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 Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:37 am
Okay, so who inspired you to achieve your current greatness? I will allow fictional characters, or fictionalized accounts of real people that turn out not to be what they're actually like. However, I will disqualify all role models that have anything to do with politics whatsoever.
At the end we get to vote on whose role models are the best.
For example, I find Batman's constructive use for his crippling PTSD inspiring.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 6:22 am
Wendigo For example, I find Batman's constructive use for his crippling PTSD inspiring. Which batman was that? The old TV Show guy who now does voice acting on Family Guy? I would be a geek for a moment and say Luke Skywalker. Think about it: he made out with his sister, had his "Parents" killed off by the Empire with his dysfunctional father at the helm who cut off his own son's hand and pretty much raped the entire galaxy with enough of a death toll to make real world dictators blush. All the while he's thinking "I'm going to have to go kill this man." Despite the cheesy acting isn't it all really inspiring? To be that messed up in the head and yet tasked with saving the galaxy?
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:03 am
Mimetic Hybrid Which batman was that? The old TV Show guy who now does voice acting on Family Guy? All Batmen have basically the same background. Parents gruesomely murdered by criminals during childhood, extensive training in the mystical Orient unlocks hidden potential. One-man vendetta against the abstract concept of crime! (Doc Savage kinda one-ups him in almost every respect, though. Makes the a*****e dad in psych look tame.) Interestingly, like Mickey Mouse, he retained a lot of obsolete pop cultural aspects of his character (like Robin, say) when other characters were shedding them. I'm kind of partial to the Batman cartoon show that was on during the '90s. I still think it was very stylish. Mimetic Hybrid Despite the cheesy acting isn't it all really inspiring? To be that messed up in the head and yet tasked with saving the galaxy? In all fairness to Luke's head, he doesn't live in a galaxy that permits free will. If he hadn't developed that juvenile infatuation with his sister's nubile charms, he would probably have stayed on a couple more harvests and then joined the Imperial Academy like he'd planned, then worn a hard white plastic suit the rest of his life. Vader's got it worse, because of course he was more machine than man, twisted and evil, before he even knew he had a son. Twenty years! Never even played catch or built a treehouse. And what did his father do? Run off and sell him into slavery. It's a cycle, you know. Luke had to break that cycle by losing his yarbles in a fan novel after the movies ended. (I assume, I don't read those things.)
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:36 am
Was having a brain fart; thought you meant the actor not the character though know I see. Luke ended up married to an assassin I believe named Mara Jade. I haven't read the stories either just heard about them. Also heard that Han and Leia have children and one turns into an evil little sith s**t (literally).
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 9:12 am
Frankenfran and Naruto..... also Tassadar.... and McKenna....
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:40 am
Currently mine is Cave Johhnson.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:58 pm
True story, LilPokPoki actually inspired me to get an International relations degree.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:56 pm
Wendigo or fictionalized accounts of real people that turn out not to be what they're actually like. On that note, Erwin Rommel. But then I read more about him, and realized I was just projecting my dad's best qualities and concepts.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 3:13 pm
Omnileech Currently mine is Cave Johhnson. Which Cave Johnson? Cause Aperture Science comes to mind with that name, not the politician.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 3:30 pm
If that starts with a "Terrance," then he's disqualified.
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Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 3:54 pm
Mimetic Hybrid Omnileech Currently mine is Cave Johhnson. not the politician. TIL
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:12 am
Joan of Arc. She was just a peasant girl, but with the power of her conviction, she lifted the siege of Rouen in just 9 days, despite the condescending attitudes French commanders had towards her. In a time in which women in general, but especially women who sought to assume any sort of masculine activity, were persecuted, her determination prevailed.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:17 pm
musing_maiden Joan of Arc. She was just a peasant girl, but with the power of her conviction, she lifted the siege of Rouen in just 9 days, despite the condescending attitudes French commanders had towards her. In a time in which women in general, but especially women who sought to assume any sort of masculine activity, were persecuted, her determination prevailed. She was an Indigo Child, or at least, that's what they say...
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:21 pm
MiG-29SMT Fulcrum-E musing_maiden Joan of Arc. She was just a peasant girl, but with the power of her conviction, she lifted the siege of Rouen in just 9 days, despite the condescending attitudes French commanders had towards her. In a time in which women in general, but especially women who sought to assume any sort of masculine activity, were persecuted, her determination prevailed. She was an Indigo Child, or at least, that's what they say... Hmmm, interesting.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:21 pm
My grandfather and Hunter S. Thompson, with a dash of H. L. Mencken.
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