In the beloved Kingdom Hearts series, Kairi is the childhood friend of both Sora and Riku, and is the love interest of Sora. Throughout the first game, Sora and Riku are set on different paths trying to find a way to save her. Later in the game, it is revealed that she is one of the Seven Princesses of Heart, and restores Sora’s form after he is transformed into a Heartless.

In the Metal Gear Solid series, Solid Snake is special ops agent who infiltrates enemy installations and disrupts their operations. When he’s vastly outnumbered, he’ll do whatever it takes to remain stealthy, and isn’t above camping out in a cardboard box.

In Tomb Raider, Alex Weiss is a young hacker and electronics geek who is extremely smart albeit lazy. He uses his gifts to make a living through dodgy enterprises. Alex is shown to have a crush on Lara Croft, who in turn considers him to be strange but sweet.

Tifa is the childhood friend of Cloud Strife, who is the protagonist of one of the most famous RPGs of all time, Final Fantasy VII. Tifa convinces Cloud Strife to join the eco-terrorist group AVALANCHE and later assists him in saving the planet from the game’s villain, Sephiroth. Tifa is one of video game’s most prominent female characters as she is a strong and independent, often being compared to Lara Croft. The media has described her as one of the best female characters in gaming.

Highly intelligent, intensely curious, wildly theoretical and with a penchant for sneezing, professor of Egyptology Daniel Jackson (James Spader) from the 1994 sci-fi flick Stargate traipses across an unknown world in search of knowledge, exploration and, unexpectedly, love. While off-world, he wears a loose robe and shawls given to him by the local tribe over his standard army clothes.

Leon S Kennedy is the main protagonist of the zombie action survival horror game Resident Evil 4. Leon is a secret agent for the U.S. federal government assigned to rescue the president’s daughter from a sinister cult in Spain. Along the way, he uncovers an ancient conspiracy possibly linked to his greatest foe, Wesker.