Some ideas for rankings: -all the books from one specific author -all the books you‘ve got from subscribers -all the characters with a specific characteristic (all characters who have the same name/all the villans/etc.) -how well is a trope done in a specific book (f.e. the chosen one - what book does it well, what doesn‘t) Hope there‘s something for you in it ;) Thanks for you great content! PS: I‘ve just posted more ideas in my own comments

I'm a simple girl. I see Percy Jackson on the thumbnail... I click!

Well, Voldemort might be idiotic and not as frightening as one wishes, BUT I actually really like his backstory, so I would'nt put him on worthles

I understand not loving Grover in the first few books, but hoooo boy does he get character development in book 4. Plus, he's just such a sweet character. Not my absolute favourite character, but he's up there for me at least.

The top tier should have been "Uncle Iroh" tier.

Merphy: The Order of the Phoenix is an accurate representation of grief. Also Merphy: Sazed drove me nuts because of all his grieving.

I love Percy Jackson, but alive never loved Grover. He's not terrible but he just kinda exists

I was so happy when i saw the percy Jackson book 😍

Have you read the Tao of Pooh? It introduces basic Taoist principles using the idea that Winnie the Pooh is the ultimate Taoist. I think it’s done really well.

Grover grows the most of any character in the whole series, you can't fairly judge him on the first two

More of these please! They are a great way to quickly learn your tastes and preferences! Maybe rank the HP books, cosmere books, characters from a series, book covers, movies etc!

I love how you mix children classics with the long fantasy series. Pooh and Locke in the same tier is quite funny, yet I 100% agree

How bout Harry Potter side character tier ranking? Today's was fun

imagine ranking all 235 goosebumps books...230 books: fine lmao

Hi, I recently subscribed to your youtube channel, and I have to say, I'm a huge fan. I was recently bingewatching your H/P playlist and came across your "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Doesn't Make Sense?" video. I just wanted to say that nobody ever points out that, once Harry and Ron confirm that the entrance is in the bathroom, and that Lockhart is no help, why didn't they just go to Dumbledore or any other professor? why did they decide to take lockhart down into the chamber themselves ? I realize you"ll probably never read this, but I just wanted to vent.

You might not read a lot of YA but honestly this video with YA characters would be hilarious

Not watched yet but I’m going to stick my neck out and say Locke is top tier!!

Would love to see more of these videos, loved this. Also a video showing us every book on your bookshelf that you haven’t read would also be pretty interesting!!

This is fun! I’m glad you have some options that are lower pressure to play with between your video essays haha

Can someone explain this to this poor european soul who doesn’t understand this type of tiering: why is the best tier in red and the worst in green??? Is this a cultural thing or a private joke or something? I don’t get it 😥

Glad you're jumping on the Tierlist bandwagon. They are such fun videos that spark good discussions. My only feedback is to maybe find character art/photos of the actors you are speaking about as my severe ADD sometimes forgot which character you were discussing since it was just the cover. Still super fun!

Dunno if he's on the list because I haven't finished the video but...Fitzchivalry from the Farseer books by Robin Hobb is Untouchable level. He's by far the most fully realized character I've ever read.

“Why don’t I have a Good tier?” Processes to not make another tier.

Hey nice video! I personally LOVE those characters who are just BASTARDS, literally. Locke, Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot,Dupin,Katniss etc. Locke is such a mad man,I love it. Holmes and Poirot are detestable creeps full of arrogance and over confidence. Katniss, entrapped in horrible love triangle (but still....I live her) and many more examples of characters who are witty, intelligent yet so messed up. Characters striking perfect balance between genius and stupid are the best, intelligent characters are best to read when they are flawed.

What?! Glokta. Is. UNTOUCHABLE!!!

Hey merphy you have recommended Lies of locke lamora sooo many times but when you compared it to Six of crows I HAD to pick it up and now I LOVE The book I was wondering if you have done a spoiler filled review about it where you can talk about every scene with friendship heartbreak you get it so if you haven’t please think about doing it sometime in the future 😊😊

Your Tier Ranking video is probably my favorite out of all the Tier Ranking videos because of how eloquently you explained why you chose your ranking. Also, TenSoon is also my favorite out of all the Mistborn characters! Vin and TenSoon’s dialogues saved ‘The Well of Ascension for me. I’m glad to have found another reader who loves TenSoon!

Fun video! I want to see more of these. You could make one for Main Characters and Love Interests. I loved your Untouchable tier and I'd rank them the same way.

Fun video! Look forward to more like this! Keep up the great work!

I noticed a lot of new white books in ur shelves...and I'm burning with curiosity for some reason...

I have a good idea for a ranking video! Rank all the movie / tv show adaptations you have seen based on some of your favorite book series you've read! It's kind of an obscure topic but id be very interested to see how you feel about adaptations.

I so agree with you on Fanny. It was one of the first protagonists I could identify with as someone who grew up extremely shy.

Classics ranking, Sanderson characters, Harry Potter Characters, Harry Potter spells, candy, plot devices, potions,etc. Best and worst covers (video dedicated to each).

