When did the last hero die?

[Al B. Sure!]

1969?

aint it something how there's no more heroes? a soldier who dies for his country? nah. he's a baby killer... a police officer? nah. racist profiler and brutalizer... a scientist trying to stop world hunger? nah. he's making genetically engineered food and somehow that's evil.

how about individuals? George Washington? No... slaver and oppurtunist. Jefferson? No, slaver and raper...

whats the deal with that?

[centrifuge]

There are plenty of heroes that are still alive.

[SlowwHand]

Your analogies are disgusting.

[chequita guevara]

Who died in 1969?

[Winston]

The thread title is grossly misleading. Ronald is still clinging on the last I heard.

[Space05us]

last I heard Batman and Robin were still at it.

[Tripledoc]

Around 30 AD?

[Q Classic]

anybody larger than life and lionized by the masses is not a hero. they're invariably egomaniacs, unless they carry a ginormous sword and save the world by cleaving in two any enemies with their limit breaks, even if they have guns.

a hero is someone like your mother, who carried you in her womb for nine months, or your father, who stuck around when nobody else would.

[chequita guevara]

What did Ronnie ever do that was heroic?

[MikeH]

He entertained millions at his fast food restaurants.

[duke o' york]

How the hell did Ronnie ever get mentioned?

[Winston]

Was I addressing you Mr. Guevara?

[Al B. Sure!]

my question is when did this phenomenum of cynnical anti-heroism originate?

[Monk]

AS, teenage reactionary,

Don't you ever get tired of making the "let's go back in time where everything was much better" point? You say there are "no more heroes", I'm looking forward to hear your perception of, say, the general view on the New York firefighters.

[Q Classic]

maybe around 1972 when this was published, thereby exposing to everyone in the world all you had to do to be a hero, other than carry that ginormous sword.