9 Video Game Heroes You Didn't Realize Were Complete Assholes

VGW: Assuming we're not playing Grand Theft Auto IV, Manhunt or any other video game that relishes the thrill of serial murdering, we like to believe our video game heroes are infallible paragons of virtue and justice. As a result, though, we sometimes end up subconsciously blocking out the more unsavory behavior of our championed heroes that more impartial observers would readily describe as “asshole-ish”

Here are nine such “heroes."

[Sharingan_no_Kakashi]

Price, Drake, Cloud, and Tripitaka are obvious.

[jbomber]

A few might be obvious, but it still makes for a right funny read. This gave me a much needed laugh today. :)

[dc1]

She was very bossy (The tone in her 'commands' were very bullish) with an extreme disregard for Monkey’s safety (even after they became ok with each other). .. I got tired of hearing her voice midway through the game.

[malandra]

I hated the girl from Enslaved from the first moment

her big character arc is that at some point in the game she realises it's wrong to enslave people

[FrankenLife]

I don't want my games to have perfect infallible characters. That is why I don't like Superman. Perfect is boring.

[Mr Tretton]

What they said about Drake was nonsense. There are no killing of innocents in those games and the whole zombie virus theory he had was stupid as hell.

[MaxXAttaxX]

Exactly. The author is basically blaming everything negative that happens in the games on Nate.
Careless, maybe. But he doesn't have control of most of what happens.

In all honestly, the author sounds like an angry guy with too much time.

[killyourfm]

It's called satire, dude.

[Urmomlol]

Nate neglecting to tell anyone about a world-ending biological weapon is about as irresponsible as noticing a fire in an orphanage and not bothering to pull the fire alarm on the way out.

As for the "theory" --well, it's not a theory. The whole entire plot of the villain (I forget his name --the SPanish guy) was to sell the virus as a weapon. So, uh, yeah.

[Kakihara]

Who's he gonna tell? The government?? I'm not some anti government conspiracy type person but if I found a potentially world ending WMD I wouldn't think, 'Hey, I should tell the government about this'. I'd drop it in the ocean along with the thousands upon thousands of never recovered crashed vehicles.

[Mr Tretton]

Hey government, I was treasure looting on a remote island and it was full of zombies!

[MaxXAttaxX]

Right, except the villain, Navarro, or anyone for that matter, never got to sell anything as a weapon because he and every other villain on the island died and the statue sunk deep into the bottom of the ocean.

Besides, Nate is a thieve. He's not going to go around telling authorities of all the things he shouldn't be doing.
And that, along with other traits, is what makes him a good character.
He's not perfect and wouldn't want him to be :)

[Ashriel]

you obviously have no sense of humor

[CDbiggen]

Didn't anybody tell you? Humorous articles are forbidden on N4G, especially if they involve fanboy favourite Nathan Drake.

[MaxXAttaxX]

I think we've seen other articles just like this before.

[killyourfm]

Probably - almost nothing on the internet is truly "original" but this is a damn funny read.

[ShAkKa]

Not really.

[CommonCent]

Yeah when Price set off the nuke all I could think about was how many airplanes must have been in the sky falling into buildings.

[Kran]

How dare you call my Drake an asshole!!

[BShea]

I don't know man... he is a little "asshole-ish"

[Kon]

Oh man, he mentioned Drake!! I can see where this thread is going...

[telekineticmantis]

Leave Kirby out of this...

[TheOneWhoPwnsYou]

This article is just down right stupid... We know all these characters are asses. But does that mean we're going to hate them? Nah.

[TheOneWhoPwnsYou]

One thing this article did make me realize is that Tripitaka is a sexy name.

[UnSelf]

dude u are tripitaking out

[blackburn5]

The people who are always picking on Drake, do you also think James Bond, Indiana Jones, John Mc Lane, Marty McFly and many other movie heroes are @$$holes too? Because they all do many dangerous things that if you really think about it put people at risk. Marty's little skateboarding fight which put Griff through a glass pane people could have been cut by flying glass, James Bond's dash across the roof tops in Casino Royale could have easily knock the people working on them off the roofs, John Mc Lane in Die Hard could have blown up innocents by dropping the C4 down the elevator shaft, Indy has killed his share of people to get the treasure.

So what is this sudden 'Drake is evil' crap? I am sure when you were cheering on the people I just mentioned you didn't think. 'Oh my God. People might have gotten hurt, why didn't he think of the consequences before starting that action packed sequence?' @ Urmomlol.My point is if you look at any action hero they all do careless things.So why pick on Drake all the time

[Urmomlol]

Actually, Marty McFly is an asshole. Him and Doc Brown almost sell nuclear material to terrorists and don't bother telling the cops that there's an chapter of Al Quaeda plotting to blow stuff up in the United States.

Which follows the same exact logic as Drake failing to tell anyone about a biological weapon that someone was trying to obtain so he could sell to terrorists so they could kill a ton of Americans.

[anasurimbor]

Drake is evil because he's a minority killing machine bro.

[Cajun Chicken]

Kirby made me lmao.

[Pozzle]

Uncharted 2 reminds me of Indiana Jones a bit in the sense that if Drake hadn't been there, the villain wouldn't have gotten as far as he did. He's a very "wrong place, wrong time" kinda guy.

But I like that about Drake. I like that "everything he touches turns to shit". Sure, he's killing a bunch of human characaters for treasure (and, eventually, to save the world) but who cares? It's fun and adds an interesting aspect to his character,

[specialguest]

"Kirby’s stupidity and ignorance almost dooms Dreamland..."

haha funny stuff.

@Everyone who's offended by the part about Nathan Drake

Chill out for once. The article was meant to be funny and a twisted take on the characters and games mentioned.

[RockmanII7]

Reason's for Dr. Light are bullshit.

1 - He had to turn Mega Man into a weapon of war because he was the best robot he had when Dr. Wily was taking over the world.

2 - Dr. Light was the mastermind behind the master robots, Dr. Wily was just his assistant (and his name is Dr. Wily not Wiley). By that logic anyone's who's done anything big is an asshole because everyone has someone helping in some form or another, I know Einstein didn't come up with E=MC^2 by himself and no one gives credit to his helpers but he isn't a asshole.

3 - If it wasn't for Mega Man X Vile would have killed Zero in MMX and Sigma would have taken over the world, so his gamble saved the world.

[tehk1w1]

1.) I don't think they said anything about Mega Man. They were talking about "X." Mega Man wasn't able to make his own decisions -- X was, including to turn against his creator if he wanted.

2.) If Einstein's assistant went on to build a nuclear bomb himself and ransom the world out of revenge because Einstein took all the credit, I think Einstein would be partially responsible for creating a monster.

3.) If Mega Man X was never invented, neither would Sigma. Sigma was based on X's design.

[RockmanII7]

The only Sigma was the villain was because he got infected with the Maverick Virus that he got from fighting Zero before the events of Mega Man X. Since Sigma wouldn't have been there to stop Zero, Zero would have (attempted) to take over the world.

[dagamdagee]

Brilliant article. I really dug it.

[Mahr]

"Like any other time when the Russians have invaded North America in the history of media entertainment, the United States military finds itself hopelessly overwhelmed, only this time they don’t have a group of rambunctious teenage rebels to bail them out of trouble"

Wolverines!!!

[hellzsupernova]

lol nice article

[hazelamy]

trip was a bit of a cow.