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[nordique]

No list is accurate without Doom Guy.

Sorry OP

 

[MAtgS]

Kirby, Tails, Roll, and John Cena.

 

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Dante

Geralt

Marcus Fenix

Doom Slayer

 

[BennyBlanco]

Doomguy
Kirby
Geralt
Ichiban

 

[Buggy Loop]

GOD TIERS

 

[Arsic]

No list is accurate without Doom Guy.

Sorry OP

Glad he's in the OP.

 

[Guerilla Munch]

Mister Chief (kills bad guys and doesn't afraid of anything)

OG Kratos

Duke Nukem

Nathan Drake (literally kills 72,000 people in each game)

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

I'm surprised these two have not been mentioned yet.

Zero, from Drakengard

Coming up next, EVE, from Stellar Blade.

 

[ShadowLag]

#1. Motherfuckin' Sabin

#2. Doomguy



#3. Vergil



#4. Varok Saurfang (whole cinematic is worth a watch)

 

[EverydayBeast]

 

[Arsic]

Should be Manly Mary Jane on there not him. She blasts Symboite ass like she claps Peters with her 13 inch strap on—viciously!

 

[cartman414]

No Mega Man or Zero?

 

[_Idea_of_Evil_]

Excellent mentions. Here's another one:

William.

 

[Platinumstorm]

 

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Lu Bu.

 

[Musashipan]

Nobody mentioned my boy Isacc Clarke?

 

[REDRZA MWS]

Link, Master Chief, Kratos, Mario

 

[DryvBy]

Use ai and you can create an actual mt rushmoor pic

It messed up badly. They're missing Solid Snake, Conker, and Doom guy.

 

[Scotty W]

It is not an accident that one or the few game characters not designed to be cool or kawaii, Mario, is essentially the embodiment of gaming.

 

[Robb]

 

[REDRZA MWS]

And an honorable mention because I always feel like one of the pioneers always gets slighted.

 

[poodaddy]

Doomguy above absolutely anything else and this is by literally thousands of miles. I'm not saying he's my favorite, I'm saying he's the raddest and baddest and it's not up for discussion, all other protagonists wish they were half as sick.

Now for the rest.....

BJ from Wolfenstein
JC Denton
Adam Jensen
Master Chief
Joel from The Last of Us
Leon Kennedy

And Zero from Mega Man X! You fuckers know Zero is sick.... don't play.

 

[darth.shrimp]

Doomguy and Duke Nukem have already been mentioned in every other post, so I'll add...

Both War and Death (Darksiders)
Brick (Borderlands)
The other Kratos (Tales of Symphonia)
... and of course (although it almost feels like cheating) the entire crew from Broforce.

 

[Celcius]

Ryu Hayabusa
Cloud Strife
Samus Aran
Ryu from SF

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The most Epic character ever.

 

[hyperbertha]

Kratos has been pussified. I think he's one game away from his Coronation Street skit:

No man with emo Justin Bieber hair can be a Chad. So that rules out Leon as well.

Mine would be Doom Guy & Chief as certs. Keep the helmets on and no gay talking.

Nate Drake. Go on and laugh but the man has a chiseled jaw, firm buttocks, fit blonde hoe and massacres hordes of enemies without even giving a fuck. How Sony produced this character, I'm not even sure.

4th is more up in the air.

Nate is very beta. Even pussified kratos is superior.

 

[hyperbertha]

I'm assuming only male characters are allowed since mt rushmore.

Kratos
Snake
Master chief
Geralt


I don't think Duke Nukem, Doom guy, Sam fisher or Joel are important or gaming-defining enough to be on there.

 

[Arsic]

It messed up badly. They're missing Solid Snake, Conker, and Doom guy.

My results were way worse lmfao.

 

[Nvzman]

Ichiban Kasuga is unironically one of my favorite protagonists in a video game.

If I had to pick four badasses:
Master Chief
Doomguy
Solid Snake
Kiryu

 

[Arsic]

I'm surprised more folks didn't pick Travis Touchdown. He's a pretty bad ass dude but he's definitely not as iconic as some of the other mentions.

 

[Skull-Knight]

Doomguy
Wolf(Sekiro)
Arthur Morgan
Geralt
Kratos (trilogy)
Big Boss
joel (tlou)
niko

 

[kurisu_1974]

I'm sorry I took the assignment too literal and it went horribly wrong.

 

[Hudo]

Nu-GoW Kratos anything but badass.

 

[consoul]

Took 6 posts before Kiryu got a mention?
You slippin' GAF.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

Awful choices in here. Only correct answers are Duke Nukem, Doom Guy and of course B.J. Blazkowicz.

 

[CashPrizes]

Top 4 for me would be:
Alucard (Best 2d Platformer series)
Ryu (Street Fighter) (best fighting game series)
Gordon Freeman (Best 2 FPS games)
Frog from Chrono Trigger, fun to have a non-human in the mix, got to represent RPGs and CT is arguably the best. Also if you had Chrono it would be too many headbands, and he looks too much like a Goku.

I would not want to do Geralt as he originates from non-gaming media. Nathan Drake/Joel/Ellie just look too much like normal people. Commander Shepard can look like anyone. MGS Snake is so derivative of Snake Plisken that I would rule him out.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

Samus
Sekiro
Kiryu Kazuma
Leon Kennedy

 

[Lethal01]

zero

sonic

Link

Samus

Riku

 

[Toots]

Garcia "fucking" Hotspur comes to mind

 

[Romulus]

Kain from Legacy of Kain
Starkiller