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Best lead protagonist in a fighting game?

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When are we gonna get a new rival schools?
 
Yeah, in the first few games wasn't it Sophitia? Then it was Siegfried, and now it's Patroklos.

Haha, seeing Lizardman be the hero would be weird considering he's been Soul Edge aligned for much of his existence. Aeon Calcos is forever mad!

Not sure exactly. Sophitia and Taki worked together to defeat Cervantes (the wielder of Soul Edge at the time), so it's kind of a dual thing. Kilik, Maxi and Xianghua came to prominence in SoulCalibur though, and I believe they defeated Nightmare in that. Then in II, it was Raphael who destroyed Soul Edge, freeing Siegfried, though I don't think he sought it out for benevolent purposes.

As for Aeon, he was crazy in SoulCalibur, SoulCalibur IV, and SoulCalibur V. In III he was just justifiably angry at Hepheastus, but at the end of his tales of souls you could choose either Soul Calibur or Soul Edge.

Well he is the protagonist of every SC game except II and V, he even was the main character in Soul Calibur Legends for the Wii. IIrc Sophitia is the protagonist of II, since she was the one that killed Nightmare and freed Siegfried from his influence

He wasn't exactly the protagonist in Soul Edge (pursued Soul Edge because he was crazy and wanted to kill his father's murderer [himself]), and certainly wasn't in SoulCalibur (he was acting as Nightmare in that, sans the name). I don't know where you got the Sophitia thing from, 'cause she had nothing to do with that in SCII
 
Definitely Siegfried from Soul Calibur, one of the few fighting games where I genuinely liked the story a lot
 
No love for Leonardo and his three Turtle bros. as featured in Tournament Fighters?

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(Taken from NeoBlood's post here - someone should make a HD version of the SNES game in this style!)

That point aside, after reading through this thread I am reminded I desperately want two things:

(A) Alex returning in either Street Fighter 4 (can't believe it didn't happen in all those new iterations...) or in Street Fighter 5.

(B) A new game featuring Terry Bogard. Could be a new Fatal Fury / Garou, a crossover with SF/Capcom or even something different entirely such as a beat 'm up or action game for all I care. As long as he is in, I'll try it. (But no MOBA's please.)

I also miss fighting games with colourful casts such as the past Fatal Fury games and such.
 
I dont get it. Why are people saying Jin?


Jin has always had the least personality of any Tekken character, and that's on a roster comprising robots, animals, and distinct movie star ripoffs. He doesn't really say anything, he's generic as hell. The only thing he had was a distinct tribal tattoo. Don't confuse your fondness for Tekken with a fondness for generic character design. Making him evil was the best and most logical thing to do, and he still sucks.

But Lars sucks worse.
 

Yeah, by the fanbase's rules he's definitely the star, especially considering that most of them recognize him more a smash guy rather than from F-ZEro, having never really heard of F-Zero.

According to Sakurai and Subspace, it actually seems to be the Kirby trio, and all of those are awesome
 
Terry is the greatest fighting game protagonist. After he defeats the big guy, he essentially just seems cool about everything going wrong in shit after Fatal Fury/KOF. Because when you beat Geese Howard, you aint gotta worry bout shit anymore.

Rock's cool too.


Everything up until Garou: MoW, Terry is the star.
Kyo is only really the protagonist during the Orochi Saga of KOF (94-97.) K' took the lead during NESTS (99-'01), and Ash took the lead during Those from the Past ('03-XIII)


hell yeah he is.
 
5'6" and 210lbs? o_0

He's got that arm of his...

I dont get it. Why are people saying Jin?


Jin has always had the least personality of any Tekken character, and that's on a roster comprising robots, animals, and distinct movie star ripoffs. He doesn't really say anything, he's generic as hell. The only thing he had was a distinct tribal tattoo. Don't confuse your fondness for Tekken with a fondness for generic character design. Making him evil was the best and most logical thing to do, and he still sucks.

But Lars sucks worse.

I generally feel the same way, but people seem to be attracted to the designated good guy / main character, especially if he's young (or at least not old) and strong.
 
The love for Terry motherfuckin' Bogard brings a tear to my eye
You guys are OKAY!

Your avatar reminded me that I want to see a DMC/Dante Terry Bogard crossover. It's so weird that it would work. Just two chill dudes beating up bad guys for fun.
 
He wasn't exactly the protagonist in Soul Edge (pursued Soul Edge because he was crazy and wanted to kill his father's murderer [himself]), and certainly wasn't in SoulCalibur (he was acting as Nightmare in that, sans the name). I don't know where you got the Sophitia thing from, 'cause she had nothing to do with that in SCII

Yep, I was wrong about the Sophitia thing. It was actually Kilik and Xianghua that canonically defeated him. I remember Siegfried being a separate character in Soul Calibur though, unlike SCII where he was merged with Nightmare
 
gotta agree with Terry Bogard. Although my personal favs are Alex and Donovan. It's really too bad Alex and K' never really got to take over their respective franchises.
 
