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Are You A Hero Or Villain?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Taly, Jul 3, 2015.

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Are You A Hero Or Villain?

  1. Hero, of course. An important one.

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  2. Hero, but more like a helper of one.

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  3. Hero... Whenever I feel like it, honestly.

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  4. Anti-Hero. I'm neutral and only looking for what is in my best interest.

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  5. Villain, kind of like one of those lackies that are sneaky.

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  6. I'd be a seasonal villain, not a long-term one but a strong one.

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  7. Supervillain. I plan to make everyone bow to me.

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  1. Taly

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    Boom. Another Taly Poll thread. :grin:

    So this is self-explanatory.

    Are you a hero or villain? Which kind?

    I'd probably be a main supporting character of a hero.

    And if I were in a series or game - and I get screwed up mentally too many times, then I would have the potential to become a devastating antagonist... but a short-lived antagonist at that.

    You can answer in a fun way as if you're thinking of a comic, game, or movie.

    Or you could be serious and go in depth in real life. :3
     
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    A static secondary character :wink:
     
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    The anti-hero, the neutral person thingy

    i may act good but i always look after solely on my interest
    like Taylor Swift says
    "darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream"
     
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    I'd probably just be the hero's sidekick. I don't think I'd be strong and courageous enough to be the main hero but I would like to help people in need and help fight crime.
     
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    I think we can all agree most of us here are anti-heroes or supporting characters.
     
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    I'd be an anti-hero, but previous RP experience tells me that I make a very compelling and very disturbing villain.
     
  7. Christiaan

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    I define "antihero" differently. An antihero can be very altruistic, in my way of thinking, but is not the kind of person you expect to rise to the occasion.

    A goth is your basic anti-hero. Oddly, even though they have dark and cynical outlooks, they can be intensely nurturing and protective, especially toward people who are terribly misunderstood. Their very rejection, and occasional unbridled hatred, of mainstream thinking makes them natural allies of the downtrodden, even taking up the causes of people that it's considered to be socially acceptable or even commendable to spit on. These people who have these outwardly antisocial and hostile dispositions end up being a sort of natural "antihero." Some people might disagree with my perceptions of goths, but what is important is to get across how I see the "antihero."

    In that sense, I am an antihero. Coming out of high school, most people thought I fit the profile of a school-shooter. I have a temperament that is associated frequently with psychopathic behavior. I am often profoundly combative, in my temperament. I am severely bipolar and can be unpredictable. I can come across as shockingly cold-blooded: although that cold-blooded, dispassionate way that I can have of talking about things is designed purposely to delicately take into account my highly volatile emotions, it scares people. However, I don't have to turn those tendencies to the cause of evil. That combative streak can be the voice of the downtrodden. I can put fight and hope into people who are sick or depressed. I can and have turned that "killer instinct" to the cause of healing.

    I can be a good person, even though I could use the same traits to do evil. I think that sometimes an antihero, in literature, can be more inspiring than a traditional hero, or perhaps, because of the kind of person I myself am, I just happen to identify with them. In the antihero, I can see goodness and beauty in unexpected places. The kind of antihero that I know reminds people who could otherwise never see themselves as worthwhile that, if they chose, they could stand for something. That's really my favorite type of hero.

    Ah...here is an example of an antihero. Professor Snape, from the Harry Potter novels. He was authentically and unpretentiously a jerk, but he ended up turning his nasty temperament to a benevolent purpose. I love that character. He never let go of his sick, spiteful, vengeful nature, but he didn't have to in order to do the right thing, when it counted.

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    To me, Snape really presents the best case for hope, in the entire series. Many of us have a little nastiness and spitefulness in us. Many of us are bitter, like Professor Snape. Many of us can be narcissistic and neurotic, like Snape. Snape arms those people with the power to believe that they can make the right choices in life, in spite of themselves.
     
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    I would make an excellent sidekick :slight_smile:
     
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    Definitely a villain, but of the mischievous/trickster/funny kind that loves to create chaos and embarrassment.

    I have a whole list of things I'd love to do!

    -Create a way to have every ATM machine in the USA spit out all of it's cash at 6PM on Balck Friday. Imagine the chaos! People would be in a mass pandemonium, scooping up wads of bills, or trying to get to a machine in time. Banks would have a fit, and a people would get some free money :slight_smile:

    -Make all the TVs on display at Wal-Mart play porno movies, and watch the reaction

    -Employ an army of my minions to glue shut every single drive-thru window at every fast food place in America

    -Spray Skunk-Musk in every major shopping mall, forcing them to evacuate

    -set up stands, and hand out free sex toys outside of evangelical churches

    -kidnap Donald Trump, and make him work a farm, picking beans, as I drove around in a big, purple Cadillac, cackling in laughter at him, while wearing a flashy gold leisure suit

    OK, I better get started!
     
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    Anti-hero -- and damn, there is a lot of them.

    There would be moments where the temptation to acquire power would make me a temporary villain, I'm sure. But I'm not motivated to have power simply to have it, I am motivated to have it because nobody can do it better, in my opinion.

    I suspect I'd be perceived as a renegade, ultimately winding up doing what benefits the heroes. Sometimes.

    There might even be the inevitable betrayal trope, LOL.
     
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    Aw, c'mon and drop this anti-hero stuff! Just be a straight-out villain, you'll have way more fun!
     
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    Neither. :rolle:
     
  13. Kidd

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    I feel like I am the beloved but useless sidekick, quite frankly. There mostly for the aesthetic.
     
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    I feel that were I to be fictionalised, I wouldn't really fit the concepts of (anti)heroism, villainy etc. I'm just much too bland, but I don't think I could stomach being a sidekick.

    A secondary character without the status of any of the poll options seems more likely.
     
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    The helper kind of hero, I'd probably say. I try to do good and care for people, but I don't have what it takes to headline.
     
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    I feel like I'd be the villains right hand woman, who is a major ass but does indeed have a heart. I'd hope I'd also become the queen of sass while I'm at it.
     
  17. randomly me

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    I'll either do superhero or supervillain.I mean if you have superpowers or neat training you should archive the most possible and extremes are rather effective when it comes to achievement...
     
  18. HunGuy

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    I'm a supervillain! LET'S SET THE WORLD ON FIRE!!! MWAHHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!! :lol:
     
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    I've always been fond of antiheroes, for example one of my favorite superheroes is Mystique from X Men (not only because of her ability, she's essentially everything I want to be but also) because she's conflicted and torn between Professor X and his philosophy and Magneto and his stance on mutants and their place in the world.

    I also love Louis from Interview with the Vampire (the book and the movie) because he's also very conflicted, and thus an antihero.

    Most of my protagonists in my own novels are anti-heroes as well.

    So I'm definitely a conflicted anti-hero.
     
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    I'd be the useless character who gets killed five minutes into the tale and whose death is absolutely irrelevant to the plot.