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[g11]

Hot Coldman by a mile. It's so stupid it's amazing.

 

[Mephala]

Grieving Mother - Pillars of Eternity.

 

[crimilde]

Any character from any Gundam game. Gundam 00 is especially bad.
Not sure how many of these appear in actual games or just the anime but:

Char Aznable
Maria Pure Armonia
Cancer Kafka
Brave Cod
Alpha A. Bate
Anew Returner
Beside Pain
Bring Stabity
Lockon Stratos
Mister Bushido
Regene Regetta
Revive Revival
Ribbons Almark
Descartes Shaman
Hallelujah Haptism
Manny Ambassada
Don Boyage

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Max Payne

I love the first two games but come on. It's a pretty dumb name.

 

[Evilisk]

Medicine Melancholy (from Touhou)

Though to be fair, it's the equivalent of a non-Japanese guy coming up with a Japanese name based on what they think sounds cool

 

[Englebert3rd]

Guybrush Threepwood, but that name is both stupid and awesome.

 

[Fantastapotamus]

Guybrush Threepwood, but that name is both stupid and awesome.

Also really funny how they came up with that name.

If you don't know

Spoiler

From Wikipedia"The origin of the name "Guybrush" comes in part from Deluxe Paint, the tool used by the artists to create the character sprite. Since the character had no name at this point, the file was simply called 'Guy'. When the file was saved, Steve Purcell, the artist responsible for the sprite, added 'brush' to the filename, indicating that it was the Deluxe Paint "brush file" for the "Guy" sprite. The file name was then "guybrush.bbm", so the developers eventually just started referring to this unnamed 'Guy' as "Guybrush""

 

[Machina]

Demon's Souls.

Yert.

 

[RealityCheque]

Hot Coldman.

/endthread

 

[Razmos]

Genesis Rhapsodos

 

[Braag]

Hot Coldman...

 

[Vincent Grayson]

Most characters in FFXIV have just the dumbest fucking names.

 

[Englebert3rd]

Also really funny how they came up with that name.

If you don't know

Spoiler

From Wikipedia"The origin of the name "Guybrush" comes in part from Deluxe Paint, the tool used by the artists to create the character sprite. Since the character had no name at this point, the file was simply called 'Guy'. When the file was saved, Steve Purcell, the artist responsible for the sprite, added 'brush' to the filename, indicating that it was the Deluxe Paint "brush file" for the "Guy" sprite. The file name was then "guybrush.bbm", so the developers eventually just started referring to this unnamed 'Guy' as "Guybrush""

It's pretty ingenious if you ask me.

 

[mclem]

Demon's Souls.

Yert.

Yurt, in fact.

He's so intense.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

It's pretty ingenious if you ask me.

I love the pirate in the first game who laughs at Guybrush's name and then if you ask him his own name he proudly reveals it's Mancomb Seepgood.

 

[Paradise Brunch]

Pacifica Ocean (Paz). At least Hot Coldman has charm in it with the oxymoron.

 

[RedToad64]

Dick Gumshoe belongs in the greatest names thread.
My vote goes to Pit. That would be such an embarrassing name.

 

[Cymbal Head]

Any character from any Gundam game. Gundam 00 is especially bad.
Not sure how many of these appear in actual games or just the anime but:

Char Aznable
Maria Pure Armonia
Cancer Kafka
Brave Cod
Alpha A. Bate
Anew Returner
Beside Pain
Bring Stabity
Lockon Stratos
Mister Bushido
Regene Regetta
Revive Revival
Ribbons Almark
Descartes Shaman
Hallelujah Haptism
Manny Ambassada
Don Boyage

I hope the bolded is pronounced Ruh-veev Revvy-val or something, otherwise, that's too much.

All of the MGS names win and are also why that series is great.

 

[Englebert3rd]

Pacifica Ocean (Paz). At least Hot Coldman has charm in it with the oxymoron.

Hot Coldman reminds me of the Space Mutiny episode in MST3K.

 

[PandaShake]

Any character from any Gundam game. Gundam 00 is especially bad.
Not sure how many of these appear in actual games or just the anime but:

Char Aznable

What?! Char's the man. We get great moments of Amuro yelling "CHAA!"

I would say Travis Touchdown from no more heroes. Maybe that's a pretty good name.

 

[Drac84]

Every single Metal Gear character.

Also Licorice from Harvest Moon Story of Seasons.

 

[Veal]

Khushnood Butt - Garou: Mark of the Wolves

In Japan his name is Marco Rodriguez. Weirdest localization ever.

 

[gutter_trash]

you know that the term Gumshoe is an old term for a detective or investigator

 

[Akuun]

Max Danger from a GBC Perfect Dark game.

This is kind of cheating because it's a running joke, but Ace Attorney games have some pretty stupid names like Wendy Oldbag.

 

[Veal]

What?! Char's the man. We get great moments of Amuro yelling "CHAA!"

I would say Travis Touchdown from no more heroes. Maybe that's a pretty good name.

No More Heroes had some of the BEST character names! LETZ SHAKE

 

[djplaeskool]

Edge Maverick will always be the gold standard in bad naming.

