So who is your favorite video game character or characters? It doesn't just have to be 1 but can also count villains, females, NPCs, etc. Can also be not just 1 of each, but can be a top 3, 5, 10, whatever you want.

Mario SeriesMario (duh)
Luigi
Bowser (my avatar should be an obvious giveaway...)
Yoshi
Wario
Cackletta (minus the frustrating final battle...)
Princess Shroob

Donkey Kong SeriesDonkey Kong
Diddy Kong
Dixie Kong
Lanky Kong
Chunky Kong
Tiny Kong (ONLY in Donkey Kong 64. I hate her updated teenager look...)
Funky Kong
Krusha (he was cool in Donkey Kong 64 in multiplayer mode)
King K. Rool

Metroid SeriesSamus Aran
Ridley
Meta Ridley
Omega Ridley
Omega Pirate
Kraid

Resident Evil SeriesLeon S. Kennedy
Claire Redfield
Chris Redfield (all games before re5)
Ada Wong
Jill Valentine
Billy Coen
Rebecca Chambers

Zelda SeriesYoung Link (Majora's Mask)
Toon Link (Wind Waker)
Zelda
Phantom Ganon
Majora's Mask

MiscellaneousGex
Rayman
Globox
Misturugi

I know I have more... I'll add some more later.

Way too many to really name a favorite. For me, this is equivalent to asking me who's your favorite parent. It's one I can't answer because I like all of the following equally. But just for different reasons for the most part. Anyway, here is just some.....a small portion of my favorites in no particular order:

Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi - from their respective Mario games

Leon Kennedy and Clair/Chris Redfield - Resident Evil

All the Street Fighter characters, but especially Ryu and Ken

Mega Man

The Sentinel - Marvel Vs Capcom 2 & 3

Galactus - Ultimate Alliance and Marvel Vs Capcom 3

Wesker - Resident Evil

Torque - The Suffering

Donkey and Diddy - DK series

Turtles - Turtles In Time

All the Mortal Kombat characters

Eddy Gordo and Paul - Tekken

All the Killer Instinct characters but especially Fulgore cause he is wicked cool!

I'll have more later.

Crash Bandicoot
Rayman
Globox - Rayman
Cecil - FFIV
Rydia - FFIV
Cid - FFIV
Cid - FFVII
Yuna - FFX
Frog - Chrono Trigger
Kid- Chrono Cross
Abe - Oddworld
Pretty much the whole cast of FFIX

Favorite MCs:
Mag Launcher
Linear Cannon (Both of Evolution/2/worlds fame)
Samus
Artyom (Metro 2033/last light)
The Lone Wanderer (Fallout 3)
Rex "Power" Colt (FC3 Blood Dragon)
Shadow The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog
Raz (Psychonauts)
Booker Dewitt (Bioshock Infinite)

Favorite Villains:
Handsome Jack
Dark Samus
Every Single Enemy in Farcry 3: Blood Dragon
The Shadow Queen (PM:TTYD)
The Songbird (Bioshock Infinite)
Comstock (Bioshock Infinite)

Favorite Companions:
Elizabeth (Bioshock Infinite)
Little Sister (Bioshock/2)
Gre Nade (Evolution/2/worlds)
Leliana (Dragon Age: Origins)
Sydney Raines (Qarl's Underground 2 Morrowind Mod)

There's probably more.

Dragon. Stop being bored! Gwarsh!

Hehe. It's kind of hard not to be bored when I work all the time. There's nothing wrong with trying to start a discussion. :p

over 5000 characters.
no, really, i have a notebook where i writte down all the (female, obviously) charcters i like from videogames

Final Fantasy

Aerith Gainsborough
Celes Chere
Kefka Palazzo
Kuja
Tifa Lockhart

Kirby

Adeleine
Kirby
Galacta Knight
Magolor
Waddle Dee

Mario

Bowser
Luigi
Mario
Peach
Rosalina
Shy Guy
Yoshi

Mega Man

Bass
Elpizo
Fairy Leviathan
Fighting Fefnir
Iris
Mega Man
Proto Man
Sage Harpuia
X
Zero

