Bat you need to get a smaller sig. The mods hate it when people don't follow sig guidelines.

I'll get right on it:)

My favorite fictional hero is something I could think about forever since I've been obssessed with fiction my whole life. But my first 3 thoughts are Conan, John Custer and The Thing. Picked based not only on how much I like them but also their inherent heroism because no matter how much I like Starscream their isn't one damn heroic thing about him.

Conan ( as written by Robert E. Howard or Roy Thomas is Savage Sword ) born of good genetics in tough climes fed off a lifetime of a warriors diet and constant warfare is physically unparalled by any human. An unbelievable fighter capable of overcoming staggering odds in close combat, a decent archer and a brillaint battle tactician. He speaks and reads several dialects including reading some dead ones with skills he believes beyond any scholar who doesn't have to be good enough to translate quickly with their life on the line. So well travelled he's actually corrected maps that he felt weren't detailed enough. Uncanny social manipulator who rose to a position of power or prominance in almost every band of warriors he ever joined no matter how much they wanted to kill him when they first encountered him. While he will daringly defy his own fear of death ( because Crom promises no reward ) and face any peril at risk to only himself when he has the safety of a damsel or men under his command he will avoid risks to ensure their safety valued above his own. He eventually overthrew a tyranical king ruling the most powerful western hyborian kingdom and while he did it for his own gain once he had the power he became legitametly caring for the welfare of the citizens of his kingdom.

John Custer from Preacher by Garth Ennis, the deceased father of the main character seen only in flashbacks. A true hero who fought for his country in Viet Nam going over there before that was an unpopular thing to do. Earned a purple heart carrying his gunshot body through miles of jungle and an enemy ambush. Made sure another body wouldn't be picked on after his tour was over. Then he went home and tried to be the best husband/father he could be for his new family. Taught his son to always try and be a good person because theirs way to many bad. While he was unsuccessful in the end he died fighting for the freedom of his family.

The Thing from the Fantastic Four who has crushing self esteem problems from his appearance ( with which I can sympathize ) but he never stayed human when Reed found a cure because he couldn't bare the thought of people being hurt because he didn't want to look ugly.



I don't know for sure because I never read much Spider-Man due mostly to my strong hatred of Spider-Man/Peter Parker but I always assumed that the slime on Venom's tongue was well, venom. Which would probably not be amazing in a good way. Otherwise ignore Subliminal Verses and Jonath a long tongue is probably the best thing I've got going for me, I've got no mandible and can stick it out over two inches.

Oh, and since you asked, Harley Quinn from Batman The Animated Series and later comic books. Not just for her cute perky body snuggly wrapped up in a spandex clown suit but for her beautifully broken crazy on the outside personality so atleast you can see your relationship problems ( and most likely giant hammers ) are coming from. Her realization that being happy and the happiness of someone you care about is more important than a career or station in life which she gave up for her beloved Mr. J. Also she's an animal lover who cared deeply about Joker's pet hyenas.

For a quick fuck with no relationship Psylocke from X-Men would be fun. An andreniline junky who can directly activate pleasure senses in your mind. Available as a beautiful british woman or later a mysteriously tall asian. 'Nuff Said.

from what I take you mostly like Conan because of all his (not supernatural) abilities. In this case, you should probably go for Bane, since he broke the bat all by using his own intelligence and strength (granted, his strength was enhanced, but he's stronger than batman without that stuff too...

Every time Bane has fought Batman since without Venom he's either lost or stalemated. Plus he only beat Batman the first time after tiring him out by releasing all of his Rogues. Admittedly it was clever but since then Bane's done nothing of note. Plus he's not really a hero at all. Just sayin.

I do think the humanism is a big part of what makes Conan stand out as my favorite all time hero.

I don't know Bane that well, despite being a die hard comic dork I know Batman mostly from TV. Although I agree with Jonath there is nothing heroic about him that I can disern. Also he's written as a very transparent metaphor for steriod usage which I'm on the fence about. I'm currently clean but since I have some tendon issues once I hit a solid plateau I'd consider doing a cycle of Deca.

Since I'm here I feel I should post a new hero and today's pitch is the Punisher. Of all the hero's in the marvel universe he has the least prison breaks from his rouge's gallery. Probably should be mentioned I have no problem with capital punishment for murder.

The Punisher is insane, especially the MAX version. I don't see why so many people like him.

Well I thought I was clear in my first post but I don't mind further explaining myself.

