7 Heroes Who Grew Emotionally, Well Done Them

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  • These classic heroes are veterans of the videogame scene, but are much deeper and more nuanced characters than when we first met them. Here are seven old-school heroes who got an emotional glow-up.
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  • @outsidextra
    @outsidextra  Před 5 lety +356

    Games have changed a lot over the years, and for many, so have their much loved protagonists. Check out these heroes whose personalities went from 2D to damn deep.
    (p.s. if you're one of the first people watching, you might catch Outside Xbox streaming right now! czcams.com/video/34cSsMEXwVY/video.html)

    • @arkangel5116
      @arkangel5116 Před 5 lety +1

      Hi

    • @0Winkleson0
      @0Winkleson0 Před 5 lety +1

      Speaking of which... get some sleep you guys D:

    • @scottgooch2787
      @scottgooch2787 Před 5 lety +1

      do a villain version

    • @sjhmagic1
      @sjhmagic1 Před 5 lety

      kenny omega, perfect casting.

    • @lets_rock_and_ride5943
      @lets_rock_and_ride5943 Před 5 lety +2

      Hey guys love the show is know they were the baddies but I always thought the villains in the Metal Gear games had some great and deep back stories

  • @gemma2275
    @gemma2275 Před 5 lety +1173

    Okay, now if we don't get a list of best video game jackets I'm going to be seriously dissapointed.

    • @BrawlerClaws67
      @BrawlerClaws67 Před 5 lety +28

      Gemma Hahaj if we do, Leon Kennedy from RE4 has got to be number 1.

    • @superkoekje
      @superkoekje Před 5 lety +10

      Yes Oxtra! C'mon. Do it, do it, do it!

    • @sandrasnow-balvert7766
      @sandrasnow-balvert7766 Před 5 lety +8

      male Shep's N7 leather jacket should be on that list as well :D

    • @tomsoar102
      @tomsoar102 Před 5 lety +5

      I argue Garcia 'Fucking' Hotspur from Shadows of the Damned for a sweet jacket

    • @lnsflare1
      @lnsflare1 Před 5 lety +9

      @@BrawlerClaws67
      That's a weird way to spell "Goro Majima."

  • @bareakon
    @bareakon Před 5 lety +421

    I remember when Ellen and Luke were just palette-swaps of Jane and Mike.
    It's good to see the developers really fleshing out their design and backstory.

    • @aidan4529
      @aidan4529 Před 4 lety +43

      Nah luke was always better than mike, he could jump higher than mike. Wait no that’s Mario and luigi

    • @WonderVis97
      @WonderVis97 Před 4 lety +46

      Ellen’s “Kingdoms of Amalur” arc seemed forced at first but it was really well executed.

    • @estoericaferret
      @estoericaferret Před 3 lety +2

      Underrated comment!

    • @LucianDevine
      @LucianDevine Před 2 lety +3

      @@WonderVis97 Yeah, it had a rough start, but really turned a corner and came into it's own on the mid-season finale.

  • @liquidchameleon5993
    @liquidchameleon5993 Před 5 lety +39

    I love how Kratos, a god of immense power, did not once raise his hand to his child. Especially when said child got full of himself and was a snarky little ass. Kratos' actions and words spoke to me on a pretty deep level and I hope on the day that I have children I have a modicum of his restraint, patience, and wisdom

  • @biohazard724
    @biohazard724 Před 5 lety +28

    Chris Redfield from Resident Evil. He went from seeing 7 squad mates die in the first game and that drawing nary a sniffle to him being so affected by losing men it drove him to drink in RE 6.

  • @BrawlerClaws67
    @BrawlerClaws67 Před 5 lety +238

    Luigi also managed to turn from a likable scardy-cat who conquers his fears to a gritty sniper on a war path. He also really seems to hate kart drivers, giving them a deathly stare whenever he passes them.

  • @polnapanties
    @polnapanties Před 5 lety +53

    Can we just appreciate how deep Kratos' voice is? It's so deep the Marianas Trench is jealous.

    • @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
      @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Před 5 lety +11

      Kratos' voice actor is black, which makes me so happy as it can be hard for many black men to get voice acting roles for non-black characters. He did Kratos perfectly, especially the boom in his voice when he yells "BOY!" half the game. I swear I finally had to just turn to my brother and ask, "Does his son have a name?!" to which my brother had to think about for a moment, lol!

    • @zenkim6709
      @zenkim6709 Před rokem +1

      Christopher Judge, aka "Teal'C" from the "Stargate SG-1" TV series

    • @blueninjanoname7338
      @blueninjanoname7338 Před 8 měsíci +1

      ​@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley lol who cares what colour they are

    • @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
      @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Před 8 měsíci

      @@blueninjanoname7338 I do. I care. I love seeing my black people succeeding and getting roles for things that they normally wouldn't. It might be a miniscule thing for you but is huge for us.

    • @blueninjanoname7338
      @blueninjanoname7338 Před 8 měsíci +1

      @@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley "my black people" I think you should have another look into that outlook.

  • @martinhristov3670
    @martinhristov3670 Před 5 lety +78

    What about Nathan Drake? Guy starts off as a stereotypical wise cracking mid-2000's game protagonist and 3 entries later, he's making me tear up to the ending of Uncharted 4 along with the whole crew

  • @TheSilentHamish
    @TheSilentHamish Před 5 lety +67

    Nathan Drake. He went from an Indiana Jones / Tomb Raider kind of character. To a feeling, emotional, father. Who made a choice to marry the woman who he fell in love with. Then stick with that woman. Rather than just finding a new romance in every new game. Plus he reconnected with his older brother, and started a business.

