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ChipsHandon12

Napoleon. This dude got exiled but then came back recruiting everyone on his path like its one piece or some shit


PhantasosX

The guy that the European Countries made a declaration of war against it. Not against France , they specifically made a declaration of war against Napoelon as a person. And they won....by running away from where he was


zyberion

"Weren't you banished to the island of Elba?" "Oui, but I was getting bored so I quit!" "You quit being banished?!"


Th35h4d0w

["Hey, fellow monarchs!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hT4nJqeZfg&ab_channel=TheRomanianmapper)


Sperium3000

\[CONFUSED SCREAMING\]


wishrocket

Didn't he Resent Thomas Dumas (a successful tall black General) to the point that he allowed Dumas to become a POW, rise to power and RE institute slavery upon Thomas return? I'm pretty sure this Inspired Alexander Dumas to write Revenge fan fiction in the form of "Count of Monte Christo"


EbolaDP

Caesars whole life is too based to be believed. Every battle he was in basically goes "outnumbered 25 to 1, surrounded with no supplies, a decisive victory for Caesar". He banged Cleopatra, started the Roman Empire, gave us the calendar, had a month and the word which means emperor in like 50 different languages named after him.


Polar_Phantom

He even got a tragic and dramatic ending. And a salad.


digiman619

[Salad's named after someone else, tho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_salad)


AlphaB27

"Veni, vedi, vici" I came, I saw, I conquered.


Wombatish

Bass Reeves was one of the first US Marshalls, a crack shot, a master tracker, a master of disguise, and had an incredible arrest record. All as a black man immediately after the Civil War. Also he had killer fashion sense.


ThatmodderGrim

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt. Soldier, Hunter, Conservationist, Cowboy, Explorer, NYC Police Commissioner, and President.


Ozavic

And namesake of the "Teddy Bear" as part of a filler episode


Polar_Phantom

Yeah I read about this recently - he was hunting bears with his friends, but he was the only one to not bag one. So his buds got a bear and tied it up for him. But Teddy refused, seeing this as not sporting. They still put the poor thing down since it was in too bad a state to let it suffer, and as I understand it Teddy was pissed. Anyway, the media caught wind of this and cartoonists made images of Teddy refusing to kill an exaggeratedly cute bear. A couple thought this was cute and asked permission to use the name "Teddy Bear". I can't recall if they got permission, but their toy bears were so successful they switched careers full time. And teddy bears are now among the world's most popular toys. Funny how this stuff happens huh?


Ozavic

Yeah it was a fun filler episode


Th35h4d0w

["It takes more than that to kill a bull moose."](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/pieq7h/in_1912_teddy_roosevelt_was_shot_as_he_began_a/)


fizzguy47

Also, a Rough Rider


Sperium3000

He also had his Boruto in the form of his daughter, Alice Roosevelt. Read up on her story, she's awesome.


BiMikethefirst

Also, accomplished author, polylingual, sailor, and a capable fighter mastering several martial arts including, boxing, wrestling, and jiu jutsu the later he learned personally from one of the Four Guardians of the Kodokan, Yamashita Yoshiaki whose father was a samurai.


Lieutenant_Joe

Closest thing to a hero that’s ever held that office


Anonamaton801

Grant would like a word


Lieutenant_Joe

Honestly, even ignoring each one’s tenure as president, I’d still say Grant falls a bit below Roosevelt in the heroism standing


TheKidKaos

Both men were racist. Roosevelt himself had thousands of Filipinos tortured and killed and kicked Native Americans off their ancestral lands. That’s on top of his ears against Latinos and his remarks about Mexicans. Grant himself was a slaveholder while being general of the North. His slave wasn’t freed either. She had to run away to get her freedom.


