The Most Badass Female Game Character

Originally posted by Nephthys
Meh, the same thing could be said about Link. Or Samus before Other M. Or any silent protagonist/RPG character. Personally, despite you being able to choose Shepards responses and ethics etc, I don't think this stops her from being a character. Her actions are still there, and really our actions do define us in some ways.

Also, I agree with you. Screw 'canon.'

Originally posted by Nephthys
Meh, the same thing could be said about Link. Or Samus before Other M. Or any silent protagonist/RPG character. Personally, despite you being able to choose Shepards responses and ethics etc, I don't think this stops her from being a character. Her actions are still there, and really our actions do define us in some ways.

Also, I agree with you. Screw 'canon.'

Most WRPG characters, anyway, since they all tend to follow the "start as a blank slate and make shit up as you go along" thing. JRPGs tend to be very different. And Samus does have characterization pre-Other M. Not a huge amount, but there is some.

And I don't agree, because there's literally nothing there. There's no personality or anything of the sort beyond what you decide to make up based on which part of the morality wheel you pick when talking to people.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
That's bullshit coming from you, considering you made the exact same argument for why Shepherd is not really a"character" in some kind of "greatest ____" thread less than a year ago. I hate you now.

I'm allowed to change my mind.

Meh, the same thing could be said about Link. Or Samus before Other M. Or any silent protagonist/RPG character.

Samus had the manga, Metroid Fusion, and to a lesser extent Zero Mission.

A lot of silent protagonists have character, they just don't come out shouting about it and cocking up the game over it.

Chun Lee. She's certainly the toughest..

Originally posted by stargun
YouTube video

I wasn't actually thinking of her, originally. Until I seen her. Then I thought, "Yeah, it's Hood".

And she is truly a joy to actually play as.

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Also, Samus can't be the most badass female, due to her portrayal in Other M. Come at me.

It made her a very good character.

Just, not the most badass one.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
Still think people and critics alike overreacted to that portrayal, but whatever. To me though, Other M made her less of a Mary Sue and more of a believable character.

The problem is that they were trying to establish something that Samus had already moved past... like making her degress back into her past self. The manga takes before and during the first game and she overcomes a lot of her issues at that point. I think that they were just trying to give her characterization that she already had but since not many people read the manga they don't know about it. Also the manga manages to keep her badass appeal and still give her that characterization.

I'm just gonna pretend Other M(story) never happened.

Originally posted by Frisky Dingo
I wasn't actually thinking of her, originally. Until I seen her. Then I thought, "Yeah, it's Hood".

And she is truly a joy to actually play as.

The only female more badass than B.B. Hood, is B.B. Hood on a scooter . . . shooting people.

Ayame from the Tenchu games.

Originally posted by Cyner
The problem is that they were trying to establish something that Samus had already moved past... like making her degress back into her past self. The manga takes before and during the first game and she overcomes a lot of her issues at that point. I think that they were just trying to give her characterization that she already had but since not many people read the manga they don't know about it. Also the manga manages to keep her badass appeal and still give her that characterization.

I'm just gonna pretend Other M(story) never happened.

Ironically, I did like her characterization & persona (and Ridley's portrayal) in the manga more than I did in any of the games, and wish they had been more like that there, so I'm gonna have to agree with the rest.

BloodRayne

Originally posted by Nephthys
Also Manshep sucks dick.

Don't be jelly just because Mark Meer's Shepard is ten times the Shepard Hale's Shepard is.

Mark Meer da bess.

Hale may be a good voice actress (Though really, her talent gets blown waaaaaaaaay out of proportion, you'd think she was ****ing Frank Welker based on the hype she gets), but her performance as Shepard was not so fresh, like dat Mark Meer's was.

Anyway...

The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the only correct answer.

http://media.photobucket.com/image/the%20boss%20metal%20gear%20solid%203/MateuVTK/Metal%20Gear%20Solid/Metal%20Gear%20Solid%203/TheBossTheJoy.jpg?o=4

Not just because she at no less than three points hand Big Boss his ass. Not just because she is the strongest combatant in a team of supers while she has no explicit superpowers (Disregarding her husband, the Sorrow, post-death he is the most powerful character in the series). Not just because she managed to, through badassery, intimidate Volgin, a seven foot tall man with super strength and ten thousand volts of electricity pumping through his veins (He is also the main antagonist). Not just because she was badass enough to fight during D-Day while nine months pregnant, and proceeded to have a cesarian section during the battle. It's not just because she practically won WWII for the Allies.

But because she also, more than anyone mentioned here, has integriteh, and is a completely selfless, yet tragic hero, in every sense. When Volgin ****ed up the original plan of America to acquire the Philosopher's Legacy via nuking his own country (Technically the issue is more complicated than that, but I'm too lazy to explain why), The Boss received her new orders: She had to play the villain, and be killed by her brightest apprentice who is practically a son to her, all in the name of preventing Nuclear Armageddon. Not once did she falter from this task, not once did she betray her country, or the principles that she believed they stood for (Even if her country was not as noble as she believed, that is part of what makes her so tragic), her own noble principles. Integrity, loyalty, and unwavering valor in the face of death. That, now that is truly badass.

I'd be hard-pressed to find anyone, man or woman, more badass than The Boss in gaming.

Originally posted by NemeBro
The Boss from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is the only correct answer.

There is no correct answer... 😬

Originally posted by No End N Site

The only female more badass than B.B. Hood, is B.B. Hood on a scooter . . . shooting people.

So awesome! BB Hood and Cammy?! That's Canon Spike isn't it? Was she on one of those granny scooters. LOL

Originally posted by NemeBro
I'd be hard-pressed to find anyone, man or woman, more badass than The Boss in gaming.

Eh, already pre-empted her =)

First paragraph in the Kerrigan Respect Thread =)

Kerrigan is a wimp though.

A big sissy.

Samus has on her kill count

3 planets
Zebes - SR388 - Phaaze

2 space stations
BSL - Bottle Ship

3 species
Zebesians - Metroids - X Parasite
(also any species of creature that only existed on each of the three destroyed planets)

5 Galactic threats
Metroid Prime/Dark Samus
Gorea
X Parasite
Mother Brain
SA-X

pretty good...

That proves she's powerful.

She has exactly two appearances where she actually has a character.

Said appearances don't really portray her as being badass. 131