That power literally lets him command bears to eat his enemies. It is only that he's a nice 12 year old kid that Hoggish Greedily still has legs.Ma-Ti from Captain Planet with the useless power of heart
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Totally useless members of teams in fiction
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Movie quill is shit, but comics quill was kickass until Bendis got a hold of him. Thankfully Ewing is fixing that currently.
Yeah.
For all the shit I keep hearing about the female cast in Naruto (most of which is justified), Tenten is just... Whew.
That's a whole new level of being useless.
Hulk can crumple tanks. That's useful.
Last time arrows were useful, Gengis Khan was riding towards Europe.
Aside from the jokes an arrow is more useful than a bullet in a comic book world. Not only can comic archers curve arrows around obstacles and shoot at rates as fast as automatic rifles (Hawkeye can shoot like 60 arrows per second) arrows can be used as delivery devices for all sorts of tech weapons from the hacking arrows in avengers to a freaking nuke arrow.
So regardless of Pippin's actions, Gandalf and Durin's Bane were destined to meet in battle no matter what? Very interesting.
Most certainly. Saruman also played a crucial part in leading Gandalf and the Fellowship towards Moria.
Don't Tenten and Lee have the same win/loss record? Actually Lee might have more losses
It's also a matter of personality.
I am not familiar with comics Hawkeye, but comics and DCTV Green Arrow (which are very different characters) trump in personality MCU Hawkeye.
Lee has more losses because Lee actually contributes. There are more ways to be useful than just racking Ws.
Tristan Taylor - Yu-Gi-Oh!
Tristan was the muscle of the team, imagine how hard will be for those nerds who play children card games if people realized that they could just punch them hard in the face
I mean, Hawkeye is basically Batman, but no one complains about batman.
This guy right here, I really don't get why he was part of Magneto's inner circle he was useless.
This guy in X-Men 3 whose only attack is to hug his enemies.
Honestly, even as brief as it was, the Tenzin v Zaheer fight ranks up there as a top 3 fight in the Avatar series (just underneath Zuko v Azula). The fight choreography, the setting, the music, two absolute masters of their art going at it, everything about it was so cool.
Mumen Rider is the heart of the series, and a role model for every hero, also he bought some time for Saitama to arrive against the Deep Sea King.
There is some recent development in the webcomics that change his losing streak though.
Gaming:
Meg
Just bad in every way.
Now I'm curious, what is she from?
Rope Guy -Suicide Squad
This had me laughing so hard -- how the movie just basically said, "Oh yeah and then there's rope guy," just to kill him off as soon as possible.
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. She's one of like nearly 70 party members you can acquire. So not really a big deal that she has a poor stat growths and is mostly useless, though she is a part of the smallest team in the game where you don't often have many alternative units to use in her stead for much of the game.
He does have a lot of L's, but you also have to look at Lee's matchups.
Lee has a disadvantage as a taijutsu master in a world full of superpowered opponents. Especially when considering the opponents he goes up against: defensive fighters.
Gaara had an ultimate defense, almost impossible for Lee to get close to and break through. To his credit he nearly did win.
Kimimaro similarly had an almost unbreakable defense with his bones.
Neji, his rival, ALSO has an incredibly difficult to work around defensive ability.
I forget his fights as we move into Shippuden as I mainly followed the original manga series for the most part, but Lee's matchups were pretty bad for him all things considered.
Whoops, failed to include.
Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn.
She's both a bad character, and one of the worst units in the series. Bad growths (level up stats) on top of wierdly apportioned growths (she favors speed over defense and strength). If you level her you end up with a general, the top on foot armored unit, that has both the usual drawbacks of the class (poor movement range, weak magic defense) but none of the upsides (absurd defense and attack power). She becomes a slow to move, low defense, low attack, but fast attack speed character. You drag her around slowly, she multi hits but for zero damage, then dies quickly where a general would be useful at a bottleneck.
On top of all that you'll have wasted tons of xp and items on her and not realized it till it was too late.
As just noted you do have a lot of characters that are fine, so she doesn't drag you down by existing.
Mumen Rider represents the heroic ideal and inspires those around him.
