: "Trains that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
: Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
: So on the tracks of life we pass and speak one another,
: Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence."
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
He was pretty nazi, in the Ubermensch sense of the word. A godlike, infallible upstanding moral (white) American, spreading peace through violence, as a blatant propaganda tool to sell people on the supremacy of the American dream and American exceptionalism.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
When Coop was suspended Truman deputized him into the Twin Peaks Sheriff's department so he could continue the case. Cooper's allegiance is to decency and not any particular office.
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.
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.
Player of Games is actually considered one of the better entries in the series, generally. That said, most of his books have a different feel to them, they're not so much a series as a bunch of books in the same universe. So you might try something else. Going by publication order helps understand the universe building, but it's not required for you to grasp the plot of the books.
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
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.
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.
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 whore 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.
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.
I'm talking about the Christ who died and was reborn to fulfill the prophesy, not a rabbi from Nazareth named Jesus. I imagine there was more than one man named Jesus, more than one rabbi, more than one temple smashing rabble rouser. None of them performed miracles, none of them were reborn, that's fiction. Do you not understand the difference?
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.
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.
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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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 89 pts · 302d
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.
phonics@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 302d
I would not wish reality on bob.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 302d
Holt is a treasure!
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 302d
"Wunch time is OVER! Bam, got it both ways."
djdarren@piefed.social · 6 pts · 302d
Vin-di-CATION!
JoeTheSane@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 302d
We are actually watching Brooklyn 99 right now!
RaoulDuke85@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 302d
99!
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 4 pts · 302d
Great show
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 3 pts · 302d
I hope you're having fun. Because I specifically requested it.
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 302d
I don’t know who you are, but I feel like we should be friends.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 5 pts · 302d
Two trains passing in the night...
confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 302d
: "Trains that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
: Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
: So on the tracks of life we pass and speak one another,
: Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence."
nathan@piefed.alphapuggle.dev · 1 pts · 302d
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 302d
Just leave This song link here. No judgement.
CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml · 82 pts · 302d
The president from the West Wing. You know a politician who cared and did the right things despite optics
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 302d
It's too depressing watching that show
Cyclist@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 302d
Also John Goodman's character, Speaker of the House I believe, he was an honorable Republican. Pure fiction that show.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 302d
He immediately came in and started trying to cut taxes. Also was in a massive rush to drop bombs on countries. Not sure he was that fictional.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 302d
He was honourable.
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 301d
Realistic show.
tomiant@piefed.social · 3 pts · 301d
John Goodman is such a boss, what a fan fucking tastic actor. Magical.
Cyclist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
His body of work is incredible. His work with the Coen Brothers alone is amazing.
Yondoza@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 302d
And instead we get politicians worse than VEEP. Ouch.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
Far worse
JoeTheSane@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
Oh, that’s a good one!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
Mr. Smith from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington for even more stars in the eyes.
FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 302d
Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
cobysev@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 302d
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.
djdarren@piefed.social · 12 pts · 302d
He also tried to execute him, but yeah, generally cool.
DandomRude@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 302d
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.
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 302d
Elliot (Mr Robot)
planish@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 302d
Hacker Robin Hood obvs. rocking programmer socks
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 40 pts · 302d
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.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 302d
World could use a good guy right now.
tatann@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
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
novibe@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 302d
Yeah original comics Captain America would be called a woke commie by most MCU fans nowadays.
Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 302d
You stole my answer. Save us Superman!
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml · 40 pts · 302d
Luthen Rael from Star Wars Andor. We need people like him right now.
B312@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 302d
Many exist like him, we just don’t see them BECAUSE they’re like him
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 302d
We could always use at least one more.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 302d
God damn Andor really is the only good thing that came out of star wars in the last 10 years or even more
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 302d
Rogue One came out 9 years ago
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 302d
Bad Batch was better in my opinion
Denjin@feddit.uk · 36 pts · 302d
Samuel Vimes commander of the Ankh-Morpork city watch (and Detritus so people have no choice but to do as he says).
shalafi@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 302d
Ahem!
His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch (and Blackboard Monitor)
MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 4 pts · 302d
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.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today · 34 pts · 302d
My Canadian girlfriend.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 302d
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.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 301d
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.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 301d
I wouldn't want to attract his/her enemies.