  • @hellpunisher
    @hellpunisher Před 5 lety +551

    I just realised that Alucard is Dracula backwards, and had the exact reaction as Mike.

    • @slewone4905
      @slewone4905 Před 5 lety +16

      Mike backward is Ekim. think of it, Ekim.

    • @rewritable_
      @rewritable_ Před 5 lety +30

      I would think of Jane's name backwards, but I'm afraid of unwittingly conjuring anything in my living room.

    • @HarryBillyBobGeorge
      @HarryBillyBobGeorge Před 5 lety +14

      Wait til you find out about the Mirror of Erised

    • @TheUltrasora
      @TheUltrasora Před 5 lety +5

      @@rewritable_ chanting enaj in the dark for Halloween.

    • @amirhusni6513
      @amirhusni6513 Před 5 lety

      Same

  • @Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet

    "Jessica?"
    "My girlfriend since childhood."
    "Oh right, my own friend too!"
    Must be a Facebook relationship.

    • @AllenTax
      @AllenTax Před 4 lety +4

      Legendary Detective Wobbuffet You mean AOL Facebook wasn't there back then😅.

    • @littleshopofeldritchhorror6224
      @littleshopofeldritchhorror6224 Před 3 lety +3

      Maybe he has several friends called Jessica and was checking which one he meant?

    • @Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet
      @Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet Před 3 lety +4

      @@littleshopofeldritchhorror6224 or he's a Viking type "than she is my life long friend as well! We die for her tonight!"

    • @skaraptor2497
      @skaraptor2497 Před 3 lety +1

      Maybe because he is her BF this guy is now her friend automatically

    • @ZoobiethePopplio
      @ZoobiethePopplio Před 3 lety

      @@AllenTax MySpace is the 90s version of Facebook, I think

  • @whereisspacebar2991
    @whereisspacebar2991 Před 5 lety +1149

    What about Sonic? He went from a silent and speedy hedgehog to a (usually) speedy hedgehog that you wish would go back to being quiet.

    • @paperplanegamer5947
      @paperplanegamer5947 Před 5 lety +17

      That’s a good pointer

    • @lnsflare1
      @lnsflare1 Před 5 lety +29

      Eh, Sonic changes personality from game to game. The Sonic in Sonic Adventure is different than the one in Sonic Unleashed, who is technically the same mellow person (furson?) as in the Storybook series, and they are all a lot different than the kind of jackassy and excessively quippy ones from Sonic Colors and Lost World.

    • @zoe-janesutherland4359
      @zoe-janesutherland4359 Před 5 lety +10

      Exactly, Sonic Mania showed how quiet Sonic is the best Sonic. The animations in Sonic CD really showcase Sonic in his best light.

    • @reelgesh51
      @reelgesh51 Před 5 lety +5

      what about shadow
      shadow is sick :D

    • @WindiChilliwack
      @WindiChilliwack Před 5 lety +1

      quiet characters are usually the best.

  • @diredinosaus
    @diredinosaus Před 5 lety +902

    You forgot something from the Luigi Personality timeline!
    It goes:
    *Nothing-Coward-Coldhearted Sniper!*

    • @lnt305
      @lnt305 Před 5 lety +49

      You forgot dead

    • @diredinosaus
      @diredinosaus Před 5 lety +44

      *(Also dead)*

    • @OverlordMMM
      @OverlordMMM Před 5 lety +48

      We all knew his final incarnation was coming ever since the Mario Kart death stare.
      *shudders*

    • @ClownDollThatHasContemptForYou
      @ClownDollThatHasContemptForYou Před 5 lety +16

      You forgot a very angry driver

    • @OverlordMMM
      @OverlordMMM Před 5 lety +6

      I thought the next stage was to become a Boo, then Boosette.

  • @szbnahl
    @szbnahl Před 5 lety +438

    Now I'm terrified of the thought of unbearded 10-years-ago Andy, who was presumably also a depthless psychopathic killing machine.

    • @patrickmccurry1563
      @patrickmccurry1563 Před 5 lety +35

      That's why he loves John Marston so much. Andy identifies with his murder arc.

    • @leonardocota4703
      @leonardocota4703 Před 5 lety

      szbnahl underrated comment

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams Před 5 lety +8

      Andy from 2009. He looked like a dude from Good Charlotte.
      trendyvids.com/video/eiJ_AMeFKy0

    • @nummy_nummers
      @nummy_nummers Před 5 lety +2

      @@joshuahadams I DO love taking photos, thanks Andy!

    • @maxaronson1017
      @maxaronson1017 Před 5 lety

      szbnahl to

  • @jonbaxter2254
    @jonbaxter2254 Před 5 lety +1

    Blasko's transformation was so well done and genuinely moving in the New Order. The new colossus on the other hand seems to have fumbled and dropped everything on the floor.

  • @sethneville
    @sethneville Před 5 lety +569

    I think my Fallout 4 character grew quite a bit. She started off as a woman lost in time, a lone survivor desperate to find her son. Then she became a clinical hoarder and kleptomaniac. From there it was quadruple agent in and against every major faction, to murderer of every sentient being in Far Harbor, to bandit overlord of the Commonwealth. Quite the arc.

    • @Gamer88334
      @Gamer88334 Před 5 lety +45

      She was a hero, but she pulled an Anakin Skywalker and lived long enough to see herself become a villain. In other words, she started off good but wasn't killed off soon enough.

