Top Ten Videogame Anti-Heroes

The two previous Electronic Theatre Sunday Special articles have covered the Top Ten Videogame Heroes and Top Ten Videogame Heroines, featuring some of your favourite main characters including Solid Snake (Metal Gear Solid), Tifa Lockhart (Final Fantasy VII) and Link (The Legend of Zelda). This week’s Top Ten Videogame Anti-Heroes will feature all the characters who love running people over, killing innocents, blowing up buildings and/or stealing.

[Myze]

I'm sorry, but you can't have a list about anti-heroes and NOT have Kratos as #1.

I don't even consider Niko Bellic an anti-hero, at least not as a major one, since it's more based on doing things your way, and he is definitely not at the level of Kratos.

Half the people on this list are only "anti-heroes" if you decide to do stuff like randomly shoot people, they aren't intentionally wrote as being such.

When I think of the term "anti-hero," I think of Kratos, period.

[writersblock]

Thats a very biased approach?

Nico is most definitly an anti-hero. He goes to america to leave his old life behind and is forced to continue killing through others

Maybe not as much a Kratos, but still

[cyberwaffles]

Niko is garbage. i hate how people overhype his character; same thing with marshton or whatever his name is from red dead.

[alphakennybody]

niko bellic a character as overrated as the game he is in.

[Buffniceguy]

God of War is a HD king.

[animelover10487]

that said he's also a dick a complete asshole, but thats why we love him.

[alphakennybody]

how is he a dick?

edit:
@ seraphim

really? cos, those so called force made him murdered his love and his own blood ,betrayed and backstabbed him on many occasion.I too would be pretty pissed if that happened to me. So again i ask, how does that make him a dick

[SeraphimBlade]

Disrupting the order of the universe and destroying the forces that guide it all in the name of personal vengeance? Pretty dickish if you ask me. He's not quite so bad in the first one

[Hudahudahuda]

Yeah but at then end of his personal vendetta he pretty much gave humanity the gift of freewill.

[cyberwaffles]

thats a good point. i forgot that santa monica stated that kratos is the reason that greek paganism is now mythology. he destroyed everything that involved the belief in it and all that is left is athena.

and she is still in existence today as we speak. one with nature and the universe, and you can seek her with the use of entheogenic psychedelics!

lol jk

[wedgie]

But he did not go about his quest in order to bring back free will. He went in there just to get revenge, not caring about anything else during his quest. It just so happened that his revenge quest indirectly brought about freedom from Olympus. But because of his intentions, he was still being a pretty big antihero.

[massvmunkee]

kratos should be number 1. two days till ghost of sparta!

[Reigen]

1st this guy seriously has to play better games if he is so into k&l that he would ewen consider puting kane on the list
2nd how can you not put kratos on 1st place, the guy only cares about vine, wengence and pussy, and if you say so much as boo to him he will rip youre legs of and use them to kill you, in a wery awesome way

[SegaAges]

I'd add Travis Touchdown, my favorite anti-hero.

[RockmanII7]

Who's that super-fly musclepumper?

[George Sears]

I would had added John Marston higher than Niko but Niko shouldn't deserve the #1 spot.

[rulakir]

This guy must be a current generation gamer, and probably has no idea of one of the coolest antiheroes in gaming, he goes by the name "Raziel" from the Legacy of Kain series. However I too agree that this list cannot be complete without Kratos.

[Urahara]

What the f is this?! How can you have a list without Kain on there? You include the dip from Kane and Lynch yet Kain from Legacy of Kain is left off? This list is a joke.

[Tuxedo_Mask]

This list is pretty short sighted. No Kain? No Agent 47? Magus from Chrono Trigger? I'd also argue against Duke being on the list since he seems to love being the good guy and I seriously doubt anyone felt bad for the aliens or that destroying them was morally ambiguous. I mean look what they did to his ride!

[CombineElite]

Horrible list!

Where's Max Payne? Tommy Vercetti from Vice City? Strelok from Stalker?