Top 10 Most Iconic Recurring Cliches and Routines of Certain Video Game Characters
The Top Ten
1 Kidnaps Princess Peach, usually locking her in either his and/or her own castle in the process - Bowser (Super Mario Bros)
2 Sends out exactly eight (or six) Robot Masters per game to serve as guardians for his evil mechanical castle, then pilots a giant robot himself for the final boss battle - Dr. Wily (Mega Man)
3 Teleports back and forth and shoots fireballs at you for the first phase of the final battle against him, then transforms into a hideous man-beast for his second - Dracula (Castlevania)
4 Throws barrels at Mario - Donkey Kong (Super Mario Bros)
5 Attempts to seize the power of the Triforce himself so that he can personally take over the world with it - Ganondorf (Legend Of Zelda)
6 Builds ridiculously, often insultingly obvious weakpoints into basically every single one of his robots, despite supposedly having an IQ of over 300 - Dr. Eggman (Sonic The Hedgehog)
7 Littering the entire overworld with countless riddles, then forcing you to solve every single one of them while condescendingly mocking you all the while - The Riddler (Batman Arkham Series)
8 Speaking in a horribly confused mixture of broken English and classic Invader Zim hamminess - Fawful (Mario & Luigi)
9 Having absolutely complete disregard for basically everything that doesn't involve money and himself - Wario (Super Mario Bros)
10 Always being manipulated and controlled by vastly more powerful and intelligent villains than himself, to the point of literally being turned into a string puppet by Yin-Yarn in Epic Yarn - King Dedede (Kirby)
The Contenders
11 Uses the almighty power of the Triforce (and his sword) to vanquish evil - Link (Legend Of Zelda)
12 Constantly spams Hadoukens and Shoryukens in every single game - Ryu/Ken (Street Fighter)
13 Serves as a condescending robotic narrator to the games - GLaDOS/Wheatley (Portal)
14 Rescues Princess Peach - Mario (Super Mario Bros)
15 Spins around, breaks boxes and collects wumpa fruit - Crash (Crash Bandicoot)
16 Raps his way out of anything and everything - Parappa (Parappa The Rapper)
17 Rocks her way out of anything and everything - Lammy (Um Jammer Lammy)
18 Gets kidnapped by Ganondorf, then rescued by Link - Zelda (Legend Of Zelda)
19 Spams his classic spear-grapple move in every single game - Scorpion (Mortal Kombat)
20 Uses the power of the holy whip to vanquish Dracula time and time again - The Belmont Clan (Castlevania)
21 Jumps around, collects coins, enters pipes and breaks bricks - Mario (Super Mario Bros)
22 Has a whole series of games designed almost entirely to show off how cute he is - Kirby/Yoshi (Nintendo)
23 Is completely obsessed with saying the word GROOVY - Jim (Earthworm Jim)
24 Accidentally saves the world in the process of going on a huge adventure for the sole purpose of stealing himself even more money - Wario (Super Mario Bros)
25 Has castles so big that they take literal hours just to get around - Dracula (Castlevania)
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