Edgy characters, nothing personal kid.

etrain911 · Dec 1, 2021

Luke from Tales of Abyss is kind of an edge lord but the narrative actually uses it really well to showcase his character growth.

Some of my favorite unironic edge lords: Alex Mercer from Prototype, Aiden Pierce from Watchdogs, hell, even Wrench and Sabine are kind of edgy.

delete12345 · Dec 1, 2021

Why can't we have edgy characters with glasses that ooze the smarty feels?

Panquequera · Dec 1, 2021

the new LOL champion, Vex. Her design is cool but her dialogue is so dumb and tryhard I can't really think of it as charming/good.

Calvinien · Dec 1, 2021

Slim Action said:
The developers definitely thought he was super cool.

How so? He appears in one game, and in that game he is consistently portrayed as petty and cringe, with in-universe characters saying how he should be embarassed of himself. Both your party members and the player character (and not even as a dialog choice. Shep always says this) comment on how pathetic and full of himself he is.

The illusive man and Saren's death are given gravitas and hubris. Leng dies in a quick time event while shepard is sitting in a hair with their back turned. A quick time event that is arguably even more humiliating for him if you fail it because he dies anyway.

Characters in game treat him like a petty cringe bitch. He dies like a petty cringe bitch. Not a stretch to think that was the intent. In a game whose central theme is overcoming prejudice and working together to solve problems, what makes you think that the racist mall ninja who keeps losing is supposed to be some kind of aspirational figure.

sredgrin · Dec 1, 2021

I think at the very least, SOMEONE thought Kai leng was cool. At least at first. He does kinda feel like "specific writer or designer with sway A really wanted this in but nobody else did". But he didn't make it through implementation.

Kinthey · Dec 1, 2021

Eamon said:

I forgot about that. Amazing

Gespenst MKIV · Dec 1, 2021

This is Masaki Andow

One of the first original characters from the Super Robot Wars series all the way back to the SNES/Gameboy days. He pilots the Cybuster.

Move over to the PS2 era and Super Robot Wars Z debuts Asakim Dowin

His mech Shuroga

And his upgrade the Shuroga Sin

dancingphlower · Dec 1, 2021

This douchebag right here. The game frames him as being right in hunting the gods but everything that happened to him was self-inflicted due to his cowardice during his fight with the Barbarian King.

WaluigiTime · Dec 1, 2021

Gilgy said:
Damn that render is incredible.

Bishop89 · Dec 1, 2021

Kenstar · Dec 1, 2021

OP it's 'nothing personnel' get it right

Chumunga64 · Dec 1, 2021

Kain-Nosgoth said:
The villain from tale of arise, you couldn't do a more edgy character cliché, he was so lame

fantasy alex mercer

scare_crow · Dec 1, 2021

dskzero said:
Yes. Or at least we all kinda looked like that back then (I used a goatee and sideburns though, I've always hated the soul patch).

Now we mostly look like papa Marcus Fenix.

We are all grumpy because our backs hurt. All of our back hurts. Literally. Must be the mosh pits.

All of our backs, absolutely. I was sore for days after standing for the entirety of the big Megadeth tour a bit back. My edge is gone. Worn away by the sands of time.

dskzero · Dec 1, 2021

scare_crow said:
All of our backs, absolutely. I was sore for days after standing for the entirety of the big Megadeth tour a bit back. My edge is gone. Worn away by the sands of time.

I bought tickets for a festival next year and I'm really gonna be on ibuprofen for a week.

But I really want to watch Queens of the Stone Age again.

ray_caster · Dec 1, 2021

mopinks said:

Hates exercise. 2% body fat. Pick one.

Kain-Nosgoth · Dec 1, 2021

ray_caster said:
Hates exercise. 2% body fat. Pick one.

You can hate exercise but still do it to keep in shape, was doing that for a while... or like i hate cooking but i do it cause i dont like microwaved stuff, and take out is too expensive

Ostron · Dec 1, 2021

ray_caster said:
Hates exercise. 2% body fat. Pick one.

Dislikes sweets though.

knightmawk · Dec 1, 2021

GerruFin said:
This guy

I've seen people clown on this and I've clowned on it myself, but I also kind of love it. It's exactly the kind of shit my 16 year old self would have been obsessed with. Its a little less bold after FF XV: Broad Trip to Kill God, but it would have been an ace scene in Final Fantasy 7 or 8, I would have lost my mind.

knightmawk · Dec 1, 2021

RedAhmed said:

I had a professor in college that presented that exact diagram during a lecture to prove a point about... Something. I don't actually remember what it was about.

y2kyle89 · Dec 1, 2021

pochi said:
Papi Verg

Something that got lost in the memeing of this line is he said that in 3 after teleporting away from the SSStylish combo you just handed him

Cipherr · Dec 1, 2021

Daingurse said:
All hail Shadow. Definitely my favorite Edge Lord.

They really gave this mf a gun man.

Zephy · Dec 1, 2021

Gespenst MKIV said:
This is Masaki Andow

One of the first original characters from the Super Robot Wars series all the way back to the SNES/Gameboy days. He pilots the Cybuster.

Move over to the PS2 era and Super Robot Wars Z debuts Asakim Dowin

His mech Shuroga

And his upgrade the Shuroga Sin

No.

Mechs are exempted from any rule that would limit their edginess.

shawnoftheshred · Dec 1, 2021

Keiriks · Dec 1, 2021

PaulloDEC said:
This irritating little dweeb from The World Ends with You:

That one's on purpose though and not supposed to be an Edgy Cool Guy. His whole arc is about letting go of the aloof edginess and by the halfway point he's well on his way to being a well adjusted young man. And then there's, like, all of Another Day. For all of its super hip mid-late 00s aestheticry TWEWY's writing is very self aware.

