10 Most Hated NPCs In Video Games

6. Natalya - GoldenEye 64

GoldenEye Natalya
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Heading back to 1997 for one of the most irritating companions ever to ask you to quieten down when you’re trying to defend both your asses from getting shot, we’ve got Goleneye’s Natalya.

The winner of “character on this list with the biggest death wish”, Natalya has an unparalleled ability to wander precisely between your gun and the people you’re trying to take out to get through the level alive. And if she wasn’t getting shot, she was getting stuck, trying to win a record for world’s slowest hacker, or just hanging out in doorways so you couldn’t get to the next room.

Natalya has never heard of duck and cover and if she has I assume she has some moral opposition to the idea.

Natalya is a big reason Resident Evil companion Ashley Graham didn’t make it onto this list. If we could only choose one super annoying escortee, Natalya edges out her Resi counterpart with her crap attitude, utter uselessness, and frequent cause of death for Mr Bond.

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