Top 10 Coolest Game Characters
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Feb 16, 2010 11:31 JST
- Tags: Comparison, Famitsu, Metal Gear, Nintendo, Rankings, RPG
Insipid gaming rag Famitsu has quizzed its readership on who they think the “coolest” video game characters to be, with the list displaying all the taste and discernment that could reasonably be expected of a mob of impressionable schoolboys.
1. Snake
2. Mario
3. Cloud
4. Slime (Dragon Quest)
5. Sora (Kingdom Hearts)
6. Link
7. Yuri (Vesperia)
8. Amaterasu (Okami)
9. Pikachu
10. Sonic
As expected, splendid taste displayed by Famitsu’s readership.









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What no Gordon Freeman, Duke Nukem,Lara Croft or Samus Aran?
They're cooler then anyone on that list except for Solid Snake.
Pikachu? Sora? Definitely children.....definitely.
Solid Snake as NO.1? That's pretty cool. Glad to see the White Wolf also made it.
I think this list is more about popularity and not actual coolness
SNAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
Where the F'ck is Duke Nukem at? :(
"The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace."
I might be a somewhat hardcore fan of the Metroid series and thus a bit biased, but the fact that Mario, Pikachu and Sonic is in top 10 on a coolest game characters list while Samus Aran is not is incomprehensible to me.
Where's Gordan Freeman?!
aww...i dont really like most of them...
Why is Cloud on this list? He's a little emo bitch! What parts of that are cool?
I agree because he's a silent type that makes him boring but what makes him stand apart from others that he's a Bishōnen popular among girls
Cause unlike emos he actually has a reason to be depressed.
Emos think they have a reason to be depressed too.
In no particular order:
- Akuma/Gouki (Street Fighter)
- Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)
- Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem)
- Solid Snake (Solid Snake)
- Sarevok (Baldur's Gate)
- Minsc (Baldur's Gate)
- Saber (Fate Stay Night)
- Agrias Oaks (Final Fantasy Tactics)
- Cidolfus Orlandeau (Final Fantasy Tactics)
- Yoshimitsu (Tekken)
Where the fuck is Dante, he is one of the coolest characterts ever, hes so cool....
This is not a real list.....
FFVII FTW!!!! Best RPG ever!!
There are still people who think Sonic is cool???
dude, no shit.
sonic died when the genesis died.
STOP SONIC'S FLAME PEOPLE
He is not cool ok.
But he stiil on our heats :<
Where's Marcus Fenix?
I agree with the anon at 16:49, though not with his list.
MASTER CHIEF SHOULD BE #1!!!111111 (I kid)
My personal list is a top 20.
and Ryu ????
Yuri Lowell!
Ok, Cloud was strong, but I think Squall has him beat on the cool/collected badass scale.
Lone wolf attitude, leather pants and jacket, and gunblade... that is textbook cool.
But Naked Snake (Big Boss) still wins the badass award by me.
Cloud and Squall are overpowered crybabies, there is nothing cool about them.
i think it was list of the gayest characters...
Except Solid Snake,all others are a bunch of sh*t just came out of Nintendo's an*s...and Sony's.
Japanese taste are definetly weird.
I like how the article clearly looks down on the reader's choices yet you fucks are just as bad
score one for Ammy, a surprising addition
Well, at least I agree with Yuri and Snake.
The only reason they keep putting mario in any list is because
He was the pioneer of gaming, I mean kudos
2 him for starting a worldwide legacy, but I don't think
He should belong on top ten, no offense, really,
But I don't think a plunger is that cool, still love his games though
Thanks MARIO!!!!!! U mushroom eating freak, in a good way though
EWWW Sora.
Now that he's voted as the coolest AGAIN, Square-Enix will opt to release another annoying Play Arts Action Figure.
So is Cloud Strife. -_-
Is Dragon Quest such a crap series that the coolest character from it is a monster?
