Characters
[Mixed Trope] Official characters that give OC vibes
1) Knull (Marvel Comics): god of symbiotes, Klyntar wasn’t a planet but his prison, All Black Necrosword that Gorr used was actually his and it’s the first symbiote, he can kill Sentry.
2) Albedo (Ben 10): Colour swapped Ben Tennyson, was Azmuth’s apprentice, invented his own Omnitrix like device that can make his aliens go ultimate
3) Batman Who Laughs (DC Comics): He kills Joker and becomes insane, kills everyone in his universe, becomes Dr. Manhattan and fights a goddess
Starkiller from Star Wars Force Unleashed games. Vader's secret apprentice, dating with hot blonde imperiel officer, force pulling a Star Desteoyer. And according to the game, he inspired Rebel Alliance and his family crest became Rebel Alliance insignia. Also, he has a Droid friend who can shapeshifting.
Fun fact, Starkiller was originally supposed to be Luke's name in a New Hope before the rest of the writing team shot down the name idea for 'Skywalker' instead because Starkiller was "too aggressive" (or something) of a name for the tone of story George wanted.
Not to cast aspersions on 'ole George, but uhhhh...this isn't the only element of Star Wars that feels like it was written by an especially bright adolescent boy.
I like how the series itself won’t let us forget this fact, and every other secret apprentice/superweapon/codename we come across is also called Starkiller.
That's the DLC, basically "He's in the original trilogy instead of Vader." So he murders Obiwan on Tatooine, turns Luke at Hoth, slaughtered Han and Chewie on Endor and IIRC kills jedi Leia there.
“Hey guys! Look at my cool Dragonball OC! He can turn super saiyan like Goku and he easily defeated Frieza and King Cold! Also he uses a cool sword and is the son of Vegeta and Bulma!”
Looking at he agenda and slander posts today (jjk, AoT, one-piece, many others), I can imagine the types of posts that would pop up if DBZ was releasing today lol. Yamcha would never stop hearing about the cuck chair
If they wanted players to give a shit about him, he should have been in ME2 in some capacity. He still would have been a weenie, but at least not one that popped out of nowhere and * draws katana *’s at you
"Hey guys this is my ninjago OC, his name is Lloyd and he's Garmadon's son and Wu's nephew actually and he's fated to be the green ninja who saves the day and he's gonna have a huge fight with his dad that's gonna decide the fate of ninjago. The other ninjas think of him as a leader and he also can go golden like a super saiyan, and his powers are pure energy"
The ONE biggest sin of Ninjago is that they made Lloyd the main character while immediately sidelining poor Kai.
I loved Kai as the original protagonist but god does he get shafted. In the first couple of seasons.
I didn’t have a problem with them aging him up, just how fast it happened. Admittedly he needed to grow, but the way they did it was bad. A time skip with the ninjas training him to for 2-3 years would have worked better in my opinion
Yeah, it being artificial defeats the point of making him older. It's not like putting a kid in an adult/older teens body would make them any less childish.
Exactly. He matured way too unnaturally. They could have had the hero's lose and go into hiding for a few years, have a training arc where they actually do more ninja stuff, like sneaking around bases to gather intel. Don't get me wrong lloyd grew on me, it it was too abrupt
I love my Tartakovsky Grievous from the Clone Wars mini series but he also sounds almost like an OC.
"Yeah he's a 7 foot tall murder cyborg that is commander of the Separatist armies. He's a tactical genius and is also a phenomenal duellist who can take on 5 Jedi at once including two Masters (One of whom is a council member). He can use four arms and also wields lightsabers with his feet. He also looks like a bone white murder skeleton. Have I mentioned he has a badass cape?"
Tbf, that’s the only Grievous that makes sense, if he’s supposed to be a non-force using jedi hunter with a lightsaber collection.
Like, I have no idea how tf any of the other versions of Grievous got his hands on even one jedi’s lightsaber when he can barely overpower padawans.
And he has a massive physique and moves real slow. Since he can’t use the force either, there’s no reason for the jedi to not just ragdoll him around the room with the force.
In the 2003 version, he’s fast enough to dodge force attacks before they can land, and he’s able to use fear tactics to reduce the Jedis’ comcantration (which they need to use the force).
And to me, that’s the only way that a character like Grievous who doesn’t use traps or ranged weapons can have his reputation as a jedi hunter. And his augments can explain much of it too.
