#1 Max Payne Sam Lake
The Video Game Character: The hallucinating ex-cop who made bullet-time a household name and who has a penchant of going for big trouble, since his wife is killed.
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The Real-life Counterpart: Sam Lake is different from the rest of the entries, because unlike others, he is not an actor or a model. He is the writer of both Max Payne series and Alan Wake. The makers may have thought that best face for the iconic troubled cop can only be its creator. And they weren’t wrong, were they?
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