Unintentionally Broken Characters in Video Games 

...You listed Oddjob as "unintentional" despite the fact that he was _entirely_ intentional. The devs went on-record in very early interviews saying that "Using Oddjob is cheating, he's there so players who suck can play and still have a chance."

Mario party is absolutely a fighting game. Just not the kind that you're thinking of

Shrek on the gameboy is the way the movie was intended to be watched

Lets be real Plumber Mario also has a 6 figure salary

I remember when I tried playing fallout 4 I suck at FPSs so combat was a pain for me, and when I found Codsworth I thought sweet I found my quirky robot this is fun. It didn't even click that he had a chainsaw so when another combat started and he charged in revving up the blade I just stood there doing nothing but watching my butler mow down a mob like it was nothing

It's also worth mentioning Boone from Fallout New Vegas That dude can literally wipe out Legion Assassins early in the game like it's nothing

For a long time, Pichu is has not been considered the worst character in melee. Kirby and Bowser are far worse, most of kirby's throws can be escaped from merely be wiggling the control stick (which seems more unintentionally broken).

There was a female character that was the same height as Oddjob. She was 1 of the extra characters that had a blank picture

The phenomenon of Fighting Game DLC characters being INTENTIONALLY busted out the ass for like 3 - 4 months until patched (and the next busted character is released to replace them) is about as subtle as a brick to the head.

Where my Ned Flanders from Simpson's Wrestling. Homing projectiles that circle the map for like 20 seconds and you can have like 8 up at once. Or his lightning spell which calls in lightning strikes (which stun and deal high damage) every 3 seconds for 30 seconds, and you can have like 4 of them up at once.

getting ptsd watching this video. i feel like i'm watching one of those old PBG ranking videos

I’ll give them this, MJs missions are more fun than the first game. But her being so insanely better than Spider-Man when dealing with the hunters is ridiculous. And she just eats tranq darts, while I’m pretty sure Miles gets hit by the same kind of dart and passes out. Like what lmfao

He has not played Guilty Gear, he has no idea how bad things can really be.

Oddjob is overpowered because every female is Lady Dimetrescu to him

5:47 Holy shit, it's Anthrax.

Mary Jane was intentional, direct line from one of the people running the game was: "We need to make Mary Jane a capable Hero, and if She's overpowered? Ehh, I don't really care... People wanted us to cut down or remove the Mary Jane segments, but She's necessary for the story we want to tell."

One that i'm VERY surprised didn't make it on this list is Salvador/Gunzerker (Borderlands 2). Easily the best character in the game for various jank reasons, but partly due to a broken interaction with his core ability, Gunzerking. While gunzerking, you're able to dual-wield guns, however special weapon effects are shared, or carried over between both weapons. A popular example is using the Lady Fist which has a hidden +800% critical damage multiplier and being able to put that on any weapon in the game. In the past it also used to be way more powerful, as you were able to carry damage stats from your right hand weapon to certain left hand weapons that had unique projectiles (again, a popular example being a high damage rocket launcher main hand and then the Pimpernel, a sniper that has it's bullets split into 5 upon hitting something, in the off hand to gain the damage stats of the rocket launcher). Honourable mentions to Zer0's B0re which lets you effectively one shot some bosses as it makes your weapons pierce and increases their damage multiplicatively, and Maya's Cloud Kill which will instantly melt anything below the highest difficulty levels.

There's another advantage that Oddjob has that wasn't mentioned: regardless of the mode, Oddjob always has a one hit kill weapon in the form of his hat.

I don't think I've ever heard anthrax referred to as simply "a bacterial infection" before.

1:00 Marth wasn’t in smash 64, so roy wasn’t a clone of a previous character. He was a clone of a character from the same game

"I want you to go back to 2001" 💀

I’ve never heard one person call Goldeneye ‘Goldeneye 64’

I’m high asf so I’m just sitting here enthralled in the video and the pointless information I’m taking in, I love it and I subscribed. Let’s watch you grow OG

"Despite this, however, whenever a quality video game based on the Shrek universe is released, it usually ends up exceeding expectations by at least a fairly moderate margin." Brother, this needs an editing pass god damn.

I'm surprised this isn't doing more numbers. Your production values are really good and you have a great sense of humour. Keep it up!

The thing about Perfect Dark is that you were able to swap head and bodies in multiplayer. So you could offset the giant Elvis head for an even skinnier version of small Oddjob. Turning the game into am arms race of dwarfs in skintight gray suits duking it out.

7:42 c-shift when he discovers games can have multiple genres.

