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Day 6: Name the most annoying character you can think of
Well then. I can think of two, and honestly I can’t decide which one I find more annoying.
First there’s Issun from Okami.
This guy… I suppose he has his uses, but all I remember is him jumping up and down on Amaterasu’s nose like it was a trampoline, alternating between telling me I had no idea what I was doing, or otherwise hand-holding me through the game because he quite possibly thought I’d forget to breathe unless he reminded me. Just… ugh. I’m not sure any other NPC has ever made me quite so angry by merely existing.
Except maybe for this gem:
Fi from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Again, Fi had her uses, like kindly telling me when the batteries on the Wii remote were dying. And she had a neat backstory that added a little bit of interest to the Master Sword lore.
Unfortunately, this was completely overshadowed by her other “helpful” tips, like telling me that there was an 86.2213% chance enemies were about to attack (just as bokoblins were bearing down on me), or cheerfully reminding me that potion shops were for buying potions, or interrupting gameplay with vital information about how an insect’s wings indicates it can fly, or… for the love of Nayru can we have Midna back yet??
What video game character do you find most annoying?
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Tingle! Especially in Wind Waker. Oh, and all the people you need to rescue in the original Dead Rising…
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Oh, Tingle and your fetch quests… Or his fairy magic?? Tingle-Tingle-Kooloo-Limpa!
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Both! Maybe the fact that every conversation with him took far longer than at should because of all the singing and dancing he had to do.
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Oh my God…yes, annoying and super creepy. I think Tingle may actually be worse than Navi. She was annoying, but at least she could be useful.
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I’m one of the few people who actually liked Navi when I first played OoT… But I definitely understand how people see her as annoying, especially if you replayed the game and knew all her tips!
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She didn’t bother me as much as some, but I could see how they’d find her annoying. She at least warned you about things and would give you directions/advice. I think it was the random “Listen!” that grated :p
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Yeah, sometimes I wanted Link to turn to her when she got into her “Hey! Listen! Hello!” mode and yell back “OMG WHAT??” 😡
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Yuffie from FFVII annoyed me so freaking much. I get irritated by overly hyper characters and people in real life. That paired with her stealing your materia just made her a more irksome, annoying teenage princess who was acting out to get back at her father. Then there’s Edward and Edge from FFIV. Edward is probably my least favorite Final Fantasy character of all time, so it’s a little bit more than annoying lol. Edge has that cocky attitude that just rubs me the wrong way.
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Ugh! I hate when characters are arrogant. And being an arrogant thief is just that much more awful.
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Right? It’s funny because the Edge “archetype” is used elsewhere, and it doesn’t annoy me as much. He’s the combination thief and “ladies man” character. FFVI does it with Edgar (and the thief part with Locke whom I don’t hate) whom is one of my favorite characters, but Edge is just cocky, and I abhor that kind of attitude. Edward is useless, and I wished he’d drowned in the ocean lol.
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Generally speaking, I find the most annoying characters tend to be a combination of egotistical, antagonistic, and inexplicably popular with the fanbase, thus ensuring they’ll get a lot of exposure if the creators pay attention to them. It’s possible to make a character with that combination genuinely interesting or funny, but when they aren’t, it’s unbelievably tedious.
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Fair enough! The only person I can think of in recent games that I’ve played would be Morrigan from Dragon Age, but I must be part of the problem because I do like her and the complexity of her character quite a bit…
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Oh Fi was so annoying, but she didn’t annoy me nearly as much as The Imprisoned boss. I lost count of how many times I had to fight that damn thing in Skyward Sword and Hyrule Warriors.
I want to say Navi, mostly because on my 20th time through the game she still stopped me to inform me how to open a door. Also I knew exactly where I was going so she really needed to stop “Hey listening” me. Poor Link. I’m going to say OoT’s Kaepora Gaebora: the owl who makes sure you actually read what he said. If you accidentally clicked the wrong answer, you’d get to hear his entire spiel again. Yay…
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I forgot about Kaepora Gaebora! haha Yeah….. hoot hoot.
And whenever I saw The Imprisoned, I always thought it looked like a giant fuzzy avocado, which sort of ruined the mood a bit for me… it was really annoying, though. I agree!
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Fi sounds like an artificial Navi.
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If you can believe it, I actually found Fi more irritating…
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