ITS AN OLD SCHOOL NEGAN!!! LOL ! my hero?? amish people. im talking still doing it old school, amish people. rock on. they are my heroes. a person? michael jackson. bc hes brilliant af and never stopped being brilliant until he died. everything he touched turned to gold. you have to respect the shit out of that. not my fave musician but he is incredible. phil collins is right behind him. he is fucking brilliant.
Ellen Louise Ripley, (Sigourney Weaver) Alien, Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black ) Farscape, Starbuck (Kara Thrace) Battlestar Galactica, and Kaylee (Jewel Staite) Firefly. Strong women, with strong personalities. Each of them was more than successful fulfilling a traditional male roll. I know that most of these are all relatilvely modern TV rolls and that originally Starbuck was played by a man, but they made me see that I could be strong and mechanically inclined without sacrificing my femininity.
Richard Feynman. Malcolm Reynolds. Harlan Ellison. Sandman Slim. People or characters who do/did the right thing, sometimes in the face of personal sacrifice.
Not easy to do, and frequently expensive. But still, the right thing.
Real People - Yeshua bar Yosef, Thomas Jefferson, Ron Paul, Dr. MLK Jr., Yagyu Munenori, Bruce Lee, Carrie (some of you know who I'm talking about, the rest don't need to), my grandmother, my nana, Dr. Mike (my GI).