Curated playlist
Fictional American people in video games
- Alex (Street Fighter)Alex entered a fighting tournament to kill the man who put his guardian in the hospital.
- Solid SnakeHideo Kojima once planned for Solid Snake to die in Metal Gear Solid. Disappointed staff led him to change it.
- James Sunderland (Silent Hill)In Silent Hill 2, James Sunderland smothers his dying wife with a pillow.
- Albert WeskerAlbert Wesker begins the original Resident Evil of 1996 as an ally. As captain of a police special forces unit, he hands the player supplies and useful information. That helpfulness is a disguise. Wesker was created by the Japanese game…
- Leon S. KennedyLeon S. Kennedy is late for his first day of work, and the reason is a fight with his girlfriend. That detail comes from the manual of Resident Evil 2, the 1998 survival horror game from the Japanese company Capcom. Leon is a rookie police…
- Big Boss (Metal Gear)In the original 1987 Metal Gear, the friendly radio voice guiding the player was the enemy.
- Balrog (Street Fighter)Street Fighter's boxer Balrog is called M. Bison in Japan, where the M stands for Mike.
- Heather MasonAt seventeen, Heather Mason is approached in a mall and within hours is surrounded by monsters.
- Guile (Street Fighter)Guile has dictator M. Bison by the throat in Street Fighter II's ending. His wife's voice and his daughter stop him.
- Ken MastersDaigo Umehara's Street Fighter Ken blocked and countered fourteen straight hits with 26 seconds left.
- Sodom (Final Fight)Capcom's Sodom tried to write the kanji for death on his chest and got it wrong.
- MarioShigeru Miyamoto once reflected on a name he had considered for Mario and concluded that the character likely would have "disappeared off the face of the Earth." Mario is the mustached Italian plumber who stars in the Mario franchise and…