MammothBlade said:
Most real heroes are boring, find me a living soldier who is as undeniably cool as a fictional one. Oh look someone jumped on a grenade and crippled himself so other soldiers didn't die, he's a hero. But then his usefulness as a hero is ironically destroyed by his act of being a hero. No longer can he save anyone. There needs to be someone more than a man, who can do the impossible when no-one else can.
John "Mad Jack" Churchill fought through WW2 using only a claymore, a bagpipe, and a bow. Would charge entire enemy squads by himself and force them to surrender or die... with a sword. Escaped from a German Pow camp and was disappointed by the wars end.
Simo Hayha killed between 700 and 760 with a rifle and an SMG in less than 100 days in -40 degree Celsius weather. The Russians bombed entire empty stretches of wilderness with planes and artillery just on the off chance that he might be there and they might hit him. When they finally literally just got lucky got him with a headshot. Not realizing that they ever hit him, on account of their literally just spraying bullets through the brush in a panic, they left. And Simo survived anyways.
Alvin York forced an entire partial strength German battalion to surrender. He did this while under attack from 32 separate German heavy machinegun emplacements. When the Germans flanked him with 6 guys, he killed them all with a pistol using only one clip of 8 bullets.
Hans-Ulrich Rudel shot down 9 planes while flying in a Stuka which is a feat in itself. Then destroyed 800 light ground vehicles, trucks and jeeps. 519 tanks. 150 seperate artillery pieces. 4 armored trains. A destroyer, two cruisers, seventy landing craft. And a freaking battleship.