I miss Marie Colvin. Straight out of a pulp adventure novel badass who waded into every war she could find to report on it.
Yeah really, that's her, if you cast a movie called "Badasses of the World" she'd be eliminated from the star role due to being overqualified. She lost the eye reporting on the action in Sri Lanka when she was hit by an RPG because lesser weapons didn't work on her, and then went back to reporting on wars after getting an eyepatch because
of course she did. If you directly translated her into an adventure novel people would call her unrealistic. She crossed into freakin' Syria on a Motocross bike to get the word out because ordinary cars just weren't badass enough for her. The Syrians took a hit out on her and it took two hours of mortar fire to kill
I miss Marie Colvin. No other reporter has come close since. When they hit that kind of badass, or heck
half her level of awesome, they can pat themselves on the back for their courage.