9 Video Game NPCs Everyone Wished They Could Kill

Just because they’re memorable doesn’t mean we don’t want to stick a hot poker in them.
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[@Bman32x]

Old head gamer here… I figured out how to kill Natalya in Golden Eye 64 without failing missions. That’s how dedicated to frustration she caused.

[@DakotaTubberville-nc3us]

If you remember please share.

[@MrLePov]

I remember this and I'm only 31 😭 are we really THAT old, brother?

[@crow3370]

I agree with you on that one

[@dallstownfairs9838]

@@DakotaTubberville-nc3us I'm guessing it's the method where you use one of the two-controller control schemes where the fire button is on the second controller. With the fire button on the second controller, you're able to fire your equipped gun during cutscenes as if they were normal gameplay, which allows you to shoot and kill non-Bond characters while they play. This lets you, for example, kill Natalya during the cutscene that plays after finishing the Archives level.

[@johnserosanguineous1886]

@@DakotaTubberville-nc3usIn the cut scenes.

[@khathaway414]

Every person you had to escort in Elder Scroll Oblivion. Charging head first in every battle for instant death.

[@HorrorManMike]

I was shocked Preston Garvey from Fallout 4 wasn't on here.

[@rottensquid]

I'm sure this is self-evident to most players, but it took me a second playthrough to realize that Gaspard and his friends are Snow White's seven dwarfs. He's "Sleepy." Classic Witcher.

[@charmedsylaine]

Also, in true Witcher fashion, it's possible to do this quest out of order and kill the harpys first on your way to Gaspard - then it's just a bit of a boring slog of walking and waking him up like three times. I honestly don't mind that much - because the scene after you arrive with him is one of my absolute favorites and I enjoy he whole vibe of the Isle of Mists.

[@VisualGourmet]

Believe it or not: Gaspard is French and means something liked "snored".

[@rottensquid]

@@VisualGourmet I didn't know that. But I'm not swimming in languages like a European. I only have a few bits and pieces of French. But now, I have one more. Thanks for that.

[@FelisImpurrator]

Ava got hit hard by the cuts to the story coming from the devs being forced to rush the game out the door. They had to cut all the actual character development. She gets better in the DLC, which they did have time to write and animate.

[@pinkmouse4863]

Whilst I appreciate you're trying to find characters that aren't Preston Garvey, it still is, and always will be Preston b****y Garvey.

[@woodysmith2681]

Marcy Long right behind him too.

[@ff3player]

How dare you not include The Dog from Duck Hunt

[@akdragon]

NES Duck Hunt The Dog!

[@plectrumura]

I actually assumed that would be number one.

[@Mark73]

That's the first one I thought of

[@andrewtyrell4795]

Kai Leng is salty because Captain Anderson shot his legs out making him need prosthetics. So he gets dunked on by both the mentor and student.

[@zeroflight6867]

Guild Master in Fable 1. They fixed it in the Anniversary edition so that you could shut him up. But he was annoying enough they made a joke about it in Fable 2, saying he was killed by and the words "your health is low" carved into his forehead.

[@NPCBattleHub]

Skyrim PC Players! Remember that you can always use the “setessential ID 0” command to make any NPC in the game un-alivable. Any NPC. Do with that information what you will.

[@IcedForce]

IIRC with kids you need to use "setrace [race]" command because kids are their own race with scripted invulnerability and other rules (you cannot target them and they don't take any damage etc).

[@chris26479]

Is that include that little brat who mouths off to you in the throne room or literally any kid to be honest cuz they're all cheeky buggers in Skyrim

[@rundown132]

Do you travel to the cloud district often?

[@plinkitee]

So, in the bag it looks like Dick Cheney, Andy Dick, Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon, and... looks like John Wilkes Booth but I know that's not right.

[@realjoejohnston]

Close! The last one was Dick Liddil, a member of the James Gang.

[@plinkitee]

@@realjoejohnston I had no idea. Thanks so much!

[@Martynde]

you got Kamoshida wanting to kill himself but then you stopped him from doing so.

[@Chokah]

Don't blame me. Ann decided to be the better person.

[@SergeantSphynx]

Ted Faro, and failing him, CEO, it is a travesty that Guerrilla Games prevented you from ending them yourself. No character will ever take the crown of my most hated character from Ted Faro.

