Most Overrated Video Game Characters

The Top Ten
1 Sans (Undertale) Sans or Sans the Skeleton is a character in the 2015 RPG Undertale created by Toby Fox. He is a lazy, pun-loving skeleton who is a supporting protagonist in the "pacifist" and "neutral" routes of Undertale, and a heroic antagonist/final boss of the "genocide" route. He is known for his incredibly difficult boss fight, bad puns, and the phrases "geeetttt dunked on!!!" and "you're gonna have a bad time." He is also named after the font "comic sans." Known for also being Ness from the Mother series. (known as Earthbound in Western territories.)

Overrated... It's like comic makers can live one minute without seeing a picture of sans. He gets into everything, even when he doesn't belong. While it's annoying seeing characters like foxy, and charizard, and herobrine everywhere, Sans gets in things that have nothing to do with undertale. Also, people think he is a pure hearted nice guy who will kill any person he meets, when he's the oppisite. He doesn't care about his brother, or his timeline. He doesn't care about anyone, and will only fight if you are a threat to him. And everyone thinks megalovania is the only good song toby created when there is an ost of hundreds of songs.

Sans is my least favorite main character in Undertale. First of all, he's lazy to the point where he lets all his friends and family DIE because of a promise he made to a woman whose name he doesn't even know, when he could have easily protected them. He also lets Asgore take the blame for the dead humans when HE is the one who killed them (think about it, how else would Papyrus and Undyne have NEVER encountered a human before the events of the game? ). But he makes puns, and the fandom seems to find him attractive(please don't ask me why), so he must be the best character, right?

In a world where Mario is more popular and has way less personality, how is Sans consider more overrated?. At least Sans is sometime appreciated for good reasons, even though I agree that there is too much images of him. He is deep, he is funny, and his fight is great. If you want to know more about why Sans is great, check my comment about Sans in the top 10 video game characters list.

People think he'a OH SO powerful, but in reality, he's the weakest character in the game! His KR is the only reason his fight is hard in the first place, and that only works on people with bad karma! He stand ZERO chance against ANY characters with good karma like MARIO or Shovel Knight!

2 Gordon Freeman (Half Life) 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.

First: Gordon Freeman is the greatest character in video games.
The question: Why the hell is he the first in the list when he is nothing else than an empty shell of a character and things just happen around him?
Second: The answer - Well... Gordon Freeman is the greatest character, because he a unique person. He is the only scientist in video games. Gordon Freeman never talks, because you decide what character will be he and if you think he is an empty shell, that's because your imagination maybe is empty.
Some other reasons why Gordon is so badass:
1. The crowbar
2. The gravity gun
3. Alyx Vance
4. D0G
5. HEV Suit
6. He can survive in a zombie apocalypse... wait... he's already survived in one.
7. (Last but not least) The word "hazard" means nothing for him.

Gordon Freeman is just a bland character. It's not the fact that he's silent that bothers me, its that he lacks a personality. He has no character traits. He can be replaced with anyone and the game would mostly be the same. Valve said he's silent for immersion, but why give him an official appearance and backstory. Last time I checked, most people aren't physicists. How about making it like KOTOR or Fallout, where you can design your own appearance, and can choose what you want to say. That would be great. Or just give him a voice. And before you go 'Eugh, but when Samus got a voice she became terrible,' just remember, Jak was also a silent protagonist but when he got his voice, he became a much better character. Also, it is possible to have a personality and be silent. Look at Crash Bandicoot for example. We knew what kind of a character he was without him speaking a word, so there is no excuse for this bland, faceless character that can easily be replaced or improved.

"He is too silent", that's what people think about Gordon so they think this character is overrated, in fact he is just like one of the best heroes in video game. He is just regular scientist with a regular HEV suit who fights his way to Lambda Core, even though the Black Mesa is surrounded by HECUs and Xens, Gordon can do such a lot of things with his single crowbar, He is very great, which lead G-Man to recruits him in his place.

P.S: I don't want Gordon can talk, his silentness is good enough for me

Gordon Freeman was once voted #1 on the Top 50 best video game characters of all time. But why? He's just an empty shell of a character and things just happen around him.

