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Important Pages The Codex Wiki - Site FAQ - General Help Page- Tiering System - Civilization Tiering System - Rules for Codex Profiles - Common Editing Mistakes - Disclaimer - How to Handle Calculations - Universe - Multiverse - Omniverse - Projectile and Objects Feats - Dimensional Tiering Explanation - Common Terminology - Discussion Rules - Reference for Common Feats - Rules for Acceptable Profiles - Rules for Fanon Profiles - Misleading Titles - Mistranslations - Outside Wiki Standards - Statements - Verse Cosmology Categorizations - Fictional Universes
Terminology Alignment - Status - Protection Level - Threat Level - Cardinality - Grade - Dimensionality - Attack Potency - Durability - Speed - Reactions - Lifting Strength - Striking Strength - Range - Intelligence - Knowledge - Powers and Techniques - State of Being - Physiology - Equipment - No Limits Fallacy - Omnipotence - Cinematic Time - Canon - Crossover - How to Handle Canon - Multipliers - Environmental Destruction - Bloodlust - Overtime Feats - Chain Reactions -Outside Help - Space - The Kardashev Scale - Infinity - Power Source - Light Speed - Requirements for Speed of Light/Faster Than Light Speeds
Standards Transcendence - Creation vs Destruction - Outlier - Ludonarrative Dissonance - Inconsistency - Plot-Induced Stupidity - Reality - Fiction Interaction - Powerscaling - Black Hole - Wormhole - Stabilization Feats - Merging Feats - Embodying Feats - Data World Standards - Dream World Standards - Standard Battle Assumptions - One-Shot - Speed Blitz - Penetration Damage - Blunt Force Damage - Death of the Author - Versus Threads - Information Pages - Light Dodging Feats - Lightning Standards - Void Standards
Formats Standard Format for Character Profiles - Standard Format for Factions - Standard Format for Cosmic Forces - Standard Format for Events - Standard Format for Verse Pages - Standard Format for Locations Profiles - Standard Format for Weapon Profiles - Standard Format for Powers and Abilities - Standard Format for Civilization Profiles - Standard Format for Category Names - Standard Templates For Tabbers


Background

Here you can add info about the character. It is very important that you make sure that the text has good grammar and sentence structure, and is easy to understand.

Personality (Optional)

Discusses the personality of the character, though this is handled slightly differently then other wikis. The way personalities is expected to be written is through a simplified trait and then explaining the reasoning behind it through bullet points. As an example:

  • Highly Sociable: Bob talks to everyone, no matter who they are, always exuding confidence. Due to this he is one of the most popular people at work, always making sure to greet people with a cheery hello.
  • Serious: While being highly sociable, Bob is also very serious about his work, making sure to always get it done as early as possible, due to this he has multiple employee of the month trophies.

Normally personality should be more expansive and in-depth but this is just a basic rundown of how it should work. Some examples for personality traits can be found here.

General Information

Key: For characters who have transformation stages/power-ups or who become stronger through certain points of the story, insert those transformations/power-ups/timelines here in bold.

Name: The character's true name, and/or common name/epithets

Nicknames/Other Names: The character's nicknames or other names they're called by people

Origin: The name of the fiction which the character is from, with a link to the Verse page

First Appearance: For when a character first debut in a fictional work (Should note the name of the series and official chapter number, episode number, game, etcetera).

Latest Appearance: For when a character last appeared in a fictional work (If their latest appearance was in a non-canonical entry it should go latest canonical appearance first, then non-canonical appearance second).

Company: The company the character is owned by (Should be in left to right order where left is the original company that owns them and right being the current company that owns them, can also make it into a bullet point).

Creator: The original creator of the character, co-creators can be added too if wanted.

Actor: If the character is apart of vocal related media, note the actor that played them, all languages can be added if found, though more obscure ones should be linked with a source.

Gender: The gender of a character, this can vary depending on what a character personally identifies as and is not related to their birth sex, the three most known ones are Male, Female, & Nonbinary, however other types and identities can be found here (Should only be used if a character's gender differentiates from their birth sex, please also note that it needs to be the official canonical stated gender for the character and not something heavily theorized).

Sex: Biological sex of a character, this is essentially the sex decided at birth

Sexuality: Official sexuality of a character, the normally known ones are Heterosexual, Homosexual, Bisexual, Pansexual, and Asexual (If one wants to be more specific, they can find more information on different types of sexuality here)

Pronouns: Character's pronouns (Should realistically only be added to characters with a notable distinction, though anyone is allowed to get it)

Age: Character's age

Birthday: Character's official birthday (Do note this is only official canonical birthdays).

Homeworld: Character's original past and current homeworld (Mainly for sci-fi series).