11111one11111@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 302d
The person I know I could be.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 302d
There’s still time…
Vytle@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 302d
Vaporeon.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 9 pts · 301d
Whelp, that's my internet quota for the day.
badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 302d
Superman bc he was created originally to fight Nazis.
colmear@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 301d
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?
weew@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 301d
Superman was created in 1938, so it's not surprising that he'd end up fighting Nazis within a few issues
5too@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
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.
badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 300d
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/
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
He at least took out the KKK. And helped do that irl
tomiant@piefed.social · 0 pts · 301d
Pretty nazi character tho
badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 300d
The word you are looking for is didactic. He was very didactic, indeed. But didn't kill or jail people or deny human rights bc of color or religion.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 299d
He was pretty nazi, in the Ubermensch sense of the word. A godlike, infallible upstanding moral (white) American, spreading peace through violence, as a blatant propaganda tool to sell people on the supremacy of the American dream and American exceptionalism.
badelf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 298d
Never heard that definition put so well. Maybe you should add it to the urban dictionary.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 296d
Dictionaries should stay apolitical, even the urban ones.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 302d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 302d
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.
weew@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 301d
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.
dellish@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
Agree, but I was think more like the Greek gods. They're far more interesting.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 302d
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 301d
That happens like, once per century tops.
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 301d
You can reason with Greek gods. I appreciate that.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org · 2 pts · 301d
Yeah, would be nice if there actually was someone looking out for you...
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
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.
A_A@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
i'm glad you wrote it before i did : your take is much more detailed and thaurough than mine on this idea.
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 300d
Like a personal god who would always be there to chat and help you out, that would be nice too.
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 301d
"Good" is a fickle word
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 300d
"Evil" is likewise fickle.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 299d
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 24 pts · 302d
Ted Lasso
We all need that kind of positivity
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
Fred Rogers was Ted Lasso, from what I've heard. Relentlessly encouraging, always on-mission, no dark side.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 301d
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.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 301d
"Turn off the faucet between usages and recycle those plastics, or else I'll turn you into a fuckin' tree!"
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 302d
Victor von Doom.
If we're going for authoritarianism, at least let's have someone competent in charge.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 300d
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.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 301d
How about the Kharak?
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 301d
The what now?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 301d
Crimson King, lovely fella.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 301d
Seems to be something from that SCP thing?
What does that have to do with anything?
Did you reply to the wrong post?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · -1 pts · 301d
Don't even try to pull that shit on me.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 301d
I seriously have no idea what you're going on about, but you're starting to sound like you forgot to take some kind of medication.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 20 pts · 302d
All of the good guys; none of the bad guys. Except Bebop and Rocksteady. They're not so bad without Shredder and Krang.
KRAW@linux.community · 19 pts · 302d
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...
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 301d
He was always supposed to be exactly that.
Spidey
Sergio@piefed.social · 18 pts · 302d
Everett True - !truecomics@midwest.social
flounders@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 302d
Lieutenant Commander Data.
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 302d
Is there a fictional character that kills billionaires? If so then that one.
Valmond@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 301d
"The Death"
tomiant@piefed.social · 4 pts · 301d
The thing. Indiscriminately.
In fact I think this may have already happened.
It's in charge. And a billionaire.
stinerman@midwest.social · 17 pts · 302d
God would be interesting.
A_A@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 302d
see comment by user "Sterile_Technique" above (same idea but better developed)
HollowV@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 302d
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.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 302d
Smoking some pipeweed with gandalf would be sick Radagast and tom bobadil also have to bethere!
HollowV@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
Might as well include every Hobbit and elf in the Tolkien universe to the list, too! Living in The Shire would be nice :)
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 302d
I would rather life with the wood elfs to be honest
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 302d
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 302d
Dale Cooper
felixwhynot@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 302d
Best I can do is Dale Gribble
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 302d
You mean Rusty Shackleford?
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 302d
Would agent Cooper be taking orders from Kash Patel and hunting Antifa for the FBI or would he resign and do his own thing?
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 302d
When Coop was suspended Truman deputized him into the Twin Peaks Sheriff's department so he could continue the case. Cooper's allegiance is to decency and not any particular office.
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 302d
Good point, forgot about that
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 302d
Depends whether he's been in the black lodge yet or not
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 302d
Santa Claus. I can't believe no one say Santa Claus.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 302d
Because he's real???
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
But he is real
5too@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
We make him real
Bruncvik@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 302d
Cthulhu. There is only one way to properly cleanse this world.
rikudou@lemmings.world · 10 pts · 302d
Not true. You can also wake Azatoth up.
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 300d
Azatoth, what dagoth ur wishes he was.
tomiant@piefed.social · 2 pts · 301d
I'm more of a Marduk guy myself
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 302d
Me having a good day
Zhayl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 301d
Hope you have some good days ahead of you bro.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
🤝
artifex@piefed.social · 12 pts · 302d
I'll take the hyper-intelligent, godlike alien from Rejoice, A Knife to the Heart who makes violence impossible and gives everyone free food.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 302d
When you say "impossible" does that mean even the voluntary violence is a no-go?
artifex@piefed.social · 3 pts · 302d
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.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 302d
I hope not I can only orgasm while I’m being beaten half to death.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 302d
For me it’s 32.33% to death. Repeating, of course.
snooggums@piefed.world · 1 pts · 302d
No more Swedish massages!