Yep, Yuri from Vesparia is actually a cool character. Awesome attitude to life.
what happend to alucard from symphony
where's my boy tonberry.
motherfucker will cut you
Link first please
needs more tidus
Wait a second......where's Cool Spot?
7 from this top 10 list above dun seems any "cool" to me....
Snake is cool , Yuri Lowell is cool , Cloud is cool ( at least his AC ver is cool , the FFVII game's ver is not )
the rest...i think those like Amaterasu , Sonic , Slime and Pikachu should belong to "adorable" lol
Sora , Mario , Link are not adorable and yet not cool as well . Those readers really should have a reflect on what the word "cool" and "adorable" mean -_-
My list :
Sephiroth
Vincent Valentine
Dante
Vergil
Yuri Lowell
Ryu Hayabusa
Bayonetta
You obviously don't know what cool means either, if you did you would know that Sephiroth and Vincent don't belong in the same universe as the world cool.
Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!
"with the list displaying all the taste and discernment that could reasonably be expected of a mob of impressionable schoolboys." - This article is suprisingly accurate... WTF is wrong with these people?
SEPHIROTH???!!!
Is this the cool list or the boring and predictable?
that picture creeps the fuck out of me
WHAT THE F###!!! SONIC actually LOST to that electric rat PIKACHU! And what about MARIO why is he even ON THE LIST? his games are good but the character himself is way overrated
HELLL YEAHHHHHH AMEN MAN! AMEN MAN
Beyond the Grave from Gungrave is the coolest game character!
Fucking cool outfit and weapon design!
Only about 3 of the names on that list could qualify as cool.
Okay, in terms of "cool"ness how does Cloud make the list? Cloud is an emo turd with a large sword. If anything VINCENT should make the list.
I'd have said Sephiroth since he has his own theme song and what not, but he's honestly not actually that cool. He attended the "How to be a Villian 101" seminar at some point.
Step 1: Don't kill nuisances when you have the chance,
step 2: reveal your plan to the asshole who keeps showing up as you're edging closer to completion of your plan.
step 3: Hinge your entire plan on being able to personally ass stomp 1-4 of the most powerful people in the world, at the same time.
Vincent is an emo vampire. He is both lame and uncreative as far as character design goes, and his backstory is just as emotastic as Cloud's.
Don't get me wrong, Cloud isn't a contender either but Vincent is just as lame.
Barret or Cid are the only FF7 characters that could make a list for cool characters, I mean Barret is a beefy Mr T looking miner-gone-merc with a fucking gun arm, and Cid is a foul mouthed airship pilot/astronaut that can manage to make a single cigarette last through the god damn apocalypse.
SCREW YOU YOU FRICKIN' TURD.
Duke from tales of Vesperia is a pretty cool guy... He's all mysterious and shit and doesn't afraid of anything!
No one from Metal Slug? Im disappointed... those guys take on whole armies, aliens, zombies, mummies, giant robots, whatever with just handguns and whatever they find on the field.
Hold on, why are so many of these names from RPGs? I thought the list was supposed to be cool people from games in general? Then where the hell is Sol Badguy? Or for that matter, any arcade-style fighter characters?
why the fuck is cloud up there? if you gonna vote for some one "Cool" from FF7 there's Sephiroth, and even back ground characters like Rude, Reno, Barret are cooler than him. And of course Zack the coolest FF7 character evar not fricking cloud who is a little bit more than a mental emo faggot
Mario is number 2? MARIO?!? HOW IS HE ON THAT LIST AT ALL? There are only 2 on that list that should be on the list... Snake and Cloud. As for which Snake, I think they could all make the list (Or at least beat out all the other ones that are on there, Sora, Slime, Mario, Link, Pikachu, Sonic) The choices just...They hurt my brain...
And Dante?!!!
Where is Sephiroth/Lezard Valeth? they should be at least be top 10 or something...
Thank God Cloud made it.
