That kind of guy would actually be rather scary. You like citing aSoI&F, who is a more frightening enemy, stipulating equal power? Tywin Lannister, who is always open to a deal? Or Stannis Baratheon who, if he thinks you're wrong, will never cut a deal. Which of the two actually said he was afraid of the other and rebuked his followers for writing the other one off as a lost cause? And which one is dead and has his successors tearing apart all he built, and which one survives and still even has an outside chance at the throne?

Whatever you want to believe, SoI&F is a highly moralistic series that subtly illustrates the futility of compromising with evil. Ned Stark was not brought low because he is too kindly and trusting, he was brought low because he failed to do his duty, and he betrayed his king and his friend. If he HAD been a saint, Cersei would already be dead, and Robert might still rule, because Ned would never have given her the chance to flee and would not have gone so easy on his daughters. He would not have relied on Littlefinger's bribery, giving the man a chance to betray him. You know very little of what being all the way good really entails if you can make such a statement.

Shallow vapid fans who prefer escapist entertainment are attracted to the superficial "cool" of these characters? What does Wolverine REALLY do that's so dark anyway? He acts like an animal sometimes? He drinks beer and rides a motorcycle? Killing people does not make you dark, unless you do it for bad reasons, in which case you are evil. No ifs, ands or buts. When confronted with evil that will cost innocent lives, the responsibility of the hero is to kill, no matter what that pudgy Japanese retard on Heroes might say. Killing someone when it is necessary and right is not a "dark" act, it is a righteous one, which a "saint" would willingly embrace.

Scott Summers is not a saint. He might be a kiss-ass, but he's also a tool. What kind of saint abandons his wife and kid because they found his old girlfriend is still alive? What kind of saint marries that old girlfriend, after the writers conveniently dispose of his troublesome family burden, only to cheat on her with a skanky ex-villianess?

Congratulations. You are the first Star Wars fan I have EVERY encountered who does not dislike Anakin and consider him to be a whiny D-bag. I don't know where you get off calling the guy who accomplished the most and had an actual sense of humor (lame as Lucas's writing rendered it) boring.

Who, IIRC, seems to have spent most of his life fighting temptation. And seems to have had his fair share of ballsiness if you read the facts known about him, instead of the insincere slimeballs who use his name as a gesture of mockery to make themselves feel better about their moral shortcomings. Baelor walked into a pit of vipers to rescue his cousin, a famous warrior. Who's the REAL badass? A D-bag famous for doing his married sister or the guy who shrugged off poisonous snakes to rescue the first guy?