I want to take the ears off, but I can't

[pkmin3033]

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Sometimes NPCs are helpful - they'll point you in the right direction, or give you quests, or items. Sometimes they're not helpful at all - they'll stand in the way (whether by design or otherwise) or repeat the same dialogue over and over and over and OVER if you so much as twitch in their general direction. Some might even attack you if you provoke them. Other times NPCs are just...kinda there. Because you know, someone has to live in that town or city besides from the shopkeepers and quest-givers and guards that you can't interact with.

Sometimes, though...sometimes, NPCs just plain weird.

What's the weirdest NPC you've ever encountered in a video game?

Note on topic title: Sander Cohen is only an enemy if you decide to attack him when he comes out from hiding. Which you totally should. Because taking a picture of HIS dead body for his mural is the ultimate expression of irony.

 

[Fleurdelis]

only one comes to mind

Shooty McShootFace from Borderlands 2.

man wants to be shot in his face and yells about it, can't get much weirder than that

 

[Cid]

Oh gosh, the Happy Mask Salesman gives me the creeps. It doesn't help that the Zelda games he's in have this weird, uneasy tone permeating throughout the game. I've grown accustomed to Nintendo games being kind to people who get frightened easily, so when their games start to get on the unnerving side, I find it hard to forget.

For just weird I guess, not going too far, Tingle counts as a weird NPC. Undertale has a lot of weird NPCs, too. Onionsan, the cloaked ferry guy, the Gaster-related secret NPCs that pop up depending on your game's fun value, and even the anthropomorphic bunny in Snowdin having a pet bunny on a leash. Probably missed a lot more, but those come to mind.

 

[gimmepie]

Underale's NPCs definitely jumped to mind for me too.

Also, there's just something weird about O'aka from FFX, but I can't quite place my finger on it.

 

[Adam Levine]

In Bravely Second, there's a goat that you can interact with that only baaas. When you get the Catmancer asterisk, however, and speak to it again, it says,
"Do I look like a cat to you?"

Oh yeah, there's also the pig who can somehow transport you from town to town.

 

[professor plum]

the entire cast of Ace Attorney

if we have to go with one specific character, the obvious answer is Mr. Spark Brushel from Apollo Justice:

He's such a bizarre character, and makes me incredibly uncomfortable every time I see him.

 

[cyanidebaby]

the entire cast of Ace Attorney

if we have to go with one specific character, the obvious answer is Mr. Spark Brushel from Apollo Justice:

He's such a bizarre character, and makes me incredibly uncomfortable every time I see him.

Sal Manella and his drool fall squarely into "Please God, no" territory as well.