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* In the MMO ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'', one mission you can get is to kidnap a snitch named Joshua who saw you committing a crime from his apartment while he was "staying up late playing [=dOs=]". The Joshua NPC character model is fat, balding, frumpily dressed, and has a decidedly unintelligent-looking face.
** And to add injury to insult, his pathfinding sucks, which not only makes him really annoying during the mission, but making him look extra idiotic as every twenty feet you have to go back for him and find him standing there staring around as if he had no clue where you went.
** And to add injury to insult, his pathfinding sucks, which not only makes him really annoying during the mission, but making him look extra idiotic as every twenty feet you have to go back for him and find him standing there staring around as if he had no clue where you went.
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* In the MMO ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'', one mission you can get is to kidnap a snitch named Joshua who saw you committing a crime from his apartment while he was "staying up late playing [=dOs=]". The Joshua NPC character model is fat, balding, frumpily dressed, and has a decidedly unintelligent-looking face.
**face. And to add injury to insult, his pathfinding sucks, which not only makes him really annoying during the mission, but making him look extra idiotic as every twenty feet you have to go back for him and find him standing there staring around as if he had no clue where you went.
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** This aspect of Cloud resurfaced in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake''. While he's still cooler and more aloof than ever, Cloud in ''Remake'' has the attitude of impatient gamer or disgruntled worker who is only interested in getting paid and [[SirSwearsALot swearing up a storm]]. Like the original though he starts to soften up and show his more relatable and endearing dorkly insecure side thanks to Tifa, Aerith, Jessie and Barret putting chinks in his armour and teasing him for wanting to be nothing more than a antisocial edgelord.
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** This aspect of Cloud resurfaced in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake''. While he's still cooler and more aloof than ever, Cloud in ''Remake'' has the attitude of impatient gamer or disgruntled worker who is only interested in getting paid and [[SirSwearsALot swearing up a storm]]. Like the original though he starts to soften up and show his more relatable and endearing dorkly insecure side thanks to Tifa, Aerith, Jessie and Barret putting chinks in his armour and teasing him for wanting to be nothing more than a an antisocial edgelord.
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** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' of course has Dante himself, on closer insepction. Anime-level pretty boy and muscly good looks and demonic badassery aside, he's still a pizza gobbling, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskw8aGIFk0&ab_channel=GinoL rock guitar]] loving dork who only his adventure primarily to have a fun crazy "party" of a time (much like you) as well as find hot chicks and get laid (hitting on ActionGirl Lady frequently in the game). Really saving the world appears to behind several immature priorities for him, although in some fairness he's only 19 years old in the third game. Even when he's older, Dante cannot resist being an relatably embarssing and hilariously cringey goofball e.g breaking into Music/MichaelJackson [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV9LyYzLUyQ&ab_channel=BossFightDatabase dance]] in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 DMC5]]'' to the withering expresion of Trish and glee of the equally dorky Nico. Also worth noting Dante's relatably dumb antics are precisely why fans love him and attempts to make him more traditionally "cool" and gritty such as in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry2 DMC2]]'' and more drastically ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' are met with considerable dislike.
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** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' of course has Dante himself, on closer insepction. Anime-level pretty boy and muscly good looks and demonic badassery aside, he's still a pizza gobbling, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskw8aGIFk0&ab_channel=GinoL rock guitar]] loving dork who is only on his adventure primarily to have a fun crazy "party" of a time (much like you) as well as find hot chicks and get laid (hitting on ActionGirl Lady frequently in the game). Really saving the world appears to behind several immature priorities for him, although in some fairness he's only 19 years old in the third game. Even when he's older, Dante cannot resist being an relatably embarssing and hilariously cringey goofball e.g breaking into Music/MichaelJackson [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV9LyYzLUyQ&ab_channel=BossFightDatabase dance]] in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 DMC5]]'' to the withering expresion of Trish and glee of the equally dorky Nico. Also worth noting Dante's relatably dumb antics are precisely why fans love him and attempts to make him more traditionally "cool" and gritty such as in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry2 DMC2]]'' and more drastically ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' are were met with considerable dislike.
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* ''VideoGame/HuniePop'': Nikki is a stereotypical GamerGirl and not even a particularly flattering one at that. She is a misanthropic {{NEET}} who works part-time as a barista (and is rude to her customers) and spends her days playing video games and eating junk food. Yet she is a firm fan favourite, and even major streamers like [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]] found her the most endearing heroine.
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* ''VideoGame/HuniePop'': Nikki is a stereotypical GamerGirl GamerChick and not even a particularly flattering one at that. She is a misanthropic {{NEET}} who works part-time as a barista (and is rude to her customers) and spends her days playing video games and eating junk food. Yet she is a firm fan favourite, and even major streamers like [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]] found her the most endearing heroine.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'': Squall is similar but distinct in this regard compared to Cloud. While Squall is a highly skilled gunblade toting badass, his antisocial behavior and lone wolf attitude are actually attributed with his immaturity rather than being positive aspects of his mental well being. When a cool new girl enters his life, rather than sweep her off her feet with his badassery and brooding demeanor, he is the one who is taken back by her enthusiastic attitude. When she falls unconscious, Squall stops the plot to find her a cure so much he plays into the villains hands and nearly gets them both killed. Basically Cloud is what a gamer thinks they are instead of what they actually are, Squall is what a gamer would be if they actually lived in a fantasy world.
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* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'':
** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' of course has Dante himself, on closer insepction. Anime-level pretty boy and muscly good looks and demonic badassery aside, he's still a pizza gobbling, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskw8aGIFk0&ab_channel=GinoL rock guitar]] loving dork who only his adventure primarily to have a fun crazy "party" of a time (much like you) as well as find hot chicks and get laid (hitting on ActionGirl Lady frequently in the game). Really saving the world appears to behind several immature priorities for him, although in some fairness he's only 19 years old in the third game. Even when he's older, Dante cannot resist being an relatably embarssing and hilariously cringey goofball e.g breaking into Music/MichaelJackson [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV9LyYzLUyQ&ab_channel=BossFightDatabase dance]] in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 DMC5]]'' to the withering expresion of Trish and glee of the equally dorky Nico. Also worth noting Dante's relatably dumb antics are precisely why fans love him and attempts to make him more traditionally "cool" and gritty such as in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry2 DMC2]]'' and more drastically ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' are met with considerable dislike.
