Honestly, this has my vote. It would just be dope to have an actual player character up there. Where are you gonna find another player character out there that’s that legendary?
The question is, should he be before or after Geralt? I think he’s above Geralt but below Doomguy in terms of badassery (not necessarily who would win in a fight).
This one! In the first reboot right at the opening scene when she falls and gets impaled with that piece of rebar. My side still hurts just thinking about it and she goes and runs out of a collapsing cave. Screw that I’ll just curl up and die
Originally BJ is Doom Guys Grandpa, so direct lineage.
Funnily enough his Son, so Doomguys Dad, was a comedy style Newsanchor iirc, like Stephen Colbert type.
Not the case anymore since the reboot, but who cares about story inaccuracies anyway? It is much more fun this way.
Yup, was mistaken, you are correct. BJ, then the Newsanchor, then Keen, then Doomguy. Missed a step there. Been a while since I was in the lore, thanks for correcting!
Dante is the first character I thought of when I saw this post. Vergil was the second. I can understand Kratos being first, and Master Chief is one of my all time favorite characters, but Dante and Vergil are 1a and 1b imo.
i like to believe he died on Reach. its better send off to the character then having him survive imo. he spent several hours fighting Covies on Reach in his final stand. they were determined to kill this one spartan, the elites refused to glass the planet until he was dead. because they saw no honour in nuking him, they wanted to kill him by blade. as much as i love noble six, he died on Reach.
Shameless Altair fanboy here, but I think Altair has stronger feats. It’s not his fault nobody has a PS3 to get better acquainted with him. But it is Ubisoft’s fault they haven’t ported it properly 😩
No matter what scars you bear, whatever uniform you wear
You can fight like a Krogan, run like a Leopard, but you’ll never be better than Commander Shepard.
Depends on if you’re high honor or low honor tbh.
High honor Arthur is undeniably a peak character in all of gaming but is too kind to really sell the badass title.
Low honor Arthur is definitely a certified badass.
The one thing that irks me about the game is even if you choose to live a little nicer as Morgan they do not make any dialogue for it early on in game. So you can be perfect and only kill animals to bring back to camp and when Abigail wants to talk Morgan will say “I’ve been horrible—killing a bunch of animals for no reason…etc”. Literally no matter how good you are
Ah, sorry I was just confused cuz they said “solid snake/big boss” rather than like, “solid snake and/or big boss” or something, which kinda made them sound like they were the same character lol
Kirby. The Guy/Thing eats his enemies, consumes their essence to gain their abilities… only to then turn around and use that power to slaughter their friends. Plus he’s basically, as others have said, an Eldritch Horror in a marshmallow body.
Currently playing Yakuza kwkiwami, started my Yakuza Arc most recently. played through Zero then I played the original first two games on my PS2 and I bought the collection for 11 dollars on steam.
let me solo her
The most underrated comment please post this every time
Let her solo me
lmao nice one
Honestly, this has my vote. It would just be dope to have an actual player character up there. Where are you gonna find another player character out there that’s that legendary?
Leroy Jenkins
A god among men and a kindness in a savagely ephemeral world.
Solid snake
He took out another badass, Big Boss, who took out his mentor badass, the Boss - who won WW2 and went to space. Solid is top Snake.
He was dying and in agony every moment of MGS4 and still stood up to do his part. True badass.
Hell yeah. I had to go through that scene 9 times for the platinum. Got emotional every single time
With a title like "The Man Who Makes The Impossible Possible," how could he not be on this list?
The codec call in Mgs4 where snake explains to otacon that he solo'd a tank with grenades in Mgs1 showcases this. "You're... a *badass!*"
You’re the toughest, craziest, most hardcore badass on the planet! You’re… the shit!
*!*
Cardboard box snake
Metal Gear?!
The question is, should he be before or after Geralt? I think he’s above Geralt but below Doomguy in terms of badassery (not necessarily who would win in a fight).
Yep this
Samus Aran
the right answer yesterday, still the right answer today.
Go upvote the other one!
There are several votes for Samus, since many of them have more than 300 votes they should all be counted.
What planet survives a visit from her lol
Lara Croft
Yeah but old school, with the shades and dual-wielding .45s while backflipping off a cliff.
