A lot of people who like metal also like video games. There’s plenty of crossover appeal between the two art forms – both can involve an unusual confluence of violence and fun, both frequently take great joy in excess and both can lead to noise complaints from neighbours.
Of all the video game characters out there, though, who is most metal? Taking into account that only one character per franchise should be allowed, and that game versions of real people don’t count (which excludes Brütal Legend and all of Guitar Hero’s thinly-disguised analogues of rock giants), here we go.
(Don’t write in about this, btw. Yeah, Max Payne should probably be in there somewhere. Yeah, so should Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. Yeah, there’s nobody from Resident Evil. Twenty isn’t that many…)