Most pointless character in a game

[Maximum Bert]

The gaming industry has had many characters that don't help the story at all but I want to know who you think was the worst.

My vote would have to be for the majority of the Tekken characters; every character besides those with the devil gene or those who want the devil gene, the rest of the roster have no story, there just there so while your battleing through Jin, Kazuya and Heihachi's storylines its is longer than two battles.

[EDIT] Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law are also good bringing the interesting characters to a total of five

Pointless from a story perspective quite possibly yes I dont know I have been out of Tekken for quite a while pointless from a gameplay perspective absolutely not they provide much needed diversity Tekken wouldnt be much fun with just the mishimas Marshall Law and Paul Phoenix although I never remember Pauls story being particularly relevant to the game (cant remember laws wasnt it all about cooking?).

The final boss in FF9, I think his name was Neco? You play through the game and never here of him once and then all of a sudden he's like MUHHAHAHA FIGHT ME. Which begs the question, "why" but there's no real answer. No one talks about it before or after, but he's the final boss.

Yeah he was called Necro I believe and he was pretty pointless suddenly hes there its one of the things that really bugged me about FFIX his actual inclusion weakened the game imo, They did something similar at the end of IV as well which really pissed me off as Golbez was awesome up until the very end and then they just went crazy and ruined him.

My most pointless character in a game would be the grunt who pops up (from nowhere) to inform you of battle preparations at one point in Valkyria Chronicles he says one line (badly) and then disappears again forever.Why they had to use some generic looking no name character for this one line is bizarre why not just use someone from your squad who have each been given some personality and visual distinction but no mr no name generic face is used instead, seriously he only has one line and it sounds like hes reading it off a piece of paper because presumably one small sentence is to long to memorise I think it was only 5 words or so.

 

[Aircross]

Tagalong kids like Vaan and Penelo.

They add nothing to the story and are annoying as hell.

EDIT: Whoops, didn't notice the necro'ed thread...

 

[scorptatious]

The dragon fly that follows Spyro the Dragon around.

Apparently it later got the name Cynder.

That thing was largely pointless.

The dragonfly was named Sparx. You're thinking about that one character from The Legend of Spyro series.

 

[Saviordd1]

That new character in Half-Life 2, Ep 2. Morrison, I think. Where the hell did he come from?

As forced and random as he was he wasn't pointless, he made the Mangusson device and advanced the plot.

OT:

Fuck Grunt, he was sorta cool but had zero relevance. He didn't tie in with the collectors in the slightest (except for one throwaway line by Okeer), he didn't add anything to the plot, he was just...there.

The Blades from Skyrim. They tell you to go do this and do that, but they never actually help.

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We really need to get into what "Pointless" means.

Pointless means they have no relevance in the story, don't advance the plot, etc.

The blades, even if useless, have a point in the overall plot of the game.