This thought was brought on whilst I was watching “Robot Chicken” (of all things…).
Ask any Star Wars nerd about Boba Fett and he will pretty much wet his pants with excitement. The biggest badass in the entire universe, the catcher of Han Solo, survivor or the Sarlaac, and again…the biggest badass ever.
However…upon further inspection all of the cool stuff Fett did was after the movies came out. Frankly his part in the movies are quite small, and while he did capture Han, he also ended up dying by being accidentally hit by a blind guy. So for all intents and purposes Boba Fett was crazy overhyped. He really didn’t do anything, but there is so much lexicon around and about him. Is there anyone else who has so much hype around them, but in reality just didn’t do anything?
He spends ROCKY IV getting beaten to death by Ivan Drago, but that’s okay; Creed established his bona fides in an earlier film. Well, not ROCKY III; he pretty much just gets called an Uncle Tom and is smacked upside the head, but that’s okay because he’d already established his bona fides in an earlier film. Well, not ROCKY II; he loses that match, after griping about how he didn’t actually beat the guy in the previous one. Which brings us back to ROCKY I, in which he gets hospitalized by the guy who drops him to the canvas and cracks his ribs and is clearly winning the fight when it’s stopped, after Creed’s corner wants to stop the fight anyway due to all the internal bleeding – hence all the letters he gets in ROCKY II, claiming the split decision must have been fixed.
Don’t get me wrong- I LIKE Hector, and think he’s by far the most admirable man in “The Iliad.” But he loses practically EVERY battle he takes part in.
Achilles slaughters him without working up a sweat. But even before that, EVERY Greek warrior he encounters seemes to get the better of him. Patroclus is the ONLY Greek of any importance that Hector manages to kill, and even then, Hector needed massive assistance from Aphrodite.
The Greeks keep talking as if Hector were invincible… and yet, Hector never does anything on the battlefield to justify that.
Cobra Commander. I mean, he’s apparently very smart, manages to raise and finance his own army, develop and manufacture all kinds of nasty weapons that actually work…and yet, he gets thwarted every. Single. Time. Hell, even a custom made field general constructed from the DNA of the greatest conquerors in human history couldn’t help the guy win.
A whiny little bitch through and through who does nothing but give voice to the inner angst of underachievers everywhere who are able to eloquently articulate why they hate everyone else.
Dude, I was coming in here to say Holden Caulfield! I just reread it to see if I still hated it, and I did. By the end, though, he’s wandering around on no sleep, no food, and some alcohol–I wanted to give him a sandwich, put him to bed, and see if he felt better in the morning. I think that would solve most of his problems.
Yeah, Holden will be fine by the time he turns 25, though he’ll probably be angry at himself for acting like a total douchebag as a young man and that will produce a different kind of angst.
You’re right though, a sandwich and bed would be very good for him.
Good call! Considering how widely he’s known as the arch-enemy of one of the most famous characters of all time, he actually doesn’t appear (or even get referred to) all that often in the “canon.”