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Fictional knife-fighters

  • Solid SnakeHideo Kojima once planned for Solid Snake to die in Metal Gear Solid. Disappointed staff led him to change it.
  • Ada WongAda Wong was mentioned by name in Capcom's original Resident Evil in 1996, before she had a face, a voice, or a role. Designer Kazunori Kadoi supplied the name, and he later admitted he proposed it randomly and without much thought. That…
  • Chris RedfieldChris Redfield, the hero of Capcom's Resident Evil series, stands inside an active volcano and punches a giant boulder until it drops into the lava. That moment from Resident Evil 5 in 2009 turned into one of the most repeated jokes in…
  • 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.
  • Kraven the HunterKraven the Hunter, born Sergei Nikolaevich Kravinoff, greeted Spider-Man with a borrowed phrase. In The Amazing Spider-Man issue 15, published in August 1964, he called the hero "the most dangerous game." The line comes from a short story…
  • Blade (character)Blade, the vampire hunter of Marvel Comics, made his debut in The Tomb of Dracula #10, with a cover date of July 1973. He was only a supporting character there, created by writer Marv Wolfman and penciller Gene Colan. Shortly afterward he…
  • Black NoirBlack Noir is the name shared by three characters in The Boys, a story created in comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Eric Kripke later developed it for television. In both versions, Noir belongs to the Seven, a hedonistic and…
  • Bucky BarnesBucky Barnes is a Marvel Comics hero whose fans once turned his death into a rule of the genre. The saying went that in comics, "No one stays dead except Bucky, Jason Todd and Uncle Ben." For many years, Bucky was the first name on that…
  • Ghostface (Scream)Ghostface is the disguise worn by the killers of the Scream films, and it first announces itself through a telephone. In the opening scene of Scream in 1996, the teenager Casey Becker, played by Drew Barrymore, takes a call from a…

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