Mischief Makers

Celes
Lunar
Marina Liteyears
Merco
Teran

No More Heroes

Alice Twilight
Henry
Holly Summers
Shinobu
Travis Touchdown

Pok�mon

Brawly
Drake
Flannery
Nolan
Norman
Roxanne
Steven
Wallace
Wattson

Resident Evil

Ada Wong
Claire Redfield
Jill Valentine
Sherry Birkin
Leon S. Kennedy

Others

Axel
CJ
Doomguy
Ike
Klonoa
Link
Mew Ringo
Miles Edgeworth
Phoenix Wright
Pit
Rabbids
Roxas

My list is so small compared to everyone else's. lol I might have to redo my list cause I know I have more.

Mass Effect series
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya/Vas Neema/Vas Normandy
Garrus Vakarian
Miranda Lawson
Wrex
Grunt
Legion
Kasumi
Krogan Shaman (During Grunt's Loyalty Mission)
Saren Arterius
Jeff 'Joker' Moreau
Javik
Jack Harper/The Illusive Man
Major Kirrahe

Dragon Age series
Leliana
Morrigan
Shale/Shayle
Oghren
Bodahn Feddic
Sandal Feddic
Flemeth
Bella
Dog
Swiftrunner
Gorim
Tallis
Isabella

Saints Row series
Johnny Gat
Shaundi
Viola DeWynter
Troy
Tobias
Laura
Tera Patrick
Benjamin King
Maero
Mister Sunshine
Mr. Wong

Grand Theft Auto series
The Truth
Wu Zi Mu
Big Smoke
Tommy Vercetti
Ken Rosenberg
Lance Vance
Kent Paul
Avery Carrington
"Big" Mitch Baker
Phil Cassidy (He's voiced by 'Uncle' Gary Busey... so of course he's one of my favorites)
Frank Tenpenny
Lazlow Jones
Little Jacob
Badman
Patrick Frances McReary

Final Fantasy series
Nanaa Mihgo
Lion
Ulmia
Zeid
The Shadow Lord
Bahamut
Ajido-Marujido
Cid
Fenrir
Lady Curilla
Semih Lafihna
Maat
Ayame
Gilgamesh (XI)
Diabolos
Naja Salaheem
Odin
Perih Vashai
Vincent Valentine
Reno
Rude
Rinoa Heartilly
Irvine Kinneas
Gogo
Umago
Shadow
Locke

Dynasty Warriors series
Xiahou Dun
Zhang Liao
Zhen Ji
Xu Huang
Cai Wenji
Guan Yu
Zhang Fei
Zhuge Liang
Pang Tong
Wei Yan
Yue Ying
Xing Cai
Lu Bu
Diao Chan
Meng Huo
Zhu Rong
Zuo Ci
Zhou Tai
Zhou Yu
Sun Ce
Deng Ai
Wang Yi
Sima Zhao
Nu Wa

Samurai Warriors
Shingen Takeda
Yukimura Sanada
Kunoichi
Masamune Date
Nobunaga Oda
Noh
Mitsuhide Akechi
Keiji Maeda
Goemon Ishikawa
Tadakatsu Honda
Ina
Ginchiyo Tachibana
Musashi Miyamoto
Nene
Gracia

There are others but I can't be bothered listing them at this time. Maybe later.

Mass Effect series
Tali'Zorah nar Rayya/Vas Neema/Vas Normandy
Garrus Vakarian
Miranda Lawson
Wrex
Grunt
Legion
Kasumi
Krogan Shaman (During Grunt's Loyalty Mission)
Saren Arterius
Jeff 'Joker' Moreau
Javik
Jack Harper/The Illusive Man
Major Kirrahe

Dragon Age series
Leliana
Morrigan
Shale/Shayle
Oghren
Bodahn Feddic
Sandal Feddic
Flemeth
Bella
Dog
Swiftrunner
Gorim
Tallis
Isabella

