
Many of his lines are taken from the movie Army of Darkness, and his most famous line is from the movie They Live with Roddy Piper saying, "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass. This is widely believed to be a reference to Lani Minella, a voice actress who did several voices for Duke Nukem 3D.ĭuke Nukem's current character is a pastiche of a number of Hollywood action heroes, including Dirty Harry, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and John Wayne.

However, he frequently mentions an estranged love interest named "Lani", and she becomes the basis for many of his jokes. He is apparently sexually adept and irresistible to females, and circumstances often find him surrounded by many buxom women. His missions generally involve killing aliens that have invaded Earth.

In Duke Nukem Forever, his massive ego is somehow capable of functioning like a shield from physical damage. Although not superhuman, Duke manages to achieve incredible physical feats of violence and conquest through sheer machismo and expertise with automatic firearms. Since the third game, Duke's personality has been that of a confident, aggressive, politically incorrect, wise-cracking, hyper-masculine person. In the second game, he began to evolve into a more traditional action hero, but remained mostly silent. Proton, whom he took offense to for interrupting his soap opera. In the original game, Duke Nukem barely spoke and was portrayed as a disgruntled TV viewer hired by the CIA to save Earth from the mad scientist Dr.

The character first appeared in the 1991 video game Duke Nukem, developed by Apogee Software. Duke Nukem as he appears in Duke Nukem Foreverĭuke Nukem is a fictional character and protagonist of the Duke Nukem series of video games.
