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

7. John Marston (Red Dead Redemption)

Video Game Antiheroes Kain Ben Throttle
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Years before Arthur Morgan clip-clopped into our lives with a saddlebag as full of saccharine as it was swag, Red Dead Redemption's John Marston was the prototypical cowboy bad boy gone good boy.

The name of the game should have been a big enough hint that perhaps Marston isn't quite the bastard-coated-bastard we're introduced to. The inveterate outlaw dreams of going on the straight-and-narrow, to raise a family on his ranch, but is extorted out of retirement by evil Federal agents, who want him to do (sigh) "one last job" before granting him amnesty. Begrudgingly, he accepts - and that's when guns start blazing again.

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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.