Instead of brown, dreary corridors, you could interact with everything from toilets to pool tables to strippers. It followed ' Doom', but took the genre to another level instead of a generic Martian base, it's set in Los Angeles. Even if everyone else seems tired of him and how much he enjoys it.It took 14 long years, but gamers can finally get their hands on ' Duke Nukem Forever'.įor those born after 1996, it's the sequel to ' Duke Nukem 3D', a raunchy, violent, but critically acclaimed and popular first-person shooter. And it worked, because he fought off an alien invasion on his own, so why ever stop being that person? I also like the idea that Duke never becomes the 'too-old-for-this-shit' weary action hero neo-cliche, because as far as he's concerned, being the double-machinegun-and-jetpack-and-oneliner-with-a-cigar action hero is living the goddamn dream, and he will never really be tired of it. Who's the kind of person that would decide they would become the Wad of Cliche? Duke was obviously that person, because that's his personality someone that picked a bunch of Cool Things they liked and tried to just be those things, without any sense of irony. I really liked the concept, because it both refused to turn Duke away from being the walking pile of cliches he was, and at the same time kind of made a character out of it. I recall the author of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things wrote about how she'd do a Duke Nukem comeback.
When we need a little bit of Humanity (AKA Sympathy for Mooks)ĭiverse Personalities - The Postmodern Anti-HeroĬlick to shrink. On the Subject of Improving Characters and Plot If you fall into those pitfalls in description then that character is a failure. Honestly.- Hans Christen Andersen, Fate Grand Orderĭamnit I forgot the name of a character strength test where you describe with without talking about their appearance or abilities or something to that extent. How dare you characterize me so simply and shallowly!? Defining a character solely by their appearance is the first step in hack writing! Come on! Think! Ugh, postmodernists. What kind of Hero doesn't smile? - The Tick Owens from Stranger Things, Company 8 from Fire Force, and I can't name anyone else at the moment.Ĭanoness Errant Setheno from 40K is the exception but that's because of Commissar Gamza's rants about how supposedly horrible her character was, after I read her books, well the fictional woman stands more on her merits and principles and the youtuber does not. Walter Steele from Arrow, Maho from Girls und Panzer, Stella from Chivalry of a Failed Knight, Dr. The former leads to inconsistent assholes almost all the time.įor my my favorite characters are those who first appear as well a jerk archetype but turn out to me much more. He changed the characters to fit the plot, YOU change the plot to fit the characters.
Consider the setting and world they live in, do the opposite of Dan Slott. The point is to make someone beyond tropes and archetypes to make the audience like them and be memorable.
Now the below image is what I call the Duke Nukem Test, if Duke shows more personality and depth beyond his surface level in this one page compared to say a movie franchise protagonist then that character is an utter failure. The root of this is because I've seen too many characters in American media just be some cardboard cutouts with no real depth You know I've been thinking lately about all the character based threads I've done.