Heroes

[Guest DRH 502]

I totally expect this thread to get lots of stupid responses, but I kinda think i'm weird because I have a hero who I completely look up to and attempt to emulate. Drug problems blah blah...but one day I saw a dude named Matt Hughes fight a guy named Frank Trigg for the second time. I saw Matt get nutshotted, pummeled and almost choked out...only to seconds later deadlift Trigg from the mat and RUN across the ring with him before slamming him in his respected corner, choking him out seconds later. Then TUF 2 started airing. I saw this no bullshit, say what I mean cock strong country boy push his team harder than most of them ever thought possible. Hughes motivated me to calm down my partying, to be a better, more respectful person. He motivated me to get up off my lazy ass and start working out. He motivated me to put everything I had into my work, and be the best I possibly could at it. Now when i'm on the job and I see a 24 inch wide, 20 ft long LVL beam that normally I wouldn't attempt to lift by myself, I picture Hughes in the brink of defeat, staring adversity in the eye and not blinking. Not even once. So I man up and put that LVL up onto the second floor of the house...by myself. Blah this is lame, but does anyone else have a similar person they look up to?

[Guest wildpegasus]

Some people in my family and others who I know as well.

 

Benoit whose training is among the most intense I've pretty much ever heard of. And of course his all out/every night/never take a night off wrestling style. Lots of people who were passionate at one time lose their drive over the years. Benoit hasn't.

 

Kenta Kobashi for his passion. There are a few other wrestlers as well that are heros to me.

[Vyce 0]

I don't really have any heroes. Just certain people I might admire or respect.

[Hawk 34 0]

I think it's absurd to declare an athelete, musician or any other celebrity based entity a hero because my definition of hero is probably different then most people. People throw that term around far too much, in the instance of musicians, atheletes and those such, I would classify them as inspirations or idols (more likely) then heroes.

 

I believe heroes to be of different and more respectable status. Role models such as parents, teachers, coaches and those who do significant actions directly towards you are what I classify to be "heroes".

[Lord of The Curry 0]

I really want a picture of Lex Luger in front of the Lex Express right about now.

 

"You were mah HERO......HEROOOOOOO. You were mah HERO...WHOAH-WHOAH."

[Guest Vitamin X]

I think it's absurd to declare an athelete, musician or any other celebrity based entity a hero because my definition of hero is probably different then most people. People throw that term around far too much, in the instance of musicians, atheletes and those such, I would classify them as inspirations or idols (more likely) then heroes.

 

I believe heroes to be of different and more respectable status. Role models such as parents, teachers, coaches and those who do significant actions directly towards you are what I classify to be "heroes".

 

I agree. Especially with musicians, I can't think of any musician who should qualify as a hero, or even a role model.

[Guest CWMwasmurdered]

Neil Young as a role model.

[Toshiaki Koala 0]

Jello Biafra and Akira Hokuto are my role models. Speaks volumes about me.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

VX, don't remember Bruce Dickinson personally flying a plane into Lebanon to evacuate British citizens?

 

Oh, and Lloyd Kaufman for doing things his way and making a go at being different.

[Ginger Snaps 0]

VX, don't remember Bruce Dickinson personally flying a plane into Lebanon to evacuate British citizens?

 

Coulda used a little more cowbell.

[Guest]

Kobe's my hero. I want to rape crazy white women.

[Man Who Sold The World 0]

I really want a picture of Lex Luger in front of the Lex Express right about now.

 

"You were mah HERO......HEROOOOOOO. You were mah HERO...WHOAH-WHOAH."

 

After 12 years of hard work trying to delete that song from my brain... it has returned

 

The Heroes TV show looks pretty cool.

[FroGG_NeaL 0]

I have a few heroes.

 

My mom and my grandma, Jack Kirby, Tupac Shakur, one of my brothers that passed away, one of my brothers that's still around...

 

There's a couple more, but I'm blazed so I'll add them later.

