Periodic Table of Video Game Characters
March 11, 2009 179 Comments
Not so long ago we successfully deciphered a Mario-themed ransom note, saving the Princess from a rather untimely demise. This time around we have a more scientific endeavor on our hands though, a periodic table of video game characters. Created by the almost brilliant minds over at I Heart Chaos (I say almost because Master Chief is glaringly absent from an otherwise worthy collection of characters), the table is primarily comprised of those that originated in video games but also contains a few whose roots were laid elsewhere (comics, cartoons, etc). So your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to collectively uncover all of the “elements” on this table. To give everybody an equal opportunity to participate, you may only solve one character per comment and while you may comment multiple times, you may not post back to back. So click the image for a larger view and let’s get started!
Ac – Space Ace’s Ace (suggestable)
Ag – Hitman’s Agent 47 (Croqueta)
Al – American McGee’s Alice (Araknoros)
Am – Samba de Amigo (soonerjudd)
Ar – Arbiter (the Light Show)
As – Astro Boy (gigglepie)
At – Ready 2 Rumble Boxing’s Afro Thunder (Mayesyboy)
Au – Final Fantasy’s Auron (Croqueta)
B – Bomberman (Lord Osiris)
Ba – Batman (the Light Show)
Be – The Day Of Tentacle’s Bernard (Geekdaddi)
Bh – Hammer Brother (AT-AT)
Bi – Birdo (Mizzy)
Bk – Bowser (Travis Williams)
Br – BloodRayne’s Rayne (CdawgOwnd)
C – Final Fantasy’s Cloud Strife (soonerjudd)
Ca – Zero Wing’s Cats (mattk)
Cd – Castlevania’s Count Dracula (t0rm3n7)
Ce – World of Warcraft’s Cairne Bloodhoof (Mstree)
Cf – Cannon Fodder (A Shky Shotgun)
Cl – Clank (Croqueta)
Cm – Cooking Mama (GeneralCupcake)
Co – Katamari Damacy’s King of All Cosmos (Croqueta)
Cr – Crash Bandicoot (colesdben)
Cs – Carmen Sandiego (Travis Williams)
Cu – Mega Man’s Cutman (Rhamsey)
Db – Diablo (Queen 0f Blades)
Ds – F-Zero’s Dr.Stewart (ALTEX)
Dy – Mega Man’s Doctor Wily (Travis Williams)
Er – Earthworm Jim (the Light Show)
Es – The Lost Vikings’ Eric the Swift (ReverendTiki)
Eu – Eugene H. Krabs (the Light Show)
F – Star Fox’s Fox McCloud (soonerjudd)
Fe – Gears of War’s Marcus Fenix (REM)
Fm – Mega Man’s Fireman (Rhamsey)
Fr – Half-Life’s Gordon Freeman (NINJA Dusk2Dawn)
Ga – Legend of Zelda’s Ganondorf (AT-AT)
Gd – Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus’ General Dripik (mysterioso2006)
Ge – Gex (Rhamsey)
H – Han Solo (the Light Show)
He – Team Fortress’ Heavy Weapons Guy (gruntkiller99)
Hf – Heffer Wolfe (Travis Williams)
Hg – Final Fight’s Hagar (roozayy)
Ho – Day of the Tentacle’s Hoagie (whitewraith)
Hs – Homer Jay Simpson (Travis Williams)
I – Kid Icarus’ Pit (Merde123)
In – Indiana Jones (Rhamsey)
Ir – Iron Man (marc 064)
K – Kirby (the Light Show)
Kr – God of War’s Kratos (soonerjudd)
La – Lara Croft (Kyle)
Li – Legend of Zelda’s Link (the Light Show)
Lr – Leisure Suit Larry (the Light Show)
Lu – Luigi (NakedScooter)
Md – John Earl Madden (the Light Show)
Mg – Mega Man (the Light Show)
Mn – Grim Fandango’s Manny (soonerjudd)
Mo – Mario (Faren22)
Mt – Mike Tyson (Rhamsey)
N – Starcraft Ghost’s Nova (roozayy)
Na – Naruto (Kroden)
Ne – Nemo (Croqueta)
Nb – Niko Belic (Kazuya_UK)
Nd – Drake’s Fortune’s Nathan Drake (soonerjudd)
Ni – Nights into Dreams’ Nights (Mizzy)
No – Mortal Kombat’s Noob Saibot (Mike)
Np – Command & Conquer: Renegade’s Nick ‘Havoc’ Parker (Owninater)
O – Evil Otto (GeneralCupcakes)
Os – The Lost Vikings’ Olaf the Stout (ReverendTiki)
P – Pac-Man (ALTEX)