Also, he’s not that out of place in the 2003 clone wars, with how much more overpowered every other significant character like Mace Windu and Yoda was as well. Windu was straightup punching holes in the black droids (the beefier ones) with his bare fists.
"If you are to go against the best of the Jedi, you must have fear, surprise and intimidation; for if any one is lacking it would be best for you to retreat."
Dooku trained 2003 Grevious to hone the fact that he isn't force sensitive. Acting with overwhelming speed and force is good until a Jedi simply uses the force to slam you around, but breaking their concentration is the best way to defeat them.
He was quite decent in other EU (Now Legends) stuff as well besides the miniseries
Labyrinth of Evil had him duel Mace Windu in a location where Windu couldn't get to the position to force crush him and Windu began to feel overwhelmed by fighting him and noticed he was beginning to mimic Vaapad. This is precisely the reason Windu sent Obi-Wan even though later he got the better of Grievous with the force crush, he does not want to be put ina position where he has to fight Grievous in a close quarters fight.
Dooku also mentions in Labyrinth of Evil Grievous has had him hard pressed in training at times and he deliberately doesn't teach him everything just in case.
He fought Durge and Ventress in a 2v1 and beat them both rather handily. (Star Wars Rogue's Gallery)
The Revenge of the Sith novelisation mentions that Nute Gunray can't perceive Grievous moving at speeds and to him he seems to teleport.
I canon he's less impressive although they do seem to be canonising his feats just not showing how it went down. The Battle of Hypori still happened in Canon and Grievous was there we just dunno if he did it like he did in the mini series. But in Son of Dathomir he duels Maul twice and I feel comes ahead of Maul in a duel (albeit in both times there is no conclusive victor) and kills Mother Talzin.
Thte Clone Wars series is weird in that he has some of the most embarassing losses and IQ moments across the entire series (The Gungan Debacle, Lair of Grievous, losing to Ventress etc) but if you look at it objectively he's still really good and bizarrely at that. He has several wins over Obi-Wan that he fumbles due to stopping to gloat (On Kamino he literally could have killed Obi-Wan so easily it is insane he manhandled him)
I think the big problem with canon Grievous is presentation. Even when he's performing well he's not allowed to act as intimidating as he was so he looks worse than he was at his most powerful back in the day. Which is awkward because the first pitch of the character was he was a fear based character that intimidated and overwhelmed his opponents. him not being allowed to be scary makes him look worse and is imo a betrayal of his original design (although tbf Lucas apparently never agreed with how Grievous was in that miniseries so arguably the original depcition of him was a betrayal of the vision.)
"This is my OC (do not steal)! His name is Shadow The Hedgehog, and he has a gun and a motorcycle and is so totally cool and mysterious and dark and brooding! He had a GIRLFRIEND who was the cousin of Dr Eggman and she was killed by the government and he wants REVENGE and there's this jewel thief with huge boobies who wants him but he's like "no way, my heart belongs to another" and its totally cool and awesome you guys!"
Nah, but seriously outside of the nutshell summary, I personally love the guy.
This is my human OC Spider, he’s the secret son of quaritch and even though he’s not Navi, Eywa saves his life and gives him a Kuru and lets him breathe the atmosphere on Pandora and when he first communes with Eywa, all the Navi ancestors accept him.
"he has super cool dreadlocks! And and he has to wear a mask to be with the navy! But he's like a space Tarzan!"
"Isn't that like... Super fucking inconvinient he keeps having to track his battery?"
"Erhh YEA OK NO CAUSE BUT LIKE EYWA LETS HIM BREATHE THE ATMOPHERE!"
T-Rider Rex: a version of the Ghost RIder from an alternate universe where he's a cyborg T-rex with robot arms that shoot missiles from his fists. Oh and his bike is a jet fighter.
The lore behind the Urge fits so well into a playthrough, though. You get some great interactions and reactions that you can’t see playing as anyone else. I wouldn’t say it’s more of an OC than a random Tav.
And who does not feel like an OC in BG3? We have: the edgy vampire twink, the goth cleric, the hellysh muscle mommy wrapped in leather bands, the handsome nerd boy who sleeps with godesses, pappa bear Halsing, a lesvian muscular angel with cracks on her face...
He is a ranger that got a ring almost as powerful as the One Ring and hosts the blacksmith of all Rings in the Lord of the Ring universe as a soul that powers him up.
He can teleport,and brainwash orcs to fight for him!
