7 Embarrassing Idle Animations Your Heroes Wish You Hadn’t Seen

Idle animations are there to give our heroes something to do whenever we run off and forget to pause the game, perhaps some stretching or checking their gear while they wait for us to return. However, some might leave our heroes red in the face if they knew we were still watching...!
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[@outsidextra]

Wait they did WHAT now? Here are some blush-inducing idle animations... 😳🎮

[@JamesSmith-to3kl]

Boop

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

This sounds like Ellen

[@barrybend7189]

There is the Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light lounging around pose for Idle animations.

[@brynwhitehead1731]

Last time I checked. Somebody’s checking for me.

[@starwolf6029]

Reminds me of some animations in Crash Twinsanity, specifically in the level cavern catastrophe, at the start of the level Dr. Neo Cortex and Crash are fighting in a way you can roll them trough the level, like a ball. But if you leave them alone they will play some fighting animations, Crash will choke and attempt to break the Dr.'s arm, whereas, Cortex will smash Crash's face against the ground, and spank him???

[@louckykoneko]

okay but how about the character actually getting embarrassed about their own idle animation? in A Hat In Time, one of Hat Kid's idle animations is playing with dolls, and the animation finishes with her looking around and quickly putting the dolls away. it's adorable.

[@triple-d2640]

I forgot about that game. Too bad the PS4 version never got a single update.

[@EndertheDragon0922]

I was gonna suggest it if someone else didn’t, I love that animation.

[@cinnamon-3047]

Yessss! I thought A Hat in Time would be here! Love this animation!

[@riddeyfromtheridd]

@@triple-d2640 hey congrats you got an update a month later

[@dougletts7515]

oh my dang god i was just about to comment that

[@gwts1171]

Apparently if you leave the guy in Dead Space idle for too long Ellen's hand comes out of his butt.

[@liammaps2700]

Hol’ up. WTF

[@liammaps2700]

Is that real?

[@gwts1171]

It happened in Ellen's Fear Academy!

[@krise99391]

@@liammaps2700 yeah, sometimes even her head pops outta there, don't ask me how it got there...

[@flint9570]

@@liammaps2700 In the fear acedemy stream, ellen was gone for a bit. When she returned to her greenscreen she appeared just behind isaac

[@norablanche]

And yet another example of Link being too pure for this world

[@michealforguson5317]

Link adjusts his clothes in OoT and MM.

[@HylianFox3]

@@michealforguson5317 Link sneezing in cold, underground areas always wins me over.

[@DarthTella]

You missed a couple BotW ones: if Link stands around at night long enough he'll start nodding off, and if he crouches long enough his wrist gets tired and he shakes his hand around to get his circulation back.

[@dallydaydream]

I'm starting to think just *everything* Link does is adorable

[@MegaVirus700]

@@dallydaydream it is

[@Dancinglemon]

When he’s crouching, it’s actually a bug that gets on his hand and he gets freaked out by it!

[@dweebicusmaximus]

Link is too good for any world

[@rhettmitchell]

@@Dancinglemon I've never noticed tha

[@IssunEmbersong]

Link flexing his lil' noodle arms is actually kind of adorable. xD

[@midnightgamer2158]

Yea lol

[@ckX21]

It's not just guys who need a little adjustment now and then. In Shantae: Risky's Revenge, Shantae's idle animation is to adjust her bikini top.

[@thecoffeeobsessedgamer5106]

I just played it again, like a week ago and I always liked that idle animation! I love that game and it's really cool to see someone talk about it, I don't see people bring it up much. 😁

[@PiePierrot]

It's true lol, us girls sometimes gotta fix wedgies and adjust bra straps too! XD

[@cobaltdev]

@@PiePierrot we all hate wedges but I get them every 5 minutes

[@Pyro7693]

@@thecoffeeobsessedgamer5106 yeah. It's rather underated. I don't think any of oxbox's videos have ever had a Shantae game in their lists.

[@Cheetahgirl_Studios]

@@Pyro7693 I would LOVE to see it on one of their lists. Maybe they could make a “7 Underrated Video Games You HAVE to Play”, and they could put the Shantae series on there.

