I shall have my vengeance. Top 6 male characters.
Oh, no. In the order I think of them - which is a pretty decent way to figure out my favorites, actually:
Sora/Riku from Kingdom Hearts. You can't have one without the other, really. (Although by that logic I should have Roxas on here, too...) I'll tag Vanitas and Braig/Xigbar as honorable mentions as my favorite male villains.
Sir Daniel Fortesque from MediEvil. This soldier of the skeleton war was my first favorite video game character ever, and now that I'm older, his situation is even funnier - poor guy comes off as this brave, awesome warrior and gets killed by the first arrow in his first battle, rofl.
Augustus Waters from The Fault in Our Stars. Screw you for being the most perfect human being. Ever. And for saying your thoughts are scrambled in the most poetic way ever when I can't write coherently, lol.
Martin the Warrior from the Redwall series. Every now and then I get nostalgic and for that series, and I always read his section of books if I want to get a taste for it again. I have some problems with Brian Jacques' (R.I.P.) characters (or rather, the lack of variety of them), and while Martin is a perfect example of that stock-character syndrome, damn is he a tragic badass while doing it.
Jak from the Jak and Daxter series. Speaking of badasses... Great example of the guy who wants to be seen as a cool guy - and for the most part succeeds and is a cool guy - but is still a noble, heroic guy at heart despite all the terrible things done to him.
Harry Potter from... Harry Potter... Enough has been said already.