Some Overlooked Video
Game Badasses
Video Games are full of badass characters as we go on our
very own power fantasy. However while you’d probably think of the likes of
Commander Shepard or Lara Croft as they go and do video game world saving
things some badass characters slip by unnoticed. I bring four to your attention
today.
Rambi – Donkey Kong Country Series
I’ve recently been re playing the original Donkey Kong
Country and 2 things really stuck out at me. Firstly, I was better at
platformers as a child and secondly Rambi is a god damn badass. Everyone who
plays these games likes the animal buddies but there’s a reason that when
Donkey Kong country returns was bought out Rambi was the sole survivor. This
guy just ploughs straight through everything like it’s not even there and this
is a platformer.
It does pose the question of why Donkey Kong doesn’t just
send in Rambi to every single boss fight and trample them all put that’s beside
the point. This rhinoceros is one badass guy and it is completely
understandable why they made a Sylvester Stallone film later taking inspiration
from him. If your bananas are ever stolen, this is the guy to call.
Bentley the Turtle – Sly Cooper Series
When there are three main characters and you’re the one
labelled as the brains as opposed to the brawn and thief then many would assume
you were least badass of the bunch. Here however this is certainly not the
case. Bentley is arguably the most important member of the entire gang in terms
of contribution to heists. You will often hear people complain about the lack
of certain groups of people in gaming such as strong females or homosexuals and
both are warranted complaints as both are not exactly represented favourably
there is even less representation of disability.
The thing is after Bentley lost his legs he became far more
capable in a fight. Before he could weakly swing a crossbow at people, now he
can beat you up with his own wheelchair, how awesome is that!? That’s without
the plethora of toys fitted to it by the way. By the time Sly 4 came along that
wheelchair was fitted with so many amazing gadgets that James Bond was starting
to feel jealous. Sly and Murray was awesome too but here the brains really was
the badass.
Every five Nights at Freddy’s Protagonist
Five Nights at Freddy’s is a scary game to play. You sit
there unable to move or escape and hope the scary animatronics won’t get bored
and decide to play murder with you. It’s very similar to what you may face in a
nightmare, constantly tense, scared for your life and unable to move or do
anything really proactive about the situation.
That brings us to the player characters. They come back for
the entire week, they sit in their chair and do they flinch, do they scream?
Nope they stare down Freddy and his chums and even if they’re violently murdered
they don’t give Freddy the satisfaction of a scream or even the slightest
whimper.
Maybe you’ll claim the games aren’t scary but imagine
yourself in the position of the security guards. At least if you were in the
place of horror game characters from other game syou could just drive for about
492 miles in the other direction but for whatever reason here the night guards
keep coming back. Maybe the FNAF 4 protagonist changes things, I wouldn’t know
having not played it yet but the first three are certainly badass in my book …
or on my blog.
Shuckle – Pokémon Series
Pokémon is full of fighting machines. Ranging from giant
monsters of the sea to dragons to martial artists to what are basically gods
there is some serious power on show. There is one creature in this world who
doesn’t care as it can overpower all of them. This majestic creature is the one
and only Shuckle.
Look at that guy. Soak it all in and the brace yourself as I
tell you that of all the Pokémon ever created (Bear in mind most people have
lost count) not scary monsters or gods can match the damage output of Shuckle.
If the right circumstances are met Shcukle is capable of doing more damage in a
single attack than any other Pokémon. Most would take that they have the joint
second lowest attack stat as a disadvantage and stick to defence but not
Shuckle, it doesn’t even care. Shuckle can obliterate the gods of this world,
due to this and what Legendary Pokémon represent it’s possible Shuckle is one
of the most powerful characters inn video game history. If that’s not badass
then I don’t know what is.
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