[@XannolcZ]

Man, Faro I can get over. But taking Ceo's kill away from players after he shows his true colours? Unacceptable

[@Algeo69]

Natlia from golden eye, lives rent free in my brain. Hours of her just getting in the way and dieing

[@ChaosWept]

Jess did a list without saying titillating. At 49 it still makes me giggle. Although Ive never thought to call someone a dickbag, and its in the rotation for sure now.

[@Vodka4MyLlamas]

I'm sure there are others, but the first thought I had when I heard this intro was Prince Charmless in DQ8. Rarely have I wanted to leave someone to the mercy of monsters more than him.

[@TheGwydion777]

Gaspard is misunderstood and doesn't belong on this list. He's a bit of an Easter egg in the sense that he's literally Sleepy from Walt Disney's Snow White. It's comic relief and I loved every bit of tediousness.

[@ethanpeck3723]

Wait more people wanted to kill braith than Delphine?

[@animewitch1416]

My thoughts exactly. Braith at least had reasons for being a brat (ie her home life). Delphine is annoying and, despite getting her butt saved and faction rebuilt by you and the greybeards, orders you to kill your greatest ally because he’s a dragon (which I ignored). As racist as the stormcloaks are, even they weren’t that bad. Yet even after completing the main story, she never loses her essential status.

[@ShadowProject01]

She said she was trying to avoid the obvious choice. Delphine is quite the obvious pick 😂

[@whitewolf3051]

Or over Maven Black-Briar even? Delphine and Maven would’ve been better choices for this list. Way to drop the ball.

[@KhanIlkara]

For me, Starefield. "I wish Deimos was exclusively a military contractor..."

[@lady_draguliana784]

Times 9) 0:52 8) 1:57 7) 3:22 6) 4:36 5) 6:16 4) 7:48 3) 9:00 2) 9:49 1) 10:51

[@landonewts]

Ooof, Kai Leng. I HATE THAT GUY. At first I felt stupid for not being able to kill him right away, but then realized it was actually impossible. He was a maddening foe. When he finally did meet his end, I confess I loaded and earlier save and did it all again.

[@IvinationOTM]

Here I am, skimming the video for characters I recognize, and it ends on Kamoshida. Absolutely agree with that one!!

[@DrVenture45]

I felt this way about most of the smart-mouth NPCs in Starfield, especially some of the Constellation crew...and Benjamin Bayu.

[@tranz2deep]

Skyrim gets the Daily Double daily for needing mods to not have to kill Paarthunax and to be able to kill Braith.

[@artimecion]

Chadley and MAI definitely need to be on a list

[@evelinepotter4551]

Compared to Mai Chadley is fine I think, but yes.. She is annoying to boot, even he is annoyed by her...

[@thomasjess5029]

No joke, Braith was the first nom-enemy NPC I tried to kill in Skyrim, when I first played it.

[@bigjay8895]

Laughing at the sparing the fan in TES Oblivion 😅

[@sofaris576]

Ann did explain in the game that Komoshidas fate is worse then Death becuse he has to live with his sins for the rest of his life. So killing him would have been a mercy. Why would you want to do somthing so nice to Komoshida?

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

Trouble with the trolley, eh? I remember that one. Briath is a god. She's immortal. Some modders are monsters like the one who created the kill children mod. Smosh used this mod. I've seen people swing a sword at Mido. It did nothing. 3:31 Wait, this was in Fallout O_o? Don't you kill Dutch in the first game? I never had that much trouble with the trolley.

[@andrewnash5813]

I really don’t understand all the hate Ava from BL3 gets, I loved the character and am personally excited to see how the guilt from the events of BL3 develop her

[@mjvdg4194]

Is saying Ashley Graham for being the single most infuriating escort mission too mean?

[@Saddonghussein]

@@mjvdg4194 yeah, a teen who had 0 fight experience, put on a world with monsters and powerful creatures, why she can be more helpful to the player, it's not like Leon mission was to save an innocent girl, Leon mission was to shoot some Spanish farmers

[@Sebix31]

Woah woah woah "Way worse than Claptrap"... Claptrap is one of the best things in those games...

