10 LEGO Games That Made Even Serious Gamers Laugh Out Loud

There are few franchises in gaming which manage to so consistently bring joy through genuine laughter as LEGO. These games are known for their in-jokes, particularly about franchises that they bring to life in colourful block form. It’s easy to poke fun at a series when you have true love and passion for it, and that’s what the LEGO games show often.

The fun part about their games is that LEGO knows they are engaging with real fans of franchises, and in their original games, just fans of simple, happy gaming. There’s always something to laugh about, and some LEGO games go above and beyond to become truly memorable comedy-gaming classics.

10 LEGO Lord Of The Rings

Middle Earth Is Perfect For Comedy

Though it took them a while to get around to it, LEGO did not disappoint when they brought the Lord of the Rings trilogy to a Middle Earth made up of bricks. The epic span of this game was great, but it adds a surprising amount of comedy considering that the LEGO characters use voice lines direct from the films.

As a major Lord of the Rings fan from the books to the films, this game gave me more than a few proper giggles. From Ringwraiths asking where the toilet is to Boromir’s tragic death being made much more comical by having him shot with a broom and a banana. In particular, it is the darker elements of the series being made a little friendlier that work best in this case.

9 The LEGO Movie Videogame

Hilarity on the Big Screen Easily Translated

Some LEGO games have a lot of work to do in translating a serious franchise to a more comical setting. But there are cases where the task becomes much simpler. The LEGO Movie was already a bundle of fun, and all that Traveller’s Tales had to do in this case was allow the comedy to come along with everything else that made the film so fun.

This was easily done. From Benny’s spaceship obsession to helping run an episode of Where Are My Pants, the sitcom from the film, this game had it all. My personal favourite bit of comedy is turning Vitruvius’ blindness into an ability by making him brave enough to cross thin beams and dangerous walkways because he doesn’t understand the danger. Insisting through voice lines that these walkways are totally safe while everyone else questions whether he’s really blind is the cherry on top of these gags, making them memorably fun.

8 LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

An Epic Collation of a Much-Memed Franchise

There are so many inside jokes throughout the Star Wars saga, and The Skywalker Saga begins right away. The opening shot shows two droids that look like C-3PO and R2D2 getting wiped out by a chunk of debris, immediately playing on “these are not the droids you are looking for”, one of the oldest Star Wars memes.

This love of in-jokes fans have amongst themselves continues throughout the considerable length and breadth of this game. There are so many characters to chat with and have funny moments. Besides that, the iconic moments, from Palpatine accidentally executing Order 67, to Rey mocking Kylo Ren’s lack of a shirt, this game doesn’t shy back from poking fun at every iconic moment across the nine films in this legendary saga.

7 LEGO DC Super-Villains

A Darkly Thematic Game Needs Some Lightening

It would be easy to make a dark and foreboding sort of game when creating one entirely about DC’s more villainous element. However, the reality was more like James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad film. It didn’t take itself seriously at all, and was all the better for it. Everything to do with the Joker, for example, is hilarious in this game. From stealing Livewire’s electricity-themed one-liner to interrupting Lex Luthor’s evil speeches, he brings a lot of comedy.

But a lot of the other comedy comes from the impressive list of locations visited from DC Comics history. From crooks thinking after robbing Wayne Manor that Bruce Wayne is Man-Bat, to setting up the Iceberg Lounge for a shark to sing. Also, the text message feature provides so much room for hilarity. There’s even added villainous gags, like being able to literally take candy from a baby in the Hub, which I’ll freely admit to having done every time I revisit this game.

6 LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

Making Horrible Villains Into Dancing Fun

One of the toughest tasks LEGO has ever performed is bringing content from films that aren’t really suitable for kids into a family-friendly setting. Indiana Jones films are often about fighting Nazis, and they include villains having their faces melted among many other notably adult-themed moments. However, this provided great opportunities for LEGO to make more comical versions of these scenes, like having Nazis dancing around instead of dying (and also being called ‘Enemy Soldiers’).

Apart from that, LEGO didn’t hesitate to make fun of the little references the Indiana Jones films themselves had to Star Wars. The Grail Knight makes a Darth Vader-themed entrance, and I still cackle at the ruthless bit of comedy that involves making Willie’s screaming deadly to enemies. At this early stage, LEGO weren’t afraid to include some dark humour, notably the Grail Knight cracking up at Donovan choosing the wrong Grail and dying horrifically. Maybe I was a little young for this humour at the time, but I definitely enjoyed it, and love it even more now.

