Duke Nukem

Duke Nukem is the titular main protagonist of the games. He is an American multi-millionaire hero who earned success after saving the planet from Dr. Proton's evil schemes. He has appeared in and starred in all the games of his series, while also making many appearances in other titles over the span of 20 years. He is one of the most iconic gaming figures of the 90s, and was very distinct from other shooter heroes at the time with his famous one-liners and ultra macho personality.
He was voiced by Joe Siegler in , and by (the voice of Big from ) in , , , , , , , and .
==Biography==
===Classic Games===
In 1997, a madman named Dr. Proton is determined to take over the world with his army of Techbots. However, Proton's plan has interrupted Duke's television signal, preventing him from watching , so he takes upon the task of stopping Proton. The first episode takes place in the devastated city of . In the second episode, Duke chases Proton to his secret moon base. In the third episode, Proton escapes into the future, and Duke pursues him through time, putting an end to his mad schemes.
In 1998, the evil Rigelatins plan to enslave Earth, and they kidnap Duke during in the city Neo LA (Nerola City on ) in order to use his brain to plot the attack for their forces. Duke escapes from the cell and fights across the planet's surface and underground, where he destroys the city's energy reactor, then captures the fighter jet to return to Earth.
===Duke Nukem 3D===
Sometime in the early 21st century, Duke is returning to Earth in his space cruiser right after the events of Duke Nukem II. As Duke descends on Los Angeles in hopes of a vacation, his ship is shot down by unknown hostiles. While sending a distress signal, Duke learns that aliens are attacking Los Angeles and have mutated the . With his vacation plans now ruined, Duke hits the "eject" button, and vows to do whatever it takes to stop the alien invasion.
In "Episode One: L.A. Meltdown", Duke fights through a Los Angeles. At a , he is captured by pig-cops, but escapes the alien-controlled penitentiary and tracks down the alien cruiser responsible for the invasion in the . Duke later confronts and kills an Alien Battlelord, but then discovers that the aliens were capturing women, and detonates the ship.
In "Episode Two: Lunar Apocalypse", Duke journeys to , where he finds many of the captured women held in various throughout space stations that had been conquered by the aliens. Duke reaches the alien mothership on the and kills an alien Overlord. As Duke inspects the ship's computer, it is revealed that the plot to capture women was merely a ruse to distract him. The aliens have already begun their attack on Earth.
In "Episode Three: Shrapnel City", Duke battles the massive alien presence through Los Angeles once again, and kills the leader of the alien menace: the Cycloid Emperor. The game ends as Duke promises that after some "", he will be "...ready for more action!", as an anonymous woman calls him back to bed.
The story continues in the Atomic Edition. In "Episode Four: The Birth", it is revealed that the aliens used a captured woman to give birth to the Alien Queen, a creature which can quickly spawn deadly alien protector drones. Duke is dispatched back to Los Angeles to fight hordes of aliens, including the protector drones. Eventually, Duke finds the Alien Queen's lair and kills her, thwarting the alien plot.
With the release of 20th Anniversary World Tour, the story progresses further. In "Episode Five: Alien World Order", Duke finds out that the aliens initiated a world-scale invasion, so he sets out to repel their attack on various countries. Duke proceeds to clear out aliens from Amsterdam, Moscow, London, San Francisco, Paris, the Giza pyramid complex, and Rome, with the final showdown with the returning alien threat taking place in Los Angeles, taking the game full circle. There, he defeats the Cycloid Incinerator, the current alien leader, stopping their threat for good.
===Duke Nukem Forever===
Twelve years after saving Earth, Duke Nukem has become a celebrity multi-millionaire. After playing a game based on Duke Nukem 3D, he arrives on the set of a talk show for an interview. On his way to the show, Duke witnesses a news broadcast announcing that aliens have returned. Unlike previous encounters, the aliens initially appear peaceful and seem to pose no harm to Earth. Duke's talk show appearance is cancelled to allow television stations to cover the alien invasion, and Duke retires to his home - the "Duke Cave". There, he receives a call from the and General Graves of the Earth Defense Force (EDF); the president orders Duke not to harm the invaders, as he is in diplomatic talks with the alien overlord.
When Duke is attacked by hostile aliens, Duke is forced to disobey the president's orders and fight his way through the alien hordes. While fighting through his casino, Duke witnesses the aliens abducting women, including his two star girlfriends. Graves tells Duke that the women are being held in the Duke Dome and that the aliens have a vendetta to settle with Duke. He also warns Duke that the aliens are using to power a so more aliens can come through. Duke travels to the Duke Dome, using a to damage the building to gain access.
