Who's your personal hero?

[smearyllama]

They can be someone who you look up to, has helped you, or, is literally a hero to you and saved your life.

I'll have to go with FBI special agent Dale Cooper.
For obvious reasons...

 

[zombiesinc]

My mom.

Yeah, really. She's one of the very, very few people I consider to be truly inspirational.

 

[tigermilk]

My mom.

Yeah, really. She's one of the very, very few people I consider to be truly inspirational.

Fuck ninja'd by the first response, I hasten to add I mean my mum not yours!

 

[Drakmeire]

Theodore Roosevelt.
http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_the-5-most-badass-presidents-all-time_p5.html
nuff said'

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

Actual person: My grandpa. Best man I ever knew. My grandma is one my heroes as well.

Fictional character: Katsumoto, from The Last Samurai. I would fight alongside that man to hell and back twice over

 

[Baby Tea]

Well this will be cheesy, but my late-grandfather.
He hid Jews in WW2 (Even after watching his brother and neighbours be executed by Nazis), fought in the Dutch underground, immigrated to Canada with a large family and very little to his name, but was such an honest and good man, that people were more then happy to help him stay on his feet. He worked as a police officer, as a farmer, and in a shelter for troubled youth. And through it all, even when he couldn't even remember who I was, he always had a smile on his face, a joke on his tongue, and a faith that continues to inspire me beyond his passing.

My father is an extremely close second, though.

 

[Aqualung]

My brother, because he isn't afraid to be himself and break outside his stereotypes. Sure, he only wears band shirts and flaunts his heavy metal hair, but that doesn't stop him from sitting down with me and my sister to watch Singin' In The Rain.

 

[smearyllama]

Well this will be cheesy, but my late-grandfather.
He hid Jews in WW2 (Even after watching his brother and neighbours be executed by Nazis), fought in the Dutch underground, immigrated to Canada with a large family and very little to his name, but was such an honest and good man, that people were more then happy to help him stay on his feet. He worked as a police officer, as a farmer, and in a shelter for troubled youth. And through it all, even when he couldn't even remember who I was, he always had a smile on his face, a joke on his tongue, and a faith that continues to inspire me beyond his passing.

My father is an extremely close second, though.

That's not cheesy at all. That is the story of someone who really should be considered a hero.
I salute that man, and wish the best of luck to his family.

 

[jamradar]

Stone Cold Steve Austin:

Because he is simply awesome.

 

[Spudgun Man]

Rambo, 'nuff sed.

 

[Drake the Dragonheart]

Well this will be cheesy, but my late-grandfather.
He hid Jews in WW2 (Even after watching his brother and neighbours be executed by Nazis), fought in the Dutch underground, immigrated to Canada with a large family and very little to his name, but was such an honest and good man, that people were more then happy to help him stay on his feet. He worked as a police officer, as a farmer, and in a shelter for troubled youth. And through it all, even when he couldn't even remember who I was, he always had a smile on his face, a joke on his tongue, and a faith that continues to inspire me beyond his passing.

My father is an extremely close second, though.

Not cheesy in the least, friend. He sounds like an incredible man. You just made me recall my grandfather even more. He served if I remember correctly as a tower control operator for the Air Force during WW2. He taught me so much and made me who I am today. So thank you for sharing that

 

[Aur0ra145]

My grandpa and MSG Yoffe.

 

[child of lileth]

Harry Mason. Because seriously, who the hell else would do that much for their kid?

 

[smearyllama]

Harry Mason. Because seriously, who the hell else would do that much for their kid?

Dale Cooper would... But still, even if he is a failed writer, he still has the skills with the steel pipe.

 

[MrJohnson]

Probably Lemmy Kilmister. Rising up from poor British kid to lead vocalist in one of the bands instrumental in starting the heavy scene is awesome.

My grandpa too. Being a child during WWII, having his entire family being accidentally killed during an American bombing run, having his baby brother die on top of him because he survived by hiding underneath an old blacksmith table as his entire life was destroyed, having his brothers forced into the Nazi youth, being passed back and forth between camp and camp despite being a German citizen, all the while he still wanted to move to America to make something of himself. Surviving of off nearly nothing in the camps he lived in, helping the Russian army in there advance through Germany, being passed to an American refugee camp, and being sponsored by an American General to move to America. Then building a farm from nothing, raising a family on nearly nothing, and being generally hilarious. Also just completely harmlessly crazy.

 

[Skorpyo]

Bryan Mills from "Taken".

Did I just win?

 

[The Salty Vulcan]

My Father and My Grandfather first and foremost.
Others include Leonardo Da Vinci, Alan Moore, Gustav Stresseman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jack Kirby and Indianna Jones

 

[Mr Thin]

The man in my Avatar. Tim Minchin.

I... I worship him. One of the best people in musical comedy, ever, ever, ever, period.

I LOVE YOU TIM!

 

[DefunctTheory]

Rambo, 'nuff sed.

Are you saying that your hero is a strung out, PTSD suffering Vietnam Soldier who has no friends, can't hold a job, and wants more than anything to just die?

Or are you too young to know what First Blood was all about? (There's no shame in that).

Me? General Ulysses S. Grant. Say what you will about the guy, but he knew how to get shit done, with respect, dignity, and honesty.

 

[smithy_2045]

I am my own hero.