Lasereth

The thread in Entertainment made me think of this one. Who's the most badass videogame characters ever? I can think of a few that are simply <B>badass</B>.

Solid Snake - Metal Gear
Tommy Vercetti - Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Dante - Devil May Cry
Auron - Final Fantasy X
Ryu Hayabusa - Ninja Gaiden
Lasereth - Battlefield Vietnam (sorry)
Vincent Valentine - Final Fantasy 7
Ninja - Metal Gear Solid
Samanosuke - Onimusha


I'm sure I'm missing some, so everyone add to the list!

-Lasereth

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Stare At The Sun

Max Payne is one definate badass.

sailor

Shit, you stole the words out of my mouth.

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Fremen

Princess Peach - Mario Kart 64 (halfway serious)

Spider-Man - Spider-man 2
James Bond, 007 - Goldeneye
Mario - Super Mario 64
Link - TLOZ- Ocarina of Time
In my opinion, a tie between Talim and Ivy - Soul Caliber II, GC
Kazooie - Banjo-Kazooie 64
Samus Aran - Metroid Prime

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Bodyhammer86

the doom/quake marine
the silencer (crusader: no remorse and no regret)

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Omar12

Master Chief - Halo
Liquid Snake - MGS
Solid Snake - MGS
Sephiroth - FF7
Kazuya, Heihachi and Jin Kazama- Tekken
Bryan Fury - Tekken
Ryu - Street Fighter

*edit* Now that I finish watching the new MGS: Snake Eater trailer, I am adding
"The Boss"

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bltzkriegmcanon

The entire cast of every Metal Gear Solid game ever. Except for Hal "Otacon" Emmerich.
The entire cast of FFVII excluding Aeris.
Canderous Ordo, HK-47, Jolee, yourself - KOTOR
Max Payne
Ryu Hayabusa
Sam Fisher

Allow me to reiterate that this thread is about video game characters who are very badass, not just cool.

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- The Colonel and Snake, Metal Gear Solid 3

Destrox

Auron, Sam Fisher, Payne, any character I've ever made in a RPG, The Marine from doom's, and Quake's main guy (1 and 2). These all give the "dont fuck with me" badass feeling. Payne and Auron have the best attitude of them all I think.

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Mr.Deflok

Jacques Blanc from Onimusha 3 I thought was increidbly bad ass.

Samus Aran too, despite the fact she doesn't speak she's so freakin' bad ass even beasts 30 times her size will feel her pain.

Akuma and Ryu are so bad ass that you could break cheese on their abs.

The genetically enhanced solider Master Chief can clean up all sorts of shit, really helps to understand this if you read the novels too.

The others have already been mentioned, Sam Fisher, Solid Snake, Tommy Vercetti, Max Payne, Samanosuke, Ninja...

hulk

JC Denton. At least, _my_ JC Denton.

You mechs may have copper wiring to bypass fear, but I have nerves of steel. Unf.

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Delirious

If you play DoA beach volleyball you will see some "badass" characters in bikinis =)

omega2K4

Max Payne. Iori Yagami. Prince of Persia. My character in Morrowind. My character in Knights of the Old Republic.

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Apokx

T.G. Cid,from Final Fantasy Tactics.

Rdr4evr

Duke Nukem
Link
Prince of Persia
Sam Fisher
The main character from Mafia (forgot his name)

Thats all I got off the top of my head.

Ace_O_Spades

Ohhh why must you bring up morrowind!!! Ahh I wasted too much time in that game.. I can't afford to start thinking about it again

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stonegrody

Lo Wang - Shadow Warrior
Tommy Vercetti - GTA: VIce City
Max Payne
Bionic Commando

Lokus

Magus from Chrono Trigger.

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ForwardtoDeath

uhhh..hands down sephiroth, the biggest badass in the video game universe. I just remember the first time i played Final Fantasy VII, seeing him burn that whole village down was just wickedly badass.

NeverBorn

Jack from Farcry. The main char from Gladiators.

YaWhateva

totally. he owns.

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Scipio

the Doom I soldier (and the quake marine)
the Warcraft 2 Grunt
the Heroes of Might and Magic 2 Black Dragon
the Civilization 2 Musketeers (gunpowder tech baby)
Gunther Hermann (Deus Ex 1) ("I wanted orange. It gave me lemon lime. It's the maintaince man! He knows I like orange!")

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Briz9

Main Character from Castelvania X (?). The one on playstation.

redarrow

Dont forget those fat guys. Ogres.

nukeu666

only 1 person said duke nukem till now!
my lvl 11 wizard from nethack

any godmode charecter :P

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Scipio

Yeah, they're cool too, but I gotta give props to the grunt. For the horde! Yes master!

And for WC3, I'd have to go with the dwarven mortar teams. MORTAR COMBAT!!!

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Bim

Agent Forty Seven

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Paq

Ivy from soul calibur....that chick mmmmmmmmmmmm..badass

ryu and ken and akuma from SFII

soul reaver dude...

and everyone forgot...the belmont family from castlevania..

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heccubusiv

Any black mage from any Final Fanstay game... those guys can bring the pain

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thriolith

Any other female characters? Curious...

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bltzkriegmcanon

Mona from Max Payne is fucking badass. She pops caps in bitches like no other.

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What do you say to one last showdown?
- Ocelot, Metal Gear Solid 3

The password is "Who are the Patriots?" and "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo." "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo." Gotcha.
- The Colonel and Snake, Metal Gear Solid 3

-=shikamaru=-

Ditto. He really is Badass, not just cool.

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Bodyhammer86

mr. 47 from the hitman games

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limeygrendel

Samus Aran - Metroid Series
Link - Zelda Series
Solid Snake - Metal Gear Series

omega2K4

Shit. I totally forgot about Agent 47. He's the epitome of badass.

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irateplatypus

Heihachi Mishima - Tekken series, tough-n-salty ol' bastard
Samus Aran - as badass as a vidgame chick gets
Magus - Chrono Trigger, one of my favorite baddies
Mitsurugi - Soul Calibur
Ken - Street Fighter, a cocky showoff, but effective
Link - Zelda series, who can stand against the hero of time?

gamefaqs.com is running a tournament of sorts along these lines nowadays.

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bltzkriegmcanon

I wish that were so, but I think they're really just running a damn popularity contest.

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What do you say to one last showdown?
- Ocelot, Metal Gear Solid 3

The password is "Who are the Patriots?" and "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo." "La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo." Gotcha.
- The Colonel and Snake, Metal Gear Solid 3

Siccx

I say Agent 47 from Hitman, the guy is ruthless, cold, and the perfect assassin, one of my favorite characters in video games...

itch vaccine

Sam Fisher, that's all I know!

and Sarge from Quake3, nice ciggy in his mouth while he's kickin your ass with his rocket launcher.

vengeance

Captain William J. "B.J." Blazkowicz - Wolf3D

Madd

Nothing like shooting nazi's and the undead, such an awsome baddass.

Akuma - Street Fighter. <-- if this guy isnt baddass i dunno who is
The doom and quake guy - nothing like random monsters to blow up.
The Prince - Prince of persia
Duke Nukem - his attitude alone could take out an army.

Illidan Stormrage - Warcraft 3
Half deamon, banished from his homeland, seeks vengance, has blades attached to his freaking arms, battles the undead. Also has a totally badass death to go with it.

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