10 Most Hated NPCs In Video Games

8. The Dog - Duck Hunt

Duck Hunt
Nintendo

Another NPC that managed to earn our hate with barely any pixels was the dog from Duck Hunt and his barely stifled giggling every time we missed a shot.

Sure, it seems like he’s on your side. Helping you in your hunting endeavours, collecting all the ducks you’ve unalived. But in actuality all this dude does in the 1984 NES classic is pop up and laugh at you if you take a shot at a duck and it doesn’t connect. He just snickers at you mockingly. He has no other purpose than to make you feel bad for missing. It’s pretty impressive to be a hateful dog in video games, a realm that otherwise embraces canines of all shapes and sizes, but this dude knows exactly what he did to earn our ire.

I guess we can thank the Duck Hunt dog for being the first universally hated NPC, but that’s definitely all we can thank him for. At least you can beat the crap out of him in Smash, now.

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