10 Of The Worst Fighting Game Characters Ever

To be fair, Fight Club wasn't all that great of a fighting game. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of you reading this haven't played the game, let alone knew it existed. It's one thing to be a crappy character in a good fighting game, but to be a shite one in a shite game is about as bad as it gets. Still, the only redeeming thing about a game as crap as Fight Club is that you get to punch Fred Durst in the face.

I know that's the dream of so many people, and it almost seems like the developers knew that and only added him to try to save the game. It sort of worked as the only reason people ever bring up the Fight Club video game is to rag on Mr. Blood Fart himself, Fred Durst. I guess he might have made the roster as he did the title track for the game, but as the lyric sheet are just the words "Fight" and "Stick 'em" about a thousand times it was it really worth it?

Over the past few years it really does seems like Capcom has little love for Mega Man. And if the miserable failure of Inafune's independent Mighty No. 9 says anything, Capcom probably won't be touching the blue bomber anytime soon. But even before that Mega Man did show up in Smash Bros. and that was pretty darn cool, but then he turned up in Street Fighter X Tekken and Capcom showed their true colors.

Fat Mega Man is a terrible idea and a play off of the original US box art --he wasn't fat there-- for the original NES version of the game. I'm really starting to think Nintendo has more respect for the character than Capcom does. Hell, the very same game treated Pac-Man with more respect. Also, Fat Mega Man sucks. He sucks a lot.

Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance was a lot of fun and helped keep the fighting series relevant. While my friends and I played it for hours on end, there were a few issues with some of the characters. It seems like the team behind the game were running short on ideas as they included a character that was just some rando in a mocap suit. Where Johhny Cage was a movie star that could kick ass, Mokap was a stunt man who, like Cage, wanted to prove his worth.

That's all well and good, and he could even have played off of Cage but from a video game standpoint, but he decided to wear the damn mocap suit like an idiot. When the world is being invaded there is nothing better than to put on a skin-tight leotard with a bunch of balls on it. He also sucked as a character, but he provided hours of laughs by being so stupid. Oh, and even if you won Armageddon with the character you still lose.

Ballz 3D is a thing. I'm not sure I'd classify it a fighting game, but the box says it is, so it makes the list. That said, since every single character is just a bunch of colored balls stacked on top of each other, everything single character is making this list. How anyone thought this was a good idea should have been fired and never again allowed to create video games. Ryu, Sub-Zero, Terry Bogard are all great characters, but you don't often hear about Green and Red ball guy being referenced.

Critics and gamers alike pretty much wrote off Balls with a "Z" before it even came out. Even on a cartridge the game chugged long and had controls that were far too complicated for their own good. The game also said "To be the champion, you gotta have Ballz!" when it booted up, so you can tell the level of maturity the developers were shooting for.

Doctor Bosconovitch was originally a bonus character in Tekken 3 alongside with the tiny T-Rex Gon. He later became a full playable character in Tekken Tag Tournament 2 because apparently the developers ran out of ideas and worthwhile original characters are hard work.

Bosconovitch is just a really old scientist, so the fact that he can compete against the likes of the "Iron Fist" tournament fighters just sort of makes their standing a little lower on the totem pole of cool. His notable role in the series is being friends with Yoshimitsu and building the Jack robots. A waste of space on any roster, Bosconovitch beating you is about as embarrassing as it gets in fighting game circles.

As a kid in the 90's fighting games were a really big deal. Even then when we played Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi we knew it was simply just a bad Tekken knockoff. How Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker don't just chop down every non-lightsaber characters is insanity. Even then the character list was "interesting" with throwaway characters like Thok, but there was one that stood out above all the rest --Hoar.

Pronounced like whore, Hoar was just a pissed off Tusken Raider because Lucas was an insane person. You think I'm kidding, but he approved an actual Jedi by the name of Master Bates... Hoar later got a story that tied him directly to the massacre of his people by Anakin Skywalk, but tiing him to the prequel triliogy probably only has things worse.

Smash Bros. fans knew this little guy was going to make this list. The Smash Bros. series is pretty much-loved across the board, from fighting game fans to the casual Nintendo fan. It boasts a pretty diverse group of characters which more than a few slots taken up by those lovable Pokemon. I'm not a huge fan of this as it takes away roster spots from other characters, but at least most Pokemon of diverse enough to stand on their own.

Hell, the Pokemon trainer is the perfect example of how to do this right. Pichu on the other hand makes little sense, especially when the game had (and does) feature Pikachu on the main roster. Even worse is the fact that Pichu hurts himself (a lot) with his own damn moves. Couple that with his small size and being very light and you have a recipe for crap that will make you wonder why you didn't;t just choose Pikachu instead.

Ingrid makes little sense in the world of Street Fighter. Her only purpose is to inject some fan-service into the mix by making her nothing than some sexy female schoolgirl character that isn't much fun to play with. Even more so is that she initially came with no backstory, and everything about her just seems so damned forced. She might be some time-traveling alien, or whatever, that may or may not be the source of all that Psycho Power.

They later shoehorned her into Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX, so she is now canon, but nobody really cared and she has been pretty much panned by everyone. One of the biggest complaints fans of the series have is that she simply doesn't not fit the style of the series and instead looks pulled from some random anime. And how many schoolgirl characters does one series about the world's greatest fighters need?

ECO 35-2 from Rise Of The Robots isn't a terrible character in the grand scheme of things. In a full roster he's easily fall right in the middle, being that go-to character for beginners to use while figuring out the game. The problem is that ECO 35-2 is the only damn character you can play as in the Rise Of The Robots story mode. Can you imagine fighting against a roster of robot baddies only to be stuck with Mr. Generic the entire game?

Sure, you can play as the other robots in 2-player mode, but none of these bots have any story and serve little purpose other than being Vs. fodder. This is even more painful when you see that some of the robot designs are actually really cool, only to remember that you are stuck with Mr. Generic. Oh, and remember how I said there was a Vs. mode? Well, even if you do find a friend to play with you, the game forces one player to always be ECO 35-2.

Kasumi Ninja is a game I'm slightly embarrassed to own. Sure, it's a really crappy fighting game, but that's not the reason it brings shame on those that own it; instead it features some of the worst and most insensitive cultural stereotypes in a genre that is known for their poor stereotype's. Angus MacGreggor is one such character in that he's a red headed Scotsman that loves fighting.

He's so good at it that he leaves his homeland after beating up every person in every pub there. The real kicker is that his main move is to lift up the front of his kilt to fire a, well, fireball from his dick hole. Kasumi Ninja sucks and MacGreggor is its only real claim to fame. How unfortunate for the game and the Atari Jaguar.