So I am writing part two of a PIRATE EPIC OF EPICNESS, which is rather cheesy and cliche intentionally, and a bounty hunter just showed up! (only he prefers to consider himself "a tracker of men". ) It's my first bounty hunter! Any words of wisdom regarding trackers of men? All I can think of is Bobba Fett and Cowboy Bebop....
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Nov 18, 2008 - 10 11
I'm picturing a pirate-themed "Dog the Bounty Hunter" here...
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Nov 18, 2008 - 14 28
Dog the Bounty Hunter already vaguely resembles a pirate also.
----------Don't do anything stupid? Who the hell is he talking to? A bunch of morons who volunteered to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Can you get any more stupid that that?
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Nov 18, 2008 - 15 34
Hey, you could do a lot worse than "Bobba Fett with a peg-leg and an eye-patch".
I think as long as you make your bounty hunter cold, utterly without compassion, and utterly relentless, you'll do fine. Like the paper boy in the John Cusack classic "Better Off Dead".
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Stranded on an alien world, Ruve must deny his own humanity in order to survive. To get home, he'll need the help of someone back here on Earth. If, that is, he can convince anyone here that he's real.
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Nov 18, 2008 - 23 57
would have to have the catchphrase 'Ice is bad news, bra. Arrgh!'
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Nov 20, 2008 - 18 42
would have to have the catchphrase 'Ice is bad news, bra. Arrgh!'
Haha, I like the sound of that.
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----------Don't do anything stupid? Who the hell is he talking to? A bunch of morons who volunteered to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Can you get any more stupid that that?
Don't do anything stupid? Who the hell is he talking to? A bunch of morons who volunteered to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. Can you get any more stupid that that?
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Nov 23, 2008 - 14 09
Make your bounty hunter as interesting as you can. A twisted backstory would help.
Ex-con? Ex-military? Ex-cop/RCMP/Scotland yard? Where did he learn to wield a weapon?
And once that's established, he could have a story about how he went from serving the state to serving himself. What turned him away from home and made him a vagabond of the oceans?
With tattoos that tell his tale of travel - he's been a pirate, looting vessels off the coast of Nicaragua, Chile and spent some time in the Ivory Keys, where he once robbed the ship of a Congoan warlord - yet lived to tell the tale.
If he's on the seas all of the time, perhaps his hygiene is specifically poor in some way. Perhaps he's a carrier of a disease, yet he himself is immune to it, and he unwittingly infects the people around him - with measles or small pox or something like that.
Is his favourite meal beef jerkey? Kraft Maccaronni and Cheese? Dog cibble, that doesn't spoil while he's at sea?
Bounty hunters are awesome.
----------Scratching my head as to why...
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Nov 28, 2008 - 20 21
If you want a comical bouny hunter you need to search the
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Dec 2, 2008 - 09 55
In reality, I'm told that the job is VERY boring. Much like being a private eye is really just about taking pictures of cheating husbands, bounty hunting is generally a lot of unarmed stalking.
Of course, as far as an adventure story bounty hunter goes, I agree with the poster above who mentioned the cold, ruthless, calculating sort. Unless, of course, you're going for comedy, then the possiblities of breaking that stereotype are endless.
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