Who's your hero?

God and Jesus Christ.

None of the choices in the poll are my heroes!

Srry but i already used megaman and sonic in another post u voted in

I didn't mean him! Megaman is not my hero. He's just my little Homeboy.

Pssh, closest one would have to be Cloud but even he is far from being the best.

uh........................None of them. I'm not sure if I should vote sora cause he had some badass side characters...

or.....

tifa....redXIII....

ARGH. MY EYES.

Alright i take that as a sign to add more people

Heres the deal u send me more hero names and eventuelly when i thinki have enough i'll make another one of these polls alright?

Richard is my hero!!! if he had an army i would join it!

O.o BOB! i used to watch reboot all the time! that show was so rad :3

The thing is, its hard to fit everyones 'hero' in.

If you want to make threads like this, you compare people instead. "Which do you like the most out of this list." or "Who i the most badass, who is the sexist" ect.


"Who is your hero." gets taken as a serious question, and the list can never be made to fill in everyones hero.

good point but this isn't the last poll i'll be puting up and thx for the hint for the next time

I like Dexter. He makes me smile.

Not really a hero, though.

Nah Dexter is a hero. He's like Batman without the qualms of killing the bad guys. His gadgets are his duct tape, plastic, bone saws, etc.

I more meant he's not so much my hero.

Clearly, he is a hero.

Isn't Dexter more of an anti-hero?

He fights crime, and doesn't hurt innocent people. Sure he's a serial killer, but he does have a moral code and he even has a secret identity.

He's got some heroic qualities(he's directly, and indirectly saved children on numerous occasions), so no he isn't an anti-hero. It's also not like he leaves the bodies splayed out to "set an example" and strike fear into all the criminals of the city like Batman.

i picked none

pretty limiuted choices there...

Sorry i just noticed a mistake in my type it is Jak and Daxter that is supposed to be up there Srry

None of these is even near my hero

My hero is shown in my avatar and signature it's Gatsu from Berserk btw

None of the above: Solid Snake is my hero From Metal Gear Solid on the PSX /PS1

Cloud FTW!

Whatever happened to real heroes? Why do you need to idolize a made up character when the world is filled with people like Ghandi, Malcolm X, or Martin Luther King Jr? Or couldn't your father be your hero? Or maybe it's your mother? Or somebody you just happen to know who somehow manages to stay sane while her husband gets fired from his job and she's only making a first year teachers salary, while still taking her son to soccer games.

I have to tell ya, it kinda makes me sick if you choose some anime character over a real person. Goddamnit, we should all be saying WG is our hero because of all he's gone through, the man can still make us laugh after... well I won't tell you what happened to him.

I know Ghandi was a racist (hated black people quite noticeably) and I'm sure the other two famous people had their lovely quirks too. My dad's a self-loathing narcissist with an alcohol abuse problem. My mum's a schizophrenic dimwit who's blatantly unable to look after herself let alone her [other] children. And maybe it's just me but you don't suddenly become heroic by doing what you're supposed to do so your example with the single mother isn't very compelling either. She's a hero because her husband got fired? Or because she has a low-paying job? Or because she, like a competent parent, manages to take her kid to the scheduled soccer games?

At what point does the heroism come into it? Because I don't buy the Everyone Is A Hero In Their Own Way bullshit.


And I have to tell you that your promoting hero worship of a human being, prone to all the flaws and foibles the rest of us have, is sickening in itself. What, you think you're any better? You're not. You're doing the exact same thing that they are only you're probably worse because doing it with people involves actively lying to ourselves. There's a reason people refer to hero-worship as putting someone on a pedestal. You ignore their faults and focus on their supposed virtues.

People aren't heroic for surviving bad shit. As someone who's survived some bad shit, I feel I'm in a good position to know. Being funny after bad shit isn't really a heroic trait either. Of course, you're solemnly determined to have your head up your arse here so let's break it down, shall we?

