A major component in a lot of video games is survival. If you have no inkling of survival skills, you better hope you can either learn some or play with friend who can carry you. Some video game characters make us question how they've managed to stay alive as long as they have. Here's a list of characters, whether they be main characters or secondary characters.

1. Any protagonist in a Pokémon game

I figured I would start off with something everyone's pretty familiar with. Every Pokemon game has you playing as some small child that's given a deadly weapon that also functions as a pet at age ten and going out on your own in the world with no adult supervision. On this adventure you can gamble, destroy other people's deadly weapons that also functions as pets, single-handedly take down criminal syndicates, and much more. But not once do the questions "Where am I going to get food and water today?", "When and where am I sleeping?", and "What happens if I get injured while entreating with violent members of previously stated criminal syndicate?" I suppose we'll never know; maybe people in the Pokemon universe have evolved to no longer need food, water, or sleep but still have kitchens, dining tables, beds, and vending machines for beverages (not for you but for your deadly weapons that also function as pets).

2. Many RPG protagonists

For those of you who don't know, many RPG's have a features set up in which players can simply pause the game, go into their item menus, and ingest or use various healing items mid combat should their health drop too low. This can result in such things as players fighting some fearsome monsters, and then casually stop and eat an entire meal or more to raise their health. How do these mysterious individuals halt the entire flow of time long enough for them to eat as much as they do? And if they don't, how do they have time to eat all of this without being killed in the process?

3. Sora

Sora is the beloved hero of the Kingdom Hearts franchise. I'm using beloved loosely. While he is the hero of the series, we have absolutely no idea how he's managed to make it this far. Let's face it; Sora is a dipshit. He rarely, if ever, has a clue about what's going on and has somehow blundered his way throughout the entire franchise and managed to save his home and open the door to light while being constantly pursued by huge legions of enemies all wanting him dead accompanied by two equally clueless party members. How he's managed to survive all of this is beyond any of us who have played these games before.

4. Escort Quest NPCs

Many gamers will tell you about the horrors of escort quests. You are entrusted with the life of some hopeless soul and have to try and take them where they want to go without them getting killed by something. This is easily one of a gamers worst nightmares because of how clueless these NPC's are. Usually they end up getting killed by something a couple times and you have to keep starting over, but eventually you make it to your destination and you sit there thinking "Wait, what? We actually made it? How are you alive?! I don't know but I won't question it."

5. The Merchant

Throughout the events of Resident Evil 4, you encounter a merchant who can sell you various guns and supplies. The question is, how does he manage to relocate completely unscathed and also without causing much of an uproar within the games events. In general we could probably question how any merchant in dangerous environments like a village full of infected Spaniards or the apocalypse survives.