User blog:Bowserdude/Death Battle Wiki Terminology

If you're new to the Wiki, or you can't get your head around some of the words and phrases we use, I've made this glossary to help you out! If you have any suggestions for other phrases, tell me, and I'll just put them in.

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Stomp: A battle that is incredibly unfair for one side. Can also have prefixes like curb- or rofl-. EX: Superman VS Goomba is an incredible stomp for Superman.

inb4: "In before". Usually used to prevent people from mentioning common or well-known statements, mostly because of how obvious they are.

^: Referring to the post or comment above yours. More than one means a comment that many replies above. EX: ^^^ means you would look three comments above to see what the user is referring to.

Wank: To blow a character's abilities way out of proportion from what they actually are.

Downplay: To make a character's abilities seem like they are much less than they actually are.

Outlier: A feat that a character only did once, or never did something on a similar scale ever again.

Plot Armor: A type of outlier where a character survives something they shouldn't have been able to, simply for the sake of the story.

Plot Stupidity: A type of outlier where a character has a failure or is given a weakness simply for the sake of the story.