What fictional character do you wish was real?
What fictional character do you wish was real?
Leslie Knope for me!
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The president from the West Wing. You know a politician who cared and did the right things despite optics
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It's too depressing watching that show
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Also John Goodman's character, Speaker of the House I believe, he was an honorable Republican. Pure fiction that show.
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And instead we get politicians worse than VEEP. Ouch.
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Far worse
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Oh, that’s a good one!
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Mr. Smith from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for even more stars in the eyes.
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Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
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Say what you will about Idiocracy, but President Camacho knew his country was suffering a problem and he found the smartest man in the world, hired him, and put him to work to resolve it. If only we could get Trump to care this much.
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He also tried to execute him, but yeah, generally cool.
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Robin Hood, but modernized as a 21st-century hacker type so that he can cope in today's world. But I'd still like him to look like he belongs in an edgy 90s movie, complete with green tights, for authenticity's sake.
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Elliot (Mr Robot)
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Hacker Robin Hood obvs. rocking programmer socks
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Superman.
Yeah, that’s an obvious choice, but I like his character more than his superpowers. He’s civil and polite to various world governments, but ultimately, there’s no stopping him from doing the right thing.
If he’s too powerful and that’s a negative to you, substitute Captain America. The same reasoning applies.
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World could use a good guy right now.
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Maybe an unpopular opinion, and I only know the MCU version of Captain America, but he gave me republican vibes (conservative, puritan, trying to make a coup if he believes he's right, ...)
And yes I do realize that originally he was created as the ultimate antifa warrior
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Yeah original comics Captain America would be called a woke commie by most MCU fans nowadays.
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You stole my answer. Save us Superman!
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Luthen Rael from Star Wars Andor. We need people like him right now.
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Many exist like him, we just don’t see them BECAUSE they’re like him
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We could always use at least one more.
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God damn Andor really is the only good thing that came out of star wars in the last 10 years or even more
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Rogue One came out 9 years ago
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Bad Batch was better in my opinion
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Samuel Vimes commander of the Ankh-Morpork city watch (and Detritus so people have no choice but to do as he says).
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Ahem!
His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch (and Blackboard Monitor)
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(and Blackboard Monitor)
Still gets me every time. The best Dwarfs call each-other as each introduces themselves. And that Vimes introduced himself this way in an un-filtered moment implies it matters to him, deep inside.
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My Canadian girlfriend.
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The Doctor from Doctor Who. It'd be nice to think we were all being simultaneously respected, cared for, and defended by someone smarter and kinder than most of us.
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While a good choice, I don't feel warm and fuzzy about the prospect of being turned into some horror creature goop because I happened to walk down the wrong alley.
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I wouldn't want to attract his/her enemies.
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The person I know I could be.
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There’s still time…
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Vaporeon.
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Whelp, that's my internet quota for the day.
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God.
Specifically the version of God that is simultaneously all good, all knowing, and all powerful.
Were our universe created by such a being, evil could not exist: our reality would be very, very, very different compared to the dumpster fire that we all get to experience.
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Agree, but I was think more like the Greek gods. They're far more interesting.
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Interesting definitely, but idk about actually living under that lore... Top boss God is a horny mofo that'll stick it in anything with a hole, with or without consent, sometimes immediately after shapeshifting into a bull or something; and all of the other gods are some degree of petty or mischievous.
...which honestly is kinda how life is under the US government, so... pass!
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You can reason with Greek gods. I appreciate that.
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almost all the GOD in media portrays very similar to the bible ones, cruel, amoral, highly apathetic, and wrathful, probably as way to not upset snowflake christian viewers.
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But also because that's the only way evil in the story can actually exist, and thus actually reflect the suffering and conflict in real life. The Triple-O God can't exist, as evidenced by gestures at everything
Even if the Christian God was real, Omnibenevolence is the first characteristic to be dropped, as the Bible already depicts a cruel, wrathful, egotistical and petty God.
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Yeah, would be nice if there actually was someone looking out for you...
