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If you could switch lives with any fictional character, who would it be? (lemm.ee)
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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Walter Harriman from Stargate SG-1.

Intersting and easy job, rarely in mortal danger, good job security, cool co-workers.

Duties include:

  • Open the iris

  • Close the iris

  • Loudly announce "'incoming wormhole!" Even though the stargate is loud as fuck and everyone already knows, and that could be automated anyway.

  • Press the button that makes the whole base go "woop! Woop! Woop!"

  • Dial the gate (actually terrified I might accidentally connect Earth to a black hole again)

Main job perks include:

  • Sometimes Sam Carter brushes past me close enough that I can smell her hair.

  • Jack O'Neill once patted me on the back and said 'good job' (I think of him like a father figure even though I'm older than him)

  • Teal'c

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

And on that 7th chevron, you usually get to switch things up and say locked!

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Don't forget he finally got his own parking spot after 11 years, can crack a general up with requisition form numbers.

Became the curator of the SGC after the.... Oh wait wrong timeline.

[–] jasep@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I mean I was going to say Superman or something, but yours is way better 😆

[–] dragonfly@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tom Bombadil

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ol' Tom Living the life

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tom Beanbadil?

[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You fookin know it

[–] QwertySpace@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the correct answer. No cares. No worries. Just chill.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And married to a hot river spirit who is just as chill

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Scrooge McDuck

Life is like a hurricane, there in Duckburg. Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes; it's a duck-blur!

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You just like the corkscrew….

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

The residents of Duckburg must be pantsless for a reason.

I'll see myself out.

[–] jibbajabba@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Roger rabbit

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Valid point.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Hedonismbot

[–] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’d be Mr Body, from the board game “Clue”. The greatest benefit of being Mr Body is that he’s dead before the game even starts.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Arthur Dent... although I admit I do like a good cup of tea.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Doctor or Spider-Man

[–] ___@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Doctor, literally go anywhere, anytime, traveling in luxury, be anyone, with anyone.

[–] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

but he’s always such a whiney bitch about it.

[–] Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uncle Ben. Guess it's a matter of time

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe every uncle Ben is actually the Doctor, he knows Peter needs the push and just regenerates after

[–] teft@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

R Daneel Olivaw. I want to see and shape 20,000 yrs of human advancement.

[–] pdavis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I thought I was the only one thinking that, not even sure why Daneel popped in my head when the question was asked, but it did.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Book or movie?

[–] teft@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't realize there was a Foundation movie. But I mean book Daneel.

[–] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I was confused, thinking of I Robot. Just ignore me 😜

[–] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There’s a Foundation series on Apple. Don’t bother if you want it to actually follow the story, but if you just want to watch related SciFi it’s not half bad.

Android Demerzel in the show does indeed have a hand in shaping history.

[–] rtorlas@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Woodrow Wilson Smith AKA Ernest Gibbons, Captain Aaron Sheffield, "Happy" Daze, Proscribed Prisoner No. 83M2742, Mr. Justice Lenox, Dr. Lafayette 'Lafe' Hubert, Corporal Ted Bronson, "His Serenity Seraphim the Younger, Supreme High Priest of the One God in All His Aspects and Arbiter Below and Above", and Lazarus Long. A character by Robert A. Heinlein.

[–] IonAddis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Man, i'm tempted to write a Lazarus Long trans fem story where instead of making girl clones and banging his mother, he just transitions then marries his best trans fem bud Andrew Libby Long and they can be trans lesbians together.

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well that's one way to say you're into incest ...

[–] theKalash@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The abrahamic god.

[–] FringeTheory999@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Who wouldn’t want to eat souls, impregnate 13 year old virgins, and demand the foreskins of your enemies. Sounds like a cush gig.

[–] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Nice gig. Write lots of conflicting rules, tell people you don’t like them if they can’t figure them out right, and sit on your ass and watch them squabble while asking you for help for eternity.

[–] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

doraemon

that pocket of inventions just bring light-hearted happy vibes

[–] JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Carrot Ironfoundersson

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Pre Flashpoint Flash.

Sure I don't have a mum and dad is in jail but I can leg it anywhere I want, eat all I want, rob a bank, vibrate a heart to death or life, time travel, and multiverse travel.

[–] QwertySpace@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Invincible, after

spoilerbecoming Emperor

Hot wife, nice home, comfy job.

[–] MrDodel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Death, not even the auditors win.

[–] sntx@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Note to self: Write a fictional story featuring me at some point.

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

The GCU Grey Area, from Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

Andy Taylor