The 25 Most Memorable Italians in Video Games

Dante's Inferno

Dante needed an image makeover to be suitable for a video game. Rather than the tough guy crusader who sewed a cross on his own chest, the real-life Dante was a feeble waif prone to hysterical religious visions and a lusty obsession with a girl he stalked and wrote poems for--even after she died of some kind of medieval disease. Keep in mind he never even talked to her when she was alive. We prefer to believe he was an adopted French baby delivered to Italy inside a stale baguette.

TMNT series

Misunderstood reptile martial artists and protagonists of the Hostess Ninja Turtles Pudding Pies - Donatello, Michaelangelo, Leonardo and jerk-face Raphael enjoy pizza, fine sewer living and the mystical teachings of an anthropomorphic rat. They've appeared in their fair share of video game tie-ins, including arcade hits Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Turtles in Time.

Resident Evil series

Enrico, who shares a name with an Italian comics artist, was Albert Wesker's second-in-command. After leading the manhunt for epic Jew Billy Coen with the kind of authority only a bushy ethnic mustache can inspire, the S.T.A.R.S. captain met his death at the hands of his traitorous, shade-sporting boss.

Max Payne

Frankie, a self-proclaimed big fan of the Captain Baseball Bat Boy cartoon series that appears in the Max Payne games, is an enforcer for the appropriately named Punchinello crime family. Frankie plans to kill Max with the help of his trusty namesake, but Max escapes and beats him and his men to death with Frankie's own Louisville Slugger.