Time to become Legendary
 

What do you guys think makes a legend a legend? I personally think that "legend status" has more to do with a person's actions and notoriety than anything else.

I'll tell you about legendary, because I am a goddamn legend, and further more continuing self-aggrandizement, blatant ego-stroking, and additional assertions of self superiority, harrumph, and the rest of you be damned!

Just thought I'd get that all out of the way.

You, legendary? Right. Krylo>Fifthfiend.

Aherm... i think what makes a person legendary is someone who does things to help others without expecting anything in return. Cliche, i know. But it's the best i could come up with.
Also, this seems serious enough. Shouldn't it be in the general section?

You are legendary when you have your own Wiki article that you didn't write up yourself.

You are higher than Loto's avatar, aren't you?

QTF

Although...

if you go to wikipedia right now and make a article about yourself, you just might become famous... from there to a legend, its just about how many people with nothing better to do saw what you did

Legendary status is reached once you beat the Heroic difficulty on Halo and Halo 2. Hardyharhar.

In all seriousness, I agree with Major Blood. A legend is soneone that makes a difference in the lives of others selflessly, someone who lives on in the memories of the people even after he has left.

How I see it is that mythical legends are born from circumstance. Based on historical figures, maybe. But a popular mythical legend will have something about it that can adapt to modern society.. some sort of quality with which one may identify with, no matter how things have changed. The more identifiable, the more popular. If it is malleable enough to become relevant, then, given the exposure, it will probably become popular. The trick is that its relevancy can't be too obvious, because then it's not special.

Legends are those who were the ones who actually stood up and did something, when everyone else was unwilling. There's no destiny involved, no fate, just one man's choice to get active. And when he succeeds, he becomes famous.

Fuck, Viewtiful beat me to it.

Legendary status is...difficult to define. I mean a "legend" is something of doing something in your own field so unbelievably well, or leaving such an impression, that the eons of people left in your wake will remember you nearly forever.

For example, Elvis. I'm not sure if his legendary status came from being the King of Rock and Roll. I'm pretty sure it was from dying in his own shit. Can't ever be too sure.

Elvis was a legend long before he died on the shitter.

I mean at the very least, he was a legend by the time he started giving away Cadillacs to people.

... You know here's what I want to know - is does Elvis have a Wikipedia entry?

And - if so - has the word buttsex been surrepetitiously edited into it?

Perhaps. Maybe he was just 'really famous'. We can't ever be too sure.

He sure as hell got put in history books when a couple of magazines said, "Hey, Elvis actually isn't dead!"

I think that a legend is anyone who either leaves an impact on society or at least the people that the person knows. The wikipedia idea isn't bad though.

Jack the Ripper is legendary.

As to what makes a legend? Whatever someone does that's so interesting people won't shut up about it, that's what makes a legend.

Jack the ripper is Infamous.
INfamy and legend are sort of diametrically opposed.

You really can't say that Stalin was legendary for killing 11 million people, but he fergoddammed sure is infamous.

I disagree. Legend relates directly to how well known you are. It makes no measures for moral aptitude.

Jack the Ripper is often described as a legendary serial killer, and Bonnie and Clyde are legendary bank robbers (who had a higher death count than Jack), as is Billy the Kid (again, rather high death count... he killed his first man either before or right at the beginning of puberty--thus his title).

You'll notice that fame is listed for legend in the dictionary... morality is not.

I believe that legendary status happens when people do the unattainable and stories are said. And with each telling of the story, people add to the greatness.

Or I could be completly wrong.

I think that connotatively "legend" tends to mean something positive. People whose fame is more negative are more likely to be tagged with "infamous" or "notorious."

I think a legend is someone whose story is more important than they themselves are. Whether or not the original person was as virtuous or courageous or capable as their legend might claim becomes irrelevant. The legend itself inspires those who hear it to reach for greatness -- and therein lies it's value entirely apart from the person about whom the legend was born.

Whatever your definition of legendary is: Loto is not legendary...he is a stoner...and not even a legendary one like Bob Marley...hell he doesn't even rate a Teletubbie in terms of smoking pot or legendary status. Bible Man is more legendary...Loto I would like to known what made you think you were eligable for legend status...Unless you've done something I don't know about like killed Grendel or something...oh wait that was a real legend not a stoner on a message board...

and Elvis...good man...well except for the drugs...drugs ain't cool

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Correct, sir!

Ten points for Gryffindor!

What do Elvis and Catherine the Great both have in common?


They both died on the shitter!
Well, Catherine actually died two days later, but it was the stroke she had on the toilet that killed her.


And I think Legendary status is one of those things that no matter what definition you use, it's the wrong one, but if I were to try to get close, I would say it's around when everybody agrees you're legendary.

Dude, what made you assume I was calling myself a legend?

I think he simply didn't read the thread, just the title and felt he had to make a contribution.

You're going to be legendarily banned, if you don't watch that attitude.

I don't even know what the point of that was supposed to be.

PS: In no way should that be construed as an invitation to explain what the point of that was supposed to be.

Being legendary is simply being or doing something that sets you above common people.

The Elephant man became famous for having serious birth defects in a conformist society.

Elvis became legendary by being a very successful Rock & Roll singer, dieing from his own shit (As was eloquently put), and supposedly returning from the dead.

Jack The Ripper became legendary for killing a lot of people.

Bonnie and Clyde became legendary for being successful robbers, and killing a lot of people.
Secretskull became legendary for... Wait nevermind.
In short, people who are legendary; are people who have done/were born as something that aroused enough interest, that people talked of it, and told their children about it.

Biggest part I think is not the fame (as one there are quite esoteric legends, who may not be widely known but once you know what they have done, there really isn't any other title for them) but it is rather the myths and stories that surround them. Stuff that may or may not be true but still defy belief.

Think about it, Catherine the Great had that horse story(untrue but widely believed), Elvis had the deepfried peanut butter sandwiches and the golden crapper(sandwiches true, unsure about the toilet),the Spartans are legendary soldiers for holding Thermopoli pass despite hundreds to one odds and Don Bradman is a legend in the cricketing world for having a batting average nearly double his closest challenger(99.9 versus roughly 52). That's what I think makes a legend, doing things that people will not believe are true without proof, and will leave them in awe, terror or disgust after getting that proof.

Of course the other way to be legendary is to have between 350 and 700 karma on GameFAQs, like me.