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Since Muhammad Ali is off the board (am I the only one here old enough to see the irony in drafting Muhammad Ali?), I figure most of the sports figures are pretty equal, in terms of combat utility, anyway. So I will go with a particular favorite, and that is
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TFB of the MFL
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That's right...Ted Williams.
Teddy Ballgame, the Splendid Splinter. Lifetime .344 hitter, 521 home runs, Triple Crown winner, generally considered the greatest hitter of of all time, and rightfully so. This is a guy who can use the ol' war club that's for sure.
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Oh..and one more thing...he was also...
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ONE OF THE GREATEST FIGHTER PILOTS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN MILITARY AVIATION !!!
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It is said that Ted Williams did three things as well or better than any man ever: hit a baseball, fly-fish (which is of little use here ), and pilot a fighter plane. He flew both prop planes and jets, for the Marines (then a division of the Navy) in WWII, and then re-upped, flying again in the Korean War. He flew 39 missions, and was grounded only due to an ear infection that took him through the duration of the war.
And he wasn't just a token celebrity flyboy, either. This from his wikipedia page:
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Williams' Red Sox teammate, Johnny Pesky, who went into the same aviation training program, said this about Williams: "He mastered intricate problems in fifteen minutes which took the average cadet an hour, and half of the other cadets there were college grads."
Pesky again described Williams' acumen in the advance training for which Pesky personally did not qualify: "I heard Ted literally tore the sleeve target to shreds with his angle dives. He'd shoot from wingovers, zooms, and barrel rolls, and after a few passes the sleeve was ribbons. At any rate, I know he broke the all-time record for hits." Ted went to Jacksonville for a course in aerial gunnery, the combat pilot's payoff test, and broke all the records in reflexes, coordination, and visual-reaction time. "From what I heard. Ted could make a plane and its six 'pianos' (machine guns) play like a symphony orchestra," Pesky says. "From what they said, his reflexes, coordination, and visual reaction made him a built-in part of the machine."
And, as our picks are allowed to take any weapons, equipment, etc. they would normally use, I figure I now have an air attack.
So I have
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Yoda (non-human film warrior)
Ted Williams (sports figure warrior)
Last edited by kudzudemon; 08-09-2012 at 08:11 PM.
Reason: Mschu pm'd
While it can be argued that Bacterium are not technically an Animal(both views can be reasoned)... it is a non human life form and has whipped out more life than all other protagonists combined.
Weaponized Bacterium is quite dangerous and can be tailored to an enemies weakness regardless of origin.
I was so considering the bacteria angle, but all it takes for that one to fail is wind blowing in the wrong direction.
Still a cool pick.
But are you allowed to take all bacteria, or do you have to be specific? Sort of like me taking "all dinosaurs" because I couldn't pick a specific one..?
You want a team with a good moral conscience? Go **** your mother. The one and only invincible Anton Chigurh joins my team, and he and Sauron will end opposing warriors and then sleep as peacefully as babies afterward. Hit Sauron with an apparent death blow? He'll groan and then regenerate. Hit Anton with an apparent death blow? He'll ****ing self-medicate like the biggest badass on planet Earth.
It's time to ask yourself the all-important question: what's the most you ever lost in a coin toss?
Who has the balls to say, "I am the Flail of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you."?
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Genghis Khan
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Some badass **** he's done:
1. Killed Russian princes by putting wooden boards over them and crushing them to death by eating their dinner on top of them.
2. Destroyed an entire empire of 4 million people when they killed a caravan of 450 Mongols. The leader of the empire was supposedly killed by pouring molten silver into his eyes and ears. "Not even cats or dogs were spared".
3. He took over China
4. He took over half the world after taking over China
5. Kept a harem of somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 women
6. Fathered so many children it's estimated he has 16 million descendants today.
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So not only do I have him, but I have 16 million direct relatives of him who wouldn't dare piss off their great great great great great great great uncle and would ****ing swim to the island to avoid his wrath.
The biggest, baddest, indestructible spy ever. He can fight. He can shoot. (Yes, he comes with his Walther PPK). And I get all film iterations, even though the Pierce Brosnan version is a bit of a pussy.
He also comes with this:
I'm going to lure Genghis Khan into the passenger seat and hit the ejector button.
Bye, Bye, Genghis!
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My picks:
Non-human Film - King King
Human Film - James Bond
I was going to do a Hypnos/Freddy Krueger tag team but goddamn Freddy doesn't fit into a category. It would just be for style points anyway though.
Hypnos does what you think he does. He puts people to sleep. It seems that nobody's immune; he put Zeus to sleep twice. His son is Morpheus. His brother is Death.
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