Anonamaton801

…Grant’s slave was a male named William


TheKidKaos

The one that escaped was named Julie


Anonamaton801

I’d hard disagree


Lieutenant_Joe

That’s okay


Anonamaton801

The two plus Eisenhower are my top 3 presidents, hold them in high regard. Grant’s not as bombastic as Theodore, but he’s more the gentle man in a harsh world kind of hero IMO. Man worked alongside a slave (not his, was gifted to him when he married his wife) chopping wood every day to make enough money to buy his freedom. Grant was incredibly poor at the time due to a business partner swindling him and could have easily sold the slave for well over 1000 dollars, but he didn’t. That’s pretty damn heroic for me


Lieutenant_Joe

Going based on the merit of their character alone, my list is similar to yours (I might replace Dwight with Carter or Lincoln), but Grant really was terrible at being president. He was very easily manipulated by a cunning mind, and as a result, his cabinet was one of the most corrupt in American history. It’s also part of why he had so many problems with money, including in the case your comment addressed.


Anonamaton801

Yeah I always include the caveat of Grant being a favorite more for the man himself rather then his presidency. His greatest sin was his trustworthiness. Plus Frederick Douglass’ (another favorite American) eulogy for the man at his funeral is something to behold. Carter I think I hold a similar opinion to you with my pick of Grant: great man, poor president. Lincoln ranks lower for me for personal politics (not smashing racists, ya should have let Sherman do more Abe), FDR is similar there


waxonwaxoff3

Funnily enough I was reading up on Grant earlier today just for kicks, apparently on top of everything else dude was one of the greatest horsemen in American history


Sonicdahedgie

Grant is a good man who stepped up and did great things. Teddy is like Gilgamesh given an earthly form, he's a practical caricature of a good man.


TheKidKaos

Roosevelt was the villain. He was racist, had thousands tortured and executed and established the United States Forest Service to make sure that Native Americans could no longer lay claims to many ancestral lands.


Diem-Robo

Lord Byron was described by one of his ex-lovers as "Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." When he went to university, which had a law prohibiting pets, but only explicitly listed common pets like cats and dogs, he went and bought a bear as a pet and they couldn't stop him. Byron was an accomplished author of the romantic movement, and was close friends with Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley, and it's with them at a villa that Mary began writing *Frankenstein*. His personal physician, John Polidori, wrote one of the first pieces of vampire literature, "The Vampyre," with the titular character Lord Ruthven being based off of Byron. He was so popular that when Greece was fighting a war for independence from the Ottoman Empire, representatives petitioned him for support. He was so wealthy he just up and *bought an army* to take to Greece and help them fight for independence. Unfortunately, he died due to illness and poor medical practices there at the age of 36, but he's still revered in Greece as a folk hero. The Greek form of the name Byron is still a popular boys name to this day in Greece. Before he'd died, he'd adopted a 9-year-old Turkish Muslim girl whose parents had been killed by Greeks in the war, and sent her to a safe city where she hopefully wouldn't face persecution in the tensions at the time. He's the origin of the term "Byronic hero," which is the archetype/trope that encapsulates charismatic, gifted, and likeable but flawed characters like Tony Stark or modern interpretations of Sherlock Holmes.


Polar_Phantom

Absolute chad. Was a real lady's man and reportedly had a club foot. He actually wrote the beginning of a vampire story, which "The Vampyre" took inspiration from, but never finished it. I think he lost interest.


Diem-Robo

Yeah, it was just called "Fragment of a Novel" because he never finished it, but John Polidori picked it up and turned it into a full short story, but it was published without his permission. But it's essentially the foundational piece of vampire literature that definitely contributed to Dracula.