[@codmanout9861]

The irony is that in one of the Star Wars Expanded Universe books, Luke actually comments to someone that most systems designed to detect hidden weapons misread lightsabers as some type of shaving device. He does then go on to say that while you "could" use one for shaving, if you are desperate.

[@moriskurth628]

Also, it's Kyle Katarn we're talking about. There is no blade, Vibro or otherwise, sharp enough to cut his mighty hair, so he had to improvise. His hair shavings are later collected and used to create the hulls of Rebel Tanks.

[@lightsideofsin8969]

Not embarrassing, just really adorable: I recently played Okami again and Amaterasu sitting down and eventually falling asleep is my absolute favourite. I wish she would scratch behind her ear or chase her own tail too. She might be a sun goddess but she's also just a simple doggo :3

[@Silver_wind_1987_]

Or chew a Lil squeak bone

[@Kaitou1412Fangirl]

Yes! Sleepy Ammy is so cute!

[@dougascott]

Inspired by the Half-Life entry: 7 Weapons That Were Actual, Living Things. There must be more out there!

[@gamedifficulty_4230]

Terraria is definitely going to be on that list somewhere

[@riskybiz87]

Destiny would be on the list too (Whisper of the Worm and Xenophage for example)

[@Ascalis1]

Johnson from Shadows of the damned?

[@little_valkyrie]

Runescape has a couple; chinchompas and salamanders

[@nuke8191]

This comment doesnt have enough likes

[@secondaryserenade]

The Sorceress character in Gauntlet: Dark Legacy will start practicing smacktalk to the air in front of her if you leave her alone; while the Knight will use his mace like a cleaning brush in a shower. The heroes in D03 just make snide remarks if you leave them alone too long. Apparently the world needs to be saved or something.

[@beanface7408]

Another Gauntlet player! Also in the Borderlands series, if you dont do anything long enough, even when its paused, the characters will comment on how boring it is. If there's more than one they'll have short conversations.

[@davidwit7749]

I'll have you know that shaving with a lightsaber is one of the trials you must pass to become a Jedi Master. Kind of like how you have to shave a balloon with a straight razor to graduate barber college.

[@toffepanda4613]

wait, is this an actual thing

[@mitchellslate1249]

No...Any Jedi who does that should only do so once. And Mara Jade...Yeah, you don't respect the blade, you lose your Jedi card...The Force has left you, the midichlorians reject you and are done talking to you, oh, and also life is therefore dying. That said, there was a Clone Wars microseries of Western Anime on Cartoon Network long ago where they dubbed Anakin Skywalker a Jedi Knight and cut off his Padawan braid...So you are half right, at least as far as that show goes, and it was pretty cool I admit. Maybe not real Star Wars, but a cool idea nonetheless...

[@ddsjgvk]

@@toffepanda4613 yep. Anaikin didn't get master because he couldn't grow a beard.

[@toffepanda4613]

@@ddsjgvk I was talking 'bout the barber thing.....

[@aubreyh1930]

@@toffepanda4613 I’ve heard it a few times so it’s probably real

[@randomthunk]

C'mon Luke, we all know you have embarrassing gym selfies.

[@Hobobatman1000]

Swolfies

[@steveharveyonacid8689]

Lmao

[@coffeeaddict9605]

I'm partial to games where the characters fall asleep when idle for too long. I'm a girl of simple pleasures, I see an Outside xtra video go up, I abandon whatever other video I'm watching and come.

[@ScripulousFingore6133]

I see you are a woman of culture

[@theforeverchild1191]

Same

[@erinmiller1433]

Like when Daxter falls asleep on Jak’s shoulder, and Jak gets annoyed and swats him in the face?

[@rosalinasimp1145]

Nice pfp

[@iambicpentakill971]

Toe Jam and Earl did that, I remember.

[@desmondpringle2120]

I felt so attacked when she said he wasn't cool bc his name was Desmond

[@HylianFox3]

not to mention Desmond Llewellyn, who was too awesome for this world

[@thecommonman9524]

In Lego Jurassic World if you play as Owen Grady and leave him standing long enough, he pulls out two little dinosaur figurines and makes them fight.