** Nero, Dante's nephew and successor from ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 DMC5]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 DMC5]]'' is actually more of a PlayedForDrama case of this. The frustration Nero feels being OvershadowedByAwesome courtsey of his TricksterMentor uncle in both gameplay and story is designed to reflect how the player feels while playing as Nero and fighting Dante or being around him (not helped by Dante calling Nero "dead weight" in the fifth game). Much of ''[=DMC5=]'' is about Nero coming into his own and managing to rub shoulders with his uncle and father [[spoiler:Vergil]] with the former PassingTheTorch to him. Like Dante, Nero also has his fair share of player reflective dorky traits such as AirGuitar.
** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' of course has Dante himself, on closer insepction. Anime-level pretty boy and muscly good looks and demonic badassery aside, he's still a pizza gobbling, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oskw8aGIFk0&ab_channel=GinoL rock guitar]] loving dork who only his adventure primarily to have a fun crazy "party" of a time (much like you) as well as find hot chicks and get laid (hitting on ActionGirl Lady frequently in the game). Really saving the world appears to behind several immature priorities for him, although in some fairness he's only 19 years old in the third game. Even when he's older, Dante cannot resist being an relatably embarssing and hilariously cringey goofball e.g breaking into Music/MichaelJackson [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV9LyYzLUyQ&ab_channel=BossFightDatabase dance]] in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 DMC5]]'' to the withering expresion of Trish and glee of the equally dorky Nico. Also worth noting Dante's relatably dumb antics are precisely why fans love him and attempts to make him more traditionally "cool" and gritty such as in ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry2 DMC2]]'' and more drastically ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'' are met with considerable dislike.
** Nero, Dante's nephew and successor from ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 DMC5]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry5 DMC5]]'' is actually more of a PlayedForDrama case of this. The frustration Nero feels being OvershadowedByAwesome courtsey of his TricksterMentor uncle in both gameplay and story is designed to reflect how the player feels while playing as Nero and fighting Dante or being around him (not helped by Dante calling Nero "dead weight" in the fifth game). Much of ''[=DMC5=]'' is about Nero coming into his own and managing to rub shoulders with his uncle and father [[spoiler:Vergil]] with the former PassingTheTorch to him. Like Dante, Nero also has his fair share of player reflective dorky traits such as AirGuitar.
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* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragon'': Lose enough units to get enough [[https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Replacement_character replacement characters]], and eventually you'll get ones with insulting names. Note that to get the best secret characters, you ''have'' to keep your army small, and there will be some times where picking up replacement characters (which happens automatically) will put you ''over'' the desired army size.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Cloud Strife, believe it or not actually as he was originally presented was an example of this, similar to Raiden. Despite his good looks and genuine {{BFS}} swinging badassery, Cloud frequently ends up making a fool of himself in relatably embarrassing situations and tries his damnest to be cool (especially concerning his love interests) and not a dork yet is seemingly always overshadowed by TheAce BigBad Sephiroth. This also ties into the major crushing relevation of the game [[spoiler:that Cloud isn't the First Class SOLDIER he thinks he is, but rather a grunt who has the FakeMemories of his actually acomplished friend Zack with Cloud accepting who really is being the HesBack of the third act]]. This trope in relation to Cloud is often cited as one of the reasons why the unambiguously cool "emo" TragicHero Cloud of later titles can be often disliked, as the original game empathised that the edgy badass is who Cloud ''wants to be'' rather who he actually is.
-->'''Cloud''': Alright everyone, let's mosey!
-->'''Cid''': Damn! Again? Stop sayin' it like a wimp! Can't you say 'Move out!' or somethin'?
** This aspect of Cloud resurfaced in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake''. While he's still cooler and more aloof than ever, Cloud in ''Remake'' has the attitude of impatient gamer or disgruntled worker who is only interested in getting paid and [[SirSwearsALot swearing up a storm]]. Like the original though he starts to soften up and show his more relatable and endearing dorkly insecure side thanks to Tifa, Aerith, Jessie and Barret putting chinks in his armour and teasing him for wanting to be nothing more than a antisocial edgelord.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragon'': Lose enough units to get enough [[https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Replacement_character replacement characters]], and eventually you'll get ones with insulting names. Note that to get the best secret characters, you ''have'' to keep your army small, and there will be some times where picking up replacement characters (which happens automatically) will put you ''over'' the desired army size.
-->'''Cloud''': Alright everyone, let's mosey!
-->'''Cid''': Damn! Again? Stop sayin' it like a wimp! Can't you say 'Move out!' or somethin'?
** This aspect of Cloud resurfaced in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake''. While he's still cooler and more aloof than ever, Cloud in ''Remake'' has the attitude of impatient gamer or disgruntled worker who is only interested in getting paid and [[SirSwearsALot swearing up a storm]]. Like the original though he starts to soften up and show his more relatable and endearing dorkly insecure side thanks to Tifa, Aerith, Jessie and Barret putting chinks in his armour and teasing him for wanting to be nothing more than a antisocial edgelord.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragon'': Lose enough units to get enough [[https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Replacement_character replacement characters]], and eventually you'll get ones with insulting names. Note that to get the best secret characters, you ''have'' to keep your army small, and there will be some times where picking up replacement characters (which happens automatically) will put you ''over'' the desired army size.
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* ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'': While Juilet herself isn't example of this, her boyfriend the {{Deuteragonist}} Nick ([[LosingYourHead a disembodied head]]) most certianly is. Nick is very reflective of the MostGamersAreMale trope with his blustering bravado, whininess, crudeness, favourite hobbies including "masterbation" and lustful reactions to Juilet changing into other MsFanservice outfits "Man I wish I still had a penis right now". [[spoiler: Swan the TroubledTeen BigBad can be similarly seen as this as well, with his backstory of pinning shyly after the beautiful Juilet after she was compassionate to him meant to be realistic and relatable... at least until he triggers the ZombieApocalypse over Juilet dating Nick.]]
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* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': Heather like Nikki is a RareFemaleExample. Unlike the vast majority of her contemporary female protagionists Heather is ''not'' a extremly gorgeous and cool Lara Croft/Jill Valentine type, with her face being noticeably freckly, realistically blemished and has rings under her eyes. Hell InUniverse Heather even states she hates mirrors, with this AppearanceAngst about how she looks being horrically mocked by Silent Hill which presents Heather with her EnemyWithout Memory of Alessa being a disfigured and rotting mirror of Heather herself. Heather also proves to be relatably dorky and ackward in the game's moments of levity and even in the more serious moments she uses lame one-liners taken out of a 80s action film, saying "checkmate" unironically when confronting Claudia with a gun in the climax. This all likely why Heather is so beloved among female fans of the series and genre.