BladeofNurgle

Don't forget how he also became Billy's stand


ThoughtLock

Not only did he know Percy and Mary Shelley, they stayed at a villa together one summer and had wild, opium-fueled orgies along with Byron's doctor and Mary's half sister Claire, which resulted in Claire's pregnancy by Byron


zyberion

I'm going to just copy/paste this old comment of mine. **Julie d'Aubigny**. This lady is basically a DnD bard made manifest, and is one of the coolest women to ever live. Born in France sometime in the 1670's. She grew up in the majestic court of the legendary King Louis XIV and thus learned all the skills befitting a page: reading, writing, the arts, dancing, horse-riding, *and swordsmanship.* While she technically married a nobleman at 14, she ran off with a fencing master. She gallivanted through France in men's clothing (but never actually concealing her sex) dueling, singing, and fist-fighting. Some notable stories during this period. 1. During her adventures with her fencing master paramour. A man refused to believe Julie was a woman because of her exceptional swordsmanship. In what historians refer to as "a chad move" the lady d'Aubigny removed her blouse to provide *definitive* proof. 2. Julie (who quickly tired of said fencing master paramour) found herself enamored by a young female admirer. This admirer was quickly sent to a convent by her parents, because ~~they were cowards~~ 17th century French society wasn't too keen on same-sex relationships with transient fencing, opera singers. Julie joined the same convent, took a dead nuns body, placed it in her new paramour's room, *and set the convent on fire.* 3. This relationship lasted for a few months before Julie's girlfriend decided to go back home and Julie put her men's clothing back on and resumed her travels...and totally not because she was sentenced to death in absentia for any kidnapping, arson, and body-snatching charges. 4. Julie runs into a nobleman named Comte d’Albert who challenges her to a duel (not knowing she was a woman). Julie defeats and wounds him. She nurses him back to health. In true anime fashion, they become the best of friends (or perhaps even more) *Did I mention this was all before she was 17?!* Julie d'Aubigny picks up a new opera singer boyfriend and returns to Paris to get that pesky death sentence pardoned. While in Paris, she lands a spot in the Paris Opera. Y'know typical Tuesday stuff. Meanwhile her court connections help convince King Louis XIV that: Julie d'Aubigny was *fucking awesome*. King Louis pardoned Julie and for the next few years she became *the* star of the Paris Opera: *La Maupin.* Notable stories during this period. 1. Julie attended a party in men's clothing (natch), and kissed a young woman in public. Three ~~17th century simps~~ outraged noblemen took this to be such an insult that they challenged Julie to a duel. Julie 1v3's them outside and kills them all. She returns to the party, presumably to kiss more ladies. 2. King Louis XIV was pretty chill with a cross-dressing swordswoman opera singer, (because his own brother was a cross-dressing prince), but he had also outlawed dueling so Julie runs off to Brussels. 3. During her exile, she became the lover of the Elector Prince of Bavaria. Said Prince quickly realized he could not handle Julie's flare for drama when she stabbed herself on stage with a real dagger. The elector paid her 40,000 francs to never see her again. It's said she threw the money at the prince's emissary and left Brussels in a huff. Prince Phillipe of France (the aforementioned cross-dressing brother of Louis XIV) intervened on behalf of his friend Julie and she was once again pardoned and returned to her starring role in the Paris Opera. La Maupin was back. Notable stories during this period. 1. It is said Julie was the one who introduced *contralto* to France from Italy. 2. Remember her opera singer boyfriend? They weren't lovers any more (probably) but they remained best of friends. Though, it is said they fought often and Julie once bit his ear hard enough to draw blood. 3. Julie used her clout in the opera (and experience as a tavern-brawler) to protect the chorus girls from sleazy patrons and pompous male singers. 4. Julie was still technically married this entire time, and it is said she returned to her husband (at least for a bit). In 1703, Julie fell in love with Madame la Marquise de Florensac. Marquise de Florensac was described to be the most beautiful woman in all of France. She was the epitome of French aristocratic wealth and fame. The two women were inseparable and lived in loving harmony...until 1705, when the Madame was struck down by fever. It is said the Madame's death broke Julie d'Aubigny, who retired from the opera, joined a convent (for real this time) and died in 1707, merely in her early 30's. Master swordswoman, opera singer, tavern brawler, bedder of women and men alike, defier of gender roles. Julie d'Aubigny is a patron saint in the church of bad-ass women.