Something that this video fails to mention about Harley Quinn is that in stealth, her ledge takedowns are instantaneous, are performed quickly, have almost no cooldown/endlag, and despite being classified as a "Loud Takedown," are actually silent and her only silent takedown (likely a glitch/oversight). Very, very useful in Endless Knight.

pichu also benefited from the introduction of the rage mechanic, once you hit a certain amount of damage you get an attack bonus, which pichu can induce at will, never needing to be hit by an opponent.

That pikachu/pichu comparison made me remember Pikaman

Bro, I binge watched all of your vids and you’re hella underrated, I really hope you get popular soon cus your video quality is gold.

It was great to see the jump in subscribers from 60 odd to almost 1000! These videos are class!

You are such an amazing content creator!!!! The amount of effort you are putting into a channel with not a lot of attention rn shows how much you just love creating entertainment and it shows! Please never stop these are SO QUALITY!!!!

Mary Jane was intentionally made op in Marvel spiderman 2

This was so entertaining for such a small channel, keep up the good work and I see you going places ❤

this is a great video! you deserve a lot of subs :)

Great video dude! If you're ever planning to do a part 2 of this, you should check out Salvador from Borderlands 2. He's considered to be the most broken character in the series primarily due to spaghetti coding.

god powered red riding hood is completely in keeping with the shrek lore and spirit. love to see it

Your content is solid. Seriously, your editing and commentary is amazing. Keep it up

Making codsworth a sentry bot is my favorite thing ever (curie is pretty good when you give her power armor and a super sledge though)

"Just like war, Codsworth never changes." That's one terrifying line.

Dude I watched a couple of your videos and I figured you had at least a couple hundred thousand subscribers, I can’t imagine you won’t fairly soon if you keep at it.

Okay, the Oddjob thing isn't that big of a deal. You don't have to hold the ADS button to aim down. You can just aim down by pressing C-Down (assuming you're using 1.1 controls). And if you're using 1.2 controls, just press down on the analog stick. Again, not that hard.

another great video man!

pretty sure they made a character the size of Knick Knack from the Man With the Golden Gun, but then just put a oddjob character map on it because they knew nothing about the source

Good work on hitting the algorithm :3 enjoying the videos

7:35 Sorry to be the "Uhm, ackshually" guy, but iirc Sakurai confirmed that Smash is supposed to be played as a party game first and foremosr.

Minor clarification, a stun gun is a non ranged version. A Taser is the ranged one. English is weird.

I'm still mad Pichu wasn't kept top tier. Would've been the perfect joke character comeback

this video goes hard, bro needs more subs

You have a cute editing style. Love the little quips

Oddjob was not broken, and he wasn't small to make Jaws look bigger, the developers confused him with Nick Nack, who dressed the same but was a dwarf.

You think being 5'4" is bad? I'm 4'10"

Just beinged all your videos, great content my man :D

Oddjob is also fun as hell in Nightfire since he has a throwable one hit kill hat that seems to be heat seeking. I loved throwing that thing across the snow gondola map.

Freddy instead of cyrax? What a rare world we lived

You can't be telling everyone you're 5'4 with that voice.

"I want you to go back to the year 2001." Me too, buddy. Me too.

8:04 Pretty sure Rare just confused Oddjob and Nick Nack, remembering that one was short and one had a killer bowler hat. Then conflating the two together.

"Spider-Man 2 is fantastic" HAHAHAHAHA

In 2001 I didn’t have much time to think about smash on the Game Cube. Most of the year was spent growing in my mom

You can hear the smash player in the way he talks i bet bro doesn't even know what okizeme is

great editing, keep it up

There was another Bond game that came out in 2002 called Nightfire that also had a multiplayer mode... Oddjob was also one of the playable characters. They fixed his height... but they also gave him a unique throwable weapon, his hat, that was an instant kill. It wasn't even a one-time weapon, you just had to pick it up again and continue using it. For context, some shotguns weren't even an instant kill in Nightfire's multiplayer, in fact the only two weapons in the game that were an INSTANT kill was The Golden Gun, which was locked behind a game mode, or Oddjob's hat.

