Lara Croft is just your average run-of-the-mill English archaeologist. Dodging boulders, navigating through ancient ruins, and fighting giant stone statues is just your typical day for this video game icon. She’s been somersaulting through hazardous tombs for over a decade and she’s only getting better.

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 Resident Evil, Jill Valentine is an explosives expert who’s worked with the U.S. Army and the Raccoon Police Department. In RE3: Nemesis, she’s forced to partner with an ex-member of the Umbrella Corporations paramilitary force in order to escape Raccoon City before a nuke strikes it.

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.

In this 2013 reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise, Lara Croft is a young and ambitious archaeologist on a quest to find the lost kingdom of Yamatai. She’s added new skills to her repertoire, including stealthing, ziplining, and shooting a bow and arrows. She’s also looking more like a grungy survivalist than ever before.

In Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Quiet (voiced by Stefanie Joosten) is an AI sniper with supernatural abilities that Snake can call upon to assist him on missions. As her name suggests, she doesn’t talk much, but she can get the job done.