Yep, I was wrong about the Sophitia thing. It was actually Kilik and Xianghua that canonically defeated him. I remember Siegfried being a separate character in Soul Calibur though, unlike SCII where he was merged with Nightmare

True, but he still suffers from possession by Soul Edge when he loses consciousness.
Soul Calibur's Nightmare/Siegfried deal is kind of weird. I think he's possessed by the sword in the beginning of the games events (Nightmare is a starter character), and breaks free somewhat later (Siegfried is an unlockable character), though he ends up becoming repossessed completely in time for SoulCalibur II.

In that sense, I wouldn't call him the lead protagonist.
 
Hayato was a pretty cool design. Too bad Star Gladiator/Plasma Sword weren't particularly good games.

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Also, Jin & Blodia are awesome:

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It's too bad Scorpion isn't technically the main protagonist, because he has a very cool set of powers.

I'll give it to Alex. It's nice to see a wrestler be the main character.

, Skullgirls has a pretty bland main protagonist, which is surprising when you look at the rest of the cast.
 
You could argue that Iori Yagami from KOF is a lead protagonist, i would vote either him or Terry "The Hungry Wolf" Bogard.

Dude is too nice and badass.
 
You could argue that Iori Yagami from KOF is a lead protagonist, i would vote either him or Terry "The Hungry Wolf" Bogard.

Dude is too nice and badass.
I thought the pops was the hungry wolf and Terry is "The Lone Wolf"
Edit: guess I was wrong..... learn something new every day
 
I dont get it. Why are people saying Jin?

Jin has always had the least personality of any Tekken character, and that's on a roster comprising robots, animals, and distinct movie star ripoffs. He doesn't really say anything, he's generic as hell. The only thing he had was a distinct tribal tattoo. Don't confuse your fondness for Tekken with a fondness for generic character design. Making him evil was the best and most logical thing to do, and he still sucks.

But Lars sucks worse.

Agreed. IMO, Kazuya needs to become a protagonist again just like in Tekken 1 so that he can overthrow Heihachi for good.

Kazuya could have been a good guy...but he sold his soul to the devil.

Blame Heihachi for that.

It's pretty much Heihachi's fault for everything, if you think about it.

This. If anything, Heihachi's the true evil one.
 
I gotta go with the OG: Ryu (even though I only used Denjin Ryu myself personally).

Ryu is a cool guy. Can't use computers. Doesn't insane away from anything.



Seriously though, Sol. Fighting game protags are usually pretty generic.

This meme of "Ryu is a social klutz" will never not make me laugh.

Right. Fighting game where the main character is also the strongest and the hardest to master? Gotcha.

If one holds complete, overwhelming success as a minimum goal, one better be both good and have a backup plan.

Also, VF may just have a huge legacy and influence about it. Maybe.

I had the exact same idea. I would love for them to put Ryu in as a last boss and then just stop using the character. The evolution of Ken/Ryu's fighting style as through more refined/grown up Sean and Sakura would be great and give some new life to the series.

After what SF4 Vanilla was, fat chance. Nostalgia's a bitch (when it's real).
 
Terry Bogard is number one. No question.
Follow that with Sol Badguy, and then Demitri Maximoff from Darkstalkers. The series is called Vampire (in Japan), he's the vampire.
No matter how many times you put Morrigan in a crossover, Demitri is the main character, ya hear me Capcom?!
 
I also miss fighting games with colourful casts such as the past Fatal Fury games and such.
I know :( Since most fighters released now are sequels we don't see waves of new, interesting fighters anymore. I love KOFXIII but that's one heck of a safe roster. I'd say SF newcomers like Rufus and El Fuerte are pretty much that, but sadly I'm not a big fan of either :P
 
I dunno, T6 jin made him and retroactively as his actions prior seem the most good. Or least positive neutral . He just kinda wants to be strong, thazzit.

what did Jin do in Tekken 6? I don't remember. I stopped caring about the story in Tekken around when Tekken 4 came out.
 