Omgosh did my winnie the pooh suggestion get in? I was literally after I submitted thinking it wasn't really from a tradtional series of books heeheh but I love this video, lovely ranking as always and your content is super awesome too c: Have a nice day Merphy and family, stay safe

Fanny Price is my favorite Austen heroine for the exact reasons that you stated.

Yayy! New Merphy video 🙌🏽

I definitely relate to both loving and hating Kvothe at times, he can be a super frustrating character! Locke & Jean are amazing, I'm glad you but them in top tier 👍 Samwise is definitely untouchable! I was also a little annoyed with Sazed near the end and would probably put him in great or fine, TenSoon is amazing! I'm on book 4 of WoT right now, and Loial is so precious 😂

Great video. Yay I am second! Lol I love the Get out and worthless tier 😂. Can you do a tier ranking for fantasy series or a ranking of Mistborn characters?( Btw are you gonna read the alloy of law set in the mistborn world?)

Merphy, I love your videos so much, you always inspire me to read and help me reconnect with my love of reading (that I lost a little in the past years). But I just have to comment on one thing about Austen (even probably noone will read this) - because it bugged me in your last video as well. I agree with what you say about Fanny, but... no, not most Austen heroines are fierce. I'm not just saying that "they are all unique and different" (although they are), but if I had to put the six main protagonist of her six novels in one of the shy or fierce boxes... I would probably put more in the shy one. Yes, it would be an oversimplification, but I feel like because Elizabeth Bennet and Emma are the most well known (and the adaptations tend to make their sassy nature more provoking than it is in the books - which is not a bad choice for that medium, I'm just saying they can be more subtle in the novels), people can think all of her heroines are loud rebels - which they are not. On that note I would recommend Emma to you very much, based on what I know about you, I think you would really love it!

Hi, I just wanted to tell you how much I enjoy your videos and how amazing I think you are. Looking forward for more videos like this!! love you :)

Merphy you are delightful to look at and listen to

How can you not love William freaking Herondale?! 😂

Hahaha I love “worthless” and “get out”😂

I would KILL to see you do a teir list for all the characters in the whole Mistborn series!!

I thought this was a list of ranking Harry Potter-characters' power levels. Please do power-level lists of that, it would be hillarious :D

Would love to see you do a fantasy series tier ranking video 😍

I'm just here to like this before I need to leave. I'll watch this later. Those are AMAZING tiers though. I also expected Gentlemen Bastards(I hope I am not missing some little tic in language that makes that wrong) to be there once I saw the tiers. There is no end to the praise on this channel. I'll probably pick it up soon, now that I think of it.

This is such a fun idea!!

Peeta (and Finnick!) are my favorite chars from the Hunger Games series 💖😁

I had to pick up my jaw from the floor when you shaded Voldemort like that 😮

I haven't finished Wheel of time yet but agree with you about Loial. I felt a connection to his character instantly.

Hey Merphy, I really enjoyed the video. I feel like the it'd be better if in the future maybe use pictures of the characters ( illustrations or actors) so we can better review the ranking later on

Would love you to rank the wheel of time characters once you finish the series!

good video! it'll be great if you ranked all of the fantasy books you've read

I loved winie the pooh as a little kid it was literally the only thing that got my twin brother and I to shut up. I tried to read the books in like year one but I was 5 so..now that you talked about it I can't help but go read it.

Great tier list suggestion- Which fantasy character is most likely to win a rap battle.

I LOVE PEETA!!!

Have you read Discworld? I think you would love the various characters and their sub series!

Hope this is the first tier list of many.

some of these hurt, not gonna lie... tier ranking magic systems or fantasy worlds would be fun. also i saw lala doing a tier ranking of books with food on the cover, and honestly this was the most fun. it would be cool to see you do something silly!

"I was team Gale" Me: starts screaming because... I mean do I even need to explain myself! Gale is so... UH!

I love you more after you put Will to Get Out... and I also agree with your opinion on Sazed... Now because you liked The Gentleman's Bastard so much i am going to give it a try :-)

Yes my man Sam got into the list and in the place he deserves. Btw are you planning on reading the stand alones of Tolkien that extend the first age?

Have you considered reading the Merlin series by T.A. Barron? I think it's a great mix between Celtic mythologie and a book about growing up for teenagers. I loved reading it.

Jumped around a little bit to see some love for TenSoon. He's my favourite too, along with Kelsier.

Can you rank like booktubes favorite books? I would love to see your opinions on all of the really popular books that a lot of booktubers love and talk about a lot!

Villains that ride large scary fellbeasts and wear big scary helmet-crown thingies, and are called The Witch-King of Angmar. Well... That might be a short list.... So, maybe paragons or lesser known villains.

I used to see these tire lists done about video games, where people rank that game's characters according to their strength... I think it would fit to do one about some characters in a book or so.

grover becomes a lot more important and necessary later on. he also stops being such a hindrance and starts helping

You should do another one with more of the suggestions but instead of sorting them by how good they are as a fictional person, sort them by “How much would I like this person if they were real and I had to deal with them in real life.”

