I found this link earlier

http://www.thecustard.tv/linksandlists/100popcultureicons.html

It is the 100 greatest pop culture icons. What is wierd though is that the only video games character in the list is lara croft. No Mario, no Pacman, no Space invaders, not even Sonic the hedgehog (all of which IMO are bigger in pop culture than Lara Croft).

Fair enough Videogames are not the biggest thing ever but I think a list of 100 popular culture icons should at least feature 3 VG characters.

Lara croft bigger than ALL other video game characters?...Im gonna go away now.

Lara Croft i think is the only Character that has been successful outside of video games, meaning that the movies actually were a hit and didn't bomb. I actually know people, who own Wiis and don't know who Mario is and yet know of Lara Croft.

Any context? It seems England-centric, in which case Lara Croft might make more sense than Mario. I mean, Beckham is #1? Not anywhere outside the commonwealth, he isn't. Spice Girls scoring higher than JFK? Elizabeth Hurley making the list, period?

It's one list, from four years ago. No big deal.

Mario is not pop culture
that is all

yeah but mario is more famous than lara hes even more famous than micky mouse

LARA lol,good-average games + crappy movies =icon
meeep ,wrong and another lol

That is awful.

People forget I guess that the original Nintendo was like the Wii -- pretty much everyone knew about it (Super Mario Bros.), let alone tried it. That's kind of what we call POP CULTURE.

Remember, this was on VH1, hardly on the pulse of pop culture (unless it was from the 80's)

David Beckham being number one is just idiotic.

The list appears to have been a snapshot at that moment in time -- Nov. 2003. Plus it was aimed at the VH1 demo (24-35+). And it is UK based (look at the list and the ads) as well.

So some things big to others (of different age groups and countries) and big now would not be on there.

Mike from Morgantown.