    • @kiera6646
      @kiera6646 Před 5 lety +9

      You're giving Bethesda way too much credit there.

    • @laurabruce9948
      @laurabruce9948 Před 5 lety +28

      Who's going to win: a building full of hardened raiders or a pissed off lawyer with a .45? Team Nora all the way baby!

    • @entertext2554
      @entertext2554 Před 5 lety

      r/justneckbeardthings

    • @Sandals578
      @Sandals578 Před 5 lety +14

      You forgot the defining trigger moment when she shot her own son in the face as he casually strolled into the same room as her after he taunted her with a robot version of himself as a child locked in a cage.

  • @mar_speedman
    @mar_speedman Před 5 lety

    Don't forget how Luigi blossomed from coward to sniper expert! XD

  • @TheRupertLitterbin
    @TheRupertLitterbin Před 5 lety +27

    Shoutout to doom guy for staying loyal and being an emotionless killing machine...
    After saving hyrule of course

  • @television321man
    @television321man Před 5 lety

    "But i do enjoy fulton ballooning everything." Same.

  • @andymcp4752
    @andymcp4752 Před 5 lety +170

    How about agent 47? From unfeeling clone to revenge fueled parental figure.. back to unfeeling clone because thats how we like it thanks.. less of a character arc more like a loop

    • @nibbles135
      @nibbles135 Před 5 lety +6

      No, its just two character arcs back to back

    • @insaincaldo
      @insaincaldo Před 5 lety +1

      Well he resolved his arc and his story didn't end, so he gave it up until such a time when we need him to grow. Which would be never.

    • @umarwarraich3177
      @umarwarraich3177 Před 5 lety +15

      Dude, he worked as a groundskeeper for a church in hitman 2 until he was blackmailed into doing assassinations, in which he killed the guys who black mailed him and then began to accept that he couldn't live a peaceful life and returned to an assassins life. He had his arc.

    • @tangerinetech5300
      @tangerinetech5300 Před 5 lety +7

      I actually liked absolutions

    • @ryanpennington8108
      @ryanpennington8108 Před 4 lety +5

      @@tangerinetech5300 same ;_; lowkey feel like Absolution gets too much hate sometimes.

  • @kaspervletter290
    @kaspervletter290 Před 3 lety +1

    04:09 o yeah remember that captain?

  • @Khornecussion
    @Khornecussion Před 2 lety +1

    BJ wanting to see his kid / dying from his body being so damaged from Death's Head being a sore loser and frag grenading both of them is so sad...
    It hurt me especially bad seeing him crying and saying he wanted to see his child and see them grow up because I started thinking about how they told me my Granny reacted to the news that my parents were gonna have a child. She had never been upset about having cancer before that. She was so elated... then about six months later they told her there was nothing more they could do... she just had however long she could manage and they would just give her painkillers that would sedate her enough to live with the pain from " female cancer ". She never once complained for her own sake... but three months later on April 1st... I was born. She was there. She finally got to hold me after I got brought home and while she was holding me she broke down crying and just get kept whispering; " I'm so sorry I won't be here to see you grow up, baby boy. I promise I'll watch you. I promise I'll see everything. I'll be here, even if you don't know it. " - She actually stayed alive long enough to see my first steps... my first words... I wish she could've seen more. I do... so now any time something like what was used in Wolfenstein is used as plot, or motivation... or tragedy... It breaks me. To be loved so much by someone when I had just come into the world... and that's the issue BJ faces... he wants his child to know he loves them. He doesn't want that love to go unnoticed, or for that child to think they were unloved, or feel a void in their life because they never got it... It hurts. I was so lucky to not only have parents that actually cared, but two pairs of loving grandparents - sadly the last of my grandparent is... on his way out due to Alzheimer's and I just spend as much time as I can talking with him... hearing his stories he can still recall... and he'll tell me the same story over and over and I just smile and pretend it's the first time he told me.
    Value what time you have with folks, people. That game had a ton of good morals in it and that's one of them. You never know when life is going to be changed for you in such drastic ways you may not have a future, or may not be able to function in such a way that you can live the way you want any longer... it's scary... so surround yourself with the people you love and that love you. Friends, family, pets. Things you care for. Those matter more than pushing everyone away for big money... if my grandpa could make millions while being a preacher ( He didn't make the millions from preaching, he invested. ) - then the common person can do some very basic investments and have a nice safety net... and be able to focus on family over funding... you'll have that green piece of paper for however long you keep it, or that bank account number. Your family, especially the elder members grow closer to no longer being with you every day. Every hour. It's a scary thought, but reality. Spend time with one another occasionally.

  • @filmandfirearms
    @filmandfirearms Před 5 lety +3

    9:23 I just had the best timed ad ever. As soon as Ellen said "to this", the ad started

  • @jefgirdler7232
    @jefgirdler7232 Před 5 lety +1

    And the winner is - BJ. Like, there are literal tearjerker moments in the latest two games. It's kinda astounding.

  • @SpoonOfDoom
    @SpoonOfDoom Před 5 lety +185

    Wolfenstein was *a lot* more mature and heartfelt than I expected from a game that also features a villain named "Deathshead" and dual wielding machine guns to shoot robot nazis.
    That game should have had a sticker: "Warning - you need to be more emotionally prepared for this than you think".

    • @tristanmaguire8011
      @tristanmaguire8011 Před 5 lety +3

      Spoon Of Doom haha it’s so true.