3 Rosalina (Super Mario) Rosalina, known as Rosetta in Japan, is a major character in the Mario Franchise created by Nintendo. She first appeared in the 2007 Mario Game, Super Mario Galaxy for the Nintendo Wii and later returned for the game's sequel in 2010. Since then, she has been featured in many main-series Mario Games and many spinoffs. She has appeared as a playable character in Super Mario 3D World for the Nintendo... read more

Rosalina is like an Elsa case. Overrated, heavily marketed, and riddled with a rabid fanbase that will put anyone down if they have any genuine subjective problems with her. She's an absolute piece of wood (but unlike Elsa, she has a backstory) but most of her praise comes from 12 year old fanboys who'll jerk off to any "sexy" looking thing with an emo bang. I have never seen any other female character with a kajillion self inserts, fetish "art" and shots of her assets other than Misty (Google search her. I dare you). They all defend her primarily for her looks because if you even mention the word "Space Peach" these little brats get triggered immediately and start blasting your inbox with pages defending her and why she looks so "unique" ranging from unofficial star shaped iris' to the shape of her boobs. I don't care about the Mario Princesses to be honest with you, but when Rosalina got confirmed for Smash, everyone kept bashing on me because I preferred to use Meta Knight rather than Rosalina, because according to every tourneyf**, she's OP. I'm sorry, did your OP waifu ever got banned because she's OP? I didn't think so.

4 Foxy (Five nights at Freddy's) Foxy is one of four main antagonists of Five Nights at Freddy's, who later appear as variations in the succeeding games.

This needs to be number 1 on this list because, he gets so much popularity than the other characters in the game. And by the way, why do so many people like this character.

Sorry foxy fans but I just hate foxy. He's extremely overrated and I find it stupid that people say he's a good guy and that he was just checking on you. The fnaf website even states him as as a antagonist(bad guy).

I don't think animatronics of FNAF have a lot of personality in what we see in the games. Foxy looks pretty cool though.

At least Rosalina has a backstory and complexity. This is just a pirate animatronic.

5 Bendy (Bendy and The Ink Machine)

I didn't play Bendy and the Ink Machine, but from what I've seen, he is pretty mysterious.

Worst character all time!

Gary Stu of the fandom

6 Master Chief (Halo) Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, more commonly known as the Master Chief, is a SPARTAN-II commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command. He is the protagonist and main character in both the Halo trilogy and Reclaimer Saga.

What is so great about a silent, unemotional playbook soldier boy.

How the heck is he overrated?!

Locke is cooler

7 Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog) Shadow the Hedgehog is a character who appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series released by Sega. He is an artificially created black and red hedgehog whose hover shoes propel him at extreme speeds that rival those of Sonic.

Welllll, I don't know what to say. I kinda agree when talking about how he's doing now, with rabid fanbase people shipping him with everyone, calling him an 'EDGELORD' for using guns in that stupid 2005 game, and just being incredibly one-dimensional in these modern games. BUT THEN, if you think Shadow is overrated, get Sonic on here! He's more overrated than anyone else in the franchise. Plus, if you look at Sonic Adventure 2, he's actually quite interesting! Having a sad past, having his best friend die on him, and then being imprisoned for quite a while. Of COURSE he would be a grumpy hedgehog with air shoes with a jaded perspective on humanity! Get the poor dude to 15 on this list and I'll be satisfied.

Why is Shadow so special? He has no true powers and is rendered useless without a chaos emerald. Everybody loves him for what exactly? His personality?
Well I disagree with that because Shadow is one of the most one-dimensional characters in the entire franchise.

Shadow I like him. But because it is more popular than Tails and Knuckles? Two much more important and super cool characters!
Besides the development of Shadow as a character was declining, perhaps by overexploitation!

I think this should be lower on the list. I mean, he's my favorite character, far and away, but even I know he's a little overrated, just not to a sharp degree.

8 Kratos (God of War) Kratos is a fictional character and the titular primary protagonist and anti-hero of the God of War video game series. He is a demi-god who seeks retribution and vengeance on Ares and later, the Greek Gods after he was betrayed and was forced to kill his family .

