10 Underused Video Game Characters You Fell In Love With

10. Psycho Mantis - Metal Gear Solid

What the Flowey boss fight did for Zoomer gamers, the Psycho mantis boss fight did for Millennial gamers.

Metal Gear as a franchise is known for their wacky, Game of Death style boss fights where everyone has a wacky as f$ck name, gimmick, and tragic backstory that you learn upon killing them despite knowing earlier likely making the deaths have more impact but that's neither here nor there. Psycho Mantis is no different, in fact up to his fight, character wise, he isn't even the most interesting of the bunch.

But then you get to his fight and this guy permanently sears himself into the psyche of an entire generation of gamers.

Everyone already knows what makes the Psycho Mantis fight so great. For one, when you fight this boss the first time, you'll be shocked to find that you can't move Snake at all. This is because you need to move the controller to the player 2 port in this fight. He then reads your memory card and mocks you depending on which game file he finds there.

Psycho Mantis was a revolutionary boss fight for his time, paving the way for future boss fights like The End in MGS3 and Flowey in Undertale. No wonder we still remember him to this day.