Assemble! - Custom Shooter Squad - The Soldier

 

 Welcome to Assemble!

 

Here, we'll look at several different characters across multiple series to see who would form a perfect team for a certain genre. From fighting game rosters to RPG adventuring parties, different types of characters tend to show up frequently. What we'll do here is look at those archetypes to see what character is the best fit for that slot, and in the end, we’ll have the best team for the job. These articles will also be shorter entries, compared to some of the more long-form articles here, focusing on one or two characters at a time.

 

Despite a perception of a lot of these titles as generic war games, some shooters allow players to dive into an engaging story in a captivating world, taking the role of interesting characters with varied weapons, abilities, personalities, and motivations, especially with the popularity of hero shooters like Team Fortress 2, Overwatch, and Paladins. In this series of Assemble articles, we will be assembling a hero shooter roster using characters from several different shooters, based on different character archetypes.

The picks will be based on the different themes and tones of the characters and the worlds they inhabit as well as the roles they fill on a team or the kinds of weapons they use. Only characters that originated from video games, shooters particularly, will be observed here. Both first and third-person shooters will count and so will first and third-person action games if their main method of combating enemies is gunplay. Finally, I’ll only be discussing games and characters that I am at least somewhat familiar with. While this means I won’t discuss every shooter in existence, there should still be a good amount of variety with the series explored.

THE SOLDIER

One of the most standard protagonists of shooters, and action media in general, the Soldier is an often-used trope. This character is a typically American, duty-bound individual who has joined their country’s military out of a desire to swerve the greater good and goes out on missions to protect their country from an enemy threatening it, the threat usually being foreign, but sometimes domestic. In this roster, the character would ideally be an excellent example of a typical soldier, an embodiment of the different traits that are associated with it.

Our pick for the Soldier is…

John “Soap” MacTavish from Call of Duty.

Appearing in several Call of Duty games, Soap is a notable character in the Call of Duty franchise. Playable in Modern Warfare 1 and 2 and having appearances and mentions in subsequent Modern Warfare games, he and his squad take on missions fighting terrorist groups in Russia and the Middle East. Even when most of his team is taken away from him, he is still able to continue and finish the mission, gunning through hordes of enemy soldiers while doing so. He then ultimately gives his life trying to help others get to safety in MW3 and gives the new protagonist the extra push to finish his mission.

For fighting the good fight right to the bitter end, we now add Soap to our roster.

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