I was thinking the other day how much I hate Batman from the Arkham series, and realized that it's not common for me to have a negative opinion of characters that you play as in a video game. It's hard not to sympathize with Raziel's crusade to avenge himself, first from Kain's betrayal, and then from the Elder One's manipulations. Geralt is a bit of an SJW cuck, but for the most part he's a relatable genuinely-seen-it-all veteran monster-hunter who nevertheless has the capacity to care about people's misfortunes. Leon is a fairly likeable action/survival protagonist, at least in the Remakes. Mostly, the protagonist is just a vessel for the player to insert himself into the game's world, which is fine. But every now and then, you get the really annoying/infuriating twats.
1. Batman from Batman: Arkham. Complete lunatic who will leap off a skyscraper to save a mass-murdering maniac who's just trying to kill himself after bombing a children's hospital or something. Constantly tries to save the most evil criminals, while having no way of containing them or getting them help, knowing full well they will kill again and again. When a new vigilante shows up who's actually eliminating criminals, Batman's top priority is to stop him. He'd rather have a Gotham infested with serial killers and terrorists. Oh, and he mourns Joker's death after he fails to prevent it. "I watched my parents get killed as a child" and "if I start killing I won't be able to stop" only goes so far. Fuck this guy.
2. Hawkè from Dragon Age II. Through the power of terrible writing and fake choices, Hawke ends destroying everything he touches in the city he's trying to save, without ever becoming aware of it. "Champion of Kirkwall", more like, he should have been driven out of town with the words "ill omen" carved into his face. Having three responses: self-righteous, angry and sarcastic, certainly doesn't help.
3. Armagarodendron or whatever from AssCreed III. Don't bother calling him "Connor", it's a moniker that he's given by his [redacted] mentor that he barely uses, despite having an unpronounceable name that he knows no one is going to relate to, but keeps using it anyway because muh injun representation. A sulky, humorless, self-righteous, self-unaware, whiny twat, with a face that gives children nightmares, he's like a living embodiment of reddit. Has a really cool outfit in the "Tranny of King Washinton" dlc, tho.
4. The xigroid from Detroit: Shithole City. There's three protags in the game, an Ellen Page-adjacent gynoid who's perpetually trapped in torturous melodrama scenarios, Connor who's actually kind of interesting (classic "I must hunt my own kind while starting to question my loyalties" scenario), and then there's the [censored] robot leading a slave rebellion. A sulky, humorless, self-righteous, self-unaware twat, who is the living embodim- hey, wait a second. This shit, again? Now with the added mega-hypocrisy of constantly preaching about muh android liberation while casually corrupting other androids' programming to make them unquestioningly follow his orders.
1. Batman from Batman: Arkham. Complete lunatic who will leap off a skyscraper to save a mass-murdering maniac who's just trying to kill himself after bombing a children's hospital or something. Constantly tries to save the most evil criminals, while having no way of containing them or getting them help, knowing full well they will kill again and again. When a new vigilante shows up who's actually eliminating criminals, Batman's top priority is to stop him. He'd rather have a Gotham infested with serial killers and terrorists. Oh, and he mourns Joker's death after he fails to prevent it. "I watched my parents get killed as a child" and "if I start killing I won't be able to stop" only goes so far. Fuck this guy.
2. Hawkè from Dragon Age II. Through the power of terrible writing and fake choices, Hawke ends destroying everything he touches in the city he's trying to save, without ever becoming aware of it. "Champion of Kirkwall", more like, he should have been driven out of town with the words "ill omen" carved into his face. Having three responses: self-righteous, angry and sarcastic, certainly doesn't help.
3. Armagarodendron or whatever from AssCreed III. Don't bother calling him "Connor", it's a moniker that he's given by his [redacted] mentor that he barely uses, despite having an unpronounceable name that he knows no one is going to relate to, but keeps using it anyway because muh injun representation. A sulky, humorless, self-righteous, self-unaware, whiny twat, with a face that gives children nightmares, he's like a living embodiment of reddit. Has a really cool outfit in the "Tranny of King Washinton" dlc, tho.
4. The xigroid from Detroit: Shithole City. There's three protags in the game, an Ellen Page-adjacent gynoid who's perpetually trapped in torturous melodrama scenarios, Connor who's actually kind of interesting (classic "I must hunt my own kind while starting to question my loyalties" scenario), and then there's the [censored] robot leading a slave rebellion. A sulky, humorless, self-righteous, self-unaware twat, who is the living embodim- hey, wait a second. This shit, again? Now with the added mega-hypocrisy of constantly preaching about muh android liberation while casually corrupting other androids' programming to make them unquestioningly follow his orders.
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