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Gaming's most facepalm-worthy heroes

When the hero's mistakes end the world instead of saving it

Words: David Houghton, GamesRadar UK

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Unoriginal - 5 months 3 days ago

Super Mega Hyper Picard Overload.
Pure genious.

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iluvmyDS - 5 months 2 days ago

You forgot Wander from Shadow Of The Colossus, i forgive you for the good content otherwise.

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ProfessorBonk - 5 months 2 days ago

Isn't this basically the Top 7 Games Where You Find Out You're An Evil Bastard article? Though I agree with these 100%.

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civver - 5 months 2 days ago

Well, to be fair, the failure of the experiment wasn't Gordon's fault, he just pushed the trolley. And he wouldn't have know that the portal storms would happen.

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Samael - 5 months 2 days ago

Being the Legacy of Kain fanboy that I am, I must add Raziel to this list. Though he'd only be like 2/5 Picards, because he really thought he was doing the right thing.

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jar-head - 5 months 2 days ago

why do people so, "well, what about..." there are Thousands of games..."Well..what about..." well, how about you open a can of stfu, gr kicks all ass

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vitoruss - 5 months 2 days ago

Follow my logic on this one...

See, check it out- If you DIDN'T break the water chip in Fallout 2, then the Vault Dweller would have never began his quest.

If the Vault Dweller never began his quest, he would have been sitting in the vault doing nothing when- BAM!!! SUPER MUTANTS COME IN AND KILL EVERYONE.

See, the quest for the waterchip allowed the Vault Dweller to get the armor, the weaponry and most importantly, the experience to kill the Master before Vault 13 could be pillaged.

So technically, that facepalm (while still a pretty bad facepalm) was a blessing in disguise! Saved humanity!

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BigBossOSE - 5 months 2 days ago

@michaelmcc827 & cyberninja: You two are fucking idiots. You are the worst part of the internet. You wasted 4 comments just to bicker back and forth about bragging rights for making a comment just for the sake of making it. You don't say something intelligent, you just spit out the quickest line of shit that you can in an attempt to be able to type "first." Will you go to high school on Monday and brag to all your friends about how you were the one who really deserved the first comment? Is that how pathetic you are? Get off my internet.

As for the list, it gave me a good feeling to think back to Bioshock, and the revelation that your entire journey had been controlled by someone else. Absolutely brilliant storytelling. It's a prime example of why games are such good mediums for it...if you were to watch a movie or read a book with Bioshock's plot, the twist would surely still be impressive...but to find out that you, yourself, are the one who has been running errands for others without even realizing it...that's powerful.

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skyline19 - 5 months 2 days ago

Picard is a serious badass.

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MisterAdequate - 5 months 2 days ago

Actually Hitler wasn't a vegetarian: His doctors recommended a vegetarian diet due to a bowel complaint but he didn't follow said advice. Which I suppose is fair enough, he already had those rumors about his testicles and probably didn't want to add to it with rumors about his arse.

But yeah aside from that nitpicking, another great article :D

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crumbdunky - 5 months 2 days ago

@Misteradequate-Hiyler was also being injected, by the same doctors, liquefied bull testes. Though he's often said to have been vegetarian the fact is, at one time or another, the number of qack diets and treatments he was on/took mean you could call him just about anything.

He started of mad as a bike and his doctors had him as little more than a walking experiment by the time everything fell apart.

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rybell - 5 months 2 days ago

personally i thought that the biggest facepalm in half life 2 was when gordon is almost to the lab to destroy everything and then decides to get in a restraining device instead

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Defguru7777 - 5 months 1 day ago

What about Alex Mercer from Prototype? Its his damn fault the virus is in Manhattan, and he doesn't even realise it. Yes I know Alex isn't himself anymore, but still.

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yoreAtowel - 5 months 1 day ago

Gordon Freemans beard is only matched by Billy Mazes

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FinalGamer - 5 months 1 day ago

Oh man Dirk I remember that part of Dragon's Lair 2....but yeah the Chosen One in Fallout 2, what the hell!?!?

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Demonflare - 5 months 1 day ago

YAH! Bioshock! Kirby! And Snake!

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MW3M - 5 months 1 day ago

There are far too many stupid protangonists...

Shujinko from Mortal Kombat Deception springs to my mind. Man that guy was stupid....

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magicwalnuts0 - 5 months 17 hours ago

This one is excellent, I liked the choice of heroes. And of super mega hyper picard overloads.

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spartan_n30 - 4 months 30 days ago

u for got dedede, of all the vilans of the kirby universe, he is probably the most wirdest one, not only time and again does he do something that causes kirby to kick his ass time and again, but in certain games, he is actuly a indirect GOOD guy, i give him the trophy of wierdest villan of all time.

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