I was going for Jim Raynor... but... every freaking Space Marine from 40k those guys are just zealously awesome.

Rath709:
Ragnar Blackmane of the Space Wolves deserves a mention, for many reasons. Chief among them a piece of fiction from the 2nd edition Space Wolves Codex where he runs up to a Tyranid Carnifex with a frag grenade in his hand, shoves his whole fist into the things' mouth leaving the grenade in there, kicks off from the things' chest and does a backflip away from it while it has its' lungs blown out of its' back by the blast.

Ragnar Blackmane without a doubt. I'm a 'nids player myself, and anyone who's played against Tyranids should know what a single Carnifex can do....what Ragnar did is just insane. Another argument for the Space Marines. Battle of Macragge. The entire 1st Company Ultramarines held back an entire fucking hive fleet from the polar outposts, sadly. They had all perished in doing so.

Those two from Armorines project swarm for the N64 Not to mention that they have pimp gold and blue armor but they take on friggan giant bugs with no complaint.

Rasczak. Starship Troopers. End of.

doffmann:
pretty much any marine from The Adeptus Astra

Who do not have any. The Adeptus 'Astra' would be the Adeptus Astra Telepathica; the Psykers that maintain the Astronomicon, and provide the Imperium its Astropaths.

You mean the Adeptus Astartes. However, even amongst this organisation there is no equality; Marneus Calgar alone is leaps and bounds beyond a 'generic' Space Marine!

Although, I do acknowledge a post made earlier about Imperial Stormtroopers (the 40K ones). The Schola Progenium's Stormtrooper Corps are indeed "Space Marines" in the technical sense, in that they operate as a ship-based strike team to the extent they have exclusive Naval support elements (the Valkyrie and Vulture were originally a 'Stormtrooper' vehicle, though their use has been extended). To do everything the Astartes do, and to do it as a regular Human, requires balls the size of Luna.

scnj:
Rasczak. Starship Troopers. End of.

RICO'S ROUGHNECKS.

SIR, YES SIR.

rossatdi:

scnj:
Rasczak. Starship Troopers. End of.

RICO'S ROUGHNECKS.

SIR, YES SIR.

Everyone fights. No one quits. You don't do your job, I'll shoot you myself. DO YOU GET ME!?

FrankDux:

rossatdi:

scnj:
Rasczak. Starship Troopers. End of.

RICO'S ROUGHNECKS.

SIR, YES SIR.

Everyone fights. No one quits. You don't do your job, I'll shoot you myself. DO YOU GET ME!?

WE GET YOU SIR.

Michael_McCloud:
Uhm... This is pretty simple, folks.

The Emperor.

/thread

ABBADON¡¡¡¡¡¡

The Silencer.

Or Takeshi Kovacs

Vortigar:
Well, yeah, it'd have to be one from the Warhammer 40.000 realm if you ask me.

I agree with the Emperor not counting since he created the Space Marines but is not directly a part of their organisation, he stands above them; commanding everything in the Imperium.

Someone also said that Primarchs don't count. But the way I see it they were the first marines (and became the template for the rest). So taking that in mind I'm off to rank the Primarchs. Nasty business. According to fluff Horus was the smartest and Russ (Space Wolves) was the strongest. But there's one tale I find very intruiging.

Magnus (Thousand Sons and my pick) figured out Horus plan (thus essentially outsmarting him) and tried to warn the Emperor from half a galaxy away. Magnus had been reprimanded for his use of sorcery before but decided this threat was too dire and used it anyway to get the message across. The Emperor disregarded his warning and instead became infuriated by his son's use of sorcery and ordered Russ and his entire chapter of Space Wolves in to eliminate the Thousand Sons (the second smallest of the space marine chapters, only Vulkan's Salamanders numbered less). Magnus was praying his warning had come in time and was caught in a surprise attack by the Space Wolves, decimating his already small chapter. Russ even came at him in personal combat and (here's the kicker) neither was able to best the other. After days of duelling with the Great Wolf Magnus decided that he'd best withdraw from his homeworld to preserve what small part of his chapter remained. He then fled into the warp, (knowing his father would never forgive him he knew it was his only way out) and managed to resist the horrors and temptations of Chaos for a couple hundred years before his marines eventually succumbed to the power of Tzeentch. Magnus himself however still sits in contemplation of his past sins in the middle of a demon-world. He's been unheard of since, neither in favour of Chaos nor the Imperium.

So he managed to stand up against Russ and Horus on their respective strong points and then went on to resist the power of chaos while sitting inside its realm? I vote Magnus the Red, the one-eyed primarch of the Thousand Sons.

If you want to discount Primarchs I'd say it would have to be Lion El Johnson's Lieutenant Luther (the guy who betrayed him). He is the only marine who could stand toe to toe with a primarch.

Agreed, Magnus the Red is one of the most tragic and loyal figures in 40K fluff. Though I would have to give Lord Dante of the Blood Angels props for living to be 1,000+ years old. I also like Angron Primarch of the World Eaters Legion only because on Isstvan III he jumped out of a fuckin dropship to land in front of the Loyalist members of his legion and butcher them with his chainaxe dude is pure badass.

Matthew Kane, hands down. Getting horrificly mutated and still completing your mission takes balls.

