LogFAQs > #984519372

Bad and a joke purely for the sake of being bad and a joke? No.
Bad and a joke because they're very gimmicky or very minmaxed? Sure.

My best example for this is Pichu in Smash Bros. Pichu in Melee had literally no reason to be selected since it was a strictly worse Pikachu in almost every single way. It was a joke in every sense of the word. But when Pichu came back in Ultimate, they gave it insane killing power in addition to being fast and small, but it still damages itself and dies really early like it did in Melee. It's niche is being the ultimate minmaxed glass cannon, and I believe it's currently considered low-mid tier but not awful, so it's a great example of a gimmicky joke character that's still worth playing if you can master it.