** Other protagionists such as Harry (Heather/Cheryl's dad), James, Henry etc are also examples of this. Rather than being macho OneManArmy desperados they're instead all unathletic and scared dudes who StumbledIntoThePlot and are hapless as anyone else would be in that situation. James as well as Eddie from the [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 second game]] provide darker examples of this with their rotten luck and frusation in life meant to be relatable [[spoiler:making their crimes all the more terrible, though James at least is geuinely guilt ridden.]] Harry WordOfGod was even designed to be as non-distinct as possible so the player could project themselves onto him better.
** Other protagionists such as Harry (Heather/Cheryl's dad), James, Henry etc are also examples of this. Rather than being macho OneManArmy desperados they're instead all unathletic and scared dudes who StumbledIntoThePlot and are hapless as anyone else would be in that situation. James as well as Eddie from the [[VideoGame/SilentHill2 second game]] provide darker examples of this with their rotten luck and frusation in life meant to be relatable [[spoiler:making their crimes all the more terrible, though James at least is geuinely guilt ridden.]] Harry WordOfGod was even designed to be as non-distinct as possible so the player could project themselves onto him better.
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Basically a ZCE. "you're a cop (not relatable to the average audience member), you have extreme amnesia (ditto), and you're an alcoholic." That's probably the most relatable bit, but even then, the main character is definitely not meant to be some average video gamer off the street.
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* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'': In this point-and-click adventure game, you play as an amnesiac alcoholic homeless cop.
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First of all, don't respond, fix. second of all, Cloud is not some sort of loser everyman. About the only thing that might potentially be audience related is that he wanted to be an elite super-soldier but ended up as a common grunt. Except, even then he was able to nearly kill Sephiroth, and the extreme trauma he goes through, essentially years of medical torture, is way beyond any audience-relatable characteristics
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' starred Cloud, who started tough and independent but turned out to be the exact opposite of what you thought you were getting. When he was younger, he picked fights with the other kids to hide his insecurities and decided he would join [[SuperSoldier SOLDIER]] in order to impress the girl he'd had a crush on for years but never had the courage to ask out. When this attempt failed due to his stated insecurities and mental fragility, followed by his hometown being burned down by the man he idolized, followed by his best friend in the world -- an actual member of SOLDIER -- being gunned down before his eyes, he lost his mind and believed he ''was'' that best friend, with all his memories and triumphs. The Cloud we play as for most of the game is a shell of a man who believes he is a great hero because that's the only thing keeping his mind intact at all. [[MisaimedFandom Many people missed the point of this]].
** The same people forget that Cloud pretty much ''[[SeinfeldIsUnfunny started]]'' [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny the stereotype of the angsty brooding hero]] in [[EasternRPG JRPGs.]]
** Even though he was hardly angsty or brooding during the game. He was just really serious, even though he did plenty of goofy things during the game, such as cross dressing (albeit unwillingly).
** He does face his problems eventually and become the supreme AscendedFanboy, capable of taking Sephiroth one-on-one. It's a positive message overall. It's about admitting you suck and overcoming it to be awesome.
** The same people forget that Cloud pretty much ''[[SeinfeldIsUnfunny started]]'' [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny the stereotype of the angsty brooding hero]] in [[EasternRPG JRPGs.]]
** Even though he was hardly angsty or brooding during the game. He was just really serious, even though he did plenty of goofy things during the game, such as cross dressing (albeit unwillingly).
** He does face his problems eventually and become the supreme AscendedFanboy, capable of taking Sephiroth one-on-one. It's a positive message overall. It's about admitting you suck and overcoming it to be awesome.
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This is basically a ZCE. "Can be this" is poor writing, and the only thing mentioned here is that he cries. Is that supposed to be some terrible sin?
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* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': Captain Blubber can be viewed as this. For one thing, he cries because when he loses his gold in the first game.
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* Possibly the oldest examples of this in video gaming are [[VideoGame/SpaceQuest Roger Wilco]] and [[VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry Larry Laffer]].
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** One of the other protagonists, Michael, has a [[DumbassTeenageSon 20-year-old son named Jimmy]] who refuses to get a job, mooches off of his parents, smokes weed all the time, [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbates constantly]], and plays video games all day while [[InternetJerk telling other players that they're gay and how he'll rape them and their mothers]]. If Trevor is a parody of how the series' fans act within the game world, then Jimmy is a parody of how they're seen in real life.
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** One of the other protagonists, Michael, has a [[DumbassTeenageSon 20-year-old son named Jimmy]] who refuses to get a job, mooches off of his parents, smokes weed all the time, [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbates constantly]], constantly, and plays video games all day while [[InternetJerk telling other players that they're gay and how he'll rape them and their mothers]]. If Trevor is a parody of how the series' fans act within the game world, then Jimmy is a parody of how they're seen in real life.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': Trevor, one of the main playable characters is psychotic, brutally violent, a sexual deviant, and constantly threatens his friends with sexual and violent acts if they keep pissing him off. He's (supposedly) a representation on how a typical GTA player acts in the game. On a similar note, Jimmy, who is the son of Michael, is a young adult in his early twenties that refuses to get a job, mooches off of his parents, smokes weed all the time, [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbates constantly]], and plays video games all day while [[InternetJerk telling other players that they're gay and how he'll rape them and their mothers]].
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'':
** Trevor, one of the three main playablecharacters characters, is a psychotic, brutally violent, a violent sexual deviant, and deviant who constantly threatens his friends with sexual and violent acts if they keep pissing him off. He's (supposedly) WordOfGod is that he's a representation on how a typical GTA ''GTA'' player [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential acts in the game. On a similar note, Jimmy, who is game]], combining this trope with YouBastard.
** One of theson of other protagonists, Michael, is has a young adult in his early twenties that [[DumbassTeenageSon 20-year-old son named Jimmy]] who refuses to get a job, mooches off of his parents, smokes weed all the time, [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbates constantly]], and plays video games all day while [[InternetJerk telling other players that they're gay and how he'll rape them and their mothers]].mothers]]. If Trevor is a parody of how the series' fans act within the game world, then Jimmy is a parody of how they're seen in real life.
** Trevor, one of the three main playable
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* Possibly the oldest examples of this in video gaming are [[VideoGame/SpaceQuest Roger Wilco]] and [[VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry Larry Laffer]].
* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': Captain Blubber can be viewed as this. For one thing, he cries because when he loses his gold in the first game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': Pretty much the whole point of Vincent, the weak-willed, cheating protagonist.[[note]] Technically he isn't sure if he cheated due to alcohol, but is so skittish that he never works up the courage to properly talk to the woman he may have committed the act with and figure out what happened.[[/note]]
* In the MMO ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'', one mission you can get is to kidnap a snitch named Joshua who saw you committing a crime from his apartment while he was "staying up late playing [=dOs=]". The Joshua NPC character model is fat, balding, frumpily dressed, and has a decidedly unintelligent-looking face.