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I was going to say that I kind of wish The Devil existed, because then we would know that truly horrible people would eventually face damnation, and in a way it's nice to imagine that cosmic justice could exist.
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Like a personal god who would always be there to chat and help you out, that would be nice too.
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i'm glad you wrote it before i did : your take is much more detailed and thaurough than mine on this idea.
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Superman bc he was created originally to fight Nazis.
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I am not too deep into the lore of Superman, but is it possible that you mean Captain America? Or is there something about Superman and nazis?
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Superman was created in 1938, so it's not surprising that he'd end up fighting Nazis within a few issues
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As I recall it, the original Superman concept was a kind of inversion of the Nazi Ubermensch ideal. Pretty sure that's where the name came from.
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In 1938, when Hitler's (Nazi) racism was rising in Europe, two Jewish guys created Superman in response. His Krypton name is Hebrew.
https://leviathanjewishjournal.com/2016/12/05/kal-el-vessel-of-god-the-jewish-tradition-of-superman/
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He at least took out the KKK. And helped do that irl
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Captain planet (he's our hero) (gonna take pollution down to zero)!
We could really, really use an environmentalist power that isn't beholden to any nation or company.
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Ted Lasso
We all need that kind of positivity
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Fred Rogers was Ted Lasso, from what I've heard. Relentlessly encouraging, always on-mission, no dark side.
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Victor von Doom.
If we're going for authoritarianism, at least let's have someone competent in charge.
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The famously competent Dr. Doom, who put scalding hot metal directly onto his face because he was in such a rush to become a cool mask guy?
The Monarch has more "W"s under his belt than Doc Vic.
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Sam Raimi's version of Spider-Man. He's an agent of the common man, and obviously someone with super powers would be amazing. However he isn't so powerful that he couldn't be subdued if he were to become evil. The only problem is I don't live in NYC...
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He was always supposed to be exactly that.
Spidey
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All of the good guys; none of the bad guys. Except Bebop and Rocksteady. They're not so bad without Shredder and Krang.
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Is there a fictional character that kills billionaires? If so then that one.
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"The Death"
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The thing. Indiscriminately.
In fact I think this may have already happened.
It's in charge. And a billionaire.
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Everett True - !truecomics@midwest.social
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Lieutenant Commander Data.
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Samwise Gamgee, Gandalf, and Aragorn from LOTR. Or just basically every sage/wise archetype character in stories. Need their wisdom to help me get thru life to prevent me from falling into another depressive episode.
R2D2. Would like a robot friend that makes funny beeps and boops sounds so I won't be sad 24/7.
Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil (game), Dante and Vergil from Devil May Cry (game). They seem cool and are badass.
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God would be interesting.
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see comment by user "Sterile_Technique" above (same idea but better developed)
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Sonic the Hedgehog. He goes really fast like this-PSSHHWWWWW!
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Dale Cooper
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Best I can do is Dale Gribble
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You mean Rusty Shackleford?
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Would agent Cooper be taking orders from Kash Patel and hunting Antifa for the FBI or would he resign and do his own thing?
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Santa Claus. I can't believe no one say Santa Claus.
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Because he's real???
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But he is real
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We make him real
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Cthulhu. There is only one way to properly cleanse this world.
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Not true. You can also wake Azatoth up.
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Azatoth, what dagoth ur wishes he was.
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I'm more of a Marduk guy myself
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Me having a good day
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Hope you have some good days ahead of you bro.
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🤝
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I'll take the hyper-intelligent, godlike alien from Rejoice, A Knife to the Heart who makes violence impossible and gives everyone free food.
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When you say "impossible" does that mean even the voluntary violence is a no-go?
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It's been a while, but I think people were still able to commit suicide if they just couldn't cope with the prospect of utopia. And I think stuff like boxing was OK. Just not torturing, beating or killing people you didn't like.
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I hope not I can only orgasm while I’m being beaten half to death.
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No more Swedish massages!
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trogdor, but instead of burninating the pesants, he burninates the aristocracy.
