Celebrities in your T2k-Universe

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

I'm guessing it only took a few hours and a couple of six packs, you know, just like her first marriage IRL?

LOL...Would have been even better if there had been a Junior Sergeant Federenko in the group...

Originally Posted by Olefin

Or you have stars trying to serve their country like Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable did - i.e. you see an F-15 go down after an aerial battle a la Red Dawn overhead and you get to the pilot who ejected to find out that its John Travolta (who is a qualified jet pilot) or you run across a squad of soldiers in Poland led by Matt Damon or Tom Hanks who had been thru the mini-boot camp for Private Ryan and joined up after the US got nuked in late 97 for real.

Wasn't there a famous American football player that quit the sport after 9/11 and joined the US Army Rangers?

I'm also reminded of the scene in the Postman where Kevin Costner's character meets Tom Petty...

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

LOL...Would have been even better if there had been a Junior Sergeant Federenko in the group...



Wasn't there a famous American football player that quit the sport after 9/11 and joined the US Army Rangers?

Pat Tillman. Depending on who you believe, he was killed by accidental friendly fire or fragged because he was an incompetent gung-ho redneck whose battlefield antics were endangering the lives of his fellows to the point that they decided to kill him (I do not believe this).

Also famous for being spat-on postmortem by human shitstain "artist" Ted Rall.

I'm also reminded of the scene in the Postman where Kevin Costner's character meets Tom Petty...

THAT was an amazingly cool little scene. Kind of outside of our spectrum, but Bill Murray plays himself in Zombieland.

I had a little quote from Bill Gates I made up for the "Twilight 2000 quotes" thread...

[Olefin]

I remember that scene - would definitely add some color for sure to the game

especially if you run into them in some not so glorious ways

I.e. the cook serving you in the line at Bremerhaven turns out to be Bruce Willis or The New Guy who shoots off his whole ammo load and doesnt hit squat is The Rock

or you have a Romancing the Stone moment when the celebrity that is joined up with your unit saves your butt when it turns out the head of the marauder unit or KGB or Soviet unit that had you dead to rights is a huge fan and loves that he is meeting him or her

a la having Jonathan Frakes with you when the KGB major is a Trekkie would be a huge asset

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Kris Kristofferson was a Captain in the 8th ID and a Huey pilot - be neat/interesting to see him show up as an NPC; maybe joined back up to help with the relief effort, lead a training cadre (albeit with very limited avgas...)

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by Olefin

a la having Jonathan Frakes with you when the KGB major is a Trekkie would be a huge asset

Nothing against Jonathan Frakes, but I think I'd rather have Jeri Ryan with me...

[B.T.]

I just did a search on Wikipedia. I had in mind, Ice-T or Ice Cube had been members of the Rangers. Didn't find anything on these two, but Kris Kristofferson is listed as a former Ranger, hm ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...and_modern_day

But I see, you've got the idea. I like the Tom Petty thing. Some kind of liberal pop singer, who now is head of a small, struggling community is graet. Although I will not use Tom Petty. But it's a good picture!

Nice input, everybody. Keep it coming!

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Ashton Kutcher dabbled with survivalism at least in the "Gonna get myself a food locker" way last year or so; maybe come T2k he's a survivalist nut living in the hills in NoCal...

[Rainbow Six]

Again this is probably not strictly relevevant to this thread, but I drew up some notes a while ago for a piece of fiction based on the Armies of the Night module and one of the things I was going to incorporate into it was using characters from TV shows (specifically Law and Order - I planned to have Novak, the ADA from Special Victims Unit being in charge of an organised enclave in the City).

[Olefin]

Rainbow - how about this angle for the TV character - its the actual actor who the events of the war has pushed over the edge and now believes they are really the character.

Sort of like meeting Charlie Sheen in City of Angels but he has gone over the bend and thinks he is his character from Platoon.

[rcaf_777]

Food for Thought

Drew Carey was USMCR
Montel Williams was a Lt in the USN and a Marine
Dennis Franz was in the 82nd durring Nam
Rob Riggle is still in a PAO with the USMC
Steven Segal could be with the Orleans Police Department
Charlton Heston would still be the Prez of the NRA -AKA dudes with more guns than the US Army

Canadian Army has a few Celeb characters, I have Arnold Schwarzenegger as Col in the Calforina State Guard. (WE FIGHT OR WE DIE)

I though about putting Chuck Norris is a few adventure, but since all is encounter would end with him round house kicking something to slove an issue I decided againist it, it would get boring. T-72 is coming towards you, Chuck counters with round house kick, tank destoryed....see what I mean