    • @pegasusdrive12
      @pegasusdrive12 Před 5 lety +7

      Wolfenstein is awesome. Have me the feels.

    • @LocalHeretic-ck1kd
      @LocalHeretic-ck1kd Před 5 lety +10

      I played Wolfenstein The New Order and I was pleasantly suprised. It was a good game with good story and good action. I enjoyed it much more than I would have thought.

    • @williammckay48
      @williammckay48 Před 5 lety +1

      @@LocalHeretic-ck1kd Story was meh and the gameplay wasn't as satisfying as the first one.

    • @necksnapper3575
      @necksnapper3575 Před 5 lety

      New order, not new colossus

  • @montlejohnbojangles8937

    Seriously, Ellen's hair is just rad. I wish I could get a colour fade that good.

  • @00blaat00
    @00blaat00 Před 5 lety +14

    Dishonored's Corvo went from silent protagonist to 'chatty aunt Lucy at your birthday party' between parts 1 and 2.

    • @SyndicateOperative
      @SyndicateOperative Před 2 lety +1

      He did love his exposition. "I'm going to find [this doctor], kill [that antagonist], and save [this character]" is a good example from the beginning of the game, and would you know it, it's literally the plot of the game.

  • @tomhubbard8510
    @tomhubbard8510 Před 3 lety

    17:23 cool quips!

  • @leonardocota4703
    @leonardocota4703 Před 5 lety +59

    Heroes who got deep ? What about Merilween, and her transformation from a lovely innocent druid to a meatgrinder enthusiast

    • @Sableagle
      @Sableagle Před 5 lety +6

      How about Prudence, who went from Deep Purple to Deep Ones?

  • @NickChaz
    @NickChaz Před 5 lety

    13:58 ..... how did I never realize that? Blew my mind 😂

  • @gavinwilliamson7481
    @gavinwilliamson7481 Před 5 lety +48

    Wait, what? The entry is Solid Snake but you talk about *Venom Snake?*
    I mean, fair enough, MGSV is an emotional game but that's more the emotional development of Big Boss than anyone else.
    You want Solid Snake's emotional development? Look no further than MGS4 where he finds out he'll die of old age at, like, 50 *AND* even if he does live longer he'll infect the world with a mutated Fox Die virus! This creates a bitter, self destructive old man that cares only about his friends and the mission right up until the end. Then, he reconciles with Big Boss and goes into a cozy retirement, hopefully with an army of sled dogs, finally living comfortably!

    • @granmastersword
      @granmastersword Před 5 lety +4

      And then he dies before the box technology has been improved to be waterproof and infrared proof

    • @SyndicateOperative
      @SyndicateOperative Před 3 lety +2

      he was much younger than 50. Not even 40.

  • @thepyroghoul
    @thepyroghoul Před 5 lety

    And the captain. He really loved that guy

  • @zacharypierce2658
    @zacharypierce2658 Před 5 lety +5

    Kratos has always been a deep, emotionally driven character. At the beginning of the first game, he's literally narrating before attempting suicide. I believe that this is during the fight against hades, when he is protecting his family from hordes of demons, and can heal from hugging them, or maybe that heals them. Kratos didn't just become deep, the emotion just took more of the forefront in the storytelling. Don't get me wrong, Gow4 is the best I've played, but to say it's the only one with emotional depth is a disservice to the series.

    • @Good_Boy_3000
      @Good_Boy_3000 Před 10 měsíci

      Absolutely.
      As for the demons, they were actually depicted as Kratos himself.
      And Kratos had to sacrifice his health to heal his family

  • @izackmaniac7922
    @izackmaniac7922 Před 5 lety

    21:58 now imagining Luigi with a beard... **shudders**

  • @ccsleeper5045
    @ccsleeper5045 Před 5 lety +436

    what about Doom guy? Starts as a regular monster killer and ends up being the Hero of Hyrule!

    • @homelessmexican410
      @homelessmexican410 Před 5 lety +32

      Might be the other way around? I doubt space fighting demons would come first then medieval fighting demons

    • @spacebear4742
      @spacebear4742 Před 5 lety +29

      Makes no difference to the Doom Slayer. Rip and Tear, until it is done.

    • @spacebear4742
      @spacebear4742 Před 5 lety +4

      Adie Tri Hanindriyo tingle began as a fairy chaser. ended up as Master Chief

    • @tristanmaguire8011
      @tristanmaguire8011 Před 5 lety +7

      Well BJ is “supposed to be a relative” of Doom guys so maybe that counts.

    • @Shadomancer
      @Shadomancer Před 5 lety +5

      Started as a Doom Slayer, turned into a badass Goblin Slayer.
      Might sound like a demotion, but damn someone need to kill those rapelings.

  • @Yoshii49
    @Yoshii49 Před 5 lety

    Snake was so much more than just a headband...he was a box disguise too!

  • @samuelstensgaard4828
    @samuelstensgaard4828 Před 5 lety +547

    Not sure if title is sarcastic, or just British.

    • @tf2615
      @tf2615 Před 5 lety +100

      Both the same thing to be honest

    • @connorkay6130
      @connorkay6130 Před 5 lety +19

      @@tf2615 true. well done

    • @NisansaDdS
      @NisansaDdS Před 5 lety +32

      Both. And Ellen's "Good for them" at 0:31

    • @wangpasta
      @wangpasta Před 5 lety +14

      Also a touch of bitterness

    • @Steve-YT383
      @Steve-YT383 Před 5 lety +18

      You're saying there's a difference

  • @albertgore7435
    @albertgore7435 Před 5 lety

    Man, Cody’s prison rags look like really comfy pajamas.

