what's Hollywood's favorite shortcut for
making the characters sympathetic you
make them an orphan but that's not
because the writers are lazy
that's because watching the characters
start from nothing and then become
awesome is so much fun to watch
just like the ten characters you're
about to see so hey I'm nervous next
recruit axe top ten awesome orphans
number ten bond James Bond one name is
all it takes for your brain to instantly
think about the slick and sophisticated
secret agent otherwise known as
double-oh-seven
after his parents passed away the
eleven-year-old bond James Bond was sent
to live with his aunt but by his early
20s he was already well on his way to
becoming the gadget wheeled inspite hero
we all know it love of course not
everything about bond James Bond is aged
well there's definitely an argument to
be made that he's a misogynist which is
obviously no bueno but that aside
there's no denying that his other more
praiseworthy skills are at make him
top-10 work
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number nine oh look at this another
Disney movie where the main characters
are orphans but no orphan Disney or
otherwise is quite like Elsa from frozen
else has got the uncanny ability to
create snow in ice a power which went so
out of whack that have pledged her whole
country into a permanent winter hood
accident until like the end of the movie
when she discovered the power glove or
something like that but anyway cue super
memorable and / play musical number in
which she creates an entire ice castle
by stomping her foot once but this is
what orphan you don't want to screw with
she could stab you with ice spikes frees
you from the inside or if she really
felt like it create living snow golems
to smash you to pieces yes this girl can
create life
I'm not saying else is the most opie
disney princess ever probably is the
most dopey disney princess ever number
date the year was 1944 forests across
america faced a seemingly unconquered
about one particular blaze left a young
bear cub without his family he became
known to the world as the legendary
smokey bear what makes a random bear so
awesome well for starters he's a master
of disguise he's lifted more than 700
pounds he'd be the gorilla and he can
grow to the size of a mountain range not
to mention that his ad campaign helped
drop annual forest fires by 80% oh yeah
also he's a bear bears equal awesome
number seven
let me level with you guys for a second
I don't know how this guy keeps getting
on our top tens but I do know that
Naruto is a perfect example of our rags
to riches orphan it's almost like he's
an anime protagonist or something but
when I say riches I don't mean literally
rich unless he can spend the same gun
somewhere nowadays Naruto's got a wealth
of pure ninja skills chakra and a hunger
for ramen plus I don't think too very
many other entrants on this list are
gonna dodge light speed buggies or
survive attacks that cut the moon in
half number six mother of dragons
breaker of chains the unburnt Stormborn
Khaleesi of the great grass see the
queen of marine young kya bass the poor
Daenerys Targaryen has more titles than
Game of Thrones has sex scenes and boy
oh boy are they deserved the titles not
the sect okay well maybe the sexy title
despite growing up sans parents with an
abusive brother Danny made the best of
her situation and then some
she's conquered cities won the respect
and loyalty of the Dothraki abolished
slavery is immune to fire and that's not
even counting the fact that her go-to
pets and modes of transportation are
freakin dragons
Danny's big heart may slow her down at
times but this is one orphan who has
accomplished a whole lot and she's not
even done yet
team Danny for the iron throne baby plus
again dragons
I would totally trade my parents for
dragons any day number five orphanhood
is a traumatizing thing to go through
unless you're either of livius to life
like Goku or tough-as-nails like Vegeta
but since we're looking for Dragon Balls
cruelest orphan Sam Vegeta is the answer
there's no question about it the evil
Lord Frieza destroyed planet Vegeta in
wiped out King Vegeta which left this
Vegeta as one of the last of his kind
but instead of feeling sorry for himself
jeetu not a quest for immortality just
so he could get
some good old-fashioned revenge or as
long as he's been in the Dragon Ball
series the cocky Saiyan Prince has been
one of the most powerful characters
usually second only to Goku and whoever
the big bad villain is at the time and
if nothing else you've gotta respect
Vegeta for probably the biggest
tearjerker moment in this series his
self-sacrifice
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gets me every time mayor gets me every
time
member for some call her gaming's first
lady but today I'm cutting her number
four on our list samus aran's parents
may have been annihilated by a flying
purple space dragon but thankfully that
wasn't the end of her story after being
raised by bird aliens she turned to a
life of bounty hunting with a slate
gunship and the smoke ensue the space
armor if it's samus can survive extreme
temperatures shoot energy and extinct a
whole species of jellyfish things by
herself Elliot all almost to make them
go extinct plus her power suit lets
Samus run faster than the speed of sound
pretty and the ability considering how
many exploding planets she's escaped
number three even though he never knew
his dad even though he witnessed his mom
gets slaughtered by demons and even
though he thought his only other
relative was dead for most of his life
that wasn't enough to keep Dante down as
a half human half demon Devil May Cry
poster boy is all about weapons demon
sling weapons jokes and you guessed it
running down the side of a building at
Mach speeds most of all Dante just does
not care no matter who or what he's
fighting Dante will kill them and look
good doing it did he just kill a bunch
of demons by shooting a billiards ball
number two they say that everything
changed when the Fire Nation attacked
desperate times call for desperate
measures and for 12 year old egg that
make freezing himself in a block of ice
that wouldn't fall out for a century
when he woke back up well yeah the Fire
Nation had sort of killed his parents
and everybody he ever knew or loved but
the power of a hundred sons life's rough
but that didn't stop him from growing up
as a happy-go-lucky kid who just so
happened to be able to manipulate almost
every kind of element there was
airbending earthbending firebending
waterbending not metal bending no can't
a casual observation here does anybody
else think that Aiden kind of looks like
if Caillou had the powers of Captain
Planet its number one it seems like
almost every single superhero out there
is an orphan so much so that this list
could have very easily been filled with
nothing but Marvel and DC characters but
after like 80 years I don't think
anybody needs an introduction to Bruce
Wayne he's so popular by this point that
you know exactly why he deserves the top
spot for some being an orphan is nothing
more than an obstacle in life but for
Batman its his everyday motivation and
that's what's so inspiring about him
because of one particularly sucky night
Bruce decided to do his part to make the
world better he protects his city joins
with others to protect his planet and
does it all with nothing but his own
ingenuity and the billions of dollars
that his parents left him with because
that yeah they're also definitely our
secret number 11 let me tell you about a
mouse who grew up in st. marinara's
orphanage Chuckie Cheese himself never
had a birthday party when he was little
because nobody knew when his birthday
even was Chuck's cut a surprisingly
depressing backstory but at least now
mr. cheese gets to celebrate every
single day having a birthday every day
is most definitely awesome