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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