All the character that Kratos has is 'I'm angry. I'm gonna kill everyone'. He was alright in the first game, but lost all personality by the third.

After the release of the rebooted God Of War (2018) game he really has character trait now.
I think he is not overrated anymore.

Yes, Kratos is very powerful, but his one character trait is that he's angry, with most characters in the game.

If you take away the fact that he's killed all the gods, he's just an angry ass.

9 Herobrine (Minecraft) Herobrine (Pronounced HEH-roh-bryn) is the subject of a community-made creepypasta. He is one of the major community icons of Minecraft, yet Herobrine has not been present in any version of Minecraft. The first story and image ever posted about Herobrine, as well as the Brocraft stream, are regarded as canonical. Things posted after these two events are considered fan-made adaptations and variations.

Herobrine is just white eye Steve, he just spends years just having creepy-pasta's about him just watching you, so if he was real, he would just be a little achievement you can find in the End, which we all know wont happen, plus he's overrated AND just a myth.

Dude is the dumbest thing humanity has ever thought of.

He's not even real. He's just an overrated myth.

He not even real

10 Charizard (Pokemon) Charizard, known in Japan as Lizardon, is a Pokémon species in Nintendo and Game Freak's Pokémon franchise. Created by Ken Sugimori, Charizard first appeared in the video games Pokémon Red and Blue and subsequent sequels. They have later appeared in various merchandise, spinoff titles and animated and printed adaptations of the franchise. Shin-ichiro Miki, the actor who voices James in the original Japanese version of the Pokémon anime, voices Charizard in both the Japanese and English-language versions of the anime. An orange, draconic Pokémon, Charizard is the evolved form of Charmeleon and the final evolution of Charmander. It has two other forms, Mega Charizards X and Y, which are its ...read more.

I love how when people call out dumb modern pokemon designs, everyone points out some of the, admittedly, lame designs from the first generation like seel. But none of them will dare mention the straight up DRAGON!

I just don't see how people love him. Sure, dragons are cool, but he is so basic.

If everyone thinks you're overrated, you're not overrated anymore.

Two words: Stealth Rock. Hope that triggered you genwunners.

The Contenders
11 Mario (Super Mario Bros) Mario, originally named Jumpman, is the main character of the Super Mario Bros. franchise, created by the creative director and video game designer at Nintendo of Japan, Shigeru Miyamoto. Mario has appeared in almost every Mario game, including games in spin-off series as a playable character, with few exceptions including New Super Luigi U, Luigi's Mansion games, Yoshi's Island games, and similar... read more

Without a shadow of a doubt, Mario is the most overrated character in gaming history. He has zero personality. He's a good mascot for Nintendo, but that's it. He shouldn't even get new games anymore. It's always the same thing. Nintendo is just milking dry this franchise to the point that it has a game in every genre of video games. Racing, fighting, etc, you name it. And people eat this crap up every time!

So overrated. Mario has all the eyes on him and his also overrated games while other characters and franchises deserve more attention. I can already hear the Nintendo fanboys going: "But Mario saved the video game industry! ". That's not a reason to worship him. It's time to let the old rest and let the young prosper. Nintendo has milked this character to the bone.

Definitely overrated. I promise you if took a Mario game and reskined the whole thing to look like a new thing and gave it a different name but kept the same mechanics. It wouldn't even reach a quarter of the sales.

12 Daisy (Mario) Princess Daisy is a fictional character in the Mario series of video games, in which she is the princess of the fictional region of Sarasaland.

I'm getting kinda sick of getting screamed at by Daisy fans. I like Daisy, but I also like Rosalina. It seems like you can only like one or the other on this site.

Daisy is kinda bad and has just such an unnecessary fanbase. Rosalina needs more attention.

Thank you for commenting Daisy haters because you just confirmed again how horrid her hatebase is.

13 Yoshi (Mario) Yoshi, once romanized as Yossy, is a fictional anthropomorphic dinosaur who appears in video games published by Nintendo. Often appearing as a sidekick and helper to Mario, Yoshi is most known for his appearances in the Yoshi's Island and the Super Mario franchises.

