10 Craziest Hidden Characters In Video Games

7. Meat - Mortal Kombat 4

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I can’t believe I’m saying this, but this is the first but not the last entry featuring a character that is basically just a piece of meat. I mean the literal kind not the objectification kind.

Mortal Kombat has plenty of great options for a list like this one but it’s incredibly hard to choose anybody other than Meat. I mean. He’s literally a skinless meat man. Well, to be specific, Meat is crawled out of Shang Tsung’s flesh pits a little underdone thus the whole incomplete gory humanoid aesthetic. Meat originated from a flayed fatality character model glitch but now he’s a real boy... kinda. He’s still pretty disturbing to look at.

If, however, you think beauty is skin deep all you’ll have to do is defeat every challenger in Group Mode and this bloody buddy is all yours.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.