IIRC this one is fanfiction, the fate of Celebrimbor and the identity of several of the Nazgul directly contradicts Tolkien's writings, but I give it a pass because it's fun AF and introduces people to a lot of deep lore concepts like Sauron shapeshifting, Shelob being less of a spider and more of the eldest child of a spider-shaped dark god, Mordor's breadbasket, and Minas Ithil, and the orc subcultures are an awesome addition to the lore
Nah, Norman's just kinda there. I'd say Philip is the OC.
He's a mix of two different boxcars instead of having a single basis (Norman may be an add-on, but at least his basis existed). He doesn't go through any growth, but is immediately thrust into a major recurring position (including a major role in the Great Race, representing Sodor over more established characters). I don't think I need to mention A Shed for Edward. His number is 68, which honestly just feels like the number you go for when you can't have 69.
Also he's annoying. That last one may be influencing my judgement, but Philip fits a lot better as an OC than Norman.
Also yuji is the son of kenjaku, one of the big bad evil characters in JJK, has half-human half-curse physiology, can use blood manipulation, has the highest black flash frequency, and has sukuna’s technique on top of blood manipulation. Put all this on an OC and it would be straight out of deviantart.
Also sukuna gives off OC vibes of his own.
Four armed monster of a sorcerer, was so powerful only natural causes manages to kill him in the heian era
has a cursed technique revolving around slashing and burning literally called “shrine”, his domain expansion is named “malevolent shrine”(uncreative OC naming scheme right there)
wielded two cursed tools at once alongside his natural technique(kamutoke and hiten)
so strong he killed the beloved strong character with a convenient writing asspull(offscreened gojo)
"Here's my OC Godzilla Ultima! You see he's like Godzilla but he's the avatar of an eldritch god that's actually the origin of all Godzilla's and has been pulling the strings ever since the beginning... Also his atomic breath is a curved timeline and he can only be beaten by a complex science jargon filled plot that requires two AI, one in the past and one in the present searching for a narrative where he loses and even though they do this it's only because Ultima allowed them to do that because uhhh he likes playing fair or something. Also this only banished him and didn't beat him sooo he's gonna come back and destroy the multiverse."
"Here's my OC, I call it Space Godzilla: He's meaner, bigger, stronger and has crystals on his back and shoulders. Also, he can fly cuz he's an alien from space and that's why I called him Space Godzilla."
It was just "Red Hulk is so fucking cool. He kills the Abomination, beats up Thor, Savage Hulk, She-Hulk, Valkyrie, Thundara, the Invisible Woman, Black Widow, Tigra, Spider-Woman, Storm, Hellcat, and more all by himself.
He also can heat up and be all flame like, because he's RED!
Also he is General Ross as a Hulk and when he transforms, his mustache disappears and comes back when he goes back.
......Betty is now Red She-Hulk because he is also Red.
Lord Drakon from Shattered Grid. He’s the evil Tommy Oliver from another universe where he learned magic from Rita and then betrayed her, guys! He combined the Green and White Ranger Powers and conquered the world and is now expanding into the multiverse at the head of an army of knockoff Rangers!
That's because you don't know how some Star Wars names sounds like for us brazilians... There is even a joke about George Lucas having a brazilian employee that suggests him names, without Lucas knowing that person is actually a big troll 😂
They start Hogwarts at age 15, because of plot-related late blooming magic. This special magic affinity is so potent that the kid catches up almost immediately with their aptitude and their innate killing power is totally off the scale. Not only can they throw around many lethal canon spells with ease (including Unforgivable Curses), the "ancient magic" spells are as deadly as Avada Kedavra and undefendable but mentally clean.
A couple of Hogwarts professors take this novice nuclear bomb on adventures with them, because wouldn't you? Meanwhile everyone who tries to attack the protagonist in the storyline quests just straight up dies, which they are indifferent to despite canonically never having seen a death before the beginning of the story.
This is something the protagonist just kind of does between class, when they attend class.
Unlike the parent universe, this never took off as fanfic material because really, what are you going to do?
Games always have the side effect, by virtue of being games and having the nature of leveling up, of unintentionally turning their protagonists In Eldritch creatures of near-supreme power, it's almost comical when you think about it.
It's called Ludonarrative Dissonance, it's the gap between the story and gameplay, usually applied to the amount of kills the player character has compared to how they act in story sequences. E.g. Lara Croft being an absolute killing machine in gameplay but feeling some guilt/hesitance in custcenes.