  • @CaitlinRC
    @CaitlinRC Před 5 lety +196

    You could argue that Link from Legend Of Zelda falls under this category, mainly because of breath of the wild where you can unlock his emotional growth by getting the memories!

    • @frodobaggins7710
      @frodobaggins7710 Před 5 lety +37

      His trips to Mars and Hell made him emotional in other ways too

    • @RayLumos
      @RayLumos Před 5 lety +7

      I thought that too first but he if we are honest he is pretty much always a silent hero who just gets the job done. But maybe I'm missing the point and I just don't see it.

    • @parthhivashley5592
      @parthhivashley5592 Před 5 lety

      @Caitlin RC I totally agree

    • @thatblackguy01
      @thatblackguy01 Před 5 lety +17

      I feel it less for Link and more for Zelda. Link basically was always good at what he did, even if he didn't talk much. Zelda had her weaknesses shown, accepted, and overcome. Which is far above the "save the princess" trope she was in the beginning.

    • @lnsflare1
      @lnsflare1 Před 5 lety +9

      @@thatblackguy01
      To be fair, barring a couple of examples, Link and Zelda are usually not the same people as their namesakes in previous Legend of Zelda titles.

  • @omega5040
    @omega5040 Před 5 lety +1

    Link went from a hero clad in green armor killing monsters and powerful wizards, to a guy clad in green armor killing demons fighting in hell.

  • @lnt305
    @lnt305 Před 5 lety +189

    "She has a grenade launcher" "That's right, I'm coming for you bastards"
    Ah yes, Lara's emotional growth was very moving

    • @thecritigamer4321
      @thecritigamer4321 Před 5 lety +11

      Vengeance does not mean no character progression.

    • @KaiTenSatsuma
      @KaiTenSatsuma Před 5 lety +4

      Since they're prequels wouldnt it technically be a regression?

    • @lnt305
      @lnt305 Před 5 lety +9

      @@KaiTenSatsuma you mean this whole character arc is about the transformation from human being to British? Interesting.

    • @KaiTenSatsuma
      @KaiTenSatsuma Před 5 lety +7

      @@lnt305 "Many years and bra sizes later...."
      It is a bit weird when the exact same character has boatloads more personality in the prequels than in the games they technically predate.

    • @lnt305
      @lnt305 Před 5 lety +5

      @@KaiTenSatsuma hahaha, omg I forgot about the bra sizes. Well. Lara was still at her edgiest in her first appearance. (oh no, bad puns are contagious!)
      I guess that's why it's a reboot, not a prequel to these games ;-)

  • @mewmew34
    @mewmew34 Před 3 lety

    Luigi's fear of ghosts was revealed before Luigi's Mansion. It's brought up in Paper Mario, if you go into his secret basement room and read his diary. As the game progresses he makes entries regarding being jealous that Mario gets to do all this awesome stuff while he's stuck at home. At one point he writes about how he is certain there is a ghost behind him, so he's not going to turn around but instead walk backwards to reach the exit and then go hide in bed. The diary also hints at him getting his own game, which later happens in the form of Luigi's Mansion.

  • @HarryBillyBobGeorge
    @HarryBillyBobGeorge Před 5 lety +9

    Revan. Just a historical figure for the first half of the game, then you find out he's your silent protagonist. Another game of him being a historical figure and THEN he gets an entire expansion in The Old Republic examining his literally broken soul. Like his soul is LITERALLY SPLIT IN TWO. HE HAS TWO SOULS.

  • @TheDeeplyCynical
    @TheDeeplyCynical Před 5 lety

    4:40 - Ah Final Fight CD..... Best voice acting ever

  • @ratholin
    @ratholin Před 5 lety +3

    Anyone else have flashbacks to the Terry Pratchett novel Thud! when they mentioned Alucard is Dracula backwards. ‘It’s one of the lesser-known failings of the vampire. No one knows why. It goes with having big windows and easily torn curtains. A sort of undeath-wish, you might say. However clever they are, they can’t resist thinking that no one will recognize their name if they spell it backwards.’

  • @QwertyCaesar
    @QwertyCaesar Před 5 lety

    Isaac Clarke may be deaerving of a nod. He goes from a voiceless protagonist whose greatest self-expression is a facepalm into a person with understandable character flaws and motivations with his personality being heavily defined by the traumas that we've experienced with him.

  • @precious_muse
    @precious_muse Před 5 lety +32

    One of the Final Fantasy protagonists could be on this list; just about all of them have an emotional 180. Cloud goes from being a mercenary who routinely announces that he's "not interested" in what everyone is doing to being . . . interested, in saving the world. Tidus, who starts as a cocky athlete, becomes very humbled at the end. Noctis conquers his disinterest and depression to decide he's ready to become a king.

    • @Epsilonyx
      @Epsilonyx Před 5 lety +2

      Summer O'Neal I’m with you, I for one definitely thought of Noctis when I saw the video title

    • @precious_muse
      @precious_muse Před 5 lety

      Good, I'm glad somebody did.

    • @Draeckon
      @Draeckon Před 5 lety +2

      Except this list is specifically talking about the changes protagonists over a series undergo from entry to entry, not how they change within a single game.

    • @Xaiclun
      @Xaiclun Před 2 lety

      That's just regular character growth most protagonist go through in their story. Especially troubled ones like Cloud. They would be a worthy addition to the list only if it would have been the case that cloud didn't go through some growth in his original game but later on in one of the spin offs or the remake.