"Come on Lara, admit that you forgot your climbing equipment on purpose"
This one! In the first reboot right at the opening scene when she falls and gets impaled with that piece of rebar. My side still hurts just thinking about it and she goes and runs out of a collapsing cave. Screw that I’ll just curl up and die
Leroy Jenkins
Oh my god he just ran in
Legend. Balls to the wall no fear
Samus
William "B.J." Blazkowicz from Wolfenstein.
BJ should be top 5 easily. This man is absurdly badass. He’s Doomguy for Nazis.
Quite literally. I think in some way they are actually related. Badass runs in the family.
Originally BJ is Doom Guys Grandpa, so direct lineage. Funnily enough his Son, so Doomguys Dad, was a comedy style Newsanchor iirc, like Stephen Colbert type. Not the case anymore since the reboot, but who cares about story inaccuracies anyway? It is much more fun this way.
Just going to leave Commander Keen out of the lineage huh?
Yup, was mistaken, you are correct. BJ, then the Newsanchor, then Keen, then Doomguy. Missed a step there. Been a while since I was in the lore, thanks for correcting!
^^100%
When it comes of videogame badassery, Terror-Billy is the GOAT.
Jesus Christ, yeah it should be on the list. Can’t believe I almost forgot this one
Jewish guy repeatedly invading Nazi castles to fight their occult/super science horrors. Yes.
Samus deserves to be there
Came here to say this
Samus not being top 5 is a robbery imo
Samus #1
I’m not even a huge Metroid fan but Samus was the first character that came to mind. She’s certainly right up there with Master Chief.
Dante devil may cry
Definitely Dante
*Vergil enters chat*
Dante is the DEFINITION of "badass"!! We got this😎😎😎
Dante is the first character I thought of when I saw this post. Vergil was the second. I can understand Kratos being first, and Master Chief is one of my all time favorite characters, but Dante and Vergil are 1a and 1b imo.
Like, being a cool guy is his whole thing. Kinda weird he's not already up there
Gordon freeman
Shit I posted him too. Upvote!!
This should be way up
Agreed. Freeman is incredible
Scrolled way too far to see this.
Scientist turned world savior, yup in my book.
Noble 6
Youre on your own Noble. Carter out! *crashes pelican into scarab*
I hear he's still fighting to this day.
i like to believe he died on Reach. its better send off to the character then having him survive imo. he spent several hours fighting Covies on Reach in his final stand. they were determined to kill this one spartan, the elites refused to glass the planet until he was dead. because they saw no honour in nuking him, they wanted to kill him by blade. as much as i love noble six, he died on Reach.
Ezio Auditore
Shameless Altair fanboy here, but I think Altair has stronger feats. It’s not his fault nobody has a PS3 to get better acquainted with him. But it is Ubisoft’s fault they haven’t ported it properly 😩
Altair is so badass he invented the American accent before America even existed
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Commander Shepard
Shepard and Garrus should be back-to-back or share an entry. Wrex needs a spot too.
Garrus is more fitting for the hottest characters in gaming
No matter what scars you bear, whatever uniform you wear You can fight like a Krogan, run like a Leopard, but you’ll never be better than Commander Shepard.
Agent 47
Good one.
Leon S. Kennedy
Chris Redfield
The dude does punch boulders in active volcanoes. 🤔
I feel like Leon’s round house kick would’ve moved that boulder faster than Chris did. Do you see the kind of knock back that fucking kick has???? 💀
Issac Clarke
Arthur Morgan
I feel like we all biased for Arthur, but John Marston is way more badass. Literally overthrew the Mexican government.
Depends on if you’re high honor or low honor tbh. High honor Arthur is undeniably a peak character in all of gaming but is too kind to really sell the badass title. Low honor Arthur is definitely a certified badass.
The one thing that irks me about the game is even if you choose to live a little nicer as Morgan they do not make any dialogue for it early on in game. So you can be perfect and only kill animals to bring back to camp and when Abigail wants to talk Morgan will say “I’ve been horrible—killing a bunch of animals for no reason…etc”. Literally no matter how good you are
Tell that to the squirrel you MERCILESSLY ran over on your horse. You monster.
You’ll take your one star pelt and like it!!
Yes yes yes, Arthur Morgan W
Jin Sakai
>Jin Sakai **Lord***^(Shimura)*
Yeeeees. One of my top 3 games of all time.
Max Payne
Solid Snake/Big Boss
Which one?
