the fact that you guys are even arguing with yahoo about its views of video game characters is retarted, its yahoo, what the f--- do they know about video games, and the fact that you are standing up for these characters just proves that you will all never get laid, seriously do something more constructive with your time, read what they have to say, agree or disagree to yourself and get on with your day, are you all really that lonely and have nothing better to do

These articles were great. Every character deserved to be in there. The comment about Luigi dropping a deuce, the rockers cutting themselves, slippy yelling like a puss; all great. Made me laugh. The author of this deserves a round of applause. I dont know what electrictibet's problem is, but he misspelled words in his short article alone; big deal if the characters name had an error, it isnt the point of the article. Everyone should stop hating on this article, its fantastic.

Wow, this really is retarded. You hit the nail on the head with Rock Band and helpless NPC's, and maybe even the version of Slippy from Starfox 64, but this list is absolutely ridiculous. 1. Luigi was the man until they debauched his mad koopa-stomping title by putting him in Luigi's Mansion and labeling him "coward." He could jump higher than his brother, saved his brother's butt a few times, and yet still did not get any praise, whatsoever. Luigi should be up on the list of top ten best. 2. Slippy may be a moron, but in recent installments (Starfox Assault and Starfox Command), Slippy has not only gotten laid, but he tells Falco to shut his mouth, and comes in and saves your a-- when groups of enemy forces are about to shred you to pieces. Sure. he's annoying, but he's finally earned his place among the team without making people say "Remind me why we brought him?" 3. Dr. Robotnik? Seriously? Why, at all, would Dr. Robotnik be even CONSDERED for this list? The man constructed enormous fortresses (namely the Death Egg), single-handedly constructing machine after war machine to obtain world domination. The man is a typical mad-scientist: sure, physically, he's beat, but his mind is something that Sonic can only dream of defeating. Next time, find better wimps to put up on this list. I'm sure if you dug, and actually knew your game history, you'd find that there are much, MUCH bigger wimps in the lineage of gaming.

Luigi should not be on this list. He is totally awesome. And he made it all the way through Luigi's Mansion without any help from his more famous brother at all.

Yea. Most of these characters don't belong on this list. The only thing that some what redeems it is putting Slippy on there, god he is such a wimp. And then when he jets ahead and gets caught by that sand robot beast thing? I didn't have to save Peppy or Falco from anything!

Robotnik's name was changed to Eggman YEARS ago around when Princess Toadstool became Peach and they started numbering Final Fantasy games using the Japanese numbers. Japanese companies, not actually putting effort into proper game translation, switched all of their titles, names, whatevers into their "proper" Japanese names instead of random crap people made up in English. Also...I think any gamer loathes these lists. They're written by those guys we all saw like 10 years ago who were in their 40's who don't know video games but pretend they do to be on TV, desperately trying to seem "cool" but knowing nothing.

ok you guys get dumber and dumber every time I read these lol! ok first I have a bone to pick with the "manly" characters you named. Chris Redfield was a whining little wimp in RE5. he was a joke compared to Leon Kennedy.and second the survivors in dead rising can be annoying. here are some simple tips mmk? 1:give them weapons.seriously how in the hell would you feel if you were surrounded by hundreds of flesh eaters without so much as a king salmon to defend yourself? if you give them weapons.they will use them and they will prove useful. 2:they have books in the game. you get one of them for beating the raincoat cult called "brain washing tips." that book basically makes it so that survivors you are escorting,don't cower in fear.at all.in fact they will run straight into a crowd of zombies without hesitation if you tell them to. well everything else that can be said has been said so I think im done here.

Luigi and Slippy do NOT deserve to be on this list. Luigi may not get the love, but he has earned his due. So Slippy is better fixing an Arwing then piloting one, he is still strong enough to be on the Star Fox team.

Im sorry. Let me edit my previous post (seeinga s the edit button won't work). Nintendo/Sega games have always been slightly more family friendly. Nintendo more so, but considering Sega faded behind Nintendo and Sony, well you get my point I hope.

Eggman will forever be Robotnik. What kind of a name is eggman anyhow? Robotnik uses his -robots-. Haha. I remember the old school sonic days. This article was pretty horrible based on the fact that it sounds like a poorly made rant, I mean, how can you even rant about Nintendo characters ANYHOW? Nintendo has always been the family friendly brand and so calling something wimpy and then mentioning a Gears of War and a Resident Evil character respectively (NOT family friendly) is just outrageous. Honestly I don't care about the video games or characters that much, but this maneuver makes my face contort into odd and unpleasant ways. Poor attempt. 1 Star.