[@Cowgirlcadet]

Stegosaurus: This land is rich, and this land is good, and we shall call it...This Land. T-Rex: I think we should call it...Your Grave! +attacks+ Stegosaurus: Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal! Malcolm Reynolds: Wash, what are you doing?

[@beanface7408]

@@Cowgirlcadet I remember that. Sucks that the show is canceled. The movie is mediocre at best.

[@eburel506]

I always laughed at the LEGO Force Awakens Kylo idle animation. He starts playing with a little toy TIE fighter. The fearsome warlord of the First Order everyone.

[@riveramnell143]

It’s not a toy, it’s a scale model, and he’s not playing, he’s reenacting. Lol

[@eburel506]

@@riveramnell143 ah ha suuuurrreeee he is lol

[@riveramnell143]

Those “pew-pew-pew KABOOM” noises he’s making are strictly in the interest of historical accuracy, I’ll have you know.

[@eburel506]

@@riveramnell143 fair enough.

[@pundertalefan4391]

He was a baby anyways. He threw a full on tantrum when the good guys got away. XD

[@samwoodley1653]

In the Sly Cooper series, if you stand around for a while as Sly, there's a chance he'll start scratching his back with his cane causing his leg to start twitching uncontrollably. For Mr Suave the master thief, it's pretty comical.

[@Videosaurus_Wrex]

K, but i am so with Mara Jade, I'd eventually try to touch my lightsaber. Is it more burny or electricky?

[@chainsawsubtlety9828]

Definitely burny.

[@broly2263]

probably burny

[@ADAJ342]

It IS plasma so could be electricky

[@tformerdude6788]

I think it would be both.

[@berriboi6865]

at first you had my curiosity, but now you have my full attention

[@InertiaCreeps]

Luke telling Link to take a Swolfie” LMFAO. Not something I expected to hear when I woke up this morning.

[@patrickmccurry1563]

I'll never get tired of hearing Luke, an I assume millennial, using what I think is Zoomer slang. It tickles my gen X heart. I almost wish to tell my boomer mom, but am afraid she will just back away slowly assuming I'm speaking in tongues. lol

[@steveharveyonacid8689]

Right

[@rubyamateurtactician4354]

I'm subscribed to the EV Nautilus channel, recording the daily endeavors of real life scientists exploring the deep ocean. "Poke it!" is actually something I hear rather a lot.

[@insaincaldo]

One of the pillars of science. Along with can I eat it?

[@lax2908]

How did Ellen get both of the ones where people were “adjusting” themselves

[@flaetsbnort]

she knows what she did

[@barrybumblecrumpets8977]

This feels way more like an Easter Egg than a secret idle animation I've got to shout out: Commander Keen in Goodbye, Galaxy This game has an easter egg where Commander Keen, on the Pyamid of Moons level, when positioned on the moon sigil, would turn his butt to the camera and 'moon' the audience. Does that count?

[@robstuart8474]

Epic shout. Even in the rest of the game, he sits down and gets a book out. Like a nerrrrrrd.

[@holisticreviews]

The only distinction being, Keen obviously does want you to see it. Good call out!

[@ribunny123]

The metro games: depending on which gun you have out, your character pinches himself with the gun while playing around with it, and another gun falls apart and you can watch him put it back together in a panic. Oh, Atrom.

[@meganzuniga6006]

I clearly need to play the metro games again..

[@ktash8937]

The best one is Donkey Kong playing the Switch in Tropical Freeze.

[@Acp0814]

Yeah

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

@@filmandfirearms That was old two months ago.

[@rhettmitchell]

And I'm pretty sure he played the 3ds in the original game

[@sammylondongamerd8075]

@@rhettmitchell and in country returns I think he played the ds

[@jeanlafayette7152]

Perhaps more disturbing than embarrassing, but I once got called away from a game of *Pandemonium!* and when I got back, my character was slumped on the ground, beating his head against a wall.

