Ten Characters I Hate To Lose To

Everybody has a bunch of characters they hate, and losing to those characters, especially again and again, brings forth nerdrage of epic proportions. I mean just look around the rage that surrounded Street Fighter IV's boss character, Seth. The internet burned for months, and some parts of it are still quietly smouldering away with a burning hot anger.

There's just something about losing to one of these skateboarding, baseball-cap wearing, emo-haired teenagers that makes me want to just quit. Their movesets are awkward and difficulty to adjust to, they are fast as well as hard-hitting, and like any characters you'll see on this list, have an overbearing air of smugness about them that just serves to make you angry.

Like any good frustration factory, The Cyberdemon takes a long, long time to put down. Unfortunately you see no breaks until he is finally dead, which means until that glorious moment when he explodes in a shower of metal shards, blood and guts, the fight can turn bad in an instant. Even on lower difficulties, take one single hit dead on and that's it, you better kiss each and every part of your body goodbye, because they are all going to be travelling in different directions. 

Propane Gas, Gasoline, Petrol, Hydrogen, almost any gas or liquid that can be ignited has appeared in at least one videogame hiding in a barrel, glass chamber, or canister, and that's fine. Without exploding barrels we wouldn't have half the kill counts we do nowadays. However, sometimes, just sometimes, you as a player are forced to hide behind one of these excitably dangerous cretins, and when the AI decides to stop slapping it's knee and going "Yu-Huk" you better break out the marsmallows boy because you are toast. That's fine once or twice, but some games are repeat offenders, and in those instances, you just want to give the level designer a piece of your mind. Preferably strapped to a large bomb.

The only reason this guy doesn't take the number one spot, is because he hasn't been around as long, and everything he does is ripped from another character. At least the next guy on the list beats you with his own moves. Seth, Seth, Seth. The internet went absolutely ballistic with cries of terror, pain and anger when people started hitting the almost literal brick wall that is Seth. Seemingly ignorant of whatever difficulty you have the game set to, he will begin to smack you around, often with your own moves, laughing and taunting all the way until you finally prize the first round from his iron grasp, only to find that he was simply toying with you. In the second round he begins teleporting all over the place, grabs which register almost instantly after his teleport, 3 Shoryukens in a row, stretchy limbs, insane laughter, and a penchant for taunting you wit focus attacks. If that wasn't enough to burst a blood vessel, the bastard is naked...

Our good old friendly supervillinous dictator. Due to the international name change he underwent (originally Vega) he is often simply called, Dictator. He takes smugness to a level even Seth couldn't reach with every ounce of persistance in his naked body. Like the psycho power he so confidently wields, smugness just oozes from him, leaking from ever pore as he cackles maniacly, hopping around crossing you up with his knee, throwing out scissor kicks, demon hand reversals and head stomps from almost complete safety behind his iron defense, literally folding his arms at times to taunt you. In fact, his focus attack in SFIV seems almost like a taunt, folding his arms and laughing before clapping his hands together for large amounts of damage. Not just in SFIV, but in every game he has ever appeared in, nothing makes me angrier than losing to this obnoxious, murderous, giant shoulder-pad-wearing monster. Nothing. His massive, massive grin in Street Fighter IV only makes matters worse. It's Nerd Rage Time.

Everybody has a bunch of characters they hate, and losing to those characters, especially again and again, brings forth nerdrage of epic proportions. I mean just look around the rage that surrounded Street Fighter IV's boss character, Seth. The internet burned for months, and some parts of it are still quietly smouldering away with a burning hot anger.

There's just something about losing to one of these skateboarding, baseball-cap wearing, emo-haired teenagers that makes me want to just quit. Their movesets are awkward and difficulty to adjust to, they are fast as well as hard-hitting, and like any characters you'll see on this list, have an overbearing air of smugness about them that just serves to make you angry.

Like any good frustration factory, The Cyberdemon takes a long, long time to put down. Unfortunately you see no breaks until he is finally dead, which means until that glorious moment when he explodes in a shower of metal shards, blood and guts, the fight can turn bad in an instant. Even on lower difficulties, take one single hit dead on and that's it, you better kiss each and every part of your body goodbye, because they are all going to be travelling in different directions. 

Propane Gas, Gasoline, Petrol, Hydrogen, almost any gas or liquid that can be ignited has appeared in at least one videogame hiding in a barrel, glass chamber, or canister, and that's fine. Without exploding barrels we wouldn't have half the kill counts we do nowadays. However, sometimes, just sometimes, you as a player are forced to hide behind one of these excitably dangerous cretins, and when the AI decides to stop slapping it's knee and going "Yu-Huk" you better break out the marsmallows boy because you are toast. That's fine once or twice, but some games are repeat offenders, and in those instances, you just want to give the level designer a piece of your mind. Preferably strapped to a large bomb.

The only reason this guy doesn't take the number one spot, is because he hasn't been around as long, and everything he does is ripped from another character. At least the next guy on the list beats you with his own moves. Seth, Seth, Seth. The internet went absolutely ballistic with cries of terror, pain and anger when people started hitting the almost literal brick wall that is Seth. Seemingly ignorant of whatever difficulty you have the game set to, he will begin to smack you around, often with your own moves, laughing and taunting all the way until you finally prize the first round from his iron grasp, only to find that he was simply toying with you. In the second round he begins teleporting all over the place, grabs which register almost instantly after his teleport, 3 Shoryukens in a row, stretchy limbs, insane laughter, and a penchant for taunting you wit focus attacks. If that wasn't enough to burst a blood vessel, the bastard is naked...

