Video games are incredible in the sense that they have the power to take us to places we've never been before or ever imagined were possible. With the rising power of virtual reality gaming technology, the power of video games is also exponentially rising. One of the uncanny abilities of video games is to remove the player from reality and break down the player's barriers of social order and idea of normality as they know it.
Sometimes this power allows players to overlook the premises of games no matter how ridiculous they are when the player thinks deeply about it or says it out loud. While the same can be true for anime, television shows, and films as well, it's especially true for video game scenarios. From Pokémon attacks and Halo dual-wielding to Animal Crossing trading and even classic game mechanics in Tetris, the premises of these games or even just mechanics within them are ridiculous when applied to real-life.
Moreover, when the logic of said games are blatantly pointed out and the hilariously flawed logic is revealed, it's enough to cause a snicker or two and sometimes full-out laughter. This article will feature popular series both retro and new-generation from all genres across the board. So without further adieu, here are 25 of the funniest comics that will dismantle the logic of your favorite childhood games and make you laugh at things you never noticed before.
25 Negligent Professoring
While the scenarios of many video games seem a little out there, one popular game that people overlook because it’s become so commonplace is Pokémon. The original Pokémon games may have the craziest setting of them all: a world where adults leave the fate of society in the hands of children. While there are adult Pokémon trainers in the game, it always seems like children are the heroes whenever villains terrorize the world.
Furthermore, every game starts off with the professor giving an elementary-aged child a Pokémon and a high-tech Pokédex.
He then sets them off on a mission to acquire scientific information about different species of Pokémon. I mean, let the kid get through high school biology first before sending them off on field research!
Comic by Dorkly.
24 Hearts Don’t Grow on Trees, Y’know!
In almost every adventure game or platform game on the market, health points are recovered by picking up items like food, potions, or in the case of The Legend of Zelda series, hearts. These items are generally in chests, dropped by enemies, or randomly generated on the ground. In The Legend of Zelda, gamers were so used to the item system that they never gave it a second thought. However, the idea of an actual human being found on the ground is an incredibly weird thought. Where did it come from? Who put it there? Does Link eat the hearts or do they just dissolve into his body to restore his health? All these questions are answered in this hilarious comic rendition of the beloved series.
Comic by Hejibits.
23 Just Press The Button!
One of the best things about Final Fantasy 7 on the PS1 was not only its brilliant story but also its wide array of mini-games. Some of these mini-games were necessary to complete before furthering the plot of the game, while others were there simply to give the player a break from the heavy story and missions of the game.
From Chocobo Racing to an on-the-rails shooter in the Gold Saucer, the games were plentiful and also amusing.
Chocobo Racing was popular enough to be made into its own individual title. However, one infuriating mini-game required the player to synchronize pressing a button at the same time in order to open a door in Sector 5 of a Shinra Corp. factory. While this was actually a little difficult for many players, the ridiculousness of not being able to press a button together makes for a funny comic.
22 Physics Gone Bananas
In this comic posted on Reddit, the artist muses on the bizarre physical anomalies within Nintendo’s beloved Mario Kart series. Mario Kart is a spin-off title from their Super Mario Bros. franchise, the most popular platform game of all time. In Mario Kart, players can choose from numerous characters both heroes like Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi, and villains such as Bowser, Wario, and more. Players race to the finish line while at the same time picking up items used to hinder other racers and set traps. One item in particular, the banana, causes players to slip and spin momentarily if their kart runs over it, or if players throw it at them. Humorously, when players throw the banana behind them, the character animation shows them throwing in a forward motion yet the banana falls in reverse.
Comic by Jesseoldershaw.
21 Leave The Chickens Alone
One of the most widely played and highly acclaimed first-person shooters of all time is Counter-Strike on the PC. Some would say the game brought FPS to the mainstream and many games that followed used it as inspiration. In the extremely popular map “De-Dust,” there are chickens randomly walking around the battlefield in certain areas.
Programmers went an extra mile to make the chickens shootable.
If the player shoots them the chickens explode with feathers flying in the air. Therefore, many a player completely forgot about the objective of the game and instead made it their sole mission in life to eliminate every chicken in site. Some gamers even tried to chase the chickens and get rid of them with a knife instead of a gun which was no easy task.
Comic by ActionTrip.
20 Tetris In Real Life
Even people who aren’t so into video games will have heard of Tetris, perhaps the most iconic poster boy of the video game industry. In the game, players race against falling blocks desperately trying to put them in place to form a perfect horizontal line of blocks. When doing so, every block in the perfect line will disappear, giving the player more room to maneuver incoming blocks. The game was both amusing and addicting, and still today decades after its initial release, Tetris is still played and remade over and over again. Bringing the physics of Tetris to the real world, however, poses problems especially for architects and construction sites. This comic muses on the hilarity of how Tetris would drive construction workers off their rocket after their completed sites vanish into thin air.
