Hispanic characters in videogames are rare creatures. I often laugh at my black friends who complain about getting nothing but token black characters. At least you guys get the tokens. Most hispanic characters in videogames are painfully stereotypical, have little relevance to the plot, or they are little more than supporting cast characters with offensively over exaggerated and unflattering characteristics. This list is for the rare, the precious, the few and far between genuinely cool hispanic characters in videogames. Expect it to be a short list. Considerably shorter than the Lame Hispanic Characters list I am planning to work on next.
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Hands down the most badass creature alive in the Saints Row universe. It was heartbreaking to have to kill him.(You will notice that alot as we progress through this list. The majority of the rare badass hispanic characters out there will NOT live to see the ending credits of the games they appear in). Victor here was a freakin' beast. He's the kind of guy that brings his fists to a gun fight. He shrugged off a point blank shot to the mid-section from a pistol like it was nothing. He pretty much had to be blown the heck up to finally go down.
Despite how utterly badass he is in the game, let's get one unfortunate fact out of the way right now. Miguel will never be a prominent character in the Tekken universe. His pitiful performance against Jin Kazama in the newest movie(leaked on youtube) is a good example. It was so lopsided it almost made me put Miguel on the Lame list. Yeah he got some decent shots in the beginning but Jin dominated most of the fight, and brutally demolished Miguel in the end. This is doubly shameful because the person playing miguel in that scene is one of the baddest MMA fighters out there(with a personal real life story that would make for a hell of a movie in it's own right). Still, in the actual game itself Miguel has a stylish look, and fighting style, and an engaging personal story of tragedy and badassery. And the creators of Tekken deserve some credit simply for doing something I never thought I would see in my lifetime. They created a hispanic character in a fighting game and he's NOT a luchador. Granted, they simply traded the luchador stereotype for the matador stereotype, but I will take progress anywhere I can find it man.
I havn't played this game yet but I've seen mostly positive reviews so it's on my list. I will mostly base this entry off his comicbook portrayals. Technically Jackie Ecstacado is mostly Italian...but Jackie's earliest known ancestor Miguel Ecstacado is a full blooded spaniard. So Jackie's hispanic enough for me. It just goes to show that if you go back far enough in somebody's family tree you'll find that we all have a bit of some other race in us somewhere. Anyway, Jackie's badassery practically jumps the shark at times. I mean, what can you say about a guy who lost his virginity at the age of 14 to the police woman who was interrogating him? And right there on the interrogation desk no less. Wow. Ok. Nuff said. Actually there is one more thing worth saying. He knocked up Sara Pezzini. Respect bro. Respect.
I almost put him on the lame list because despite a background story as a South American mercenary that SHOULD make him one of the most hardcore badasses in the Resident Evil franchise I seem to recall him being the only character in the series male AND female, adult and child, to nearly have an emotional breakdown during the zombie crisis. Despite that he performed respectably for the rest of the game, and his portrayal in the movies went a long way toward restoring his "street cred" even though they didn't even get a hispanic actor to play him. I was desperately hoping he would be the main protagonist of Resident Evil 5. Unsurprisingly I was dissapointed. I continue to hold out hope that Carlos will return as a main character in a future RE game. A good one. Not one of the remakes, or a crap addition to the franchise like that FPS-game they did a while back.
Though he was mostly just a supporting character in the few missions Cesar got to actually fight he performed respectably. And though he appears kind of scrawny in-game(So does the default appearance of the game's main protagonist CJ), his concept-art shows him considerably more muscular and badass-looking. Also, he's tapping Kendle who's both sexy AND smart. Respect bro, respect.
Dominic should have been the main character of Gears of War. His personal storyline is far more compelling, he is sympathetic, he is badass, he is everything a main event headline character should be. But his fundamental failure to be born white has condemned him to the perpetual role of sidekick to the cut-and-paste generic "badass" otherwise known as Marcus Fenix. I'd be annoyed if this wasn't already so common i've gotten used to it.
Now i'll concede he's just a cheap imitation of El Mariachi, but let's be honest here. Even a cheap imitation of El Mariachi is about one thousand percent more badass than you'll ever be.
He proved himself to be a fairly badass dude in his various bossfights. He survives a protracted gun fight with Brad(A rather tough government agent), and the hero of the game Frank(A War Reporter who somehow goes on to become an unstoppable zombie-slaying machine). And he had some pretty smooth moves in his cut-scene fight with Brad. He also proves himself a skillful sniper in a later bossfight. It's a shame he gets taken out by a crazy butcher but hey, he had a good run up until then. Besides, as the villain of the story(and one pretty evil SOB, no matter how "just" he thought his cause was) Carlito's death was inevitable. Still, as far as villains go he was a pretty cool character all around. Like all the best villains he was just sympathetic enough that if the things he had done weren't so irredeemably evil you would almost be rooting for him.
Isabela proves herself both as a villain and later as an ally. in addition to being obscenely hot, she's a brilliant scientist and can hold her own in a fight. What's not to love here?
Yanno people have been trying to track this broad down for decades...I think it's safe to say Carmen Sandiego is the greatest criminal of all time.