The biggest Badass in gaming.

[Ultrajoe]

This isn't from Videogaming. But the Nightbringer from Warhammer 40k.

He's a full-blown God who flies around space drinking entire stars through a space straw. And whenever he wakes up from one of his long sleeps for a simple Mid-millenia snack, he sends out millions and millions of undead badasses to harvest souls. He pretty much does what he wants.

He's also the grim reaper. Literally.

He is so badass he is burned into the racial memory of every living thing as death personified. Literally, he is why we see the grim reaper as a scythe-weilding cloaked abomination. Nightbringer = Death.

Space Marines or anything else from 40K pretty much takes the cake for Badassery.

 

[Oisnafas]

Hands down, Psycho from Crysis. The man was insane.

 

[goodchild]

Nightmare, yah, but Astaroth has to take the Soul Calibur bad-ass cake.

 

[Meado]

The Arbiter from Halo Wars, not Keith David's Arbiter.

QF-Frakking-T

 

[goodchild]

Travis Muckfothering Touchdown
He kills people with a five-bladed ghetto lightsaber and becomes the number one assassin because he hasn't got anything else to do. Apart from playing with his cat, watching porn, playing 8-bit computer games and having his family murdered by his ex-girlfriend half-sister.

No way is anybody more badass then that.

Second that. Though, that might just be more extistentially cool than badass.

 

[goodchild]

I scrolled this whole thread waiting to see if anyone mentioned Pikachu (mainly from SSB), or Ryu Hyabusa from NG - someone did in one post.
So, I'll follow that by mentioning another NG character -
Alma from NG on the original Xbox.
Hard.
as.
hell.

 

[StrikeOfFreedom]

Albert Wesker.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Wesker is cool, but the man is the Wild Dog of Resident Evil.

He will. not. die. ever.


Shoot, come to think of it.


Wild Dog from Time Crisis.

He's been blown up and shot to death, what, four times now?

 

[Snotnarok]

Heavy from Team Fortress 2, he'll kill you and eat sandviches while doing it.

 

[Death916]

snake..snake..snaaaakkke

 

[Instant K4rma]

Hands down, Psycho from Crysis. The man was insane.

Is it just me, or did Psycho remind you of Jason Stahtam?

 

[veloper]

Duke

 

[Montgomery_Burns]

Sephiroth.

 

[Vrex360]

Okay, ready to be mature I would actually have to say my personal most badass character is the Arbiter (Keith David)
a. He is voiced by Keith David
b. Unlike most action heroes the Arbiter doesn't spew quips all the time
c. He is my favourite kind of hero, one bound by honour and dignity and nobility, he is a valiant and honourable warrior fighting for what is right in a no nonsense manner. A very moral character.
d. his story interested me, because throughout Halo 2 the Arbiter is always questioning his motivations and his loyalties.
e. he is a badass reptilian alien which automatically makes him cool.
f. He is one of the few examples of a creative story designer showing the conflict from the aliens perspective and viewing him not as a mindless killing machine but a noble hero.
g. He made me reach the letter G in a list, you can't argue with that.

 

[Miss.Sami]

Samus Aran and not just because she's a chick who can morph into a ball.

 

[Yegargeburble]

The Lavos. It destroyed the world for no reason...at least I don't think it had one...

 

[Gunn01]

Kratos is the most badass vidya game character ever there is no character that can defeat him

 

[Husky.Gnoll]

I'd have to go with either Big Daddy AKA "Mister Bubbles"
or DarkDruium (I would of chosen "Terry?" but he is a tool for Durran)

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Wesker is cool, but the man is the Wild Dog of Resident Evil.

He will. not. die. ever.

Um... oh never mind. Play Resi 5!