[@Jianichie]

I'd swap the Spyro entry for the alchemist. Why on Earth does he have to go along that path?! He's basically the friend who starts fights with other people expecting you to jump in and finish it for them.

[@Paradigmfusion]

Riddler Arkham Knight. Sure once you get all his trophies you can give him a beatdown. but up until then, you really wish Batman would overlook his no killing policy.

[@VisualGourmet]

11:20 I once had a nightmare where I dreamt that I couldn't fall asleep. Have P5 villains done that, too? I was depressed and exhausted for some time by then and just wanted to take a short nap... but I couldn't. I was rolling around sleepless for like 2 hours and hated every second of it. Then my alarm rang and it turned out that I slept for about 20 minutes like planned and only dreamt that I couldn't sleep for 2 hours. Honestly one of my most painful nightmares ever and I wasn't even particularly refreshed after that... And no, I don't need any advice how to improve my sleep without guzzling pills. Such techniques only work on people who have no real sleeping problems to begin with.

[@silentfenrir6927]

...Claptrap! That was my first and last thought

[@chadflanaganCFC]

Kai Leng is a good choice, but not the Mass Effect character I'd of picked maybe it's because I was replaying the legendary edition but Harkins is my pick as he's a rude, drunken, corrupt AF human C-Sec/Ex C-Sec who is constantly a thorn in your side and treats everyone's favorite Turian pretty horribly, and once you're done dealing with him the worst Shep can do even as a renegade is let him get shot in the leg instead of having that pistol aimed a little higher.

[@maxfreeman818]

Preston Garvy in Fallout 4

[@tubensalat1453]

I once tried to kill the little girl that guards the tunnel to the vault in Little Lamplight: she got on my nerves and I ran out of ideas (I needed to talk to the mayor...). I think it's the same girl you can get to cry, so I felt no remorse when I did.

[@arniejolt]

Fallout 4's Marcy Long would have been on this list if Bethesda didn't decide to release an update which removed her Essential NPC status.

[@HHustlehoff]

Mortal children mod for Skyrim and Braith is a decapitated toast

[@misterkapable]

Damn.....Ava right in the beginning of the video LOL

[@dallstownfairs9838]

I wanted to bring up Louis Pan in the original Deus Ex, but then I remembered you *can* kill him! Ah, good times.

[@ryanrowe1975]

Preston Garvy in fallout 4

[@krvgames9258]

First off, Link only kills monsters, not other people. And secondly, Mido deeply regrets being mean to Link, as after you beat the Forest Temple, Mido even asks Link to tell Link that he is sorry for the way he treated him, though it is implied that Mido knows that the Link he is talking to is the Link that he bullied, meaning he is one of two Kokiri in the game that remembers Link despite him now being an adult seven years later. And for Ashley Graham, killing her yourself means an instant game over. And she is more likable in the RE4 Remake.

[@Echo99k]

The fan boy from legend of Zelda ps Dutch has two brain cells that are fighting for 3nd place

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

If I recall, in Persona 5, they don’t 100% know that taking the treasure will change Kamoshida’s heart. They think it will, but it might also kill him or leave him a vegetable. That may be part of why he’s so over the top loathsome.

[@MMKMoore1]

One word - "Enchantment!" Dragon Age's favorite deux ex machina, Sandal. It's a bit much.

[@priscilabee583]

I'm surprised Chadley is not on this list hahaha!

[@bobhockey2509]

Maccready in Little Lamplight. I'll be using Lone Wanderer in Fallout 4 anyway.

[@SamButler22]

GTA-SA Big Smoke, not because of the betrayal or anything, it's purely at the failure end of that dirt bike v train mission

[@thinkingprole1]

Needs a Part 2 to accommodate half of the Shenmue, and two thirds Hogwarts casts

[@tonykamat8356]

Delphine and Esbern, Skyrim

[@user-ps6do9lu3n]

Oh my god, I never see the longest journey/dreamfall games get mentioned, I'm so happy... that a terrible character is on your hitlist

[@Relaxedplaythroughs]

Guild master fable. Your health is getting low watch that! Your out of mana!