Our good old friendly supervillinous dictator. Due to the international name change he underwent (originally Vega) he is often simply called, Dictator. He takes smugness to a level even Seth couldn't reach with every ounce of persistance in his naked body. Like the psycho power he so confidently wields, smugness just oozes from him, leaking from ever pore as he cackles maniacly, hopping around crossing you up with his knee, throwing out scissor kicks, demon hand reversals and head stomps from almost complete safety behind his iron defense, literally folding his arms at times to taunt you. In fact, his focus attack in SFIV seems almost like a taunt, folding his arms and laughing before clapping his hands together for large amounts of damage. Not just in SFIV, but in every game he has ever appeared in, nothing makes me angrier than losing to this obnoxious, murderous, giant shoulder-pad-wearing monster. Nothing. His massive, massive grin in Street Fighter IV only makes matters worse. It's Nerd Rage Time.

What about the other Vega? He'd spend half the match jumping around like a kangaroo on crack, and he'd spend the other half lunging at you from out of nowhere.

Sheva gave me much worse problems. In the second half of the fight, she was a bit too eager to grab Jill, forcing me to grab the woman's tits. She knew she had a gun, she knew it was much better than my fist, but Sheva insisted on making the moment awkward.

Nice list man, I agree with the barrel, sometimes you have to use it for cover and it can be good or bad : P

but what I hate losing against is a cocky player online, someone who tea-bags you after your dead, especially a ISA player on Killzone 2, damn I love to get revenge, Karma's a bitch.

The worst situation with exploding barrels is when there are several of them together...and one of them gets shot and explodes...causing the others to ignite and fly all over the place, often directly at you. There's no time to go anywhere, the shit's airborne and fast!

I hated hated hated Bison in the 90's with my SNES copy of SF2. That said the only characters I even knew the special moves for were shotos back then, lol.

I hate any cheap fighting game boss, as in Seth, the clone at the end of Dead or Alive 4, etc.  Also, any artificially enhanced cheap AI in a fighting game is never a fun thing - if you're as old as I am, you no doubt remember how much it sucked to plug in quarter after quarter in Mortal Kombat 2 or 3 to fight an AI that was suddenly super-fast, could block anything, and would hit you with 9 or 10 hit combos when just in the last fight, it played like a brain-dead brick.

I'd add Jinpachi Mishima from Tekken 5 non-Dark Ressurection. After getting killed by this guy the 5th time in a row, you always press start to lower the difficulty. Then you realize you're still playing on easy.

OMG THE MATADOR IS MADDENING!!!  I'm glad to see you put him on this list...as well as the Cyberdemon.  = D

Oh dang. Bison is probably my secondary character in SFIV. His smugness makes it that much more satisfying to pull off a successful ultra. No wonder you hate him. 

I definantly agree with Propane.  All the shooters in the world would be really hard to beat without its help

"#8: The Cyberdemon (Doom):

Like any good frustration factory, The Cyberdemon takes a long, long time to put down. Unfortunately you see no breaks until he is finally dead, which means until that glorious moment when he explodes in a shower of metal shards, blood and guts, the fight can turn bad in an instant. Even on lower difficulties, take one single hit dead on and that's it, you better kiss each and every part of your body goodbye, because they are all going to be travelling in different directions.

I like Bison, he's one of my favourite characters. I Hated his guts in SFII, though.

I'll be honest I agree with this list 100%. Good job.

Fuck Seth, never want to see that luminous blue arse crack again.

Yojimbo summon in the cave in Final Fantasy X.. with his bullshit zanmato  instant kill on your whole party... even worse was Dark Yojimbo in a cave who youd have to fight (and hope for  no zanmato move) five times without saving... I HATED losing to that

Definitely agree with The devil from GH3, what a goddamn cunt. And almost every last boss in every fighting game ever.

I would have had Seth as No1. He's such a wind up even when I do win I cannot take any pleasure in it.

It it possible to have 'the last 20 seconds of Green Grass and High Tides' from Rock Band 1 as a character? The game is a piece of piss until that exact point. That game doesn't have a learning curve, it has a right angle.

Sonia Blade.  I hate that militaristic cold bitch attitude that she exudes from her soulless body.  It doesn't help that she's usually a difficult character to fight against in recent years and I've come close to crying like a little girl after losing over and over.

Damn. I always liked Yun and Yang cause they reminded me of Duo Maxwell and Trowa Barton from Gundam Wing. But besides that I agree with the list. Especially that bitch Seth.

Dan...

Yes, I've lost to Dan before.

At least, the guy who beated me pretty much beat me with one-third of the SF4 roster already so it wasn't so painful.

I taunted Dan with Sakura just to see if the opponent would do a super taunt at some point to no avail.

I'd totally just stand around and let him finish the taunting too damn it.

" What about the other Vega? He'd spend half the match jumping around like a kangaroo on crack, and he'd spend the other half lunging at you from out of nowhere.Sheva gave me much worse problems. In the second half of the fight, she was a bit too eager to grab Jill, forcing me to grab the woman's tits. She knew she had a gun, she knew it was much better than my fist, but Sheva insisted on making the moment awkward. "

" Damn. I always liked Yun and Yang cause they reminded me of Duo Maxwell and Trowa Barton from Gundam Wing.

"Sonia Blade.  I hate that militaristic cold bitch attitude that she exudes from her soulless body.  It doesn't help that she's usually a difficult character to fight against in recent years and I've come close to crying like a little girl after losing over and over."

Even on medium Seth took me forever. I ended up just spamming hadoukens at him over and over again... Did the trick in the end!

I've never thought of propane/any barrel that explodes as being an enemy.