10 Worst Video Game Heroes Of All Time

10. Lester The Unlikely (Lester The Unlikely)

Worst Offence: He’s a clumsy yellow-belly.

Video game heroes aren’t all badasses who can kill at the drop of a well-crafted hat. Some heroes are barely even heroes at all, like Lester the Unlikely – he’s an unlikely hero, don’t you know, which is an epitaph that’s only 50% accurate.

Lester is what a committee of aliens thinks a nerd must be, based on pop culture alone. The slick side-parting, the glasses, the dorky name – apologies to every other Lester out there. The plot even has him falling asleep reading a comic book (what a loser, amirite?!), and the dozy lad winds up alone onto a hostile island.

All that’s missing is his nightly fantasies over the head cheerleader and typing, like, really, really quickly because that’s what computer hacking looks like.

Letting gamers play as someone different is always cool, but male, female, black, white, big, tall, they all have one thing in common: They’re not wailing cry-babies like Lester, who bolts in terror whenever he sees enemies, stubbornly refuses to do what you ask and has one of the weakest attacks in gaming history.

What a hero!