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[Metal B]

Edit: ^SUNNUVABITCH

Agreed. Then we got this fucker somehow:
http://imgur.com/pkAGC.jpg
Why? I still don't understand why he exists.

Yeah, Waluigi is not an god example of a shadow character, especilly because he is a "clone-shadow" charakter. But i like him and it think that many people dont get, that Nintendo does not take him seriously. He is pretty much a joke charakter, because he is jealous about a guy, who himself is the king of second bananas. No one understand why he exists and thats the joke =)

 

[Natetan]

so he's proactive, huh?

 

[minor effort]

 

[m3k]

john cenas chain looks like a gunit one

just saying

 

[Chuckie]

Yeah, Waluigi is not an god example of a shadow character, especilly because he is a "clone-shadow" charakter. But i like him and it think that many people dont get, that Nintendo does not take him seriously. He is pretty much a joke charakter, because he is jealous about a guy, who himself is the king of second bananas. No one understand why he exists and thats the joke =)

Nice explanation, but I think the one someone else posted (Wario needed a tennispartner) is more accurate than 'clone-shadow' character.

Let's face it... he's a shitty evil version of Luigi.

Mario > Luigi
Wario > Waluigi

He's on the bottom of the foodchain and even his name sucks monkeyballs.

 

[Jokergrin]

 

[Punchy4486]

This x1,000.

It's so bad that I'm actually DISAPPOINTED in The Daily Show. Come on, guys.

 

[Rlan]

Yeah, Waluigi fits in with the "Joke character", rather than the "way to keep a franchise alive" character.

He fits in the Nintendo slot for where Dan fits into Street Fighter, and Big The Cat fits into Sonic.

 

[Metal B]

Nice explanation, but I think the one someone else posted (Wario needed a tennispartner) is more accurate than 'clone-shadow' character.

Let's face it... he's a shitty evil version of Luigi.

Mario > Luigi
Wario > Waluigi

He's on the bottom of the foodchain and even his name sucks monkeyballs.

He is the bottom of the foodchain and he acts like this, he looks like this and he get treated like this. You hate him and he hates you.

For course the first idea was that Wario needed a tennispartner, but i think some one still had to think about an idea for an charachter. =)

 

[gutter_trash]

I always found Akuma to be a cheap evil palette head swap of Ryu and Ken and a bitch

 

[Chuckie]

[He is the bottom of the foodchain and he acts like this, he looks like this and he get treated like this. You hate him and he hates you.

For course the first idea was that Wario needed a tennispartner, but i think some one still had to think about an idea for an charachter. =)

What makes you think he sucks-by-design? I personally only 'know' him from Mariokart, so I cannot see his purpose. Howcome is he a genious joke of Nintendo opposed to a lamer version of an already lame (in my opnion that is) shadowcharacter?

 

[Metal B]

I always found Akuma to be a cheap evil palette head swap of Ryu and Ken and a bitch

But not a cheap as this guy:

By the way i think Ryu does not walks around the world to train, but to place his seed in any woman he can find. So that the Street Fighter Series has eight Ryu charakters: Ryu, Clone Ryu, Shadow Ryu, Evilclone Ryu, Girl Ryu, Old Ryu, Black Ryu and Joke Ryu.

 

[Zenith]

Maybe?

 

[Owensboro]

I hate young Anakin. But that may be mostly related to disliking most child "actors" in general.

 

[polyh3dron]

 

[infiniteloop]

 

[gutter_trash]

But not a cheap as this guy:

By the way i think Ryu does not walks around the world to train, but to place his seed in any woman he can find. So that the Street Fighter Series has eight Ryu charakters: Ryu, Clone Ryu, Shadow Ryu, Evilclone Ryu, Girl Ryu, Old Ryu, Black Ryu and Joke Ryu.

Maximum Clonage,

the lazy path in filling in character selections slots with more clone head swaps

 

[B_Rik_Schitthaus]

Jon "Ok we need a replacement woman for skits"

Other "we could get a female comedian who's been doing stand up for years"

Jon "mmmmh"

Other "Or we could hire a tv presenter who got famous by pretending to suck off a Frankfurter "

Jon "PERFECT"

 

[Guevara]

Green Ranger was brought in on the 17th episode of the first season of Power Rangers, so you liked it for a very short time :lol

As for my contribution:

Thank you. Totally unnecessary addition and an annoying character. Then you got the other __________-doos

 

[Sanjuro]

 

[Tobor]

Is this supposed to be gamings version of "jumping the shark"? Shadowing the hedgehog?

 

[Roto13]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha, yes xD

 

[Calcaneus]

Tommy made MMPR awesome, and it arguably wouldn't have gotten nearly as popular without him.

 

[WillyFive]

This guy:

What's the deal with him?

This woman:

Why were you still there?

Also, this one:

So stupid and ugly.

 

[polyh3dron]

Please explain the last one. And how in the world is she ugly?

Also, how does Charles Widmore qualify, I don't get it.

 

[sixteen-bit]

die hard 4 i guess

 

[Drkirby]

Edit: ^SUNNUVABITCH

Agreed. Then we got this fucker somehow:

Why? I still don't understand why he exists.

To fill up the character roster, and give Wario a Luigi like partner in sports game. Waluigi's goal in life is to find a better goal.

 

[G-Fex]

Wasn't knuckles the Extreeeeme character before Shadow?

God do I hate the sonic series.

 

[MrPliskin]

Please explain the last one. And how in the world is she ugly?

Also, how does Charles Widmore qualify, I don't get it.

I think that's Aimee Garcia, in which case maybe he's talking about George Lopez Show? She replaced Carmen after the fifth season I think.

I don't think she's stupid or ugly though.

 

[spindashing]

also

best one(if it counts):

He's bad ass too:

edit: aimee garcia is hot, fuck you guys. I liked her. I did like Carmen too but fuck you guys for not liking Aimee :lol

 

[Cyan]

In Canada they called it "Beasties" (cuz War is Bad!)

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

 

[spindashing]

Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

hmmmmmm

 

[evangd007]

It's a lot bigger in the US than it is anywhere else. Trust me, as a kid, I knew nobody who read comic books whereas when I listen to GAF talk, they always talk about buying comics from the grocery stores as kids.

There was a time in the 90s when my cousin decided that he wanted to get into comics, but he gave it up after a few issues of not understanding anything that was going on.

To get into comics these days you really need someone else to guide you to specific "jump-on points" which is code for stories that don't require a lot of prerequisite continuity knowledge, stories where they explain (and often retcon) the previous continuity, or stories that have only basic continuity that someone would know from TV shows or movies about the characters, like Magneto and Professor X being friendly towards each other but disagreeing about the method of mutant integration with society. I actually found that the easiest way to get into comics is through mini series. The book that got me into it was Marvel 1602.

A funny thing is how Marvel created the Ultimate Marvel universe to provide writers and readers with a universe without years and years of confusing continuity, but through terrible writing made the whole thing just as if not more muddled than the standard universe.

As for the topic, many comics fans find the events and characters of the 90s era to be "Shadow the Hedgehogs." In an attempt to make everyone "realistic" (read: darker and edgier), they made characters who were only heroes in the loosest sense; they were mostly amoral douchebags who were just as bad as the people they were fighting. Cable and Deadpool were in this group, but were saved when they teamed up and Deadpool went nuts and started breaking the fourth wall.

If you think the fringe Venom hate is bad, don't ask about any of the other symbiotes. Carnage is just the tip of the iceberg.