I've spent a lot of time trying to come up with a term that can pretty much sum up over 90% of every character I've ever made on Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas. Here it is: Magnificent Bastard.

As defined by Urban Dictionary:

Magnificent Bastard -
There's a certain type of character that defies such definitions as hero or villain, good or evil, friend or enemy. Love him or loathe him, you have to admire him. And at the end of the day, there's only one thing we can call him... a Magnificent Bastard.

The Magnificent Bastard is intelligent, capable, supremely competent, and always in control. He can be playing everyone from both ends, or making it up as he goes along with such consummate skill he gets away with it. He might be cynically exploiting all around him for his own ends, or persuading everyone to do everything for him. He might be a lying sneaky bastard playing everyone for his own selfish ends, but he goes about it with such breathtaking skill and panache you admire him for it. Above all else, what defines a Magnificent Bastard is his ability to evoke not just amazement, but grudging admiration, from friend, foe and audience alike.

Aka Argyle.

Sounds like David Xanatos from the Gargoyles animated series...

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"Argyle you magnificent bastard!"

Man I miss wandering the wastes listening to that show, it really got you immersed in the game world more than you usually were.

When the typical player character is some idiot who runs to Old Lady Gibson's house for the sole purpose of shooting her directly in the face in order to take her gun, or goes on what should be a suicide run but turns out to be a killing spree in The Fort "because slavery," it's really difficult to buy this.

In the right hands, the Courier can be downright Chessmaster in his/her dealings. The majority of gamers are not the right hands.