** And to add injury to insult, his pathfinding sucks, which not only makes him really annoying during the mission, but making him look extra idiotic as every twenty feet you have to go back for him and find him standing there staring around as if he had no clue where you went.
* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'': In this point-and-click adventure game, you play as an amnesiac alcoholic homeless cop.
* ''VideoGame/{{Divekick}}'': Stream is a goofy-looking, hate-filled demon in a straight jacket who spends all of his time on the Internet and only derives pleasure from trolling people. He is meant to mock the typical viewer of fighting game streams, known as a stream monster.
* ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity'': Your diary contains some observations on your stats, which were uniformly insulting until you got them fairly high, which took grinding and focusing on only a few. As a starting character, even though you look and act like an average person, your diary paints a portrait of a crippled, bumbling simpleton who gets winded from getting out of bed and has trouble forming sentences longer than three words. Made worse when you realize it's your own diary, meaning the person who wrote those horrible things was ''you''.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' starred Cloud, who started tough and independent but turned out to be the exact opposite of what you thought you were getting. When he was younger, he picked fights with the other kids to hide his insecurities and decided he would join [[SuperSoldier SOLDIER]] in order to impress the girl he'd had a crush on for years but never had the courage to ask out. When this attempt failed due to his stated insecurities and mental fragility, followed by his hometown being burned down by the man he idolized, followed by his best friend in the world -- an actual member of SOLDIER -- being gunned down before his eyes, he lost his mind and believed he ''was'' that best friend, with all his memories and triumphs. The Cloud we play as for most of the game is a shell of a man who believes he is a great hero because that's the only thing keeping his mind intact at all. [[MisaimedFandom Many people missed the point of this]].
** The same people forget that Cloud pretty much ''[[SeinfeldIsUnfunny started]]'' [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny the stereotype of the angsty brooding hero]] in [[EasternRPG JRPGs.]]
** Even though he was hardly angsty or brooding during the game. He was just really serious, even though he did plenty of goofy things during the game, such as cross dressing (albeit unwillingly).
** He does face his problems eventually and become the supreme AscendedFanboy, capable of taking Sephiroth one-on-one. It's a positive message overall. It's about admitting you suck and overcoming it to be awesome.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragon'': Lose enough units to get enough [[https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Replacement_character replacement characters]], and eventually you'll get ones with insulting names. Note that to get the best secret characters, you ''have'' to keep your army small, and there will be some times where picking up replacement characters (which happens automatically) will put you ''over'' the desired army size.
* ''VideoGame/ForumWarz'' [[ZigZaggingTrope can't quite make up its mind]]. On the one hand, you're fat and living in a basement, and you spend most of your time either {{Troll}}ing message boards or masturbating to bizarre pornography. On the other hand, you're the OnlySaneMan in a [[CrapsackWorld spectacularly messed-up world]].
* ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'': Your PlayerCharacter is treated like this, due to your being a prisoner in the [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] Panopticon. You get no shortage of flack for being so selfish as to be born, lose your memory, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking take more than five steps in your own cell]].
%%* In ''VideoGame/GitarooMan'', This Loser Is U-1.
* Taken literally with the nameable protagonist of the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/GoGoNippon'', a dorky, socially awkward OccidentalOtaku ManChild who goes to Japan without knowing anything about it, thus implying that his only learning materials were manga, anime and games. Because the game was made with a foreign audience in mind (an unusual case in the mostly Japan-only world of [=VNs=]), and the FeaturelessProtagonist is supposed to be an avatar for the player, This Loser Is literally ''You'', the player! He still gets the girl in the end, though.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': Trevor, one of the main playable characters is psychotic, brutally violent, a sexual deviant, and constantly threatens his friends with sexual and violent acts if they keep pissing him off. He's (supposedly) a representation on how a typical GTA player acts in the game. On a similar note, Jimmy, who is the son of Michael, is a young adult in his early twenties that refuses to get a job, mooches off of his parents, smokes weed all the time, [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbates constantly]], and plays video games all day while [[InternetJerk telling other players that they're gay and how he'll rape them and their mothers]].
* ''VideoGame/HuniePop'': Nikki is a stereotypical GamerGirl and not even a particularly flattering one at that. She is a misanthropic {{NEET}} who works part-time as a barista (and is rude to her customers) and spends her days playing video games and eating junk food. Yet she is a firm fan favourite, and even major streamers like [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]] found her the most endearing heroine.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': Normally, most people from SNK don't fit this trope. Unless you're Iori Yagami. If being possessed by [[DemonicPossession Orochi]], failing to beat his rival Kyo, and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment being forced to turn into a girl]] isn't enough proof, go play a challenge of Iori vs [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer]] in ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}''. Homer will sum Iori up in 9 words.
-->'''Homer''': ''(after seeing Iori fall on his back from laughing too hard)'' Do you know how stupid you look right now?
* Despite being a HeroicMime, Link semi-qualifies in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'' due to how the games cutscene-humor tends to abuse him (at least until he gets badass later on). It is very easy to picture him scoring 10% on a math test, despite being able to take on the most complicated dungeons and puzzles known to man. His often very, very clueless expressions really don't help. To quote King of Red Lions: "You are... surprisingly dull witted..."
** The interesting thing about this example in ''Wind Waker'' is that the game repeatedly shoves in the player's face that this Link ''IS NOT THE HERO OF TIME NOR HIS REINCARNATION''....that's right, you're effectively some nobody kid dressed up in garb in remembrance of the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Hero of Time]], but nothing more... no dreams about you kicking evil dark lord ass, no prophecy about how you'll save the land, ''nothing''. And after all that, this Link... goes on to meet his own destiny, not as a prophesied hero, but the Hero of Winds through sheer will and perseverence alone.
* ''VideoGame/LesterTheUnlikely'' is the embodiment of this trope. He's an overwhelmingly {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed, mid-20th century nerd stereotype who takes [[MadeOfPlasticine damage from falling off a small distance off a cliff]] and [[ArtificialInsolence runs away scared from every new creature he encounters, even a turtle]]! Undoubtedly, gamers either saw too much of themselves in him, or saw [[ExpectationLowerer too little]], which is probably why the game has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZj-MjOakZY so much hate]], as WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd [[http://cinemassacre.com/2010/11/03/avgn-lester-the-unlikely/ pointed out:]]
--> "Who wants to play as a weak, pathetic character like this? Wouldn't you rather be a tough guy? Isn't that the whole point of playing a game? To feel empowered? To be someone you're not? I mean, I get it. He's supposed to be a nerd. Well, this nerd makes me look like Creator/CharlesBronson. [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]] could beat the shit out of this guy!"
