If you could be one "Hero" or "Heroinne" Who would you be?

[Kam]

Who wants to be a Hero when you could be a super-cool villain?

Man, I'm really struggling with this one. While there is a certain appeal to wielding a light-saber and being able move things with your mind, the whole Jedi Code of Ethics would really take the fun out of it. Likewise for most comic book hero characters, though they all got heavy consideration.

I'm gonna have to go with 007 - dammit, who WOULDN'T wanna be a secret agent with all kinds of cool weapons gadgetry and some super spiffed-up cars. And more than enough beautiful exotic women to make Captain Kirk jealous...

Runner up was "the Counte of Monte Fisto" himself - Apollo Creed...
With names like "The Dancing Destroyer", "The Master of Disaster", and "The King of Sting", fortune, fame, and everything that goes with it, what's not to like?
Yeah, sure, the whole getting killed by Drago in an exhibition fight would suck, but damn, James Brown did your theme music - what an entrance. Ooooowwww!

oh c'mon! apollo over clubber lang!!??

[kexodusc]

oh c'mon! apollo over clubber lang!!??

Well, I'm taking "hero" as the protagonist good guy of the story...if bad guys are in, this is a totally different thread.

[Kam]

Well, I'm taking "hero" as the protagonist good guy of the story...if bad guys are in, this is a totally different thread.

wait... you mean clubber wasn't the hero of rocky 3? i thought it was a brilliant tragedy in reverse... the hero comes out strong and wins, but then his arrogance makes him lose the final fight, yet gain a valuable lesson in hubris...

[kexodusc]

wait... you mean clubber wasn't the hero of rocky 3? i thought it was a brilliant tragedy in reverse... the hero comes out strong and wins, but then his arrogance makes him lose the final fight, yet gain a valuable lesson in hubris...

Well, there are entire Master's level classes devoted to interpreting the literary genius of Stallone's masterpiece, and I won't pressume to have the correct interpretation. Each scene was a metaphor, each character an enigma, each line a confession of the struggle within.
For example: "My prediction? Pain." Was this pain directed at Rocky, or a reference to the internal conflict resulting from the unsatiated hunger that would remain within Clubber regardless of the outcome of the bout?

[PeruvianSkies]

Well, there are entire Master's level classes devoted to interpreting the literary genius of Stallone's masterpiece, and I won't pressume to have the correct interpretation. Each scene was a metaphor, each character an enigma, each line a confession of the struggle within.
For example: "My prediction? Pain." Was this pain directed at Rocky, or a reference to the internal conflict resulting from the unsatiated hunger that would remain within Clubber regardless of the outcome of the bout?

The duality of man is so perfectly layered within the context and subcontext of this film that the entire film stands as one of the greatest paradox's of the human existence. Even in ROCKY Chapter IV and V, as well as VI the issues are lingering still with part IV, Man Vs Machine (Ivan Drago is referenced as 'beyond human') really becoming the impetus for the entire 1980's subculture. Mickey represents the father-figure of the film, but after dying in chapter III there is anger that ignites Rocky into fighting Clubber Lang, who in many ways represents the thug that Rocky was in the first chapter of our story. This cycle repeates in Chapter V as Rocky becomes the father-figure to Tommy the Machine Gun. There are so many arching and over-arching parallels within the Rocky Saga that it would take a master's thesis to truly identify all of its significance.

[Worf101]

The duality of man is so perfectly layered within the context and subcontext of this film that the entire film stands as one of the greatest paradox's of the human existence. Even in ROCKY Chapter IV and V, as well as VI the issues are lingering still with part IV, Man Vs Machine (Ivan Drago is referenced as 'beyond human') really becoming the impetus for the entire 1980's subculture. Mickey represents the father-figure of the film, but after dying in chapter III there is anger that ignites Rocky into fighting Clubber Lang, who in many ways represents the thug that Rocky was in the first chapter of our story. This cycle repeates in Chapter V as Rocky becomes the father-figure to Tommy the Machine Gun. There are so many arching and over-arching parallels within the Rocky Saga that it would take a master's thesis to truly identify all of its significance.

I'm sitting here teary eyed and rolling as you "Jackmasters" take another otherwise mildly entertaining thread of mine off into another county, never to be head from again....

I hate you... all of you... I'm taking my thread and going home... so there... Pbbbst!!!

Da Worfster

[GMichael]

I'm sitting here teary eyed and rolling as you "Jackmasters" take another otherwise mildly entertaining thread of mine off into another county, never to be head from again....

I hate you... all of you... I'm taking my thread and going home... so there... Pbbbst!!!

Da Worfster

And they did it all without any help from me. I feel so proud.

Has anyone seen Pain Killer Jane? To be able to heel from anything, and never age? That's great. And if I had her body, I'd never leave home.