Manliest video game character
 

I was just wondering, who do yall think is the manliest video game character of all time? My choices would have to be either duke nukem or sephiroth. They're both brimming with manliness

sephiroth was a long haired pretty boy. DUke Nukem sounds right.


but this isn't the proper forum.

Eh? this is a discussion though. I think it could go on both the video games and discussion forum

This is not a discussion forum thing. If it involves video games but not causing violence, it is not a discussion forum thread.

But Sephiroth is not 'manly'. He is a pretty boy, that is not manly. If anyone from FFVII is manly it would be Barret, but Duke Nukem is better.

No, it really sounds like a topic for Video Games. It even has Video Games in the title. Discussion generally covers things like Politics and National/International issues. This is more of a quick, random question kind of thing.

And I agree with the established opinion of Duke Nukem being more "manly" then Sephiroth.

So move it or lose it

the main character in GTA. whats his name? Tony Verctti?

Tommy Vercetti. He has big cohones, hombre.

Tidus. ...KIDDING, kidding! Probably NOT Squall, Zidane, Cloud, Steiner (perish the thought!). Locke, maybe Edgar, definately Sabin. FF 6 has the manliest characters.

I think Nightmare from SC2. you gotta be pretty manly to wield a huge ass sword like that!

Hmm...I'd say Nightmare, Duke Nukem, and Barret are all manly...

But what about 007 (James Bond)? He has the ladies, he has the guns, and god knows he has the car :P

yeah, but I think he may be overcompensating for something... Wink Wink.

It's kind of hard to tell if he's manly, after all, he's a new Him in every two movies.

I guess your right...
But what about Fighter from 8-Bit theater :P?

It's kind of hard to find anything manly in a guy who flips out when he sees a spider, or when he gets excited he runs around yelling "Weeeeeeeeeeeee" in a high pitched voice.

Hell, even garland nearly beats him.

Why is it that the only video games ever mentioned are final fantasies? Other than duke nukem, FF is the only one mentioned. And is it just me or does FF have the least manly charactors ever. I agree with Nightmare though, but he also might be over-compensating for something...

Anyone who suggest characters in video games are compensating is probably compensating themselves. I doubt half of the male characters in any video game ever are compensating.

well, due to the fact that they are only video game characters, chances are they have nothing to compensate for.

Or it just doesn't matter.

I'm just getting tired of always hearing about compensation in every other thread.

Another manly character, that one big guy from Breath of Fire 3 (I think his name started with a G).

Cid from FFT.

Jax from Mortal Kombat was pretty manly.

Manliest? Raphael from SC2. Nobody beats a Frenchman in a manliness contest.







Just kidding. Duke Nukem is all man. He wins.

well, Raphiel was more cheap than anything. I freekin' own with him!

*Stabbity, Stabbity, Stabbity, Stabbity, Stabbity, Huge Stab, Ringout!!!*

Frenchmen are frilly :P heh

Hmm...We all know a pirate is manly...how about...erm...
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I really can't think of any pirates besides the one in Soul Calibur 2 and I don't remember his name.

Cervantes.

also, Pirates might make good dentists.

*uses hook to scrape off plaque, but misses because of eyepatch*
"Yarr, this would be easier if I had depth perception."

But the only thing they got is death perception...
How would pirates make good dentists? Have you ever pair attention to all of those cartoons!?

well, they would make a killing in the gold teeth market.

it's rather depressing that I actually have to sit down and think about manly characters in video games, given that theres so few of them... hmmm....

Jak
Solid Snake
Duke Nukem
Dante
Spawn
None of the characters in FF6 appealed to me, save Cyan. Sabin was a big baby. Oh yeah, Mog was the man.
That big wrestler guy from dead or alive 2 and 3. He was badass.

Dante is the manliest, and the most stylish... followed closely by Malcom from Unreal Tournament, who is slightly less manly, but doesn;t have as much style.

I think Garr from Tales of Destiny is pretty manly... but kinda weird... He's more "Let's bash this door in with my head!" rather than, "Let's go through this maze to find the switch!" (which he does...)

EDIT: picture wouldn't work quite right, so I took it off.

And then there's Solid Snake.

... ... And Demon. He's featured in Card Fighter Clash, dontchaknow? See. He's my avatar!

heh heh heh.

I feel left in the cold, since I believe the manliest men come from the little-known games.

