10 Legendary Nintendo Characters We're All Sick To Death Of

10. Samus Aran

It saddens me that circumstances are forcing me to include Samus Aran on this list. For decades, she's actually served as one of the few beacons of hope within Nintendo's arsenal; an example of the rewards gamers bestow upon studios when they decide to actually take risks with character development. Samus has always been a lightning rod for surprising turns. The reveal that the space-suited hero you had been playing as in the first Metroid was actually a woman took everyone by surprise, and empowered a new generation of female gamers. Since then, the Metroid franchise reinvented the gaming mechanics to bring us Metroid Prime, a huge risk that shifted gameplay to a first-person perspective. It paid off quite well. There have been 11 games in total, but it only took one to completely sour our experience with the wickedly-cool bounty hunter. Metroid: Other M ruined the character of Samus by giving her a character that was the complete opposite of the cool, unattached bravado we had always assigned to the masked hero. By giving her a (terrible) voice, Nintendo managed to undo the decades of progress they made with a character we now have to only partly love.