Imagine a world where games developers were infallible. Boy, wouldn't that be just dandy? Games would never ship with endless streams of bugs, controversial business models would be scrapped before the public even got a whiff of their existence, and terrible fighting game characters would never be conceived. Sadly, that pressing first-world concern is likely to remain an unreachable pipe dream for the foreseeable future, because, you know, humans are pretty stupid sometimes. And lazy, let's not forget lazy. Mortal Kombat X has since washed away the terrible scars left behind by the series as it went from weakness to weakness with Armageddon and its related games, but there's only so much you can do to bury the past. Gaming's goriest beat 'em up has enjoyed decades of success since the early 90s, but with longevity comes baggage, bad decisions and a lack of imagination that deserves only ridicule. Yep, the franchise is on the up-and-up now, but once you reach the end of this tragic list, you'll know exactly why NetherRealm want you to forget that these guys ever existed...
10. Dairou
Despite the name of this article, NetherRealm don't really need to try and make you forget about Dairou's existence - he's so bland and uninteresting that you're probably wondering if he even existed in the first place. Despite his boring appearance though, Dairou's backstory is one of the most, no...wait, that's really dull too. Having been jailed for a revenge killing on the man who murdered his family, the warrior subsequently escaped his confinement and became a wandering mercenary-for-hire, taking any job offered to him, even if it meant killing. Money's a powerful incentive, yo. No, the only thing even remotely interesting about Dairou is a special move that enabled him to switch places with his opponent to escape corner traps. That's all, folks.
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