  • @demonwarb1
    @demonwarb1 Před 5 lety

    21:05 FELT something. Past tense. RIP Luigi 1983-2018

  • @nicholascross3557
    @nicholascross3557 Před 5 lety +8

    There was just a delightful purity about how Ellen said "Wheeeeee!"
    Emotional growth is fine, but never lose touch with your inner child, folks. :)

  • @apollyonkatastrefia1586

    I remember getting the original NES around 1986/87 and loving that first double 🐉

  • @nibbles135
    @nibbles135 Před 5 lety +115

    This video was made just to talk about how great Luigi is, wasn't it?

    • @nachtvosje4255
      @nachtvosje4255 Před 5 lety +14

      They didn't mention him turning from a coward into a coldblooded sniper.

    • @nibbles135
      @nibbles135 Před 5 lety +12

      or the pure hatred he shows when he drives

  • @gremlinwc8996
    @gremlinwc8996 Před 5 lety +1

    Can i say susie from deltarune. She practically hated everyone (including kris) and would never listen, hurt npcs, and even become a bad guy. But through the adventure she became a pacifist, better person, and a friend of kris, ralsei, and lancer.

  • @deathbykonami5487
    @deathbykonami5487 Před 5 lety +22

    Cmdr Shepard after Mass Effect 1
    In fact the characters even poke fun at how wooden Shep was before the Normandy was blown up in Mass Effect 2

    • @jaywhit8224
      @jaywhit8224 Před 5 lety +2

      Don't forget the Mass Effect DLC which poked fun at him/her over the whole series. "I should go."

  • @adamstewart2760
    @adamstewart2760 Před 5 lety

    Lol! Ellen's face when she was talking about Lara's transformation. Still waiting for that rant video 😊

  • @zulubunsen9067
    @zulubunsen9067 Před 5 lety +9

    Doomguy got some emotional growth as well, DOOM had a lot more heart and tears to it than the original. Especially when Doomguy tears out an Imp's heart.

  • @leehampton358
    @leehampton358 Před 3 lety

    BJ talking to his mom almost made me cry... Jesus

  • @rubenconzelmann4355
    @rubenconzelmann4355 Před 5 lety +173

    what about Ezio in AC II??? Ellen, I am not angry I am just disappointed

    • @omriarielly1
      @omriarielly1 Před 5 lety +17

      its progress in the same game.... the point of the list is change in character with different games.

    • @thecritigamer4321
      @thecritigamer4321 Před 5 lety +4

      Well he is a completely different character from Altair. Doesn’t fit the criteria of this video.

    • @QurttoRco
      @QurttoRco Před 5 lety +1

      Hey Ellen's dad

    • @rodrigocenteno9055
      @rodrigocenteno9055 Před 5 lety +18

      At first I was like "what are you talking about?" but then I had a flashback to the sweet and awesome intro of Reveletions with Ezio saying how he's tired and how the game shows how much he has matured and says how when he was young was so full of anger and wanting revenge. So now I'm with you: yeah Ellen what the heck?

    • @devilmaycry09dante
      @devilmaycry09dante Před 5 lety +2

      Calm down, there will be commenter edition

  • @grafkrumelmonster9395
    @grafkrumelmonster9395 Před 5 lety

    Luke forgot someone!!
    Link
    He started out as barely more than a bunch of silent green pixels and turned into a still green, still silent, space armor wearing, shotgun wealding, deamon killing badass.
    It may not be super emotional but still a huge change.

  • @AncientSkullKid
    @AncientSkullKid Před 5 lety +8

    Link!
    In the 1st game he's just a bunch of green pixels.
    In the 2nd game he kisses the princess at the end.
    And in the 3rd game he has an uncle who dies in front of him.
    And now we have Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, and Breath of the Wild! All of which feature much more emotional Links who have complicated relationships with Zelda and other characters like family, mentors, and Tingle.

  • @cramirez3855
    @cramirez3855 Před 3 lety

    Andy is the Dr. Manhattan of this universe, Mike is Rorshach and Luke is The Owl-guy. Ellen is that girl that hangs with the The Owl-guy

  • @sgtrielly
    @sgtrielly Před 5 lety +5

    Isaac Clark from Dead Space. He did go from silent Engineer trying to stay alive to traumatized survivor trying to protect all of mankind in three games.

    • @kuzrahfan2004
      @kuzrahfan2004 Před 5 lety

      Limb-removing, med pack using, necromorph abusing, ellie-loving badass space monster killing veteran. I wish they could make another game

  • @sizemorelordofpuns8429

    One of the biggest character developments in video games has got to be turok..he went from badass reluctant hero to someone trying to discover his past

  • @MrAuthor3DS
    @MrAuthor3DS Před 5 lety +15

    What about Riku (Kingdom Hearts)? Started as the cool kid of Destiny Islands who succumbed to darkness out of desperation to save Kairi, and now he's a wisened, rational young man who's achieved inner balance.

    • @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
      @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley Před 5 lety +1

      Good one! Wish we could say the same for Kairi :/ I mean, half her game time in 3 was talking with Axel and cheering him up and then when things do hit the dirt, she doesn't do much. She has a keyblade, let the girl fight! And maybe win for once...

  • @Hailstormand
    @Hailstormand Před 5 lety

    Prince of Persia iterations! First he’s just a jumper and avoids traps, then he’s an Olympic-grade acrobat-gymnast with a stamina anyone would sell their souls for, next he’s a thief with a penchant for thick carpets - the list goes on and on!

