Heroes you actually strive to be
#1
Posted 24 January 2013 - 09:57 PM
Mighty horse rocks, he rocks the fat ass.
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#2
Posted 25 January 2013 - 12:37 AM
I read Sherlock Holmes as a kid and decided I wanted to be like that. I started paying attention to people’s faces, their mannerisms, the way they talked. It was my first anthropological study. I have became pretty good at it, not on Holmes’ level or anything, but I can usually guess what a person is thinking, I can guess what my friends will do in a certain situation. It’s became a game of sorts, when a friend wants to gossip about someone, I’ll make a prediction. About 7 out of 10 times I’m correct. (See the Kant quote in my sig)
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#3
Posted 25 January 2013 - 12:54 AM
Mighty horse rocks, he rocks the fat ass.
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#4
Posted 25 January 2013 - 02:42 PM
Okay please don't take this too seriously, I asked this on another board and was flamed because "police and firemen are real heroes!"
Links plz
There are people in need of a good trolling, to remind them that this is the internet.
OT: I always admired anime protagonists, from the blockheaded diehards like Naruto to the quiet, brooding intelligence of Yoh.
Also, Speed Racer.
#5
Posted 25 January 2013 - 02:52 PM
Mighty horse rocks, he rocks the fat ass.
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#6
Posted 25 January 2013 - 08:52 PM
Speed was a total bad ass...I still want the mach 5
"He's racing in a semi! That's cheating!"
*activates sawblades and drives through forest*
#7
Posted 25 January 2013 - 10:57 PM
Mighty horse rocks, he rocks the fat ass.
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#8
Posted 26 January 2013 - 12:40 AM
It ran underwater.
It had a homing robot.
Speed Racer is a story about prepared for when shit hits the fan.
OT: Spiderman, for stopping crime while spouting humorous one-liners, no matter how much it endangers his family.
#9
Posted 26 January 2013 - 12:56 AM
Mighty horse rocks, he rocks the fat ass.
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#10
Posted 26 January 2013 - 12:59 AM
Too bad spider-man is dead.
What?!
I has sad
#11
Posted 26 January 2013 - 01:30 PM
What?!
I has sad
yep doc ock mindswitched with pete just before his (doc ock's) body died. so petes dead and doc ock is in his body
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#12
Posted 26 January 2013 - 04:10 PM
Was this during Marvels "We're going to try to be edgy" period?
#13
Posted 27 January 2013 - 08:27 AM
Odysseus. I loved the man as a kid. Strong and powerful, yet he used his mind to trick his enemies. Charismatic and cunning, he was definitely a character I emulated.
I read Sherlock Holmes as a kid and decided I wanted to be like that. I started paying attention to people’s faces, their mannerisms, the way they talked. It was my first anthropological study. I have became pretty good at it, not on Holmes’ level or anything, but I can usually guess what a person is thinking, I can guess what my friends will do in a certain situation. It’s became a game of sorts, when a friend wants to gossip about someone, I’ll make a prediction. About 7 out of 10 times I’m correct. (See the Kant quote in my sig)
The thing about Holmes, as with so many other heroes in different ways, is his incapability of having a "normal" life. Apart from say Spidey, who has to protect those he loves, Sherlock doesn't want a life different from the one he has, or be something else than what he is. But there is a very dark side to Sherlock, that I found when reading him almost endlessly for about a year. When you read him you begin to act like him, develop amateur versions of his capabilities which is Awesome because it can actually be done! But I found that it's easy to also begin feeling a bit like him, question social capabilities and need for "superficial relationships and conversations". What I'm getting at is that Holmes is one of the heroes whose powers are actually possible in our world to achieve. And that "reality" of him, is probably his best quality, at the same time as it makes it questionable to want to be like him - in case one would actually start becoming like him.
#14
Posted 27 January 2013 - 01:25 PM
The thing about Holmes, as with so many other heroes in different ways, is his incapability of having a "normal" life. Apart from say Spidey, who has to protect those he loves, Sherlock doesn't want a life different from the one he has, or be something else than what he is. But there is a very dark side to Sherlock, that I found when reading him almost endlessly for about a year. When you read him you begin to act like him, develop amateur versions of his capabilities which is Awesome because it can actually be done! But I found that it's easy to also begin feeling a bit like him, question social capabilities and need for "superficial relationships and conversations". What I'm getting at is that Holmes is one of the heroes whose powers are actually possible in our world to achieve. And that "reality" of him, is probably his best quality, at the same time as it makes it questionable to want to be like him - in case one would actually start becoming like him.
That was beautifully written.
#15
Posted 27 January 2013 - 03:41 PM
Wow, what a depressing ending.
Was this during Marvels "We're going to try to be edgy" period?
This just happened a few issues ago.
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#16
Posted 27 January 2013 - 08:59 PM
The thing about Holmes, as with so many other heroes in different ways, is his incapability of having a "normal" life. Apart from say Spidey, who has to protect those he loves, Sherlock doesn't want a life different from the one he has, or be something else than what he is. But there is a very dark side to Sherlock, that I found when reading him almost endlessly for about a year. When you read him you begin to act like him, develop amateur versions of his capabilities which is Awesome because it can actually be done! But I found that it's easy to also begin feeling a bit like him, question social capabilities and need for "superficial relationships and conversations". What I'm getting at is that Holmes is one of the heroes whose powers are actually possible in our world to achieve. And that "reality" of him, is probably his best quality, at the same time as it makes it questionable to want to be like him - in case one would actually start becoming like him.
The fact that he is only human does tend to make him easier to relate to.
Instead of wishing you could lift cars up over your head, you wish you could have a vast understanding/recogntion of the world around you.
Which as you said, is quite possible to achieve.
Quite a few people have eidetic memories (or some variant of that), the ability to judge a person on a million details that they don't even know they are showing, and boxing. Also heavy drinking and possibly having asperger syndrome.
So it isn't very far off from possible to actually become something close to Sherlock Holmes, if you try hard enough at it.
It is perfectly acceptable to fear and admire a being you could not possibly understand.
#17
Posted 27 January 2013 - 09:15 PM
To me he is a hero in a certain sense. I mean he helps people explore their powers, gives them a place to stay, keeps them out of trouble. Maybe its just me but that's pretty heroic. Plus he forms an epic team, the X-Men, and tries to keep "mutants" and humans at peace.
Misa: I can’t even imagine a world without Light
L: Yes, it would be quite dark.
(Death Note)
#18
Posted 28 January 2013 - 03:32 PM
I suppose Professor X, better known as Charles Xavier!
To me he is a hero in a certain sense. I mean he helps people explore their powers, gives them a place to stay, keeps them out of trouble. Maybe its just me but that's pretty heroic. Plus he forms an epic team, the X-Men, and tries to keep "mutants" and humans at peace.
He is sort of like Gandhi, except he can explode your brain if he so chooses.
Though who says Gandhi couldn't do that too, just never did because of the whole pacifist thing.
It is perfectly acceptable to fear and admire a being you could not possibly understand.
#19
Posted 28 January 2013 - 03:41 PM
My first novel, Seeds of Magic- Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, Kobo, Sony Store
#20
Posted 28 January 2013 - 05:37 PM
Why?
Cause everything can be solved with a big-ass fist.