Rocket Raccoon Is the Second Greatest Fighting Game Character Ever
Capcom just revealed the gameplay trailer for new Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 fighting participant Rocket Raccoon, and… well, holy shit. Has Rocket Racoon always been this… belligerent? I don’t mind; in fact, the idea of playing a surly space raccoon is even more appealing to me than playing a good-natured raccoon, but yikes. This dude is angry. I picked this video to show off all his special movies, but I feel I need to tell you about this second video, where Rocket ends the match by beating Resident Evil‘s Chris Redfield and screams “That’s for letting them mess up Raccoon City, ya wanker!” It is, in a word, stupendous.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.