Yoshi is not a character. It's a specie. There's a big difference. Characters, have personalities and are unique. Species, doesn't have a personality, because each Yoshis have a different one. If you want to vote for Yoshi, you should vote for a specific Yoshi.

Similar to Sonic and Rosalina, I do NOT hate Yoshi at all. Yoshi is one of my favorite characters. Its just that people talk about him way too much.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is NOT the best platformer, just because it has Yoshi in it.

Should be higher than Rosalina. He gets too much love.

14 Luigi (Mario franchise)

How is he this low? He should be above Rosalina and Mario!

Why is Luigi under Mario and Daisy?!

He even had a year dedicated to him!

15 Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Why isn't this number one? Explain!

Get her higher, her fans worship her, she even ruined Mambo Number 5

Just no monika

16 Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII) Cloud Strife is a fictional character and the main protagonist of Square Enix's 1997 role-playing video game Final Fantasy VII and several of its sequels and spin-offs.

Cloud is a overrated no-personality idiot who ruined Final Fantasy. Zack, from Crisis Core,should have been the protaganist. I do not want a Final Fantasy 7 remake ever!

Zidane should be more popular than Cloud. I don't see why people prefer VII over IX.

17 Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights at Freddy's) Freddy Fazbear (originally known as Freddybear, as seen in the Kickstarter) is one of four main antagonists of Five Nights at Freddy's, who later appear as variations in the succeeding games.

He may be the main character but he is the main character of an overrated franchise. I just want to let you guys know that just because foxy and sans are overrated doesn't mean Freddy isn't. He was the one who is for making the awful fanbase of his franchise exist

18 Sub-Zero (Mortal Kombat) Sub-Zero is a video game character from the Mortal Kombat series and one of the original characters in the first Mortal Kombat game in 1992. A mainstay of the series, Sub-Zero is the only character who has appeared in every main Mortal Kombat fighting game.

Sub-zero was the character who started the whole color coded ninja craze. While visually distinctive, it's still just palette swaps until about the 4th or fifth game. Don't really see how ninja= best character in franchise.

The rivalry and revenge between Scorpion and Sub-zero is alright, but since practically every character had some kind of revenge/rivalry (Liu Kang vs Shang Tsung, Sonya vs Kano, Kitana vs Mileena, etc. ), it's just overused so I don't see how the ninja rivalry is much different.

I'm a huge MK fan and I like Sub-Zero but hate when his fans diss other mk fighters in order to make him look good. Let's face it - Sub-Zero is weak without ice freezing. He isn't cool without his power. Sorry, but many mk fighters can do without any power

Subs zeros higher than scorpion?

19 Link (The Legend of Zelda Series) Link refers to several different incarnations of the same protagonist of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series.

Link is overrated as hell. He is not a good character, he's just another shallow Nintendo character. I don't see how any of you weebs can like him. He's just a kid dressed like an elf with a sword.

He's not overrated. People like link because he is awesome! Especially in his epic adorable wolf form!

He's still an amazing swordsman though.

20 Toad (Super Mario Bros) Toad, known in Japan as Kinopio, is a major character in the Mario Bros. franchise. He assists Princess Peach in the Mushroom Kingdom and will do whatever it takes to help her. He first appeared in the classic game, Super Mario Bros. after being kidnapped by Bowser and his minions. Since then he has been a reappearing character in the Mario Bros. series as a playable character in the New Super Mario Bros. series, Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Super Mario Run, and many other games. He also appears as playable character in many Mario-spinoff games including the Mario Kart series, Mario Party games, Mario and Sonic Olympic Games, Mario Sports Games, and many more. ...read more.
21 Joel (The Last Of Us) Joel is a major character and the playable protagonist of The Last of Us, the deuteragonist of The Last of Us Part II, and a supporting character in The Last of Us: Left Behind.
22 1x1x1x1 (Roblox)

He doesn't even hack. He just bluffed and got banned.

23 Geno (Super Mario RPG)

I never get why people wants geno for smash, he only was playable in one game.

24 Aerith (Final Fantasy VII)

How? I like Yuna better to be honest

25 Steve (Minecraft)
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