Poll: Disputin' Rasputin

[ElephantGuts]

I fucking love Rasputin. He's my hero. Well, maybe not. But I think he sounds like a badass and the stories about him are pretty cool.

I personally think that if there is ever going to be a zombie outbreak, Rasputin would be the leader of them. I can't think of anyone better to lead a zombie horde.

He already has. Ever played the half-life 2 level Ravenholm? The Priest guy is named Grigori, which is Rasputins' first name. Also If you ever use him in Garry's mod You'll find he has an enormous amount of health (though that's probably so he doesn't get killed by the zombies and leave you trapped).

Yes, I am aware of the badassness of Half-Life's Father Grigori and that he is probably a reference to Rasputin. But, he was killing the zombies, not leading them.

 

[Torque669]

He smelled really bad and ate everything with his fingers and still picked up chicks left, right and centre.

Hes got skills.

EDIT: He also got these women to lick his fingers clean after a meal. Forgot about that.

 

[AkJay]

He was Shot, Stabbed, Beaten over the head with a club, bound in a bag, and thrown in a river, he died of hypothermia because the river was so cold, i think he is one lucky son-of-a-*****.

 

[Jim Grim]

"Euuuch.. I can taste the barrel."

Anyway, he was clearly magical. Don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise.

 

[CloudKiller]

"Ra, Ra, Rasputin, Russia's greastest love machine!"

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Firstly, excellent music taste to the OP.

Secondly, I refuse to believe in magical mumbo jumbo, so he was a lucky bastard.

Lucky, powerful, mad and hung like a horse (according to his daughter? What the hell?), what a guy.

 

[Proteus214]

Any one of those things that they did to him before throwing him in the river can be easily survivable. By having a strong liver, the shooter being a bad shot (I've seen video of a guy being shot in the chest without flinching), the guy with a knife obviously having no clue where vital organs are, the guy clubbing him being a wimp, and the guy tying the bag not being able to tie anything more complicated than an overhand hitch.

I'd chalk it up to his assassins being PHENOMENALLY incompetent.

 

[hobo_welf]

Not to mention that when they found him, there was claw marks on the outside of the ice where he was apparently trying to claw his way out.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Mystical in the same way that Charlie Manson was, I reckon.

 

[Zukonub]

Rasputin had a monkey-fighting beard, he screwed harems of women, and his sole reason for bringing instability to Russian nobility? For the lulz.

 

[uncle-ellis]

I've never read nor heard about him being insane, I heard he was a mad monk.

Unless you mean he wasn't clinically insane then /Faceplam.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

his assassins were drunk and inept. The cyanide they used burned off when the food was cooked, and they didn't hit anything vital when they shot him and beat him. Not luck or anything supernatural, just stupidity