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Makoto has absolutely nothing on Matou Shinji. Just saying.

Yea if we limited this to "zero interaction to the story" then it would be all background characters. Even Yamcha wouldn't be considered useless in that case, since he was Bulma's love interest until the Android Saga, and still fights even though he doesn't do any good.

My top 3 useless characters are from these shows...

Infinite Ryvius


Inuyasha


Zeta Gundam

1. Lala-Ru from "Now and then, here and there," she was so pointless, the writers could have made the water amulet usable by anyone, but no they decided "let's add a character who does practically nothing until the last 2 minutes of the show and has the personality of a cardboard box!"

2. Nina from Code Geass, stupid racist lesbian cunt-bag does nothing through-out all of season one (minus masturbate to pictures of the princess in a public area) except the last five minutes of episode 5, at least she had more personality then fucking Lala-Ru.

3. Kaori from Akira, why are you even here? Oh you're Tetsuo's girlfriend? Okay I guess that mean you help the plot... Oh wait a minute, no you don't, you serve absolutely no purpose what-so-ever! Well I guess at least you're on the lowest bar and serve as fanservice... Wait a minute, no you don't since you look like a guy. Why are you even here?

Like I pointed out I don't disagree him being considered useless in that sense, but it was the other point of view that I was wondering.

@Z-flame Yea, from outside the story almost every character has some worth though. In a thread like this almost ANYONE could be justified as moving the story forward in one way or another.

Nina is definitely a shitty ass character, but she's not useless. She's the one who freaking created the FLEIJA bomb, for God's sake.

This. Hate her as I may, she certainly achieved some pretty major things.

Which she does in the last five minutes of season 1.

Its still a huge achievement, lol. Its not like she achieved that in a minute, or anything, it was quite obviously something that took time but happened off screen. She had to get that smart SOMEWHERE.

So yes, she does very little ON screen, but she still achieves some pretty major stuff.

Okay, I'll admit that she did accomplish something big off screen, but on screen she did basically nothing but masturbate to photo's of a girl hugging children.

Ye well that might be true. Look, I do not blame you for hating her, believe me. Bitch needed to suffer, but sadly the plot gave her one of the biggest defining discoveries, for some reason lol.

1. Kazumi Yoshida from Shakugan no Shana: The Cock-block

2/3 (At the beginning of their respective animes): Ouma Shu and Amano Yukiteru, because both of them really pissed me off in the beginning.

Viewing the story from inside would mean no character is useless because every function from waiting tables to punching out the big boss would be seen as important.

Looking at a story from the outside and trying to judge each characters worth is the type of though the OP is looking for. While I am talking about the OP it seems he is moving away from worthless/useless and entering into "Why I think a character sucks" ground. Not liking what a character does isn't the same as that character being unimportant to the story.

@Anime_Name Suffice to say I disagree. Id argue with you, but alcohol+ internet arguing would make me look like a total moron.

You can disagree all you like but worth is still measure of importance and most of the characters listed here have been at one time or another important to the stories they are in.

Sakura not being in the war arc much doesn't make her importance in other arcs vanish.(Well it doesn't vanish from people with a memory longer than a goldfish.)

And the OP is clearly showing that he'd rather talk about characters he doesn't like than what does or does not make a character useless.

Relena Peacecraft from Gundam Wing.
I have yet to find a character that annoys me more or is more useless.
All she ever is is a figurehead.

Here is an article about Relena: http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Relena_Darlian

She seems to be a very busy girl, with some important parts in the story.
What does annoying you have to do with her not being important?

People here say a character is useless when it doesn't meet their standards, or when they find them annoying, and therefore they think that he/she does not belong in the Anime. General dislike for a character can also attribute to that, because they feel like they are an obstacle to the other characters, and only serve to slow them down, etc.. There's many reasons, but none of them are right. If people were to actually use the term correctly, not many characters would be named, and the ones that would, would most likely be some obscure characters that are not even worth remembering. I don't really see the point of trying to correct everyone in this thread, because it won't really help in any way. You wont convert people to start using the term correctly. Now, if you're having fun correcting everyone, then that's another story.