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Who's your 'Flash Gordon'?


In other words, who's that "hero" of yours who you grew up loving and will probably act in the same way as in the movie if you meet him/her?

As someone who grew up in the 90's, mine will probably be any of the power rangers or Liu Kang (Robin Shou) and Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) from the old Mortal Kombat. (Screw you, I was a kid, back then, so don't blame me for watching MK over and over again!)

And yes, I'll probably have the same experience as in the movie when I meet them (slow-motion, daydream-vision of us fighting together, etc.).

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Kevin Conroy

Bad cop, no doughnut

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Emperor Palpatine from RotJ, and I would day dream about electrocuting Mark Hamil while cackling like a mad man.

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While he may be relatively recent compared to going way back like Ted and John did but mine would be Jack Bauer.

"Mr. Treehorn treats objects like women, man."

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I have to say i'm in that 34-35 age bracket, so Sam Jones would TRULY
have been one of mine.

Also Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch from "Battlestar Galactica" (Old school
BSG.)

And Gil Gerard and Erin Gray from "BUCK ROGERS"!



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If I'm understanding the question and you're asking about who taugh us right from wrong as kids, mine's Optimus Prime. "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings." :)


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I'm a 90's kid, but I like a lot of old tv shows. For me, The Fonz.

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mine would be Christophe Lambert (Highlander) or Michael Biehn (The Terminator). they are still my heroes and to this day they are still good role models.

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Funny, I thought about that when I saw that part, who was my hero? It took a while to remember. I don't think very many people here will recall it, but there used to be a TV show on Saturdays in the mid to late 70s, called the "Shazam/Isis Hour". I didn't care so much for the "Shazam" part but I watched it to get to the second half of the show, which was called "The Secrets of Isis" and starred JoAnna Cameron. She played this bookish schoolteacher who could change into the beautiful goddess Isis - kind of the Clark Kent thing - and of course she would fight evil and solve problems, and there would be a little moral lesson built into each episode; in fact, in typical 70s TV fashion she would look into the camera at the end and address the viewers and it was obvious that the show's producers meant for her to be teaching kids something. Isis was significant because she was the first female TV superhero, before Wonder Woman or the Bionic Woman. As a young girl, I was fascinated by her and I never missed an episode. In fact, I recorded them using a tape recorder and listened to them later (this was what you did before you could record TV shows). If JoAnna Cameron had shown up anywhere in my presence, I think I would have fainted.

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