Top 10 First Person Shooter Protagonists

Syndax We're looking at the FPS protagonists that can be from the same franchise and so on.

The Top Ten

1 Doomguy (Doom series) Doomguy (Doom series) The Doomguy, commonly known as the Marine and referred to as the Doom Slayer in the rebooted portion of the series, is the unnamed player character in the Doom video game franchise of first-person shooters created by id Software, and its sequels and spin-off media.

"They are rage, brutal, without mercy. But you, you will be worse. Rip and tear, until it is done! "

Wolfenstein made the FPS genre, but Doom defined it.

Hell yeah!

One year after release of Wolfenstein 3D, another titular game was released, Doom. Hell is place for people in afterlife where is eternal damnation, expect for Doomguy, who is eternal damnation for Hell itself. The name? Who cares! Does he speak? Who cares! Demons still alive? Not anymore when Doomguy comes. - Syndax

2 Master Chief (Halo series) Master Chief (Halo series) Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, more commonly known as the Master Chief, is a SPARTAN-II commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command. He is the protagonist and main character in both the Halo trilogy and Reclaimer Saga.

Badass, Powerful, ICONIC

Probably the most recognizable FPS character to date, and certainly the coolest

The game that made the Xbox beginning, we just can't avoid Master Chief. With his well known appearance we never forget this franchise that started the sci-finess. - Syndax

Most powerful of all.

MasterChief is way popular than Doomguy in everything, how is he 2nd?! - GAMEKNIGHT999

3 Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem series) Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem series)

Making titular appearence in Duke Nukem 3D, this ass-kicking, bubblegum-chewing badass keeps making alien corpse piles bigger and makes us laugh with his jokes and puns. - Syndax

4 William B.J. Blazkowicz (Wolfenstein series)

You thought that the Call of Duty protagonists like Mason, Logan or Mitchell will make number one. Hell no. Meet Blazkowicz, the protagonist of the titular Wolfenstein. In Wolf3D, he goes all the way to defeat one person. Hitler. 9 years later, the reboot was released: Return to Castle Wolfenstein, where he goes battling even more Nazis and more twisted creatures to prevent Nazis from taking over the world. He does the same thing in its' sequel Wolfenstein. In 2014., The significant The New Order looked realistic, was even more violent and twisted and left Blazkowicz satistified with more dead Nazis. - Syndax

5 Gordon Freeman (Half-Life Series)

Imagine having Gordon under John Price...

Even with the ponytail, he manages to be gaming's most badass FPS protagonist out there

Baddest of the bad asses!

6 Captain John Price (Call of Duty Modern Warfare series)

Yeah, it could be John 'Soap' MacTavish but his well known moustache hat and his accent, we know what stunts Price does. Going to Pripyat in 1996, survive the collapsing bridge, battle Shepherd and Makarov, he is the one who never dies. - Syndax

7 Sergeant Matthew Baker (Brothers in Arms series)

You didn't expect Baker on this list, did you?
This sergeant does not only kill enemies, destroy artillery and grab documents, he deeply cares for his men making sure no one of them dies, but that job is not easy at all. - Syndax

8 Lieutenant James Jimmy Patterson (Medal of Honor series)

There were multiple choices, but Patterson takes it all. With the D-Day landings, Operation Market Garden, or whatever happens this silent soldier is true menace to Nazis. - Syndax

9 Sergeant John Mullins (Soldier of Fortune series)

Being separatist movement or secret organisation won't save you from this Vietnam veteran. Gun in hands and blow your enemies. Decapitate, dismember, destroy, that's what Mullins does. - Syndax

10 Laurence "Prophet" Barnes (Crysis 3)

The Contenders

11 Strelok (S.T.A.L.K.E.R)
12 Kal Wardin (Nova)

A MasterChief ripoff! - GAMEKNIGHT999

13 Ranger (Quake)

Driven to insanity from traveling between numerous hellish dimensions and killing anything that moved. Killed a Lovecraftian God only to venture further deeper into the unknown

14 Zer0 (Borderlands 2)
15 Roland (Borderlands)
16 Commander Shepard (Mass Effect)

May not be axactly FPS yet is noteworthy

17 Michael "Psycho" Sykes (Crysis 3)
18 Jake "Nomad" Dunn (Crysis 3)
19 Artyom (Metro 2033)
20 Andrew Ryan (Bioshock series) Andrew Ryan (Bioshock series) Andrew Ryan is a fictional character in the BioShock video game series developed by Irrational Games. He serves as the primary antagonist of the first half of the first BioShock and a minor character in its sequel, BioShock 2. Ryan is an idealistic business magnate in the 1940s and 1950s; seeking to ...read more.

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1. William B.J. Blazkowicz (Wolfenstein series)
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3. Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem series)
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2. Duke Nukem (Duke Nukem series)
3. Doomguy (Doom series)
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