The Great Hero Showdown (First Round Voting Results Up!)

[DarrenGMiller]

120. Max Rockatansky - The Road Warrior

Mad Max Rockatansky was a police officer in the outback of Australia who killed a gang leader during a high speed pursuit. Te gang leader's brother kills his partner, then tracks down and kills Max's family. Max steals his police car and becomes a vigilante. As society disintegrates around him, Max is at first concerned only with his own survival, but gradually begins to care for those trying to survive around him. He helps a small community escape a brutal gang with their precious oil, which is greater than gold in Max's world. Max becomes a legend and symbol in his post-apocalyptic world.

 

[Szatany]

121. Optimus Prime

Originally created by the Quintessons as part of their consumer goods line of robots. First named Orion Pax, he admired the Decepticons, unaware of the full extent of their plans. Just prior to the first Cybertronian Civil War, Orion was critically injured in a Decepticon attack. Transfered into a new body by Alpha Trion, he was renamed Optimus Prime. Sometime afterwards, he became the uncontested Autobot Leader. During his 4-million year deactivation period, other Autobots took his place on Cybertron, but upon his return, the leadership was given back to him.

Presumably, when he became Autobot Leader, the Autobot Matrix of Leadership was passed on to him from the previous commander.

Optimus Prime died in 2005 after a fierce battle with Megatron during a Decepticon invasion of Autobot City. The Matrix was passed to Ultra Magnus only seconds before Prime's death. He was reanimated temporarily by the Quintessons in 2006 for the express purpose of leading the Autobots into a trap. During this time, Rodimus Prime, the present Autobot Leader, returned the Matrix to him. Soon after, the Quintesson plot was revealed and Optimus, in an attempt to save the Autobots from the trap, piloted a ship to certain destruction after giving the Matrix once again to Rodimus.

 

[Szatany]

122. He-Man

He-Man's true identity is Prince Adam, who was granted the power to transform into his alter-ego by the Sorceress. Prince Adam's pet is a cowardly green (Large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered) tiger named Cringer. When Adam changes to He-Man, Cringer becomes a giant (and brave) armored green tiger named Battle-Cat, who serves as He-Man's steed.

 

[Mad Hatter]

The Wraith is a movie starring Charlie Sheen. The main character, Jake, was killed by a pack of street racers because he was dating the chick the leader wanted. He came back as a teenager so he could wreak holy vengeance upon the gang. Using his car, he challenged each to a race and killed them off; leaving their corpse in the same condition as he was in no matter how they died (some went off cliffs, two were killed in a garage). He kills the leader, and gets the girl. This was the grand entrance of the Turbo Interceptor, a pimped out car that was the coolness.

 

[DonTadow]

122. He-Man

He-Man's true identity is Prince Adam, who was granted the power to transform into his alter-ego by the Sorceress. Prince Adam's pet is a cowardly green (Large feline of forests in most of Asia having a tawny coat with black stripes; endangered) tiger named Cringer. When Adam changes to He-Man, Cringer becomes a giant (and brave) armored green tiger named Battle-Cat, who serves as He-Man's steed.

Great choice, by why the heck did you use the pic from the horrible movie. It does not favor the true he-man. Then again you could have posted the one rom that awful space heman cartoon too.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Which cartoon? Because the first one was cool. The second cartoon series sucked harder than 1000 black holes.

 

[Szatany]

123. Haru, the Great White Ninja

An elite society of Japanese warriors have prophesied that one day a blonde-haired, fair-skinned child will come to their village and lead them as a fighter of remarkable skill and bravery. So when an American child who fell overboard on an ocean liner washes up on their shores, they adopt him as one of their own and patiently instruct him in the ways of a ninja. Trouble is, the child, whom they name Haru, grows up to be fat, clumsy, not especially bright, and startlingly inept as a warrior. Undaunted, Haru struggles on with his ninja training, and when Alison (Nicolette Sheridan), a beautiful woman from America, requests a ninja fighter to return with her to the States and protect her from her criminal-minded boyfriend and his Yakuza associates, Haru eagerly accepts the assignment. Haru's minders see trouble brewing, so they secretly send along a fellow ninja, Gobei, to watch his back, although this hardly prevents Haru from posing a deadly menace to inanimate objects everywhere.

 

[Szatany]

124. B.A. Baracus

Nicknamed "B.A." on acount of his 'bad attitude' (he used to enjoy beating up senior officers whilst in Vietnam), B.A. is possibly one of the nicest guys there is, devoting his little free time to helping poor children. B.A. is the team's mechanic and has a truly amazing talent for making impressive machinery e.g. a tank from a standard pipe and the odd matchstick! And he managed to achieve this despite the weight of jewellery on his hands and around his neck - an amount that would have caused any mortal man to just keel over.
Still, B.A. did have his one weakness - flying. He, on no accounts, would get on a 'plane while conscious ("I die before I fly"), so it fell to the rest of the team to knock him out first (a swift tap on the back of the head with a wrench or an injection would usually do it). However, even though he wouldn't fly, he was the A-Teams driver and dedicated a lot of time to the van. B.A. also never got along too well with Murdock who he would often call "a crazy fool" before trying to throttle him.

 

[DonTadow]

Which cartoon? Because the first one was cool. The second cartoon series sucked harder than 1000 black holes.

There were three cartoons.

1. cartoon was the orignal incarnation and was awesome.
2. second one was some wierd he-man in space cartoon. He never changed into adam and he rarely fought with a sword. He had a "laser".
3. cartoon was the one they created three years ago. It was close to the original but made eternia a more dark place. It was pretty good and it introduced a number of old characters. But it was a nostalgia cartoon for us that never picked up.

 

[Szatany]

125. Jack O'Neill

Colonel Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill is (was) commanding officer of team SG-1. When he joined the Air Force at 18 years of age, O'Neill proved himself to be an exceptional and gifted airman and was later assigned to a special forces unit. He resigned from service when his son Charlie died by accidentally shooting himself with O'Neill's gun. O'Neill never recovered from the loss, which drove his wife to eventually leave him. O'Neill was recalled by his former commanding officer to go through the Stargate precisely because of his willingness to die. Instead, the mission gave him a new desire to live.