History Manchild / VideoGames

* Snow Villiers in the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' trilogy, mainly the first two games. His go-getter demeanor combined with his hero complex tends to rub some people the wrong way. Lightning considers Snow an irresponsible idiot incapable of caring for Serah let alone taking care of himself. She can't stand Snow for his recklessness and disregard for proper manners and authority, calling him "chummy" and "arrogant", comparing him to a gang leader putting others in danger so he can play the hero. In ''Final Fantasy XIII-2'', Noel is equally irritated by Snow's brashness and tendency to charge into danger without thinking or considering the potential consequences.
* ''VideoGame/Yakuza'': Subverted with regards to Pocket Fighter in ''0'' and ''Kiwami''. While he is obsessed with the rather childish hobby of slot car racing, he is an otherwise mature and well-adjusted individual, and even expresses concern that his hobby might be hampering other aspects of his life.

* Snow Villiers in the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' trilogy, mainly the first two games. His go-getter demeanor combined with his hero complex tends to rub some people the wrong way. Lightning considers Snow an irresponsible idiot incapable of caring for Serah let alone taking care of himself. She can't stand Snow for his recklessness and disregard for proper manners and authority, calling him "chummy" and "arrogant", comparing him to a gang leader putting others in danger so he can play the hero. In ''Final Fantasy XIII-2'', Noel is equally irritated by Snow's brashness and tendency to charge into danger without thinking or considering the potential consequences.

* [[AmericansHateTingle Tingle]] from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series. A 35 year old man who believes he is the reincarnation of a fairy and spends his spare time floating around on a balloon searching for other fairies. Ramped up in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', where his HQ is a tower where his cohorts spin the top around to make magic happen... or something.

* Mae from ''VideoGame/NightInTheWoods'' is a twenty year old college drop-out who acts like a rebellious teenager, compulsively committing petty crimes and having a hard time talking to other people her age about more adult concerns. This strains her relationships with her parents and most of her friends, except her partner in crimes, Gregg.

** Mario might be full of youthful exuberance, but Luigi often just comes across as childish and immature. It is particularly evident in the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' series, where he's prone to crying like a child, though latter games in the series tone it down some somewhat. ''Superstar Saga'' and ''Partners in Time'' has loud, exaggerated sobbing, ''Paper Jam'' has him quietly crying into his hands. Even his voice comes across as more childish than Mario's, despite Mario having the more higher pitched voice of the two.

* Most of Capcoms most famous protagonists(with a few exceptions) are all manchildren/womanchildren with special abilities, quirks, and near emphasized cartoon quirks that highlight their games. Like [[VideoGame/DarkStalkers Morrigan]] as a overstimulated sex demon with a teenage party girl mentality, or [[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Date Masamune]] a brash and rambunctious feudal lord turned Japanese delinquent.

* F.A.N.G. from ''Franchise/StreetFighter''. He prances around and gleefully follows Bison's orders like a child and whenever his plan go wrong he is prone to throwing temper tantrums. It's safe to say his other fellow Shadaloo lackeys have little patience for his shenanigans.

* Max Hass from ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' is an almost literal version, due (presumably) to the fact that a good 1/4 of his skull is missing. His room is filled with toys (some of which you can go out of your way to recover for him at the base), and he's got an acute fear of loud noises (namely buzz saws).

* Most of Capcoms most famous protagonists(with a few exceptions) are all manchildren/womanchildren with special abilities, quirks, and near emphasized cartoon quirks that highlight their games. Like [[DarkStalkers Morrigan]] as a overstimulated sex demon with a teenage party girl mentality, or [[SengokuBasara Date Masamune]] a brash and rambunctious feudal lord turned Japanese delinquent.

* ''VideoGame/CorpseParty'' has Yoshikazu Yanagihori, former CoolTeacher. As his mental illness progressed, he reverted to a childlike mental state, and eventually couldn't even convey his thoughts. People noted that he was still the same person he was before, so it was shocking when he apparently abducted four children and brutally killed three of them. [[spoiler:He didn't actually kill the children. He was manipulated into kidnapping them, but he was just an accomplice to the ''real'' killer... the surviving child, who was actually a malevolent spirit.]]

