Totally useless members of teams in fiction
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I wanted to put Tea Gardner on this chat but at least she duels and doesn't have a 700 base attack monster as her ace card. LOL
Cedric from King's Quest. It feels like it would've been so easy to give him some purpose, but no...
yup
I mean, half the universe died the one time he wasn't there...
He's doing something.
A lot of people have the play style of using every character in a RPG. Cait Sith also isn't useless in the story and is one who saves Tifa and Barret from being executed at the beginning of the third act. He also spies on Shinra like leaking information to the party, such as with the Sister Ray.
Okay, ONE thing in 7 fucking years at Howarts. He then spends the rest of his school years whining and simpering while Harry and Hermione did all the work...
Again, films only. I know he did more in the books.
Brilliant answer. He never did his job, I remember when he shows the massive folder he has on Michael and I'm like, dude, take that shit to corporate and fire his ass!
Probably not strictly accurate because he technically does useful things in the films but Benji is a fucking idiot in the Mission Impossible series.
Id rather they'd just kept Luther as the general tech guy over the moron who keeps doing shit like holding his iPad upside down while directing Ethan to the bad guy.
And that's when he's not fully out in the field making relentless cock ups like staring into a camera and scratching his big dumb face in the Kremlin.
I get that he's meant to be funny but the IMF should feel like an elite force and he just jumps out as the weak link especially with agents like Walker and Ilsa in the field in Fallout.
Id rather they'd just kept Luther as the general tech guy over the moron who keeps doing shit like holding his iPad upside down while directing Ethan to the bad guy.
And that's when he's not fully out in the field making relentless cock ups like staring into a camera and scratching his big dumb face in the Kremlin.
I get that he's meant to be funny but the IMF should feel like an elite force and he just jumps out as the weak link especially with agents like Walker and Ilsa in the field in Fallout.
What ideas did he have? I remember him doing jack except twirling his drumsticks annoyingly. Also it was his fault Iris was captured in the first place......
I never played FFIV TAY so I don't know if he's in it/gets a glow up in it, but Edward from FFIV is like comically pointless during the entire story.
It kinda hilarious how for the part 1 she is basically less useful as a faceless mook, she literally had zero jutsu until part 2 and even then is just super strength and healing nothing really of note until Kishimoto made that ridiculous reveal that all this time she was charging a jutsu to increase her power level to do something in the finale and even that can be just simplified to just increased strength
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He did some things in the book version of order of the phoenix, but yeah, he was a detriment by deathly hallows
Tristan Taylor - Yu-Gi-Oh!
Tbh I love Tristan so damn much. He doesn't really do shit, and when he actually is allowed to duel in the noah arc he totally blows it, but you know what? He still shows up, every damn time. True friend material and I super respect that.
Jubilee from the 90s cartoon of X-Men. I think back and I can't even remember if she has a mutant power.
It infuriates me so much. I'm currently watching Naruto for the first time, and everything she does is say "Sasuke!" "Naruto!" "Kakashi-sensei!" with different levels of concern in her voice while clutching a kunai. And I wanted her to be so much more!
Unfortunately it seems a trend in this anime where every single female character amounts to nothing. Hinata is even worse than Sakura, Ino does nothing either besides screaming at Sakura as they fight over Goth Boy. Kurenai has a cool design and seems to be a powerful Genjutsu user but then Itachi simply shoves her side. Temari was okay at best, I guess.
It's a sausage fest and the girls never have a moment to truly shine and take matters into their own hands and solve them. I'm putting my last tokens on Tsunade, but she an hasn't come into the picture yet (Jiraya and Naruto just left Konohagakure to look for her).
So this is my answer to the thread, basically every female character in Naruto so far and I hate it.
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His excuse for why he two timed his girlfriend
This jackwagon. Wasted precious airtime with awful love drama... At least Bolin was funny, Mako was just a steady stream of anger hanging in the back of each scene.
"Things are really crazy right now"
I loved how Asami called him out for trying to deflect the blame to Bolin when he told her he kissed Korra
Every time I see her weird body suit I start seeing her passing out and going "WaaaAAaaah!
Her power reaaally burdens her compared to others, it's weird
lol i totally did a double take on that, it was so weird.
and learned parseltongue just by listening to Harry talk in his sleep.
Sakura takes the crown.
Aliens: Lt Gorman
Closest he got to being useful was blowing himself up. That being said his incompetence/inexperience was probably why he was picked. Can still hate him.
X-Men Animated Series: Jubilee
Seriously, did she ever do anything?
Gaming:
Meg
Just bad in every way.
Aliens: Lt Gorman
Closest he got to being useful was blowing himself up. That being said his incompetence/inexperience was probably why he was picked. Can still hate him.
X-Men Animated Series: Jubilee
Seriously, did she ever do anything?
Gaming:
Meg
Just bad in every way.
Would have loved for some of the weaker members of the three pirate crews fight these guys instead of having most of them get taken out in a single attack.
One of the biggest disappointments for the current arc. Was hoping the enemy Samurai side actually had some people on it instead of the Beast Pirates doing all the heavy lifting.
Pippin Took.
Useless and irritating.
He lit the signal, and helped saved Faramir. And he distracted the armies of Sauron to attack Gondor instead of focusing on his back door.
And he was involved in the worst tomato eating scene of all time. And why were their tomatoes!?
You know what, I was ok with the potatoes and the "pipeweed." But Peter Jackson, I will cut the line at tomatoes! Literally unwatchable. Thanks Edmond, you ruined everything.
the worst character. Even the way he joins your team is super dumb. Ugh.
Yugioh Zexal: The entire Numbers Club. Barely dueled or did anything useful. Tetsuo gets a pass since he once beat a major villain and could punch out robots. Cathy was also vaguely competent at card games and could help in other stuff. But the other 3 never did anything worthwhile. Especially Kotori, who only dueled once while mind controlled and wasn't even particularly good at emotional support. But for some reason she appeared in every episode to dispense the protagonist's name. She makes Tea look useful and competent.
I really want to say Slippy in Star Fox because of how useless he is in a fight, but he was also the tech guy, so eh.
Several dozen people in Bleach. Like Chad.
Several dozen people in Bleach. Like Chad.
I don't think so. IIRC she got bodied by Temari during chuunin exams, then beat an illusory copy of herself post-timeskip. She was part of the background the rest of the series.
I have never seen this show and I don't know who this is but every time we have a thread like this someone posts this exact picture and it cracks me up.Yamcha?
Haven't watched Super