Post by Deimos on Jan 5, 2004 22:19:23 GMT -5
All righty, I decided to make this thread...on a topic few seem to speak of anymore...heroes. Any heroes mind you, specifically though- heroes of your childhood and even now. I've always hung on to mine, but heroes (and superheroes) seem to be fading away in our generation. And as one who was brought up on Superman videos and Batman Movies...it's sad thing to see.
personally my favorite heroes are the one's who don't have super powers (excluding but one):
-Rocketeer, premiered in comic strips back around 1940 I believe (if you know when Flash Gordon, Shadow, and The Phantom first came out- Rocketeer came out along the same time). A man finds an experimental rocket pack and uses it to fly about taking on Nazis in America.
-Robin Hood, premiered waaay back...no one's truly sure, based off a possible real person (his 'grave' was found). He has incarnations in ballads, books, new super heroes (Green Arrow), and movies (Disney's Robin Hood anyone ;D). An outlaw of Sherwood Forest makes a name for himself stealing from the rich and giving to the poor in Nottinghamshire. His tools were no more than a bow and arrow(s), and of course his band of merry men.
-Zorro, not too sure when he premiered, but he was first born of a daily comic strip. Has many incarnations in books and more famously; movies. Another dashing outlaw, leaves his mark wherever he goes. No one knows if his real or ghost...just his name and his symbol. His tools were no more than dashing wit, sword, and a whip...and his trusted horse (I forgot the name...). Taking on Don Diego Viega, he serves the people when they need him- in colonial Spanish California.
-Dick Tracy, another comic book hero of the golden age of comic strips. He is a detective clad in a yellow trenchcoat, with matching fedora, and uses a special watch (I loved it). He took out crime with his sleuthing skills, and backed it with old fashioned force when necessary.
the exception was Green Lantern, the Kyle Rayner Green Lantern- a cartoonist is chosen to wield the last power ring of the Corps. A ring that can turn anything you imagine into a glowing green weapon...He travels the galaxy in patrol, keeping interstellar peace.
my true favorites from all those would be the first three I mentioned (Rocketeer, Robin Hood, and Zorro)- something about the heroic outlaw has always drawn me in. Especially the heroic outlaws who stood for something, and had no more than their wit and own strength to fight for it.*
*the Rocketeer fits considering the only thing the pack let him do was fly...which only affected his transportation...he fought with a luger and his fists.
personally my favorite heroes are the one's who don't have super powers (excluding but one):
-Rocketeer, premiered in comic strips back around 1940 I believe (if you know when Flash Gordon, Shadow, and The Phantom first came out- Rocketeer came out along the same time). A man finds an experimental rocket pack and uses it to fly about taking on Nazis in America.
-Robin Hood, premiered waaay back...no one's truly sure, based off a possible real person (his 'grave' was found). He has incarnations in ballads, books, new super heroes (Green Arrow), and movies (Disney's Robin Hood anyone ;D). An outlaw of Sherwood Forest makes a name for himself stealing from the rich and giving to the poor in Nottinghamshire. His tools were no more than a bow and arrow(s), and of course his band of merry men.
-Zorro, not too sure when he premiered, but he was first born of a daily comic strip. Has many incarnations in books and more famously; movies. Another dashing outlaw, leaves his mark wherever he goes. No one knows if his real or ghost...just his name and his symbol. His tools were no more than dashing wit, sword, and a whip...and his trusted horse (I forgot the name...). Taking on Don Diego Viega, he serves the people when they need him- in colonial Spanish California.
-Dick Tracy, another comic book hero of the golden age of comic strips. He is a detective clad in a yellow trenchcoat, with matching fedora, and uses a special watch (I loved it). He took out crime with his sleuthing skills, and backed it with old fashioned force when necessary.
the exception was Green Lantern, the Kyle Rayner Green Lantern- a cartoonist is chosen to wield the last power ring of the Corps. A ring that can turn anything you imagine into a glowing green weapon...He travels the galaxy in patrol, keeping interstellar peace.
my true favorites from all those would be the first three I mentioned (Rocketeer, Robin Hood, and Zorro)- something about the heroic outlaw has always drawn me in. Especially the heroic outlaws who stood for something, and had no more than their wit and own strength to fight for it.*
*the Rocketeer fits considering the only thing the pack let him do was fly...which only affected his transportation...he fought with a luger and his fists.
) I would stay up to watch that show. I think I saw one of the 'original' movies, as well as the newer one, which wasn't even really about him. Uh...that show, surprisingly enough, was made by Disney and was completely live action. Damn good, too, even though it had to have been from at least ten years ago, probably more. 
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. I used to draw comics of him all the time back in like, 5-6th grade. Man, those were the days... As his name implies, he had a jetpack... but he also carried a bunch of batman-like gadgets... and fought against those weird looking super-villans with the crazy theemed costumes... like a guy with a giant star on his forehead. Oh man... Those were the days... 
