The characters often refer to themselves as being a group of weirdos; So i decided to rank them based on what you’d probably think after interacting with them for an hour

A lot of people get horror game subgenres wrong, especially when it comes to the term Survival horror. They either care too much and get offended if a game they like isn't survival, or they lump 70% of horror games under the title because they don't care. This list will explain what each subgenre is, and ranking 175 games under them. This isn't about quality, it's just gameplay. Also, not everything will fit neatly into every category definition, it’s just what the main idea of the game is. 

Survival horror: The term was created by Capcom to describe Resident evil 1, and that's how it should play. Combat balance is an even playing field, meaning every 1 v 1 encounter is a real battle. Ammo and inventory are limited, and you must solve weird puzzles to progress around the map. It’s one of the most strict categories, so it’s ironic it became a term to describe every game where you try not to die. 

Action horror: These games not only encourage you to kill enemies, but you are expected to. Combat balance is in your favor, allowing you to kill groups of enemies at once. Enemies drop loot like ammo or gold for a store. You often get superpowers, or unique combat mechanics like parry, dodge, or dash. This is the most broad category, and a lot of people don’t think they qualify as horror games. 

Stealth horror: The main gameplay is sneaking around, hiding, and potentially running away. Combat balance is in the enemies' favor, and you have no weapons to defend yourself. The best you get is a stun. 

Puzzle: The main gameplay is solving puzzles. More than what Survival horror does, this is the main event. Even surviving enemies are essentially puzzles. 

Online multiplayer: You play with and or against other human beings as the main gameplay gimmick. 

Interactive narrative: The gameplay is secondary to the story they want to tell. The mechanics can change depending on what is needed, and aren't really what fans remember it for.

Open world: Horror games where you are allowed to go around a large map, doing side quests and exploring. 

Platformer: The main gameplay is platforming, like in Mario, Sonic or Hat in time.

RPG: Classic rpg type game in a horror setting

Reverse horror: YOU are the monster, hunting down people.

Horde shooters: You and friends kill waves of enemies.

Hybrid: A game which has two or more of the main 3 genres, survival, action and or stealth.
Walking simulators: The main gameplay is walking around. You escape enemies, if there even are any, by walking away.

On rail: You shoot while the game controls the camera.

Maze: You are in a maze like pac man, being chased by monsters.

Hack and Slash. Use combos to mow through crowds of enemies!

Also i said, obviously not every game will fit neatly into every category. And games can have levels that change up the genre. This is just a way to show what games are similar, so you can recommend them to others.Link if you want it more zoomed in: https://imgur.com/gallerygenres-5E2JccS

Samus from Metroid

Wario from Mariokart

Solid Snake from Super Smash Brothers (Originally from Metal Gear)

Pyramidhead from Dead by Daylight (originally from Silent Hill)

A lot of people get horror game subgenres wrong, especially when it comes to the term Survival horror. They either care too much and get offended if a game they like isn't survival, or they lump 70% of horror games under the title because they don't care. This list will explain what each subgenre is, and ranking 150 games I have played under them. This isn't about quality, it's just gameplay.

Survival horror: The term was created by Capcom to describe Resident evil 1, and that's how it should play. Combat balance is an even playing field, meaning every 1 v 1 encounter is a real battle. Ammo and inventory are limited, and you must solve weird puzzles to progress. I originally had a different category for games that try to be survival horror but give too much items, but eh whateves

Action horror: These games not only encourage you to kill enemies, but you are expected to. Combat balance is in your favor, allowing you to kill groups of enemies at once. Enemies drop loot like ammo or gold for a store. You often get superpowers, or unique combat mechanics like parry, dodge, or dash.

Stealth horror: The main gameplay is sneaking around, hiding, and potentially running away. Combat balance is in the enemies' favor, and you have no weapons to defend yourself.

Puzzle: The main gameplay is solving puzzles. More than what Survival horror does, this is the main event. Even surviving enemies are essentially puzzles.

Online: You play with and or against other human beings.

Platformer: The main gameplay is platforming, Like in Mario, Sonic or Hat in time.

Open world: Horror games where you are allowed to go around a large map, doing side quests and exploring.

