10 Creepy Video Game Characters You ACTUALLY Root For

The world of video games is packed with morally ambiguous anti-heroes, well-intentioned villains, and more heel-to-face and face-to-heel turns than we can count. Fore example, in the Arkham games, Batman is most definitely inflicting some major brain trauma to lots of anonymous henchmen; in Chrono Trigger, Act 1 antagonist Magus is attempting to save his sister and the world from destruction by the true villain - Lavos.

Both are technically good guys, but there might just be some small problems with their methods. At the very least, they're the cool kids, with their dark, brooding, handsome faces and muscles.

But what about the weirdos?

What about the ones who seem "off" until you really get to know them? Or the ones who never had a chance of a normal life? Or the good guys who have faces only their mothers could love? Everyone deserves an equal shot at the spotlight.

So, for all the comic-relief characters, otherworldly beings, science experiments and just the plain old misunderstood goofballs: it's your time to shine!

Tingle is a 35-year-old man who wants to be a fairy. Is that so wrong?

Introduced in Majora's Mask, Tingle was a self-taught cartographer who enjoyed floating on a balloon, surveying the landscape, and making maps to sell to Link. Other than his fairy costume and "magic" catchphrase, "Kooloo-Limpah," he was really just a helpful weirdo that Link befriended on his journey through Termina.

Sure, his father, the Swamp Tour Guide, thought he should grow up and help with the family business, but come on! He's happy, self-made, and no longer has to live in a swamp. He's a winner in my book.

He gets a little more creepified in Wind Waker, however, where we're introduced to his brothers, Ankle and Knuckle. One big, happy family of nearly middle-aged men living together and pretending to be fairies. Nothing wrong with that.

And then there's David Jr., a poor sailor whom Tingle rescued from a shipwreck and forced to join his fairy club simply because of his uncanny resemblance to him.

That, and he makes his brothers do all the work while he lounges and hoards rupees to keep for himself. On an island he named after himself.

OK, well, we can still root for the original Tingle. We make exceptions when multiverses are involved.