Who is the dumbest video game character?

Out of all the games, what character is so dumb you wonder how is this possible. Not some character you hate or some character that made a mistake, but just plain dumb. So i wouldn't count say, skyrim's dragonborn cause you picked a bad choice, or mass effect's main character cause you hated the ending...but someone like the main character in saints row or yoshi lol.

My answer for this is a million way tie for every henchman that finds a dead coworker, goes on alert briefly, and then resumes their normal patrol any less than a month later. It’s not just them being terrible at this executing their jobs, but it’s an alarming lack of self-preservation in the face of a clear, lethal threat. Maybe they all just lack object permanence, but to me they’re all rock stupid.

That or Ethan Winters.

The protagonists from Army of Two were insufferable bro-morons. Supposedly the sequel’s were even worse, but I have zero desire to find out myself.

Has opportunity to fall - will fall

Look for "himbo" on the dictionary, and you are likely to find his picture next to it.

Hot Take answer, but:

EDIT: Let me be clear. I'm not saying this because I don't like Mario games. I'm talking solely about the character.

A lemming

• Can't see more than five feet in front of them.
• Announce whenever they hear a noise.
• Have terrible aim.
• Allegedly have super soldier genes.
• Said genes are mutating so even their own bodies can't handle it.
• Two judo throws knock them out.
• Will not pursue a threat for more than 30 seconds.
• Walk highly scripted patrols anybody could walk around.
• Somehow will not notice when plastic explosives are attached to their backs.
• Johnny Sasaki is the most capable one.

Rico from Killzone. An annoying asshole too.

John Marston from Red Dead Redemption (not sure about RDR2). The most gullible character I've ever seen. You can just go to John at any point and say "hey I need you kill those guys over there because they're bad" and John just does it without asking any questions. In the story, people keep telling John that he needs to do this one mission for them before they help him, and after the mission they just have another mission for him, and another after that, and at no point does it occur to John that if they're not holding their part of the agreement he could just put a gun to their face and make them help him.

The player character at the start of Danganronpa V3 was so unfathomably stupid I couldn't go any further after the first trial. I was begging for a twist somewhere to happen because the ways to get out of that situation were so obvious

@therealturk: I second this. This guy's a real monster.

Claptrap from Borderlands! So annoying

@chamurai:

Yup, that's the correct answer

Moneybags - Spyro the Dragon (to me, one of the worst video game characters of all time).

Tingle (Zelda series)...I meam come on.

That sign guy from TOTK. You know the one. Not the brightest rupee in the wallet.

I will also add: any silent protagonist in a dialogue scene. They usually make pretty derpy faces. BG3 is pretty guilty of this.