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Over its many iterations, Street Fighter franchise has seen its fair share of oddball characters. While there will always be room in our hearts for series staples like Blanka and Dhalsim, who’s oddities only make them more endearing, there truly weird outliers that nobody will want to play. Apologies in advance if I’m picking on your favourite character here, but the following are the 10 lamest characters in Street Fighter history.
10. Oro
10. Oro
First Appearance: Street Fighter III: New Generation
Last Appearance: Street Fighter III: Double Impact
Why They're Lame: Supposed to be one of the strongest characters in the game, but he's really just a creepy, diry, old, weirdo.
When you think of ancient, feeble, telekinetic masters of forgotten arts, great mentors like Yoda come to mind. Unlike Yoda though, Oro is a skeevy weirdo that lives in a cave by himself with a few dogs and turtles, waiting for his successor to come along. He'll occasionally leave his cave to go to movie theatres and freak out women.
He may be powerful, but he's got a serious lack of grace when it comes to handling the fairer sex. He's held a grudge against Ibuki ever since she tried to fight him as part of her ninja school training, which he interpreted as a sexual advance on her part. Last I checked, if a woman's coming to kick your ass, she's likely not interested in getting freaky... unless she's into that sort of thing.
9. Darun Mister
9. Darun Mister
First Appearance: Street Fighter EX
Last Appearance: Street Fighter EX3
Why They're Lame: Zangief ripoff with less class and lamer facial hair
Intended to be a Zangief replacement for the Street Fighter EX series, Darun Mister comes off as a bejewelled knock-off with lamer moves. Following more traditionally American wrestling styles, his attack set includes fairly standard power bombs and suplexes that pale in comparison to the beloved Red Cyclone. Without the style and character of the Siberian polar bear wrestler, Darun Mister is a poor alternative to the beefy man we all love.
8. Doctrine Dark
8. Doctrine Dark
First Appearance: Street Fighter EX
Last Appearance: Street Fighter EX2 Plus
Why They're Lame: Look in his eyes, honestly, can you trust them? No.
Take one look into the unblinking eyes of Doctrine Dark and tell me you'd leave your kids with him. No? Didn't think so. Doctrine Dark is insane in the worst ways possible. Don't let his thin frame and blonde hair decieve you, he's absolutely nuts. As the only member of his military unit to escape a scuffle with Rolento's military unit, leavning him broken and blaming Guile for the death of his friends. Ever since then he's been an absolutely unrelatable psychopath intent on killing everyone who stands in his way without remorse; the kind of crazy you can't ever feel in control of.
7. Necro
7. Necro
First Appearance: Street Fighter III
Last Appearance: Street Fighter III: Double Impact
Why They're Lame: He's a prisoner, sort of. I don't think he can make up his mind.
Necro's backstory isn't all that bad. Kidnapped at a young age by the Illuminati's G-Project (not to be confused with G-Unit), he was experimented on and recieved the ability to stretch his limbs like Dhalsim, shock folk like Blanka, and a microchip that gave him instant martial arts training. During his captivity, he met a girl named Effie and fell in love and swore to set them both free from the powerful and opressive control of his captors.
Now here's where things get ridiculous; somehow, despite being a brain-controlled captive he's able to join the World Warrior tournament to fight Gill (leader of the G-Project) so he can be free. Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you're in a position to travel the globe and fight those who've enslaved you, you've probably got enough free will to just leave with your beloved and start anew.
6. Rainbow Mika
6. Rainbow Mika
First Appearance: Street Fighter Alpha 3
Last Appearance: Street Fighter Alpha 3 MAX
Why They're Lame: Vane attention whore who's willing to risk her life to be popular.
Street Fighter has never been shy with the gorgeous ladies, but they've always had full-figured back stories to go along with their full-figured backsides. Rainbow Mika on the other hand is the most blatant example of mysoginistic character design seen in the series.