Also the fact that despite being a low rank hero who is supposed to be going after muggers, purse snatchers, and the like managed to survive several blows from Deep Sea King shows that he has some hidden potential.
Hey, an L is an L. Tenten was a bad matchup against Temari but we all give her that loss.
How there you type His name for He is Justice incarnate.
For sure, Lee holds those L's firmly. But again, he was definitely dealt some really terrible matchups.
Which is unfortunate, he's a cool character and deserves some good Ws.
If we're counting the manga he's the mvp of the first real arc of the entire series. Beating assassins/special agents in lethal laser tag while they cheated heavily in game 1 and saving Yugi from being crushed by a Tetris block in game 3 and then having to survive all by himself in there while game 4 happens.
Tristan Taylor - Yu-Gi-Oh!
Thanks for the clarifications. Funny I never knew this, since Path of Radiance was one of my favorite games on Gamecube, but I never got around to playing Radiant Dawn on Wii.
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Angel. Especially when he tried to come back in the Giant Size era on a team that already had Storm and Phoenix. His best move was "I'm going to fly over this guy and drop some random bullshit on him."
He became more useful with his Horseman upgrades.
Is he supposed to be spike from the cartoon? Spike was pretty useful he could shoot the quills out over long ranges
They're written into be cannon fodder to show how dangerous the Aliens are. They're literally there to job.
This dude must have been truly useless, because I beat Star Ocean 3 back in the day and have no idea who the fuck this boy is lmao.Star Ocean 3's Roger
Peppita, Nell and Albel at least all save your ass once. This fucker exists to annoy and drink the last of your milk in the fridge without telling you.
Adray may seem as useless as him, but he fathered Clair which is more than Roger can ever hope to do.
Hawkeye always seemed like too easy a target to me. He's pretty dope. I've been sold on him since he shot a Chitauri down in Avengers without even looking where he was firing lol he's just really damn good at what he does.
I nominate Ash Ketchum, get that loser outta here.
I nominate Ash Ketchum, get that loser outta here.
A couple members of S.T.A.R.S. in Resident Evil are total noobs who get killed by basic enemies. Forest gets killed by crows, Joseph and Edward get killed by dogs but the worst is absolutely Kenneth who gets killed by a single zombie lmao. I still love them all though.
Luca from Ar Tonelico 2
Without spoiling too much, she's actively part of the problem as far as the story goes and she's 1 of 3 reyvateils in the game.
You can only use 2 reyvateils and your choices are:
- Cloche who has access to a satellite that can gather the chant of hundreds of people and give you a ridiculous temporary power boost
- Mir who is an almighty immortal ancient 'goddess' who can call upon the tower of a distant land to unleash unseen before destruction using one of the strongest song in existence
- Luca... who has no special ability at all.
She's the weakest of the 3 and everyone hates her because she pulls a major dick move.
Without spoiling too much, she's actively part of the problem as far as the story goes and she's 1 of 3 reyvateils in the game.
You can only use 2 reyvateils and your choices are:
- Cloche who has access to a satellite that can gather the chant of hundreds of people and give you a ridiculous temporary power boost
- Mir who is an almighty immortal ancient 'goddess' who can call upon the tower of a distant land to unleash unseen before destruction using one of the strongest song in existence
- Luca... who has no special ability at all.
She's the weakest of the 3 and everyone hates her because she pulls a major dick move.
You probably told him to piss off the moment you met him (which is exactly what everyone should do)
people are usually awful at writing telepaths
I remember Martian Manhunter going through the same shit in the Justice League cartoon
Guess what, this dude can't, he just has his spikes attached to him. A civilian with a gun could take him out without issues.
I can't believe no one has posted this meme yet:
This is a straight up lie. He was hella useful.
He kept saying "this is a bad Idea" and flipped his hair around alot and poked a few aliens with his fork. Seriously, in the final battle he kills like 5 aliens total. To be fair though, dry land is not exactly his expertise.
Doesn't really change their status as being useless morons. The Marines are basically like Lv 1 Mobs in an MMO starting area. The only faithful part about Colonial Marines was how absolutely useless they are.