Top 10 Accidental Joke Characters in Video Games
These characters clearly aren't SUPPOSED to be Joke Characters, but they still are Joke Characters
Kraid was actually harder to beat than Ridley in the NES Metroid
Wario is a character in Nintendo's Mario series who was originally designed as an antagonist to Mario. His motives are driven by greed and he will take the side of whoever will give him the most pay. Although he may seem like just a mean man with no heart, he does have a very tragic past. His moves were required for specific areas like places with black bricks or places requiring the metal cap. Also he made the Bully stars in Lethal Lava Land and Snowman's Land much easier.
Despite how much Earthbound far-too-clearly wants its players to think that this guy is an amazingly powerful warrior that its main party absolutely cannot live without, he very-largely is pointless due to Ness, Paula and Jeff being the other three members of said party at the point in the game at which he joins it. He basically is a completely un-interesting extra set of Health Points, Brute Strength Points and Psychic Points that happens to be stereotypically Asian, have an enemy-copying ability that is almost-entirely useless outside of exactly one of the game's levels (the Stonehenge Base), know how to use the almost-entirely useless PK Star Storm, be able to equip an extremely rare and un-needed "sword of kings", and not like certain types of food. Meanwhile, Paula is the actual main psychic attack user of the game's main party while Ness is the actual main healer/brute of said party and Jeff largely is the actual most powerful character in said party due to the tools/inventions ...more
He gets the Mirror ability which has its uses.
Bowser is the main antagonist of the Mario Bros. Franchise. From kidnapping Princess Peach to simply destroying a fun game between Mario and Friends in the Mario Party spinoff series, this king of the Koopas has set up a certain hatred towards himself amongst the large cast of Mario Characters. He first appeared in the 1985 popular videogame, Super Mario Bros., in which he was responsible for kidnapping Princess Toadstool (more commonly known as Princess Peach), which was released in Arcades and on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Videogame System.
Bubsy is a series of platforming video games created by Michael Berlyn and developed and published by Accolade. The games star an anthropomorphic bobcat named Bubsy, a character that takes inspiration from Super Mario Bros. and Sonic the Hedgehog.
Dr. Gordon Freeman is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Half-Life video game series, created by Gabe Newell and designed by Newell and Marc Laidlaw of Valve Corporation.