Day 6 - Favorite Superhero and Why, Pilgrim?

Well he isnt exactly a comic book super hero but he is one of the people I looked up to and imitated growing up... John Wayne

John Wayne was an inspiration.  He fought bad guys and rescued damsels in distress. One of the scenes that will always remain with me is "Rooster Cogburn" charging the bad guys with the reins in his mouth and a gun blazing in each hand.   Link
And then there was the "Quiet Man" where John played an ex-boxer who retired to Ireland after killing a man in the ring. Link
The love story between John's character and Maureen O'hara's was funny and heart warming. Making me dream of a tall man to come sweep me off my feet and to fight for me even if I was wrong or right. (In real life my dream man is 5 inches shorter than me but he still swept me off my feet. He just needed a crane to do it =D)

Even the movies where John's character died were imprinted on my young mind.  In the "Cowboys" John took a group of green boys and made them into men.  And when Bruce Dern character killed John, I cried. Then cheered as the "boys" rode to avenge him and to finish the job that they started.  Every time I saw Bruce Dern in any other movie I would think he was the bad man that killed John Wayne. Link

When we played cowboys and Indians I always wanted to be like John Wayne's character McClintock who was a friend and defender of the Indians.

John Wayne taught me not to waste my time but to rise early in the day and get the job done. "We are burning daylight", he said in the Cowboys.

So He may not have lightning speed or super strength.  Maybe he could not leap tall buildings with a single bound and he wasn't infused with radioactive toxins.  But John Wayne was a hero to me and thats the way it is ... Pilgrim