The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Video Game Names

10) Marcus Fenix – Gears Of War

Despite being an absolute brute of a man, Delta Squad’s leader has the last name Fenix. Not Phoenix, but Fenix. Man, that’s cool…

9) Joanna Dark – Perfect Dark

This is supposed to sound like Jeanne D’Arc, but… that doesn’t really work, now, does it? At last! A silly name for a Rare character that isn’t ironic.

8.) Edge Maverick – Star Ocean: The Last Hope

Imagine trying to explain this is your real name in a job interview: “I’m telling you for the last time, my surname is Maverick!”

7) Cream The Rabbit – Sonic The Hedgehog

We feel we don’t need to go into too much explanation with this. Cream The Rabbit? CREAM!? Nice effort, Sega.

6) Willy Builder – Viva Piñata

Let’s take things into the real world for a second. If someone approached you and said ‘Hi, I’m Willy Builder’ you would leg it. Fact.

5) Soap MacTavish – Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare

Captain Price, another COD veteran sums it up best: “What the hell of a kind of name is Soap?”. Exactly. It’s stupid.

4) King Poo – Lost Odyssey

Our experience of Blue Dragon was turning it on, being bored for an hour, then unlocking 5G for beating King Poo. We never played it again.

3) Naked Snake – Metal Gear Solid

There’s one glaring problem we have with this name and that’s because it sounds like a penis. Go ahead, type it into Google. Whoops!

2) Dr. Crabblesnitch – Bully

Intentionally stupid, sure, but the bizarre headmaster from Bully still deserves a shout. We’re not sure we could ever take him seriously in conversation.

1) Squall Leonhart – Final Fantasy VIII

The definition of ‘squall’ is ‘a sudden violent gust of wind’. What happened with the surname? Did they rush the spelling of lionheart?