[@krisrussell3480]

Earthworm Jim could have made a list of these all by himself.

[@PeanutButterZombie00]

Oh man, I used to leave the game idle just to watch him. Jim is awesome.

[@steveharveyonacid8689]

Right

[@Venomtankmod]

I’ve got an idea for a video. Worst ways to die, one per franchise

[@SoItsSara]

I think a few franchises might need an honorable mention category as well 😂 love this idea tho!!

[@azuredragoon2054]

Silent Hill, being completely swallowed up by a mannequin-like monster that's smaller than you.

[@Venomtankmod]

Also half the fatalities of MK

[@keynanmartinez]

Dead Space 2 the eye part.

[@SoItsSara]

@@azuredragoon2054 Oh god I haven't even seen that one 😱 sounds HORRIFYING

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

Say what you will about Link killing monsters in shorts, he is living the absolute dream lol

[@Haibing22]

Link, why don’t you use weapons? Link: what are you talking about? I have THESE GUNS! [breaks shirt, starts flexing]

[@magiclapras]

SIDE CHEST

[@necrolicious]

I'll always remember Conker's Bad Fur Day. One of his idle animations has him take out a game gear and play Killer Instinct. Also Mario 64, Mario actually laid down and went to sleep.

[@sakurakitsunestar]

Mario also falls asleep in Odyssey as well

[@HylianFox3]

And if you left him asleep long enough, he falls into an even deeper sleep and starts dreaming about pasta

[@michaelandreipalon359]

7:59: To be honest, Batman is, in a rough reference to a line from the DCAU, "a man who wears a special suit secretly crying out for Mommy and Daddy".

[@gamedifficulty_4230]

If you stand still for long enough in Super Mario Odyssey, Mario goes into so much of a deep sleep that a bird perches on his nose without him noticing

[@ddsjgvk]

Every Link does something weird when you leave them alone.

[@midnightgamer2158]

Lol

[@Candlekeepdeep]

I love Ecco's idle animation in Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future. He turns to the camera and chatters at you.

[@hjspalenka]

Not while anybody is watching, but show of thumbs, who else would definitely touch their lightsaber, at least once?

[@s1destroyer235]

Anybody who would poke a lightsaber probably has poked a stove eye while it's red

[@hjspalenka]

@@s1destroyer235 Not as a habit, but like I said, once. You know it's gonna be hot, but you have to know *how* hot.

[@thesuperginge1348]

Darwin Award anyone? Lol

[@s1destroyer235]

"Oooh warm!" :) *poke* **E**

[@Retro_Red]

Some lightsabers have a setting to lessen the intensity of the blade. Mainly for younglings getting accustomed to combat, but also for a non-lethal option.

[@annana6098]

In ocarina of time, adult Link will adjust his trousers/leggings every once in a while if you leave him idle. It's not particularly embarrassing though, it's not a wedgie or anything.

[@LadyOnikara]

If you're in a cold place, he will start shivering and sneeze. In a hot area, mainly anywhere in Death Mountain crater, even if you're wearing the Goron tunic he will react to the heat.

[@CollinandBri]

In before someone mentions Tomb Raider: Underworld with the weird and erotic stretches Lara does when you leave her alone for too long.

[@X8SpiritLion8X]

Giggity 😏

[@linuslarsson8094]

5:30 so many missed shots firing on that stormtrooper, oh how the turntables...

[@fivepainbbles]

In a hat in time, one of the idle animations for hat kid, she pulls out a doll of an owl and a mafia guy, plays with them, looks around and then puts them away, it’s adorable ☺️

[@seang5815]

Gordon Freeman poking at the bug was the cutest thing in the horror show that was Half-Life. It was self-soothing. Great game.

[@BikerWildRat]

I always thought, that in Half Life Gordon just use his left hand finger to distract this bug from his right hand.

[@tformerdude6788]

That's a possibility, too.

[@Nuke5em]

It's been years since I played it (like 25), but I still remember Jill from Jill of the Jungle not knowing where she is if you leave her alone for too long. It's rather embarrassing that she gets lost while standing still.