Residence: Character's original past and current state and town they lived in (Must be an official statement from the show or author and not a guess based off how the area looks).

Story Role: The role the character plays in a story. Some normal examples are the Hero, Villain, Side Character, etcetera. It should be noted too for massive multi-media franchises, the story role for a character should be noted based off the specific part of the media they're in, and if one wants to they can note what role they'd play in the overall franchise (Some examples for story roles can be found here).

Classification: Character's various titles and personal identifications they classify as.

Species: Character's class.

State of Being: A characters state of being.

Physiology: A character's physiology, for example: if they're a human or human-looking they'd have Humanoid Physiology. If they're a bird, they would have Avian Physiology. If their a Slime person they'd have Slime Physiology. If they're Rock person or one that's inorganic, they'd have Inorganic Physiology.

In-Universe Creator: For characters that were directly created by someone in universe, this can be mechanics or a God figure (Mainly for mechanical based characters, but characters with an official canonical God can be added to this too).

Occupation: Character's occupation.

Ranking: A character's official ranking for a position they are in a series that isn't directly a job or occupation (This can be used to replace occupation though they can also exist together).

Affiliations: A group that a character is affiliated too (Can link to a faction profile if one is made for the faction they're affiliated with).

Enemies: An enemy or enemy group that the character constantly fights against (Can link to a faction profile if one is made for the faction they're enemies with).

Height: The height of a character (Only if a character's official height is listed).

Weight: The weight of a character (Only if a character's official weight is listed).

Status: The existing status of the character (Alive, Dead, Other, Unknown).

Date of Death: For Deceased characters that have an official death date, if there is none then the Chapter, Episode, Game, etcetera should be listed with information.

Alignment: Characters who fall under a specific alignment written here.

Protection Level: Characters protection levels (Mainly applies to heroes and some villains).

Threat Level: Characters threat levels (Mainly applies to villains and some heroes).

Codex Statistics

Key: For characters who have transformation stages/power-ups or who become stronger through certain points of the story, insert those transformations/power-ups/timelines here in bold.

Key Information: For characters that require more information on what's being described for each key, mainly for RPG based characters to explain what constitues as an "early game", "mid game" and "late game" for them along with a rough approximation of what levels they'd be for each section, you can find some examples on, these, RPG, profiles.

Grade: The grade of the character (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold).

Tier: Current Tier of the character (in bold).

Cardinality: The cardinality level the character is on. For characters with attacks or weapons that are a higher tier, these should be elaborated on as it's the characters own energy for this (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold).

Dimensionality: The spatial and temporal dimensions the character resides on or encompasses. For characters that encompass temporal dimensions, their dimensionality should be expressed as (spatial dimensions + temporal dimensions)-D. (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold).

Attack Potency: The character's attack power or destructive capacity (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold).

Durability: The amount of attack power the character can withstand before being overwhelmed (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold)..

Striking Strength: The attack power of the character's physical attacks/blows (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold)..

Lifting Strength: The weight the character can lift/move, usually expressed in tons. However it is optional since lifting strength generally doesn't matter in most fights (in bold).

Travel Speed: How fast the character can move (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold).

Attack Speed: How fast the character goes in combat (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold).

Reaction Speed: How fast the character can react (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold).

Stamina: The stamina a character has (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold).

Range: The distance the character's attacks/abilities can cover (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold).

Intelligence: The level of intelligence a character has, while normally their intelligence applies to all forms of subjects, there's many cases in fiction where this isn't the case, in these cases they can have their intelligence split into the following (in bold; add any explanations using brackets, not in bold):

Intelligence based off one's years of experience, accomplishments they've made and overall statements in regards to their intelligence.

Sometimes referred too as "street smarts", this type of intelligence is how one uses their social interactions in day to day society to their advantage. Usually characters with extremely good charisma are good examples of a socially intelligent character.

Intelligence based off scientific achievements they've made.

Mainly relevant for characters in strategy based, the intelligence of one's strategies. This can apply to combat, board games, gaming, or how they apply their strategies to general life activities.

Similar to strategic intelligence, though this mainly focuses on their combat prowess.

Different types of intelligence levels that don't apply to the previous tabbers can be made their own unique ones. Some other forms of intelligence are explained on the Intelligence page.

Knowledge: The level of acquired knowledge one has, unlike intelligence which is capacity to learn, knowledge is how much the character knows overall. These are some of the following categories knowledge can be split into as it's an all-encompassing subject:

Knowledge based off one's years of experience, accomplishments they've made and overall amount of acquired knowledge.

Sometimes referred too as "street smarts", this type of knowledge is how one has acquired knowledge from social interactions. Usually characters with extremely good charisma are good examples of a socially knowledgeable character.

