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The Top 7... Lazy Character Clichés

Copy, paste, unoriginality! The most overused archetypes of all time

Words: Charlie Barratt, GamesRadar US

Description: Dude, your parents and teachers just don't understand... but hey, this focus-tested, anthropomorphic, cereal box reject totally gets you! Whoa, he even wears sneakers! What better way of reminding everyone who's boss than by wasting your allowance money on this bargain bin crap of a game... and its sequels? Kid power!

Common characteristics:

  • Any type of animal species acceptable, so long as it can wear shades, goggles and/or a backwards baseball cap. Radical!
  • Often engaged in some sort of extreme sports activity or mild criminal caper. To the max!
  • Whether flashing a sarcastic smile, mischievous grin or rebellious snarl, must display as many teeth as possible. Wicked!
  • Spiky hairstyle (furstyle?) welcome, but crazily angled eyebrows preferred. Bodacious!
  • Either giving the player a bitchin' thumbs-up sign or pointing defiantly at itself as if to say, "Yeah, I'm a windsurfing hippopotamus. What are YOU gonna do about it, gramps?"

 
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Possible Inspiration:


The Antidote:

Amaterasu, a white wolf goddess and the star of Okami, doesn't need "attitude." She has majesty, wisdom and grace instead. She doesn't need a skateboard or ray gun to make her interesting, because her creators understood that animals are already fascinating enough on their own.

 
9 Comments
CuddlyBomber - 3 months 4 days ago
Ah Man i just listened to talkradar11 and the top 7 was hilarious.
MSCR - 2 months 23 days ago
Pretty good article, a bit preachy sometimes and I fail to see how that raziel thing is a prettyboy. Moody and shit sure, but the guy runs about naked, has no visible genitals and isn't half his face missing?

Other than that, pretty insightful stuff.
Coolbeans69 - 2 months 17 days ago
That was pretty funny
Psyrate - 2 months 2 days ago
The truth has never been so hilarious.
melloe - 1 month 13 days ago
well done. but you forgot Samus in the collage of masked characters?
Major_Wuss - 29 days 5 hours ago
LOL at including Viva Pinata in the Animal with Attitude page.
NeotericDope - 9 days 4 hours ago
All of these fall into the antidote category:

Black stereotype antidote:Eli Vance (Half Life)

Half naked woman antidote: Alyx Vance (Half Life), Faith (Mirrors Edge), Zoey (Left 4 Dead)

Masked men antidote: (Mega Man) not completely masked, but he's covered in a helmet and owns.

Love interest antidote: Once again Alyx Vance (Half Life)
crustdbeat - 8 days 21 hours ago
forgot about jax from MK,

they emphasize his arms a tad dont they?
crustdbeat - 8 days 20 hours ago
Thanks for the wallpaper!!
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