This is a very special Toplist Tuesday, because it falls on Veteran's day, when we Americans honor those who have fought for our country. With that in mind, here's a look at video game heroes who make the concept of an army obsolete, with their unbreakable fortitude and an embarrassment of ways to strike at their foe (which is usually a whole country).

5. Ethan Cole - Area 51

Not many may know this early 2005 shooter, and its David Duchovney-voiced protagonist did little to distinguish himself from other shooter heros aside from being clinically depressed. That changes when he's infected by mutants born of alien and human blood and begins his decent into the gargantuan secret military base known infamously as Area 51. Sure he's just a guy with a gun, but now he can change into a mutant form capable of sapping the life from his foes up close or at a distance. And did I mention he has thermal vision? Cole successfully infiltrates, destroys and escapes from the most tightly-guarded facility in the United States, killing scores of aliens and Illuminati along the way with an acquired arsenal of secret weaponry that ranges from implosion grenades to a death-vortex cannon. Think you can stop him? I'll say this in the least Liam-Neeson way possible: Good luck.

4. Jacket - Hotline Miami

Here is your basic special ops guy: get in, eliminate the target and get out. Sure he's not that good at minimizing collateral damage, but this guy gets results. Using minimal stealth, no shortage of badassery and a heavy dose of resourcefulness, Jacket will make sure everyone who needs to be dead is dead before the night is done. Out of bullets? Throw the gun. In the kitchen? Use a boiling pot of water. If all else fails, grab a horse mask and kill someone with a swinging door. You can't teach that. The obvious drawback here is that Jacket is freaking crazy. Hire at your own risk.

3. Connor - Assassin's Creed III

Speaking of assassins and war veterans, how can we forget the one who went behind the scenes of the American Revolution to carefully orchestrate the war's key events? Connor combines CIA-level operational discretion with a knack for hand-to-hand combat and an ability to move unseen through almost any terrain. He's also part of an extensive military family, so you have to admire the pedigree of his ancestors: Altair Ibn-La'Ahad, Ezio Auditore Da Firenze, and Edward Kenway.

2. Cereza - Bayonetta

Simple question: how do you fight someone who fights with her hair? You certainly can't trick her into an appointment at Master Cuts. Not only that, she's a witch who can turn into a panther and manipulate time. Her most beneficial quality for warfare is perhaps her zero-tolerance policy for taking anyone's crap, especially if they're impolite about it. She could easily be a general or at least a drill sergeant when she retires from combat, as there's hardly a man out there who wouldn't do exactly what she says exactly when she says it. In the mean time, though, she'll stick to stomping out resistance with fully automatic stilettos (yeah, you read that right), expert swordsmanship, a dash of Capoeira and a whole lot of attitude.

1. Kratos - God of War

I'm not sure this one is really fair; he is a god, after all. One better, he's a god that specializes in murdering other gods. Kratos is to the folks atop Mount Olympus what Freddy Krueger is to horny teenagers. In a war fought amongst puny mortals, even the ones on this toplist, whatever side Kratos chooses is the one I'm betting on. In a way, the previous contenders for top one-man armies only succeed because Kratos allows it. He's even gotten the gods in Mortal Kombat to bow down to him, proving his cross-brand supremacy. If you're lucky he'll let you choose how you die before ripping out your spine to use as a new weapon. Medusa's gaze? Coming right up!