[@stevenburns2030]

Link was just appreciating "Rip" and "Tear"

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

I’m watching a video about idle animations in video games. What the heck am I doing with my life...?

[@Paladin585]

Technically, it's not that unreasonable to shave with a lightsaber, as in universe they do have intensity settings for the beam to reduce it to skin safe for training purposes and non-lethal fighting. True you rarely see this used, but in most instances in which a jedi has to use a lightsaber, things have gone well beyond non-lethal methods. It's entirely possible for a jedi to safely shave with a lightsaber if it is well enough built to allow for such intensity settings. This has been your useless trivia fact of the day.

[@omegahaxors3306]

Double-spacing every word makes it look like a completely different font.

[@nicholascross3557]

Artyom, in the Metro games, will, when idle, start checking whatever weapon he has equipped, working actions, dusting off glow-sights and, sometimes, dropping the hammer of a gun on his own thumb.

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

In the original Blood game letting the characters stand still for a while will cause them to start singing showtunes, in the sequel one of them when left idle starts telling your mama jokes.

[@katehanami7322]

not exactly embarrassing, but I was a bit awkward about it in the Saints Row series, if you don't pause and leaves the Boss standing there, they will become more and more agitated starting with "I'll just gonna stay here... just... say here..." and get angry enough to break the fourth wall and yell "HEY YOU! pick. up. the. controller!"

[@torgranael]

I usually paused my game so I never noticed this.

[@maxvel0city906]

I've always loved Sonic the Hedgehog's foot tapping idle animation.🤣 As I can be quite impatient at times I feel this animation just sums me and Sonic up.

[@award3007]

Well I guess your catchphrase is also "Gotta go fast!"

[@maxvel0city906]

@@award3007 yes exactly.🤣

[@mnArqal93]

Not sure if I can call it an idle animation, but I believe if you don't play for too long in the Discworld games, Rincewind also gets impatient and gets up in the screen and complains. Sonic's idle animation is great. I think I've played a few games after that took inspiration from Sonic as well. I often go back to play it just to listen to the music in Green Hill Zone.

[@DJAB87]

That's funny because in Sonic CD, if you leave Sonic tapping his foot for too long he will say "I'm outta here!" and jump off the stage resulting in an instant game over.

[@erinmiller1433]

Do you ever say “I’m waaaaaitiiiiing!”

[@zulubunsen9067]

To be fair Kyle does need the lightsaber to shave. Nothing else can cut his Godly Beard of Awesomeness.

[@fivestarguy100]

Apparently not even a lightsaber can cut his beard as it is still there after the lightsaber has cut it. Multiple times.

[@davidmcgill1000]

The snark animation is the best. Almost feels like the finger is gonna do a magic trick for the snark.

[@cearnicus]

"I'm gonna make this finger ... disappear. _Ta-dah!_ It's gone!"

[@thegreatpineapple4425]

Now you gotta do a list about the coolest idle animations. If you do, for Ellen's sake, include how Kassandra pets Icarus when he lands on her arm.

[@WildfireMagni]

Kyle Katarn isn't a Jedi; he's a guy with a lightsaber and a lot of questions.

[@JJ-ml7pq]

The Star Wars: Jedi Knights examples become even funnier when you realize that lightsabers are described as being “loops of plasma energy,” meaning they’re basically plasma chainsaws, and that essentially means one character is trying to shave with a chainsaw (!) and the other is poking it while it’s active to see if it hurts (!!!)- both incredibly absurd images.

[@BogeyTheBear]

I like to pose the theory that lightsabers are intertwined loops of plasma, the more loops involved changes the temperature, inertia, and most importantly the blue-shift coloration of the blade. Sith red sabers have three intertwined loops, green sabers use five, blue have seven, and sabers have nine fields.

[@JJ-ml7pq]

@@BogeyTheBear That might have varying levels of accuracy for IRL science (I’m no expert), but in Star Wars lore the color comes from the Kyber Crystal used in the weapon’s construction. The reason Sith all have red sabers is because they use artificial crystals; which somehow always come in red. As for characteristics such as inertia, Star Wars seems to treat it as being a function of the format and layout of the weapon. For example, most humanoid characters wield lightsabers like normal swords, while those who use double-bladed sabers like Darth Maul manage to wield them like staves. Essentially the weapons get treated like their fully non-plasma counterparts with the caveat that the wielder can’t touch the plasma.

