Your Ideal Protagonist

[InfinityCubed]

Personally, I rather miss the pure and noble hero.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Remember how there's no perfect pasta sauce? (Thank god for Jim) Well, there's also no perfect protagonist.

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Lee Everett is a fantastic protagonist in The Walking Dead, and Sam Gideon makes perfect sense in Vanquish, but the perfect whatever is interchangable which seems kinda... impossible. It's all based on whatever game it is you're playing.

That being said, I do love how great a main character Lee is. Not too "good", but not bad. Starts off afraid and screaming at the zombies because he's naturally terrified but evolves into someone willing to risk his life to save those he cares about. Plus, dat voice actor. Dave Fennoy does a fucking great job with him.

+1 to Lee Everett being an awesome protagonist.

Personally, it would be hard to say, I usually like the grey-area types, so long as they have a sense of humour and experience levity from time to time.

The kind of Protagonist I despise is the opposite; with a clear morality(it just isn't fun when everything they do is "in the name of good/evil" as then we don't see/experience(if we're talking about games) internal conflict, which I feel is central to character development. In addition, a character that experiences no levity, has no sense of humour, and one who is stuck in a permanent state of mind/emotion(not sure if that's grammatically correct) and never gets out of that situation.

Basically, I despise Shinji Ikari.