Here's What Real Video Game NPCs Think About em Free Guy /em

In Free Guy, the new film from director Shawn Levy and screenwriters Matt Lieberman and Zak Penn, Ryan Reynolds plays an NPC--a non-playable character--from a video game. Over the course of the movie, Reynolds' character becomes conscious, falls in love, and eventually learns how to use lightsabers, Captain America's shield, and a grab-bag of intellectual property controlled or licensed for the movie by the Walt Disney Company. It's not the first time NPCs have been featured on-screen, but no other film has spent as much time exploring their inner lives. To find out how NPCs felt about their moment in the spotlight, I travelled to several video game universes and asked any NPC I could find what they thought about Free Guy. Here's what they told me.