[@BogeyTheBear]

@@JJ-ml7pq I know. I always wanted to inject 'science' into the science fantasy of Star Wars.

[@Steve-YT383]

Luke, have you seen the price of razors? Maybe better question, how often do you need to razor? For those of us that look like Wookies after not shaving for a week, lightsaber shaving is cost effect and definite reward vs risk.

[@austinknight5881]

Also it incinerates all the clippings, so no trying-to-clean-between-the-tiles or clogged drain

[@ADAJ342]

You're going to burn your beard

[@austinknight5881]

@@ADAJ342 wouldn't be the first time...

[@ADAJ342]

@@austinknight5881...how?

[@austinknight5881]

@@ADAJ342 trying to light a cigarette while drunk, somebody burnt themself on a flaming shot and spit fire all over the place, different friend misjudged the amount of powder in an experimental firework (he has a pyrotechnics license, but he was also fairly new at the job) that sort of thing

[@MavericksHangar]

Ken Griffey Baseball on the SNES idle animation was the first one I remember. If you left it alone for a few min the umpire would turn around and knock on the screen and say "Play the Game kid!!". He had an angry look on his face and looked like he was being quite bothered for time.

[@Daniel-kq4bx]

By playing the Ac games i realized again how relatable and awesome Desmond is 😂

[@frodobaggins7710]

In Crash Bandicoot 3 (both original and N-Sane Trilogy), Crash will bring out a yo-yo to play with as one of his idle animations. Unfortunately, one of his tricks can end up going wrong and Crash ends up entangling himself in his own yo-yo, and has to spin his way out

[@madsy5697]

Games I play have idles that have the character just wait in constant warrior pose which much hurt. Ghost of Tsushimas idle is best though as after every mission, you and your horse just stand together while everyone else watches or just wonders what you are doing. 👀 Good video 📹👍

[@samuraiboy497]

Y’all missed something in the old Constantine game if you leave the game on without doing anything for a second John will take out a cigarette and smoke it taking off a bit of his actual health bar and put it out

[@Viking648]

Ellen, you should do a video incorporating the overly performative ways Lara stretches in Legend and Anniversary.

[@joelhaggis5054]

13:35 Listen to the DK Rap on loop, obviously.

[@ebrahimalsanad4411]

Metal gear solid 5 phantom pain. Idle animations with quite in the helicopter is slightly nsfw and it was really hard to explain to my dad

[@monarchsub8884]

lol

[@thegreatpineapple4425]

Her animations get progressively suggestive, the more you build up the trust. Pequod is the greatest helicopter pilot in the world. 😂

[@ebrahimalsanad4411]

@@thegreatpineapple4425 it's only after I built up the trust I got caught by my dad and that is after dinner. At the time I didn't know that there is an idle animation happening

[@thegreatpineapple4425]

@@ebrahimalsanad4411 Yep. What starts out as Quiet innocently looking at you ends up with her stretching on the seat on all fours, catlike. Those are clearly designed with her default sniper bikini in mind. Give the poor girl some proper fatigues and see how ridiculous it looks.

[@navalcomic6572]

To find good idle animation just play Lego games. Jurassic worlds Owen Grady has a great one

[@gamedifficulty_4230]

This reminds me of one in the LEGO Star Wars where if you went idle in the cantina as Darth Vader, he’d start tapping his foot to the music

[@ABadassDragon]

Lego games have some of the best idle animations. Enough for a list of their own

[@navalcomic6572]

@@ABadassDragon agreed

[@respectableaf9061]

Saints Row 4.... just leaving that here.

[@nickmurphy2936]

I never stood still long enough in that game to get to idle, elaborate please?

