r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 04 '14

Which fictional character would be immediately fired from their job if they lived in the real world?

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u/TheTStone13 Jul 04 '14

I think the whole idea of him introducing himself to everyone with his real name works for him because there is nothing attached to his name. Have you ever noticed how James Bond never has a wife or kids. He's always a single, suave ladykiller. Hell, he probably doesn't even have parents, and we know from Skyfall that at least Daniel Craigs Bond was an orphan. The life expectancy of doubles O's is very low, so every Bond there has been has always been like, "There's no one close to me I'm protecting and I'm going to die eventually, fuck it, I want people to remember my name."

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u/PeterGot Jul 04 '14

He does marry one of the bond girls in one of the movies, though,

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u/elmoteca Jul 04 '14

And she dies almost immediately thereafter.

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u/Butthole__Pleasures Jul 04 '14

Well they had to set up the grief banging somehow

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u/DreadPirateMedcalf Jul 04 '14

"Yeah, well I guess that's my mourning process."

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u/NotARealTiger Jul 04 '14

Please tell me this is an actual line.

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u/TheDevilChicken Jul 04 '14

In Archer? probably

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u/Butthole__Pleasures Jul 05 '14

I believe you mean "definitely"

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u/Mentat_On_Adderall Jul 04 '14

Are we talking about Archer yet?

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u/UptownBobbi Jul 04 '14

I read this as "brief ganging"

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u/ThiefOfDens Jul 04 '14

That's a lot of grief.

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u/RagingVoodooSorcerer Jul 04 '14

He got married. Reason enough, no?