Round 5
Buck Rogers
Lt Felix Gaeta
The Crew of the Battlestar Galactica
Vincent
X-Men - I just don't think that we can consider a whole group to be a hero, especially now that all of the particularly heroic members of the team have been included individually. Certainly I don't rate the leftovers that highly.
Yoda
To my mind - and remembering that we're voting for SF/Fantasy heroes, rather than real-life heroes - a hero, or antihero, has to take at least one essentially selfless action to uphold what they believe to be right, and to shoulder responsibility for their own actions and the fates of others. It doesn't count if they're doing it for money or if they have no choice.
I wonder about some of my own nominations, and in some cases - not least the just-departed Arthur Dent - I think they showed up more heroically in the books than in the film/show.
And okay, I'm voting Buck Rogers off largely for the jumpsuits and the credits, but he was always a little too self-centred for my liking.
Hmm. I think I've just talked myself out of voting off Kosh for a while yet.
Definitely so in the movie, but what about the cartoon? This is where it gets fiddly, since comic-book and cartoon Rogue have both risked their lives on a number of occasions, and rejected opportunities to lose her hated 'power' in order to be able to help others, while movie Rogue...just didn't have a great deal to do after the first film and was horribly shafted in the third.
Buck Rogers
Lt Felix Gaeta
The Crew of the Battlestar Galactica
Vincent
X-Men - I just don't think that we can consider a whole group to be a hero, especially now that all of the particularly heroic members of the team have been included individually. Certainly I don't rate the leftovers that highly.
Yoda
To my mind - and remembering that we're voting for SF/Fantasy heroes, rather than real-life heroes - a hero, or antihero, has to take at least one essentially selfless action to uphold what they believe to be right, and to shoulder responsibility for their own actions and the fates of others. It doesn't count if they're doing it for money or if they have no choice.
I wonder about some of my own nominations, and in some cases - not least the just-departed Arthur Dent - I think they showed up more heroically in the books than in the film/show.
And okay, I'm voting Buck Rogers off largely for the jumpsuits and the credits, but he was always a little too self-centred for my liking.
Hmm. I think I've just talked myself out of voting off Kosh for a while yet.
Originally posted by Wraith Scientist
and Spudster made another neat one 
Dr. Lee RULES!
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