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The Top 7… Mentally damaged characters we love

Because everyone loves a fixer-upper

Words: on October 10, 2011
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  • bitchassafriBLAMamericANTISTA - October 15, 2011 8:13 a.m.

    what about BATMAN!!!!!!?

  • Yaro - October 14, 2011 9:30 a.m.

    Surprised to see some love for Kane and Lynch. Severely flawed games both of them. But they also have some incredible moments. Great ideas executed poorly. With some moments of awe. I for one would like to see another K&L game...

  • JoeMasturbaby - October 13, 2011 4:03 p.m.

    the main character from Manhunt 2 perhaps? though idk if anybody else loved him.

  • BladedFalcon - October 13, 2011 11 a.m.

    I agree with mostly everything in this list, except for Jack. She's not likable, she's not even really relatable considering that you're talking about someone who has murdered, kidnapped and tortured people for sh*t and giggles, and then are expected to believe that she can be capable of being loyal to a military guy and suddenly be a good girl who just happened to be conditioned to be bad. It's not Like Kai, who simply doesn't seem to view killing as a bad thing. Jack knows it, and actually gets off on it. She's so over the top in her backgrounds and action that either side of the spectrum she touches feel exaggerated and unreal.

  • lazer59882 - October 12, 2011 9:01 p.m.

    "River from Firefly" wtf does that even mean? what odes that have to do with jack?

  • patrick-mcquaid - October 11, 2011 7:44 p.m.

    WHERE IS JAMES SUNDERLAND IM RAGING

  • slimjim441 - October 12, 2011 10:23 p.m.

    I know right? This lack of James gives me rage of the Brooklyn variety.

  • Yeager1122 - October 11, 2011 7:34 p.m.

    Gotta kill sandr cohen later to get that power to the peolpe station.

  • Super Barn Owl - October 11, 2011 3:16 p.m.

    You forgot kirby, he clearly has a massive eating disorder.

  • Rub3z - October 11, 2011 2:17 p.m.

    OH. MY. GOD. Just when I thought this site, with its myriad amount of incredible features with splendid and consistently funny writing, could not get any awesome-er... you make a reference to one of my favorite books of all time, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. You can consider my next month or something fulfilled. Gentlemen, I applaud and admire thee. Keep up the excellent work.

  • NightCrawler_358 - October 11, 2011 1:43 p.m.

    I really liked the Beauty and Beast Corps. bosses in Metal Gear Solid 4. Gray Fox at least knew what was going on, I was much more disturbed by "Laughing Octopus." Also, I really liked Dead Space 1, so I really gotta pick up 2 sometime.

  • RedHarlow - October 11, 2011 12:15 p.m.

    Also, I don't know why in Dead Space they always say Isaac has Dementia, when he's clearly suffering from textbook symptoms of Paranoid Schizophrenia.

  • Cleanser247 - October 11, 2011 10:55 a.m.

    Sander Cohen! YES! He's my favourite! : )

  • psycho ninja 4 - October 11, 2011 5:13 a.m.

    What no Joker?

  • slimjim441 - October 12, 2011 10:22 p.m.

    Joker is still more of a comic character than game character, otherwise, being number 1 on the list still wouldn't even be close to describing how crazy he is and how much we love him for it.

  • danger.to.others - October 11, 2011 3:48 a.m.

    I appreciate crazy in games, but most of them are goofy over-the-top versions of crazy written by people who it seems obvious have no idea about mental problems firsthand. But even though they usually get it wrong and just make them "movie version" crazy, as someone with some hands on experience in mental people, IO Interactive doesn't get nearly enough credit for how they developed Lynch. Probably because the average gamer wouldn't know. IO really did their homework and Lynch shows a lot, especially subtle, things that are dead on in the thinking process and behavior of a schizophrenic. They made a complex and realistic (at least, as realistic as if a schizo were thrown into warfare and teetering on the breaking point) character far beyond what I've seen any other game do, as far as the pychotics go. If anyone from IO Interactive read through this article, here's letting them know at least one person out there sees the effort you went in making a real pychotic, not the interpretations of people who just watched a movie or the news. A great job and I hope they dive in even deeper with him in the future, while maintaining the complexity and understanding to a killer all other developers have yet to understand. Long post, but how often does the topic come up to commend the creators of Lynch?

  • SanctusScorpius - October 10, 2011 11:41 p.m.

    What about Tira from SoulCalibur, whose chaotic mental state is actually incorporated into her gameplay? She hurts herself with her own attacks and doesn't even care.

  • HamsterGutz - October 10, 2011 10:10 p.m.

    Only game on this list I've played is ME2, and I didn't even like Jack. Mostly because Jack is a guy's name, but whatever. :D

  • quincytheodore - October 10, 2011 9:51 p.m.

    You could fill the list with Bioshock or Drakengard cast here. Good list :D. In retrospect, Grey Fox wasn't that bad. With everything going on for him, he did save and raise Naomi. Alice could be here, that's one beautiful messed up girl. Or Kaine from Nier, she's damaged not only mentally but physically as well, still deceivingly hot though...

  • Xerxes667 - October 10, 2011 8:54 p.m.

    Good List... but I'm surprised Batman isn't on it... very few more beloved mentally damaged people than the bats.

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