1. Ganondorf - The Legend of Zelda series
2. Captain Falcon - F-Zero series
3. Kratos - God of War series
4. Nathan "RAD" Spencer - Bionic Commando series
5. Duke Nukem - Duke Nukem series

Ryu is brutal sure, but Kratos kills GODS yet you rate Masterchief, a generic soldier ABOVE him? i know we all have our own opinions but thats just utter blasphemy.

And NICO? that one d00d from fracture could own him with the intrencher.

Marcus is badass though, but MC and Nico are weaklings. >_<

What? Master Chief a generic weakling soldier? He would wipe the floor with Marcus.

He single handedly killed 5 veteran ODSTs with his bare hands at the age of 14 with no suit, deflected a rocket from a futuristic jet with his bare hands while running with a torn tendant in his leg, through a mine field! Experienced more pain then words can describe going through the Spartan Augumentations. These are the procedures...

1. Carbide ceramic ossification: Advanced material: special metal and ceramic layers, grafting onto skeletal structure to make bones virtually unbreakable. Recommended coverage not to exceed 3 percent total bone mass because of significant white blood cell necrosis. Specific risk for pre- and near-post pubescent adolescents: skeletal growth spurts may cause irreparable bone pulverization.
2. Muscular enhancement injections: Protein complex is injected intramuscular, to increase tissue density and decrease lactate recovery time. Risk: 5 percent of test subjects experience a fatal cardiac volume increase.
3. Catalytic thyroid implant: Platinum pellet containing human growth hormone catalyst is implanted in the thyroid to boost growth of skeletal and muscle tissues. Risk: rare instances of elephantiasis. Suppressed sexual drive.
4. Occipital capillary reversal: Submergence and boosted blood vessel flow beneath the rods and cones of subject’s retina. Produces a marked visual perception increase. Risk: retinal rejection and detachment. Permanent blindness.
5. Superconducting fabrication of neural dendrites: Alteration of bio-electrical nerve transduction to shielded electronic transduction. Three hundred percent increase in subject’s reflexes. Anecdotal evidence of marked increase in intelligence, memory, and creativity. Risk: significant instances of Parkinson’s disease and Fletcher’s syndrome.

Some of the effects..

The carbide ceramic ossification bone grafts felt like glass breaking inside their marrow. Kurt-051 Ambrose explained that it felt like napalm being poured into his veins. The superconducting fabrication of neural dendrites felt like fire burning along their nerves on their spines. John-117 experienced bleeding eyes, incredible pain, and tripping over himself a lot due to the retinal, reflex enhancements, and bone strength increases.

Continued: Single handedly (The marines were never much help) destroyed a Covenant Amarda and saved the Galaxy and ended the all consuming flood threat and countless other feats.

YOU sir have never played a Halo game or touched any of the books. Killzone 2 is where the generic soldiers are at!

Anyway my list.. Going through all of that I think MC might top my list now.

1. Master Chief (All of the above)

2. Kratos (Tearing heads of and ripping out intestines is badass) I'm sure Frank west could do the same in Dead Rising though.

3. Ryu Hayabusa (Ninjas are badass but SUPER NINJAS! Thats a whole new level!)

4.Sephiroth (Watch his CGI fightscenes and come back and tell me he is not badass, he is also the best villian ever in my opinion)

5. Hmm, a tie between Akuma, Dante and Dias. There are plenty of other badass characters to fit in this though.

1) Ganondorf : The legendary villain
2) The Doom guy : T3h toughest of all. Who else will go knee deep in the dead with a single pistol and his bare hands ?
3) Duke Nukem : Kick ass and chew bubblegum. Stylish
4) Kratos : OFC
5) Jack : Best proof of this badassness : the hairy chest

I wouldn't know who to put in my list after Kratos but Bryan Fury is a great choice. Badass, sure, also completely psycho cyborg. I mean as part of his end of match celebrations he smashes the face in of his defeated enemy.

Kratos FTW!

Duke Nukem and Jack (MadWorld).

Kratos a guy who rips monsters in half with his bare hand and bitch slaps gods is weak? but a space man and a huge dude with a chansaw is UBER POWERED?.......=.=

Kratos is definitely Number 1. No one compares to his overall brutality and no mercy attitude. Alex Mercer is Number 2. He is a beast...and could make all those others cry to their mothers.

King Hippo (the guy fights with a sewer plate FFS!)

Macho man (for the butt flex)

Disco Kid (that man can move....)

Aran Ryan (The guy hits his own head with a horse iron...)

Tiger (the guy floats)

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No but really the top 5 is this:

1 - Link - cause it's link

2 - Mike Tyson - cause it's mike (punch out)

3 - Ryu - cause it's ryu

4 - The guy from FFVI for which you had to do SF type moves (umh I suck at names)

5 - I think Kratos lacks charisma... but yeah he does kick ass when you play with him (or his swords do at least).

6 - Sure Marcus Fenix in 6th - cause yeah he is the tough guy.