Reverse horror: YOU are the monster, hunting down people.

Horde shooters: You and friends kill waves of enemies.

Interactive narrative: The gameplay is secondary to the story they want to tell. The mechanics can change depending on what is needed, and aren't really what fans remember it for.

Hybrid: A game which two or more of the main 3 genres, survival, action and or stealth.

Walking simulators: The main gameplay is walking around. You escape enemies, if there even are any, by walking away.

RPG: Classic rpg type game in a horror setting

On rail: You shoot while the game controls the camera.

Maze: You are in a maze like pac man, being chased by monsters.

Hack and Slash. Use combos to mow throw crowds of enemies!

Obviously, not every game will fit neatly into every category. And games can have levels that change up the genre. This is just a way to show what games are similar, so you can recommend them to others.

I don’t see where on the map these drawings apply to, do what they give me

Other-

Shock street as the kid shut down, because they are secretly a robot

Lost legend has them alive, but permanently lost

Graveyard ghouls has the two kids in the wrong bodies.

Giant everything has the boy stuck small

Shudder mansion and Say my name are timeloops

Like, it’s deeper than just not being interested in the lore. A significant amount of people that use re servers actively hate people saying canon information, and deny it is canon. Like when I explain Ethan doesn’t have regeneration, they stomp their feet. ( he can reattach limbs, but not regrow anything. He also needs something to seal the wound)

(I was talking about how Tyrants uniforms not only help them blend in, but also prevent them from turning into the super forms. You can read the wiki page about it if you want lol)

The first health bar is for the roller coaster you break, second is his actual HP. Sure Susie’s health was boosted when we fought her as a boss, but even half his health is 500

Does that mean Berdly likes to play tank when he games? (Based btw)

Let me tell you how much I HATE this piece of wood.

Appearances

So Goosebumps is an anthology series, with let’s say 200 different books. My favorite series, The Haunted Mask, has 4 books. Monster Blood has 6 books. Slappy is the main antagonist or is apart of 40 books! Almost a quarter of all Goosebumps books has this doucebag play a role. Almost every video game has him be the main antagonist too, and I hate it. Terror in Little Creek is the best Goosebumps game of all time, and he thankful is nothing more than a dlc costume. The plot of the first Goosebumps movie is that all the monsters are escaping their books. It’s unfortunate but acceptable he is the main antagonist, given he’s the most used character. But the sequel decided they should cut all the other monsters and have him be the only threat. And the movie stunk so bad, they never made a part 3. Thanks Slappy for sucking so much

His stories

Every time he is the main villain, it’s always the same copy and paste bull crap. He says elementary school level at adults, who all treat this like it’s an unforgivable sin. The main character silently lets the dummy talk rather than throw it so everyone can see they aren’t doing it, and they get grounded. Sometimes he literally reuses the same jokes and insults. “Im not a dummy, dummy!” The main characters always do the same dumb decisions and keep using the dummy for acts, despite it literally talking on its own. It’s so boring and repetitive. He narrates his own sub series of books, and it’s like 10 minutes of him just complimenting himself. Slappy also has like 5 different origins because he’s so lame, no one cared to remember the precise ones.

Threat

He is not scary or a real threat. In the original series, he had NO POWERS. He can vomit tree sap, but he has nothing else and can be killed easily. The main characters still cower and don’t just destroy him. Later books gave him supernatural powers to justify his return, but it’s always dumb one off things he never uses again. It just feels like a sad attempt to make this uncreative character have more stories, and it doesn’t work. Also, I counted how many fights he has been in throughout the books. He gets into fist fights with 20 different children, and he loses 19 of them. THIS SCARY MAIN ANTAGONIST HAS A 1/19/0 RECORD AGAINST ACTUAL LITTLE GIRLS. He also fought and lost against 2 separate dummies too, so even in his own weight class he is a loser. How am i supposed to be scared of someone who I can bodyslam into oblivion? Disney once had a stage play, where Slappy interrupts Amazo’s play along side Cuddles and the Mummy. It all ends when LORD HIGH EXECUTIONER rolls up, sick of Slappy’s nonsense. Despite having a giant hamster and magic mummy on his side, Slappy runs for his life from a normal human with an axe. The Executioner isn’t alone however, because he called in my GOAT Haunted Mask in as back up. Upon seeing this little girl in a mask, he says it’s “the scariest monster he’s ever seen!” And runs away screaming. Terms like bum and fraud were meant for characters like him.

