Badass “Over the Hill” Heroes

Gaming has blessed us with some of the greatest heroes in the past couple of decades. Yet one trend find our heroes getting well a little older, a little wiser. The majority of these badass characters have appeared in multiple games and are celebrated throughout the industry. So what makes you an over the hill badass?

[TheSuperior]

Lol go ezio and Sam! My favorite 'grandpa' in gaming would be John marston!

[sloth3395]

cant be Sam he is getting younger in every new game

[Tokyo_reject]

He's actually older in the new game.....just new design lol

[sloth3395]

if he is older then how come he can more so much better then he could in the older games where he said he is getting too old and not able to do as much as he did before

[onyoursistersback]

can any one tell me how old John Marson is? i love that character!!! I just know he cant be old enough to be on this list.

[TheSuperior]

I'm pretty sure that John was born in 1873. He's one of my favorite characters of all time!

[Skateboard]

# 1 Old Snake.

[waltyftm]

Agreed, Old Snake is the greatest gaming hero there has ever been.

[Mr_Kuwabara]

He sucks at CQC compared to Big Boss though. If they would had fought hand to hand combat, I'm sure Big Boss would had smacked him silly.

[The_Hooligan]

Big Boss from MGS3 vs Solid Snake from MGS. Would be a very intriguing match up.

[sarydactl]

neat choices

[HebrewHammer]

Not enough Deckard Cain

[MySwordIsHeavenly]

Haha. I like Deckard because he was named after a kid from my school. He won the contest that Blizzard ran years ago, so they made a character with his name.

[HebrewHammer]

NO WAY! So the famous Deckard Cain was named after your friend?!

Does your friend also happen to say "stay a while, and listen!" lol

[TheGrimBunny]

Good article!

[OldSnakePS3]

my avatar, nothing even comes close to the epicness

[Tokyo_reject]

What about Heihachi Mishima D= ???? lol!!!

[THESHAUNZY]

that guys a bad guy dude... who tosses their 5 year old son down a ravine... seriously

[Tokyo_reject]

But his son he tossed was Kazuya Mishima...which is a bad guy, so that makes him a hero lol!!!

[THESHAUNZY]

STOP! lol

[Sainox16]

No kratos? I mean he's clearly no father of the year lol but he was a hero....sorta haha

[THESHAUNZY]

So how old is Kratos? Is he over 50 years old?

[Sainox16]

Hes time itself lol he was human then god then human again so beats me how old he is hah

[BlackPhoenix]

Captain Price fulfills the author's criteria.
And what about Altair? He truly retires as a grandpa and becomes a legend. Even for grandpa Auditore :-P