Calling all males...

lectatege · Forum Member Joined: Mar 14, 2006 Posts: 203

Sparking off from another post, do any of you chaps secretly wish to be a hero - comicbook or other wise ?

And what sort of hero would you like to be?

Of course if you already are a hero it would be interesting to hear about that too.

GlitchGirl · Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:55 pm Post subject:

Hey, why limited it to just guys?

Let's just say that I have a healthy fantasy life populated by far more interesting personas than yours truly.

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lectatege · Forum Member Joined: Mar 14, 2006 Posts: 203

Aha! Wondered how long it would be before anyone spotted that one.
I'm not being unsisterly (heaven forfend) I did have a specific reason for limiting it to the XY contingent and planned to put a similar post for the distaff side if this one took off.

However as you are so keen I shall put it in as a seperate thread instanter.

Look forward to hearing from you there!
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GhostofMacbeth · Forum Member Joined: Sep 21, 2001 Posts: 616

I have thought about it at various points in time but for the most part I consider it kind of silly. Knowing me, I would want to be strong and invulnerable since that is the type of character I gravitate too when playing video games etc. Collossus mentality my friends used to call it.

I do have a superpower though. I can pick up small objects just by touching them. My friends all had super powers as well. One could deal cards oddly, for example.

OrcaDesignStudios · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: Re: Calling all males...

Yes, I would like to be a superhero, and my girlfriend routinely makes fun of me for it

As for actually being a hero... well, everyone was calling me Aquaman for a while last summer (or was it the summer before that?) because I rescued my drowning dog

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Ratteler · Forum Member Joined: Jun 10, 2002 Posts: 553 Location: NYC

No matter what power I had, I would probably end being a villain because any time I stood up to injustice the common phuequwitts would complain that I was interrupting things, and the uncommon ones would be annoyed that I was standing up to them.

I guess I would like the power to possess people. I could clean up Washington, and other terror groups like the RIAA,MPAA by just doing a press conference AS THEM and revealing all the evil crap they're doing. I would be a wraith like "conscience" for those who had none.

Hasdrubal · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: Re: Calling all males...

One should be content with being a man before adopting a hero's creed. Kipling said it much better than I ever could.

IF

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

digitalmagi · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: Re: Calling all males...

SNIKT SNIKT
'nuff said

QSabot · Forum Member Joined: Oct 13, 2005 Posts: 23

Thanks for posting that, Hazdrubal! The library's copy was missing exactly that page! :lol:

As to the question at hand: perhaps a were-something version of Dashiell Hammett's "Continental Op" or some such politely hardboiled type. That, or Nightcrawler's twin.

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Josephus · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:19 pm Post subject:

Someone gimme a Green Lantern power ring. I won't abuse it... I promise! :-P

Seriously, though, a lot of "being a hero" is what situation you're in. Call me an optimist, but I do believe that we all have it in ourselves to be heroic if the situation warrants it.

Example: I used to know a lot of fellows (they're dying off too quickly) who went off to World War II. Just ordinary guys. But the things they did... let's just say that Sergeant Rock and such characters *did* have real-life inspirations.

borkuu · Forum Member Joined: Mar 29, 2003 Posts: 43

Hrrrrrrrrrmmmmmm.... commenting on heroic/unheroic deeds...
Kinda defeats the concept of a "Secret Identity" na?
Heroes are just people that do the improbable whilst terrified. It's usually afterwards that the heroic idea comes into play, and then by others. on a personal note (a flat) being without any psychic abilities is a benefit, not only am I not bothered by telepaths and mindbenders, but it's fairly quiet whilst trying to sleep.
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