General

Samus is pretty damned awesome.

Like Greywinter I can't narrow it down to one, but here are some that clammoured to the front of my mind loudest:

James Sunderland & Angela (Silent Hill 2) - Excellent protagonist for a journey into one man's personal hell, and a young woman who been in her own long before reaching Silent Hill...

Kane (Command & Conquer) - Beard of awesome, bald of Awesome, awesome rhetoric, badass awesome army of awesome etc

George Stobart (Broken Sword) - Can always raise a smile, especially due to Rolf Saxon's voiceover.

GLaDOS (Portal) - Need I say more, you monster?

Yuri and Atrus? Good choices, sir!

I'm not really a huge gamer, but I have a few that I totally love

1. Mario (Always have, always will. Mario tatts coming soon! lol)

2. Vega (Yes, from Street Fighter.)

3. Link

4. Reptile (From MK)

niko bellic !

Probably Duke Nukem, he's a hilarious parody of testosterone pumping action heroes and at the same time still totally badass if you can get past his crude humor. It's a bummer DNF sucked so hard.

Lately my favorite videogame characters have been Morrigan and Alistair from Dragon Age Origins. Morrigan is such a b!tch lol and Alistair is a total goofball. Also their interplay is hilarious.

1)Tidus(FFX) He looks cool, is kick ass at sports and his celebration is throwing his sword in the air and catching it. Plus shows that main characters don't have to be grumpy and brooding.

2)Hwoarang(Tekken) Another who looks cool and there is nothing better than getting one of your mates with one of his long kicking combos where theres nothing they can do.

3)Guan Ping(Dynasty Warriors) Had to choose someone from Dynasty Warriors as I spent a lot of my childhood playing through the various campaigns with a friend, and Guan Ping has a sword that's as big as him, enough said

I also want to say that Galen Marrek (Vader's Secret Apprentice) is a pretty compelling character, at least in the first Force Unleashed game.

The second game is only fun inasmuch as you get to wreck sh!t.