The fighting game atmosphere is a special place in which we have the potential to explore some of the more taboo parts of personality, and while we could probably spend all day detailing out exactly why the following is true, it’s an interesting fact that the archetype of the crazy girl is especially prominent here.
As such, FGC content creator Rooflemonger has based his latest video around ranking the seven most psycho ladies across our preferred genre of gaming. Some may come more immediately to mind than others, but you’re likely in for a surprise if you haven’t thoroughly explored certain franchises.
Pound for pound, the most prominent fighting game character with an obvious psychotic bent is Street Fighter’s Juri. The sadistic spider, as one of her nicknames categorizes her, thrives off the pain and suffering of others thanks to a tragic backstory that develops her as a kind of corrupted version of Chun-Li.
This is all well and good, but as Rooflemonger explains in the video, Juri is one of the tamer characters when it comes to the crazy. In fact, even her recently-created Street Fighter counterpart, A.K.I., has a personality and backstory that makes it easy to argue she’s got more issues than Juri.
As bad as some of the things A.K.I. and Juri have done, they do exist in the Street Fighter universe, which is relatively tamer than that of other fighting game franchises. Cannibalism, for example, has yet to be directly implied in Street Fighter (you might make a case for Necalli, but his story is so underbaked it may only exist as metaphor at this point, but it matter of fact exists in the worlds of both Mortal Kombat and King of Fighters.
The character who takes the crown as queen crazy for Rooflemonger is more obscure than most of the others on the list, but surely earns her title. Instead of giving us an established character with a troubled backstory, developers of this fighter decided to show us her descent into madness over time, and even through players’ own decisions.
We’ll let Rooflemonger do the rest of the talking from here, but let us know if you think any characters should have appeared in this video that did not, and whether or not you agree with the ordered picks in the comments below.