** Bowser shows obvious signs of immaturity on a regular basis; he has nasty mood swings that scare even his most loyal servants, he never feels responsible for his failures, always looking for someone else to blame, and he is never satisfied with what he already has (he has castles in almost every land in the world), always wanting more. It gets even funnier when he meets his baby self in.
** ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]'': barely anything differentiates them in terms of personality, which clearly shows that Bowser has barely evolved mentally since his infanthood. No wonder why Kamek lacks patience...

* Most of Capcoms most famous protagonists(with a few exceptions) are all manchildren/womanchildren with special abilities, quirks, and near emphasized cartoon quirks that highlight their games. Like [[DarkStalkers Morrigan]] as a overstimulated sex demon with a teenage party girl mentality, or [[SengokuBasara Date Masamune]] a bash and rambunctious feudal lord turned Japanese delinquent.

''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]'': barely anything differentiates them in terms of personality, which clearly shows that Bowser has barely evolved mentally since his infanthood. No wonder why Kamek lacks patience...

** Bowser shows obvious signs of immaturity on a regular basis; he has nasty mood swings that scare even his most loyal servants, he never feels responsible for his failures, always looking for someone else to blame, and he is never satisfied with what he already has (he has castles in almost every land in the world), always wanting more. It gets even funnier when he meets his baby self in
* Most Hack and Slash Protagonists created and directed by Japanese developers like Hideki Kamiya and Hideki Itsuo, considering the trope consists of over the top flamboyant badasses that literally act like teenagers when dealing with hordes of demons/angels. They most certainly qualify

''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]'': barely anything differentiates them in terms of personality, which clearly shows that Bowser has barely evolved mentally since his infanthood. No wonder why Kamek lacks patience...

** Bowser shows obvious signs of immaturity on a regular basis; he has nasty mood swings that scare even his most loyal servants, he never feels responsible for his failures, always looking for someone else to blame, and he is never satisfied with what he already has (he has castles in almost every land in the world), always wanting more. It gets even funnier when he meets his baby self in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]'': barely anything differentiates them in terms of personality, which clearly shows that Bowser has barely evolved mentally since his infanthood. No wonder why Kamek lacks patience...

Most Hack and Slash Protagonists created and directed by Japanese developers like Hideki Kamiya and Hideki Itsuo, considering the trope consists of over the top flamboyant badasses that literally act like teenagers when dealing with hordes of demons/angels. They most certainly qualify
Most of Capcoms most famous protagonists(with a few exceptions) are all manchildren/womanchildren with special abilities, quirks, and near emphasized cartoon quirks that highlight their games. Like [[DarkStalkers Morrigan]] as a overstimulated sex demon with a teenage party girl mentality, or [[SengokuBasara Date Masamune]] a bash and rambunctious feudal lord turned Japanese delinquent.

* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Luigi]] flirts with this depiction in the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' series, except in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]'' where he dives into it headlong.
** While on the subject, Mario himself easily fits into this category. Aside from being a never-ending fountain of bubbly joy, he has absolutely zero qualms with playing with the Mini Marios his own company manufactures, indulges himself in any kind of fun activity regardless of how juvenile, and seems perpetually impossible to take the life-threatening obstacles he overcomes with anything but a whoop of excitement and charging headlong at it.

** Wario, as if it wasn't obvious enough.

** Bowser shows obvious signs of immaturity on a regular basis; he has nasty mood swings that scare even his most loyal servants, he never feels responsible for his failures, always looking for someone else to blame, and he is never satisfied with what he already has (he has castles in almost every land in the world), always wanting more. It gets even funnier when he meets his baby self in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]:'' barely anything differentiates them in terms of personality, which clearly shows that Bowser has barely evolved mentally since his infanthood. No wonder why Kamek lacks patience...