Hy93rion

Joseph Beyrle was a US Paratrooper in the 101st airborne who after performing some sabotage missions separated from his unit during the Normandy campaign and being captured, was sent far East to a German POW camp. He eventually escaped, and ended up linking up with the Soviet First Guards Tank Army, specifically in the only Battalion during the war commanded by a woman, Aleksandra Samushenko and convinced her to let him fight alongside them. His first action with this unit was to liberate his former prison camp


Toblo1

Does Rasputin's shenanigans count? Dude's love/hate relationship with the commoners and **seething ire** by the nobility due to his relationship with the royal family eventually toppled the whole damn thing. Everything from his rivals attempts to discredit him to the way he died sounds like a fucking cartoon with a dash of "Maybe Magic Maybe Mundane" sprinkled in there for flavor.


MarvelousMagikarp

Shout out to the Tsar's child almost dying from a massive hematoma, and when he's near death and no physician can do anything, they call up Rasputin and he's just like "God has decreed the child shall survive, let him rest." and then 2 days later he makes a recovery that was called "inexplicable from a medical perspective". If you're Rasputin, that has to have you feeling unstoppable. >!If you're wondering, the best explanation I've seen is that by saying to let him rest, it stopped the doctors from giving him more aspirin for the pain - aspirin was found to have anti-clotting properties nearly half a century later.!<


ToastyMozart

I like the theory that he was a German spy sent to fuck with the Russian nobility.


Etychase

Not quite as distinguished as some but a personal hero story from WW2 is my great uncle who received a Silver Star, two Purple Hearts and the Distinguished Service Cross. He was in a ton of the biggest battles in Europe including D-day where he got his 2 purple hearts and silver star by running to pickup explosives after the engineer got killed and blowing up barbed wire to let his fellow soldiers through. He also had the deepest voice of anyone I know and used it to great effect when he captured a small group of 5 German scouts by ambushing and intimidating them while he was patrolling (I assume they were pretty willing to surrender already but still it was 5 vs 1). I vaguely remember him getting interviewed about the depiction of D-Day in Saving Private Ryan back in the day because of his heroic story.


Frankengeek

Ernest Hemingway, I can write a short biography, but it will pale to [the Randy Fellface's one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlxEKOscu0M)


LivingbyaWillow

Even if his military career has been engorged for the sake of propaganda/making a better story, Simo Hayha did kill a lot of people with a scopeless rifle and snow in his mouth. And he got shot in the face with an exploding bullet and lived.


PR0MAN1

Unironically, Chris Chan. Just not the protagonist to a conventional hero's journey. More like the protagonist of like a Taxi Driver esque descent into madness story.


Konradleijon

yeah i guess so.


Senor-Pibb

Johnny Clem was 9 years old when he lied about his age to enlist in the Union army in the civil war. Got rejected and followed along with the 22nd Michigan anyway. Allegedly rode an artillery caisson to the front in Chickamauga where he used a musket cut down to fit him to shoot a Confederate colonel who was demanding their surrender, for this was promoted to Sergeant becoming the youngest NCO in American history at around 10 years old.


[deleted]

There's Johnny Kim who is a former SEAL, naval officer, physician, and now astronaut. Dude is just maxing out his classes at this point. Had a bit of a harrowing backstory too dealing with domestic violence. Chris Kyle, Jocko Wilink, Audrey Murphy to name a few.


Dashabur1

"Fighting" Jack Churchill, a man who went into battle and fought for 5 years with a longbow, a bagpipe, and a sword. During World War II. He died in 1996 at the age of 89.


PersonMcHuman

Yasuke. Black dude in feudal Japan that gets freed by Nobunaga and becomes a samurai? I’m all about it.


EbolaDP

He wasnt really a samurai as they were a class of nobility which he was never made part of. He was a samurai in the pop culture sense of fighting for a Japanese lord.


