4. Chell

Every gamer loves Portal – in fact, it’s accurate to say that if you don’t love Portal, you’re not a gamer. Valve’s dark but quirky ‘first person puzzler’ almost instantly earned a permanent place in our hearts and imaginations, and the game is personified by its star, Chell – and by extension, the colour orange. Within days of Portal’s release, the internet was deafened by a cacophony of ‘Chell wears orange’ and ‘Do these things on my legs make me look fat, or is it the colour orange’ jokes and image macros, which transitioned to a stream of Chell-shaped birthday cakes, Chell papercraft and Chell plush toys that has yet to run dry.

Chell’s not just a character who is orange; she brought gamers of all ages and factions together, united by orange. Chell has pushed orangeness to the forefront of gaming culture, like no orange character before. And besides that, she shoots orange portals, and her game is part of The Orange Box – how much oranger can you get?

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3. Solid Snake

Snake doesn’t appear to be orange – more of a greeny-grey. But what about on the inside? After all, Snake’s not the type to wear his emotions on his sleeve. Snake is always hiding; never at peace... you could say that he is always on ‘orange alert’ – not ‘red alert’ because he never loses his cool. Furthermore, since Snake is a master of stealth, his greeny-grey outfit must be a disguise, and we can infer from that that he must be orange. Snake is accustomed to danger and intrigue and would never show his true colours, literally or figuratively.

The giveaway is that Snake chooses to hide in cardboard boxes. You know what else comes in cardboard boxes? I don’t think I need to say it.

The Metal Gear Solid series has given gamers a glimpse of Snake as he really is, and that’s why our readers have, very intelligently, voted him the third orangest videogame character ever.

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2. Link

Shigeru Miyamoto – or ‘the Shigster’ as we call him at Eegra – has often explained that the hero of Hyrule is never given dialogue because each player should be allowed to imagine Link’s personality for him- or herself: Link is a ‘blank slate’; he’s what gamers make him. So if gamers say that Link is orange, who are we to argue? In videogames, more than any other medium, imagination rules. Our readers imagine that Link is the second most orange videogame character ever created, so that must be exactly what he is – and I think even the Shigster would agree.

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And now, to settle the orangeness argument forevermore! Ladies and gentlemen, the number one, democratically elected, scientifically proven most completely and utterly orange videogame character of all time is...

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