10 Utterly Irritating Video Game Heroes You Were Supposed To Love

8. Professor Oak - Pokemon

rsz_professor-oak Ok, let me get this straight - Professor Oak has been studying Pokemon his entire life, and he certainly looks to be getting on in age. Yet, at the start of your journey, he gives you a blank Pokedex? That's a bit of a troll move. Surely he could have filled in a few pages to start us off. One of the most irritating thing about the Prof is that he is always telling you what to do. You decide to go for a nice relaxing indoor cycle to kill the stress of Pokemon collecting, which has been cruelly thrust upon your fragile 11 year old shoulders. As you pull your bike out of your impossibly large backpack, you hear Oak's disembodied voice saying, "This isn't the time for that!" First of all, how the hell did Oak know what you were doing? Has the old creep planted a spy camera inside the pokedex? Oak is also a bit of a glory hog - he doesn't talk to you for the entire game (unless you fancy a bit of a cycle, of course), then turns up after you beat the Elite 4 to bask in the championship glory, and presumably steal all the adoring females that Ash is too young to appreciate. We've worked out your game and we are not impressed, Oak.
 
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