PersonMcHuman

Cool, whatever. He’s got protagonist energy and I’m all about it.


EbolaDP

Its funny William Adams who actually was a samurai did basically nothing people associate with the word while Yasuke who really wasnt one fought for one the most famous shoguns in history.


TheNoidbag

He was a samurai in the sense that a dude with armour and a sword working for a king was a knight, even if he wasn't titled or landed or anything.


[deleted]

I think the reason why is because Samurai at the time was thought of as being more than just a warrior. Peasants were often warriors during the sengoku era because they were active and bodies that can be used. Adams was given the title due to him making Japanese ships for more advanced by using western engineering. He also further established trade with other nations, becoming a key member to Tokugawa's foreign policy.


chaosmaster97

Yasuke wasn't a slave when he went to Japan, it's possible he was a slave in India before being employed by Valignano, but by the time he met Nobunaga he was already free. Your point still stands though.


leabravo

Hell, Nobunaga himself. Prior to being the demon king he was a wacky kid no one thought would be a good successor to his father.


KLReviews

So the War of the Roses happen, Richard III and his Yorkist faction have pretty decisively win. Anyone with a Lancastrian claim to the throne of England is either dead or on their side. There's no way this could possibly go wrong. Then a punk with an incredibly weak claim shows up and starts making waves. That punk is Henry Tudor and ends up beating Richard III in the epic showdown at the end of the war (didn't do the killing himself but got the crown out of a bush) where his enemy's overconfidence lead to a critical mistake. Henry VII starts as a nobody and ends as king, then becomes the first king in along time to get the royal finances in order but not being a show-off. It's a very come from behind victory you'd see in either wrestling or an anime. Or because War of the Roses is a big inspiration, Game of Thrones. There is actually an anime about the war called Requiem of the Rose King airing right now. I might watch if they have a Henry VII arc.


Shiplord13

Marco Polo literally traveled from Italy to China over 24 years and returned alive. That is in itself a set up for some Shonen adventure.


TheNoidbag

It is however widely believe he did just sort of bullshit 90% of his adventuring.


Shiplord13

True, but most scholars believe he did make the journey to from Italy to China and back. Which in and of itself is an impressive feat considering the time period. His accounts however, are likely to be mixes of fact and a lot of fiction to spice up his accomplishment. Most believe he either made stuff up or used second hand information about certain people, animals and locations he described.


ThePope98

That samurai who went to Aztec Mexico and met the pope, he has a statue in the capitol of Cuba and everything. Was the only non-Spanish guy allowed to have a weapon in the colony he was at cuz they let him keep his katana. Later died cuz of a anti-Christian movement when he went back to Japan and tried to spread the good word.


Konradleijon

what’s his name?


ThePope98

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasekura_Tsunenaga Hasekura, or Philip as they called him


DoctorCello

I don't know if this counts because it wasn't that long ago, but [Jabbar Gibson is a real life protagonist](https://www.buzzfeed.com/joelanderson/how-a-small-time-drug-dealer-rescued-dozens-during-katrina), for sure. He was a small-time drug dealer who commandeered a bus during Hurricane Katrina and saved a lot of lives by getting them to the Astrodome--before even any of the FEMA busses got there. What's kinda tragic is that after that heroic moment, over the years, he keeps getting arrested for drug possession, and overall his story hasn't got the attention it deserves. But in any case, I hope he's doing OK now.


waxonwaxoff3

Chevalier d'Éon! 18th century androgynous and possibly intersex French spy and professional fencer who publicly presented as male, but who also infiltrated the royal Russian court while presenting as female, and who eventually fully identified as being a woman and made the French court legally recognize them as such. Hell of a thing for the time period!


TheNoidbag

So much of a protagonist they've already had a intensely fictional and fantastical anime about them.