Pd – Postal’s Postal Dude (Rhamsey)
Po – Popeye (the Light Show)
Pb – Pinky and Blinky (Travis Williams)
Pt – Pitfall Harry (Rhamsey)
Pr – Princess Peach (gigglepie)
Pm – Pikmin (Rhamsey)
Pu – Pikachu (Rhamsey)
Pa – PaRappa the Rapper (Mike)
Ra – Battletoads’ Rash (Rhamsey)
Rb – R.O.B. (Rhamsey)
Re – Unreal Tournament’s Reaper (gruntkiller99)
Rf – Raphael (Rhamsey)
Rg – The Adventures of Rad Gravity’s Rad Gravity (A Shky Shotgun)
Rh – Ninja Gaiden’s Ryu Hayabusa (soonerjudd)
Rn – Mortal Kombat’s Raiden (Rhamsey)
Ru – Mega Man’s Rush (Croqueta)
S – Metroid’s Samus Aran (Mayesyboy)
Sb – Strong Bad (Scotty Bob)
Sc – Sonic (the Light Show)
Se – Serious Sam (the Light Show)
Sg – Street Fighter’s Sagat (Travis Williams)
Si – The Sims (GeneralCupcakes)
Sm – Sam & Max (soonerjudd)
Sn – Metal Gear Solid’s Snake (Scotty Bob)
Sr – Final Fantasy’s Sephiroth (Doc)
Ta – Combat’s Tank (CodeMonkey76)
Tb – A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia (Travis Williams)
Tc – Killer Instinct’s TJ Combo (soonerjudd)
Te – ToeJam & Earl (the Light Show)
Th – Gauntlet’s Thor (Ganondorf4)
Ti – Punch-Out’s Great Tiger (Travis Williams)
Tl – Miles “Tails” Prower (Rhamsey)
Tm – Kung Fu’s Thomas (gigglepie)
U – Ultraman (Croqueta)
Uub – Wolfenstein’s William “B.J.” Blazkowicz (SonofMacPhisto)
Uuq – Outcast’s Ulukai (Rhamsey)
V – Vectorman (AT-AT)
W – Worms (CodeMonkey76)
Xe – Kingdom Hearts’ Xemnas (Rhamsey)
Y – Yars’ Revenge’s Yars (Qwepir)
Yb – Yogi Bear (A10M1C)
Zn – Street Fighter’s Zangief (the Light Show)
Zr – Zerg (davyboy94)
Whoa! This is impressive.
Bi=Birdo!
ZR – Zerg ( my favourate starcraft race ^_^)
You know, I was just gonna say “What, no Starcraft? T.T” I didn’t even see the hydralisk -.-
Fr=Gorder Freeman, Half-Life series.
Al is alice from american mcgees: Alice… creepy game
Db= Diablo, from… Well, Diablo.
Yb = Yogi Bear
B=Bomberman
Ir = Iron Man
As = Astro Boy!
Awesome
Li = Luigi
Man, looking back over this chart, I can’t believe I didn’t see some of these the first time around.
>.> how could you not include Master Chief??
I know! I’m sure there could have been a creative way to include him, … under H if nothing else.
H for hot?
Seriously though I noticed that to.
SB=Strongbad
Fe = Marcus Fenix
Cr=Crash Bandicoot
CS= Carmen Sandiego
I always had a bit of a crush on her. Remember the NES game that included a condensed encyclopedia you needed to solve the questions. I think it was the Where in Time version.
Just for your information, I was on “Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego”, I would’ve rather played the NES game.
All right, I’ll clean up the easiest mess.
Mo=Mario from, well, the Mario series
CR=Crash Bandicoot.
Bah! i was beaten my three minutes, ok..
LA=Lara Croft
Nb = Niko Belic
Pb= Pinky and Blinky. I got a 2′fer
Pr = Princess Peach (even though she wears pink)
i’m glad to see the lost vikings on here
Es= Eric the Swift
Os= olaf the stout
He= Heavy Weapons Guy
Ca= cats heh all your periodic tables are belong to him
S = Samus
Eu = Eugene H. Krabs
Hf=Hefer Wolfe from Rocko’s Modern Life
RN = Raiden
Md = John Earl Madden
rf=Raphael
Er = Earthworm Jim
pt= pitfall harry
Ar = Arbiter
Nice! I didn’t even notice he was there!
Tb= A Boy and His Blob: Trouble in Blobolonia
No = Noob
(formally known as Noob Saibot – also was the original sub-zero from Mortal Kombat 1 when he was alive, he became the wraith Noob after death)
Actualy, after checking WIkipedia, the character is still known as Noob Saibot in full. In MK deception he was teamed with Smoke (Noob-Smoke) hence my thinking Saibot was dropped.
