Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5035900-20151009050428/@comment-5035900-20151012020344

I feel like I should at least attempt to better describe my issue and what I'm suggestion, so here I go:

We all know a character losing a Death Battle, be it the real thing or a fanon one, does not in any way degrade or devalue the character in question. They lost a match, big whoop; even the most powerful characters in fiction have someone who'd outclass them, so why is it a big deal?

We all probably have a character or two whom we like that isn't particularly well-treated by others, such as the case with DmC's Dante. Just because others claim they're bad or awful doesn't make it so; really, everyone's free to interpret something in their own way and really, can't everyone just agree to respectfully disagree and not state it as fact?

So when I see match-ups whose purpose is to "determine who is worse" and where an unpopular version of a character (ex. Evolution's Goku) is pit against someone to see if they're "weak enough" to be defeated, there's just something about that intent which just brings out a really negative feeling. We had it bad enough with the Animatronics, where it seemed every match-up was set just to drop them down to bottom tier and beyond... and just the idea of another character being treated the same way is something I do not want to see.

But for me personally, it goes against everything this Wiki stands for. That's why I'm so strongly against these match-ups, these characters being pages, and just the idea of seeing a character intentionally dragged to the bottom out of dislike.