Preventing video games are the right place for a crossover — as a result of all people is aware of there’s no higher potential crossover than having our favourite characters preventing it out until the purpose of close to loss of life.

Most crossovers and visitor appearances in preventing video games rock as a result of, on prime of giving us wild interactions, they fill us with hope that totally different firms can work collectively to make magic. Nonetheless, some can’t assist however make you surprise “What the hell had been they considering?” — even after they’re hilarious. This listing is about these.

10. The bizarre Mega Man in Road Fighter x Tekken

Lengthy story brief, as a substitute of bringing the model of Mega Man that everyone knows and like to SFxT, Capcom introduced an notorious model of Mega Man that up till that time existed solely on a comically ugly US field cowl artwork. He seems awkward, strikes awkwardly, and is simply too outdated. Isn’t Mega Man speculated to look similar to a child? This seems like a man who spent his teenagers and most of his grownup life engaged on his cosplay go well with and solely felt it was accomplished when his midlife disaster kicked in.

Have been the devs secretly conspiring towards Tekken? Possibly, however that is Capcom, an organization that hasn’t shied away from making fast bucks from DLC content material, placing effort into bringing a dearly unloved design a actuality. I imagine Capcom deserves the very best potential reward for this one.

The one purpose “dangerous cowl artwork Mega Man” doesn’t get the next place on the listing is that Capcom was in on the joke after they got here up with this sensible monstrosity.

9. Yoda/Vader in Soul Calibur IV

Having characters from Sci-fi tales in fantasy worlds will at all times strike me as odd. I do know that the truth that they wield swords makes them seem like worthy additions to a sword-fighting sport roster, however are they? Like, both Kilik is getting his employees after which himself lower in half, one second into the match, or the lightsabers will simply look ineffective and silly.

So, except you get Vader preventing Yoda, each match that includes these characters will look bizarre. Weirder nonetheless was how gamers needed to wait three full months to have these characters dealing with one another off, as they had been initially timed exclusives for various consoles.

8. A Battletoad in Killer Intuition

I get that Battletoads is a really difficult title, however that doesn’t make it an M-rated sport. You and I do know rattling effectively we’ve had our butts kicked in on-line video games by youngsters whose heads would blow up in terror in the event that they had been to see The Ring‘s opening scene. Kidnapping a poor toad-of-battle and dropping it in a sport with precise violence in it’s simply bizarre(ly hilarious).

It additionally doesn’t assist that Rash, the toad in query, received an edgy makeover. Rash will ceaselessly be a pleasant little toad who’s solely responsible of getting poor driving expertise. It’ll by no means really feel okay to witness him getting impaled by lots of of ice spikes — although all of it occurs off-camera.

7. Spawn in Soul Calibur 2

Todd McFarlane’s Spawn is likely one of the coolest and weirdest characters in comedian guide historical past. I do know nothing will ever kill my appreciation for the character, as a result of I noticed the Spawn film and the one dire impact it had on my psychological well being was making me really sort of take pleasure in it. Spawn’s inclusion in Soul Calibur 2, nevertheless, feels very misplaced.

Regardless of his grim gothic look, Spawn is a contemporary character who lives within the modern-day. He can’t assist however really feel like a bizarre alien in that colourful medieval fantasy setting. I do know I’m making massive claims since that is the sequence that options Voldo, however you already know in your coronary heart that that is true.

6. Stable Snake in Tremendous Smash Bros.

For the longest time, I couldn’t level out what was bizarre about Stable Snake being featured within the roster of Smash. The Super Smash Bros. sequence is simply critical about bringing gamers some good enjoyable, and the Steel Gear Stable sequence can’t assist however really feel bonkers — even at its most attemptedly critical.

What’s fallacious? I imagine that the 12 months 2023 introduced the belief that it’s simply bizarre to see a practical depiction of an grownup man from a sequence whose insights really predicted, amongst different issues, the dredge that social media could be for humankind, simply capturing missiles on the likes of Jigglypuff and Pikachu. That’s it, Snake in Tremendous Smash Bros. was simply Palworld in a time once I nonetheless wasn’t prepared for it.

5. Omni-Man/ Homelander in Mortal Kombat 1

This one is bizarre even for those who neglect that Omni-Man and Homelander are manner stronger than any of the characters within the MK universe — a universe that options precise deities in it. They had been each launched within the sport alongside Peacemaker, who really is smart as a result of he does Kombat whereas being an precise Mortal.

The strangest factor for me right here is that Omni-Man and Homelander are riffs on Superman, who roughly exists within the MK universe due to the Injustice sequence. Simply make a preventing sport whose total roster consists of Superman-inspired characters, then let me destroy all of them with Goku.

4. Negan in Tekken 7

Negan is a well-liked character from the Strolling Lifeless TV present, which implies that both TWD takes place within the Tekken universe, or Negan got here by means of a portal and needs to be utilizing his time to boost consciousness about world-ending zombie outbreaks in numerous universes.

Additionally, for a match dubbed King of Iron Fist, they seemingly permit each fighter to deliver as much as two swords, one gun, and a knife to a knucklefight. Except for Yoshimitsu, a man I assume is simply too bizarre and scary for a safety guard to confront relating to the usage of his sword earlier than the combat, characters like Noctis, Grasp Raven, and extra introduced their very own accoutrement to the bout. Then comes Negan, with a barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat probably lined in contagious goo. It feels a bit far, even by Tekken requirements.

3. A Automotive in Fighter’s Megamix

The best factor about Fighter’s Megamix is that although that’s what the identify would lead you to imagine, it’s not simply a preventing sport crossover. Fighter’s Megamix had the half-nice, half-utterly irresponsible concept of inviting many characters from non-fighting video games into the ring. Certainly one of these characters is, and I child you not, Hornet, a automobile from Daytona USA. And no, it doesn’t simply very simply run over their poor rivals — that is an anthropomorphic automobile, a quasi-transformer, that walks on two wheels and makes use of the opposite two for punching.

FM was the unique online game crossover occasion, and although it by no means managed to succeed in the heights of the Smash sequence, it was by no means second to it when it got here to wackiness. Living proof, the automobile isn’t even the weirdest character within the sport.

2. A palm tree in Fighters Megamix

Yeah, it seems that having a preventing automobile within the sport wasn’t bizarre sufficient, so the builders at AM2 included a secret character that’s simply the palm tree from the corporate’s brand.

It’s completely bonkers, yeah, but it surely’s additionally forward of its time because it completely appears to have predicted the weird customized characters that will find yourself invading the net matches of Soul Calibur.

1. Fred Durst in Combat Membership

Keep in mind the way you needed to clear Tekken 2‘s arcade as soon as with each character, then with Kazuya, to unlock the Satan as a playable character? Nicely, in Combat Membership, an astounding success within the artwork of lacking the purpose, you simply have to clear the sport as soon as to unlock a fair darker entity: Fred Durst.

Fred will not be even an inanimate object or a company brand. I do imagine Mr. Durst is human, however I nonetheless can’t have a look at him on this sport as something apart from essentially the most weird visitor look in online game historical past. He doesn’t even communicate or have a storyline — he’s simply there.

Sure, I do know Fred Durst is known for singing about breaking stuff, however did you ever catch him throughout the act — oh, perhaps he simply doesn’t discuss it. Nicely performed, Fred. Get pleasure from your deserved renaissance.