Punisher's insane, I'm insane, your insane, everybodies insane, if someone was actually sane they'd have to isolate themselves from the rest of us to avoid being driven insane by all our irrational behavior. I'm a fan of Garth Ennis's Punisher more than any other although I liked reading the occassional Punisher comic in the 80's as a kid. Due to financial issues I've read more of Garth's Marvel Knights than Max though. As for why I like him as a hero it's because when he takes someone down, they stay the hell down. If for example Daredevil were to catch someone before Punisher, he takes them down, then he changes clothes and Matt Murdock wastes several weeks trying to keep him down using up taxpayer money on court costs. Then hopefully the government wastes more money incarcirating him if he doesn't manage to weasel out of jail during the legal process. Then if they wear a mask they break out or if it's just a street hood they do their 3rd of a sentence and are release to be a plague on humanity again. Punisher skips all this and implaments a death sentence that while illegal is quite effective in the long run and results in less death of innocents and is cheaper to boot. He tends to only kill murders who I believe deserve murder in retalation. Mostly mobsters in fact who knowingly decided to enter a kill or be killed lifestyle other mobsters and the Punisher as well. If you don't want to get murdered by the Punisher you always have the option of not being mobbed up or selling crack.

As for why the series is popular even with people with a higher tolerance for the lives of murderous scum than me. Garth Ennis is a master of gory death and black humor, he showed this in Hitman and Preacher before he got the Punisher job and Marvel was nice enough to understand that they hired him to do specifically that and didn't hold him back. Interesting he quit not long before the Disney buyout.

Since I'm here my new pic for a hero is somewhat randomly Beast Boy from the Teen Titans who is the first vegetarian to make sense to me since unlike all other vegetarians he's embrassing his genetic structure and evolution instead of denying it. Also he can cheer almost anyone up under bad circumstances and I could use someone like that in my life. The whole saving the world from destruction countless times earns him some points too.

My fictional hero is most likely, without falling into "Mary Sue" character territory, probably would be most of the Gaunt's Ghosts regiment. I cannot really describe why as it would spoil the hell out of the series. And the exception to my hero worship is Lijah Cu (WHO SHOULD BURN IN THE DEPTHS OF HELL FOREVER!!!)

Dan Abnett is a very good writer, check out his books sometime.

Mine would have to be Richard Rahl from the Sword of Truth series.

hmm, toughy.

Joker (from the killing joke)
(G)Archer (fate/stay night)
Renton (Eureka_SeVen)
Charles Beams (Eureka_SeVen)
and finally
BK201 (Darker Than Black)

Some may recognize this from when I posted it in a conversation in JJ but it deserves to be posted here as well.

Nightcrawler who decided to voluntarily give up the image inducer Proffessor X gave him so he could look normal in public to instead always be his 'fuzzy blue elf' self. While being an X-Man and blue this is more a metaphor for not being ashamed of his race than the nerdiness of Peter Parker I still respect Nightcrawler for not trying to hide who he is even though he's been persecuted in the past for it and has good reason to expect more persecution but believes it's his right to be himself and if he won't fight for it no one will. Also no matter how bleak things look, surrounded by hatred, disliked for his appearance and frequently confronted with violent deaths of those dear to him he never gives into misery and can always find the upside or believes that things can be made better with hope and effort.

Another hero i like is The Steel-duck also known as Paperinik, Phantomias, Duck Avenger, Superduck, PK, Fantomerik, Superdonald and Phantom Duck. xD

Completely disagree with this choice. Richard Rahl is an infallible character, and hard to stomach at the best of times.

Clearly, Kael(World of Warcraft). Not quite a hero, but more of an idol. Not just anyone can live through 40 pissed off warriors, then come back to summon a bad ass demon and betray his own homeland. Kael is just cool like that. ;3

There's actually a villain thread which would be more apposite.

Appropriate, you mean? And I only described the end of his career. His didn't go bad until the second phase. Same thing with Bush.

Kael retook Quel'thalas, became the only ruler of the blood elves, fought the undead against certain doom while helping an Alliance that had betrayed them, and then went on to save his people through demon magics. I wouldn't call him a "Villian" until after all that. : D

Apposite, its a synonym of appropriate.
And Kael went from tragic hero to bat-shit insane villain real quick. His inclinations are irrelevant since in the end his legacy was rather villainous.

well, Kael, as well as Illidan, are this somewhat hard-to-grasp villains, for both have their heroic moments, like Illidans unconditional love for Tyrande. Its a bit like Dr. Doom.

Nah Dr. Doom is unambiguously villainous. He just has moments of quasi-nobility that make fangirls gush over him and think he's some deep, tragic hero. I'd say Illidan's unconditional love is less love and more obsession.

Richard, and don't say he isn't a hero because he's my hero!

Cale. A'non. Vatay.

'nuff said.

well maybe not quite enough. I mean, His ideals are to create a fair and just world, and even though he might even know that it's impossible, he tries anyway. He's had to make sacrifices and very difficult descisions throughout his life, and still he keeps his goals, even after seeing that there's probably more evil in the world than good. Leave it to the fangirl to gush, but I think Cale is a very deep character.