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 302d
trogdor, but instead of burninating the pesants, he burninates the aristocracy.
Triumph@fedia.io · 10 pts · 302d
Kim Wexler
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 6 pts · 302d
Rhea Seehorn has a new show starting soon on Apple + streaming. "Pluribus" was created by the Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad team.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 302d
This is the best thing I’ve seen all day, even better than Dick Cheney dying.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 302d
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:
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 302d
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).
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 300d
I'm having a hard time getting though the player of games. Is it good? Should I skip it for a later entry?
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 300d
Player of Games is actually considered one of the better entries in the series, generally. That said, most of his books have a different feel to them, they're not so much a series as a bunch of books in the same universe. So you might try something else. Going by publication order helps understand the universe building, but it's not required for you to grasp the plot of the books.
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 300d
I'll push forward some more, I'm just not vibing with the beginning. It'll have to wait for Moby dick to finish tho, that's a pretty good book.
SaraTonin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
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
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 302d
The GCU Grey Area (AKA Meatfucker) would indeed come in handy, these days...
muxika@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 302d
Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger from The Dark Tower. I'd like to see what he'd do in a present-day USA.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 302d
Probably rob a gun store and throw someone in front of a subway train like he did in 80s USA
FanciestPants@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 302d
Sometimes Winnie the Pooh. Sometimes Cthulhu.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 302d
Cthulhu the Pooh?
metallic_substance@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 302d
Newman from Seinfeld. For no other reason than I think Wayne Knight is a really great character actor
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 8 pts · 302d
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".
ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
So you're saying what you really want is for Wayne Knight to be real
metallic_substance@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
Yeah, more real to me. What I'm saying is that I want to party with Wayne Knight
ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
Like Jennifer Anniston in Ben Stiller Show replacement The Edge
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 302d
Cthulhu, if only to mix up the goddamn headlines for a bit.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 301d
Ancient god of dreaming & a good sleep, hentai adjacent even.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
Wait, hentai adjacent in what way?
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 301d
Lewd tentacle way.
I would suggest image search, but ...
ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
I guess
MattW03@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 301d
God.
... the good and forgiving one. Not the other.
protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 301d
My dad
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 301d
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 301d
Jared Keeso is pretty much Wayne or Shoresy in real life. I suggest you let that marinate.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
Pitter patter.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 301d
That was well brought up, too bad you weren't
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 301d
To be fair.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 301d
To be fair
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 302d
Motoko Kusanagi.
How, is she when she doesn't surf?
I wonder what she does when she wakes up.
...
How, does she so perfectly surf?
...
She's incredible math.
Fleeing_snail@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 302d
As Leslie Knope is already taken, I choose Susan Sto Helit. It would have been so fun to be in her class, too.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
Jill Valentine, I want her to peg me.
Reygle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
I think I've seen that one
MisterNeon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
Optimus Prime. I wish giant robot dad was around to fix mine and the world's problems.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 301d
Robin Hood.
EsmereldaFritzmonster@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 301d
Totoro.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 300d
happy cake day!
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 302d
Not a person, but a place. Namely the prison from Red Dwarf where everything you do to someone else, you did to yourself.
DampSquid@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 301d
Also Cat
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 301d
Def Cat.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
I'm glad he was able to find his real calling as a tropical island police officer, though.
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 302d
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
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 302d
What property is this?
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 302d
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFstEviWuJT3oGE8Vcz2WrFrjf6rdw8HD
The character appears here and here in an actual fight
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 302d
Fortunately, nobody said Goku as an answer
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
Looks like bad hair day Enderman
atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 300d
Both of them are very tall
solrize@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 302d
I hadn't heard of Leslie Knope. I looked her up and ok, but Archibald Tuttle from Brazil is more my style. Heh.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 302d
Ooh, you are in for a treat my friend. Parks and Recreation is a modern classic.
The first season is a bit rough. But once Adam Scott joins the cast, it becomes legendary.
DampSquid@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 301d
To provide balance. It's fine, but basically un-rewatchable
ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
I get why you say that, but I disagree.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
I can't watch the last season or two but the rest is very rewatchable.
MourningDove@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 301d
tio_bira@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 302d
G.I. Robot, kinda obvious why
HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
Don't think one G.I. robot would suffice, we kinda would need an army of them.
