by David Kamikaze

Created on: June 17, 2009   Last Updated: June 29, 2009

There are some characters you love. Mario, the chubby moustached Italian plumber who gains superhuman strength from mushrooms and spends his life chasing after perhaps the most ditzy blonde in the games market. Even Sonic, despite a slew of bad games and developing an arrogant and rather perplexing superiority complex, still is lovable as he runs around at high speed, presumably to get away from his girlfriend-come-stalker Amy Rose. There are lots of lovable and likable characters.

But equally, there are characters that you just can't love. Characters that really, really get on your nerves, and two minutes of them in a cutscene have you hurriedly dialling a support line because suicide is a more appealing option. What follows, sadly, are ten of the worst culprits. Ten games characters so bad, so awful, so downright annoying that you wonder how anyone ever thought they were a good idea. So, keep that number on standby, and here we go.

10 - Miles "Tails" Prower (Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - present day)
Tails was adorable in the old 16-bit days, okay he was a bit annoying back then too - slow, failing to keep up and hitting those switches you didn't want to be hit. Okay he was a pain in the backside back in the early days. But when the world moved into 3D and characters got voices, Tails went from adorable to downright annoying. Young, with a whiny voice and a massive IQ that would make Carol Vorderman look like a caveman, his shrill voice ruined his character. Yes, we get he's still a kid and he's a genius but the voice, and the subsequent scripts, are about as likable as a cockroach on your cheese sandwich. No-one likes a smartypants. Here's the proof.

9. Ashley Graham (Resident Evil 4)
You're a badass secret agent sent in to rescue the Presidents daughter, who got kidnapped because the other secret agents were presumably watching porn and didn't care much for the whiny stuck-up little brat. You find her soon enough, and spend the remainder of the game having to protect her. I think a little facepalm is in order. Look, we don't LIKE to protect the innocent, we want to make things dead! Protecting and serving is not fun, if it was we'd all be in the military or police force. Ashley is sparingly saved from annihilation by actually having a skirt that you can look up. But even then she calls you a pervert. As if Ashley. Dream on.

8. Waluigi (various Mario games)
So, you have Wario - the evil rival of Mario. But you need another villain. So why not base it off of Mario's

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