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Part of [[Competitive Balance]]. See also [[Joke Item]]. Contrast with [[Purposefully Overpowered]], which is the opposite.
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* The most famous '''Joke Character''' is probably Dan Hibiki of the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' series. He was created as a joke about SNK's [[Art of Fighting]] and [[King of Fighters]] games, whose protagonists borrowed heavily from the Street Fighter games.
** SNK later would make fun from him on ''SVC Chaos'', along with ascending him to the mid-boss range.
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** Apparently Capcom added Tofu as a [[Take That]] to people who beat ''RE1'' under an [[Lethal Joke Item|hour only using the knife.]]
*** Tofu was also not actually created to be a playable character or even a tofu. It was a block the developers made to test hit detection for the game. But they decided to take the joke and run with it after development.
* Several in the ''[[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater]]'' series, though the most obvious and fitting is [[Benjamin Franklin]] (''the'' Benjamin Franklin) in ''THUG 2'', who has the lowest stats out of any playable character. There's also Paulie "Wheels of Fury" Ryan (a ten year old boy in a body cast and wheelchair) Jason "Wee Man" Acuna (a little person best known for being a cast member on ''[[Jackass]]''), Jesse James (motorcycle builder and reality show personality of ''American Chopper''
** Series regular Rodney Mullen could also count as this, as he has the worst stats of all of the pro skaters. [[Tony Hawk]] claimed in an interview that the developers purposely did this to spite Mullen, who answered "no" whenever Neversoft staff members asked if he has ever played the games; in [[Real Life]] Mullen is actually a skateboarding pioneer, having invented many of the tricks used by skateboarders such as the ollie.
* Several of these exist in the fan-made ''[[Kinnikuman]]'' game ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]''. For one, background character Canadianman is made into a full on [[Expy]] of Dan Hibiki himself; He's one of the few characters who can taunt<ref>Beauty Rhodes and Jean Steamboard are the others.</ref>, has variations on this taunts like Dan, and even uses Dan's Super Taunt - though his version actually does a little damage. Oddly, he's a pretty legitimate character aside from that. There's also a couple of "two button" characters who only use the Weak and Medium attack buttons - most notably, the Mari (a walking volleyball) and Chienowaman (a walking chain link puzzle). They can tread into [[Lethal Joke Character]] territory, though, since they're small, agile, and speedy.
** Later, Kinnikuman's "sidekick" Meat became playable, and, well... he's the smallest character in the game, standing at roughly a third the height of the average character, and his moves have poor damage. This makes sense considering how in canon, Meat is one of the only main characters to not make his living as a wrestler; the only reason he's in the game at all is because of the fact that he participated in exactly one match throughout the [[Long Runner]] series, where he managed to defeat a significantly weakened opponent by being privy to his [[Achilles' Heel]]. Like the Mari and Chienowaman, Meat can easily hit [[Lethal Joke Character]] territory; as with them, his small size makes him hard to hit and he's very quick and agile.
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