Knowledge based off scientific information they've acquired and learned.

Mainly relevant for characters in strategy based, this showcases how much knowledge they've acquired from strategic based training. This can apply to combat, board games, gaming, or how they apply their strategies to general life activities.

Similar to strategic intelligence, though this mainly focuses on their combat prowess.

Different types of knowledge that don't apply to the previous tabbers can be made their own unique ones. Knowledge is extremely vast so it can apply to almost anyhting.


Powers and Techniques

A list of the character's general abilities (Please add links to the "Powers and Abilities" pages, if it is possible).


Equipment

This is in regards to the type of equipment a character carries. There's varying levels of equipment which give the following:

Equipment the character usually carries on their person.

Equipment the character normally uses, this and on hand should realistically only be separated in cases where one has equipment they normally use not on their person.

Equipment that the character never really uses and isn't something they're able to use normally.

Equipment that a character can use or has used that can only be used once.

Equipment the character no longer has.


Notable Techniques

A list of some abilities the character generally uses.


Other

Standard Tactics: The usual behavior exhibited by a character during battles. For example, which actions a character will first perform when fighting an unknown opponent or which abilities they will use frequently, rarely, or never. If the character's behavior is too inconsistent to identify, they fall under "wildcard".

Weaknesses: Characters weaknesses, this can apply to in-universe only weaknesses, character flaws, or technical unconventional weaknesses of their abilities the verse never really explores or notes.

Note: Extra things to note that aren't already listed on the profile through references or the explanations section.

Explanations

This section can be used to explain the reasons for the assigned power level of a certain character more in-depth, as well as how the powers and nature of the character fundamentally work. This is particularly useful for more high-tiered characters.

Miscellaneous Feats

As there are many different kinds of feats within fiction, only the relevant feats should be noted in Attack Potency, Durability, Speed, Lifting Strength, Striking Strength, etcetera. In this section a collection of overall feats the character manages should be listed, this gives further indexing for the impressive array of things a character has done. It should also be noted that any category is fine. Showing off a characters natural skills, such as cooking, acrobatics, intelligence, etcetera that's not a direct relevant feat on the statistics area above can also be listed here. It should look like the following (Note that this is just an example and you only need the relevant categories for the character in question, along with this you can add your own tabber for a category not listed here):

Trivia

An optional addition where you can add numerous facts about a character.

Gallery

Put other pictures of the character here.

Battle Records

Put the character's official canon fights here.

It should be written in the following way

  • [[Character's Name in bold]] - [A link to the fight in question]
    • Conditions: Conditions and context the character had or the opponent had.
    • Location: The location of the fight.
    • Note: Any extra context that needs to be added about the fight in question, normally a note saying if the character was holding back, if they would have realistically won, etcetera.

Plot important fights the character has won.

Other fights the character has won.

Plot important fights the character has lost.

Other fights the character has lost.

Plot important fights the character has had a draw in.

Other fights the character has had a draw in.

For really rare cases where there is no confirmed note for who won, lost, or if there was a draw for a fight. These are normally for fights that have no canon mention of what happened and who won.

References

Any feats listed that gives a quote from a novel or episode/manga chapter number should go in this section with a "<References/> or "{{scroll box|content={{reflist|2}}}}

Categories

For character profiles, always insert the category "Characters", as well as one with the name of the related franchise here.

You should also always add the tier for the character. These go from "Tier 11" to "Tier 0", and also include "Unknown Tier".

For example, the most important categories in Son Goku's page are "Characters", "Dragon Ball", and "Tier 6".

Other Standard Formats

Template

Here is a more clean format so you do not need to delete all of the explanations:

This dropdown contains a clean version of the standard format.

Background

Personality

General Information

Key:

Name:

Nicknames/Other Names:

Origin:

First Appearance:

Latest Appearance:

Company:

Creator:

Actor:

Gender:

Sex:

Sexuality:

Pronouns:

Age:

Birthday:

Homeworld:

Residence:

Story Role:

Classification:

Species:

State of Being:

Physiology:

In-Universe Creator:

Occupation:

Ranking:

Affiliations:

Enemies:

Height:

Weight:

Status:

Date of Death:

Alignment:

Protection Level:

Threat Level:

Codex Statistics

Key:

Key Information

Grade:

Tier:

Cardinality:

Dimensionality:

Attack Potency:

Durability:

Striking Strength:

Lifting Strength:

Travel Speed:

Attack Speed:

Reaction Speed:

Stamina:

Range:

Intelligence:

Knowledge:


Powers and Techniques


Equipment


Notable Techniques


Other

Standard Tactics:

Weaknesses:

Explanations

Miscellaneous Feats

Trivia

Gallery

Battle Records

None.

None.

None.

References

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