What 23 Video Game Characters Do After You're Done Playing

The life of a video game character isn't all collecting gold coins, dying, and respawning, right? There's got to be more to their little pixelated lives than that sort of mundane, border-line hellish existence.

So that got us thinking: What goes on after we've turned off the console for the night? We put that question to our readers and gave money for the best response. But first, the runners-up ...