With that said, he had a somewhat overly general view of what a nazi was and could become a problem once all Nazi's where dealt with.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 301d
The Great Sage, Heaven's Equal, the handsome monkey king Sun Wukong.
Not sure he'd care to fix things, but it would be different if there was a benevolent unbeatable power in the world.
tomiant@piefed.social · 6 pts · 301d
The Thing
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 302d
A really good "people first in mind" politician. But that's only in fairy tales.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 301d
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 300d
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 300d
The Vision.
Indestructible, level-headed, compassionate mind-reader? All the world's big problems would be solved overnight.
(Assuming no Corvus Glaive)
mediOchre@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 301d
Man I wish Jerma was real
tomiant@piefed.social · 1 pts · 301d
I wish I was real.
😕
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 302d
Jackalope
otacon239@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 302d
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.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
Wouldn't you want the MCP and not TRON? Or does TRON become the MCP?
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 302d
I think he ends up the MCP, he does in Kingdom Hearts at least
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 302d
Jesus
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 8 pts · 302d
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.
Icytrees@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 302d
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 whore 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.
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 302d
Guttural@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 302d
Who the fuck is Ernest P. fucking Worrell?
kelpie_returns@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 302d
Icytrees@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 302d
Killing all those kids when their parents didn't blood-paint their doors should have been a major red flag. We keep him out of schools for a reason.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 302d
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.
cuboc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
Eight year olds, dude!
CelestialMittens@feddit.org · 0 pts · 300d
It said fictional
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 300d
Well, I hate to break it to you...
CelestialMittens@feddit.org · 0 pts · 299d
I hate to break it to you, but Jesus is a historically verified human being.
FridaySteve@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 299d
I'm talking about the Christ who died and was reborn to fulfill the prophesy, not a rabbi from Nazareth named Jesus. I imagine there was more than one man named Jesus, more than one rabbi, more than one temple smashing rabble rouser. None of them performed miracles, none of them were reborn, that's fiction. Do you not understand the difference?
nevemsenki@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 301d
V. Rather give me anarchy if our shitty government is the alternative.
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl · 4 pts · 302d
phantom thieves of hearts
metro version of totoro
april o'neal and lois lane: they often get into trouble so i think they are doing their jobs right
austin powers, johnny english
Trail@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d
Ann Takamaki intensifies.
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 301d
she's a real sweetheart.
Trail@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
Nah, she's a fictional sweetheart, but would be nice if she were real.
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 300d
oh, right. there's that wish that needs to happen.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 301d
Does R18 stuff count or no?
Lawnmaster9000@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 301d
My XL Shiny Lopunny
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 301d
😏
stinky@redlemmy.com · 3 pts · 301d
superman
stoly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 300d
Doctor Who could whisk me away for a few adventures.
Inucune@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 300d
The Doctor is a harbenger of death. People die or are maimed around him quite frequently.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
Worth the risk. People die or are maimed by cars everyday, at least the Doctor will be more fun.
stoly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
Worth it for the adventure. Also companions have a far better survival rate than randos.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 300d
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.
njm1314@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 302d
Dr. Doom
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org · 3 pts · 301d
You wish were* real
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/commonly-confused-words/was-vs-were/
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org · 4 pts · 301d
I am living in you're walls
jenesaisquoi@feddit.org · 1 pts · 301d
I'm one human, not several walls
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 301d
What if God was one of us?
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 302d
Thanos.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 300d
Hecate
If we're bringing in mythical feminine icons, you can't top the OG Mother-Maiden-Crone.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 301d
she's basically real she's just like her character and she has a podcast i think
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
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.
nomecks@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 301d
Jesus
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 301d
He would be branded a communist and deported.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
"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."
surph_ninja@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
Leslie Knope would be in prison, if she were real. She commits a new ethics violation damn near every episode.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 300d
Don juan
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 301d
The Punisher.
lots of motherfuckers in this world need to get what's owed to them.
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 302d
Prometheus
spongebollocks@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 301d
Railing5132@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 300d
Jeb Bartlett
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 301d
The Punisher
JoeTheSane@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
novibe@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 302d
pno2nr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 302d
God
A_A@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 302d
see comment by user "Sterile_Technique" above (same idea but better developed)
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 302d
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.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 302d
Helen Keller
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 302d
"If she can't see me, I can't see her!"
Denjin@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 302d
Are you a ravenous bugblatter beast of traal?
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 301d
Galactus or Thanos
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 300d
Thanos is a moron
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 300d
Oh no, there's no solution! Uses god powers to kill everybody
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 300d
Major edgelord answer
Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 302d
Homelander