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What is the dumbest/silliest/most embarrassing name for a playable video game character?
- Thread starter Slam Tilt
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There is another character in the game named Jet Jenkins which also worth a mention too.
Not dumbest, but silliest has to go to Shadows of the Damned.
Garcia FUCKING Hotspur, and his rod, "Johnson"
Fleming Whatshisfaces
and then you have...Paula.
Special mentions to Travis Touchdown and Mondo Zappa, obviously, but Shadows really had the silliest.
Garcia FUCKING Hotspur, and his rod, "Johnson"
Fleming Whatshisfaces
and then you have...Paula.
Special mentions to Travis Touchdown and Mondo Zappa, obviously, but Shadows really had the silliest.
My friends and I would make sexual jokes about this name when we were kids, the name sounded like some pornstar.
I came in to say this, the name itself isn't bad but coupled with her character design it is really bad. She says nothing, she is just there to look good. 100% objectification.
61st post. Shame on you ERA.
I'll throw in Crawd C Kenny. We know its fucking Claude but back in the day purists were foaming at the mouth about the western localization of Star Ocean 2 because thats how it was spelled in the Glorious Nihongo version.
This sounds like a Megaman boss name.
The protagonists from gen 3-6 had actual names, but it seems like they just gave up in gen 7, where they're just called Sun and Moon.
Link is a real name. It's short for Lincoln. For whatever reason, some people sincerely want to be called Link.
Im fairly certain Noob Saibot (named after the game creaters Tobias and Boon) predates the term n00b.Exactly what it says on the title -- tell us about a playable character in a video game with a name that you consider unbearably dumb, silly, or embarrassing. The kind of name that made you wonder what the developers were thinking when they graced the character with THAT monicker.
("Playable" means a character that the player has to control, so NPCs and peripheral characters don't count)
My choice, debuting in Mortal Kombat II -- Noob Saibot.
So here we have a game with (at the time) cutting-edge graphics, bloody decapitations, and more tryhard teenage testosterone than a monster truck rally. Every fighter is a badass who can kick your ass seven ways to Sunday, with exotic and intimidating names like "Scorpion", "Jax", "Kano", "Goro", "Baraka", and "Shao Khan"...
...and then you get "Noob Saibot", a name that doesn't roll off the tongue, proclaims oneself to be a beginning loser of the highest order, and sounds like a seven-year-old being clever by spelling his name backwards (for obvious reasons).
Sure, he was a bona fide badass in the game, but he's forever saddled with such a dorky name.
NEXT!
ding ding ding. i'm not a native English speaker so maybe i'm missing something but what the hell, they have to be joking with that name? sounds just as stupid as General Boss or President Leader to me.
but thats obviously a joke, and it's so stupid it's funny. makes me smile and not crince like Master Chief.
OP
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"Solid Snake" and "Psycho Mantis" I can get behind, but "Big Boss" is so zero-effort there's no way to take it seriously.
"So who's the leader of this group of elite soldiers?"
"The big boss of the mercenaries? Oh, his name's 'Big Boss'."
"...wut."
It's a term in the US Navy, I think. "Master chief petty officer" is the highest, enlisted rank. Which still makes "Master Chief" a bit silly, like naming your super-soldier character "Sergeant Major."
I mean, it's a rank, not a name...
And its not even a made up rank, it's a real rank used in real Navies.
I can't figure out if this post is trying to trigger Mega Man fans
Sol Badguy is simultaneously the best and worst video game name I can think of. So I'm gonna go with that.
ahh, i had a hunch i was overstating its ridiculousness.
still, i don't get it lol
I think his actual name is John. Can't remember. Been a long time since I played it.
It's funny how in FFX, first game where the characters had voices, they try at all cost not say the name of Tidus. It is always "he".
Only a random npc uses it while talking to him
Only a random npc uses it while talking to him
Wasn't there some black dude in Anarchy Reigns called Blacker Baron?
I mean, the character design was cool but the name is just plain weird.
I mean, the character design was cool but the name is just plain weird.
Ax Battler from Golden Axe surely has to be up there with the best of the worst.
(Especially as he doesn't even use an axe!)
He uses an axe in Golden Axe Warrior:
Yes. It's not even a name, just a rank. It's like calling someone supervisor or manager.
Yes, but soldiers do often just call a soldier by rank.
"Do I make myself clear, Private?"
"Yes, Sargent!"
they didn't wanna get sued by the real Marco Rodriguez
Why did they do this? There was nothing wrong with the name Marco Rodriguez...
the name change is objectively better though because Garou is the only game where you can have DONG vs BUTT
Oh the dark days of the Mortal Kombat franchise. I wish I could forget them.
They don't say Tidus' name because the player can name him whatever they like.
Didn't know there was an NPC that used his name. Is it actually voiced?
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Solid Snake sounds cool to me only because as a kid playing Brawl, this is gonna sound weird, but I thought "Solid" was just another title for a military person. Like "general" or "sergeant".
I don't know why. I didn't know much about the character other than he was a military guy. Snake was obviously a code name, and solid wouldn't be his first name, so I thought it was just a title, analogous to something like "Private Snake" or "Lieutenant Snake"
That was before I actually learned a bit about metal gear lol. Hearing stuff like "Liquid Snake" "Naked Snake" or "Venom Snake" being tossed around on forums showed me how wrong I was.
I don't know why. I didn't know much about the character other than he was a military guy. Snake was obviously a code name, and solid wouldn't be his first name, so I thought it was just a title, analogous to something like "Private Snake" or "Lieutenant Snake"
That was before I actually learned a bit about metal gear lol. Hearing stuff like "Liquid Snake" "Naked Snake" or "Venom Snake" being tossed around on forums showed me how wrong I was.
What amuses me is they spent all that money genetically engineering this super-soldier, and gave him regenerative armour etc, but didn't even give him a commission.
Sieg Wahrheit from Chaos Legion always gets me. It's so try-hard German.
http://chaoslegion.wikia.com/wiki/Sieg_Wahrheit_(game)
http://chaoslegion.wikia.com/wiki/Sieg_Wahrheit_(game)
Star Ocean 4's writing is such a dumpster fire all around but Edge Maverick never fails to get a chuckle out of me whenever I remember it.