[@joels5150]

One of the OG NPC’s every NES owner wished they could kill, the Dog from Duck Hunt…

[@ShadowLouWolf]

I can forgive children due to potentially having time to change their ways. Adults... not so much. Hence why in Skyrim, I wish I could take down Maven Black-Brian. -Pretty much has Riften on her palm -Belongs to the Thieves Guild and the Dark Brotherhood. -Can Become Jarl if the Imperials win the war -Corrupt, Pretentious, "Untouchable" - Only redeeming quality is that she funds an orphanage. Another person I wish I could deal with is Ingo from Ocarina of Time. Sure, he becomes "happier and humble" after everything is Saud and done, but all the turmoil he caused to Malon, Talon, Epona and the Lon Lon Ranch... yeah, a few Master Sword slashes would have served him right. Another one I wish I could deal with is Matt Engarde from Phoenix Wright: Justice for All. The final case of this game makes you defend this actor with quite the background. You eventually find out that he was the cause of a woman's suicide and also that he hired an assassin to kill another actor. Sure, technically, he is potentially killed by the assassin he hired (because he also was planning to blackmail him), but you never get to see it.

[@theatrebrad]

1. Dick Cheney 2. Andy Dick 3. Richard "Tricky Dick" Nixon Don't recognize the other two

[@richardlittle4133]

Kai Lang is the wish version of Robin and needs to be squashed as soon as humanly possible.

[@electrolytes]

Funny thing about Ava from BL3. Her cut content made her sooo much better.

[@bradpawelkiewicz7450]

Gaspard is great cause he is clearly the witcher version of Sleepy from snow white

[@Windmelodie]

The Invincible Man in Black and White and Back and White 2. In both cases, it's a male hermit, who taunts you and makes fun of your powers. Remember, you play as a literal GOD. So in an attempt to punish his heresy, you throw him across the world, into mountains, set him on fire, crush him with an avalanche of boulders, throw him in the ocean, throuw a boulder on top of him in the ocean....... And he survives unscathed, only to continue his vicious mockery....

[@barletproductions]

"know what is worse than mocah? Dutch" no, see micah wasnt grown to be that way he was already. You got it twisted, Dutch was the one groomed, it was hinted that micah was the reason blackwater went so south, and he made ducth who was going insane worse by training him to trust no one and turn on his own kid for money. No one is worse than micah, NO ONE, he was the center od literally everything

[@Saddonghussein]

Wait Kai leng? So you don't kill him in thessia but you get him after making 1 mission latter, that's the hole game for you?

[@sophiacousland3452]

Actually 2 missions later. Horizon is after Thessia, then you kill Kai Leng at the Cerberus Base . And launching the Cerberus Base mission kick starts the end of the game, so she is correct that he is unfortunately unkillable for most of the game.

[@Saddonghussein]

@@sophiacousland3452 2 missions, yeah so much time, wasted then

[@markkuijpers3818]

Skadge in Star Wars: The Old Republic. My bounty hunter was exactly the sort to kill or collect on that psychotic Houk, but for some reason the game forces you to not only let him live but actually makes him one of your companions. Unlike some other companions in the game which your player character may not want to recruit, like SCORPIO, he isn't even interesting, either. He's just a huge asshole, nothing more to him

[@ZahJehm]

Love the new setup Jess

[@DeesertFox416]

List Idea: 10 Brats in Videogames ... a list of the most annoying kids in gaming.

[@edielungreen]

Such a missed opportunity with Kai Leng. Would have been really cool to have had a squadmate in ME2 who remains strictly loyal to Cerberus and betrays Shepard at some critical juncture (sensing that Shepard will return to the Alliance or similar), then gets away during the resulting fight, only to return in ME3 as the Kai Leng-type adversary. As it is, telling the players they should have read all the accessory lore comics or whatever to find out about him is extremely weak storytelling IMO

[@nemesisn4522]

THAT FING STUPID ROBOT CALL CLAPTRAP

[@wmdkitty]

Moira in Fallout 3. IYKYK.

[@aretnap3653]

"I'll See You At TheBachelorParty!" - Chad - (CatBug) (In Refference to The ThumbNailPic)😜

[@cbrancier9341]

I loved The Longest Journey when it came out, but yea, I get what you mean...

