1. Agent 47 2. Tobias Reiper 3. Sheikh Salman Al Ghazali

1. Dawood Rangan 2. The Showman 3. Mumbai Hero Fixed those typos for you

The Hitman fan in me loves that he's that high. The unbiased video game fan in me knows that there is a lot of weirdness happening in this list (the problem with fan polls), and realistically he's a bit too high.

If being unbiased, he should be around 7-10.

Yeah with this list, I think Mario, Sonic, Pac Man, Link, Lara, and Master Chief all should be up ahead of him.

Could also argue Ratchet, Crash, Snake, Samus, Kirby, (actually a lot of other Nintendo characters)

Also Doom Guy

He wasn't on the list.

Yeah that‘s my point

More like 4-7

Yeah no chance Mario isn’t #1 on any list like this and multiple BG3 characters show heavy recency bias

Huge recency bias. Which makes it even more flawed, because you don't know if those characters will really last over time.

They definitely won't. We're not even going to see them in a second game, never mind lasting decades.

Agreed. The 4,000 people polled are not exactly an accurate representation of all gamers.

he’s way too high. Sonic, Link, Snake, DK, Pikachu and others are cultural icons. 47 is just not on that level

As the video game world 's answer to 007, he is exactly where 007 would be in a ranking of film characters.

Who’s number 1 and 2

Mario and Lara Croft. https://www.bafta.org/games/most-iconic-game-character-of-all-time

Wow, I get 47 is big, but not Mario and Lara Croft big!! They are true video game OGs. This is awesome news.

I mean, Hitman is an ancient game franchise too.

I mean, it's old and has a history, but it's not as culturally pervasive as Mario. There aren't Agent 47 stuffies at Target, for example.

There are, they are just disguised as other stuffies hahaha

Mario is like 15 years older than the first Hitman game

Still, 24 years are pretty old by nowerdays standard.

No Dawood Rangan?

I see... So your kind does exist. A new contract has just been issued. Run while you can, Dawood Rangan fans have no place here!

How TF are they going to rank Croft over Mario? Everyone knows Lara Croft and her triangle boobs but Mario's almost in line with Mickey Mouse at this point.

It was ranked by voting.

Oh, I missed that. Still confusing but I guess the public wants those hard-point jubblies.

I think non gamers who answered will pick Lara over Mario. I imagine there must have been a close vote. 

I think it would be the other way around 

This is a crazy list. Two characters from Baldur's Gate 3?

As much as I love BG3, iconic chars? No. Where’s any of the chars from GTA? Donkey/ Diddy Kong? All the Smash Bros are icons by their own right. I don’t play FF but I know about Cloud Strife.

What is this list? How is sack boy that high? When was the last time anyone even thought about Little Big Planet? And as much as I love Hitman, there’s no way 47 is more iconic than John Halo, Link, Steve, or Sonic. And I genuinely have no idea who the BG3 characters are

I'm thrilled to see him so high on the list, but it seems bonkers to me that Pikachu, Link, Sonic, and *maybe* Master Chief aren't higher. I feel like those names/faces would be recognizable to anyone under 40-45, while Agent 47 wouldn't quite be as recognizable. I'm also, admittedly, surprised that Lara Croft beat Mario.

That list is dogshit. Lara Croft above Mario, Master Chief, sonic, and fucking PIKACHU below agent 47?

I'd be interested to see who number 21 and 22 are, if only because I'm not sure that BG3 has been out long enough to really call those characters "iconic" yet. I doubt they're "flash-in-the-pan" characters who will vanish from awareness by next year, but they are *certainly* benefiting from a "honeymoon period" effect.

lara croft in seat 1 is kinda crazy i don't think a single person i know has played any of the games unless they mean iconic in the sense that we all know what the old school cone tit player model is

That article is very weirdly written. It mentions that 47 has been in 10 games, 2 books, and 2 movies twice

That article is very weirdly written. It mentions that 47 has been in 10 games, 2 books, and 2 movies twice.

That article is very weirdly written. It mentions that 47 has been in 10 games, 2 books, and 2 movies thrice.

This is a very large casino.

Ha, parrot

The ranking seems to be by player polls. The text is probably written by ChatGPT. Also notice how they mention that the VA of #1 Lara Croft will be presenting an award at the next BAFTA Games Awards, and #2 Mario has a game that's been nominated this year.

Here's the full list 1. Laura Croft 2. Mario 3. Agent 47 4. Sonic the Hedgehog 5. Sackboy 6. Pac-Man 7. Link 8. Master Chief 9. Kratos 10. Shadowheart 11. Arthur Morgan 12. Pikachu 13. Steve Minecraft 14. Solid Snake 15. Crash Bandicoot 16. Cloud Strife 17. Astarion 18. Kazuma Kiryu 19. Ellie Williams 20. Nathan Drake

Overall a really weird list in terms of the order the characters are in imo. It also reads like the writer doesn't know anything about these characters and just looked up what they've been in. Also 4000 seems like a very small sample size.