[@BogeyTheBear]

Don't know what you're talking about. But in Saints Row 2 if you leave your character idling in an area with specific NPC activities, they will adopt that particular activity as their idle animation. For example, stand around on a pier where others are fishing, eventually your character will walk over to the edge and start casting their own line.

[@yohnnyjames]

@@BogeyTheBear really??? in saints row 2?! shit that's super cool

[@fromthelostdays]

I can think of idle animations I like more than ones I think are embarrassing for the characters. My favorite I can think of is the string of more and more elaborate dances Raz can do the longer you're idle in Milla's Dance Party in Psychonauts. And when I was small I used to stand around in Jill of the Jungle just to watch her insulting other game protagonists.

[@lauraliedke6868]

Not only does DK wear a tie to feel human - he wears a tie because he means business

[@MrVaskarad]

I'm a fan of when left idle for to long the character gets annoyed at the player

[@luk_143]

*cough* sonic 1 *cough*

[@JT_Lich]

How is admiring your own muscles embarrassing? Link is probably ripped from lifting and pushing rocks, holding on to a glider for miles, climbing mountains, yeeting greatswords at monsters, riding lynels, and killing more bokoblins than there are people on Earth.

[@ram89572]

So what i hear you saying is that BotW Link is an adorable little badass you would not want to challenge to an arm wrestling contest

[@4swordsluver]

being asleep for 100 years will wreak havoc on your muscles lol

[@timvallier9701]

We can all tell how much time Luke spends at the gym with his description of the ab building push ups DK is doing. Love this guy.

[@wielderofthetriforce5567]

Ok but the borderlands characters, especially zero, straight sass you. It's not an animation but getting told we're boring by zero is amazing.

[@crimsonboop902]

I'm reminded of the idle animations from Bionicle Heroes (also a Lego game) where your chosen bio-mechanical Toa would just pop off their head and do keepy-uppies with it, or take off their leg to scratch a hard-to-reach itch on their back.

[@SupersuMC]

Haha, what?! Remind me to download it from biomedia just so I can see that, regardless of how it's non-canon! XD

[@dennis_duran]

8:26 this sounds like a joke but it perfectly encapsulates the lego game franchise

[@blueblank8287]

The Star Wars ones kinda remind me of the idle animation in Eternal Darkness where the temporary player character Anthony has stabbing himself in the hand with his weapon as an idle animation - he has the excuse, though, of having recently turned into a zombie and clearly just doing it out of morbid curiosity.

[@whatifkarlmarxbutbad3660]

"Don't do it again!" Luke does a good 'irate mom' impression! I got flashbacks!

[@briansanders8122]

You forgot Sly 2, Band of Thieves, where one of Murray's idle animations is to accidentally drop his belt, then quickly pull it back up as if he'd dropped his nonexistent pants.

[@dakotahserrott3216]

As player we like think that we are one that allow main character to do cool things but occasionally in cutscene they just become true badass to point saying why can’t I do that like dying light where main character escape a arena know as the pit by grabbing machete off ground slicing 2 enemy to death than slicing the main antagonist hand right off than grabbing gun that was in that shooting guard on rail before climbing way up where talk to dying doctor before leaping over we gain back control as we escape.

[@ADAJ342]

Could be a video idea, times where you were way cooler in the cutscene.

[@valirenard1449]

I remember Cooper from Grabbed by the Ghoulies. If you left the idle animation kick in, he would pick his nose or readjust his undergarments.

[@yoamiunpinco4372]

2:17 Preach! I used to work at a gym and dudes would seriously be giving themselves bedroom eyes in the mirror. I understand looking at yourself to check your form. I understand checking for imbalances in muscular development. I understand being proud of your progress. What I do not understand is guys sensually caressing their bodies in front of the weight rack, moaning and grunting while slightly gyrating their hips. No, I am not exaggerating. Yes, I am still mad.

[@tamfuwing1]

I love how Gordon Freeman pets the spore launcher in Half-Life Opposing Force when idle. Adorable.

[@ApesWithEgos]

Think it was Cranky Kong doing the kidnapping back in Jump Man.

[@Aileil]

I love the creative Humongous Entertainment idle animations. Spy Fox did things like juggling if you left him alone too long.

