Poor Jenkins...

[Gestapo Hunter]

whats with video games and people named Jenkins cause i swear they are always getting killed. First it was the guy in WoW,then the marine in Halo,now the other marine in Mass Effect.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

Basic name, probably industry code for meat shield.

 

[Altorin]

whats with video games and people named Jenkins cause i swear they are always getting killed. First it was the guy in WoW,then the marine in Halo,now the other marine in Mass Effect.

Halo predates WoW.

 

[GloatingSwine]

The Halo one is obviously not a reference to the famous Leeroy Jenkins.

The Mass Effect one, however, is.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Man, I was running into stupid situations on purpose in FFXI before Leeroy was. You don't see any memes about me though >_>

 

[Cyclomega]

Man, I was running into stupid situations on purpose in FFXI before Leeroy was. You don't see any memes about me though >_>

You should have made gameplay videos and post it over youtube while screaming in your mic like a retard, I'm sure you'd be e-famous by then.

 

[xitel]

It's not as bad as unnamed characters. You know they're going to die. No matter what. And guys in shooters that actually wear helmets other than the Player. They always get shot (ironically, in the head is the most common).

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Man, I was running into stupid situations on purpose in FFXI before Leeroy was. You don't see any memes about me though >_>

You should have made gameplay videos and post it over youtube while screaming in your mic like a retard, I'm sure you'd be e-famous by then.

My fraps wasn't working....

 

[Altorin]

It's not as bad as unnamed characters. You know they're going to die. No matter what. And guys in shooters that actually wear helmets other than the Player. They always get shot (ironically, in the head is the most common).

well, there haven't been many (if any) helmets designed to stop bullets. The helmets are there to protect your noggin if it's still in one piece after you get shot and fall to the ground screaming

 

[Cyclomega]

Man, I was running into stupid situations on purpose in FFXI before Leeroy was. You don't see any memes about me though >_>

You should have made gameplay videos and post it over youtube while screaming in your mic like a retard, I'm sure you'd be e-famous by then.

My fraps wasn't working....

Awwwwww, too bad... well so far so good

 

[GothmogII]

It's not as bad as unnamed characters. You know they're going to die. No matter what. And guys in shooters that actually wear helmets other than the Player. They always get shot (ironically, in the head is the most common).

xD That perfectly describes that guy in Gears of War, he's one of the few people actually wearing his helmet like you said, and whaddyaknow? Boom! Headshot. Hilarious stuff.

 

[xitel]

It's not as bad as unnamed characters. You know they're going to die. No matter what. And guys in shooters that actually wear helmets other than the Player. They always get shot (ironically, in the head is the most common).

well, there haven't been many (if any) helmets designed to stop bullets. The helmets are there to protect your noggin if it's still in one piece after you get shot and fall to the ground screaming

But if it's a shooter where we have already established that anti-bullet shields (for lack of a better term) exist, why is it that the guys without the helmets are less prone to getting shot in the head?

It's not as bad as unnamed characters. You know they're going to die. No matter what. And guys in shooters that actually wear helmets other than the Player. They always get shot (ironically, in the head is the most common).

xD That perfectly describes that guy in Gears of War, he's one of the few people actually wearing his helmet like you said, and whaddyaknow? Boom! Headshot. Hilarious stuff.

Carbine, and yeah, that's kind of where I got the idea from. But if you look, it happens in a couple other games too. And let's not forget the characters that are about to retire or get leave. Fracture directly refrences this one. You're standing behind two random Atlantic Alliance soldiers (the good guys) one of them says "And I was about to go ohme next week. Hey, you don't think it's bad luck for me to say that, do you?" They turn a corner, and bam, dead.

 

[Amnestic]

whats with video games and people named Jenkins cause i swear they are always getting killed. First it was the guy in WoW,then the marine in Halo,now the other marine in Mass Effect.

Jenkins is a generic soldier name. Were I to write a piece of fiction with a Private/Corporal in it, it's almost guaranteed that at least one of them, somewhere, will be called Jenkins.

