YOU!..are a coward

Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by RobertScorpio, Jan 28, 2009.

  1. RobertScorpio

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    We're always talking about the great heros of SCIFI/ACTION/HERO movies...but what about the cowards. Who was scifi's best coward???

    For me? Bill Paxton's character in ALIENS "We're all going to die" stuff while Newt is being brave...

    The scene, and I always laugh, that gets me? "Maybe you haven't been keeping up with current events, but we just got our asses kicked, man!!"

    Great character..and glas he comes through at the end...but up until that point, he to me, was SCIFI's greatest coward...

    Rob
     
  2. auntiehill

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    Not strictly scifi, but definitely fantasy:
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    The Cowardly Lion from The Wizard of Oz.
     
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  3. RobertScorpio

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    Hey, I'm at work and we 'cant' see PHOTOBUCKET (which I use at home) on our screens..who did you show a picture of???

    Rob
     
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    Guy Fleegman from Galaxy Quest played by Sam Rockwell. The guy was a redshirt and he knew it. He had some of the best lines in the film ("Didn't any of you ever watch the show?""Are you high?"...)
     
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    I edited the post, for those who can't see the picture. It's The Cowardly Lion.
     
  6. Mr Light

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    Baltar in the nuBSG is a spectacular coward, though I suppose this season he's gotten a little more chutzpah.
     
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    Groppler Zorn (That lick from TNG:Farpoint). What the hell was up with him?
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    Dr. ZACHARY SMITH
     
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  11. RobertScorpio

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    I like Paxton more than Rockwell's character, because Paxton's was written as a kick as marine dude...where as Rockwell is just an actor, most of whom are whimps I guess...But the character from Aliens was supposed to be all kick ass, and turned out to be a wuss...

    Rob
     
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    Sorry, I'm throwing in with Canadave. Dr. Smith was the quintessential coward. And a trouble-maker to boot.
     
  14. Infern0

    Infern0 Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

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    The Guy from the New BSG is Very Cowardly. I love the way they made him British too, so typical.
     
  15. captcalhoun

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    Hudson wasn't really a coward, he was merely (understandably) traumatised and stressed at the situation he was in.
     
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    The General in Starship Troopers who was hiding in the closet, then later gets splatted by the flying bug. The crowd in the theater cheered when he died. That is the mark of a good coward, cheering crowds upon their death. (sounds like a Klingon proverb..)
     
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    Jack Sparrow. Total, gutless, cowardly, weasel.

    Baltar is such a coward he'd sell out his own race to save his own ass.

    Rygel's cowardly nature always masked a master plan. But at first it was always done to save his own ass.

    Quark was raised to be a coward. Underneath, he was a lion.

    Rincewind takes the cowardly cake though. A guy who knows the most powerful spell in existence and his solution is to always run away screaming and not giving a damn who he leaves behind.

    My favorite coward is Tuco from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Granted, not Sci Fi/ Fantasy but still. He's not afraid to die or kill people. He's actually kind of a badass. He just prefers to always have the advantage and tends to kill people in really dirty, scumbagish ways. When that gets taken away from him, he just falls apart.
     
  18. JNG

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    What a fantastic screenshot. :techman:
     
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    What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Other than some racist comment
     
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