Greatest Hero of All Time (Preliminary Research before Poll)

[Darkness]

Keyser Soze.


Hong "Eric Noah is Keyser Soze!!" Ooi

Yeah... Eric is the Kaiser of all sauces...

 

[Abraxas]

Sparhawk
Ben Grimm
Ben Franklin

 

[Tsyr]

Indiana Jones

James T Kirk (Come on Star Trek haters, before you jump on him... he saved earth, saved earth again, defeated a geneticly "perfect" person, disobeyed starfleet, blew up his own ship to spite his enemy instead of letting it get captured, took over a klingon ship with a handful of people, managed to get Spock back to vulcan to get him resurected, traveled back in time, saved earth yet again, brought an extinct species back into existance, stood up to a diety figure, debunked said diety figure, broke out of The Prison of No Return (TM), saved the peace talks with the Klingon Empire who killed his son, died, came back to life, saved another planet (but not earth this time), then died again. And that's just in the movies. )

The faceless guy in Diablo II who allowed himself to be chained up for all of eternity, wresteling with the soul of a powerful demon, in order to save humanity.

 

[kenaustin]

Hmmm....lots of great characters chosen already.


Lord Mhoram - Thomas Covenant series
Saltheart Foamfollower - Thomas Covenant series
Harry Keogh - Necroscope series
King Joyse - Mordant's Need series
Laurel - Midnight Nation comic

 

[Bjorn Doneerson]

John Lenon, The ultimate hippie rebel. Always in trouble, very intelectual. That's what I'm talkin' 'bout.

James Bond. He's just "Da Man"

 

[radferth]

my vote in some categories

I am including only folks who have some sort of fighting aspect to them, as this is a RPG board. (I mean, you could have an FRPG with no fighting, but you don't, do ya?)

Recent History: Audie Muphy (movie career notwithstanding)

Medieval History: Joan of Arc

Ancient Histoy: Spartacus

Fantasy Literature: Samwise Gamgee

Literature: Don Quioxote

Myth: too close to call, too many archetypes. If I had to pick one I guess it would be Odysseus.

On a related subject; favorite Anti-Heroes

Fantasy Literature: Elric

Literature: Iago

Myth: Medea

Honorable mention: any movie villain voiced by James Earl Jones

 

[gamecat]

Paul Muad'Dib from Dune. Prophet and warrior.

 

[Tsyr]

Paul Muad'Dib from Dune. Prophet and warrior.

I thought about him, but I didn't include him for one reason: He was a fortold hero, a hero of destiny. He really couldn't have NOT been who he was. That doesn't make him heroic in my book. Great, amazing, etc? Sure. A hero? Nah.

 

[gamecat]

He had to grow a lot to fit that role. That and the Kwizatz Haderach (him) came 3 generations early: Jessica was to have a daughter to be inbred with Feyd-Rautha and their child was to be the Kwizatz Haderach.

 

[uberkitty]

He had to grow a lot to fit that role. That and the Kwizatz Haderach (him) came 3 generations early: Jessica was to have a daughter to be inbred with Feyd-Rautha and their child was to be the Kwizatz Haderach.

That's one generation early.

And, er, you don't mean "inbred." Just "bred."

Sorry--just woke up on the nitpicky side of the bed, I guess.