If you could be a fictional character for a day?

Cee-Jay-Cee · 23-09-2019 11:43PM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I don't in any way resemble this person, but the character I would most like to identify with is Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky, a character from the greatest of Russian novels, Anna Karenina.

An unlikely and a hidden hero -- you have to search hard to find his salt -- he's not obviously heroic like Levin is; Vronsky is occasionally weak, ocasionally strong. He can be a pussycat or a tyrant as his circumstances demand. He has something nobody else in the novel has : balance. He is the balanced man, the sort of man whom Yeats idealised in his poems about Major Robert Gregory.

"Soldier, scholar, horseman, he,
And yet he had the intensity
To have published all to be a world’s delight"

I don't think any of us can live up to the standard set by Vronsky/ Major Robert Gregory. But it's probably worthwhile to have a go anyway.

FFS...you could have just said Superman as no one actually cares, it’s just a silly question but oh no you have to off at the deep end and get all philosophical and shiit.

Anyway I’d like to be Hulk.

Firblog · 23-09-2019 11:44PM

Trent

Fourier · 23-09-2019 11:47PM

Any one of those anime characters who fly with energy flowing off them. Swooping along the ocean from continent to continent would be class.

marozz · 23-09-2019 11:49PM

Sherlock Holmes.

23-09-2019 11:50PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

FFS...you could have just said Superman as no one actually cares, it’s just a silly question but oh no you have to off at the deep end and get all philosophical and shiit.

Anyway I’d like to be Hulk.

You think I'm being unrealistic, but you have chosen a superhuman. At least my guy has human weakness!

I'm just saying there are realistic characters we can aspire to without resorting to superheros. If you're not interested in them that's obviously grand. Life's too short to get angry about other people's heroes.

EmmetSpiceland · 24-09-2019 12:14AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

You think I'm being unrealistic, but you have chosen a superhuman. At least my guy has human weakness!

I'm just saying there are realistic characters we can aspire to without resorting to superheros. If you're not interested in them that's obviously grand. Life's too short to get angry about other people's heroes.

Goes hand in hand with the “comic book” type, I’m afraid, ATNM. A very angry bunch when it comes down to it. But unable to loose the pent up rage inside in a “healthy” manner.

I mean, the “Hulk”. Really? A cursed character, the monstrous alter-ego who just “smashes” everything.

If you’re going to go down that route surely Stevenson’s “Mr. Edward Hyde” would be the better choice. At least you’d be “putting it about” on your nightly “adventures”. Same could be said for Wilde’s “Dorian Gray”.

But, alas, here we are. “Hulking” out with impotent rage.

AMKC · 24-09-2019 09:14AM

Supergirl. She is beautiful, is clever, smart and can fly so ye I would be her. I think I would fly to a few cities and beeches around the world posing for the day with fans.

Be right back · 24-09-2019 09:32AM

Elizabeth Bennett.

branie2 · 24-09-2019 10:15AM

Jack Reacher, and I'd have a few lads laid out on the ground when I beat them up.

Junkyard Tom · 24-09-2019 10:25AM

Mr Ben the time travelling Orange man.

Wayne Jarvis · 24-09-2019 10:33AM

branie2 wrote: »

Jack Reacher, and I'd have a few lads laid out on the ground when I beat them up.

Sounds like you have some unresolved anger issues there branie2. Not me though, that's why I picked peace loving Jack Bauer.

Wheety · 24-09-2019 10:37AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

You think I'm being unrealistic, but you have chosen a superhuman. At least my guy has human weakness!

I'm just saying there are realistic characters we can aspire to without resorting to superheros. If you're not interested in them that's obviously grand. Life's too short to get angry about other people's heroes.

And what would you do for your one day as Alexei Kirillovich Vronsky?

YFlyer · 24-09-2019 10:42AM

Legal expert Ben Gilroy.

tayto lover · 24-09-2019 10:44AM

Huckleberry Finn.

Floating along the Mississippi on a raft appeals to me.

randd1 · 24-09-2019 10:50AM

Dr Manhattan

cj maxx · 24-09-2019 10:53AM

Its probably been said already, but I'd be the invisible man.
Just to find out what people really thought of me and what they were planning

facehugger99 · 24-09-2019 12:12PM

James Bond.

Take the Aston Martin out for a spin, engage in some high-tech spy skulduggery, an evening sipping martinis in a casino before heading back to my hotel suite with a Bond girl or two .

24-09-2019 12:17PM

Anton Chigurh

John DoeReMi · 24-09-2019 12:22PM

Jason Bourne. I love the way he's able to improvise in any situation. Although the whole headaches and memory loss thing might be a bit of a handful.

Sleepy · 24-09-2019 02:42PM

Tony Stark.

In 24 hours I could make all my friends and family billionaires, invent clean free energy and fly about in the Iron Man suit.

hcf500 · 24-09-2019 03:14PM

trump, I would go up to the roof of the whitehouse and jump

B_ecke_r · 24-09-2019 03:17PM

God.

D3V!L · 24-09-2019 03:18PM

Juggernaut

Then I'd go for a run in Dublin during rush-hour.

TheValeyard · 24-09-2019 03:19PM

Aongus Von Bismarck

24-09-2019 03:19PM

As the saying goes: “Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman, then always be Batman.”

TheValeyard · 24-09-2019 03:20PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

As the saying goes: “Always be yourself! Unless you can be Batman, then always be Batman.”

But not the George Clooney one.

jim salter · 24-09-2019 06:47PM

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

The non-fictional hairy pornstar now accused of being a sex creep for decades?

I guess the sarcasm went over your head;)

Mugser · 24-09-2019 07:15PM

Pontius Pilate.

"Ah sure he's a grand lad, let him go there fellas."

Think of all the hassle that would have been saved.:pac:

Wayne Jarvis · 24-09-2019 08:13PM

hcf500 wrote: »

trump, I would go up to the roof of the whitehouse and jump

The eagle would catch him though so he/you would be grand.

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Zorya · 24-09-2019 08:30PM

Be right back wrote: »

Elizabeth Bennett.

Yes, that would be the one I would choose, but please let me be her on the day she and Darcy finally get freaky. Not one of the thousands of sigh filled days of yearning. I wish those kind of dresses were still the fashion, and oh for heaving bosoms, constitutionals around the parkland, lovenotes, and dashing gentlemen kissing ones fingertips. Oh well.

If you could be a fictional character for a day?

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