The Greatest Video Game Heroes Of All Time

Systems and games come and go, but a hero is forever. We salute the 13 most valiant warriors in the pixelverse.

Solid Snake (Metal Gear series; various systems)
The protagonist of Konami's flagship franchise goes through Marlboros like they're peanut M&Ms, but not even respiratory cancer can stop the iron-lunged spec-ops mercenary from finagling his way through high-security military compounds while hunting down his evil clone brother, Liquid Snake. But the advanced cellular degeneration that's crippled his bone structure and rendered him more decrepit than Barbara Bush? Yeah, that could do it.

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