10 Video Game Characters You Didn't Take Seriously (Until They Killed You)

10. Tinker Knight (Shovel Knight)

Unlike the rest of the Order of No Quarter, Shovel Knight's villainous troupe of errant champions intent on conquering the Valley in the name of the Enchantress, Tinker Knight isn't one for rushing into battle and hitting things in the face with swords. Instead, he wages war from his workshop, ingeniously crafting an automated army to stop foes before they can get close. It's the end of the assembly line for anyone who dares.

Except, that is, for Shovel Knight, whose spade can dispatch of any and all of Tinker Knight's tools of destruction. If the player manages to get within a sniff of Tinker's epicentre of oily operations, the gadgeteer, armed with only a wrench, begins to panic, running around in a frenzy like a faulty robot. A few bonks and he's done for.

... or is he? Of course not: this is Shovel Knight, after all. Gears thoroughly ground, Tinker Knight re-emerges in a mecha to end all mechas, replete with the standard comically oversized drill. Now that throws a spanner in the works.