Seeing Oddjob in the thumbnail was what brought me in. I remember just how cracked he was in multiplayer, being so short and hard to hit. Pair that with good strafing skills, playing with Oddjob was too OP and my friends and I quickly banned the use of him. XD

"I want you to go back to the year 2001" *turns to dust and withers away*

very funny, loved the format of list but with your sense of humor, i lol at the divorced chainsmoker reference

Praising the worst part of spiderman2 wasn't something I think i'd see here, as a spiderman fan I wanted to play more as peter parker not these new shoehorned characters, making mary jane a mary sue wasn't a good move but hey im glad some people enjoyed it

Dude I just noticed the sub count you really should keep at it you're gonna blow up soon. The vids are super entertaining and well made

Once you turned off auto aim, and switched to yellow button aiming Oddjob was more of a liability with a slightly larger head hitbox because of his hat. No-one picked him twice.

One of my favorite examples of this trope is Magolor in Kirby Star Allies. He’s got an insanely diverse arsenal of attacks, including a screen-sized sword that can _shred_ bosses’ health bars. And if that wasn’t enough, he has a fully invincible guard (most characters take chip damage when guarding) and a teleport that can be stretched out long enough to just ignore certain bosses’ attacks. The Three Mage Sisters are almost as busted as Magolor, but they have to be unlocked by getting the good ending in the DLC campaign. Magolor is unlocked by simply playing through the main story

"i want you to go back to the year 2001" sure! (de-ages until i disappear)

Well… better to warn you than say not to worry about him.

Launch baihe in tfh is a contender for one of, if not the most ludicrously overpowered fighting game characters ever conceived, which is wild considering she came out just a few months ago. She's intended as a high mobility zoner, with various projectiles that cost magic to use which you restock using her armor stance and either tanking a hit with it or playing the reload timing minigame it has, but that's about as far as what was intended goes, because they gave her a few unfathomably busted mechanics that made her basically impossible to deal with. First off, there's the armor stance. The armor was active frame 1 and cancellable into from almost anything including specials, which is already pretty strong, but they also made it cancellable into dashes, jumps, and most importantly back into specials, which means that you could loop special -> armor stance -> special for infinite blockstrings, and whenever you wanted you could just cancel the armor stance into an instant airdash for a left-right mixup at absolutely any time. There's also another major oversight with the armor stance: remember how projectiles cost magic to use? Well if you cancelled into them from armor stance, no they didn't. If instead of just throwing the projectile you did armor stance then immediately cancelled into the projectile, you could ignore the magic cost for basically no downside, making baihe's zoning infinitely stronger than it was ever meant to be. Plus, baihe's projectiles also had another unique property, which is that they didn't increase the hitstun scaling, giving her completely effortless infinites off of almost everything so if you got hit just once by her, which is easy since she has really strong mixups, the round was probably already over. The one move that propels baihe from your usual overtuned top tier into worthy of being considered the number 1 most busted fighting game character in existence though is siege cannon, a super strong, super fast projectile that's crazy plus on block and full combos from anywhere on screen at the cost of your whole magic meter, but you guessed it, with the armor stance trick you could skip the meter cost. It's hard to put into words how unfathomably busted this is, at any point during a blockstring baihe could just siege cannon then go for any mixup she could imagine with no cost and no risk, if you got hit you got infinited to death and if you blocked it she could just do it again and you'd eventually fail to block and have to eat the infinite. You weren't safe at long range either, her absurd zoning made siege cannon especially scary since you're already trying to fight through the projectiles to get to her, and if you ever failed to block a siege cannon, regardless of the distance, she could get an infinite off of it and just win. If you ever got hit by siege cannon, you lost on the spot. If you blocked it close range, you also lost on the spot. Siege cannon has no counterplay other than praying they don't use it when you're unable to dodge it, it might be the single most busted move in any fighting game ever. And as if all of that somehow wasn't enough, baihe also had one more instant win card in her pocket: if you tiger knee'd any of her specials (at the end of the special move motion, do an upwards input as you press the attack button) she would become fully invincible for the move's whole duration... for some reason. This lets you use any special move on wakeup freely, and while you can't do the armor stance trick with it you can do wakeup tiger knee special -> armor stance -> siege cannon to instantly win the game if your opponent is near you and blocks it or gets hit, as well as stay invincible for literally the entire match if you can keep inputting the tiger knee specials frame perfectly. So basically yeah launch baihe was one of the stupidest characters ever conceived and it's what you get when you lay off the whole dev team partway through QA, I didn't even mention some of the other busted stuff she had like the best anti air in the game by far, the projectile reflector kick that can reflet your own projectiles and launch them crazy fast, the upwards moving special that can be used infinitely in the air so you can air stall forever with it, and the fullscreen level 1 super that also crashed the game if you tried to through it but this should get the point across

just found your channel. i liked the video good job i'll stay around

12:58 Codsworth is top tier in not only being your companion. But also cracking that algebra joke

I never thought i would hear music from "Spiderman friend-or-foe" in any video nowadays. Thank you

Gonna need the name of the banger song played during the SuperSlam segment 🙏 great video!