** Then again, [[CharacterDevelopment he slowly evolved into a tough hero]] towards the end of the game, losing his awkward stance, his fear of creatures, and he even got to use a sword! He even [[spoiler:gets the girl in the end. ''Two'' of them, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wtqRtYctdk in fact.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'''s Raiden. While he is beautiful rather than ugly, this is a side-effect of him being made deliberately androgynous so that [[MultipleDemographicAppeal both sexes identify with him]]. While he is fairly book-smart, he lacks common sense and does everything extremely by-the-book. He is routinely humiliated, [[ButtMonkey mocked]], and has a great sense of smallness and lack of control against the huge GovernmentConspiracy plot. The [[OlderAndWiser coolest man on the planet]] develops a liking for him, but, even so, [[YouDidntAsk hides information from him]] and says things deliberately to rile him up and humiliate him. His [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection CO]] patronises him, his girlfriend nags him, and he experiences all manner of humiliating circumstance, such as slipping on bird droppings or getting urinated on by a guard. WordOfGod has it that all this was designed to make the player identify more with him. Naturally, [[TheScrappy everyone hated him]] (though he did get [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap a better reputation later on]]). One blogger even went so far as to call him [[http://users.livejournal.com/_dahne_/104748.html Robo-Shinji]].
** It's [[spoiler:an actual plot point in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}'']] that Raiden did ''everything'' Snake did with more emotional baggage. He also had to go through more crap, from being pissed on to [[spoiler:watching a young girl die, finding out his enemy is his godfather, discovering his dark past that haunts his PTSD-fueled nightmares, discovering his support team were all AI, he was being manipulated all along, his girlfriend may be faking her love for him, and it very well could be that nothing he knows is real. He and the player both end up on the receiving end of an epic MindScrew]]. They even spell it out for you at the end, when [[spoiler:Raiden looks at the dog tags he was wearing for the whole game, notices that they have ''the player's name'' on them, and throws them away after saying he has no idea who the name belongs to]].
** Also from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' is Otacon, who, well... [[http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3168048 1up.com says it better than us]]:
--->''Otacon was named after the nutty computer in ''2001''. He was seduced by his stepmother, which made his father kill himself. He [[ForScience accidentally designed Metal Gear Rex]] as a tool of the apocalypse. His stepsister died hating him. He named himself after an anime convention. He peed himself in terror when he first met Snake. He wondered aloud if love could bloom on the battlefield. Worst of all, Creator/HideoKojima designed Otacon as someone that you, the player, could relate to. You are the real loser.''
%%* ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 "It's official: you suck!"]]''
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': Travis Touchdown is... well... every negative stereotype of an {{otaku}} there is. Creator/Suda51 is not subtle. And then ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' has him ''undoing'' all of that, becoming a character worthy of actual respect... or at least approaching it. And even then he's still way more of an otaku than most.
** And yet, he calls the player out on their perverted love of violence in video games in the opening to the sequel. And then again [[spoiler:after finishing off Alice,]] he calls them out again. The second time [[spoiler: comes after some much-needed character development, where he starts to realize he's getting sick and tired of mindless killing]].
** The gameplay itself is considered to be an allusion to the (stereotypical) player. From the [[Headscratchers/NoMoreHeroes Headscratchers]]:
--->No More Heroes is a satire of the outlook one who collects video games would have. Travis represents a gamer, and the assassination missions, with their stylized, hyperviolent nature, represent videogames. The rest of the world, on the other hand, is monotonous and contains dull jobs which Travis is motivated to do only so he can get back to the missions. In other words, it is a satire of the sort of otaku whose only interaction with the outside world are purely for the purpose of acquiring more videogames/anime/etc or more money as to buy more videogames/anime/etc.
* ''VideoGame/PokerNight2'': Most of [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]]' dialogue directed at [[FeaturelessProtagonist The Player]] indicate this, but then again, so does her dialogue with just about ALL of the characters.
-->[[AC:I wouldn't be ashamed about losing. You have plenty of other things to be ashamed about.]]
* ''The Secret of VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' has the pathetic Guybrush Threepwood. He knows about piracy about as much as you do, but he does know that he wants to ''be'' a pirate. Continued to some extent in ''Lechuck's Revenge'', where Guybrush is apparently a realised pirate, he just doesn't get any respect and is on his way to discover the Big Whoop, an alleged immense treasure to fix that problem.
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': [[TheHero The protagonist]], Vyse, can become this if you get a low [[ButThouMust Swashbuckler Rating]]. The complete embodiment of this trope is having between zero to five points (and it ''does'' take some effort to sink that low) thus earning you the title "Vyse the Ninny." The result of this will be ridicule from [=NPCs=], higher store prices, and the inability to access certain features, such as crew members (one of them needs a high rating to get).
** The absolute lowest is actually implied to be "Vyse the Fallen Pirate," but this is only triggered in the [[VideoGameRemake remake]] via an in-game event and doesn't affect you in the same way the regular ratings do. When you defeat three particular enemies, your rating skyrockets.
* ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'': The actions you commit are basically one long string of the game saying, "You suck for buying\renting this game, you suck for playing it, you suck for liking it, you suck for buying\renting other shooter games, you suck for playing them, you suck for liking them..." This is best summarized with a line that is LeaningOnTheFourthWall.
-->'''Konrad''': The truth, Walker, is that you're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not - ''[[HeroicWannabe a hero]]''.
** Captain Martin Walker is a ruggedly handsome, physically imposing US officer in Delta Force, exactly the kind of character who is normally a projection of a usually male power fantasy. The game uses this trope in a meta way, as Walker's desire to be a hero and quasi-fourth wall breaking certainty that the events going on around him are a [[TheHerosJourney Hero's Journey]] just waiting for him to go through it proves to be his -- and the player's -- undoing. WordOfGod is the only way to "win" is to not play at all.
* ''VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries'': Ernie Eaglebeak is a scrawny geek in NerdGlasses who is obsessed with sorcery and sex.
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction'': Part of the JustifiedTutorial involves the protagonist giving explanations to his young daughter about light and shadow and why the latter isn't as scary as she thinks. The guys at ''WebVideo/{{Unskippable}}'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/1699-Splinter-Cell-Conviction point out the implications]]:
-->'''Paul:''' It is refreshing, though. This is the game ''literally'' explaining the combat mechanics to you as if you were a child.
%%* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'': Moneybags was never treated with respect in the third game.
