1. Gotrek Gurnisson from the Warhammer Fantasy Gotrek & Felix novels. He looses an eye in the first book, he suffers amnesia from a heavy concussion later on, and fights against extreme odds but never stops.
2. Salvatore's Wulfgar. He dies, goes to hell (or whatever), gets severely tortured by the demon Ertruu, gets revived, but the whole ordeal breaks his mind. Yet he pushes on.
3. Philoctetes from ancient greek mythology. Philoctetes was the guy that lit Hercules' pyre after the demigod wore the cloak soaked in Nessus' blood. In gratitude Hercules gave to Philoctetes his bow and hydra-blood poisoned arrows. Philoctetes was already a great archer, armed with this legendary bow he was regarded the best mortal archer.
When the Greeks went to siege Troy Philoctetes was bitten by a snake in the leg when the fleet stopped at the island of Lemnos and his wound festered. For that reason the other kings exiled him, leaving him stranded on the island. Ten years later the Acheans receive an oracle that one of the conditions of winning the war was to recover the arms of Hercules. Some of them sail back to Lemnos to retrieve the bow, and are surprised to find Philoctetes alive, his foot deformed and festering, and bitter for his exile. In the end he is persuaded to join them and goes to the war, killing three Trojan heroes there.
4. Jodorowsky's Othon von Salza (and the rest of the metabarons). Even if they all do get prosthetics. It's the act of sacrifice every metabaron makes that makes it so epic.
higgins wrote:Getting replacements like Bucky Rogers and Luke Skywalker won't count.
higgins wrote:all I can think of is Guts
I LOVE Berserk. But Guts gets a replacement (or should I say improvement), doesn't he?
I believe its the fact that he does it to himself during the fight and continues the assault that makes it so freaking epic.
