This list is the companion peice to my Cool Hispanic Characters list. Now pretty much every hispanic character you can find in a videogame will be a painful caricature of a stereotype. If that was my only measuring standard they'd all end up here. No this list is for the ones who are nothing but stereotypes, with little or no substantive personality, background, story development, or character growth. If they're minor background characters, ingloriously killed off or humiliated in some way, or their in-game mechanics portray them to be unusually weaker than the other characters then they'll probably find their way onto this list too.
I am also considering adding hispanic characters who ARE cool badasses but upon further scrutiny, you see that they're not actually hispanic at all. This would include people like Luis from GTAIV: Ballad of Gay Tony, Blanka from Streetfighter, etc, etc. Which just goes to show that when you finally do convince game developers to give you a decent hispanic character there's a 50/50 chance they'll throw in a plot-twist ethnic swap when you ain't looking.
I'm not bitter.
Ok, i'm a little bitter.
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While his costume does initially evoke a stereotypical matador image, there's enough tweaks and twists to give it a distinctive and unique vibe. I like the look. I WANTED to put Vega on the cool list. Alas, it can not be so. Despite his speed, his damage is low, and his damage tolerance is lower still. He is definitely one of the weakest characters in the game, despite using a weapon. Incidently, the weapon makes him lamer. It's bad enough he's bringing two-foot long razor sharp blades to a fistfight...but he's bringing them to a fistfight and STILL loses more often than not. The effeminate mannerisms and angst over his "beauty" isn't doing much to knotch up the respect-o-meter either. There is some minor potential in his background story that could go a long way toward redeeming the character, but nobody ever does anything with it so he will likely continue to be a preening over-hyped buffoon who can't win a fight against a serious opponant even when he's cheating.
Sigh. The Saints Row series FINALLY introduces a hispanic protagonist character and he's a small-fry runt who comes across as a hapless sidekick who's only kept around because he's as cute as a button. He seems badass(Or at least competent) during the tutorial portion of the game but you quickly see how much of a failure he really is once you get into the main storyline. He quickly proves himself a failure as a Leutenant for the Saints, and ultimately dies rather patheticly. He is pretty much never mentioned or thought of again except in generic taunts from random goons, which seems to indicate the other main characters of the game didn't even really give a crap about him.
I'm really getting sick of the token Luchador that every fighting game must include. They never have any kind of substantive storyline(Case in point: Blaze here enters the Tekken tournament to feed his ego and show up some other wrestler as a poser), and IF they ever appear in an animated or live action spin-off of the game you can rest assured that after one minute of flashy acrobatics they will be beaten like a red-headed stepchild as if they were just generic cannon-fodder grunts for the main characters to blow past enroute to the real fight.
Again I am so damn sick of the token Luchador. Fuerte here in no way breaks the pattern. Like all the rest, his over-all look and his moves are just silly and impossible to take seriously. Like all the rest he has no substantive storyline. He's just there as part of a pathetic attempt by the game developers to appear culturally inclusive.
I'll give King this much. Unlike the rest of the token Luchadors on this list, he DOES have a decent storyline. That's about all that can be said for him though. Like the rest of them though you can bet that in every animated, comic or live action adaptation of the game he is easily torn apart by the Heiichi Mishimas of Jin Kazama-type characters. The real stars of the series. Despite having been part of the Tekken series in some incarnation or another from the very beginning King, isn't even a second banana. He's more like a third or fourth. Also, the various King characters have a funny habit of being killed off in a rather pathetic fashion, as washed up drunks or in a bar fight with some other third banana character.
I'll give Ramon credit for having a better fashion sense than most token luchador characters. Due to the blonde hair I wasn't even sure he was hispanic at first. But remember he was created in Japan, and in Japan they seem to think that pink, purple, and blue are naturally occuring hair colors. Ramon is ultimately another of those third rate characters who, despite his popularity never appears in any of the adaptations of King of Fighters and if he does you can rest assured he will be nothing but a minor speedbump in the path of the main characters. In-Game he has no real storyline and a one-sided infatuation with a married woman who has no interest in him whatsoever.
Yup. Yet another token generic cookie cutter luchador. Why even bother at this point?
Unlike his buddy Mask de Smith(who may ultimately join him on this list) nothing in Coyote's GiantBomb entry indicates any particular level of badassery. Apparently he's the only member of the team who's value is called into doubt, and the services he does provide seem to be generic rogue stuff. Lockpicking and long jumps. I'm not impressed.
Oh look. Another Luchador. Sigh. Despite having the claim to fame of being the man who "Broke the Bat", it has since been made painfully clear that Bane was a one-hit wonder. He's a grotesquely overmuscled freak who is pretty easily taken apart once you cut off his supply of super-steroids, which probably means his genitals are super-shrunken. Sigh. Despite being initially depicted as a brilliant tactician he's just another villain in Batman's rogue's gallery now. One who utterly fails to inspire any sense of dread when he appears on the battlefield. in the comics he even got his arse kicked by some generic third rate Judo chump hero who I won't bother naming because you never heard of him anyway. EDIT: And apparently on top of all that the comicbook Bane has recently been revealed to be the biological son of some gooberass called King Snake. And King Snake is a blonde haired, blue eyed slice of aryan perfection. So now Bane's not even hispanic anymore. Chances are this is a prelude to him being bumped to a more prominent role within the comics.
Based upon his GiantBomb information entry I initially had him on my cool list in spite of him being yet another freakin' luchador. More extensive research into the character, and viewing how he performs in-game via youtube has forced me to put this ridiculous idiot here on the lame list. He ALMOST managed to at least LOOK cool with the unique combination of the suit and the mask but he had to ruin it with a cape that changes his look from exoticly menacing to clownishly foolish. And get this...it's not even the real Mask De Smith...the real one was killed and killed pretty easily by some other dude who then somehow absorbed the abilities and skills of Mask and simply uses his abilities. And since this guy seems to need the abilities of six other assassins Mask must not be all that singularly impressive afterall.