What is your favorite hero?

jasson007 · Post by **jasson007** » 19 Feb 2013, 05:04

My Favorite Hero is Sunny Deol , what is yours?

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 19 Feb 2013, 05:06

Atticus Finch from "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Maud Fitch · Post by **Maud Fitch** » 24 Feb 2013, 00:41

My favourite hero would have to be Thursday Next in Jasper Fforde's detective series. Her life is the complete opposite to mine (she can visit parallel BookWorld) and never uses lowdown-mean-dirty tactics to catch a criminal.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 24 Feb 2013, 10:47

Id have to say Sherlock Holmes. Another that comes to mind is the character Jeekie in H. Rider Haggard's The Yellow God. He is the hero's African servant, he comes off as a bumbling idiot but he gets them out of the jams they get into.Underneath all the bumbling it turns out he is pretty clever.

clintessential · Post by **clintessential** » 24 Feb 2013, 21:52

Sir Harry Paget Flashman is my hero, not for anything he did, but because he is a master at the art of self deprication
and its complementary artform, unbridled self promotion. If you have one without the other, all you have is some
witless buffoon who claims to have a sense of humor, but really is just laughing at his own jokes. Or a public person,
like Sean Penn, is so enamored by what he views as his place among the martyred, actually apologizes to his little
brown brothers for the terrible crimes WHITE PEOPLE/THE USA have visited upon them. Sean Penn, in his addled mind,
actually thinks he's doing battle with the UBIQUITOUS Prince of Darkness, the USA, and is willing to march into hell for
that heavenly cause. Move over, (or lie fallow,it really doesn't matter)Johnnie Cochran, there's a new sherrif. Penn,
whose father was Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, has never forgotten that crime and it seems to permeate every-
thing he does. But I've digressed. alot.
Counterposed to Mr Penn, is Sir Harry who promotes his performances on the battlefied shamelessly. AND in the next breath confides in the reader that they were really acts of self preservation, and that he would never march into hell
for ANY cause. Sir Harry is so understanding of Self Deprication, that he could pick you pocket while you roared your
approval at one of his anecdotes. And you'd be none the wiser. Play on, Sir Harry.

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » 25 Feb 2013, 15:54

Bighuey wrote:Id have to say Sherlock Holmes. Another that comes to mind is the character Jeekie in H. Rider Haggard's The Yellow God. He is the hero's African servant, he comes off as a bumbling idiot but he gets them out of the jams they get into.Underneath all the bumbling it turns out he is pretty clever.

Hey there BH, Sherlock Holmes is up there with my favourites as well. Holmes is popping up everywhere with all the new tv series. I love the two modern movies with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 25 Feb 2013, 20:57

Gannon wrote:
Bighuey wrote:Id have to say Sherlock Holmes. Another that comes to mind is the character Jeekie in H. Rider Haggard's The Yellow God. He is the hero's African servant, he comes off as a bumbling idiot but he gets them out of the jams they get into.Underneath all the bumbling it turns out he is pretty clever.
Hey there BH, Sherlock Holmes is up there with my favourites as well. Holmes is popping up everywhere with all the new tv series. I love the two modern movies with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.

Gannon, the classics never die, do they.