[@sagacious03]

Fun list! Thanks for uploading!

[@leafandryly]

Oh thank goodness this video dropped, I needed something to do at work this afternoon

[@berriboi6865]

what idle animation were you in the middle of when this dropped?

[@leafandryly]

@@berriboi6865 sipping tea while staring into the middle distance

[@berriboi6865]

@@leafandryly your tea was effectively spat out when this was uploaded, wasnt it?

[@leafandryly]

@@berriboi6865 I would never spit out tea, that would be rude

[@dragonlord12100]

I like how in the sponge-bob battle for bikini bottom remaster one of his idle animations in the chicken meme

[@toryknotts8026]

We talking about the original game for the original Xbox or the new remastered one, for the new and last gen consoles? I'd check for myself but the old girl is quite stubborn and not wanting to power up,when she dose, games play just fine. Not bad for a for a console from 19 years ago. That last sentence seem like forever ago, hard to believe I was only 4.....seems like a lifetime ago.

[@prejudicedpizza2764]

Ellen's 'Bruce, why?' made me laugh so hard x'D

[@DaZebraffe]

The DK 64 one looked more like he was trying to keep the fly in long enough to eat it, rather than a reaction of shock and embarrassment. Also, apes eat bugs. They're not particularly embarrassed about it.

[@ScripulousFingore6133]

In Spongebob BBB Patrick shyly waves at the camera. I think he's embarrassed that I'm watching him in general...

[@MrMBinder]

Nier Automata's 2B has some pretty nice idle animations.

[@notsansutplays8178]

There is a reference to the shaving with a lightsaber animation in The Amazing World of Gumball. In one episode scientists try to test out a “new” invention (its a lightsaber) with various experiments. One is giving a man a haircut. (Instead he gets melted)

[@docette2015]

*laughs* I really like the Mara Jade one, if only because it reminds me of the idles from one of my favorite classic games -- American McGee's Alice! Specifically, if you left her alone with a weapon equipped, she'd have a few idles based around playing with the weapon. And with most of them, one of them was her accidentally hurting herself. From trying to perform a card trick and getting the card lodged in her forehead, to accidentally smacking herself in the head with her croquet mallet, to dropping the Jackbomb on her foot. She even has a similar idle to the Mara one, where she pokes at the business end of her Jabberwock's Eye Staff. Fortunately, that one just leaves her with a bit of goo on her finger, which she wipes off on her already filthy dress, so. . .better luck than Mara!

[@MattSkudlarek]

I have to ask, did Ellen lose a bet or something? She got both of the "guys rearranging themselves" items on this list. ... Unless Luke really wanted to do those, and denying him the opportunity was the reward for surviving the fear academy...

[@BillyNoMates1988]

Does anyone remember Perfect Dark 64 where the NPCs would look like they are fixing a wedgy or will have both hands on their front parts for erm maybe an itch coughc fiddle cough

[@PeanutButterZombie00]

I love Desmond, and had no idea he had those animations, even though I just finished playing that game for the first time a couple months ago. I'm on Brotherhood now and it's time to run a little experiment...

[@jewelthekitty4435]

To be fair, if I did a quarter as much climbing with as twiggy arms as Breath of the Wild Link did, I’d be pretty proud of my muscles too.

[@coffeepowered6033]

Well hey, at least these characters are embarrassing themselves instead of, I dunno staring directly into the player's soul and making you feel like you're about to be murdered. It could always be worse. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@samdilks9516]

in Lego's Bionicle Heroes, if you leave it long enough, the character you're playing as will take their head off and start doing keepie-uppies with it (if you're not british: basically playing hackey-sack with a soccer ball) idk if it's that embarrassing, but i can think of better ways of flaunting your immortality

[@theuone8828]

Ooh, I remember that.

[@torgranael]

I don't even know what hackey-sack is.

[@timvallier9701]

We can all tell how much time Luke spend sat the gym by his description of the ab building push-up DK is doing. Love this guy.

[@memeifyinc1119]

A hat in time Had kid playing with her toys is so adorable