19 You Can’t Bring That On-Board!
Following the events of 9/11, airport security was raised drastically all across the world to prevent such a thing from happening again. This change in security protocols gave travelers incredible grief, as many people know, common items like lotion (over a certain amount) and razors can no longer be brought on airplanes.
This must have been especially hard on our favorite little troublemaker, Bomberman.
As the name suggests, Bomberman uses bombs to defeat his enemies and remove obstacles in his path. The multiplayer game is loved and played by many, but imagine the trouble he’d be in bringing his bread-and-butter onboard a commercial airline. Sorry, Bomberman, but you can’t bring that on-board. Actually, you probably shouldn’t carry that around at all.
Comic by FunnyWebcomic.
18 Rams, The Dragon’s Kryptonite
Spyro the Dragon was one of the most successful and popular games on the original PlayStation 1. The game was popular enough to create many titles that have been released on a variety of consoles including Nintendo DS and Xbox 360. The game is an adventure-platformer where the player takes control of Spyro, a little dragon with fiery breath. In the game, players collect crystals and use Spyro’s fire-breath to take down enemies and burst open chests. The game was beautiful visually for its time, and controlling a flying dragon brought delight to many. However, one particular enemy, rams, would charge Spyro, hitting his behind and sending him crashing down to the ground. Who knew rams could take down dragons? Someone needs to drop George R.R. Martin a line.
17 A Bad Day For Delivery Men
Another incredibly iconic game in video game history is Nintendo’s Donkey Kong, which is one of the longest-running video game series of all time. In the original Donkey Kong players had to dodge rolling barrels thrown by an angry ape called Donkey Kong. Players must reach the top of the map where Donkey Kong stands and rescue their stolen girlfriend.
In later titles, Donkey Kong games had the player controlling Donkey Kong himself.
Yet, in the original series Donkey Kong seemed to have an unlimited number of barrels to throw, which begs the question: where is he getting all the barrels from? This comic muses on the idea of how much trouble delivery men must be having to deliver barrels to the angry ape we all know and love.
16 An Unnecessary Sacrifice
One of, if not the most popular tactical strategy role-playing game on the Nintendo DS, is the Fire Emblem series which is one of the most loved tactical RPGs today. Fire Emblem: Awakening on the Nintendo 3DS, in particular, had an incredible amount of critical acclaim and positive reviews all around for its brilliant story, animation, and addicting yet sometimes infuriating gameplay (i.e. the inability to revive fallen characters). One aspect of the battle system was that some characters would automatically shield parallel characters from incoming enemy attacks, either blocking the attack or taking the damage for them. While this paradigm was sometimes useful, when defending characters are low on HP, it was downright aggravating when characters needlessly defended others and ended up causing themselves to KO.
Comic by AwkwardZombie.
15 Someone Call Animal Rescue Services
Final Fantasy 8 is a personal favorite game of mine, developed by Square Enix (originally Squaresoft at the time). The game came very shortly after the widely loved and perhaps most popular game in the Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy 7.
Therefore, the game had a lot to live up to and perhaps the biggest shoes to fill in the role-playing game genre.
One of the best parts of the battle mechanics was the game’s limit break system, an active limit break system where players must hit buttons with precise timing to affect the overall damage of the limit break. Each limit break was so unique and fun to simply watch. However, one, in particular, is a cause for concern. The “Angelo cannon” involves Rinoa sends her dog forward like a cannon charging into the enemies.
14 A Lesson In Pokébiology
Pokémon is a widely played and perhaps the most successful video game series in the world of portable video gaming. The game is so popular that it has been going strong since the days of the original Game Boy and has had titles released on every portable Nintendo console to date.
Pokémon can learn a variety of attacks by evolving, gaining experience or using HM and TM items.
However, it is not so obvious what attacks Pokémon can learn and which they can’t. Unfortunately, their physical appearance sometimes isn’t the best thing to go by. For example, as pointed out in this comic, some Pokémon without arms can learn a punching attack and some Pokémon with wings cannot learn the fly ability. Where does this logic come from? You’ll have to ask The Pokémon Company for that answer.
13 Using Plastic Tops To Save The World
Beyblade is a very popular Japanese anime and is also likely a nostalgic toy for many millennials. I remember going outside for recess, carrying my Beyblade in hand ready to take on my classmates in a spinning top battle on the tarmac.
The premise of Beyblade itself is ridiculous and outrageous.
Young children control spinning tops which have the ability to listen to their vocal commands, which also have bit-beasts or spirits which power the tops. In the world of the anime, Beyblade battling was the most popular sport amassing large crowds and sold-out stadiums to watch teams of youngsters… battle with plastic tops. The idea of thousands of people watching two players shout commands at tiny spinning tops in a large arena is as crazy as it is hilarious.