[@rebelliontrash3228]

H1NT Droid in Lego Star Wars Skywalker saga

[@andyvelez6497]

Pokey from Earthbound / "Porkey" as he's called in Mother 3. This POS starts off as the neighbor's kid (who you know is just the WORST), but goes on to cause SO much pain, suffering, and death across two games... and he escapes every damn time. ***SPOILER*** Like true, at the end of Mother 3 he basically has a fate worse than d**th and is basically stuck in his own coffin, in a frail elderly body, burried under ground without escape, all while also being unable to pass away naturally... but it's still not NEARLY as satisfying as being able to PK Thunder him into a small pile of ash, ijs.

[@whitewolf3051]

Braith over Maven Black-Briar, seriously? Maven takes over a rival meadery by sabotage, has connections to criminal cults, her family are just as wicked, and you actually choose Braith over Maven?

[@cppblank]

Nixon, Andy, Cheney? and I don't know the black and white one.

[@Franklinsbrother]

For me, it would be that damn Flower Lady in Breath of the Wild, and all the jackass guards in Summoner.

[@garyb9167]

I only know 3, Darth Cheney, Richard Nixon, Woody Alan.

[@daimiencryst5817]

These were good choices, but my pick would hav been Ashley from the ordinal Resident Evil 4

[@enderhx]

Fun list and Jess looks gorgeous and is effortlessly funny. Great job :)

[@evinjones5398]

I like this list.... but you forgot about FF7's Chadley....

[@justinanderson4315]

I hate npc’s that you have to guide and protect. No matter what game you play, escorting npc’s is aweful.

[@finniann11]

The village kids in Twilight Princess are the absolute worst. Can't stand them they take your horse, and they take your sword and never once are they truly made to face the consequences of thier actions lol

[@MrNuff_Gamer]

Master Rahool in Destiny/Destiny 2. Especially in D1 when you grinded for an exotic engram and he turned it into a blue item.... I hate that guy.

[@joshburch8825]

Money banks in the og spyro the dragon games

[@Handsome_Black]

2:02 I remember him as "Mido" because he refers to himself in the third person like 6 times. You didn't read the text bubbles as a kid, did you lol.

[@jamesmccrory4555]

Abby from last of us part 2 I almost didn’t beat the game cuz I didn’t want to fight Ellie at the end and even let her kill me a few times

[@ShadowProject01]

They really should have had us play Abby BEFORE we got to that one scene (don’t want to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t played or know about it even after all this time) I agree, forcing to play her after…I ran her into the first clicker I saw with her😂

[@michaelbaumann5774]

Dutch has a "plan", okay???

[@drautch]

I like that Ava was the first one they showed. Based

[@D33720]

If yall do another one......... slippy toad from starfox

[@SilverSpectre266]

Borderlands 3 killed off any enthusiasm I still had for the franchise. When the next entry happens Ill likely still watch a playthrough or just the cutscenes, Im not gonna slog through the game again. It felt like they just made so many decisions that irked me, and decided "what if all our characters suddenly became insufferable". Ava was especially bad, and her likely being one of the next playable ones...nah.

[@Aviati0n]

Ava should be number 1 on this list. Ava single handedly ruined Borderlands' legacy. The cringe Tiktok star personalities of the main antags had nothing on the atrocity that they forced on us with Ava.

[@MarkAHoltz]

Ocarina Of Time: "Listen!" "Listen!" "Listen!" "Listen!" "Listen!" "Listen!" Me: "Shut the !BLEEP! up!"

[@jrchmgn.]

Dandelion on witcher 3 his quest is freaking long. I've been skipping dialogue the whole time and haven't found him yet.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

He's one of those characters that can definitely grow on you. He's got a bit of a front on, because he's not entirely the nincompoop he comes off as.

[@Thrythlind]

My two characters I hate are Ammon Jerro and Bishop in Neverwinter Nights 2... granted the game does let you kill them... heck you have the option to destroy Ammon Jerro's soul in the expansion Mask of the Betrayer...

[@CToker86]

Claptrap I really hope claptrap is on this list

[@NJM1564]

No tingle or Navi?

[@benabernathy9272]

How the blue f$#@ are the koroks not here?

[@chriscarlisle5676]

Navi, way more than mido.