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Sep 10·edited Sep 10Author

The Wolverines from Red Dawn. Yeah, yeah I know Jed, and later Col. Tanner were adults but the rest of them were kids. Boil it down to Robert and Mattie if you want but those kids got it done.

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Are you allowed to win? I like this answer. I also like Kevin from Home Alone.

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Anyone can win. Not to late to get your own answer in too.

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Sep 11Liked by Vince Guerra

My vote is for Katniss Everdeen, who volunteers as tribute in place of her little sister in The Hunger Games.

*three-finger salute*

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I'll go with Kevin McCallister, who at the age of eight, despite being "Home Alone," heroically defended the family homestead from bandits.

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Sep 10Liked by Vince Guerra

Obviously, I am going to nominate Harry Potter. Though if this was restricted to only one movie, then there are better answers out there. The movie series does a good job showing how much Harry grows into these heroic acts. Harry has always been a courageous character, even when he was 11, but the greater the weight of the war on his shoulders, the better he bears it. How quickly he is willing to sacrifice himself is very impressive. In fact, most of his closest friends can all stake a claim here.

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I anticipated you would. I wouldn't have used him in the post thumbnail but I figured, "What the heck, LC's going to go with HP regardless." 😀

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Sep 10Liked by Vince Guerra

Gotta do my part to represent Millennials.

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And we've got a tie between Katniss Everdeen and Kevin McCalister. Standby by while the judges confer.

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To me, there is no answer but Ferris Bueller

Age not specified in movie... he might have been 18 on the nose

But there's no other guy

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Sep 13·edited Sep 13

Gotta go with the Bueller. He may have been 17. I don't remember what it says, but he was a senior, which means he may not have been quite 18.

I'm not voting for the other two leaders because"The Wolverines" weren't an individual hero, and Katniss was whiny and survived the Hunger Games mostly by accident. Without external help, she would have been dead from the tracker jackers. Or her burns from the fire. Or...

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She only became an insufferable whiner in the last two movies, "Whaaaaah, Peeta, whaaaah." In the first two she did some legit hero stuff..

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Sep 14Liked by Vince Guerra

That's okay, Katniss has 4 solid votes and is still in the running to win 😉 ☺️ Whiny or not, she's a true hero(ine) simply because she was willing to die (even though she didn't...) to save her younger sister. 😁

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Throwing in a last-minute vote for Tom Holland’s Spiderman, who is adorable and hysterically funny, humble, and human in his heroism.

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