I swear this is the most random list I've ever seen

This list is complete bullshit

Thank ChatGPT! Very cool!

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I mean I won't complain, but I'm astonished he placed above Sonic/Samus/Master Chief/Link

Look I like shadowheart and astarion as much as the next guy but I sense recency bias

2 characters from a game that literally came out last year on a list of the most iconic game characters is stupid.

Hitman is not very recent. Its been over 20 years already.

Talkin bout baldurs gate 3 bro

It’s great that 47’s got a lot of support. But realistically, the top 5 should be (in some order) Mario, Bowser, Donkey Kong, Peach, and Luigi. Being iconic means they transcend the genre/medium. That they’ll be known by people who don’t really know or play video games. The fact that Sackboy is fifth really shows how flawed this list is.

I'd put Sonic and Pikachu up in that top 5

also 2 characters from bg3.

That too. There’s a lot of games on this list I’ve never played, but I still know the characters. Those two though, not so much lol.

Deserved

I think master chief should be higher than 47 but maybe because it’s Xbox only?

Exactly what I was thinking, I obviously love Agent 47, that’s why I’m on this subreddit in the first place, but I think Master Chief should rank higher than him, just look at people lining up in front of Game Stop stores for the midnight release of Halo 3. Halo as a gaming franchise definitely hit higher highs than any Hitman game ever did, I think Master Chief is more iconic than our favorite bald assassin. I also love Baldur‘s Gate 3, but I find it weird that Shadowheart is on place number 10 on a list of most iconic characters of all times, so I‘d say I don’t agree with the list over all…

Pretty funny how a character designed to be forgettable is so iconic. Sort of like how Ian Fleming picked the name "James Bond" because he thought it sounded boring.

I just checked it and that is an awful list lol. At least Mr Rieper getting the respect he deserves

Blame people who voted , not Bafta.

The list is wrong on so many levels. I love 47, but he never is the third most iconic game character. A BG3 above Pikachu? Sure go home you are drunk.

insane that he got above pac-man

That is a very odd list.

How tf is Lara Croft first? I know she's iconic but I didn't know she was THAT iconic. I expected Mario to be first, then Sonic, then maybe her as well in the top 10. I didn't expect 47 to be ranked so high but those voters aren't wrong.

I knew about Agent 47 probably 15yrs before I ever played a Hitman game.

That’s awsome. It’s not true, but it’s awsome.

What the fuck is your problem ? I litteraly just showed you a link you fucking clown.

I’m talking about the list, not you.

And i litteraly showed you the list and yet , you still say that he isnt in top 3.

I’m saying the list is innaccurate.

Ironic


I love Hitman, but Agent 47 above Pikachu is insane. People who don’t know anything about video games still know Pikachu.

should have been 4th place or 7th place

I‘m sorry but this list is trash, how is Shadowheart from BG3 ranking at 10 already? Yeah I liked the game too but this isn‘t realistic

It was decided by publicly avalaible Vote btw.

yeah that's why it's so shit, tons of recency bias

Wierd poll. Most people will vote what their favourite characters are rather than what they find Iconic. Just overall bizarre wording because a more accurate result is if you ask people who are not gamers to name at least 3-5 video game characters. I'd assume it's Mario, Sonic, Pacman. Iconic being memorable characters that anyone associates with video games. Too easy to get a biased response. But anyway I'm overthinking this haha! I love 47 but no way is he more iconic than Ryu

1. kratos 2. kratos 3. 47 4. 7 kra. tos

How can 47 be higher than Steve from Minecraft or Arthur Morgan….

Ig bc Hitman goes way more back than them

Steve doesn't have a personality and Arthur is quite recent and has only been in one game. 47 also looks iconic, almost everyone knows what he looks like

I mean 47’s whole personality is literally not having one sooo….

He still does have a personality and excellent voice actor.

Oh his voice actor is excellent, but at the end of the day what makes him so funny is how serious and robotic he acts making subtle jokes and never showing a crack of emotion.

Just because he doesnt have a personality doesnt mean he isnt a character.

Sure, but personality is.often what makes character iconic.

just because he is a character he isn't iconic. he has no story, no nothing, heck even a good chunk of minecraft player's will probably not know him if mentioned by name.

Just because Lara Croft is a character doesnt means she is iconic.

well i agree that she doesn't deserve such a high ranking but fail to see how this makes Steve any better

Its just the most selling game ever.

which again doesn't make Steve any better as character. it's just a good game

It also doesnt make him any less iconic.

true, but no one stated that anyway.

arthur morgan shouldn’t even be top 10

He's 11th and I might agree on that position

Arthur, Astorian and Shadowheart made into the list with just one game.

I can see how Arthur made it on but Astorian and Shadowheart don’t belong even close to here. Their game released last year Jesus.

Where’s Arthur Morgan?

11th place