Maybe it's the claws, but even as a kid I thought Vega was one cool looking Street Fighter. It could have been that I thought he was Wolverine's cousin or something.
Well here's the sports equipment wielding, bad guy bashing, friend of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Casey Jones!
My favorite line about Casey was from the 1990 Ninja Turtles movie when he shows up at April O'Neil's appartment to fight the foot clan alongside the Turtles, and Leonardo asks "Who the heck is this?" and Michelangelo replies with "Wayne Gretzky? On steroids?"
I've never actually seen that Torchwood show, so I don't know a ton about Captain Jack, but in his Doctor Who episodes, it was cool to see him in his 'fatal-to-any-other-man' situations. When we find out who he later turns out to be, it's a very cool revelation, so I won't spoil it here :)
No, it's not that Conan. I was encouraged by SP follower Mikeyboy to do the cult classic Conan The Barbarian for the blog, and after he kindly sent me his cool Conan as inspiration (below), I figured it would indeed be fun to give it a go. Thanks Mikey!