Thread: Heroes and Heroines !

Is it alright if our hero is already dead? If so, here goes:

My hero is Hannibal Barca, the general of Carthage during the Second Punic War against Rome. I admire just about everything about Hannibal. First off, he was brilliant. An absolute genius. More than anyone else, he represents to me the power of logic over brawn, as evidenced by his landslide victories over the most powerful foe the world had seen against horrible odds. To me it proves that thought can have an immeasurable effect on outcomes.

Second point, his character. He didn't put himself above his troops, he never lost his composure. He was determined to win the war, even when his own country basically abondoned him and left him to die. Even more, he commanded troops from a lot of different cultures and languages, all of whom would follow him to the ends of the earth. He brought out the unique strengths in these troops as well.
After the war, he was put in charge of Carthage, and brought down their massive debt to Rome, which nobody thought would happen. He never let power go to his head, and didn't stand for corruption.

I could literally ramble on for ages about the guy. He possessed extremely admirable traits, and those are the sorts of things one looks for in a hero I think.

Ohh, I have quite a few. Note: Most of my heroes, I admire their work

First off, Hideo Kojima is one - He is a GENIUS in video game creation, majority of his games include a GREAT story line, fun game play, and of course, it's like a interactive movie. Not to mention he works in line with one of my favorite companies, Konami. Also he helped with Azumi and Versus, and those were two good movies.

Second, Tim Burton - His films...are above amazing to my opinion. They hold that dark atmosphere, hold a great story, usually has good actors, and his work...is just phenomanal (Spelling).

Vincent Price - In my opinion, one of the greatest actors to ever live. In all the films I've seen him in, he was just great at his role. Also he's known as "The Voice of Horror". I'd do anything really to meet him, too bad I can't.

Anton Svander LaVey - Creator of the "Satanic Bible". I mainly appreciate him for brining forth something new, yet old. He brought forth human instinct should be embraced, not shunned. I've read some of his work, and it makes a good amount of sense, not to mention I have these thoughts BEFORE reading his work. Also for giving "Satanism" a new view, LaVeyan Satanism.

Aleister Crowley - An occultist and writer. I have read his work as well, and have fallen in love with it. When it comes to sense of the occult, I view him as one who made good sense of it.


Three of mine are dead, I just idol their work, the other two are alive, yet it doesn't bother me that much, I just relish their work.

He possessed extremely admirable traits, and those are the sorts of things one looks for in a hero I think.

Hmm i think thats true as well.. but to some.. it's not the traits... i don't know what though

So your hero is a general of somesort... brilliant and very hmm... courageous? I bet theres very little of this kind of person these days.... maybe none... what would you do if you ever meet anyone like him? ^^

Ohh, I have quite a few. Note: Most of my heroes, I admire their work

One who don't go for the traits... but actually on the works or acheivement... Hmm... You seem to be the kind of person who watched a lot of movies,.. no wonder... ^^ cool

I think my brain is made so that I can't have a hero (unless it's my boyfriend), because I tend to try and become stronger myself, be the best and so on (don't think I'm arrogant because of that, I surely am not the best, but I'm trying :P) I think that, if I would adire someone that much to be able to call him my hero/heroin I would admit that he/she is so much better than me, and that would only make me feel less confident, which is completely unneccessary, I'm already miserable enough

So yeah.. shortly- no hero/heroin for me.