All this talk about Jin and Kazuya we all know who the real main character of Tekken is (Plus gives me an excuse to post this again from the previous thread :D)

Heihachi Mishima

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Pre Tekken

- He fought Jinpachi and enslaved his ass under honmoru and then forgot about it, took over his financial empire and became a rich ass pimp =O fuck that's manly
- He ripped out Armor King 1's eye, while kicking his ass, so instead he went to Boskonovitch to get him a mechanical one made! (With the recent Tekken 6 story, I bet he was kicking both Armor King's asses at the SAME TIME and ripped them both one)
- He adopted Lee so just in case Kazuya comes out he can kick his ass because he's not worth his time, and also use Lee as well for his other lowly affairs (such as his relationships with Nina and Anna), because Lee is worth shitty whores (Heihachi has too may bitches)
- He screwed Kazume and out comes Kazuya in all .4 seconds, bitch of a son, not worthy
- He pwned Feng's clan and acquired the Shinken Scrolls with EASE, its like beating the shit out of little children
- He went to Scandinavia and owned the SHIT out of a white woman since she wanted Heihachi's manliness so bad, hence we have the baby Lars who's not worth it
- Heihachi destroyed the fuck out of... Michelle's WHOLE tribe, because he wanted to find the GOD OF FIGHTING who turned out to be the GOD OF PATHETICNESS instead, perfect for Jin..

Tekken 1

- He threw down his bitch son into a ravine because he felt like it
- He raised Kuma (a fucking bear) and taught it martial arts, OMFG
- He caught an Axe in his mouth
- He let Kazuya beat him cause he wanted to check out his own skill against the Devil (LMAO, Kazuya needed another worldly entity to beat Heihachi) also Heihachi laughed when he was thrown down the same cliff as Kazuya

Tekken 2

- He trained in the ravine for a few years because that was his plan all along, bored with his rich life but he started to miss it, he broke a few mountains down there I bet and drank up the ravine too, and then to make it more manlier he climbed back up the ravine WHILE IT WAS RAINING, FUCK!
- He fucking beat up the Devil with an OTGF because he spent all of Heihachi's funds on being a playmate with Kazuya... So the best next step was to throw Kazuya into a volcano for the embarrassment he was for being a son... and so the world wouldn't know his son was a closet boy.
- If you didn't notice in Lee's ending, when he's put in a small Jail cell, Heihachi is actually smiling because he knows those bars will self combust within .5 seconds of his ending
- He made prototype Jack with his own hands using all manly things around the world (making another manly object out of nothing)
- He lol'd at Wang's relationship with Jinpachi's death and sorrow all through the tournament

Tekken 3

- He took up Jin just so Ogre can sense the wuss that was living at his place
- Heihachi was involved in feeding the hungry and doing good things around the world for people like me for 20 years, heck, the laptop im using is the one he gave me with one of his used beautiful women (thanks sir)
- He keeps Xiaoyu so that Kuma 2 (ANOTHER BEAR HE RAISED AND TRAINED) would impregnate Panda for a new breed of bears. He doesn't help Kuma because he wants Kuma to pimp her at the end and to learn the man rules his own way. Heihachi doesn't have mercy on any weak souls, humans or animals.
- He shot Jin in the head without caring shit (nuff said)
- Jin turned into Devil Jin and grabbed his face, broke the temple wall and then piledrived him headfirst into thousands of years of stone from 23432543243 meters of height, Heihachi just got up 2 seconds later laughing at how the wuss ran off and enjoyed the view of said wuss running away
- Threw Jin down his helicopter because he saw the pussy growing within, named Devil
- Ogre HAS to absorb Heihachi's manliness to become true OGRE...

Tekken 4

- Seeing the wuss in his tiger striped coat (he went to India and killed it himself by Broken Toy-ing the shit out of it) he got angry because Kazuya appeared again only through the help of technology
- OTGF (Omen Thunder God Fist) was born officially for the world to see!
- Heihachi knows Steve is also his bastard son, but hates his guts as much as anyone else, also Nina wouldn't say anything because she's his bitch
- In Lee's ending Combot didn't give a 50 hit combo, it received it (FACT), minutes later Lee's neck was snapped in half and his office destroyed
- Kazuya got owned like a little bitch again by Heihachi, by hanging him in Honmaru with chains that would get his cowardly satan wannabe friend out of him first
- Jin never beat Hei because Jun Kazama came in and told Jin, that's your real father, don't hurt him. Kazuya wanting to believe he has a nutsack lied all along. Notice how Hei always laughs at Jin like he's a terrible wuss.

Soul Calibur II

- Only fighter in the history of the series to ever fight without weapons, because the best weapons are his own hands, plus he beats the ancient world and Raphael, and gives them all his Guillotine throw including the swords, hence the Soul Swords don't exist in the present age anymore.

