These Video Game NPCs SUCK!
5. Mary Jane - Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows
Firstly before I begin absolutely sandbagging this character, let's give some love to the righteous redhead that stole both Spider-Mans heart as well as the collective one of the nation aka Mary-Jane Watson, as she might well be one of my favorite aspects of the Spider-Man comic line.
Not only is she deliciously sharp minded at times, being able to talk her way in and out of trouble on a whim, but she's also acted as an emotional anchor more times than I can count (which is more than 5!) as she delivers hard truths or genuine support to Peter and others she meets. She's also an absolute badass when the time calls for it as the Chameleon found out when she squared up to him with a baseball bat.
That being said, sometimes her actions veer wildly from being helpful to plain hot-headed, as anyone who played Spider-Man: Web Of Shadows found out the hard way. Here MJ would shake off the guise of being anyone's damsel in distress, grabby a bloody shotgun, and leap into battle alongside you in a boss battle against the Black Cat Symbiote.
Now normally this would be a fist pumping moment for the ages, watching a hotty with a shotty declaw this pissed-off pussy cat, but it quickly turns into a face palming moment that will cave your skull in when you realize that her shotgun does literally zero damage. Whether this was a coding error or that she really just can't hit the broadside of a barn with a gun that shoots !*$% broad barn walls is up for debate, but the end result is the same, as now the player has to routinely break off from combat to rescue her!
That's right, in a move designed to prove she's not a damsel in need of rescuing, she places herself in a position where she literally needs rescuing every thirty seconds or so. Add to this the fact that if she dies it's obviously a game over, and the fact that if you're wearing the black Symbiote suit that she'll verbally chew you out and you have a cocktail made of fizzy piss and crushed asbestos that you, unfortunately, need to chug as the bloody Ubers here.