The 50 most gloriously stupid character names in gaming

Lady

Seen having a stupid name in: Devil May Cry 3

Name is stupid because it sounds like: a basic desc🌄ription for a character. Ther❀e's actually a wonderfully convoluted reason for why Lady calls herself Lady, but the end result is that it's still a dumb name.

Xigbar

Seen having a stupid name in: Kingdom Hearts 2

Name is stupid because it sounds like: someone wanted a group of 13 peopꦏle to all have the letter 'Xﷺ' in their name, but ran out of good ideas after the first one.

Chris Moneymaker

Seen having a stupid name in: Chris Moneymaker's World Poker Championship

Name is stupid because it sounds like: an evil CEO in on♛e of those family-friendlꦐy movies starring a talking animal.

Mr. Carpainter

Seen having a stupid name in: EarthBound

Name is stupid because it sounds like: Mr. Carpenter, which would have been a fine name, but if you really squint your eyes and read it again it actually says car🍌 painter. Car painter? As in, one who paints cars?

Azul the Cerulean

Seen having a stupid name in: Dirge of Cerberus

Name is stupid because it sounds like: blue the blue, which is basically what he's called. His name sounds like azure, a shade of blue, and his... um... title is cerulean, another shade of blue. There you have i👍t: Blue the Blue.

Waluigi

Seen having a stupid name in: too many Mario games

Name is stupid because it sounds like: Luigi but with a 'W' at the front, yeah, we get it Nintendo, it's like what you🤡 did with Wario, only his named soundꦫed cool and this just sounds like some kind of word jumble. Poor Luigi, even his villains are lame.

Jet Brody

Seen having a stupid name in: Fracture.

Name is stupid because it sounds like: the name of a '50s high school football hero transported into the year 3090, where he stars as the pro🍒tagonist of a pulpy sci-fi adventure serial, itself made in the '50s. Also, he sounds a b🌱it like a porn star.

Dash Rendar

Seen having a stupid name in: Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire.

Name is stupid because it sounds like: computer science slang.

"Yeah, I was having trouble🏅 getting that ꦍpart of the UI to display properly, but I've run a quick dash rendar to kluge it together for now. I'll fix it properly tomorrow"

Even for a character living😼 in the Star Wars universe, it's ridiculous.

Marcus Fenix

Seen having a stupid name in: the Gears of War series.

Name is stupid because it sounds like: the name of a po꧟rn star. Seriously. Take him out of cont♐ext and it does.

Trevor McFur

Seen having a stupid name in: Trevor McFur in the Cres🌱cent Galaxy on the Atari J𒅌aguar. That's why you've never heard of him.

Name is stupid because it sounds like: the developers did not realise that simply putting "Mc" in front of an obvious character trait does not a plausible name or believable characterisation make. Also, given the current state of internet culture, it's inadvisable 💃to put the word "fur" in any character's name. Also also, Trevor is my dad's name and so all of this just freaks me o🐲ut. Click on to the next slide now and forget that this one ever happened.

Long-time GR+ writer Dave has been gaming with immense dedication ever since he failed dismally at some '80s arcade racer on a childhood day at the seaside (due to being too small to reach the controls without help). These days he's an enigmatic blend of beard-stroking narrative discussion and hard-hitting Psycho Crushers.