I was thinking about inspirational figures in video games a few minutes ago.
We see a lot of characters who are simply bad-asses who can take on hundreds of guys and be ready and willing to take on a hundred more. But I was thinking, who are the characters that have actually affected people in some way.
So that's what this thread is about, inspirational characters in video gaming.
All I ask is that all characters named are part of a video game, not from online anime or something similar.
(A character like Lee in the Walking Dead is an exception because Walking Dead is playable, not JUST reading.)