PaulloDEC · Dec 1, 2021

Keiriks said:
That one's on purpose though and not supposed to be an Edgy Cool Guy. His whole arc is about letting go of the aloof edginess and by the halfway point he's well on his way to being a well adjusted young man.

I've been told this before, and while I totally get it... boy, it's a tough hump to get over early on. He's so fucking annoying.

Plywood · Dec 1, 2021

Mekanos said:

I'll just never understand how this got past the design phase.

TyrantGuardian · Dec 1, 2021

PaulloDEC said:
This irritating little dweeb from The World Ends with You:

That's... the entire point of the game?

chiller · Dec 1, 2021

It's even in his name.... Edgeworth.......

Just updated the autopsy report... nothin personal kid
jesus christ why are his hands drawn so big

PaulloDEC · Dec 1, 2021

TyrantGuardian said:
That's... the entire point of the game?

That fact that it's on purpose doesn't make it much more palatable to me, personally. But I get that they were going for a specific thing and it's not just edge for the sake of edge.

Ryuhza · Dec 1, 2021

Silvergun-Blue said:
Reaper players be like....

Reaper is so edgy that even his normie design looks like The Edge from U2

ChaserX · Dec 1, 2021

Vanitas from Kingdom Hearts.

It's not enough that he's a literal dark half of another character.
It's not enough that he looks like a black haired Sora.
And it's not enough that he's able to summon creatures based on negative emotions.
No what really pushes over (or to) the edge is how he was revived.
He was able to rebuild himself by using sadness and fear from the children his monsters scared.

Capra · Dec 1, 2021

Neku, like Squall, is the way he is so the game he's in can deconstruct his aloof attitude. It's a coming of age story and the entire point of the game is making him realize that his "friends suck" attitude is self-destructive and that he's keeping himself from growing as a person by closing himself off.

Also I know every edgelord has an excuse blah blah but Another Day literally tells you his attitude stems from losing his only friend and blaming himself for his death. He's an awkward teen with no social skills and survivor's guilt.

thetrin · Dec 1, 2021

mopinks said:

If you hate them so much, why do you keep showing up?! And how are you so toned if you hate exercise so much?! What the hell is going on?!

GerruFin · Dec 2, 2021

knightmawk said:
I've seen people clown on this and I've clowned on it myself, but I also kind of love it. It's exactly the kind of shit my 16 year old self would have been obsessed with. Its a little less bold after FF XV: Broad Trip to Kill God, but it would have been an ace scene in Final Fantasy 7 or 8, I would have lost my mind.

It's a bit less funny when you notice he's using earbuds, so others don't actually hear the music

ray_caster · Dec 2, 2021

Ostron said:
Dislikes sweets though.

That's gotta be it.

SunshinePuppies · Dec 2, 2021

Arta said:

what no, he's a parody if anything

Weltall Zero · Dec 2, 2021

PaulloDEC said:
That fact that it's on purpose doesn't make it much more palatable to me, personally. But I get that they were going for a specific thing and it's not just edge for the sake of edge.

While I get your point, Neku growing out of his close-mindedness is so much the entire point of the game that it's what its cryptic title actually means, as explicitly namedropped by Hanekoma:

Charsace · Dec 2, 2021

Smite. Thanatos the hand of death.

Mungan · Dec 2, 2021

RockmanBN · Dec 2, 2021

Mungan said:

How is Zag edgy?

Ceerious · Dec 2, 2021

RockmanBN said:
How is Zag edgy?

spiky hair
skeleton decorations
smug expression (at least in this picture)
half of face hiding in shadows

Dangerously close to the edgy threshold!

Starlatine · Dec 2, 2021

chiller said:
It's even in his name.... Edgeworth.......

Just updated the autopsy report... nothin personal kid
jesus christ why are his hands drawn so big

For someone with Edge in his name Edgeworth really isnt. Not even during his brief "evil rival" phase. He's just blunt. Apollo in DD though, now that hurts specially with the game banging POWER OF FRIENDSHIIIIIP all around it. And well, Simon freaking Blackquill with literal TRAINING THE BLADE quotes. He lightens up in SJ though.

Liliana · Dec 2, 2021

Mungan said:

I mean, he's very well-written, composed and polite. I wouldn't call him edgy due to his art because all the characters are like that.

Also, OP, it's personnel. Get it right!

Keiriks · Dec 2, 2021

Ceerious said:
spiky hair
skeleton decorations
smug expression (at least in this picture)
half of face hiding in shadows

Dangerously close to the edgy threshold!

that's just the game's art style though

Mungan · Dec 2, 2021

Liliana said:
I mean, he's very well-written, composed and polite. I wouldn't call him edgy due to his art because all the characters are like that.

But he's the poster boy

Liliana · Dec 2, 2021

Mungan said:
But he's the poster boy

So? He's the son of Hades in the underworld, of course there's skulls and stuff on his attire lol

Mungan · Dec 2, 2021

Liliana said:
So? He's the son of Hades in the underworld, of course there's skulls and stuff on his attire lol

I mean, most of the other characters posted in this thread probably fit in really well in their context too. Doesn't mean the character art isn't edgy

The Bookerman · Dec 2, 2021

Deleted member 61531 · Dec 2, 2021

GoemonTheNinja said:

You know he's an edge lord when his personal darkness is darker than the main character, who is literally a dark knight.

skeezx · Dec 2, 2021

Mekanos said:

normally this stuff doesn't bug me but i really hated this. seemed so tone deaf with the rest of the game

Edgy characters, nothing personal kid.

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