Anime characters are a part of our culture. Modern myths and legends. The fact that myths (and later folk tales, fairy tales and fantasy) have been a part of all human cultures all over the world speaks to a human need to idealise and idolise. And I hate to break it to you but whether you're admiring Achilles or Naruto, you're admiring a fictitious construct. A device created to express some part of our species' psyche. The standard we'd like to reach. There are all sorts of nuance in there but the basic gist of it is simple: human beings are pathologically wired to admire and worship powerful and charismatic figures. We need them to be perfect. Fundamentally grand in a way your average chump isn't.

And when you focus this need onto another person, well, then we start the lies. Gandhi did a lot of good but I'll be damned if I worship someone who actively campaigned in South Africa that Indians weren't like those lazy, worthless niggers. Of course, if you weren't so absolutely focussed on being a "serious and mature" eighteen (or is it nineteen now?) years old, you might have actually learned that a) people frequently discuss "serious and mature" topics in a light-hearted way because nobody gives a shit about your deep, dark emotions until after they like you and B) the worship you propose we should have is even more empty than what they're feeling for the anime characters.

As an immensely analytic person, not burdened with much in the way of feeling, I can assure you that worshipping some one or thing because we "ought to" is an empty and pointless activity. I don't look at anybody as a hero so I'd know. I could go through the motions but what you're really suggesting is that everybody else should be different until they're like you.

How deliciously like my perspective.

Okay, just so it's clear, I know Ghandi was a rascist, so were a lot of people at the time. And yes, I am like you, maybe I go about it a different way, but it's still there. I find myself almost constantly on your side Verb, and you know what? Whatever, you're a cool person to be like.

none of there guys are my hero

Yeah but when I say it it's not a complement.

I'd have to like me for it to be a complement.

My hero is hitler. I kmow, he was crazy, evil, and among other things a nazi. but he was amazing at his job, if it wern't for the drug abuse and parkinsan's disiese brought on by drug abuse. He may have taken over europe. Mabey even the world. I admit, I didn't like the fact that he tried to kill the jews. But he was a great leader.

My mother... that sadistic, bloodsucking, soulless harpy... is my hero. Where else could I find so many flaws in one single person, and yet, through years of abuse and workaholicism, she's managed to raise five kids. X, that. I managed to learn how to raise five kids. So, if it weren't for her lack of domesticated skills and her constant inebriation, I don't know what kind of non-bitter person I might be. So, to think that I would place a wholly fictional character above someone like that... its madness.

Pish posh.

We can't let the self-confessed insane among us dictate the boundaries of sanity. It just leads to silliness.

I don't care if you meant it as one, I took it as one.

A little nonesense now and then never hurt the wisest men...

And besides, you adore my silly behavior. Why else would you go out of your way to marry me just to torment me for all eternity?

*Clings to Verby-kins*

That may or may not be true.

Either way, I'm certainly not in favour of letting you define sanity.

Neither am I, and if you two marry eachother the world is quite definitely fucked up.

Think of the children...

We've had this discussion before.

The children would be a disappointment.

How would they be a disappointment? To look like Lisa and have your mind...

Uhm... I just felt very inadequate.

Because the percentage of the kid getting the desired traits is unbelievably small.

In all likelihood, any child of mine will merely be of slightly above normal intelligence and I'd end up doing horrible emotional trauma to it. There's a reason you don't get people like me very often. It's not that my components are all that uncommon. It's just rare to get them put in the right order.

Which explains why we adopted Grymcess in the first place. Rather than tormenting ourselves by including a diluted version of the two of us, we're going to instill what we want into already blank canvas. Thus far I think its going very well.

Goddamnit, you forgot to put up Richard >.<. Thats an insult he will not tolarate!

i destroyed all.....

















GO RICHARD!!!!

Yeah, I've never even heard of most of these dudes.

That figures

Gene Roddenberry.

I vote for Richard.

Alright people u can quite voting on this i am dropping it

I'd say Cloud because even though it's only a pathetic schizophrenic, (If you finished the game you should understand) I like him.

Kira is my Hero.