This is such a nostalgically formulated video. I feel like its the early 2010s again. Sighs wistfully.

the soying over spiderman 2 killed a pretty good video, idk how anyone can think 2 was better than the first in anything other than gameplay variety.

i notice the audio clipping on each cut, hope you get better about this in the future bc i love ur content

For a game known for it's absolutely broken characters, Freddy isn't even the strongest character in mk9. Funny enough, he's not even the strongest zoner, being beaten by both Kabal and Kenshi

The thumbnail killed me lol 😂

"2023 is a monumental year for video games" I like how the entire list is sequels, starfield, and small ass indie games that have maybe 5 hours worth of content.

Also, ultimate gave pichu aura, so he gets stronger each time he hurts himself

Neat Video! Some things i would correct through - While Melee Pichu's self-damage doesn't help, it's actually just a minor weakness for the character - so much so that Pichu does fine in Ultimate despite having the same mechanic. The self-damage just isn't that much, and most of his strongest moves in melee (most notably Neutral Air) don't inflict self-damage. The bigger issues imo (which were buffed in Ultimate) were bad range on his attacks (a weakness shared by Pikachu) and lackluster damage output and kill options (Which pikachu has with Up Smash for high% and Up Air for low%), as well as an absolutely atrocious tech-roll. I'm not an Ultimate player, but IIRC Pichu had a very strong combo game and Forward-Tilt as a solid kill option before the nerfs which took away these weaknesses.

nice videos man. greetings from germany :)

Most likely won’t mention it here because it’s so obscure, but the version of Maria in the Sega Saturn version of SOTN is incredibly busted. She has a dragon helm on by default (increases your damage), and has multiple overpowered spells, one of which will just make you immortal

The thing about Oddjob is, in one of the next 007 games, called "Nightfire", its multiplayer mode also had Oddjob as a playable character. In that game, he had a special weapon which only he can use. Once per stock (if I remember right), he could throw his hat which just instantly kills any enemy it touches. I think it also had slight homing capabilities. I can't recall if he was also smaller in that game. So he was somewhat broken in 2 games, not just one.

Freddy was getting wrecked the whole movie, but he did not lose the fight against Jason. In fact, it was part of the contractual agreement to have an ending where they both "win." Hence, the eye wink.

"i want you go go to the year 2000 and 1" okay, gimmie a sec *unbirths myself*

i was cleaning my keyboard with this in the background so i go from melee pichu to shrek in a fighting game

I joked with my friends about Pichu being top tier before ultimate dropped You have no idea how ecstatic i was when that actually happened

“You generally know what you’re getting into in a general sense.”

The spider man friend or foe music triggered strong nostalgia. I used to play the vs mode with mom before school. It was a really fun game

Oddjob gets another unfair advantage in another 007 game: Nightfire. While he's so short that his hitbox becomes a recurring issue to shoot at (that distinction belongs to Nick Nack in that game), he has a unique weapon to his arsenal: his hat. It's a one-hit projectile that regenerates over time.

Codsworth is actually my favorite character from Fallout 4 ”THE CAR, THE CAR! *HOW DO YOU POLISH RUST!”* mostly because of that funny quote but still

Smash Bros Melee was made in 13 months and that's considered small amount of time. Meanwhile Like A Dragon Gaiden was made in 6 months at the same time LAD Infinite Wealth was being worried on. Wild to think about it.

Was so interested for codsworth i watched the whole video. A big thing not mentioned is that his str is 9, pe 10 and his health is 195 base. The reason he drops off late game, especially in the base game, is because his energy resistance is a 5 and his defense is that of girded leather armor otherwise, and late game when you're dealing with constant synths and lasers this means he is very very weak and gets chewed to death. The rest is here though so that's good.

A character that I feel would absolutely fit this list is Penta Penguin from Crash Team Racing (the original). The thing with Penta is that he was added as a last minute addition and has very weird things regarding him (he has some placeholder voice lines, has a random mask between Aku Aku and Uka Uka...). And while in the American version he's just a regular racer, in the Japanese and European versions he was incorrectly given the stats of Nitros Oxide, the final boss of the game who's not even playable in the PS1 version. This means that this silly penguin who only appeared in a cutscene in Crash 3 is the best racer to play as in the game if you're Japanese or European!