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Any of the Minds from Iain M. Banks Culture series, because that would mean the Culture was real and I want to live there.
I guess for a specific one, maybe the Arbitrary? That one seems pretty chill and knows where Earth is:
Also while I'd been away, the ship had sent a request on a postcard to the BBC's World Service, asking for 'Mr David Bowie's "Space Oddity" for the good ship Arbitrary and all who sail in her.' (This from a machine that could have swamped Earth's entire electro-magnetic spectrum with whatever the hell it wanted from somewhere beyond Betelgeuse.) It didn't get the request played. The ship thought this was hilarious.
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The Culture does not get mentioned enough. I'm hoping it gets made into a TV series one day, to get additional visibility.
(An actual adaptation, not whatever tf they did to WoT and the Foundation).
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This was going to be my answer - one of the ships from the Culture could actually form the Culture for us and let us live in it
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The GCU Grey Area (AKA Meatfucker) would indeed come in handy, these days...
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Kim Wexler
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Rhea Seehorn has a new show starting soon on Apple + streaming. "Pluribus" was created by the Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad team.
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This is the best thing I’ve seen all day, even better than Dick Cheney dying.
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Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger from The Dark Tower. I'd like to see what he'd do in a present-day USA.
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Probably rob a gun store and throw someone in front of a subway train like he did in 80s USA
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Newman from Seinfeld. For no other reason than I think Wayne Knight is a really great character actor
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It's be fun to have a nemesis like that. Nothing life threatening or too evil, just enough where you'd turn and say, "Newman".
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Sometimes Winnie the Pooh. Sometimes Cthulhu.
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Cthulhu the Pooh?
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Motoko Kusanagi.
How, is she when she doesn't surf?
I wonder what she does when she wakes up.
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How, does she so perfectly surf?
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She's incredible math.
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God.
... the good and forgiving one. Not the other.
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My dad
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Jill Valentine, I want her to peg me.
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I think I've seen that one
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Robin Hood.
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As Leslie Knope is already taken, I choose Susan Sto Helit. It would have been so fun to be in her class, too.
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Optimus Prime. I wish giant robot dad was around to fix mine and the world's problems.
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Totoro.
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happy cake day!
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This characters punches are as powerful as nukes, can survive being hit by several nukes, has nearly indestructible arms, can fly really fast, being able to reach space in seconds, has managed to invent interplanetary teleportation, knows about the afterlife, even making an ability that prevents people he killed from coming back to life, can destroy the observable universe by concentrating for a minute and does not require food, water or oxygen
The planet he ruled seemed pretty peaceful
A nice variant of a genie could also work
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What property is this?
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Looks like bad hair day Enderman
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Both of them are very tall
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G.I. Robot, kinda obvious why
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I’ll go with Knope as well.
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Jackalope
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The Thing
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A really good "people first in mind" politician. But that's only in fairy tales.
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I hadn't heard of Leslie Knope. I looked her up and ok, but Archibald Tuttle from Brazil is more my style. Heh.
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The Vision.
Indestructible, level-headed, compassionate mind-reader? All the world's big problems would be solved overnight.
(Assuming no Corvus Glaive)
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Man I wish Jerma was real
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I wish I was real.
😕
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I’ll go with an obscure one and say TRON. I think it would be really incredible if there was an actual sentient program on my computer that worked actively to maintain, improve, and secure my system.
We get a limited view of that on the movies, but I would really enjoy being able to just open communication with the computer directly and ask it to help with complex work.
Essentially AGI instead of LLM.
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Wouldn't you want the MCP and not TRON? Or does TRON become the MCP?
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I think he ends up the MCP, he does in Kingdom Hearts at least
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My XL Shiny Lopunny
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V. Rather give me anarchy if our shitty government is the alternative.
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Thanos.
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Does R18 stuff count or no?
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Jesus
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Feel like God would have fit this sentiment better. There's a decent amount of historical evidence for Jesus himself to my understanding (not the supernatural stuff attributed to him so much, but moreso that there was a guy the various stories were based off of). But an actual benevolent diety would probably make for a more pleasant world than what we have to deal with, probably why so many people care so strongly about the idea and want to believe it I'd imagine.