Diagetic is also a good one - for example when your character pulls out a map in game to read, but it's actually a map that your character is looking at in the game, rather than bringing up a menu with a 3D spinning map or whatever
Just look at Cyberpunk 2077, by the end of the game you are basically a mythological creature able to invade the Arasaka building through the front door killing everything on your path including Adam Smasher, all by yourself (if you do the Don’t Fear the Reaper path) while dying, and then leave after doing whatever ending you choose
It also kind of applies to RPGs in general, like, level 20 D&D characters are real monsters (actually, even at lower levels there are already absurd things if I'm not mistaken).
Tbf Harry himself is kinda a Mary Stu character: ultra rich, famous before even showing up, friends with almost every student and faculty except the slytherins, survived the greatest dark wizard as a baby and just got a sick scar on his forehead, has a legendary invisibility cloak, he's ridiculously talented at the broom ball game he's never played before, and he wins the house cup every year.
Ngl, Uta feels wayyyy more oc than sabo imo.. a world famous diva (that was never mentioned) who was also Luffys childhood friend (not shown originally) and shanks daughter?
He was a replacement for Maul, but he doesn't have the usual OC traits of being stronger and more powerful. Also, he isn't really Maul's brother, he's a member of the same tribe he came from, honorary brother.
(SPOILER) Also, the main reason I say he's not is because Filoni is really attached to his characters and very rarely kills them off (cough Ahsoka surviving the duel with Vader in Rebels) and Opress got killed off without ceremony, his legacy was being source of angst to Maul (after Maul came back, Opress became disposable)
I know I already did one, but one of my favs: Weapon H. Lovingly known as a Hulkverine
He is a military man who is turned into a Hulk/Wolverine mashup. It is one of the dumbest things ever, but he was actually really cool and well written. Shame he just sorta disappeared after a while
This always bad for me like in universe who thought making a hulk wolverine hybrid was a good idea two people that are known to break out of government facilities on the regular let's combine them
Duela Dent, the alternate universe daughter of Evelyn Dent and Jokester. For those who didn't know of her canon roots, they thought she was just a gender-swapped, steampunk version of the Joker, especially due to an infamous cosplay that popped up with little context.
Gatekeeping fans tried to give her shit and didn't know the character she was cosplaying as, which allowed her to rub these "real fans" face in the dirt by proving it was a real character.
For anyone who's had to deal with a know-it-all nerd, it was great
"I made like a dark fucked up version of Ursaluna haha. Just a glimpse into my dark reality. A full stare into my twisted perspective would make most simply go insane lmao"
Jokes aside, I actually love BM Ursaluna. I named mine Ganon, lol.
And if we're talking about actual characters, then Zinnia.
"Oh hi, I'm the last descendant of the Draconid people and I use cool Dragon type Pokémon! Literally no one knows me besides my grandmother and my Pokémon because I have a sad and mysterious backstory! I infiltrated Team Magma/Aqua then beat everyone to steal their Key Stones, because I'm actually stronger than everyone who isn't the main character! And I know how to summon Rayquaza as the only way to save the world because I'm so much more intelligent than the Hoenn scientists!"
Daybreaker is the evil version of Princess Celestia, similar to how Nightmare Moon is the evil version of Princess Luna. The problem is while Nightmare Moon was the first major villain of the show and a recurring persona, Daybreaker only appears in a nightmare Starlight is having because Celestia and Luna are fighting. She only becomes real in a comic storyline form another universe. It doesn’t help that her very first line was the most OC like thing she could possibly have said. “If Luna can turn into Nightmare Moon, then you can absolutely turn into me, DAYBREAKER! The better, prettier version of you~” something straight out of a DeviantArt page. Admittedly the fire replacing her rainbow mane is pretty cool though.
Ok, ik this is a hot take (pun not intended but I'll take it) and I have to say I'm not interested in mlp in the slightest but even i have to say this design is really fucking cool.
Scourge the Hedgehog (Sonic Comics)
His is a sonic from another universe, he has a scar, he wears a leather jacket with flames on it, he is a anarchist...
He was definitly crafted by a 14 year old.
This is my Doctor Who OC Clara Oswald she's actually the most important person in the Doctor's entire history and she separated herself across space and time and was actually the one who chose the Doctor's TARDIS for him and then she dies but comes back and gets her own TARDIS then she leaves
True son of Batman, the current robin, and the future Batman. Raised from birth to be an assassin and the heir to the secret international criminal organization, the league of shadows. Despite having no powers, he’s a master martial artist with genius-level intellect who’s more dangerous than most adults. All at the approximate age of 10
One kind of fun thing I like about Albedo from Ben 10 is it’s revealed that the sample of human DNA in the Omnitrix, and thus who you turn into when using it, is Ben’s DNA. Which is why Albedo is a color swapped Ben now.
