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Who are your heroes? (fictional or factual)

This is my current list:

I could explain why for any of these people but then my post woud be 10 pages long.

Real or mythical or fictional, who are your heroes?

1 - Jesus
2 - Mr Whicher (a detective)
3 - Magneto (the mutant master of magnetism)
4 - Karl Marx (a socialist)
5 - Kurt Wallander (a fictional detective)
6 - Alyosha Karamazov (a brother, a holy man)
7 - Jo, the Gypsy Girl (a friend of the Famous Five)
8 - River Tam (a force of nature, a fictional sci fi character)
9 - Jack Johnson (the greatest boxer of all time)
10 - Ty Cobb (the greatest baseball player of time)
11 - Lady Deathstrike (a comic book android)
12 - Thomas Hobbes (a political theorist)
13 - Satchel Paige (the greatest baseball pitcher)
14 - Jem Mace (the father of modern boxing)
15 - Daniel Mendoza (a famous Jewish boxer)
16 - Carravaggio (the greatest artist of all time)
17 - Hernan Cortes (a conqueror)
18 - Sage Francis (a rapper)
19 - John Constantin (a fictional magician)
20 - Faith the Vampire Slayer (a fictional sci fi character)
21 - Holden Caulfield (a fictional young man)
22 - Odin (the allfather)
23 - Usain "The Lightning" Bolt (the fastest man)
24 - Edward I (a kin of England)
25 - Wednesday Addams (a TV/movie character)
26 - Isaac Asimov (a sci fi writer)
27 - Fred Abberline (the detective who hunted Jack the Ripper)
28 - Aornis Hades (the greatest fictional villian of all time)
29 - Theophilus Swift (an adventurer and a cad)
30 - Eric Cantona (King Eric the Red)
31 - Tony Benn (a UK socialist politician)
32 - Nikita Khrushchev (former leader of the USSR... the first Soviet premier to be deposed without dying)
33 - Sergeant Yakov Pavlov (a Russian soldier who defended a single building in Stalingrad which claimed more Nazi's than the conquest of Paris)
34 - Andy Dalziel (a fat fictional detective)
35 - Inspector Erlendur (a fictionl detective)
36 - Martin Beck (another fictional detective)
37 - Heather Brooke (the woman who broke the expenses scandal in UK politics)
38 - William I of England (the greatest of all English kings?)
39 - Inzamam Ul Hug (a cricketer and leader)
40 - Aerith Gainsborough (character from final fantsy VII)
41 - Cloud Strife (character from final fantsy VII)
42 - Hannah Arendt (political theorist)
43 - William Moreland (fictional homocide cop)
44 - Marlo Stanfield (fictional gangster)
45 - Harry Potter (fictional wizard)

Gandhi and Tank Man
Probably others too, I'll add if I think of them.

Crispy.

Bob Marley
Pete Townshend
Syd Barrett

and ME.

Anthony Bourdain
Marco Pierre White
Johnny Cash
Mike Ness
Joe Strummer
Johnny, Joey, Dee Dee
MCA, Mike D, The King AdRock
Groucho Marx
Charles Chaplin

Cynthetiq
Jon Stewart
Kobe Bryant
RFK (Or rather, the idea of what could have been)
Zack Hample (A good friend of mine)
Martin Gore
Danny Elfman
Tyler Durden

Anyone that can Autofellatio.

My grandma and Richard Winters.

I have to say that, yes. I agree with PunkOf Ages.

And Man Ray, Vonnegut, Rothko.

Woah...

I was reading over strange's list again and noticed King Eric. I'm speechless and slightly ashamed that I didn't have him in my list at first.

I'll add SAF (Sir Alex Ferguson) while I'm here too.

Then of course there's Ted Williams..never will there be a better hitter in baseball.

I'm sure I'll think of others as well

^^ I don't get it. I mean, strange's list has 45 people. How can you aspire to so many? Their flaws alone outnumber their qualities.

I was thinking the same this Xerxys. But then I looked at my list again. It's a group of pretty flawed people. And that's all part of why I look up to them.

perhaps, you take the best parts of the flawed individuals and piece them together..

and what's wrong with flawed and fractured people?

we all are on some level.

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Originally Posted by Strange Famous (Post 2688577)

3 - Magneto (the mutant master of magnetism)
4 - Karl Marx (a socialist)
26 - Isaac Asimov (a sci fi writer)

Nice.

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Originally Posted by guccilvr (Post 2689105)

perhaps, you take the best parts of the flawed individuals and piece them together..

and what's wrong with flawed and fractured people?

we all are on some level.

So true. My cliche has always been, "You like people for their gifts, but you love them even with their flaws."

My List:

My Dad - For cursing me to grow up to be a dreamer first and an engineer second. For working 18 hours a day so that I could have the life I have. For telling me that I was meant to do more than he could in this world. For watching with me every Doctor Who episode and Saturday morning science special.
Nikola Tesla - scientist and inventor, genius, considered a real-life wizard of electricity
Albert Einstein - discoverer of Relativity and rockstar of his time. Impressed only by the idea that the symmetry of Relativity was so beautiful that it would be a shame for the universe not to use it
Michio Kaku - theoretical physicist, closest thing we have to a rockstar of science. Researches string field theory.
Brian Greene - theoretical physicist, another would-be rockstar of science, were we to have them. Also string field theorist
Tom Baker - legendary actor, noted for his work as the 4th Doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who
Gerard Butler - actor, he was the Phantom and King Leonidas--pure awesome
Erik, The Phantom of The Opera - fictional character created Gaston Leroux, and used again in Susan Kay's Phantom
Prince Hamlet - famous character from Shakespeare's longest, if not greatest, play
Edmond Dantes - fictional character from Alexander Dumas's The Counte of Monte Cristo
Jareth - The Goblin King from Jim Henson's Labyrinth, played by David Bowie