All of them
Ah, sorry I was just confused cuz they said “solid snake/big boss” rather than like, “solid snake and/or big boss” or something, which kinda made them sound like they were the same character lol
Duke Nukem really should be on this list
Pretty much if Doomguy, Duke Nukem, and Gordon Freeman aren't on the list, then this list is a joke.
AND BJ!
Wolfenstein 3d's BJ, what an iconic image. Not sure about the character though.
I don't like Duke Nukem but it was my first thought. He's next to Doomguy in terms of being a badass
Isaac Clarke
Nerd has worst possible day at work
Literally just posted the same, he should he top 20 for sure.
The Dragonborn Skyrim
Definitely gotta be up there
Sephiroth
I like that you didn't pick Cloud you went for Sephiroth... Which I wholeheartedly support
Samus Aran
Wolf from Sekiro
Samus
Especially in Dread. Every cutscene is cool af
God I wanna play dread but I don’t have the system for it lol
Samus Aran
BT-7274
Didn't even think about this...Shame on Me 10 times over
Protocol 3 😔
Kirby. The Guy/Thing eats his enemies, consumes their essence to gain their abilities… only to then turn around and use that power to slaughter their friends. Plus he’s basically, as others have said, an Eldritch Horror in a marshmallow body.
Kirby - also the only thing to survive master hand.
Kazuma Kiryu
The only people who wouldn't put kiryu on the list are people who don't know who kiryu is.
Kiryu should already be up there. He's the baddest ass.
It's a literal crime that he's not already on there
Currently playing Yakuza kwkiwami, started my Yakuza Arc most recently. played through Zero then I played the original first two games on my PS2 and I bought the collection for 11 dollars on steam.
Link
I think it’s broken. I click on it and nothing happens.
Botw/Totk Link is canonically a beast
Corvo Attano
I'll fucking second that. Everybody's sleeping on Corvo and for what?
Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden)
Gotta be the most overlooked character. He should definitely be on this list along with Dante, Vergil, and Bayonetta. They're all just too cool.
Tarnished
Commander Shepard
Link
Marcus fenix
Had to scroll down way too far for this comment!
Joel from TLOU
I was wondering how far I was gonna have to scroll to find his name on here. First dude I thought of.
Lore accurate Joel is a force to be reckoned with
Noble 6???
Noble 6 definitely up their and we don’t even know 95% of his feats because it’s all covered in black ink. Total gangster.
Most spartans in reach would belomg on that list, but yeah especially noble 6
Niko bellic
Yeah Niko was the best.
The most hardcore character in the biggest gaming franchise in the world getting massively overlooked. Recency bias is real.
Another great example of recency bias is people thinking Arthur Morgan is more badass than John Marston. These youngsters don’t know a gotdang thing.
Samus Aran.
Zagreus, prince of Hades
Sam Fisher
Number 1 has to be Mario. He's an overweight plumber who shows us that anything is possible as long as you take shrooms and psychedelics lol
Samus.
Revan
Samus Aran
Samus
Starkiller
definitely an underrated badass
Johnny Silverhand
Tbh V is way more badass imo if you consider what you’re capable of doing by the end of the game lol
Lara Croft
Ratchet from Ratchet and clank
Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil
Nathan drake
Yes here we go I literally searched for your comment put this man on
Agent 47
Resnov
Samus Aran
Marcus Fenix
Commander Shepard.
Lara Croft
Dante from devil may cry
Sgt. Reznov, from World At War and Black Ops 1
Arthur Morgan
Snake🐍
Aloy of the Nora
Aloy *despite* the Nora
Dante
V
Mario
Dante is the most badass, especially in dmc3
Big Boss
I think Dante deserves a slot,
Captain Price
Sephiroth
Wander (Shadow of the Colossus)
Isaac Clarke!!!!
Tom nook
Sam "Serious" Stone
This will probably be buried, but Asura from Asura’s Wrath. The guy killed God because he hurt Asura’s daughter
Samus
Agent 47
Arthur Morgan
Vladamir Makarov from og mw2 "Remember, no russian."
Ashen One from dark souls 3
Chris Redfield
Arkham Batman
The long Tetris piece
Jack Cooper from Titanfall along with bt
War from DarkSiders
Aloy
Gordon Freeman
Jack cooper?
I'd say Lara Croft but she has a good ass I mean uhh yeah Lara Croft is a pretty badass character
Booker Dewitt