We've all seen actors in a movie or on the T.V that look like they'd rather be somewhere else, or fishing, or altogether dead. Well I'm taking it a step further. Here's my list of video game (and some T.V characters) that wish it would all end, whether it's through retiration, or a quick painless death.

Pikachu

You can almost see him holding back the tears

It's interesting to see such a happy little rat on T.V and ask yourself, "do you think he's absolutely tired of the same shit for 10 years?" Looking at the things he's required to do on the show, I wouldn't be surprised if he absolutely despised his little yellow self. He's been outrunning, outsmarting, outgunning and pitfighting for ten years, with a perpetually young co-protagonist.

You can only suppose that Pikachu goes home once the spotlight is no longer aimed at his dishonest smile, downs a flask full of whiskey and contemplates hanging himself, but realizes he has no neck. Which only fuels a blind rage, striking Mrs. Pikachu and scaring all his children Pichu. The next morning his children won't even look him in the eye, scared he will go into another depression-induced rampage.

Sonic the Hedgehog

It ain't easy being the blue blurr

How depressing must it be to be Sonic I mean he was the king of the castle back in the 90s. But then some random animals came, pissed all on his legacy and screwed it all up for the poor guy. Before they came, he was on top of the world, now, his 3D efforts are the laughing stock of the video game community. Now, he has killed his reputation. Now... he has taken part in one of the most furverted missadventures ever... here's what I mean:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgNzGlEenAw&eurl See.... SEEE?!

Link


Link has been fighting the same bad guy for twenty years and saving the same princess (technically at least) for two decades. He's dealt with all matter of terrifyingly annoying sidekicks. He's constantly donning the same smelly, torn, beaten green tunique. The worst part about the repetitiveness and his terrible depression is that he can't even ask for help. Do you think Link wouldn't have looked for help yet if he could? The reason why Link hates his green-wearing self and his miserable job is because all he can do is yelp. Wouldn't you be constantly sad knowing the only sound you can make is AYYYYYYYYYYY?

The Power Rangers


Ah the Power Rangers. I'm not sure if any other T.V show had me hooked quite like the Power Rangers did. You're probably asking how could you hate being you if you owned giant mechs and could flip through the air like Tumbleweed of steroids. You probably think wearing sincronised (yet individual) uniforms with a cluster of your best friends while fighting the forces of evil would be the complete opposite of depressing.

Well, have you ever seen a Ranger bleed? No of course not, instead they have sparks project out of their body. The Power Rangers don't bleed, they burn. Their veins are filled with hot, flowing flames burning them slowly from the inside, that must hurt tons.

Even if the Sparks don't hurt, the Rangers must have a terrible case of depression. Every single episode, they had to act surprised when they obviously knew, from seasons of experience, that the enemy would appear and then expand to skyscraper stature. The Power Rangers take orders from a giant head (Zordon) in a giant jar. That is a whole lot of sad. Not to mention all that unnecessary flipping must be destroying their brain.

Any character from any final fantasy game


I don't really think they have a reason to hate themselves as much as they do, maybe it's the pressure of saving the world, maybe it's the fact that their swords weigh a ton, they're just really sad people and they don't even try to hide it. Cloud strife would slit his neck with that pillar of a sword if he wasn't so busy being idolized. Sephiroth is so evil he's making himself cry, Lulu must dress in black for a reason, I've never had anything against any final fantasy I've played, but I think they have something against themselves...

The Prince Of Persia


They say that in Prince of Persia: the Warrior Within, the prince completely changed and ruined the story. I dissagree. He did not change he simply was honest enough to say that it pretty much sucks to be him.

Let me put it this way, in the first Prince of Persia (nevermind the early 2d Persia) he was a plucky young man with not a care in the world. Soon he became jaded, and he has good reason. He unleashes a terrible plague that destroyed his Kingdom and was forced to kill his father. He then had to reverse time to before he did all this had happened. Then fate came knocking at his door to put an end to his sad existence. Then he became scizophrenic...

Yes the Prince has been through a lot. One of the things that must get to him is that we technically don't know his name. We just call him "Prince".

And worst of all, when he falls onto a pit of spikes, he gets to feel the pain of dying, then reverses time to avoid the tragic event. In other words he gets to feel the pain and then he gets to clean up his own mess. Also he gets to deal with this continiously through his games.

Aquaman

Can you see the Aquatears? Can you?

I feel terrible for Aquaman. DC made him look like a complete tool. DC made him a complete tool. His super power is comunicating with fish. Not only is that depressingly useless, it must be terrifying to walk by the fish isle in the super market. When people tap at the glass of a fish bowl, does he cry for the fish? Has he ever given a eulogy for a fallen fish friend as he flushed it down the toilet? You can only imagine how sad it must be to be Aquaman because even though he goes through all that pain and all that grief of knowing the feelings of the oppressed, he gets no compensation or praise. There is no love for Aquaman.

Goombas as well as other Game henchmen

A thousand anti-depressants will never take away the hurt from that single stomp.

Depression is only a shoe-mark away for these anonymous fungi. You can't blame them for despising themselves they have no real means of defense, they move side to side (never hesitate to actually jump off a cliff) doing the one thing they're meant to do. Get stomped

This is for all you anonymous game henchmen, Grunts, Koopas, faceless badguys that will always be remembered by the size of the shoe-print on your forehead, not for the pain you have to cope with. If you really think of it, are those stomping maniacs, really the good guys? Speaking of which...

Mario


Mario must be hiding a large chip on his shoulder. He seems very strangely proportioned doesn't he? Maybe he's tumorous and his games are really just hallucinations from the large amount of morphine he's fed to numb the pain. I mean think of it his adventures are strange enough to be delirious, morphine enduced dreams. For all we know, there could be no Mushroom Kingdom, there could be no Peach, there might not even be a Luigi. This theory makes sense since his latest games have gotten stranger and stranger than his older games(Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. brawl, Mario Kart wii)

Even if it was all real, do you think it's all enjoyable for the poor itallian stallion? He has to rescue a ditsie little princess for, likely, the rest of his life. He engages in sport activities with his biggest rival (Bowser).

He rescues Princess Peach because he adores her so. He is so blindly in love with her that he doesn't notice that she's probably being kidnapped by Bowser on purpose and pretends it's completely unwanted so that her kingdom will not turn their back on her. She gets to romance a giant turtle dragon while Mario gets to look like a douche over and over.

Luigi


Luigi is exceptionally sad. Unlike his brother he does close to nothing, but somehow looks like more of a douche, simply because Nintendo wants him to be.