* ''VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge'' is a game which involves making a {{Salaryman}} get drunk, divorce his wife and quit his job. The game even makes fun of you for actually trying to beat the game pointing out that you have just wasted your time getting trolled.
* ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew'': Arthur Hastings is a skinny and meek office worker who constantly sounds like he's on the verge of a panic attack. Even when he is ([[DefectorFromDecadence seemingly, in the case of his peers]]) on the [[FantasticDrug Joy]], his "friends" dominate him. Unlike [[MamaBear Sally]] and [[ViolentGlaswegian Ollie]], Arthur is clearly out of his depth. Later, Arthur's cowardly streak is shown in a much darker light: [[spoiler:when the Nazis were rounding up the children of Wellington Wells, he tricked his brother Percy into coming to the station with him and then switched their identification cards, so Percy got dragged off in his place.]]
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' introduced a new quest in the Cataclysm Expansion that consists of the player hopping on an NPC's horse and becoming an actual questgiver while 3 [[ItMakesSenseInContext NPC PCs]] approach to accept a quest. The first is named Dumass and is a perpetual moron who speaks in all caps and behaves like the players everybody loves to make fun of. The second is Kingslayer Orkus, who is a fully decked out, high-end raiding warrior who comes looking for stuff to do, and despite being geared to the high heavens, balks at even the ''slightest'' bit of danger. and the third is Johnny Awesome, who is that one pompous dirtbag in [[NewGamePlus heirloom gear]] with a real money mount who brags of his awesomeness, everyone wishes would shut up, and [[BreakTheFourthWall leans on and occasionally punches holes in the fourth wall]]. Bonus points for Johnny Awesome actually referencing TwentyBearAsses.
** [[PlayingWithATrope Inverted and played straight]] by the quests Mystery of the Infinite and Mystery of the Infinite Redux. The former includes a Future You NPC, and latter a Past You NPC. Both state they are kind of ashamed of you... while looking exactly like you, implying you don't improve at all, and goes about combat in a way that would pretty much be very incompetent if a player actually did that (as in they just run up and hit stuff).
** The Legion expansion has a quest where you [[RoleReversalBoss play as Illidan Stormrage defending the Black Temple]]. The developers made a raid of characters (including Johnny Awesome) who are well... as bad as most players in 2007 actually were, but a lot worse than anyone wants to admit they ever were. Also, you have to lose to these schmucks, because the plot says so. To make matters worse, they take your [[CoolSword cool warglaives]], the bastards.
* This is a selling point for ''VideoGame/ZettaiHeroProject'': You (as in, you the player) are the most pathetically weak protagonist of all time, and the world's greatest hero has just died and passed on his mantle to you. Better start grinding.
** Subverted in the WHAMEpisode that reveals that the HeroicMime actually has a past, and at least one [[{{Determinator}} personality trait]], upgrading him to IronWoobie status. [[spoiler: His entire family has hated him for his weakness for the past eight years thanks to an incident where, unbeknownst to them, he saved his sister from a cannibal by letting himself get beat up over and over again.]]
* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': Captain Blubber can be viewed as this. For one thing, he cries because when he loses his gold in the first game.
* ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': Pretty much the whole point of Vincent, the weak-willed, cheating protagonist.[[note]] Technically he isn't sure if he cheated due to alcohol, but is so skittish that he never works up the courage to properly talk to the woman he may have committed the act with and figure out what happened.[[/note]]
* In the MMO ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'', one mission you can get is to kidnap a snitch named Joshua who saw you committing a crime from his apartment while he was "staying up late playing [=dOs=]". The Joshua NPC character model is fat, balding, frumpily dressed, and has a decidedly unintelligent-looking face.
** And to add injury to insult, his pathfinding sucks, which not only makes him really annoying during the mission, but making him look extra idiotic as every twenty feet you have to go back for him and find him standing there staring around as if he had no clue where you went.
* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'': In this point-and-click adventure game, you play as an amnesiac alcoholic homeless cop.
* ''VideoGame/{{Divekick}}'': Stream is a goofy-looking, hate-filled demon in a straight jacket who spends all of his time on the Internet and only derives pleasure from trolling people. He is meant to mock the typical viewer of fighting game streams, known as a stream monster.
* ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity'': Your diary contains some observations on your stats, which were uniformly insulting until you got them fairly high, which took grinding and focusing on only a few. As a starting character, even though you look and act like an average person, your diary paints a portrait of a crippled, bumbling simpleton who gets winded from getting out of bed and has trouble forming sentences longer than three words. Made worse when you realize it's your own diary, meaning the person who wrote those horrible things was ''you''.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' starred Cloud, who started tough and independent but turned out to be the exact opposite of what you thought you were getting. When he was younger, he picked fights with the other kids to hide his insecurities and decided he would join [[SuperSoldier SOLDIER]] in order to impress the girl he'd had a crush on for years but never had the courage to ask out. When this attempt failed due to his stated insecurities and mental fragility, followed by his hometown being burned down by the man he idolized, followed by his best friend in the world -- an actual member of SOLDIER -- being gunned down before his eyes, he lost his mind and believed he ''was'' that best friend, with all his memories and triumphs. The Cloud we play as for most of the game is a shell of a man who believes he is a great hero because that's the only thing keeping his mind intact at all. [[MisaimedFandom Many people missed the point of this]].
** The same people forget that Cloud pretty much ''[[SeinfeldIsUnfunny started]]'' [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny the stereotype of the angsty brooding hero]] in [[EasternRPG JRPGs.]]
** Even though he was hardly angsty or brooding during the game. He was just really serious, even though he did plenty of goofy things during the game, such as cross dressing (albeit unwillingly).
** He does face his problems eventually and become the supreme AscendedFanboy, capable of taking Sephiroth one-on-one. It's a positive message overall. It's about admitting you suck and overcoming it to be awesome.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragon'': Lose enough units to get enough [[https://fireemblem.fandom.com/wiki/Replacement_character replacement characters]], and eventually you'll get ones with insulting names. Note that to get the best secret characters, you ''have'' to keep your army small, and there will be some times where picking up replacement characters (which happens automatically) will put you ''over'' the desired army size.
* ''VideoGame/ForumWarz'' [[ZigZaggingTrope can't quite make up its mind]]. On the one hand, you're fat and living in a basement, and you spend most of your time either {{Troll}}ing message boards or masturbating to bizarre pornography. On the other hand, you're the OnlySaneMan in a [[CrapsackWorld spectacularly messed-up world]].
* ''VideoGame/FreedomWars'': Your PlayerCharacter is treated like this, due to your being a prisoner in the [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] Panopticon. You get no shortage of flack for being so selfish as to be born, lose your memory, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking take more than five steps in your own cell]].
