Childhood Heroes
 

Interesting to know who you folks grew up idolising :D (or indeed are still growing up idolising) XD

I'd have to pick The Undertaker from retro WWF - always did love the whole deadman thing. With the grey boot covers, grey gloves, purple smoke and hat :up:

Captain Han Solo. Smart, shoots first (before Lucas ruined that whole scene), breaks the law but has morals, plus he has a cool spaceship. :up:

I use to idolise comic characters :arrgh!:

The Silver surfer was my favourite and Sgt Rock came a close 2nd.

Ed Beach, Mush Morton, Sam Dealey, George Blanda, Robert E. Howard, and Manfred von Richthofen.

Off the top of my 46 year old head: Bart Starr, Carl Yastrzemski, Adophus W. Greeley and Neil Armstrong.

Han solo and a Hero? Are you Crazy?!

http://www.ammon-ra.com/skywalkerparadigm/index.html

Luke is in fact an insane Dictator who has been manipulatet by the Sneaky old Bastard Obi-Wan, Chewie is a Stormtrooper Eating Monster, and Han Solo a Killer. Yoda is in fact not Really Yoda, but a Funny Little Drug addict.

But i believed in the whole Star Wars story as i was jung too...my whole life...a lie!

:cry:

By now i really wish myself i never Read it...

[On Topic]

My Childhood Hero? Hmmm. Luke.:oops:

None and that's a fact! :yep:

Chuck Yeager. Col. Gregory Boyington. George Washington. John Bonham (Don't ask.:88) )

Without question Sir Donald Bradman and he still is. :up:

I almost forgot, this isnt a human hero as such..

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Someday, my sweet. *strokes*

James Hird was, and still is one of my heros
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Captain Courageous of the mighty Dons. It seems that every team has a hitman assigned to him. Hirdy truly is an eyes only for the ball footballer. :up:

I have always been amazed at this mans capacity to "party"...
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That's sad.

It's the eyes.;)

My hero has always been my grandfather and always will be. Sorry, no sports figures or rock stars - although for some reason I am humming "Moby Dick" and wishing I had a better jump shot right now.:D

King Arthur. Dietrich von Bern. Han Solo .Nice sequence, isn't it :D

Not really I found reading books more interesting. :)

One does not preclude the other, i know, as I was also an avid reader. Greeleys autobiography of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition made him a hero in my young eyes. Same thing with Rene Foncks book though i learned later he was a bit of a boaster.

(Remember I posted that here?)

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OH come on is that the face of a murderous killer?

So what if he gunned down the occasional Bounty Hunter or government goon? Considering what the other "Protagonists" did that’s fairly minor. The Empire and the Hutts tried to kill all his friends and residents of Nar Sharadda, so he’s off for a little revenge so what? Plus Chewie and his people were Slaves of the Empire of course his pissed at them, wouldn't you be? Han was just a man trying to make a living in a 'verse that hates him.

Which brings me to my Adult (anti-)heroes (of the "Big" and "Damn" variety)
Mal Reynolds and Jayne Cobb
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So what if they threaten torture to the occasional Lawman (then shoot them in the head and throw them off the ship). They do good works!

I think many around here would agree with their concept of…

Morality: “You don't know me, son, so let me explain this to you once. If I ever kill you you'll be awake. You'll be facing me. And you'll be armed.” –Mal

“Sheperd Book once told me: ‘If you can’t do something smart do something right.’” -Jayne

"If someone every tries to kill you you try to kill them right back!" -Mal

The Government: “This report is maybe 12-years-old. Parliament buried it, and it stayed buried till River dug it up. This is what they feared she knew. And they were right to fear because there’s a whole universe of folk who are gonna know it, too. They’re gonna see it. Somebody has to speak for these people. You all got on this boat for different reasons, but you all come to the same place. So now I’m asking more of you than I have before. Maybe all. Sure as I know anything I know this, they will try again. Maybe on another world, maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, 10, they’ll swing back to the belief that they can make people . . . better. And I do not hold to that. So no more running. I aim to misbehave.” –Mal

“A government is a body of people usually notably ungoverned.” –Mal

Religion: The Operative: Do you know what your sin is, Mal?
Mal: Oh hell, I'm a fan of all seven. But right now, I'm gonna have to go with wrath.

“I once hit a man in the neck from 500 yards with a bent scope, don’t that count with the man upstars?” -Jayne