Grave - GunGrave(yeah, does anyone remember Brian's review of this game?) - He's like Dante, except he carries a big coffin on his back which is full of all his secret weapons. You gotta be manly to carry a coffin everywhere you go, and still do flips and dives and shoot the crap outta everything.
Koh - Azure Dreams - He's like Ash Ketchum, except he actually fights, instead of havn his monsters do all the fighting. Any monster catcher who fights is manly. Not to mention every time here enters the tower, he starts at Level 1 again, so getting to the top must be a pain for the average schmuck.
Gala - Legend of Legaia - He's the Master Teacher of a school of monks. Martial arts expert just rippling with muscle, and he's got a brain in the right head(unlike that pervert Duke Nukem). He's also very skilled in poetry, knows much about the workings of the world(including the birds and the bees), and can make a laughing stock of himself without fear of reputation.
Mouse - Ephemeral Fantasia - A musician with a sword sheathed inside his guitar. That's the perfect cover for such a weapon! Not to mention he uses his guitar to bash things, too. I think this makes him a man.

Yeah, Sephiroth's just a pretty-boy.

Rand from Breath of Fire 2... cept he had that horse head thing going on.. that was werid.

Oh... Dekar from Lufia 2, he was strong, couldn't use magic, and dense as a rock.

Koh and Mouse are not manly. Koh is a little teenage guy who uses knives, that isn't manly. Mouse is less manly then Sephiroth. Being a musician is not manly in any way, and he to is a small man.

I think they're manly.

Then, from the other-realms of more-popular gamedom, I think the following are manly:

Magus - Chrono Trigger - He's dark and evil, has his own personal agenda, and uses the most powerful weapons and magic.
Ayla - Chrono Trigger - Don't tell me she's not manly. She's more manly than her boyfriend, Kino! She uses brute force to solve just about everything.
Barret - FF7 - Yes, I agree Barret is manly. He's got a gunarm; that makes just about anything manly.
Solid Snake - Metal Gear/ Solid - He's manlier than Sam Fisher, okay? He's a clone of the world's greatest spy, has taken down four real Metal Gears an countless wannabes, dove into the ocean to chase a fifth real Metal Gear, and has escaped death numerous times.
Big Boss - Metal Gear - He had the resourcesto build his own nation, twice, and build two Metal Gears. Someone who commands that many resources must be a man.
Nightmare - Soul Calibur - He's got a big body and a big sword, and takes off a lot of HP with each hit.
Cervantes - Soul Calibur - Yeah, he's manly, too. He's got two swords and he was a pirate. And he's dead!
Glenn - Chrono Cross - Another two-sword-wielding man. And he's had that scar on his face since childhood. That makes him a man.
Kyle - Lunar - He's a thief from the desert who gets drunk-off-his-ass a lot, cross-dresses, and puts up with a whiney girlfriend all the time. Man, anyone who can put up with a whiney girlfriend definately deserves a "Man's Man" award.
[Edit]Ryu Habuyasa - Ninja Gaiden - The original game ninja. Have you seen his mad ninja skills in the new game? He can easily tear anything's butthole open.
Einhänder's Pilot - Einhänder - Oh, it's me! No, seriously, anyone who pilots a craft that has a single claw and rips the weapons off his foes to turn agan them has got to have some guts. Not to mention, no shields, so one hit and he dies. It's virtually a suicide mission.[/Edit]
Michael Jackson - Moonwalker - ... ... ...NOT!

I'm going with Kyle from Lunar...it's not even one of my favorite games, but I remember how well he flew with me.

Oh yeah, but Solid Snake is fucking bad ass. He would definitely kick sam fisher's ass.

I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Ben from Full Throttle. How can anyone be more manly than Ben? He rides a motorbike, is part of a gang called the "Polecats", has the ultimate in gravely tough voices and takes crap from no one.

The only thing is that Sam is voiced by Michael Ironside. And they don't come much more bad ass than Ironside.

Solid Snake definatly. Who else can single handedly take out a Metal gear armed with only a Stinger and Cigs.

Well if you can remember the fact that every damn character in most games weilds one fuggin huge weapon, it's pretty funny.

Yeah, Snake all the way. Nothin better than him.

Ronfar from Lunar 2, simply for this exchange.
Lemina : "Okay everyone, keep your eye on your valuables....RONFAR! Get your hands out of your pockets!"
Ronfar: "Hey, just following orders..."
Lemina: " ....you are DISGUSTING."
Jean: "But funny!"

I was about to agree with Otaku about Glenn, but then I realized that it just wasn't so...I mean I want to say "hell yeah he's a man," but he's got a kenshin scar (like who doesn't these days...), and weilds two swords that don't look that hard to use. that's about all that contributes to manlyness. He doesn't have a very strong personality to be 'manly' in.

Now FARGO, woah, there we go. Nothing's better than him flying at you, slicing you about eight times with his pirate sword, screetching to a halt at your other side, taking his cigar out, and taking a nice long drag from it. He was a true pirate.

I kinda agree with Dekar too. About as smart as a bag of hammers and equally as tough.