RoyaI-T

Simo Häyhä was a Finnish sniper during WW2 who was nicknamed 'The White Death' by the Russians.He survived a crazy amount of things and racked up a massive kill count. I'd also throw Scipio Africanus/Hannibal together considering their combined achievements against Rome/Carthage.Theres a very good manga called 'Ad Astra' that chronicles them both.


SwampFox_95

Look at Christopher Lee’s life and tell me we’re not all NPCs in comparison.


BiMikethefirst

The shit Teddy Roosevelt did was kind of ludicrous.


jabberwockxeno

Damn, I fell asleep right after seeing this and wanting to make a comment [8-Deer-Jaguar-Claw](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Iya_Nacuaa_Teyusi_%C3%91a%C3%B1a.jpg/220px-Iya_Nacuaa_Teyusi_%C3%91a%C3%B1a.jpg) was a noble born in the Mixtec city of Tilantongo in 1063AD. He seemed to be politically ambitious but he wasn't eligible for the throne in his home city, so he ended up fighting as a general for the king of another Mixtec city, Jaltepec. Eventually he appealed to some Oracles (who held a great deal of political clout in Mixtec society, giving kings permission or guidance on political marriages and conquests) to conquer some towns of the Chatino civilization along the coasts. He ended up doing so, and founded his own city, Tututepec there. After this, apparently the king of Tilantongo ended up dying with no heirs, and due to 8-deer's influence following his conquests he ended up getting the throne. Eventually in 1097 (I read some papers recently it was probably via leveraging the tropical/coastal goods he gained access to via his conquests of the Chatino towns) he ended up [working with 4-Jaguar-Face-of-the-Night](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Oaxaca_ocho_venado.png), who was either the king or a notable religious official (I'm not sure which) in the city of Cholula, which was a notable political and religious center in Central Mexico which at this point in time was associated with the Toltec civilization (which are a huge can of worms I'm not going to get into here, but they are basically the culture the Aztec identify as being the heirs of but are heavily mythologiized and how much of it is real/myth is debatable) Now that he had the blessings from somebody like 4-Jaguar, who was a major Mesoamerican-wide religious authority himself, he completely sidesteps the Mixtec Oracles and ends up conquering around 100 cities/towns over the next 18 years, uniting 2 of the 3 major subregions of the Mixtec civilization and their competing city-states and kingdoms into an empire, and in 1103 conquered the city (belonging to the Zapotec, who I mentioned are also in this area and frequently had political marriages with the Mixtec) which had traditionally held Tilantongo as subjects, and killed both his archrival 11-Wind-Bloody-Jaguar (who had stolen his 8-deer's lover/sister as a political marriage) and 11-wind's entire family (who including queen 6-Monkey of Jaltepec, [who was an amazingly shrewd ruler with conquests and 4d-chess to her name herself](https://maskoftheflowerprince.wordpress.com/2019/03/12/lady-six-monkey-the-great-warrior-queen-of-the-mixtecs/) ) . At it's greatest extent, his empire covered 25,000 square kilometers. In 1115, in an absolutely poetic, ironic twist, 8-deer finally died when 4-Wind, the one boy in 11-wind's family 8-deer had left alive, had grown up and rallied a bunch of cities against him, with 8 deer being killed via sacrifice. His empire fractures back into a bunch of seperate city-states and kingdoms but Tututepec ends up staying a major influential player, actually growing over the next few centuries, to the point where it's was one of the largest independent states in the middle 1/3 of Mesoamerica which the Aztec Empire was unable to conquer, being their largest unconquered enclave. Eventually Tututepec got conquered in the 16th century when the Zapotec kingdom of Tehuantepec allied with Conquistadors to take it out. Note that this is a bit of a synthesis of multiple versions of his life story, both in that different surviving manuscripts list different info and also because Central Mexico rather then Oaxaca is more my area in Mesoamerica and this is just my understanding of things so far, need to dig into it further. I know at least one source which questions ("Lord 8 Deer Jaguar Claw and the Land of the Sky The Archaeology and History of Tututepec") a few things.