%%* In ''VideoGame/GitarooMan'', This Loser Is U-1.
* Taken literally with the nameable protagonist of the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/GoGoNippon'', a dorky, socially awkward OccidentalOtaku ManChild who goes to Japan without knowing anything about it, thus implying that his only learning materials were manga, anime and games. Because the game was made with a foreign audience in mind (an unusual case in the mostly Japan-only world of [=VNs=]), and the FeaturelessProtagonist is supposed to be an avatar for the player, This Loser Is literally ''You'', the player! He still gets the girl in the end, though.
* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': Trevor, one of the main playable characters is psychotic, brutally violent, a sexual deviant, and constantly threatens his friends with sexual and violent acts if they keep pissing him off. He's (supposedly) a representation on how a typical GTA player acts in the game. On a similar note, Jimmy, who is the son of Michael, is a young adult in his early twenties that refuses to get a job, mooches off of his parents, smokes weed all the time, [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbates constantly]], and plays video games all day while [[InternetJerk telling other players that they're gay and how he'll rape them and their mothers]].
* ''VideoGame/HuniePop'': Nikki is a stereotypical GamerGirl and not even a particularly flattering one at that. She is a misanthropic {{NEET}} who works part-time as a barista (and is rude to her customers) and spends her days playing video games and eating junk food. Yet she is a firm fan favourite, and even major streamers like [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]] found her the most endearing heroine.
* ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'': Normally, most people from SNK don't fit this trope. Unless you're Iori Yagami. If being possessed by [[DemonicPossession Orochi]], failing to beat his rival Kyo, and [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment being forced to turn into a girl]] isn't enough proof, go play a challenge of Iori vs [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer]] in ''VideoGame/{{MUGEN}}''. Homer will sum Iori up in 9 words.
-->'''Homer''': ''(after seeing Iori fall on his back from laughing too hard)'' Do you know how stupid you look right now?
* Despite being a HeroicMime, Link semi-qualifies in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'' due to how the games cutscene-humor tends to abuse him (at least until he gets badass later on). It is very easy to picture him scoring 10% on a math test, despite being able to take on the most complicated dungeons and puzzles known to man. His often very, very clueless expressions really don't help. To quote King of Red Lions: "You are... surprisingly dull witted..."
** The interesting thing about this example in ''Wind Waker'' is that the game repeatedly shoves in the player's face that this Link ''IS NOT THE HERO OF TIME NOR HIS REINCARNATION''....that's right, you're effectively some nobody kid dressed up in garb in remembrance of the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Hero of Time]], but nothing more... no dreams about you kicking evil dark lord ass, no prophecy about how you'll save the land, ''nothing''. And after all that, this Link... goes on to meet his own destiny, not as a prophesied hero, but the Hero of Winds through sheer will and perseverence alone.
* ''VideoGame/LesterTheUnlikely'' is the embodiment of this trope. He's an overwhelmingly {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed, mid-20th century nerd stereotype who takes [[MadeOfPlasticine damage from falling off a small distance off a cliff]] and [[ArtificialInsolence runs away scared from every new creature he encounters, even a turtle]]! Undoubtedly, gamers either saw too much of themselves in him, or saw [[ExpectationLowerer too little]], which is probably why the game has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZj-MjOakZY so much hate]], as WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd [[http://cinemassacre.com/2010/11/03/avgn-lester-the-unlikely/ pointed out:]]
--> "Who wants to play as a weak, pathetic character like this? Wouldn't you rather be a tough guy? Isn't that the whole point of playing a game? To feel empowered? To be someone you're not? I mean, I get it. He's supposed to be a nerd. Well, this nerd makes me look like Creator/CharlesBronson. [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]] could beat the shit out of this guy!"
** Then again, [[CharacterDevelopment he slowly evolved into a tough hero]] towards the end of the game, losing his awkward stance, his fear of creatures, and he even got to use a sword! He even [[spoiler:gets the girl in the end. ''Two'' of them, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wtqRtYctdk in fact.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'''s Raiden. While he is beautiful rather than ugly, this is a side-effect of him being made deliberately androgynous so that [[MultipleDemographicAppeal both sexes identify with him]]. While he is fairly book-smart, he lacks common sense and does everything extremely by-the-book. He is routinely humiliated, [[ButtMonkey mocked]], and has a great sense of smallness and lack of control against the huge GovernmentConspiracy plot. The [[OlderAndWiser coolest man on the planet]] develops a liking for him, but, even so, [[YouDidntAsk hides information from him]] and says things deliberately to rile him up and humiliate him. His [[VoiceWithAnInternetConnection CO]] patronises him, his girlfriend nags him, and he experiences all manner of humiliating circumstance, such as slipping on bird droppings or getting urinated on by a guard. WordOfGod has it that all this was designed to make the player identify more with him. Naturally, [[TheScrappy everyone hated him]] (though he did get [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap a better reputation later on]]). One blogger even went so far as to call him [[http://users.livejournal.com/_dahne_/104748.html Robo-Shinji]].
** It's [[spoiler:an actual plot point in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}'']] that Raiden did ''everything'' Snake did with more emotional baggage. He also had to go through more crap, from being pissed on to [[spoiler:watching a young girl die, finding out his enemy is his godfather, discovering his dark past that haunts his PTSD-fueled nightmares, discovering his support team were all AI, he was being manipulated all along, his girlfriend may be faking her love for him, and it very well could be that nothing he knows is real. He and the player both end up on the receiving end of an epic MindScrew]]. They even spell it out for you at the end, when [[spoiler:Raiden looks at the dog tags he was wearing for the whole game, notices that they have ''the player's name'' on them, and throws them away after saying he has no idea who the name belongs to]].
** Also from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' is Otacon, who, well... [[http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3168048 1up.com says it better than us]]:
--->''Otacon was named after the nutty computer in ''2001''. He was seduced by his stepmother, which made his father kill himself. He [[ForScience accidentally designed Metal Gear Rex]] as a tool of the apocalypse. His stepsister died hating him. He named himself after an anime convention. He peed himself in terror when he first met Snake. He wondered aloud if love could bloom on the battlefield. Worst of all, Creator/HideoKojima designed Otacon as someone that you, the player, could relate to. You are the real loser.''
%%* ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 "It's official: you suck!"]]''
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': Travis Touchdown is... well... every negative stereotype of an {{otaku}} there is. Creator/Suda51 is not subtle. And then ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' has him ''undoing'' all of that, becoming a character worthy of actual respect... or at least approaching it. And even then he's still way more of an otaku than most.
