Ryu in Ninja Gaiden. Aragorn in Lord Of The Rings. Soccer games: Zinedine Zidane. Cristiano Ronaldo. Iker Casillas. Thierry Henry. Ronaldinho.
The cast from Psychonauts. Their variety beats any of the commonly selected "bad-asses" that are so ridiculously popular with the kiddies, though, Solid Snake is one badass on my side. And Auron too. I'm so sick of hearing Sephiroth/Cloud.
Im caught between 3 Shinobi from both the sega and the PS2 (Hotsuma <not nightshade>) Kazuya from tekken and Spider-Man
I also vote for that black/dark skinned guy who always get killed but its relatively important to the plot but in the end nobody really cares he died. Edit: I just reread that. This message is DEFINITELY NOT intended to be racist in anyform, it is actually poking fun at game developers for always killing the black guy... Wait, why am I making a long message over this, I could just easily say, "It's ok because I'm black".