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Have you read the bible? God is an unhinged maniac. He told people to cut their dick skin off, threatened zombies, OK'd slavery, drowned everyone because they were partying too hard, set everyone on fire because they were partying too hard, told women to obey men, tortured his #1 fan for funzies, called Israel a removed who sold herself to big-dicked Egyptians, non-consentually impregnated some guy's wife, killed the kid, then brought the kid back to life, made a guy eat bread cooked over burning shit for I think a year? Told Adam and Eve to make incest babies and turned us all into incest babies, made an awesome fruit tree no one's allowed to touch, let the Jews make soulless clay monsters, gave his angels an extra set of wings just to cover their genitals, which I think means angels can fuck.
So yeah. I'm down with bringing God IRL.
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Idk I think without the new testament, the Bible is kind of a drag. I like the idea of redemption much more than an unknowable, complicated, emotionally volitile sky-god. And when I refer to Jesus I mean the Christ who died and came back to life to fulfill the prophesy. I'm sure there was at least one rabbi named Jesus out there, but without the metaphysical (fictional) stuff I quickly lose interest.
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Eight year olds, dude!
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Satan. Would be nice if all the shitty decisions in my life could be sloped off onto some malevolent thing created by an all knowing god only to be evil.
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Dr. Doom
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she's basically real she's just like her character and she has a podcast i think
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she’s basically real
The actress is real and sincere and just about as naive. But she was parodying Hillary Clinton, who was in reality deeply cynical and corrupt and malicious.
One of them came within a hair's breath of the Presidency and it wasn't Amy Poehler.
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Hecate
If we're bringing in mythical feminine icons, you can't top the OG Mother-Maiden-Crone.
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superman
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Prometheus
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You wish were* real
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/was-vs-were/
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I am living in you're walls
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I'm one human, not several walls
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What if God was one of us?
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Don juan
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Jesus
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He would be branded a communist and deported.
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"What crazy kinda Spanish is this a-rab talkin?"
"Uh, that's Aramaic, sir."
"Ara-what-now? Tell'm to speak English, like in the Bible."
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Leslie Knope would be in prison, if she were real. She commits a new ethics violation damn near every episode.
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The Punisher.
lots of motherfuckers in this world need to get what's owed to them.
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God
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see comment by user "Sterile_Technique" above (same idea but better developed)
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The Punisher
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Jeb Bartlett
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There are a lot of answers I could go for, but I am gonna have to say having a Death Note Shinigami in our world would be cool, so long as I find the Death Note and it's in an area with little to no cameras outside of satellites.
Besides the normal politicians/rich/people in power, I'm sure everyone here knows someone, either personally or not, that they think should kick the bucket. I am no different. So, there's a good chance I would take a few lives, have the pages I used burned to hide my tracks, and then relinquish the notebook to ensure I have a clean conscience. Especially since I would forget ever having any involvement since I would forget ever having done any of it IIRC.
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Helen Keller
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"If she can't see me, I can't see her!"
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Are you a ravenous bugblatter beast of traal?
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Galactus or Thanos
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Thanos is a moron
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Oh no, there's no solution! Uses god powers to kill everybody
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Major edgelord answer
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Homelander
Oh that's not fair, Leslie Knope is the public servant we all deserve.
I'll throw in a few.
I want Dr. Cox and JD to be my medical team, the two of them would do everything they could.
I want my local burger shop to be Bob's.
And I wish Captain Holt was a real police commissioner.
I would not wish reality on bob.
Holt is a treasure!
"Wunch time is OVER! Bam, got it both ways."
Vin-di-CATION!
I don’t know who you are, but I feel like we should be friends.
Two trains passing in the night...
Just leave This song link here. No judgement.
We are actually watching Brooklyn 99 right now!
99!
Great show
I hope you're having fun. Because I specifically requested it.