Oh, Bitterman from Quake 2. Riding into war in something not much bigger than a coffin, and it all goes to hell before he's even hit the atmosphere - then it gets worse. Infinitely worse. Then he fights a ten foot tall guy with a railgun for a head. And survives.

One of the dead guys that you always find on abandoned spaceships just before you walk past them like an idiot and into the monster filled parts of the ship.

He's not a primarch, just a bad ass space marine. He could tear the chief in half.

Lukeydoodly:

He's not a primarch, just a bad ass space marine. He could tear the chief in half.

If the chief let him catch him, remember the Chief isnt a space marine, who would probably could stroll calmly through enemy fire and pulverise the enemy with those oh-so-awesome gauntlets *dribbles* the chief is resourceful and probably has the edge on him with speed but I dunno who to back... my love of Master Chief or off Warhammer 40k? *sniff*

I'd say Master Chief is the *best* "space marine" out there but if i had to pick a TRUE space marine I would say...

Uriel Ventris... He faced down the goddamn Nightbringer!

Lukeydoodly:

He's not a primarch, just a bad ass space marine. He could tear the chief in half.

Marnues Calgar, one bad mofo that no xeno would want to mess with.

Wonder what the Emperor was like when he wasnt crippled:D

whoever was the first one. the rest are just clones of him, after all.

in all seriousness, samus from metroid if she counts.

Sewblon:
Doom guy. He never annoys me by talking.

This

And the fact he is not trying to save a helpless whimsical female NPC or otherwise. His main objective is kicking ass in the manliest forms possible and wreaking havoc for the revenge of his pet bunny and fighting his way out of hell.

Doom guy had the original Chainsaw and Double barrel shotgun (Evil dead inspired but original to video games), original rocket launcher, original power Armour, original power ups

and most importantly, original BFG

Michael_McCloud:
Uhm... This is pretty simple, folks.

The Emperor.

/thread

Shit yeah, man.

sheic99:

orannis62:

sheic99:

orannis62:
Does Gordon Freeman count? I mean, he is killing aliens, they just happen to be on Earth. If not, I'd say Doom guy.

No, he just kills Marines.

Undead marines. On mars.

I meant Gordan not the Doom guy. The Doom guy was the original Space Marine.

Nope. Warhammer 40K, 20 years or something like that before Doom. Those Space Marines were the originals.

k3v1n:

Michael_McCloud:
Uhm... This is pretty simple, folks.

The Emperor.

/thread

ABBADON¡¡¡¡¡¡

Abbadon the General Failure, who despite something like thirteen tries, still hasn't managed to topple Cadia?

Abbadon is one of the biggest losers in the setting.

Crazzee:
Nope. Warhammer 40K, 20 years or something like that before Doom. Those Space Marines were the originals.

Rogue, from Rogue Trooper (the 2000AD comic, first published in 1981) is probably the first recognisable "Space Marine". Sure, there were shooty space heroes before him, back as far as Flash Gordon, but they tended to be big flashy heroes rather than grunty infantrymen.

Edit: Also, WH40k only predates Doom by 6 years. 1987 versus 1993.

Does Commander Sheppard and the crew of the SSVNormandy count?

You mean there's actually a difference between them all?

the doomguy or yer man from system shock 2. he counts as a space marine if you choose marine class aye? (and he is already in space obviously)

GloatingSwine:

Crazzee:
Nope. Warhammer 40K, 20 years or something like that before Doom. Those Space Marines were the originals.

Rogue, from Rogue Trooper (the 2000AD comic, first published in 1981) is probably the first recognisable "Space Marine". Sure, there were shooty space heroes before him, back as far as Flash Gordon, but they tended to be big flashy heroes rather than grunty infantrymen.

Edit: Also, WH40k only predates Doom by 6 years. 1987 versus 1993.

Oh, someone told me 40K was much older than that...Alright, thanks for that.

Rogue, I've never heard of him. Double thanks! =P

Brother Captain Stern or any Grey Knight marine, followed closely by the other space marines of 40k

it is pretty obvious, jim raynor from starcraft.

GloatingSwine:

k3v1n:

Michael_McCloud:
Uhm... This is pretty simple, folks.

The Emperor.

/thread

ABBADON¡¡¡¡¡¡

Abbadon the General Failure, who despite something like thirteen tries, still hasn't managed to topple Cadia?

Abbadon is one of the biggest losers in the setting.

you filthy emperor follower¡¡¡ how DARE you¡¡ he was stopped ONLY after three armies stood against him¡¡¡

p.s. I'm such a nerd :D

I'm gonna go with Bjorn the fell handed... he was such a badass marine, when he died, they got his body and put it in a robotic suit, so he could keep killing things 10,000 years later...

Or the Emporer... yeah Emporer probably beats all.

Lupercal!

Crazzee:
Oh, someone told me 40K was much older than that...Alright, thanks for that.

Warhammer Fantasy Battle started in 1983. 40K was basically just that in space. (Which is why it's all elves, orcs and such in space. They originally had dwarves in space as well, but couldn't decide what to do with them so they got fed to the Tyranids)

you filthy emperor follower¡¡¡ how DARE you¡¡ he was stopped ONLY after three armies stood against him¡¡¡

Yeah, and what about the twelve other black crusades, where even with the might of the ruinous powers behind him, Abbadon couldn't manage to break Cadia.