If they get promoted to anything above Corporal they have to change their name to something better though. "Captain Jenkins" sounds silly to me.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

whats with video games and people named Jenkins cause i swear they are always getting killed. First it was the guy in WoW,then the marine in Halo,now the other marine in Mass Effect.

Jenkins is a generic soldier name. Were I to write a piece of fiction with a Private/Corporal in it, it's almost guaranteed that at least one of them, somewhere, will be called Jenkins.

If they get promoted to anything above Corporal they have to change their name to something better though. "Captain Jenkins" sounds silly to me.

Commodore Jenkins? Rear Admiral Jenkins? Colonel Jenkins? How does that work for you?

 

[Altorin]

Were I to write a piece of fiction with a Private/Corporal in it, it's almost guaranteed that at least one of them, somewhere, will be called Jenkins.

that is probably because you're an uncreative prattledonkey

buddy.

 

[Amnestic]

Were I to write a piece of fiction with a Private/Corporal in it, it's almost guaranteed that at least one of them, somewhere, will be called Jenkins.

that is probably because you're an uncreative prattledonkey

buddy.

It's a rule of (my) fiction. Jenkins has to be used somewhere, even if it's just a one-line reference to him.

whats with video games and people named Jenkins cause i swear they are always getting killed. First it was the guy in WoW,then the marine in Halo,now the other marine in Mass Effect.

Jenkins is a generic soldier name. Were I to write a piece of fiction with a Private/Corporal in it, it's almost guaranteed that at least one of them, somewhere, will be called Jenkins.

If they get promoted to anything above Corporal they have to change their name to something better though. "Captain Jenkins" sounds silly to me.

Commodore Jenkins? Rear Admiral Jenkins? Colonel Jenkins? How does that work for you?

They all sound silly. There's a reason Jenkins always gets killed off at the Private/Corporal stage. It's because all the other military ranks sound silly with his name. You could, perhaps, stretch him to Sergeant, but those are few and far between.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Were I to write a piece of fiction with a Private/Corporal in it, it's almost guaranteed that at least one of them, somewhere, will be called Jenkins.

that is probably because you're an uncreative prattledonkey

buddy.

It's a rule of (my) fiction. Jenkins has to be used somewhere, even if it's just a one-line reference to him.

whats with video games and people named Jenkins cause i swear they are always getting killed. First it was the guy in WoW,then the marine in Halo,now the other marine in Mass Effect.

Jenkins is a generic soldier name. Were I to write a piece of fiction with a Private/Corporal in it, it's almost guaranteed that at least one of them, somewhere, will be called Jenkins.

If they get promoted to anything above Corporal they have to change their name to something better though. "Captain Jenkins" sounds silly to me.

Commodore Jenkins? Rear Admiral Jenkins? Colonel Jenkins? How does that work for you?

They all sound silly. There's a reason Jenkins always gets killed off at the Private/Corporal stage. It's because all the other military ranks sound silly with his name. You could, perhaps, stretch him to Sergeant, but those are few and far between.

But General Jenkins sounds so right...

 

[Altorin]

It's a rule of (my) fiction. Jenkins has to be used somewhere, even if it's just a one-line reference to him.

My D&D games always include an ogre named Ugu..

 

[Amnestic]

It's a rule of (my) fiction. Jenkins has to be used somewhere, even if it's just a one-line reference to him.

My D&D games always include an ogre named Ugu..

that's because you're an uncreative prattledonkey

buddy.

;D

But General Jenkins sounds so right...

There are better General's out there than Jenkins. Jenkins won't inspire fear and loyalty in the troops. Not like...General Ironside or something like that.

 

[crimson5pheonix]

It's a rule of (my) fiction. Jenkins has to be used somewhere, even if it's just a one-line reference to him.

My D&D games always include an ogre named Ugu..

that's because you're an uncreative prattledonkey

buddy.

;D

But General Jenkins sounds so right...

There are better General's out there than Jenkins. Jenkins won't inspire fear and loyalty in the troops. Not like...General Ironside or something like that.

What if it was "General Cannon Fodder"?