The gangster Mario with his flaming mushroom penis and bling IS the coolest character ever.
Of course it's Solid Snake! :D :D
Apparently, everyone's pissy about Cloud and Sora being on the list.
I'm pissed Yuri's on the list, and I liked Vesperia. I mean, he's cool, but he's not "TOP 10 OF ALL TIME" material. Christ, Japan.
Where the hell is ryu hayabusa?
He's a ninja retard, if you could see him he's not doing his job.
I referred to the ryu hayabusa of the nes trilogy.
He deserves a place up there just for making it through them!
that;s a popularity poll, not a coolness poll
>9. Pikachu
>10. Sonic
Chris-chan?
How can people add Cloud to so called "cool guys"?
hes nothing more then a pussy...
>Sora
>Cool
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>Recent Sonic
>Cool
;_;
Yes, Snake is number 1! I am quite pleased by this. The fact that Cloud is so high, combined with the fact that Amaterasu made the list at all, are just cherries atop my sundae at this point.
How could they not list Balthier, the smoothest mofo of them all? And what about Gordon Freeman? He's a scientist who kicks alien ass, he should be a role model to this academics crazed society.
Agreed Gordon Freeman is the definition of cool.
So Anons are pissed because Cloud is there, stop the whining. FF VII is a good game...
The most important thing here is wtf is the guy from Vesperia doing there, and higher than Amaterasu!!!!
where is Reimu???
who's Mario?
I'm just so happy that Slime is there.
Yuri should have been #1.
Pikachu, fuck yeah.
PIKA-PIIII MOTHERFUCKERS, YOU SPEAK IT?
Ness, Earthbound
Crash or Cortex, Crash Bandicoot
Earthworm Jim, duh
:c
What about Conker? My vote for best game EVAH
seriously, how is pikachu cool in the first place???
it is possible to know which is rank 11?
that character must be very unlucky.
Slime? wait..what?!? SLIME!?!?!
>Sonic made it to the list
>Raging like the fist of north star
That's an 'interesting' picture of Mario o_O ...
Sora...really? Cool?
Among the SquareEnix fanboys and the squeeling Sora-x-Kairi fangirls, of course he is... >_>
How is Mario cool? It's a meeeeee-ah, Fag-io! Watch me put on my bee suit and save a retarded princess who keeps getting kidnapped by the same fucking turtle!
Sonic? He turns into a fucking werewolf to challenge Edward Cullen while downing chili cheese dogs. Actually, that makes him sound slightly cooler...
Wow, I really wasn't expecting Amaterasu to make it up with all these big names being thrown around.
I'm quite happy actually. Okami was such a beautiful game. A little too easy if you ask me, but still very fun and increadibly beautiful.
Cloud isn't very "cool" but I like him as a comic relief character. If you need a cool FF character, squall fits the bill better.
Yea what gives? Where's gay Master Chief?
I mean look at all the tea bagging on that game. I mean c'mon can't they see that no one can be that homosexual as it is?
should be the lineup for the next smash bros game
at least giant flaming penis mario came in second...
In the Top 50 nearly only Final Fantasy/DragonQuest and Kingdom Hearts characters are listed.
No GAY Masterchief and such idiots like it would be in the FUCKING USA.
JAPAN FTW!
CLOUD FTW!THIS is a MAN not those gay american idiots
The Master Chief is gay...but Cloud's not?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I doubt they're both homosexuals, but they both fail equally as compelling main characters
Hungry troll needs to feed...
Wheres Kirby :(
In Dreamland....DUH!!
._.
In Dreamland Kirby eats you!
Holy fuck that picture is going to give me nightmares. Thanks for that!
GODDAMIT I WASN'T EVEN GONNA SEE THAT PIC SINCE I SCROLLED DOWN B4 IT LOADED BUT YOU MADE ME LOOK THANKS ALOT
LOL @ the mushroom :x
your right that is one godlike piece of artwork