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

[DarrenGMiller]

Could you follow the tradition of the Villain Thread and list where each is from and any other names they may have in the master list, especially for the more obscure ones?

I will do the ones I know well enough:

Hero Master List

1. Conan the Cimmerian
2. Batman
3. Hong Kong Phooey
4. Dudley Do-Right
5. Sethra Lavode
6. Luke Skywalker
7. Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
8. Miles Vorkosigan
9. Indiana Jones
10. Superman
11. Malcolm Reynolds (Firefly)
12. Croaker (Black Company)
13. Sam Vimes
14. Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)
15. Gamera
16. Thrall (Warcraft)
17. Corwin of Amber
18. Richard Sharpe
19. Sherlock Holmes
20. Maui
21. CuChulainn (Celtic mythology)
22. The Doctor (Doctor Who)
23. Flash Gordon
24. John Crichton
25. Aeryn Sun
26. Arthur Dent (Hitchhiker's Guide)
27. Wonder Woman
28. Superboy
29. Agent Dale Cooper
30. Captain Adama
31. Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)
32. James Bond
33. The Terminator (Terminator 2)
34. Beowulf
35. Rocky Balboa
36. Ellen Ripley (Alien)
37. Robin Hood
38. Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
39. Drizzt Do'Urden
40. Spider-Man
41. Hercules
42. Wicket (Return of the Jedi)
43. Anakin Skywalker
44. Hellboy
45. King Arthur
46. Harry Keogh
47. Han Solo
48. Speed Racer
49. Austin Powers
50. Professor Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
51. Neo (Matrix)
52. Captain James T. Kirk
53. Captain Jean-Luc Picard
54. Obi-Wan Kenobi
55. Honor Harrington
56. Carl Kolchak
57. Captain Benjamin Sisko
58. Odysseus
59. Don Quixote
60. Spike
61. The Lone Ranger
62. Wesley Wyndham Pryce
63. Elminster
64. Doc Savage
65. Parksenarion
66. Alice (Alice in Wonderland)
67. Captain Marvel
68. The Shadow
69. Super Mario
70. The Punisher
71. John Carter of Mars
72. Captain America
73. Tarzan
74. Aragorn (Lord of the Rings)
75. Gandalf the Grey (Lord of the Rings)
76. John Sheridan
77. Rincewind
78. The Man with No Name
79. The Phantom
80. Delenn
81. Trinity (Matrix)
82. Solomon Kane
83. Yoda
84. El Borak
85. Granny Weatherwax
86. Godzilla
87. Connor MacLeod
88. Thor
89. Ozymandias
90. Rorschach
91. The Hulk
92. The Tick
93. Nolan Benholm
94. Jackie Chan
95. Link (Legend of Zelda)
96. Leto II
97. Wesley (The Princess Bride)
98. Jen the Gelfling (The Dark Crystal)
99. Perseus (Greek mythology)
100. Duncan Idaho
101. Sir Lancelot
102. Nathan Kiklu
103. Sir Galahad
104. Gilgamesh
105. Frodo Baggins (Lord of the Rings)
106. Gordon Freeman
107. Vlad Taltos
108. Ralph Hinkley
109. Paladin - The Man in Black (Have Gun Will Travel)
110. John Rambo
111. Severain the Torturer
112. Sam Emerson (The Lost Boys)
113. Wolverine
114. Jack Bauer (24)
115. Professor X
116. The Wraith
117. Ash (Army of Darkness)
118. Spongebob Squarepants
119. Mad Max Rockatansky (Mad Max, The Road Warrior)
120. Optimus Prime (Transformers)
121. He-Man
122. Haru, the Great White Ninja
123. B.A. Baracus (A-Team)
124. Jack O'Neill
125. RoboCop
126. Mack Bolan (The Executioner)
127. Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)
128. Marty McFly (Back to the Future)

I know I did some obvious ones, but there are some that I don't know and having the origin in parentheses helps.

DM

 

[Melkor Lord Of ALL!]

I mentioned the origin of Harry Keogh and his son Nathan in the entries. They are both Necroscopes from Necroscope series by Brian Lumley, that deserve to be more popular(which is my goal, I doubt they will make past first round).

 

[Fajitas]

An additional clarifying note: You may want to refer to #30, "Captain Adama" as "Captain Apollo" or "Captain Lee 'Apollo' Adama", to avoid confusion between him and "Commander Adama", who is his father and, though also a hero, a very different kind of one.

You may also want to specify that this is the Apollo from the new Battlestar Galactica, to avoid confusion with the one from the original series, again, a very different kind of hero.

 

[Endur]

You may also want to specify that this is the Apollo from the new Battlestar Galactica, to avoid confusion with the one from the original series, again, a very different kind of hero.

Its my understanding that when we vote for a character, we are voting for all of his appearances (or whichever appearance you like most). So, when you vote for Captain Apollo, as the voter, you get to pick whether you are voting for the original Captain Apollo, the new Captain Apollo, or both.

That appears to be the process that people followed for Darth Vader in the villain series. Some people voted for him based on episodes 4-6, some voted based on episodes 1-3, and some voted based on episodes 1-6.

 

[DonTadow]

Ultimate Sidekick posted
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2489807#post2489807

 

[Cthulhudrew]

(From the "Man With No Name" entry, above)
On an intresting side note, the Man With No Name was the inspiration for the character Roland of Gilead in Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series of novels.

(From the Paladin entry)

He was the inspiration for Stephen King's Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger of the Dark Tower series.

So which one was the real inspiration, or was it a combination of both?

 

[Renton]

nada

Doh! wrong thread

 

[stevelabny]

so i finish reading the villain thread and somehow see that that this thread is up and complete before i ever laid eyes on it.

and i have to say...BAD JOB PEOPLE.

this nominations list alone is more awful than any of the upsets that happened in the villain contest. 2 Watchmen? It's a 12 issue mini-series! 3 Knights of the Round Table? Why?
Comic Book villains did real well, and Flash, Green Lantern and Daredevil get left off the list?

What about Zorro? Snake-Eyes? Dumbledore got nominated but Harry didnt?

Also...the pictures. Dear god, why would you guys use pictures of live-action He-Man and live-action Tick? And that Robin Hood?

I just hope that all these random characters from novels that nobody ever read get paired off against heroes who deserve to move on.

I know I nominated some strange villains, but I was trying to hit the important non-obivous genre spots. Some of these picks are just bizarre.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

114- Rorschach

Rorschach has already been nominated, in the same post that Ozymandias was nominated. (Not sure of the number offhand).

 

[Cthulhudrew]

What about Zorro? Snake-Eyes? Dumbledore got nominated but Harry didnt?

Crap- we missed Snake Eyes?

Did we get the Lone Ranger at least?

(Now I'm wishing I'd nominated Thomas Magnum and Jim Rockford...)