SO! No = Noob Saibot.
(I’ve played too much Mortal Kombat over the years….)
Cm= CookingMama
Sb = Strong Bad
Ti=Miles “Tails” Prower
get it, miles per hour
Te = Toejam & Earl
Uub is William “B.J.” Blazkowicz, from the Wolfenstein series. Not sure how that WORKS… but that’s who that is. :)
Maybe double uu … w?
Uub is just a latin placeholder name. They rename those when they actually create a large enough quantity to be analyzed. So that means the Author of this had pretty much free reign to put whatever they want there.
These would have been the best place to put Master Chief (since all the characters fit their Atomic Abbreviations, and there isn’t one that fits the Chief)
pu=pikachu
Po = Popeye
Pm=pikmin
Uub – William “B.J.” Blazkowicz (Wolfenstein 3-D – PC)
Ta – Tank (Combat – Atari 2600)
xe=Xemnas
Zn = Zangief
In=lego indiana jones
Sc = Sonic
W – Worm (Worms 3D)
mt=Mike Tyson
Pa = PaRappa the Rapper
ra=rash (god i love battletoads)
Li = Link
Rb=rob
i think im done now
K = Kerby
too awesome.
H = Hans Solo
Hans Olo, you mean.
Cl = Clank
cu=cutman (last one, i promise)
also, in highschool, i made a periodic table of super heroes. if i can find it, ill post it somewhere.
You should! It sounds cool. :)
Ne = Nemo
@ Rhamsey uh huh… =P
Ba = Batman
this is addicting. I know the Ge one, but i cant come up with the name, its driving me crazy.
Ag = Agent 47
fm is fireman from megaman
Au = Auron
Lr = Leisure Suit Larry
ge is GEX!!!
ok, now im done. scouts honor.
lol
Ga is Ganondorf (Though they used the ugly Twilight Princess rendition rather than the awesome Ocarina of Time rendition).
Co = King of All Cosmos
N is Nova from Starcraft Ghost.
I was wondering if anyone would get that. :D
Mg = Mega Man
Bh is a Hammer Brother.
Se = Serious Sam
ok, im out… that was fun! good luck to the rest of you! =D
Ru = Rush
V (Vanadium) is Vectorman.
Am = Amigo (Samba de Amigo)
O= Evil Otto
Si= Sims
c – cloud strife (FF7)
Bk= Bowser a.k.a. King Koopa
f – fox mccloud
Hey Hawty, didn’t realize you wanted the game they came from. For the characters that I identified where there is no game listed:
Cl = Rachet and Clank’s Clank
Ne = Little Nemo: The Dream Master’s Nemo
You also missed my first one:
U = Ultraman, from SNES’s Ultraman: Towards The Future (though he originated in Japanese television)
Just trying to add the extra info when I can. Thanks for pointing out the one I missed too. Sorry about that!
Dy= Doctor Wily from the MegaMan Series or Rockman
Br- Rayne from Blood Rayne
At = Afro Thunder
Hs= Homer Simpson from the many simpsons games
I = Pit
Yay me =P
I think I= Icarus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Icarus
Kr = Kratos (God of War)
C = Cloud Strife, Final Fantasy VII
I think I’m going cross-eyed looking at this thing now, so I’m done. Thx Angel, this was fun!! :)
Thank you for playing! I love stuff like this. :)
Rh – Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden)
Sn= Snake… Mortal Kombat
He may have been in a MK game I didn’t play, but I think most of us know him from Metal Gear as Solid Snake
Ti= Great Tiger from Punch Out, you’ve got tails there, but tails is Tl
i think P = pacman, it looks kind of like the drawing of him you see on some arcade machine. just a guess
It’s actually from the Cartoon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man_(TV_series)
Sg= Sagat From Street Fighter II. I’ll never forget TIGER UPPERCUT
Na – Naruto, not sure of the game
That’s all I’ve got. Don’t know the rest of them. Thanks for helping me kill 4 hours of parent/teacher conferences. Only one kid’s parents came to see me, so I had plenty of time on my hands.
Only one? … Hopefully the other days will be a bit busier, eh? :)
The parents of kids that are failing never come in, I wonder if there’s a correlation there???? There’s nothing I need to tell the parents of an A student. Everyone in between tend to be as apathetic about all their other classes too.
Besides, one set of parents meant I could have fun on your site, and practice Ukulele for 4 hours.