5 LEGO The Incredibles

Pixar’s Funniest Film Made This Easy

Another case of source material already being filled with laughs. The Incredibles is perhaps Pixar’s most amusing film of all, even now, so the task of bringing it to LEGO was always going to have a simplicity to it. Retrospectively, it’s almost a shame that they didn’t make a bigger LEGO Pixar game at the time featuring the stories of other films as well. But they did include Remy from Ratatouille, and the memorable Finding Nemo seagulls, in several hilarious Easter Eggs.

If that wasn’t enough, I still remember my sneaky giggling reaction to finding out there’s a whole level where you destroy a city as the Omnidroid. There’s also some great arcade games, and you can unlock characters like Dory to add to the Pixar-filled adventure. That, in addition to the natural comedy of these beloved characters, made for a game that nobody could resist chuckling their way through. Jack-Jack alone might make a play for the funniest LEGO character in a game yet!

4 LEGO Batman: The Videogame

Dark, Brooding & Hilarious

LEGO Batman games were so popular that the LEGO Caped Crusader went on to get his own movie. The mythos of Batman has such length and breadth that it’s easy to make fun of and there are a huge number of fans who understand even the deepest-cut parodies and in-jokes. This made it simple work to give fans what we wanted in a LEGO Batman game.

I personally miss when LEGO games like this stay away from dialogue, using physical humour alone like a child playing with LEGO. The old-school slapstick gags and mixture of comedic bits from Adam West, Michael Keaton and even The Animated Series gave this the feel of something that truly encapsulated Batman as a character. For me, playing this for the first time after The Dark Knight ignited my passion for the character was a wondrous experience. The freedom of making this game whatever they wanted, not following the set story of one particular film, is what helped make the first LEGO Batman one of the most riotously fun of them all.

3 LEGO Pirates Of The Caribbean

Captain Jack Sparrow Was Made For LEGO

Sometimes a character just fits into LEGO formatting with such ease that you can tell the game is going to work out amazingly well. Captain Jack Sparrow already feels like a cartoon in live-action, so this game was always going to be great. Pirates of the Caribbean is a highly amusing set of films, but adding old-school LEGO physical comedy to the repertoire of weirdness around Captain Jack gave light to a whole extra level of humour.

LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean is still arguably my favourite LEGO game. The high-seas adventure of it all, mixed with gags like Davy Jones’ heart being a 1-up heart wearing his hat, made for a cackle-worthy game. Continued gags from the films, like a pig spraying Gibbs with perfume, and giving Beckett the short LEGO mini-figure legs, showed a deep understanding of what makes the films tick, and why we fans love them so much.

2 LEGO Marvel Super Heroes

A Universe Mocked Relentlessly

There are several things that stand out about LEGO Marvel Super Heroes in comedic terms. From Easter Egg gags like Stan Lee cameos to Deadpool having a full fight sequence against a comic book writing team. Though I’ve been a Marvel fan for a long time, I only played this game recently, and found out immediately that it should have been a huge personal favourite all along.

The Galactus fight alone, where he makes om-nom-nom sounds while eating things, will earn a giggle from anyone. Hulk’s existential lines like “walls not good, walls only keep people apart” as he smashes through them, Thor mocking Loki’s love of helmets with horns, and Juggernaut referencing a famous, and unsuitable for a LEGO game, line from X-Men: The Last Stand. This is a cacophony of references from a beloved universe that will make any fan smile like a child the entire way through their play-through. It also cured a slight bias I had against LEGO games with voice lines by being one of the best and funniest of all time.

1 LEGO City Undercover

GTA In LEGO Form Is Too Good

Sure, it might not have a whole franchise of references to work from. But LEGO City Undercover is undeniably the funniest of all LEGO games. Trust me, I wouldn’t have believed myself a few months ago either. In place of that, the writers simply put together a full script, spread across a huge open-world, which is potentially the funniest video game script ever concocted.

This game blew me away with the writing. I was constantly laughing out loud, I was being asked by those who live with me if I was okay. I had a couple of serious coughing fits brought on by this game. The exhibits in the LEGO City Museum, the intro with people falling overboard unnoticed on the ship, even questionable one-liners like Frank admitting he fed an apple to the wrong end of his horse. LEGO City Undercover is a gem in the gaming world which some fans of LEGO games will never fully understand, because they’re so used to just buying LEGO games from IPs they love. But trust me on this, there will probably never be a LEGO game that can crack up every collective player as much as this one.