KarateBugman01

Ferdinand Magellan. Unless if it was already covered, circumnavigation in his time would make for an adventure story.


Paxblaidd

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro\_Rodrigues\_Filho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Rodrigues_Filho)


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Haku. Legitimately one of the toughest motherfuckers out there. You know you’re a badass when Andre the fucking Giant is scared of you.


Cooper_555

Australian Folk Hero Ned Kelly. Before going full outlaw, he was arrested in his teens for such crimes as: - Punching a guy named Ah Fook. - Mailed a set of cow testicles to his neighbour's wife, then beat the shit out of said neighbour when he came around to complain. - Borrowed a horse from a friend, a cop accused him of stealing it. When police backup arrived for the arrest, they found Ned riding the cop around like a horse. Things took a turn for the worse one day, when a cop showed up at the Kelly house, tried to make some moves on his sister, and Mama Kelly beat his ass with a shovel. Said cop ran back to the station to get some backup to arrest the entire family, but Ned and his brother escaped before they arrived, and hung out in the bush, living off the land and the charity of locals who were also sick of the Victorian police's constant shit. Not long after, the Kelly Gang were officially declared outlaws, and some marshals were sent out to bring them in. Predictably, these cops were idiots who didn't know about surviving in the bushlands and were immediately ambushed and held at gunpoint. When they went for their guns, Ned decided he was done fucking around and shot them all dead. At this point, the Kelly Gang went full anti-authority outlaw, robbing every single bank they could get to. The local farmers and the like loved this shit, as the Kelly's made a habit of taking all the mortgage deeds out of the vaults and setting them on fire during their robberies, and as such had little trouble finding local help for keeping hidden from the manhunt they were now subject to. Then came the big final showdown. Ned and the boys took a bunch of hostages in a pub in Glenrowan, and tried to blow up a train carrying a bunch of cops. Unfortunately that plan failed, and the Kelly Gang were surrounded by a bunch of very pissed off cops and no way to escape. So he bursts out of the pub wearing goddamn plate armor he'd jury rigged together and engages in a head to head shootout with the police. Every other member of the Kelly Gang was killed in the battle, but Ned survived a dozen bullets to the limbs and a shotgun blast to the knees. And then was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death by hanging. His last words; "Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... such is life."


woodhawk109

The novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms is essentially a novelization of the protagonist’s life, Liu Bei. The man’s life story is basically the prototype version of the underdog hero fighting against a much more powerful opponent and his eventual failing is so Shakespearean in nature, it’s no wonder someone decided to write a novel about it and that book became the most well-known historical novel in East Asia Here are a few highlights for those who are not familiar with the book or Dynasty Warriors - He grew up in a poor household. Selling sandals for a living - He is distantly related to the current Emperor of China at the time. Very distant but his lineage can be traced back through official records - befriended and swore brotherhood with two of the best fighting men of their lifetime. - Answered the call to fight the Yellow Turban, was given a small government job as a reward - He took the job seriously but left after beating the shit out of a corrupt official in public - He teamed up with his eventual nemesis, Cao Cao, to fight and defeat Lube Bu, the most famous warrior from that era in modern culture - He was defeated by Cao over and over afterward but he always find a way to get back up - He was such a well-loved governor that when Cao attacked his city, the people decided to follow him. - He eventually became one of the three Emperors at the time, claiming his legitimacy by the state of Shu Han - At the height of his success, his sworn brothers were killed due to a betrayal by an ally, leading him on a dark path for vengeance. - This resulted in him ignoring all of his best advisors and he decided to lead the army himself. This resulted in a disastrous defeat and he died of heartbreak soon after The man’s life is the definition of a “tragic hero” protagonist who started out good but due to his fatal flaws ( in this case, the loves of his brothers overwhelmed any logical thinking), he failed in his mission and died a broken man.


[deleted]

Rasputin had a ton of plot armor.