phil has elevated the game like Mile High Stadium with 12 comments.
beth is in Striking Distance like Bruce Willis & boats with 11.
Joe is in your face like your own skull with 8.
Tiffany! is right up in there like ill-fitting swimwear with 8.
prof. fancy pants has 5 and is intense like the circus.
DirtyDanSin has his/her dignity, but only 4 comments
jon has 3 comments and needs to raise the stakes like when the camping trip is over.
Stace has 2 & needs work like me before I got hired.As Phil noted in the recent AVS Conversation: Batman Talk comments, Christopher Nolan used Teddy Roosevelt as inspiration for Bruce Wayne’s character when he wrote Batman Begins. The comparison fits: each man is the son of a wealthy philanthropist father (whom the son idolized); each experienced tragedies involving two close family members dying on the same day, a psychological trauma to which they reacted by retreating to the edge of civilization (where only the strongest of both body and mind can survive); both men returned to civilization to become famous (or notorious) for fighting crime with uncommon zealous fervor.
Today’s question:
Of the people you know, who is the most like a superhero?
If you can compare them to a specific superhero, feel free.
→ 9 answers so far ↓
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Marky
// Jul 29, 2008 at 11:15 am
smith. duh.
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phil
// Jul 29, 2008 at 11:31 am
My friend Smith is because he always does things like help an old lady across the street and then he’ll do some feat of physical strength and skill. I think he is most like Zorro although I’m not sure that counts as a superhero.
3
peteg
// Jul 29, 2008 at 11:49 am
Smith; he can ollie over a moving car
4
donovan
// Jul 29, 2008 at 11:59 am
I think Smith is a pretty good call.
My friend Bryan Quinn is like a superhero in many ways as well. He is very talented, but has a dark side which prevents him from achieving his true potential. He could be part of X-men as the really smart and talented musician guy who gets laid all the time but never appreciates his luck.
5
beth
// Jul 29, 2008 at 12:22 pm
I think a lot of my friends are a bit like super heroes. Tiffany & Samantha are probably the most hero-like, though.
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Juan
// Jul 29, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Rob Dyer of Skate4Cancer. A few videos:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Bb7rTuKL2o
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PzQ1JM4PQ_U
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qZbdmmsAjSs
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q-n2Vrbl9Sk
Maybe Rob and Smith should go skating some time.
7
feverishpoptart
// Jul 29, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I can’t think of anyone and its making me sad. Smith did escort me to the bathroom once, and it was an emergency, but I guess that isn’t enough for me to jump on the Smith bandwagon.
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Tiffany!
// Jul 29, 2008 at 3:28 pm
@Beth. Thanks for the kudos. Sam and I are good calls. I’m not sure if I was nominated for my surviving-accident-skills or my devastating good looks, but thanks!
I’d say myself, also, because I do have some strange reflexes that make me do things like leap onto the hood of a car before it runs me over. ..and for the attributes noted above, obviously.
However, if I could compare Beth to a superhero, she’d be Jem. She has this “Jerrica” side to her> all office-like and proper, but then after work she wears funky jewelry, sings into fake microphones and is in general truly truly truly outrageous.:)
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