10 Video Game Anti-Heroes We Can't Help But Love

9. Kain (Legacy Of Kain Series)

Video Game Antiheroes Kain Ben Throttle
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Kain's a time-travelling vampire with a face that looks like an apple which has been left out for too long, but don't let appearances - or even his actions - fool you: he's nowhere near as gnarly as it first seems.

Nosgoth's Mr. Potato Head has a bloody good reason for his eternal rivalry with Soul Reaver's own rebel-without-a-jawse Raziel: it's an excessively convoluted ploy to help the blue-bloodsucker ultimately get the better of Moebius the Timestreamer and the manipulative eldrtich abomination The Elder God, so he can restore the pillars, but not before... well, we told you it was convoluted.

Either way, Kain, in spite of all that nasty wing-tearing business, is really as cuddly as, if not a cat, then at least a cat's corpse.

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Benjamin was born in 1987, and is still not dead. He variously enjoys classical music, old-school adventure games (they're not dead), and walks on the beach (albeit short - asthma, you know). He's currently trying to compile a comprehensive history of video game music, yet denies accusations that he purposefully targets niche audiences. He's often wrong about these things.