** And yet, he calls the player out on their perverted love of violence in video games in the opening to the sequel. And then again [[spoiler:after finishing off Alice,]] he calls them out again. The second time [[spoiler: comes after some much-needed character development, where he starts to realize he's getting sick and tired of mindless killing]].
** The gameplay itself is considered to be an allusion to the (stereotypical) player. From the [[Headscratchers/NoMoreHeroes Headscratchers]]:
--->No More Heroes is a satire of the outlook one who collects video games would have. Travis represents a gamer, and the assassination missions, with their stylized, hyperviolent nature, represent videogames. The rest of the world, on the other hand, is monotonous and contains dull jobs which Travis is motivated to do only so he can get back to the missions. In other words, it is a satire of the sort of otaku whose only interaction with the outside world are purely for the purpose of acquiring more videogames/anime/etc or more money as to buy more videogames/anime/etc.
* ''VideoGame/PokerNight2'': Most of [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]]' dialogue directed at [[FeaturelessProtagonist The Player]] indicate this, but then again, so does her dialogue with just about ALL of the characters.
-->[[AC:I wouldn't be ashamed about losing. You have plenty of other things to be ashamed about.]]
* ''The Secret of VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' has the pathetic Guybrush Threepwood. He knows about piracy about as much as you do, but he does know that he wants to ''be'' a pirate. Continued to some extent in ''Lechuck's Revenge'', where Guybrush is apparently a realised pirate, he just doesn't get any respect and is on his way to discover the Big Whoop, an alleged immense treasure to fix that problem.
* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': [[TheHero The protagonist]], Vyse, can become this if you get a low [[ButThouMust Swashbuckler Rating]]. The complete embodiment of this trope is having between zero to five points (and it ''does'' take some effort to sink that low) thus earning you the title "Vyse the Ninny." The result of this will be ridicule from [=NPCs=], higher store prices, and the inability to access certain features, such as crew members (one of them needs a high rating to get).
** The absolute lowest is actually implied to be "Vyse the Fallen Pirate," but this is only triggered in the [[VideoGameRemake remake]] via an in-game event and doesn't affect you in the same way the regular ratings do. When you defeat three particular enemies, your rating skyrockets.
* ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'': The actions you commit are basically one long string of the game saying, "You suck for buying\renting this game, you suck for playing it, you suck for liking it, you suck for buying\renting other shooter games, you suck for playing them, you suck for liking them..." This is best summarized with a line that is LeaningOnTheFourthWall.
-->'''Konrad''': The truth, Walker, is that you're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not - ''[[HeroicWannabe a hero]]''.
** Captain Martin Walker is a ruggedly handsome, physically imposing US officer in Delta Force, exactly the kind of character who is normally a projection of a usually male power fantasy. The game uses this trope in a meta way, as Walker's desire to be a hero and quasi-fourth wall breaking certainty that the events going on around him are a [[TheHerosJourney Hero's Journey]] just waiting for him to go through it proves to be his -- and the player's -- undoing. WordOfGod is the only way to "win" is to not play at all.
* ''VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries'': Ernie Eaglebeak is a scrawny geek in NerdGlasses who is obsessed with sorcery and sex.
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction'': Part of the JustifiedTutorial involves the protagonist giving explanations to his young daughter about light and shadow and why the latter isn't as scary as she thinks. The guys at ''WebVideo/{{Unskippable}}'' [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/1699-Splinter-Cell-Conviction point out the implications]]:
-->'''Paul:''' It is refreshing, though. This is the game ''literally'' explaining the combat mechanics to you as if you were a child.
%%* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'': Moneybags was never treated with respect in the third game.
* ''VideoGame/TakeshisChallenge'' is a game which involves making a {{Salaryman}} get drunk, divorce his wife and quit his job. The game even makes fun of you for actually trying to beat the game pointing out that you have just wasted your time getting trolled.
* ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew'': Arthur Hastings is a skinny and meek office worker who constantly sounds like he's on the verge of a panic attack. Even when he is ([[DefectorFromDecadence seemingly, in the case of his peers]]) on the [[FantasticDrug Joy]], his "friends" dominate him. Unlike [[MamaBear Sally]] and [[ViolentGlaswegian Ollie]], Arthur is clearly out of his depth. Later, Arthur's cowardly streak is shown in a much darker light: [[spoiler:when the Nazis were rounding up the children of Wellington Wells, he tricked his brother Percy into coming to the station with him and then switched their identification cards, so Percy got dragged off in his place.]]
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' introduced a new quest in the Cataclysm Expansion that consists of the player hopping on an NPC's horse and becoming an actual questgiver while 3 [[ItMakesSenseInContext NPC PCs]] approach to accept a quest. The first is named Dumass and is a perpetual moron who speaks in all caps and behaves like the players everybody loves to make fun of. The second is Kingslayer Orkus, who is a fully decked out, high-end raiding warrior who comes looking for stuff to do, and despite being geared to the high heavens, balks at even the ''slightest'' bit of danger. and the third is Johnny Awesome, who is that one pompous dirtbag in [[NewGamePlus heirloom gear]] with a real money mount who brags of his awesomeness, everyone wishes would shut up, and [[BreakTheFourthWall leans on and occasionally punches holes in the fourth wall]]. Bonus points for Johnny Awesome actually referencing TwentyBearAsses.
** [[PlayingWithATrope Inverted and played straight]] by the quests Mystery of the Infinite and Mystery of the Infinite Redux. The former includes a Future You NPC, and latter a Past You NPC. Both state they are kind of ashamed of you... while looking exactly like you, implying you don't improve at all, and goes about combat in a way that would pretty much be very incompetent if a player actually did that (as in they just run up and hit stuff).
** The Legion expansion has a quest where you [[RoleReversalBoss play as Illidan Stormrage defending the Black Temple]]. The developers made a raid of characters (including Johnny Awesome) who are well... as bad as most players in 2007 actually were, but a lot worse than anyone wants to admit they ever were. Also, you have to lose to these schmucks, because the plot says so. To make matters worse, they take your [[CoolSword cool warglaives]], the bastards.
* This is a selling point for ''VideoGame/ZettaiHeroProject'': You (as in, you the player) are the most pathetically weak protagonist of all time, and the world's greatest hero has just died and passed on his mantle to you. Better start grinding.
** Subverted in the WHAMEpisode that reveals that the HeroicMime actually has a past, and at least one [[{{Determinator}} personality trait]], upgrading him to IronWoobie status. [[spoiler: His entire family has hated him for his weakness for the past eight years thanks to an incident where, unbeknownst to them, he saved his sister from a cannibal by letting himself get beat up over and over again.]]
