9 Video Game NPCs Everyone Wished They Could Kill

The last time WhatCulture unleashed me onto the internet to talk about crap NPCs I put a spotlight on an all-timer enemy of mine, Micah Bell, but do you know who deserves more hate? Dutch. 

As the head of the Van der Linde gang, fellow gang member Micah may be a hateful conniving piece of garbage but Dutch built and enabled Micah. Not only that, Dutch makes constant pestering requests of Arthur, one of the dearest and loveliest protagonists to grace video games, and it’s never enough. You run around doing his dirty work while he consistently makes horrendous choices that cost the gang campsites, money, reputation, and lives. 

You want to be on board with him in the beginning but with each of Dutch’s thoughtless missteps that Arthur cautions but faithfully executes, it becomes clear he doesn’t have two working brain cells to rub together. 

It doesn’t matter how much loot you pull in for the gang, and how many heists you pull off, his promises of a paradise for the gang never eventuate even when he does have the means to pursue it. Dutch is either a selfish master manipulator, or an idiot, maybe both. Whichever way you spin it, being obligated to back his crappy calls over and over is exhausting.

I’ve been a little cheeky with this entry and the next one as technically these characters can be killed in certain circumstances but for the vast majority of the game they can’t. Even though you wish they could.