Cannon fodder

[quiet_samurai]

Operation: Get Behind the Darkies!!

Just kidding, I have to say Stormtroopers.

 

[plastic_window]

Radroaches from Fallout 3. They don't even attack you when you go beyond a certain level. In fact, around about the same level they stop giving you experience. There is literally no point to them after that, they just sit there as something to shoot.

 

[Kogarian]

Peasants in the Rome: Total War game. What's that, Huns? You didn't bring enough arrows to kill my spearmen and light cavarly after all the peasants died? Huh.

 

[Neotericity]

Skaven Slaves are the epitomy of cannon fodder!

 

[neuromasser]

Anyone without a name in Samurai/Dynasty Warriors games (including Warriors Orochi and similar). That's cannon fodder in all it's glory: Hundreds of soldiers on every map existing for a sole purpose of being slain by you.

 

[LowFatLoki]

Metroids. You are always getting killed by samus, always.

Edit: Also. Any enemy thats in the first two levels of any FPS.

 

[Plauged1]

All the regular enemies in Devil May Cry 3 seem like cannon fodder to me. As for a more relatable answer, I would say the skeletons in God of War, or the wretches in Gears.

 

[[Gavo]]

Normal Infected in L4D, Dynasty warriors people, zerglings, and Soviet infantry (in real life)

 

[lizards]

wretchs (sp) from gears

 

[killcheese]

the reg zombies in left 4 dead

 

[Slayer_2]

The wretches in Gears of War 2. In number 1 the packs can present some danger to me on Insane, but I still can get through a pack of 20 in Gears 2 with my chainsaw alone.

EDIT:

wretchs (sp) from gears

Damn, someone (kinda) beat me to it.

 

[iggyus]

Any creature in God of War is only there to be brutally slain by Kratos

 

[Twilight_guy]

The Russian infantry... wait in a game?

Probably the Zerglings and the enemies in Viewtiful Joe.

 

[Yokai]

Gretchin from Dawn of War and the 40k universe. Lovable little goblins that tote massive revolvers and run shrieking towards the enemy only to be obliterated by bolter fire.

 

[Trivun]

The Card Guards of American McGee's Alice. I mean, you have a hot psycho girl with a huge sword, razor sharp playing cards, demon dice and all sorts of crazy shit on one hand, and on the other, a bunch of playing cards with a short blunt sword. Who's going to win that, I wonder? At least our hot psycho girl was given a challenge with other enemies...

 

[roastbeefy]

The Mordor orc soldiers in the first Battle for Middle Earth game. They're free units, so one of my strategies is to make massive amounts of them to cover my base or send to the slaughterhouse. Also, Skeleton soldiers on Warcraft III are actually really useful if you have enough of them.

 

[Curtmiester]

I don't believe anyone has said those pokemon you beat the crap out of just for a few levels. You know they can't beat you...

 

[NeoDeath90]

Every goblin in Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Goblins get to be really annoying at higher levels. I think you'd want to go with mudcrabs. Those little suckers are so fun to kill in humorous ways.

 

[Artemis923]

Imps in the original FF.

 

[scotth266]

The Imperial Guard are... well... weak. They die to anything, and require you to outnumber the opponent or lose.