  • @teal_m_101
    @teal_m_101 Před 5 lety +10

    Every clone who survived Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2005).

  • @sadxrules9023
    @sadxrules9023 Před 5 lety

    The original crew from CoD Zombies got such a massive overhaul from being hilarious stereotypes to fleshed out, more developed characters. (Love the both tho)

  • @musashi1596
    @musashi1596 Před 5 lety +13

    You do MGS1 Solid Snake a huge injustice. Did you just skip all the codex calls?

  • @shooter5769
    @shooter5769 Před 5 lety

    Raiden from MGS, he was like that newbie who always dies at beggining but then in MGR he became super badass.

  • @maxvel0city906
    @maxvel0city906 Před 5 lety +9

    I would just like to say solid snake doesn't wear a cool headband, he wears a bandanna in the same way that "I don't run away, I tactically evade."

  • @pauciloquentflibbertigibbe5217

    4:44 Dude went from 'Jessica? Who's that? Never heard of her?' straight to 'She's my friend too! Count me in! I shall fight many disposable and oddly similar looking minions in order to save your childhood sweetheart who I definitely know!'

  • @matteblack144
    @matteblack144 Před 5 lety +36

    WHAT ABOUT EZIO AUDITORE! One of the greatest assassins within the Assassin's creed series. We spent 3 games learning and growing with him

  • @plague6566
    @plague6566 Před 5 lety

    The snake family always have there fair share of emotional things

  • @odstbag337
    @odstbag337 Před 5 lety +4

    I can think of three others who, if you look closely, all have had massive character development.
    Doomguy, who is just as badass, just with a convoluted backstory you may have missed (just ask Mike).
    The Master Chief, who has had some of the most impactful emotional evolution in the Halo series.
    Agent 47, who you all know the development of so I'll refrain from summing it up here.

  • @greygaming3016
    @greygaming3016 Před 5 lety

    Commander Shepard underwent a pretty noticeable addition of depth throughout the Mass Effect trilogy. Even renegades have nightmares about people they couldn't save, and while punching Kalisa Bint-sinan Al-Jilani in the face, and banging alien babes does help keep up the street cred, it Shepard still experiences deep emotional complications along the way, ending with saying goodbye to their oldest friend and Mentor (Anderson) before making the ultimate sacrifice(maybe).

  • @alessandrogentili5640
    @alessandrogentili5640 Před 5 lety +4

    My day just got considerably better, thanks oxtra

    • @lnt305
      @lnt305 Před 5 lety +1

      I read dad and wondered if your father had a rare condition that could only be treated with ox videos 🤔

  • @DarkerSideX14X
    @DarkerSideX14X Před 5 lety

    Master Chief had quite the character development

  • @chrisgodfrey2685
    @chrisgodfrey2685 Před 5 lety +5

    What about Agent 47 from the new Hitman games? He was an emotionless killing machine in the first game, but I could have sworn I saw his mouth twitch when he took that selfie with Catalina Delgado in the Hitman 2 game play.

  • @Sidad
    @Sidad Před 5 lety +1

    1-kick gum
    2-chew ass

  • @SeriousApache
    @SeriousApache Před 4 lety +2

    "What the hell kind of name is Soap eh? How'd a muppet like you pass selection?"
    5 years later:
    "OH NO, NO, NO, NO! SOAP!!! NO, NO! SOAP!!!"
    ...
    "I'm sorry..."

  • @Nandysokar
    @Nandysokar Před 2 lety

    Mike’s Andromeda Tshirt is soo cool ❤️❤️

  • @hildbrg6569
    @hildbrg6569 Před 5 lety +13

    What about Clementine!? Not to forget we, the players, been raising her for years.

  • @eric_moore-6126
    @eric_moore-6126 Před 4 lety

    Bowser Jr., while not a hero, has shown growth. While simply doing whatever to please and be like his father in Super Mario Galaxy, he has since developed a more complex relationship with his father, as shown in Mario + Rabbids.

  • @seand7042
    @seand7042 Před 5 lety +94

    Commander Shepard, by the end of mass effect 3 she's just been through everything

    • @Rainbowhawk1993
      @Rainbowhawk1993 Před 5 lety +6

      Hence why my Shepard retires with Liara post-Destroy.

    • @omriarielly1
      @omriarielly1 Před 5 lety +1

      what?

    • @seand7042
      @seand7042 Před 5 lety

      @@Rainbowhawk1993 I don't know why but I quite like your opinion and name

    • @HarryBillyBobGeorge
      @HarryBillyBobGeorge Před 5 lety +2

      Idk Shepard was pretty fleshed out in the first game.

    • @jehut2k10
      @jehut2k10 Před 5 lety +7

      Commander Shepard: we'll bang ok?
      Reapers attacking the galaxy? Better buy stuff for my fish tank

  • @robertcorr6971
    @robertcorr6971 Před 5 lety

    The Evil Within's Sebastian got real deep after the first

  • @musicadictor
    @musicadictor Před 5 lety +7

    2:07 The director said "give Luke an apple, make him look even more like an a**hole"
    Wait wh-? JEREMY!

