Characters you love to hate.

For this topic, lets talk about the characters in any TM game that you hate for whatever reason. It could be that you hate the special, you hate the character, you just had a hard time beating them, or you just plain don't like them.

 For me it was Spectre. Most people loved the car, a lot of people I played various TM games wiht would overwhelmingly choose Spectre over most other cars due to the balance, but I never liked the jerk because of two words. Ghost missles. Cheapest special ever. You don't even have to have an enemy in your sights and you can be sure that your missle hit someone, somewhere. Where's the skill involved. Sure the special isn't the most powerful special out there, but it can be effective in high doses. 

So lets hear it, who do you love to hate? 

Gosh, that'll be a long list. First of all, I really disliked Hammerhead in almost all the Twisted Metal games, not as an opponent, but as a playable character. I've always considered Hammerhead to be the weakest character in the series, especially in Twisted Metal 2, with its Special that, if I remember correctly, was actually weaker than the normal ram, plus no stats over mediocre just made it a crappy character, and wasn't much fun to play. I'll admit the character usually did have the funniest storylines though. More coming your way soon!

Of course, I love Sweet Tooth, but I've always been back-and-forth on what kind of character he should be. He should definitely be a regular contender in the Twisted Metal competition, but I sorta liked the way he was portrayed in Twisted Metal 4 as being the "Big Daddy" of them all. I have found Sweet Tooth to be a all-around character in most games, an alright but not ideal choice, and if there's a character that should be on the higher end of the spectrum it should definitely be Sweet Tooth. I don't want to see Sweet Tooth as an unlockable character or boss, but I think as the main mascot he should be given a bit more respect relative to combat. Oops, that was totally off-topic, wasn't it?

There are the top 5 characters that I despised:

1) Roadkill: Whenever I was on the last thread of life, Roadkill would always come out of nowhere and nail me. 

2) Thumper: I could always depend on Thumper to come up behind me while I was fighting another character and flame me to death.

3) Mr Slamm: There is nothing more annoying than being frozen over and over again.  Once Slamm got his first freeze in on Hard, you may as well put the controller down.

4) Spectre:  No matter who was closest to him, I always seem to get tagged by his infamous ghost missiles.

5) Grasshopper:  Yee Haw!  Yee Haw!  LOL  That is so annoying. :P

I couldn't agree more with your list. I forgot roadkill. He really did have a knack for being just around the corner to finish you off when your health was low.DMethot

 Indeed.  I actively seek him out to avoid being a target later on.  The bad thing is......you have to watch your back for other drivers......like Thumper.

Well, most Roadkill fare scavengers, after all. :P One of the things that annoys the heck out of me is being frozen and pelted with CPU's endless Power Missles, or as KGKaiju mentioned in Mr. Slamm's case, constantly ramming you with his loader attack while frozen. Still, I never minded Mr. Slamm since ramming wasn't one of the most popular strategies amoung artificial intelligence, and as long as you kept your distance when battling against him, you'll be alright. And that's why Spectre is such a jerk, you're always vulnerable to him.MudkipMaster30

With regard to Roadkill, that is a good point.  His car name is quite apt.

Mr. Slamm (thankfully) does have a tendency to miss with his special attack.....but those freezes....Yikes!

Spectre is fills his annoying role perfectly.....a fast car with weak armor and ghost missiles that is hard to track down at times.  I can't even tell you how many times a Spectre ghost missle has finished me off.  There are basic strategies for each board, but Spectre has the ability to nullify them all.  Sit in the pool at New York.......not with Spectre around.  What about the cage in L.A......forget about that.  Hide in one of the pyramids in Amazonia.....only if you like getting nailed by ghost missiles.  Spectre plays an important role as he forces gamers to leave their comfort zones.  I suppose that he is a necessary evil. :twisted:  

Everybody says that having the largest armored car with a powerful special is always the best move. Not quite in Spectre's case. I will give him credit that he portrays the lightly armoured maneuverable car almost perfectly, in city levels like Paris, New York and Hong Kong he's a great strategic choice. However in Holland, he'd better watch out! :P

Moonbuggy from TM4 trumps Spectre for me. How many times has that s.o.b. trapped me in his special move when I'm out of power and can't hyperspace out of it? I've lost count. Sweet Tooth has an even stronger version in that game.

Outside of TM4, I get most annoyed by Twister. As you can see, there is a pattern here. Any time a special makes it so I can't control my character, I go nuts. 

If you compare Mr. Slam to Hammerhead, you can see Hammerhead doesn't really need to be in the game. Mr Slam has better stats in almost everything, and a much better special that you can often use without actually using a Special.

And even playing as Spectre in most levels is a pain, mostly because of the distance glitch. Spectre is one you certainly don't want to be using close combat, and in levels like New York where his Ghost Missles are so useful, quite often you'll be too far away and no damage will register if it hits them or not. At least as long as you have a load of ricochet don't fly off the edge, it's not a really hard level anyways, but still I'd rather have more than two points of strength.

I didn't care about Hammerhead until Twisted Metal: Head-On so that tells you that who ever was drving before that guy wasn't interesting to me.

I also never cared for Spectre even now there wasn't any worth talking about or at least that's what I think.

Most Warthog were soldiers that didn't interest me now Cage in Black was different he wanted to be a better killer than Sweet Tooth.

Time for the big one all but one character created by 989 Studios all suck pretty bad.

The only expection was Rob Zombie who was awesome and had the only good ending in TM4.