2012 11:29:58 AM
Badass Decay? Overshadowed by Awesome? Demoted to Extra?
Edited by Freezer My name is Freezer and my anti-drug is porn.
I'm hesitant to make a YKTTW about this, because I know it probably already exists. In a medium, there can only be a certain amount of cool characters at once. If the number exceeds the limit (usually two or three), the (previous) characters will become less cool. An example of this in action would be in the Mega Man X series. X was completely cool in most of X, Maverick Hunter X, and X2, where Zero wasn't in most of the picture, but once he became a playable character in X3, X largely lost his coolness and with the introduction of Axl hit an all time low of uncool, being a really pronounced whiny pacifist.
Essentially, there can only be a set number of cool characters without any of them losing said cool. Something like "Conservation of Badass"?