Inside, he finds swarms of Octabrains and the missing women, who have been impregnated with alien spawn. Duke's girlfriends die after bearing alien babies, infuriating Duke. Duke finds the Alien Queen in control of the Duke Dome and kills her, but is wounded in the process and blacks out. After regaining consciousness, Duke fights pig-cops and aliens through the Duke Burger fast-food restaurant. He travels to Hoover Dam in his . After battling through the dam, he finds his old friend Dylan mortally wounded. Dylan tells Duke that the reborn Cycloid Emperor is at the dam and that the only way to shut down the portal is to completely destroy it. Before dying, he gives Duke his demolition charges and wishes him luck. Duke places the explosives and destroys the dam, but the currents nearly drown him.
Duke is revived by an EDF soldier and awakens to find the portal gone. The president, who was also at the dam, rages at Duke for ruining his plans to work with the Cycloid Emperor, as he was actually intending to have the aliens kill Duke so he could control Earth with Cycloid Emperor. He has ordered a at the site of the dam to wipe out the remaining aliens, intending to leave Duke there to die. The Cycloid Emperor emerges and kills the president and his security detail; he intended to kill the president after the deal. Duke kills the Cycloid Emperor and is rescued by Graves as the nuclear bomb explodes. In a press conference, Duke announces his intent to run for president.
In the downloadable content The Doctor Who Cloned Me, Duke wakes up after the nuclear explosion and finds himself trapped in a strange laboratory while video recordings of himself declaring his bid for presidency play on monitors. After escaping, Duke discovers that not only are the aliens continuing their invasion, but his old nemesis, Dr. Proton, has returned and is building an army of robotic Duke clones to fight the aliens and conquer Earth himself. Duke infiltrates Proton's laboratory in by posing as one of the clones. Eventually, Proton spots him and attacks Duke, but he escapes and is reunited with Dylan, revealed to have survived. With Dylan's help, Duke locates and kills Proton. Graves then communicates with Duke to inform him that the aliens are being bred by an Alien Empress that is nesting on the moon. After finding a teleporter leading up to the moon, Duke commandeers a moon rover and destroys the Alien Empress, saving Earth and the abducted women once again.
==Appearance==
Duke is a Caucasian 30-year-old American with a blonde flat-top hairstyle and blue eyes. He is tall and extremely well-built, being 6' 4" and weighing 240 lbs. In the first game, he wears a pink waistcoat with a white undershirt, whilst he wears a red tank top in the following games. He has always worn blue jeans with a nuclear symbol belt buckle. In 3D and Forever, he wears sunglasses. 
==Personality==
Duke is, bluntly, an ultra masculine, witty, politically incorrect, yet brave and heroic man. He frequently taunts his enemies and enjoys bringing them the pain. His character inspiration is plainly the action heroes of the 80s and 90s, delivering clever and funny one-liners while their manliness gets them through even the most impossible situations. He loves women, and women love him, finding his might and bravado irresistible. Throughout his endeavours, Duke has become a global icon and is praised and loved as the greatest hero of Earth. He relishes his fame and is ultimately, despite his egotistical tendencies, a good man through and through.
==Quotes==
*"Hail to the King, baby!"
*"Damn I'm good!"
*"It's time to kick ass and chew ... and I'm all out of gum."
*"Eat shit and die."
*"I've got balls of steel!"
*"Damn! I'm looking good!"
*"Time flies when you're kicking ass"
*"What the fuck."
*"Why am I doing this..."
*"Ah, no, what am I doing?"
*"What am I, a chimpanzee?"
*"Now what? Shit finger-painting?"
*"Uh, this is gross. I gotta get rid of this!"
*"A turd in the hand is worth two in the bush."
*"What the hell? No. Come on, no! This is disgusting!"
*"What kind of sick motherfucker picks up wet faeces?"
==Gallery==
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DukeNukem.jpg|Duke Nukem as he appears in Duke Nuken 3D.
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==Trivia==
*Most of Duke's lines are drawn from movies such as , , , , , , , and .
*The series creators have described Duke as an homage of 80s and 90s action heroes, such as , , , , , , , and other iconic heroes from that period.
*3D contains several pop culture references.
**In Episode One, Duke may navigate a tunnel in the wall of a prison cell hidden behind a poster, like in .
**In Episode Two, Duke can see a on the moon.
**In Episode Four, there is a parody called Babe Land.
**The captured women saying "Kill me..." is a reference to the film Aliens.
**Duke may encounter the corpses of Doomguy, Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones, Snake Plissken, and T-800.
*In Episode Two of 3D, Duke may find a table with all its balls set ready for a game. Although Duke cannot "play" pool in the game, he can still shoot or knock the balls around the table and even pot them in the pockets.
**A similar-functioning pool table appears in the Chicago level of , where Jake Fenton and Lady Jane can shoot the pool balls and pot them in the pockets.
**A pool table appears in the pubs/bars of ; although CJ can play pool normally, he can otherwise whack or shoot the balls and pot them that way, when not engaged in a pool match.
==Licensing==
This article contains content derived from the "Duke Nukem" article on the Duke Nukem Wiki, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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