12 Judging A Book By Its Cover
While the beloved series by Nintendo created by Shigeru Miyamoto, the godfather of gaming, is widely known as Super Mario, many people do not know that the series first installment was simply Mario Bros.
The game was released only in arcades and on no home-gaming consoles.
It wasn’t really until the launch of Super Mario Bros. that the series really started to gain traction. Was the addition of “super” really necessary? We’ll let you decide that, but Nintendo seems to have some fascination with the word “super” as their home systems themselves went from Nintendo to Super Nintendo in the West and Famicom (short for family computer) to Super Famicom in Japan. This comic imagines Luigi and Mario applying for a job and shows that a subtle name change is truly a game changer.
11 Dual Wielding Not Allowed
Perhaps the biggest console seller for the Microsoft original Xbox was Halo, a game that brought quality multiplayer first-person shooter action to home gaming consoles. Many gamers spent hours upon hours playing the game’s couch co-op and couch multiplayer, as well as online matchmaking.
Halo shined with an incredible story and solid FPS foundations.
Players took on the role of Master Chief, a biochemically enhanced super-human soldier. Thus he had increased speed, precision, and strength. Yet, it appeared as though he didn’t have enough strength to carry more than one primary weapon and more than one secondary weapon. Even without a primary weapon equipped, the Master Chief could only hold one pistol. But who knows, maybe they were heavier than they looked?
10 Now’s Not The Time!
Perhaps Nintendo’s most competitive game ever, Super Smash Bros., which made its debut on the Nintendo 64, is one of the most popular fighting games of all time. Since the Nintendo 64, every Nintendo console to date has had a Super Smash Bros. installment released, including the Nintendo 3DS.
The game is so popular that competitive international tournaments are held for it.
Within the battle arenas, there are a multitude of weapons and items that can be picked up and used for a short period of time. Some of them are healing items and others grant special abilities. Among the healing items are food ranging from cheese and grapes to pizza and ice cream. However, it seems a bit silly thinking about a fighter stopping battle to grab a bite on the side.
Comic by AwkwardZombie.
9 I Ain’t Saying She’s A Gold Digger
One interesting genre that many people love for one reason or another is the farming simulator genre. Nowadays there are countless of them: Rune Factory, Story of Seasons, Stardew Valley, and more. However, the most prominent farming simulator series that dates back to the Super Nintendo days in North America, is the Harvest Moon series. The series has had an incredible amount of titles released on both Nintendo and Sony consoles alike. Aside from the farming aspect, there are some dating simulator aspects added into the game, which allow the player to marry a villager and also raise a family alongside their farm. How to woo a villager into marriage? Well, in Harvest Moon the formula is simple: flatter them and give them lots of presents.
Comic by Purplemagechan.
8 Dr. Gullible
Mega Man, from the series of the same name, is one of the most popular video game heroes in video game history. Not only did Mega Man’s popularity and good reception lead to dozens of titles, Mega Man as a character has also popped up in numerous fighting games like the Marvel Vs. Capcom series as well as Super Smash Bros. just to name a few of the big hitters. The main protagonist in every main Mega Man title is Dr. Wily, a past colleague of Mega Man’s creator, Dr. Light. In Mega Man 3, after trying to take over the world in the previous installments, Dr. Wily claims to have changed and is now a good guy. Dr. Light, being the kind man that he is, believes him and is tricked. A similar scenario happens again in Mega Man 10, in which again Dr. Light believes the villain.
7 Ignorant Pokémon
People who have played the game in the past will know that Pokémon is wrought with logical inconsistencies that are enough to make players rage-quit. One of the biggest culprits is the Pidgey, a very common Pokémon which is among the first Pokémon that the player will encounter in the beginning stages of the game. One of the tedious aspects of the game is having to walk or bike everywhere you want to go.
This is worse when the player’s destination is far away.
However, after finding a flying Pokémon, things are much easier as they allow the player to use the Fly ability which fast travels to any previously discovered location. On the downside, not only does Pidgey not know this move when caught, it can not learn this move until evolving to the Pidgeotto stage (despite the fact that it has wings and already flies).
Comic by SafelyEndangered.
6 Trades Are Welcome
Animal Crossing made its debut in North America on the Nintendo GameCube. The game is essentially a simulator, much like The Sims, except with animals and other cute creatures. The game includes decorating a home, doing multiple jobs and favors for people and living a day-to-day life in the town. One major aspect of the game is trading items at a store or between other villagers.
Players can offer or accept trades with virtually every villager in the town.
However, the humor comes in when the trades make no sense, as the two items are completely different and have nothing to do with each other. This happens often in Animal Crossing, but imagining the house of a person who would trade anything for anything is enough to bring a smirk to those who’ve played the game.
Comic by AwkwardZombie.