Tekken Tag

- Heihachi is so manly, he trains Kuma how to do the initiation dance of getting 10,000,000 women pregnant at the same time for good luck.
- Talking about Kuma, in Paul's ending when he punches Kuma in the chest, that was alright, 2 manly characters can do that, but when Kazuya pussy's out of the fight and disappears, he saw Heihachi from behind, such is his power.
- His ending is by far the most manliest of them all, unlike Hwoarang and Jin who don't end up doing shit and bang each other instead. Heihachi see's himself pwn Kazuya and Jin with his Demon Uppercut and Guillotine Throw and ending with a smirk that destroyed Mt. Fuji in the Soul Calibur days.
- Bruce's story was a wet dream for him, notice how Kazuya and the immortal Heihachi were all lying on the Tekken Force, making it for sure Bruce had other naughty thoughts in his head.

Tekken 5

- Only the most amazing CG cinematic in history of videogames and destroying the fuck out of every Jack 4, we saw the OTGF INTO uf+3,4 OMFG... Heihachi Mishima owned Tekken 5 and he didn't even participate in it.
-After pulverizing the endless waves of Jack(meoff)s and sending their sub-par components to the scrap heap, he was betrayed by that wussy-fuck Kazuya (who ran off like a pussy) and subsequently thrown from his temple.....by an EXPLOSION. Interestingly enough, he lands in a graveyard where most other thin-skinned sissies would roll over and die. Not Heihachi.....he picks himself up and dusts the bones off him and shrugs it off as a bad day. MANLYAZZFOOK! He exudes such manliness that other fighter's enormous sex organs go limp and become permantly flacid in his presence. Heihachi lowers men's sperm count on reaction.
- Raven pussies out of the fight because the organization knows, Heihachi is a mangod and is owned by him anyways
- Jinpachi has to go super saiyan to destroy Heihachi and even then loses like a little bitch, lolz he even sends Jinpachi, Jin and Kazuya off into space.
- Wang likes to wish just like Lee that they can defeat his greatness in their stories, incompetants.

Tekken 6

- Space travel for the man god and bear accessory is now unlocked. The man has so much money he travels in space just to throw his garbage. Not only is it eco friendly as the ozone devours the filth, but it's his new fetish of finding out how big of a crater said filth makes when it hits the earth.
- Kuma-yo now has man god accessories which gives him +100 manliness. So those people who now laughed at you for playing Kuma in the arcades can now go cut their dicks and throw them at the wall.
- Lars is humiliated by the following; Firstly, Heihachi used to fight Kuma and Mokujin for practice, but since Lars showed up, he really wanted to make it easy for him to the point that while the fight ended Heihachi woke up from a nap while he pumped Iron in his dreams, yes folks that's fucking right. Secondly, when he wakes up, he's happy, he lifted Mount Everest finally with just one finger, with Brolly pushing down with SS3 strength. Which makes the point that, when Lars fires his gun, Heihachi laughs and catches the bullet in his mouth. Lastly, he tells Lars to STFU and guess what Lars leaves like a little bitch, with robot pussy (the only thing he can score by his side), knowing this Heihachi caught another nap in 5 minutes which shook the Alps, also he got so bored of the tournament, so he's preparing for T7. The only reason Heihachi was surprised by Lars was because his hair looked like a Swan with it's neck cut off.
- Nina is now pregnant, while Heihachi had fun with her in the copter. She fell to the floor in front of Jin, because when she saw him, it was like looking at the ultimate wuss. Also her vagina was in tatters and she was exhausted by feeding on constant pimp man god pimp juice for 20 years straight... yes Heihachi can also speed up and slow down time beyond our comprehension.
- I see Lee, Kazuya and Jin still have fantasies of "blowing" Heihachi up one way or another. Truly LOL-Worthy

Playstation Allstars Battle Royal

- Heihachi's manliness predates any and all other contendors in that game. Even within the Playstation family, his legacy is the longest and strongest among all.

Tekken Blood Vengeance

- The one character that was hyped up to be the ultimate fighting machine Shin Kamiya punched Heihachi with all his might even with a runup that couldn't even make Heihachi flinch or budge.
- Heihachi precedes to kill that character with a single torture tack.
- One handed giant swing. Enough Said.
- Who else manages to Jacknife powerbomb their grandson onto their son through 5 FLOORS:

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I love ryu and all plus I'm a SF guy first. But I gotta keep it real terry bogard is the most bad ass protagonist shoutouts to rock howard also
 
what did Jin do in Tekken 6? I don't remember. I stopped caring about the story in Tekken around when Tekken 4 came out.

Started a global war, killed bunches. And awakened an extradimensional demon to...

-drumroll please-

Kil himself. He awoke a demon, that could have destroyed the planet, for the purpose of killing himself/removing the devil gene from existence or whatever.

Just give the rest of it to kazuya, he ain't go do nothing with it. He really do anything with it, all he did was get revenge on his dad taught some animals how to box and then have jin's dumb ass.
 
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