Saints Row series
Johnny Gat
Shaundi
Viola DeWynter
Troy
Tobias
Laura
Tera Patrick
Benjamin King
Maero
Mister Sunshine
Mr. Wong

Grand Theft Auto series
The Truth
Wu Zi Mu
Big Smoke
Tommy Vercetti
Ken Rosenberg
Lance Vance
Kent Paul
Avery Carrington
"Big" Mitch Baker
Phil Cassidy (He's voiced by 'Uncle' Gary Busey... so of course he's one of my favorites)
Frank Tenpenny
Lazlow Jones
Little Jacob
Badman
Patrick Frances McReary

Final Fantasy series
Nanaa Mihgo
Lion
Ulmia
Zeid
The Shadow Lord
Bahamut
Ajido-Marujido
Cid
Fenrir
Lady Curilla
Semih Lafihna
Maat
Ayame
Gilgamesh (XI)
Diabolos
Naja Salaheem
Odin
Perih Vashai
Vincent Valentine
Reno
Rude
Rinoa Heartilly
Irvine Kinneas
Gogo
Umago
Shadow
Locke

Dynasty Warriors series
Xiahou Dun
Zhang Liao
Zhen Ji
Xu Huang
Cai Wenji
Guan Yu
Zhang Fei
Zhuge Liang
Pang Tong
Wei Yan
Yue Ying
Xing Cai
Lu Bu
Diao Chan
Meng Huo
Zhu Rong
Zuo Ci
Zhou Tai
Zhou Yu
Sun Ce
Deng Ai
Wang Yi
Sima Zhao
Nu Wa

Samurai Warriors
Shingen Takeda
Yukimura Sanada
Kunoichi
Masamune Date
Nobunaga Oda
Noh
Mitsuhide Akechi
Keiji Maeda
Goemon Ishikawa
Tadakatsu Honda
Ina
Ginchiyo Tachibana
Musashi Miyamoto
Nene
Gracia

Nothing compares to below however:

Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic

Dark Lord Of The Sith: Darth Revan

There are others but I can't be bothered listing them at this time. Maybe later.

FTFYBBY

Yoshi (Mario Party),
Mario (Super Mario 64),
Fox, Falco, Wolf (Star Fox series),
Captain Falcon, Marth, Peach, Samus (Super Smash Bros),
Ness, Giygas (Mother),
Link, Zelda, Midna, Ghirahim (Legend of Zelda)
Kirby, Meta Knight, DeDeDe (Kirby series),
Pit, Palutena, Viridi, Phosphora, Magnus (Kid Icarus Uprising),
Wario, Mona, Kat, Ana, Ashley, Penny (WarioWare),
Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Shadow, Tikal, Silver (Sonic series),
Solid Snake, Vamp, Sunny, Mei Ling, Paz (Metal Gear Solid series),
Bomberman (Bomberman),
Conker (Conker's Bad Fur Day),
Kiryu Kazuma, Haruka Sawamura, Majima Goro (Yakuza series),
Taizo Hori (Namco X Capcom),
Ghastly, Golduck, Deoxys, Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza, Mewtwo, Celebi, Jirachi (Pokemon),*
Cammy, Ryu, Juri (Cannon Spike, Street Fighter series),
Iori Yagami, Ralf, Kyo Kusanagi, Terry Bogard (King of Fighters series),
Rika Nonaka, Akiho Rindo, WarGreymon, Justimon, Rennamon, Terriermon (Digimon),*
Tidus, Yuna, Rikku (Final Fantasy X),
Lan Hikari, Shuko Kido, Protoman, Zero, Megaman, Roll (Megaman series),*
Falcon, Ryoma, Jack, Wang-Tang, Ayami, Galuda (Power Stone),
Ulala, Purge (Space Channel 5),
Faye, Cain (Binary Domain),
Kairi, Sora (Kingdom Hearts),
Cyclops, Wolverine, Gambit, Psylocke, Spiderman, Venom (Marvel),
Master Chief, Cortana, Arbiter (Halo),

*too many characters to list.

I'll update this if I think of anymore.