The reason I think Sephiroth is manly is cuz he has a badass sword and a unappeaseable lust for power and killing. And if you wanna see a prettyboy... See that one boss from FF9, kuja is his name. I thought he was a she when I first saw him. And what can be manlier than someone who saves the chicks, and gets laid doin it, runs around with a shotgun blowing off enemy heads, rips off their heads and shits down their necks.

None of the ones that have been named, because the 'manliest' man wouldn't be the guy who could just beat up the most people or looked the 'coolest', but I think something totally different.

I wouldn't say the manliest character is the one that could kick the most ass. Cloud kicked enough ass, but without his feminine side he'd be a somewhat bland character.

"Manly" Is a tough term to place. "Kills lots of people" is alot easier. IE, Sephiroth "Kills lots of people." Barret is "Manly."

Good thing he's Spanish.

Anyway, the guy from FarCry is pretty 'manly.' And Duke Nukem and Sarevok.

What?! what Japanese video game has there ever been were the main character gets laid? Only in American games like fallout2 and Baldur's gate 2 does the main character get farther than a kiss. And in games like that, you can get pretty lascivious (hey look, prostitutes!)
I never understood the Jap's obsession with the first kiss. It's like they think that its supposed to be the end of the relationship or something. FF8 pissed me off, because it's main theme was supposed to be about "love" but Rinoa's morbid obsession with guys who have the personality of a rock only come to fruition at the very end sequence, and that was ONE freakin kiss. Jesus have these game designers ever had girlfriends?

as for sephiroth... it depends on the artwork. I'm sure dreamy eyed fan-girls like to draw him all effiment, but some of the official square art suggests otherwise. His behavior in the game could go either way though.

I guage manliness by how much fun i think it would be to go bar hopping with the person.

Nope.

But to dig a little deeper in your thoughts, there are several reasons.
1 - They want to go for that "E for Everyone." title in most cases.
2 - Japanese culture very well COULD be different from ours.
3 - Final Fantasy is so popular at this point the introduction of sex or a makeout scene would be a big leap for SquareEnix.
4 - Even with #4, FFX had one scene which was one HELL of a kiss, and by the end Yuna even said to Tidus "I love you."
5 - Since when does one kiss NOT equal a huge romantic plot/sub plot? you can have a serious relationship in a game with no touchy-feely.

Although you're right; There's something about the DND-style games like Planescape and BG2 that brings out stuff like that. Morte the talking, floating skull even gets laid by a prostitute, and the first thing the Nameless One says when he gets out is "Morte, I don't even want to know how that's physically possible."

EDIT: Although now that I think about it...he's right. What ARE you talking about "Getting laid?"

Didn't they get married at the end of FF8?

Whoever thinks Sephiroth is manly is a doofus. For that matter, anyone who thinks ANY character from Final Fantasy is manly is a HUGE dufus.
Not that I dislike FF, but Square has a tendency to make stupid guy characters who would be more fit as girls. I personally think that the world of FF has only female characters; it's just only some of them have boobs.

you make some good points, but allow me to make a few counter-points
1) Baldur's Gate 2 is rated Teen for "Blood, violence, and use of alcohol" If you've ever played that game, especially if you romance Viconia, you see how racy that game gets. Viconia talks about sleeping with hundreds of men and being covered in their saliva (Although she was lying to you because she wanted to drive you away when in reality she wanted you to hang around...next time she initiates dialog with you she sleeps with you) there were plenty of allusions to sex in that game, yet none of those are reasons for the teen rating. IIRC FFX was teen rated anyway.
2)you mean in a society where this is acceptable? :p : http://www.ebaumsworld.com/japanskirts.html :p
3)I didn't ask for a actual makeout scene, I'm asking for a relationship that doesn't end at the first kiss. actually having the scene isn't necessary, but it would be refreshing to see a realistic relationship in a video game.
4)yeah, and that was a huge boundry crossed by square, I was proud of them... :)
5)yeah, but c'mon, in real relationships, how soon do you have your first kiss? usually by the first or second date. I dunno, maybe it's just me, but it seems artificial to me when they are supposed to be having this intense love develop between them, but it only manifests in the occasional glance at one another.

Hentai games, of course.

It's obvious to me that you all are forgetting the 2 most important manly characters in any video game...the #2 Manliest Video Game Character is Max Payne. The #1 Manliest Video Game Character is the main character in the greastest video game ever made, and the game that has sold more copies than any other game....EVER. That's right folks, I mean none other that the one, the only, Spartan-117, a.k.a. The Master Chief from Halo.

Crono from Chrono Trigger -- He gets the job done. He didn't set out to go on some damn epic adventure, but when he saw that the world needed saving, he took responsibility. He didn't complain, he didn't ask questions, he didn't moan on and on about his angsty bullshit. He just charged in, found the troublemaking bastards, killed them, and got the girl in the end.

Tommy Vercetti -- It takes a real man to get all the value of five minutes' worth of swear words out of "You're all jerks!"