I just read the First Law Trilogy at your suggestion and I loved Glokta, at least as much as you can love a guy who does what he does. I also read Peter Pan at your suggestion a while ago and honestly Peter is one of the most evil characters I have ever read about. Even more so than any of Joe Abercrombie's characters.

Omg yes!!! I stan Fanny and she deserves all the respect!

I honestly disagree a bit about Voldemort being a idiotic character. He was obsessed with power and achieved great things in his younger days, including being the first wizard to have not one, but seven horcruxes (it’s awful, but still a achievement). Being the Dark Lord made a lot of stuff seems even more important to him, and losing his powers when attacking a defenseless child made him even more insane than ever. He choose his main goal to prove that Harry wasn’t invincible and that he wouldn’t defeat the Dark Lord twice. It’s pretty clear when he guaranteed that Harry’s blood would turn him back so he could touch Harry, and when the Boy-who-lived escaped him once more, this time in front of almost every Death Eater, it became the most important thing to him to make it clear that he was worthy following. That main decision was the responsible for his fall, together with his idea of being indestructible. In the Hogwarts Battle we can see this. In other times he would never consider letting so many opposers live another day just for the life of one 17 years-old boy, but he was disposed to make that deal so he could prove being stronger than the boy who defeated him Tom Riddle’s proud took him down

I named my FFA goat after Grover. Grover the Actual Goat chased my classmate's abusive boyfriend out of the barn. He tackled the creepy guy who flirted with me. He won me $300 at the County Fair. I cried when I sold him to market. Thanks for the good times, buddy. Grover the Fictional Satyr gave me the courage to stand up for myself. He taught me to chase my dreams and stay determined. Grover the satyr showed me that I'm more appreciated than I think I am. Thanks buddy...middle school would have been impossible without you.

Oh oh tier ranking main characters or villains in stories.

Yesssss! I pretty much agree with all of your rankings, but I was so happy with what you said about sazed. I suggested him on Instagram to you and I agree, I like him but he got so annoying in book 3 and I dreaded reading his perspective!!

ahaha lol i sent in a sam gamgee option ;P i've been bingeing your lord of the rings fims recently and couldnt resist

Thank you!

I love your videos! I am from Argentina, i speak spanish but i trying my best in english, xoxo 🇦🇷❤

OMG. I wasn't expecting that hot a take on Voldemort.

Aww two from Mistborn but nobody from Stormlight?? Great idea though! Would love to see more tier lists

Hi Merphy! I have a recommendation for you- The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison. Slippery Jim DeGriz is a wily protagonist who voices his dissatisfaction with the world by commiting crimes in a crime-less society. Quite fun as he outsmarts piggy eyed, slack jawed, witless government officials. Hope you take a look at it if you have not yet- Glenn H

You should read Olive’s Ocean by: Kevin Henkes. It is my favorite book EVER next to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It is very short and character based but I think you’d be able to appreciate it.

You were making me nervous hovering Kvothe over worthless XD

TenSoon was the best! I lived for his chapters and I would read a whole spin-off series just about him and his people. Although I really liked Sazed as well, his whole existential/faith crisis annoyed the hell out of me.

Pomona Sprout in Harry Potter, what do you think of her?

Grover doesn't really change as far as character art goes he's a static character he's there for comedy relief

I was checking my own video and clicked away because I saw your notification 🤣

Ranking Idea Just watched BooksandLala's ranking video, where she did loads of different rankings but the most interesting to me was the one where she went back to her favourites of the year videos and ranked them again (All Time Fave, Stand By It, Need to ReRead to Decide, Take It Back and WTF Was I Thinking)

I don't have any ranking ideas haven't already been mentioned by @MissBellatrissa. But I'd like to recommend two series with well written magic systems and well built worlds. The Daughter of Smoke and Bone series and the Super Powereds series. Give them a try, you won't be disappointed

If you haven't, you should read the Ranger's Apprentice series. It is surprisingly good.

Cosmere tier list please!

Have you ever read "all the light you cannot see" by Anthony Doerr? Would loooooove to heart your opinion. It one of my favorites

Yaaay love me some tier ranking - I’ve got a book characters and a Harry Potter one over at my channel!

Have you ever read the ranger’s apprentice by John Flanagan? Just wondering what your thoughts are about that series. Halt is one of the best characters ever!

Agreed on Will. I sometimes feel so left out in the fandom when people are Wessa over Jessa when Jem is just... Gods I love him. But also while Grover may not be that great a character, I would protect him with my heart and soul. He is a sweet cinnamon roll. Loved the video

Just what i needed right now....ngl.

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I think I first read the Winnie the Pooh book at age 19-20 after getting it as a gift. It looked like an odd gift at the time but it is indeed a delightful book for any age.

With Peta I have always felt that he was her choice because he knew what she'd been through and he loved her despite that. Not because she loved him. Also by that point Gale was out because of what he did to prue. He would never have a place in her life again. Oh and who wouldn't put winnie the pooh and Samwise in the untouchable category? Is there anywhere else to put them?