Pedophilia

Slappy is a confirmed pedophile. The Bride of the Living dummy book follows 12 year old Jillian. She originally thinks he is after her 9 year old twin sisters’s doll, but the final twist is that he is in love with her. When he gets destroyed, his spirit takes over Jillian’s body and starts to torment her little sisters for fun. Words cannot describe how much i hate this ending. A grown adult is given full access and control to a little girl he is romantically in love with. He’s going to have to shower and use the bathroom as her, so you can’t even argue he doesn’t have sexual intentions. It’s gross and violating regardless. This is the only direct mention of his attraction to children, but plenty of his future actions are very suspect because of this previously established trait. In Ghost of Slappy, the ghost of a little girl saves Slappy’s life from the MC (ghosts need to do a good deed to go to heaven in the Goosebumps universe, and the mc has repeatedly refused to her pass on). Slappy comments on how lovely she was, and says “I wish i could have gotten to know her better, hahaha!” Why did you laugh Slappy? How am i supposed to interpret your comment in anyway but a perverted innuendo. The worst example is probably from Diary of a dummy. The 12 year old boy MC, his 9 year old sister and her 9 year old best friend go through Slappy’s diary to look for weaknesses. One of his journal entries is a fictional story he wrote about Jillian, making her embarrass herself on stage while turning her brain on and off. I can only assume this is a hypno/public shame kink thing, which he wrote about the child he is confirmed attracted to. The book ends with him finding a spell book, specifically so he can gain mind control powers. He makes the MC act like a butler. The two 9 year old girls he makes wrap around his arms, saying how they are eager to serve him. Just…. Why?

The pure vitrol i have for this character is unbound. I wish Stine stopped after the second book, they are all garbage afterwards. Now… I want you to take a guess what the newest Goosebumps book next March is about. 3 guess. Thats right; SLAPPY THE FREAKING DUMMY

To recap: Aqua wants to have fun and play with everyone. Seth says she can’t play with enemies, and has to pick a side. Seth panics as Aqua starts to think about it, and lets them go before she can decide. Who do you think she would have picked?

Fun gang

-Has more people, so more friends

-Are new

-Are the most fun and willing to play with her

-Aren’t forcing her to choose one side

Seth

-Aqua generally follows what they say, seemingly out of love/friendship rather than seeing Seth as an authority

-When Aqua heard Seth crying, she immediately ran into the room to comfort them.

-When Seth gets hurt in battle, Aqua checks to see if they are okay. By contrast, she will kill Kris without hesitation

-Seth is probably the flower most dedicated to stopping the Fun gang. They have us trapped in a cage, ensuring Asgore will forever be with them. But the idea of Aqua not picking them upsets Seth enough to let us out. Basically betraying Asgore and Flowery to prevent Aqua from leaving. I know relationships can be one sided, but it does suggest the two are pretty close

What do you guys ultimately think? I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Aqua picks the Fun gang for the immediate fun and satisfaction; Then when she gets bored she says “okay I am done. Lets go Seth. Seth?” Then getting upset they aren’t there

To explain the depends:

If Ethan’s mold status doesn’t give him immunity to the Green flu

If he has a flashlight

If he gets the Camera obscura

I am just not sure if he’d win

Depends on what you consider winning

If he has the glowing rock

When the Muppets Christmas carol showed a future where Kermit was never born, the twin towers were still up. (This is because they filmed those scenes first)

Garfield. Idk what the punchline is so I guess he actually did it

Edit: It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, not Christmas carol

1. The Body is able to put the mind to sleep temporarily

2. Maddie was so distracted by the sun, she didn’t pay attention/care about the whispers her body was making. Only noticing when she started to shake

3. Something else?

Abigail pretends to be a crime drama

Doki Doki literature club and Miside pretend to be dating sims

Duck season pretends to be a arcade shooter