 

[Dagobert Duck]

In before Mario Mario...

But seriously Princess Toadstool...
Peach is way better cause is it really Toadstool or Toad's tool or Toad stool...

 

[Optikal]

Cream The Rabbit always gets me. Seriously, it sounds like something you'd have to go to a very dark corner of the internet for...

 

[Corpekata]

There's a recent game called Lost Dimensions with a bad guy called "The End." Which isn't so bad except all of the characters awkwardly call him that in conversations and it always makes most sentences feel silly.

I think Edge Maverick and Hot Coldman take the cake though. Edge reminds me of bad movie names like Cypher Raige and Dirk Pitt that are just trying way too hard to sound cool.

 

[Thatonemoor]

You know Master Chief isn't his name right? His name is John, people just call him Chief because it's his Rank.

 

[Breakage]

Everyone from the FF XIII trilogy.

 

[Deadpool_X]

Butz from Final Fantasy V

Spoiler

Later retraslated to Bartz.

 

[Rocwell]

Garcia "Fucking" Hotspur.

Best or worst? I'm not sure but it's definitely one or the other.

 

[Onivulk]

Marcus Fenix

 

[Markitron]

Starkiller from The Force Unleashed.

That wasn't his name, it was a codename/callsign. His name was Galen Marek

 

[FataIChoice]

Any character from any Gundam game. Gundam 00 is especially bad.
Not sure how many of these appear in actual games or just the anime but:

Char Aznable
Maria Pure Armonia
Cancer Kafka
Brave Cod
Alpha A. Bate
Anew Returner
Beside Pain
Bring Stabity
Lockon Stratos
Mister Bushido
Regene Regetta
Revive Revival
Ribbons Almark
Descartes Shaman
Hallelujah Haptism
Manny Ambassada
Don Boyage

I would argue Char is one of the better names in Gundam, I mean we also get gems like Quattro Bajeena, Jamitov Hymen, Seabook Arno and South Burning.

 

[DrArchon]

I'd like to throw in the names of everysingle Org. XIII member from the Kingdom Hearts games. Yeah I get it, they're all jumbled up names with X added, but to me they just look like a whole group of people with gibberish for names.

Also Shulk from Xenoblade, but that's just because I think of She-Hulk when I see it.

 

[Xamtheking]

That Man
Sol Badguy (in context)

 

[Linkark07]

Butz from Final Fantasy V

Spoiler

Later retraslated to Bartz.

I understand Faris

Spoiler

real name was translated as Salsa

, which is even worse.

 

[bennywhatever]

Soda Popinsky (Punch Out)

It's not nearly as cool as Vodka Drunkinsky

 

[Thewonandonly]

It doesnt get any more stupid than Solid Snake and Naked Snake. They are both penis references to me.

Hahahahh I never thought of that. For me I'm going to go Garcia hotspur from shadow of the damned. That last name is a kind of bad. Anything in mgs takes the cake besides raiden that names dope.
Edit: damn u Rocwell

 

[Phu]

As someone who recently started playing Digital Devil Saga, it seems like half the character names are so on the nose that they took something that could have been clever and made them un-clever.

Serph, Heat, Gale, etc.

 

[aett]

I understand Faris

Spoiler

real name was translated as Salsa

, which is even worse.

Only in the shitty PS1 translation. In the superior GBA translation that's been used ever since, it's "Sarisa."

 

[FluxWaveZ]

You screwed up by listing Dick Gumshoe.

 

[Zach]

WaLuigi...

Say it to my face, punk.

 

[SpongeBob NoPants]

Master Chief is his rank, though.

You know Master Chief isn't his name right? His name is John, people just call him Chief because it's his Rank.

Yeah, we know. The problem is that many countries don't have that rank in their military, so we don't have that instinctive recognition of what the title really means. A lot of non-US gamers will just take the two words at face value and hear something that might as well be "Boss Leader".

 

[eizarus]

Starkiller from The Force Unleashed.

Starkiller is nowhere near as bad as some of the ones on this list. It just follows the SW trend behind names like Skywalker.

 

[WarRock]

I would argue Char is one of the better names in Gundam, I mean we also get gems like Quattro Bajeena, Jamitov Hymen, Seabook Arno and South Burning.

Don't you mean

 

[Joey Ravn]

It doesnt get any more stupid than Solid Snake and Naked Snake. They are both penis references to me.

They are codenames, like Flattulent Sperm Whale or Twitchy Centipede. I don't know if those two codenames actually exist, but, hey. There's also Naked Snake, Venom Snake, Punished Snake, etc. It's always Adjective + Animal.

I'll grant you that Solidus Snake is pretty stupid, though.

1) Dick Gumshoe from Phoenix Wright

It's a pun. He's a detective and both "gumshoe" and "dick" are slang words for "police officer".

 

[Markitron]

Starkiller is nowhere near as bad as some of the ones on this list. It just follows the SW trend behind names like Skywalker.

I refer you to my earlier post:

That wasn't his name, it was a codename/callsign. His name was Galen Marek