Unlike Chun-Li, who works as a highly trained Interpol agent, or Cammy, who's her British equivelant, Rainbow Mika's just a trashy wrestler who wants to be popular. She risks life and limb, entering the tournaments so that she can be the "star of the ring" and have more adoring fans. The only way she could be more pandering for male attention is if she used her bodacious rear as a primary attack... oh... nevermind.
5. Hakan
5. Hakan
First Appearance: Super Street Fighter IV
Last Appearance: Street Fighter IV Volt
Why They're Lame: His super move involves squeezing other fighters through his butt cheeks.
No offense to the manly art of Turkish wrestling, but when I want to pull off an ultimate combo, I hope it inspires fear and awe in my opponents. Hakkan's mastery of the oily art of the Greco-romanwrestling leaves him clenching his opponents between his nether reasons as his most powerful attack. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but when I want to decimate an opponent, I'd prefer if they didn't question my motives while experiencing the utmost of my force, and that's just not something you can do betwixt the cheeks of an oiled up muscleman.
4. Remy
4. Remy
First Appearance: Street Fighter III: Third Strike
Last Appearance: Street Fighter III: Third Strike
Why They're Lame: He's a whiny, emo, bitch
Nobody likes a guy with daddy issues, and Remy's got them in droves. After his father left him and his family to become a great fighter he developed a deep seeded hatred for all warriors. Naturally, like any good emo kid, this consumes his life and leads him to follow the same path his father did. To say he's had trouble letting go of things is an understatement; after his sister died, he froze her in a block of ice just to keep her around. He hates everything he sees and complains all the time, and nobody thinks that's tough.
3. Skullomania
3. Skullomania
First Appearance: Street Fighter EX
Last Appearance: Technictix
Why They're Lame: He's nothing more than a failed salesman dressed up like he's going to a Día de los Muertos parade.
A few notable characters have transitioned into Street Fighter from other games, but Skullomania is one of the few to ever be booted out of the franchise. Designed after obscure Japanese hero, Kamen Rider, Skullomania is a loser salaryman from Japan that dons a goofy skeleton costume when his boss decides he'd be more useful entertaining folk as a promotional stunt for his department store. Because some kids at the event liked him, he decided this was his new life and went on to start fighting crime.
After Street Fighter EX3, Skullomania never appeared in another Street Fighter game, and was passed off to Fighter Maker and then Technictix, because nobody wanted to keep him in their game.
2. Sodom
2. Sodom
First Appearance: Final Fight
Last Appearance: Street Fighter X Tekken
Why They're Lame: He's a weeaboo with the worst case of yellow fever in history.
Another character from the Final Fight games to cross over into Street Fighter, Sodom was originally part of the Mad Gear Gang that terorized the streets of Metro City. Unlike the rest of the cast of crossover characters, Sodom has a serious case of cultural identity confusion. Obsessed with Japanese history and culture, he dresses up like a samurai and joins the World Warrior tournament.
The funniest part is that his grasp of the language is attrocious. In the Japanese versions of the games he's in, his post-match quotes are rendered in phonetic English instead of kanji to show just how much of a joke he is. Even the kanji character on his body armor is misappropriated; intended to read "shi" (death) it's so sloppily written that it loses all meaning.
Man... I thought Poison had identity issues.
1. Dan Hibiki
1. Dan Hibiki
First Appearance: Street Fighter Alpha
Last Appearance: Street Fighter X Tekken
Why They're Lame: Intentionally underpowered and truncated move list.
What started out as a clever jab at SNK's Art of Fighting series has turned into the longest running joke in the Street Fighter fiction. Originally a parody of SNK's rip-off character Ryo, Dan serves as a witty reminder of Capcom's dominance of the fighting genre. In every iteration of the game he's appeared in, Dan exists to serve as a joke character with intentionally limited moves.
But still, with his weakened moves making him an underpowered Shotokan fighter, Dan is universally adored by the Street Fighter community. His carefree attitude and laissez-faire attitude about being the weakest fighter in every game he appears in has made him a fan-favourite, proving once and for all that power is not the only path to acclaim. He may not win a single tournament, but as the lamest fighter in the franchise, he's got more than enough fans.