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El Zilcho
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I'm glad you're both so well mannered. It's a trait you don't see much anymore.
Now stop spamming, or heads will roll.
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Nixorbo
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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He's too chubby to be a 90-pound weakling.
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Shiny
Professor
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« Reply #16 on: 06-08-2005 23:31 »
« Last Edit on: 06-08-2005 23:31 »
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Nixorbo... Fry is physically not in the best shape, but even men who don't exercise have more strength than you'd think. When his Fryrish is up (sorry ) he can give it a good shot... Whether he is a coward or not is a different question. Clearly, when he wants to help someone he cares about, he has what it takes. But he isn't motivated to courage by mere need to save face or look tough - he has to either want to protect someone, or get angry enough, to fight.
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CombienReaction
Delivery Boy
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« Reply #17 on: 06-09-2005 11:47 »
« Last Edit on: 06-09-2005 11:47 »
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Prepare yourselves for my horribly, over-the-top, uninteresting opinion, folks:
Physically, Fry is weak; but he'll attempt to make it appear otherwise. Take for example, "Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love?", when he had the "Claw Plaque" battle to the death with Zoidberg he didn't stand a chance (at first!), but he didn't give up attempting to win. Later, Fry has the chance to kill Zoidberg; but gives in because they're friends. A few minutes later, Zoidberg cuts his arm off. Fry decides not to back down and call himself a "loser" and just let Zoidberg get away with cutting off his arm, so Fry clubs him with said arm (at he was about to lose before Leela broke it up). Both times, Fry used a weapon (the giant Nut-Cracker and his arm), as he knows himself that he is weak and couldn't defend himself against Zoidberg with his bare hands.
Fry is a "tough" character, however, when he endures pain he doesn't resort to crying or pretending to be dead, he replies with good ol' fashioned senseless violence, attempting to stop himself from going down (even if he knows all hope of that is lost). The "Star Trek" thing shows this too, even after he was brought to the floor by Nichols, he doesn't give up fighting back. And later when he fights one of the cast members (can't remember who, I think it was Takei), the both punch eachother in the face. After Takei (?) hits Fry, Fry doesn't bother responding with another similar hit to the face; but instead decides to tackle Takei to the ground.
Hell, even when he thought his brother had stole his name/dreams/clover (which you could consider an attack), Fry resorted with violence. He runs up and punches the giant statue of "Philip J. Fry", and replies by saying that his brother also "has broke his fist". Fry probably knows that punching the statue will accomplish nothing at all (although, it's hard to tell with someone like Fry), but he still does it anyway; to make him not appear to be such a push-over.
As for his cowardly shenigans in "War Is The H-Word", he hid from the balls because he was out-numbered; not because he was afraid to fight them (he had a chance to back away before one of them attacked him or something). This even shows later when Fry is dropped from the helicopter, he is attacked by multiple balls (with no weapons to fend himself), but since they actually attacked him he attempts to fight back (and later rides to freedom on one of them).
Either that or Fry has ADD...
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GreyThinkyWhale
Professor
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Reading is hard . On topic: I think Fry is about average strength, but cowardly at times.
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IamBender
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by doomtousall: Maybe because he feels he doesn't need to be a macho-man to be respected.
Or maybe because he doesnt care about respect? I remember when the crew was confronting him about dating a robot. Hermes is like: "Have u lost all self-respect?" Fry's like: "All-what?" He's pretty much a self-centred hedonistic person.
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Dr Zoidberg
Crustacean
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Yeah I think he can be brave when he wants to be. Most of the time he isn't though. He is so dumb, he keeps getting himself into situations where he faces fear. That's why I said I dont like him, but he can be brave sometimes.
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