5 fighting game guest characters weirder than Negan in Tekken 7

Bandai Namco announced at the fighting game tournament EVO that Negan from AMC’s The Walking Dead would join Tekken 7 as a new DLC fighter. That might seem bizarre, and … it is. But this is nothing new for fighting games.

The developers in this genre discovered decades ago that they can attract fans of other franchises by including outside characters. This has given us some crossovers that make a lot of sense. Even Tekken 7 has some sensible guest fighters, like Noctis from Final Fantasy XV and Geese Howard from another fighting game series, Fatal Fury.