# Most Badass video game character of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589 "2005-07-22T04:02:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/21 "2005-07-22T12:54:12Z")
I was about to talk about the little guy from Master Blaster. He actually has to get out of the vehicle and walk around, avoiding regular enemies. He could have stayed in the vehicle, but instead he gets out and walks. That is bad ass. However, when I think of it, I really need to go with Jean Reno. Sure, he is just an actor. Sure, I have never actually _played_ Onimusha III, the one game he has been in. However, I have seen most of his films, and that is one bad ass mutha- ::Telma Hopkins’s voice:: Shut your mouth! But I’m talkin’ about Victor! Telma Hopkins: Then we can dig it. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/22 "2005-07-22T13:13:30Z")
> [@audiobottle](#): > > I’m sorry, but the most badass character is Tecmo Bo. Dude could take on the entire NFL and still run up the boards. This is exactly what I came in here to post. Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson is the correct answer. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/23 "2005-07-22T13:19:08Z")
Duke Nukem. He has Ash’s Attitude and Schwarzeneggar’s muscles. Only video game hero ever to follow through on a threat to tear off his enemy’s head and crap down its neck. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/24 "2005-07-22T13:57:37Z")
> [@](#): > > The Nameless One, from Planescape: Torment. That’s my vote. Sure, many of these guys have guns and guts, but the Nameless One is the most badass of them all. He doesn’t \*have \* to advertise his badassitude. Heck, this guy chews off his fingers for a minor magic item, rips out his guts just to check through them, and lets people kill him for shits 'n giggles. And he deals with demons and devils and gods and stranger things on daily basis like it was nothing. He is a badass mofo. And how many people have the balls to make their ulimate quest to Commit suicide (effectively) by killing his true self, which a fricking god! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/25 "2005-07-22T14:06:55Z")
No love for 47, from Hitman? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/26 "2005-07-22T15:02:39Z")
Nobody is more badass than Sephiroth. Nobody. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/27 "2005-07-22T15:27:39Z")
Oh, come on. We all know the Supreme Badass Of All Time is…CATS! “All your base are belong to us!” 😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/28 "2005-07-22T16:51:36Z")
> [@Lord Ashtar](#): > > Nobody is more badass than Sephiroth. Nobody. I was about to post “what, 20 posts in and not one mention of Sephiroth? What kind of fanboy board is this??” but it looks like I won’t be doing that. Kefka is way more bad ass than Sephiroth. Sephiroth tried to destroy the world because he was being manipulated by Jenova. Kefka did it cuz he’s nuts (and actually succeeded!!!). ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/29 "2005-07-22T16:57:54Z")
> [@fusoya](#): > > Kefka is way more bad ass than Sephiroth. Sephiroth tried to destroy the world because he was being manipulated by Jenova. Kefka did it cuz he’s nuts (and actually succeeded!!!). Oh, please. You can kill Kefka in one round if you equip someone with the Genji Glove and Offering and give them an Atma Weapon and the Illumina. Eight hits later and he’s toast. What kind of a badass dies in one round? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/30 "2005-07-22T17:08:22Z")
> [@](#): > > What kind of a badass dies in one round? Well, Sephiroth. Heck, it’s pretty easy to kill Sephiroth in one round later on. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/31 "2005-07-22T17:10:18Z")
Evil Otto, from Berserk. That guy was invincible! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/32 "2005-07-22T17:24:19Z")
There was this old computer game I used to play, in which you could go around literally devouring the souls of the undead. That dude was Bad Ass. What was his name? Pac something or other. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/33 "2005-07-22T17:42:35Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Does Kefka from FFVI count? He destoryed the world. And he was insane, and he told off the good guys for moralizing before the final fight. Shame he was a total poof. The guy’s fashion sense would make a drag queen say “That’s a bit much, honey.” Voldo from the _Soul Calibur_ series is a contender, I think. He’s blind and has lived in a pit for years, presumably on a diet of rats and fungus, and still manages to kick ass. Honorable mention to Cervantes, a pirate that can beat the shit out of _any_ ninja. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/34 "2005-07-22T17:48:01Z")
I read through the first several posts and thought “Is this some new alternate version of video game world that I’ve never heard of?” Because most of those first few people…I’ve never heard of. That said I have to go with the Nameless One from Planescape Torment. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/35 "2005-07-22T18:37:50Z")
The Prince from Katamari Damacy 😉 ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/36 "2005-07-22T19:03:21Z")
Only one video game character can properly rap crazy lyrics like this: > [@](#): > > Come on now, why dontcha follow my words > Because we’re almost done, I’ll make it easy at first > I wanna see if you wanna see what it takes > To be the man with the master plan > Are you the man now? Who is more badass than **Parappa the Rapper**? Except possibly for **Um Jammer “Dojo, Casino, it’s all in the mind!” Lammy**? (Although, now that **Bippy** has mentioned **Katamari Damacy** , you have to think that the **King of All Cosmos** is pretty badass… I mean, this is a guy who gets a bit drunk, and accidentally destroys all the stars in the sky!) ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/37 "2005-07-22T20:11:38Z")
Definitely the Nameless One. Ain’t no bigger badass than him. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/38 "2005-07-22T23:22:39Z")
Kirby could eat all of your candidates for breakfast without batting an eye. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Dirx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b77776/32.png) [@Sir\_Dirx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Dirx)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/39 "2005-07-22T23:39:13Z")
Maybe she’s not _the_ most bad ass, but you gotta admit, Samus Aran from the Metroid series is way up there. And Zangief is _totally_ bad ass; the dude wrestles bears for cryin’ out loud. Ken, however, is quite poissibly the _least_ bad ass Street Fighter of all time (except for Dan… maybe). He’s just a lame, Ryu-wannabe. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2005, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589/40 "2005-07-23T05:42:58Z")
> [@Sir Dirx](#): > > Maybe she’s not _the_ most bad ass, but you gotta admit, Samus Aran from the Metroid series is way up there. Especially when you beat the game the first time, the helmet comes off, and a chick is smiling at you! Nergal from Fire Emblem 7 (known as just Fire Emblem in the States) would be a totally badass: starting wars to kill enough people to harass their life energy, making homunculi, summoning dragons. The problem is he’s ridculously easy to beat. Then again he did screw a dragon. Hmmm. I’m working my way though FFVII right now, so I’ll duck out to avoid any further spoilers\*, but before I do I’d like to say that in the cut scene where you see the giantic seemingly unbeatable swamp snake\*\* impaled I had a totally “Whoa, that’s cool frickin’ cool!” moment. > [@](#): > > And Zangief is _totally_ bad ass; the dude wrestles bears for cryin’ out loud. Yes. Zangief wrestles “bears.” 😉 \*The game has been out for like 8 years now. Don’t worry about it. \*\*At your low level. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-badass-video-game-character-of-all-time/313589.md?page=3)