[Guest DRH 502]

I know as a white kid i'll get heat for this, but Tupac's music(as well as Em's and a few other rappers) got me through some tough times in my life. Ain't shit funny about poverty, and when I was a kid it seemed like the only other people who knew about it (or at least TALKED about it openly) were rappers. I was in like 7th grade the first time I got the All Eyez On Me set...and i've been a Pac fan since. I've moved in and out of here several times, but one thing that has stayed on my wall has been my 2 Pac RIP poster...my homey gave it to me as a christmas present (lame right?) in like 8th grade. But yeah, when I hear this Pac lyric:

 

"A place to spend my quiet nights, time to unwind...

so much pressure in this life of mine,

i've cried at times, I once contimplated suicide,

and woulda tried,

but when I held that nine all I could see was my mama's eyes,

No one knows my struggle,

They only see my trouble,

not knowin its hard to carry on when no one loves you"

 

I think about that verse every time I get down. It gives me fucking cold chills just typing it.

[Ravenbomb 0]

Aron Ralston, Salvador Dali

[FroGG_NeaL 0]

I know as a white kid i'll get heat for this, but Tupac's music(as well as Em's and a few other rappers) got me through some tough times in my life. Ain't shit funny about poverty, and when I was a kid it seemed like the only other people who knew about it (or at least TALKED about it openly) were rappers. I was in like 7th grade the first time I got the All Eyez On Me set...and i've been a Pac fan since. I've moved in and out of here several times, but one thing that has stayed on my wall has been my 2 Pac RIP poster...my homey gave it to me as a christmas present (lame right?) in like 8th grade. But yeah, when I hear this Pac lyric:

 

"A place to spend my quiet nights, time to unwind...

so much pressure in this life of mine,

i've cried at times, I once contimplated suicide,

and woulda tried,

but when I held that nine all I could see was my mama's eyes,

No one knows my struggle,

They only see my trouble,

not knowin its hard to carry on when no one loves you"

 

I think about that verse every time I get down. It gives me fucking cold chills just typing it.

 

 

That was one of the songs played at my brother's wake/funeral.

 

Pac wasn't racist at all, he was one of the few rappers to preach equality. "Both black and white, are smokin' crack tonight" "They say it's the white man I should fear, but it's my own kind doin' all the killing here."

 

Tons of references like those. Just one more reason he was the realest.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

A hero kills people, people that wish him harm. A hero is part human and part supernatural. A hero is born out of a childhood trauma, or out of a disaster, and must be avenged.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Mine is PT Barnum.

[Annabelle 0]

any catholic.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

I think it's absurd to declare an athelete, musician or any other celebrity based entity a hero because my definition of hero is probably different then most people. People throw that term around far too much, in the instance of musicians, atheletes and those such, I would classify them as inspirations or idols (more likely) then heroes.

 

I believe heroes to be of different and more respectable status. Role models such as parents, teachers, coaches and those who do significant actions directly towards you are what I classify to be "heroes".

 

I agree. Especially with musicians, I can't think of any musician who should qualify as a hero, or even a role model.

 

 

What does a hero do to make him or herself a hero/heroine?

 

They do things of great stature or inspire others. They also need to be brave.

 

That being said, I can honestly refer to one of my three role models as a hero: Mike Weir. His great deed was winning the 2003 Masters, which inspired me to hopefully follow in his footsteps; The bravery in that act was his multiple 6 foot putts for par, nearly all of them in the clutch. By golf standards, that's brave.

 

Bret Hart and Stompin Tom were the other two, by the way.

[Epic Reine 0]

Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford, Paul London, Mike Patton, and Jim Morrison.

[Guest Dangerous Donnie D]

Leave it to TSM'ers to derail and thread and argue over the fucking definition of "hero".

[Rob Anybody 0]

J. D. Morrison.

 

Not a role model by any means, but he's still a hero. (Or idol, for Hawk.)

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Leave it to TSM'ers to derail and thread and argue over the fucking definition of "hero".

 

I was just making an Office reference.

[FroGG_NeaL 0]

Change Venkman's name to "Dangerous Doctor V", and he and Dangerous Donnie D can have a fued.