10 Most Annoying Video Game Sidekicks | SPIKE

Video game sidekicks are by their very name supposed to help you complete your quest, overcome the zombie horde, or destroy the giant chicken robot that poops death bombs. Some of them not only fail miserably at this small task, they actually hinder yours. These are the sidekicks that might as well be villains.

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By Danny Gallagher

10. Todd "Maniac" Marshall from Wing Commander

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Nobody likes a backseat driver, especially if the vehicle you're driving is a multi-billion dollar space fighter that can ignore the laws of space and time with the click of a button. Maniac from the Wing Commander series makes you wish your backseat came with an eject button. In between missions, he's your best friends but out on the battlefield, he's almost as big of an enemy as the people who actually trying to kill you. And if you're not careful, he can actually damage your ship if you saunter into his line of fire, making Maniac as bad of a wingman as Robert Blake.

9. Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog 2

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Remember when you wanted to sneak into the R-rated horror movie with your teenage friends, but your mom made you bring your little brother along so you had to watch the G-as-in-God-awful rated movie Captain Sprinkletoes vs. the Magic Scarf of Evil? That's how it feels to have Tails "watching your back." This extremely slow freak of evolution is nowhere near as fast as Sonic and constantly lags behind if you're going too fast. That means you have to completely defeat the purpose of the game by slowing down. It's like pairing The Flash with the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons.

8. Slippy the Toad from Starfox

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Saving the universe from the (literal) face of evil is hard enough without having to bail out your buddies every time their sorry ass wanders into an enemy fighter's aim. Slippy from all of the Nintendo Starfox games has had more than enough missions to learn how to get himself out of trouble, yet he continually bugs you with high-pitched distress signals that make you wish you could just blast him out of the star-filled sky yourself. You would not only welcome a dishonorable discharge if you didn't have to hear his whiny voice ever again, you'd even bribe the military jury to make sure they find you guilty.

7. John Madden from the Madden Franchise

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You'd think that having one of the most successful coaches in the history of the National Football League would help you rack up more easy wins than the Cincinnati Reds in the 1919 World Series. Unfortunately for players of the many Madden NFL games, he's about as useful as Mike Singletary if he was in a coma. The "Ask Madden" feature on his games goes out of its way to pick the worst play in any given situation. Not only that, he's even more useless if you're on defense and you don't know your tight end from a hole in the ground.

6. Daxter from Jak and Daxter

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The wisecracking sidekick routine has been a staple of mainstream entertainment since movies advanced from the silent era, but this sidekick made us wish all games were accompanied only by a professional organist. This squirrel/weasel/ferret hybrid looks like the refuse of an animal test fetus experiment gone bad and sounds like the mutant offspring of Joe Pesci and Bugs Bunny (if Pesci had a uterus).