10 Video Game Companions So Strong You're Just Getting In The Way

10. Fawkes - Fallout 3

He may look like a cross between a testicle and some leftovers you forgot about at the bottom of the fridge, but Fallout 3's companion character Fawkes is a gosh-darn unit - a giant, hulking pillar of super mutant man-meat whose hit points dwarf those of all other sidekicks.

Fawkes rocks the hilariously OP Gatling Laser weapon, ensuring that if you go to town with him, he'll melt just about anything you cross paths with.

In fact, the main story even draws attention to this itself during its widely derided original ending, where somebody needs to enter the irradiated control room and activate a water purifier.

It's blindingly obvious to anyone with Hawkes in their ranks that he should be the one to do it, given that as a radiation-immune mutant he'd survive doing so, but the game instead railroads you into picking either Sarah Lyons or yourself.

Fawkes gives you a pathetic spiel about not wanting to obstruct your destiny as a sacrificial lamb, which players complained about enough that Bethesda eventually revised the ending in the Broken Steel DLC, allowing you to let Fawkes do the job instead.

And that's Fallout 3 in a nutshell, really. If you've got the ultra-durable juggernaut that is Fawkes on side, you can't help but seem like a bit of a spare part yourself.