The fact that parents of failing kids never come in is a shame. Those are the ones that should be first in line but you are right, perhaps some sort of a correlation. I always go, … I find their insight, regardless of the grades involved, valuable. :)
Sm – Sam and Max
Tm = Thomas from Kung Fu
Y is Yar from Yar’s Revenge for the Atari 2600. I can’t believe that old dust collecting brick would come in handy.
Also, Ce is Cairne something, from WoW, Mn is the dude from Grim Fandango, P is friggin PAC MAN, Hg I saw in a review for a game on screwattack.com… he’s the mayor of some town whose daughter was kidnapped or something, Ni is the Jester from NiGHTS into Dreams, (thanks again screwattack) and Sm is Sam and Max. That’s all I know off the top of my head.
Someone doesn’t know how to read font that’s in bold print
*headdesk* godfuckingdammit.
No worries, we still love you! A lot. In fact, we’re right outside your window. Don’t mind us …
Nd – Nathan Drake – Drake’s Fortune
CF = Captain Falcon
P= Pacman!!! WOOO!
tc – TJ combo (Killer Instinct)
OMG
GD= General Dripik from Oddworld: Abe’s Exodus! I thought the Oddworld Games were dead and forgotten by videogame history! YAY!
AC = Animal Crossing guy
Na=Naruto.
I bet I’m the only loser anime fan that got that. =(
I’m fairly sure Cd is Count Dracula from one of the CastleVania games…
I concur
Oh, from “Symphony of the Night”
Ni=Nights in Dreams, one of the only good Saturn games out there.
P for Pit of Kid Icarus.
Co isn’t Conker? What gives!!!
Anyways, I think P is Pacman but just some weird picture of him from one of his failed spin off games.
Hg is definitely Haggar from the Final Fight series.
Mn = Manny from Grim Fandango
Sr is Sephiroth from FFVII
Re= Reaper from Unreal Tournament 3
Ho – Hoagie from The Day Of Tentacle
Be – Bernard from The Day Of Tentacle
Ac – Ace from Space Ace
Ds, i would surmise, is Dr Stewart from the f-zero series. like captain falcon, but not badass enough to get into smash bros.
Np: Havok from C&C: Renegade?
Oh, just clued in that the letters must match the name…. but i stand by what i said… he looks like Havok…
His full name is Nick Parker so it works perfectly. :)
ORLY? :D
I didn’t believe you, so i googled it. i cant believe such bad-ass has such a lame name. i feel saddened playing as GDI now… wait, i already did.. Glory To Nod!
Would I lie to you?! Well, about something like this? ;)
You’ve earned my trust…for now anyway. Or forever, whatever works for you.
Ce: Cairne Bloodhoof (World of Warcraft)
http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=3057
I am SO printing this out to post in my game room (but I’ll put a master chief head somewhere, to complete it.)
You can put the Master Chief underneath “At” (lower right corner), that is where element 117 will go once they create it.
/geek
I’ve got three of the remaining, but as per the instructions here’s the first:
Rg = Rad Gravity
wow, i cant believe no one has gotten Rh yet. its Ryu Hayubussa from Ninja Gaiden
Actually Soonerjud did around 3:30 yesterday.
ah-ha, i see that now. cant believe i missed it. my mistake. in that case im completely stumped on the last 3 or 4 left
Cf = Cannon Fodder
CF=Captain Falcon :D
Please feel free to disregard the rules about posting back to back as we are almost finished. :)
Wow that is so cool! Although it’s sooo nerdy lol ^_^
How is TH not Tony Hawk?
ok, i said i wouldnt but i have to
uuq is ulukai (my roommate got this one not me, never even heard of outcast)
pd is postal dude, from well postal.
i have no idea what th is. i at first thought it was some AoC thing, or some other arnold thing.
Uuq – Ulukai from Outcast
(Be) Bernard and (Ho) Hoagie from Day of the Tentacle :D
^ Oh, didn’t realise that we were naming them, I just thought it was cool they were in there :D
Could Th be Thor?
did i get pd wrong? damn.
anyway, th could be thor, but what one? most thors have you know, thorish clothes on. its got to be a barbarian of some kind.
Judging from the box art shown on Wikipedia for Postal 2 you’re right on about it being the Postal Dude. Cheers.
Th is the fighter, Thor, from the box art on the original NES Gauntlet. As seen here:
http://www.thisischris.com/feature/2003/img/boxartten01.jpg
and here:
http://www.fakejazz.com/images/gauntlet-box.jpg
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when the hell was Heffer in a video game? I know he’s from Rocko’s Modern Life, quite possibly the greatest show in the entire existance of Mankind, but when did that show have a game?