#10 Wakka from Final Fantasy X
His inclusion into this list may seem a bit harsh on poor Wakka, but take a look at the facts. If I was to take on the almighty “sin”, the last person I want on my side is a surfy-want-to-be-dude with a beach ball. With a crazy accent, which nobody has any idea what it is suppose to be and sick love triangle with his dead brother’s girlfriend, yeah Wakka, you got issues.
#9 Slippy the Toad from Starfox series
For one, toad humanoids aren’t cool. They are lame. Two, a humanoid toad with a girlie voice, ever worse. Three, a girlie humanoid toad flying a spacecraft and constantly whining about getting shot before going down in flames; you be the judge.
#8 Diddy Kong from Donkey Kong series
OK, this horror trend of having animals half dressed has got to stop, with our friend Diddy glaring absent of pants. Diddy Kong was kitted out with all but pants. What gives? What type of role model is that Nintendo? Sure Donkey Kong had just a tie, but at least he embraced his nudity.
#7 Rob the Robot from NES add-on
I guess in the eighties thinking about futuristic robot helpers was an awesome concept. Pity Nintendo’s marketed “help you through your NES games” robot didn’t do anything. As a kid I brought this cool helper thinking this could be a boy’s best friend. Sadly it didn’t live up to my expectations and basically was an expensive ugly paper holder. Thanks for ruining my childhood Nintendo.
#6 Pokémon cast from the Pokémon series
Somebody had to say it; Pokémon is cockfighting for little cute animals. There I said it. It’s almost cruel to make little bright colored rodents battle to almost death and then keep them stored in Pokéball prisons. Pokémon aren’t in this list for being lame, they are here because of there incredibly cruel and lame trainers! What we’d like to see is animal lobbyist picketing against the trainers in the show sometime soon.
#5 Tingle from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
This is too easy. I mean, this guy looks like a reject from an eighties rap group gone bad. The horror helper in the Gamecube-Gameboy Adanced connection, enough said the better we think.
#4 Kazooie from Banjo and Kazooie
We’re not really sure what Kazooie did apart from fly a bit and flap around. We’re not even sure if he was tied down to Banjo’s backpack in an act of bear cruelty. But this crazy bird was certainly interesting character and fits more then nicely into this list.
#3 The Evil Xbox Live Player
Those of you who play online games, more often on Xbox Live are fully aware of this customer. Not technically a videogame character in “it’s” own right, they deserve a special mention here. This is the sidekick who decides to start rambling about how great they are and how they just owned you. Or as you play, decide it would be fun to slaughter you from behind in the middle of a tense game. Or the worse of the lot, the sidekick who decides to leave in the middle of the game leaving you with no chance at all. Oh yes, this is the true evil in the sidekick world.
#2 Luigi from Mario series
Yes our favorite plumber is back, this time in worst sidekick form. In the Mushroom Kingdom dictionary under lame, there is a picture of friend Luigi. Featuring in other Top 10 lists, never in a “good” one mind you, he makes the Top 10 yet again. Perhaps he doesn’t deserve all this bad media, but here he is again at #2.
#1 Tails from Sonic series
Tails is a genetically mutated fox with two tails that he uses to fly. Although the concept doesn't really stand up in the real world, with the most likely result being his mother and father are brother and sister, we still love to hate the little guy. Tails has always been at Sonic's side through the Eggman adventures, always throwing in a sickly quote making to player cringe and long for him to die. But we tip our hat to this annoying little fox for knocking off Luigi from #1 in our Top 10 Videogame Sidekicks Of All Time.
Dishonorable mention: Amy and Big the cat from Sonic, the entire cast of Final Fantasy X-2
We hoped you enjoyed the sequel to the 10 “best” videogame sidekicks which can be found here in case you missed it. Although a striking number of the all time tough and lame characters made it into the sidekick least, it shows how great or bad these characters really are. Keep checking back in the future for more “Top 10” lists. If you have any ideas or something you’d like to see in the “Top 10” list send an email leonjmcdonald@hotmail.com or post it in the forum.
Same with Slippy, though I think he should be higher up the list than #9, he's really irritating 
I like my Xatu / Tyranitar / Absol / Gorebyss / (insert various other Pokémon used in parties here).
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