** Bowser shows obvious signs of immaturity on a regular basis; he has nasty mood swings that scare even his most loyal servants, he never feels responsible for his failures, always looking for someone else to blame, and he is never satisfied with what he already has (he has castles in almost every land in the world), always wanting more. It gets even funnier when he meets his baby self in ''[[MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]:'' barely anything differentiates them in terms of personality, which clearly shows that Bowser has barely evolved mentally since his infanthood. No wonder why Kamek lacks patience...

* F.A.N.G. from ''VideoGame/StreetFighter''. He prances around and gleefully follows Bison's orders like a child and whenever his plan go wrong he is prone to throwing temper Tantrums. It's safe to say his other fellow Shadaloo lackeys have little patience for his shenanigans.

* Kyousuke from ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'' is a benevolent, more subtle example: because he's so obsessed with finding fun things to do, tends to be overdramatic and switch between extreme emotions, and doesn't always possess the greatest amounts of common sense (though that's not unusual in this game) he's commonly compared with a child.

* Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik has shown some shades of this throughout the SonicTheHedgehog games. In spite of his advanced knowledge of science and robotics, Eggman also appears to be very immature and is prone to throwing childish outbursts whenever something doesn't go his way. His television and comic depictions also exhibit some of these traits, most notably his ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' counterpart.

* Max Hass from ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'' is an almost literal version, due (presumably) to the fact that a good 1/4 of his skull is missing. His room is filled with toys (some of which you can go out of your way to recover for him at the base), and he's got an acute fear of loud noises (namely buzz saws).

* F.A.N.G. From Street Fighter He prances around and gleefully follows Bison's orders like a child and whenever his plan go wrong he is prone to throwing temper Tantrums. It's safe to say his other fellow Shadaloo lackeys have little patience for his shenanigans.

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* F.A.N.G. From ''Videogame/Street Fighter''. He prances around and gleefully follows Bison's orders like a child and whenever his plan go wrong he is prone to throwing temper Tantrums. It's safe to say his other fellow Shadaloo lackeys have little patience for his shenanigans.

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* Wario, as if it wasn't obvious enough.

** Bowser shows obvious signs of immaturity on a regular basis; he has nasty mood swings that scare even his most loyal servants, he never feels responsible for his failures, always looking for someone else to blame, and he is never satisfied with what he already has(he has castles in almost every land in the world), always wanting more. It gets even funnier when he meets his baby self in ''[[MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]'': barely anything differentiates them in terms of personality, which clearly shows that Bowser has barely evolved mentally since his infanthood. No wonder why Kamek lacks patience...

** Bowser shows obvious signs of immaturity on a regular basis : he has nasty mood swings that scare even his most loyal servants, he never feels responsible for his failures, always looking for someone else to blame, and he is never satisfied with what he has already (he has castles in almost every land in the world), always wanting more. It gets even funnier when he meets his baby self in ''[[MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]'' : barely anything differentiates them in terms of personality, what clearly shows that Bowser barely evolved mentally since his infanthood. No wonder why Kamek lacks patience...
* Wario, as if it wan't obvious enough.

* ''CorpseParty'' has Yoshikazu Yanagihori, former CoolTeacher. As his mental illness progressed, he reverted to a childlike mental state, and eventually couldn't even convey his thoughts. People noted that he was still the same person he was before, so it was shocking when he apparently abducted four children and brutally killed three of them. [[spoiler:He didn't actually kill the children. He was manipulated into kidnapping them, but he was just an accomplice to the ''real'' killer... the surviving child, who was actually a malevolent spirit.]]

* Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik has shown some shades of this throughout the SonicTheHedgehog games. In spite of his advanced knowledge of science and robotics, Eggman also appears to be very immature and is prone to throwing childish outbursts whenever something doesn't go his way. His television and comic depictions also exhibit some of these traits, most notably his AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog counterpart.

* [[SuperMarioBros Luigi]] flirts with this depiction in the ''MarioAndLuigi'' series, except in ''[[MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]'' where he dives into it headlong.