10 Greatest Next-Gen Video Game Heroes
4. Clementine - The Walking Dead
Surrogate Daughter of Lee
Telltales' The Walking Dead begins with the player taking control of Lee Everett - a convicted killer who's on his way to prison before the zombie outbreak causes the vehicle he's in to crash. When Lee encounters a group of survivors, including an eight-year-old girl called Clementine, who's trying to reunite with her family. Believing that Clementine's parents are dead, it isn't long before the two of them see each other as a surrogate father and daughter.
Even though Lee is a phenomenally written character, he's mostly out of the picture after Season 1. Clementine, on the other hand, is a central character throughout the series, giving her plenty of time to evolve. Because the games take place over eight years, we get to watch Clementine gradually change from a helpless kid into a badass teenager. Even though she becomes hardened after witnessing everyone she ever loved die, she never loses sight of the values that Lee instilled in her. The two of them may not be related by blood but Lee proved to be just as much a parent to Clementine as her real father, if not more.