Top 10 Worst NPCs in Video Games

These are the guys irritate us to no end. Welcome to WatchMojo.com and today we are counting down our Top 10 Worst NPCs or Non-Playable Characters.

For this list, we decided to rank the characters that are just plain annoying, whether they were designed to do so or not. So we are excluding antagonists, as well as companions and teammates, You got lucky Slippy.

The first major trader you encounter on your adventure through the Wasteland. Residing in her workshop in Megaton, the Craterside Supply, she hassles the Lone Wanderer into helping her develop the Wasteland Survival Guide. She is incredibly intelligent but has absolutely no experience in the field and doesn't understand how dangerous and life threatening her quests are. You could try to kill her by blowing up Megaton, but all that does is give her a ghoulish makeover.

Have you ever met an obnoxious know it all hippie, now imagine that hippie is a homicidal god with weapons of mass destruction. That’s Viridi, or better recognized as the Goddess of Nature, one of the many deities Pit meets in Kid Icarus: Uprising. While she has the form of a young human girl, we are pretty sure she has no idea if she is good or evil. On one hand she aids Pit while allied with Palutena and on the other she wants to erase the human race via reset bomb. Oh and on top of that, she's just so damn preachy and self righteous.

Damn is Roman persistent. The older cousin of the main character of Niko Bellic, he will quickly get on your nerves. While initially he does provide you many key story missions, he will constantly pester you to entertain him by any means whether it be bowling, darts, a strip club or the like. Roman's constant propositions even created an info-graphic meme, geared to the many people who want to bowl across the Internet.

In a world where we have forest faeries, we're bound to have people who dream about being forest faeries. Tingle is one of those people. A small middle aged man obsessed with fairies way more than a single individual should, he tries to mimic the player by wearing similar clothes and mimicking Link’s Grab Item Pose. He also speaks in a shrill voice, has a lot of confetti, and is confusingly wears suction cups on his shoes? He plays many small roles in separate Zelda games but hardly ever impacts anything but your nerves.

One of the many random unmarked companions that can be found in Fallout 3, Sticky, also known as Jack, is a sixteen year old teen that is in the process of being kicked out of the Little Lamplight encampment, a refuge for children in the Capitol Wasteland. He has to leave since he is too old to stay and needs an escort to big town, where the children go when they've grown up. Sticky is well known to be constantly annoying with his irritating dialogue and nonsensical random stories. This can cause some hilarious events in the process.

The world of Tamriel can drive anyone mad, just ask our next entry. Cicero was once a masterful assassin for the Dark Brotherhood, but slowly went insane after being tasked to be the keeper of the Night Mother's remains. While his dialogue is certainly well written and welcome change of pace, his shrieky, bouncing voice is definitely not. But, if you're lucky dedicated enough to complete the Dark Brotherhood quest line, becoming the master assassin is nothing compared to the satisfaction of giving Cicero his due.

Don't you dare reset the game while playing Animal Crossing or you will have to deal with this fellow. Mr. Resetti is an anthropomorphic mole who basically assumes this is your first rodeo, every time you play. Breaking the fourth wall everytime he shows up, he berates the player for ending the game without saving. Every. Single. Time. The worst part of it all is that you can't skip past his lecture, and it blocks the entire screen.

The worst thing in the middle of a zombie apocalypse is someone who helps too much. Otis is that person. He is the janitor and maintenance man of the Willamette Parkview Mall, and acts as your main source for finding other useless survivors hidden in the mall as he contacts you via handheld radio when he finds one, sometimes just to talk. The persistent ringing is usually annoying enough, but what’s worse is that if you need to stop the conversation to take care of some zombies, he’ll chadidise you for hanging up on him. Well Sor-ee for not wanting to get by face eaten by Zombies.

If you need help in the Sonic universe, look no further. In Sonic Adventure 2 in particular Omochao served as the help guide for the game, which would be fine for the first few stages … except he appears in almost every stage in the game. Worse is that he’s sometimes placed right on your high speed path, meaning you’ll end up activating him on accident. And worse, he can get hurt by explosions, and even if it wasn’t your fault he’ll blame you.


Before we reveal our first choice, take a look at our honorable mentions.

Nigel West Dickens
"Red Dead Redemption" (2010)

Balloon Kids
"Spider-Man 2" (2004)

Ms Crumplebottom
"The Sims" series (2000-)

Minstrels
"Assassin’s Creed" series (2007-)

As far as NPC’s that grind our gears, this one takes the cake. 343 as many roles: historian, guard, AI, unnecessary character. That cheery over the top attitude is one thing, being betrayed by him in the first game once was bad enough, yet you end up having to work with him again in the sequels in, this time killing walking stereotype Sgt. Johnson. Only then do you get to kill him in a rather anticlimactic fight. A character we certainly could have done without, this in your face lightbulb takes the prize as the most lousy character ever.

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