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Older and less attractive protagonists
I think one of the things to be proud about is how much our adventure games use less ‘typical’ protagonists in appearance.
When you look at other types of games, what you often find is the attractive muscled hero: slim, toned and young. So let’s show pride in our less sexy protagonists, and demonstrate our love for the less fortunate in the ‘looks’ department!
Here are a few of my favourites, what are yours? 
Poirot - Bald, fat and old. Nice to see in any game!
Nigel Danvers - Could he be more unfashionable? Seriously, I think the flat cap and sleeveless parker went out in the 90s. He even has an unfashionable name
Rosangela Blackwell (and Joey) - Don’t get me wrong, she’s beautiful in my eyes but also very nerdy and shy (in the first game especially). Huge respect to Gilbert for not using a supermodel type. 
well isn’t Larry on the top of them all ? 
Nigel Danvers - Could he be more unfashionable? Seriously, I think the flat cap and sleeveless parker went out in the 90s.
I always thought he was modeled at least partly after the creator of the game. So careful what you’re saying. 
ROGER SIMMS! Aka the sexiest man alive!!
Okay he was not Roger Simms for most of the game, but what he was wasn’t much sexier:
Is it possible that having a less atractive main character allows the writters to focus in more intriguing parts of the character?
Constable Zellner was the main reason I liked The Raven (at least the first 1 and a half episodes). He won in the Aggies that year too!
Jake Stonebender from CCS also comes to mind as a (or should I say the most?) brilliant written main character without having the best looks, to say the least.
Both from Chunsoft sound novels:
Ichikawa Fumiyasu of Machi ~ Unmei no Kousaten (one of the eight protagonists of the game; you zap between their storylines to progress). His storyline is about the internal struggle between his success as an extremely succesful pulp-for-themasses TV drama scenario writer, and his wish to write real literature for TV. And multiple personalities and stuff. It’s really creepy, actually.
Kayama of the Kamaitachi no Yoru (AKA Banshee’s Last Cry). Don’t worry, they’re all blue! Like most characters, Kayama (I think his English name is Buchanan?) appears in all games of the original trilogy, but the Kansai dialect speaking man only became a playable protagonist in X3. In the first game, he’s a rich, elderly businessman who can send you to a bad end almost immediately (by offering you a job, whisking you away from the scene of the crime). He’s also the only character in all games to have his his own theme song with lyrics!
“Rationality, that was it. No esoteric mumbo jumbo could fool that fellow. Lord, no! His two feet were planted solidly on God’s good earth” - Ellery Queen, The Lamp of God
I couldn’t find any old and/or less attractive characters, but here are some weird-looking ones:
Everybody wants to be Cary Grant.
Even Me.
-Cary Grant
Sheesh, zobraks… I can’t handle such scary images early in the morning. Who’s the halfnaked guy on the left? I hope I haven’t played his game.
Here are mine. A predictable choice. I liked them both and Hoagie isn’t old, but they sure are unattractive.
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
This is an excellent topic ;-)
Mind you, also Adventure games come with their fair share of traditional hero’s. George from Broken Sword comes to mind first. That one appeared to have been modeled directly from some Brad Pitt movie.
I suppose that when looking at the classics, especially LucasArts games were great at creating unique, quirky and untraditional protagonists and this goes far beyond just Hoagie. Manny Calavera, Laverne, Bernard, Sam, Max, Ben and even Guybrush to an extend.
Sheesh, zobraks… I can’t handle such scary images early in the morning.
I thought you’d go:
Who’s the halfnaked guy on the left?
That’s good ol’ Eddie Battito in a deleted scene. 
And you call yourself a FMV aficionado…
Everybody wants to be Cary Grant.
Even Me.
-Cary Grant
I suppose that when looking at the classics, especially LucasArts games were great at creating unique, quirky and untraditional protagonists and this goes far beyond just Hoagie. Manny Calavera, Laverne, Bernard, Sam, Max, Ben and even Guybrush to an extend.
We’re not talking unique, quirky, untraditional. Don’t tell me you find Manny, Sam, Max, Ben 
and Guybrush unattractive!
Sheesh, zobraks… I can’t handle such scary images early in the morning.
I thought you’d go:
I did. 
That’s good ol’ Eddie Battito in a deleted scene.
And you call yourself a FMV aficionado…
LOL! No it’s not Eddie Battito in Bad Mojo, I’d recognize him instantly. Deleted scenes my ass. Tell me who it is or I’ll… I’ll… never talk to you again. There!
EDIT: Okay, I got it. Thanks to Google’s pic-finding option.
It’s from Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties. Mr. Old-and-Ugly is playing with Miss Young-and-Attractive.
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
That’s a sado maso guy from a Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties 
And you call yourself a FMV aficionado…
It’s a CONSOLE game! Of course I haven’t played it.
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
I got it. Thanks to Google’s pic-finding option.
You sleazy cheater… 
Everybody wants to be Cary Grant.
Even Me.
-Cary Grant
So you still read the guess-the-pic thread…
I appreciate your effort to live up to this thread’s theme. Unattractive tongue-stein and now Methusalem.
Butter my buns and call me a biscuit! - Agent A
I suppose that when looking at the classics, especially LucasArts games were great at creating unique, quirky and untraditional protagonists and this goes far beyond just Hoagie. Manny Calavera, Laverne, Bernard, Sam, Max, Ben and even Guybrush to an extend.
We’re not talking unique, quirky, untraditional. Don’t tell me you find Manny, Sam, Max, Ben
Well, whatever makes you tick , but no, IMHO they donot fit the traditional hero in the style of Indiana Jones or even George Stobbart lookswise. I didn’t bother to bring age into the mix, though…
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