As deep as a clone of Drittz Do'Urden can get.

But seriously even though Sohmer didn't know about Drizzt until after making Cale the similarities are pretty staggering. Its probably because as far as fantasy goes there are only three different kinds of heroes.

either Kurt-051 from Ghosts of Oynx or BM from 8-bit comic

Roran Stronghammer from the Inheritance series. hes just so bad ass that i bet he would own eragon himself... cant wait untill book 4 comes out.

Id say Rick Astley but hes not fictional.

Grim Reaper. Noone else strikes as much fear as he does in the souls of the near deceased then this fella.

Groo the Wanderer, in the comic named after himself- Always has "great ideas" and wants to help so bad... but he usually ends up doing the worst thing possible.

SCUD from SCUD: The Disposable Assassin- I find it hard to get better than a Robot Assassin that comes out of a vending machine for a quarter. One job, then self-destructs after killing his target, only this SCUD beat the system and never truly killed his target

Fizban! Dragonlance series, crazy old wizard that thinks fireball is the answer to everything! Would get along with Richard well...
You love him till the end of your days after he tries to get the group of heroes out of a locked cage by shooting a fireball to blast it apart.

Richard, Rayne, Dumbledore, Sokka, King Bumi, Solid freaking Snake, Blaze(Ace Combat 5) and The Batman.

BM would be more appropriate in the villain-thread, no?

Drizzt Do'Urden is my favorite hero ever.. but Wulfgar is kick ass; its a tie between them.

i am more a antihero kind a guy, so i think it most be Deadpool

or Jake from avatar, not that jake is antihero but I am just another fan of this total cool and nice movie

If antiheroes count, Kronus.

Noone else strikes as much fear as he does in the souls of the near deceased then this fella.

The Phantom Stranger as my sig and avvy might suggest. Only he can lecture the Wrath of God.

Ever since I watched One Piece ... Monkey D. Luffy has been one
Dirk Pitt ... Clive Cussler writes amazing books
And of course the Human Torch or Johnny Storm of the fantastic 4

It would be a toss up between those 3

I'm on a Discworld streak.
In no particular order:
Samuel Vimes. Rincewind. Cohen the Barbarian. Lu-Tze. Granny Weatherwax.

"Didn't You Know? Spartans Never Die!" *sets nukes off*

WIN Sir, WIN.
And shit, this is still going?

hmmm... gonna have to go with either darth vader (i kno, he technicly not a 'hero' but he has spawned a whole legacy of empty lungs and broken necks at every turn in all the star wars games iv played), Rexxar (the dude chills by takin' his bear for a walk and smashing people in the face as soon as he sees them), or Ezio, from Assasion's Creed 2, simply for being a balls-out, high-flying face-stabber

Jack in the Box from Astro City- First off, he's a good guy clown, which is a tad unusual. He has a good combination of athletics and engineering, and has niffty little clown gadgets (his confetti reminds me of Spiderman's webbing). Plus I liked how their was sort of a loose "family" of Jack in the Boxes.

Bigwig from Watership Down- He was the strongest rabbit of the group, he was also clever enough to infiltrate Efraffa and free like 11 rabbits. I liked his friendship with Kehar, and his stand against General Woundwort was epic.

Paul Maud'dib from Dune- He's a big prophecy filling hero, and has a big advanced way of predicting the future, and he had good morals, and motives. He was alos a pretty good fighter, and adapted to the harsh Fremen culture extremely well. Plus he was pretty darn clever, and had a good way of manipulating events.

Roran Stronghammer from Inheritence series- For a normal human, he's done some amazing things. His passion and courage are his biggest strengths, and he's a pretty clever tactician as well. Plus, he makes an ordinary hammer a surprisingly effective weapon.

Bigwig was awesome.

I'm gona add everyone who was ever part of The Black Company except for Raven, because he's an emo PoS, Mogaba, because he's a chickenshit with a god complex, and Silent, just because Silent's a prick.

Also: Paul Redeker, because he has the guts to do what other people won't, and Alan Grant, because dude's just a fucking badass.

William Murderface. Fuck yeah.

As in metalocolypse?

Nice.

And as in Dethklok. But yeah.

\m/

I vote Nathan Explosion then. Cuz he's a badass. He's just usually too lazy and/or stupid to show it.

+1

Belkar from Order of the Stick

Him or Nathan. That is so metal.

Ugh soo many choices....
Tasselhoff Burfoot
Link
Captain Jack Sparrow
Dirk Pitt
Human Torch
The Flash
Dr. Mcninja
the list goes on...

yeah, guy's a sexy, shoeless god of war after all