Mario -- again, just because when duty calls, he's never found wanting. Whether Bowser's trying to steal his girlfriend, or some damn great sword is crashing into Mushroom Castle, or a crazed monkey is throwing barrels at him, he just picks himself up, says "Well hell, time to save the day again," and goes to it. And keeps a jolly grin on his face the entire time.

Plus, he's got ups like mad. With leg strength like that, he could be a one-man NBA team. Hell, he could dunk from the opposite end of the court!

Well, first of all, I'm proud that you're finally coming out of the closet, Behemoth, and admitting your attraction to male video game characters. That being said, you don't strike me as the "butch" in any same sex relationship so that rules out limp wristed Sephiroth. Looks like you've only got eyes for Duke "Will never come out with a fourth game" Nukem.

No one has mentioned Link? I mean come on, one time he used a sword twice the size of his body! I mean, you may not think tights are manly, but you haven't heard Robin Hood's song!

And Barret. Because he's like the oldest playable character you get to be without whining about being old.

Tommy Vercetti is the embodyment of manly. Gorden Freemen is cause he faught aliens umm Ryu umm i dont know im not used to thinking about guys like that only my self. :)

suuure
you know I'm more manlierer than you are! *nod nod*

1 - I never saw that part. Planescape:Torment was better anyway. And besides, which do you think a younger kid would have more fun with - BGII or FFX? Realism in a fantasy game or fantasy without all the realism?
2 - I think those images are hacks. Something about them doesn't look right, and that could have been YEARS ago, gods know Ebaumsworld.com is pretty old.
3 - That's true. And what I saw from FFX was that they were at least starting something - maybe the screen will fade out at key moments in the future?
3.5 - Now that I think about it, in Lunar 2:SSS, the main sub-plot that was going on is Lucia's body. She walks in, buck naked, at least three times in that game. Maybe Square's being left behind.
4 - Amen!
5 - Yeah, but usually the romance is sub-plot. But there seriously is no mistake in games like FF8 and FFX, where the point of the whole game was to hook the two main characters up. Hell! At the end of FFX-2, if you find Tidus, they HUG. That's it. A hug. This is her lover who got removed from existence for years and she hugs him. Come on.

EDIT: WOW. HOW could I forget Max Payne? The fucker goes in with a handgun, kills hundreds, his wife and baby girl got brutally killed, he's got the deep voice, and then the whole Mona Sax thing in MP2....FUCK he's the ultimate man. Just look at the prolouge before "The Things I Want." chapter.

this is true...but you'd be surprised how popular Baldur's gate was. In the computer gaming realm (yes, it actually exists!) Baldur's gate is a classic.

Imagine how great Baldur's gate 2 would have been with FFX style graphics...wow, I just totally shot down the whole "better graphics = worse game" arguement.

Never played planescape:Torment, heard it was good though. Been meaning to try it.

I dont know if those images are hacks or not, it was kind of a joke post anyway :p regardless, one look at the sheer volume of porn (and pretty vile porn at that...not that I would know :) )flowing out of Japan and you'd have to admit that they aren't exactly squeamish about their sexuality.

More often than not, I find the romance sub-plot the most interesting part of most games. I guess because romance is something that almost everyone experiences, which can enhance a clearly unrealistic plot. Saving creation from flying magical whales for example, isn't realistic ;)

Lunar 2: Eternal Blue. Silver Star Story (SSS) is the first Lunar.

That guy from Manhunt is manly.. From what I know, he is some guy who is being chased by a bunch of psychos who want to kill him for fun, and he starts killing them.

I still don't see how a guy that likes to kill people and has a really cool sword isn't manly.

Manliness not only has to do with appearance, but also with attitude and style. Sure, you can have a gigantic sword and look like a total bad-@$$, but if you're whiny and get headaches all the time, you're not exactly many...(crap, I think I just accidently described Cloud there...)

My picks (in no particular order):
Master Chief (Halo)
Cervantes (Soul Calibur Series)
Astaroth (Soul Calibur series)
Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden/Dead or Alive series)
Akuma (Street Fighter series)
Joe (Viewtiful Joe)

Yeah, some have been mentioned before, but I don't care :)

guan yu (dynasty series)

eh? never heard of the dynasty series

No, I think they just found each other in that field next to the orphanage. I really should finish that game eventually. God, GFs... gotta catch 'em all!

Anywho... it was in 9 where the two main characters got married.

And as for the first kiss being the supreme romantic moment, I mean, come on. Sex and romance are two different things.

I agree about Crono being the manliest, though. Something about the 'silent type that can kick my ass' characters... and to top it off, he's a samurai, yo.

FFIV had the two characters who actually got married, those two being Cecil and Rosa. All FFIX had was the two characters hug at the very end.

Sorry dynasty warriors series and lu bu is manly to