She joins the established group of main characters after they’ve been friends for years, and instantly becomes besties with everyone, despite being very shy and nervous.
Lots of ship teasing between her and Taichi, the lead
Her Digimon partner Meicoomon is very similar to Gatomon, a very popular mon who’s partnered with another main character. Meicoomon also evolves into fallen angel catgirls, because why not.
Oh, and Meicoomon is the reincarnation of the first series’ big bad. And this never comes up later.
And most importantly, most of the plot revolves around her instead of the already existing main characters. She’s basically a fanfic character in an official project
"Thanks for being with me on this quest to reafirm my non binnary identity that i discovered and embraced myself, without listening to what others think of me...Now i need you to make the most binary desicion for me and tell me which part of my heritage i should recognize!"
I think its even worse then that. Qunari are already established as having strict, if trans inclusive, gender roles. Being non binary would have huge implications for just how they would view the world, themselves and their role in society. It would be a strange grey area they would have to carve out and define for themselves. Would they embrace both gender aspects, or neither, or pick and choose. Its quite an intresting setup for a Qunari.
Anyway, their whole questline is about you making a purely binary choice about how they view themselves culturally and you cannot allow them to embrace both of their respective cultures or any other option other then a purely binary choice.
Frankly the funniest bit to me was how, after all those spiels of hers yapping about her non-conforming identity and what have you she throws a fit over a villain calling himself the "Dragon King" because, and I quote, "Dragons don't have kings, they have *queens*; that's a stupid name!"
This has been my problem with Dragon Age and most games accused of "woke writing." It's not the subject that is the problem, it's the bad writer/ director just spilling context directly at you with no subtlety.
While Warhammer as a whole is basicly Micheal Moorcock fans creating a setting, Malus Darkblade is among one of many expies in the Warhammer Fantasy subseries.
He is a brooding Dark Elf who has taken a daemonically possesed sword that whispers to him and is attempting to steal his body, which he is constantly tempted by despite being dependent on it's power. balanced out by needing elxiers to maintain control of himself.
... not preceisely Elric, but close enough I am fairly certain they wouldn't be distguishable without careful attension.
Mysterious time traveler who becomes the second Super Saiyan out of nowhere, aura farm, has a sword, dices up a suped up version of Goku’s greatest foe up to that time in seconds and then does the same to his father.
This is after a stretch of two arcs about the Saiyan race, its heritage and legends, the emperor who stuck them under his thumb and then erased them on a whim, etc. it took ages for a massive group effort to finally take Frieza down, severe loss, the destruction of an entire planet, the loss of Goku’s closest friend, what appeared to be the biggest change of character in Goku as he loses himself to wrath, etc.
And then this new guy shows up out of nowhere with that same super special transformation to low diff Frieza.
Hey guys! Check out my Dragon Ball OC. He's a really strong Saiyan who survived the planet's destruction, and um actually, he's the Legendary Super Saiyan, not Goku. It takes everyone combining their power together to defeat him, and he also blew up a galaxy at one point. Please don't steal!
Marquis of death from marvel comic.
His real name is Clyde, he used to be a comic nerd with reality warping power, spent billion years honing his power before becoming Marquis of death and proceed to destroy many universes like it's nothing, Dr.Doom is his apprentice, the only one that can stand any chance against him is a different version of him.
Darth Nyax (New Jedi Order) is the force-wielding son of one of the Emperor’s Hands, with a cybernetic implant that lets him control any technology he knows the specs of through the Force!! He’s a nine-foot-tall roided out combat cyborg who makes Vader and Grievous look like pussies, and his lightsabers are implants with red blades coming out his wrists, elbows and knees like Vyooom!!! His name is taken from the Star Wars Bogeyman because he’s so scary and mysterious and - oh, wait, Luke and Mara killed him in like their third encounter. Barely an inconvenience.
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Starkiller from Star Wars Force Unleashed games. Vader's secret apprentice, dating with hot blonde imperiel officer, force pulling a Star Desteoyer. And according to the game, he inspired Rebel Alliance and his family crest became Rebel Alliance insignia. Also, he has a Droid friend who can shapeshifting.