    • @cptseagrave1191
      @cptseagrave1191 Před 5 lety +1

      I think it was because he said to promote employee loyalty with a bowl of complementary fruit instead of family killing
      1:39

  • @TheAtarilord
    @TheAtarilord Před 5 lety

    Conker's Bad Fur Day definitely should be on this list

  • @azuredragoon2054
    @azuredragoon2054 Před 5 lety +41

    No mention of Clementine from The Walking Dead (Telltale games)? She had to grow up as a child, suddenly torn from her normal suburban life and thrown into Zombie Apocalypse that her parents would not have let her seen movies of the day Lee found her. And she had to not just grow up in that setting, but also grow up quickly from a little suburban girl to knowing a whole new set of rules to life.

  • @pronemanatee6861
    @pronemanatee6861 Před 3 lety +1

    David Hayter will always be the true voice Solid snake

  • @TacoKhezis
    @TacoKhezis Před 5 lety +40

    I hope someone mentions Tetris here. I mean, going from simple squares and lines all the way to Z-Shapes and T-Shapes... Whew! What a ride!

    • @LilyMilos
      @LilyMilos Před 5 lety +7

      And as old age set in, it started to feel like time was moving faster and faster

  • @ellielacinoir602
    @ellielacinoir602 Před 2 lety

    Billy made me cry.

  • @Crimson_Rogue97
    @Crimson_Rogue97 Před 5 lety +77

    8. Your D&D characters. They've gone from sweet wistful beings to regular killing machines

    • @Chris_Sizemore
      @Chris_Sizemore Před 5 lety +9

      You do know that the occupation of adventurer can basically be described as "murder hobo"? Or "home invasion robbery"? Or even "Hero"!

    • @RoosterFloyd
      @RoosterFloyd Před 5 lety +5

      The bard that starts as loveable scamp and evolves into an unbearable asshole.

    • @mortemtyrannus8813
      @mortemtyrannus8813 Před 5 lety +3

      The correct term is "murderhobo."

    • @KaiTenSatsuma
      @KaiTenSatsuma Před 5 lety +3

      Ah yes, as other replies have stated this is known as the "Murder Hobo" playertype

    • @nickspencerfishingrodd2383
      @nickspencerfishingrodd2383 Před 5 lety +1

      What's D&D?

  • @Thayne1
    @Thayne1 Před 5 lety

    What about Clementine from The Walking Dead? She's was a little girl in Season 1 who could barely deal with the harsh outside world and relied on Lee, but now she's a badass girl who acts as a parental figure to a little kid who grew up in the apocalypse: now that's REAL emotional growth.

  • @lordwisehammer
    @lordwisehammer Před 5 lety +30

    Yes Kiefer Sutherlands Snake covering himself in ashes and disinterestedly mumbling about keeping them with him had so much more depth than David Hayters monologue about the importance of what we pass on to the next generation.

    • @highadmiraljt5853
      @highadmiraljt5853 Před 5 lety +3

      SubHumanTorch
      Yes, because respecting some dead soldiers is much more important than caring about the next generations, and trying to prevent the same mistakes we have done

  • @ChristianSpliess
    @ChristianSpliess Před 5 lety

    ESMERALDA? - Come, Pink-Nightshade-Princess, this is no playmate for you.

  • @vadandrumist1670
    @vadandrumist1670 Před 5 lety +112

    I’m sorry, but where is Spartan 117? It was a slow burn, but a burn nonetheless that warmed the Master Chief’s heart over the course of the series.

    • @HarryBillyBobGeorge
      @HarryBillyBobGeorge Před 5 lety +7

      Might be that he had an entire book about how fucked up he was before the first game was out. Idk.
      But he and Revan are the ones I wanted to see

    • @myrojyn
      @myrojyn Před 5 lety +2

      Vadan Drumist they broke the story with 4 & 5 :/

    • @vadandrumist1670
      @vadandrumist1670 Před 5 lety +3

      StubotticusRex Agreed. Wouldn’t have been so bad if they had ended on 4 though. Appreciated Master Chief’s character at the very least, and is the basis of the recommendation.

    • @Bucky91702
      @Bucky91702 Před 5 lety +2

      Wait until 6 to do the commenter edition with him in it. Unless 343 fuck it up worse than 5. I got better emotions out of a rotten avacado than blue team

    • @Bucky91702
      @Bucky91702 Před 5 lety

      @@vadandrumist1670 I think 6 could be amazing though. They should end it on the option to kill Cortana or say fuck it and set off the Halo ring, with both options killing the mean green mc

  • @SoraKoudo
    @SoraKoudo Před 3 lety

    10:20 BJ over here having a breakdown deadass just breaks my heart, and I’ve never played any games in that series,

  • @michiev
    @michiev Před 5 lety +4

    There might be some arguments here, but Agent 47 from the Hitman series, he started out his life as a blocky murder machine with no emotion, his entire purpose was to kill and look good doing it. Then he kills his father, runs away to Italy, finds religion, saves a priest, shows immense emotion in guilt, regret and anger in the following titles (Blood Money, Absolution), puts the safety of Victoria before his own, keeps the promise he made to his only friend Diana, realizes Diana is actually his only friend. And now in the years that follow he seems to be comfortable with who he is at long last, accepting that his job is what he's good at, and not running away to italy every five seconds and quitting the ICA.

  • @eric_moore-6126
    @eric_moore-6126 Před 4 lety

    0:03 "In ye olden times, game heroes were expected to do just 2 things:" rip and tear.

  • @l1233799
    @l1233799 Před 5 lety +6

    So Cody is 51 years old and still look as buff as hell? Must be all that eating chicken off the floor.

  • @myrojyn
    @myrojyn Před 5 lety

    Ellen the consummate professional discussing Tomb Raider without ranting