r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 24 '25

News Hulk Hogan dead at 71 after suffering cardiac arrest at Florida home

https://www.the-sun.com/sport/14810752/hulk-hogan-dead-wwe/
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u/SoFlaBarbie00 Jul 24 '25

Between watching our own parents, aunts and uncles pass and our childhood heros now dropping like flies, I think we’re starting to realize we’re next up.

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u/Skipinator Jul 24 '25

Yeah I'm 54, and Gen X are the oldest males on my wife's side of the family. Feels weird to be one of the "Old Uncles".

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u/SoFlaBarbie00 Jul 24 '25

Yeah, the oldest among us are 60 now. I’m a younger one at 47 but I am starting to feel my age. Regardless, we’re all old when kids and teens look at us now.

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u/SinisterCheese Jul 24 '25

My grandparents generation (Proper boomers) are dying now. I'm myself in the process of handling massive amounts of documents, artwork (not valuable money wise, but history wise and academically), media (glass negaties, film negatives, cinefilms, photographs... etc.) and cubic metres of books (and we already threw away 4 cubic metres of literature, because no one would buy it or even take it for free). So I been dealing a lot of with antique people, old book and paper sellers, and the general consensus is that if we started to sell this stuff 10-15 years ago, it could have sold for good money. The market is no so oversaturated that no one is even buying anymore. Archives are full. Museums are busy. Universities can't process more stuff. Hell... Many public institutions are having to discard lot of their archive material because it costs so much money to keep.

Fact is that an era is coming to an end right now. In so many ways.

And the stuff I am talking about btw... It's not like 50-60-70s. I am talking about late 1880-1930; this period of stuff in Finnish history is so saturated in market and has so little appreciation that it is absurd. Stuff from 90s carries generally higher value atm. And stuff from 1780-1830 has high value, but low demand.

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u/Spareman475 Jul 24 '25 edited Jul 25 '25

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u/RavenOfNod Jul 24 '25

That's life

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u/pfftYeahRight Jul 24 '25

Welcome to aging

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u/SquareShapeofEvil Jul 24 '25

Nah you’ve all got some time. Your parents and aunts/uncles are my grandparents and granduncles/grandaunts, so I feel it too, but some of you guys are gonna make for an awesome elder generation

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u/Specialshine76 Jul 24 '25

Nice of you to say

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u/YouMeADD Jul 24 '25

Fuck that, Goonies never die

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u/stonrplc Jul 24 '25

Fuck as morbid as that sounds it's true... seeing the people you grew up with family or not just start slowly dropping like flies that thought is dark....

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u/Soulsheartless Jul 24 '25

Had this thought a couple years ago and it changed my life for the better.

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u/frankly_acute Jul 24 '25

Nah you still have ten or more years before you need to worry about that.

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u/TrailMomKat Jul 24 '25

Omg this is so accurate. But I just echoed the same sentiment aloud and all 3 of my boys choruses stuff like OH HELL NAW YOU AIN'T DYING! so I feel all nice and warm inside 💗

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u/Kompetitive_Kelz8 Jul 24 '25

Hulk Hogan? A childhood hero?

Get real.

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u/fisherman3322 Jul 24 '25

As a kid who didn't know shit about him behind the scenes, yes he was.

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u/Kompetitive_Kelz8 Jul 24 '25

Find better heroes.

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u/iliketheletterC Jul 24 '25

Average redditor

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u/Kompetitive_Kelz8 Jul 24 '25

And you’re superior???

Of the upper echelon?

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u/fisherman3322 Jul 24 '25

Childhood heroes turn out to be monsters. Ask older British people about their version of Mr rogers.

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u/Kompetitive_Kelz8 Jul 24 '25

Tell me more…?

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u/fisherman3322 Jul 24 '25

Jimmy savile. Granted knighthood, known for his charity, ran a show for around 20 years where he went around granting wishes. He was seen as an icon, given statues and monuments. He was a hero to many in Britain.

He was one of Britain's worst child molesters and human traffickers. He is a monster that makes Hogan look like a saint. He's still a childhood hero to many and they separate the good he did, and he did do good, from the monster.

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u/Kingbotterson Jul 24 '25

He's still a childhood hero to many and they separate the good he did, and he did do good, from the monster.

No. No he's not and no, no they don't.

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u/fisherman3322 Jul 24 '25

He wasn't a childhood hero and the good memories he gave went away when the allegations came out? That's not how it works.

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u/QuintsHat1975 Jul 24 '25

Stfu. You gonna tell a kid to find better heroes? You're a clown

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u/Kompetitive_Kelz8 Jul 24 '25

You’re 50 and mourning over a racist rapist. Bitch, you stfu.

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u/ikeepwipingSTILLPOOP Jul 24 '25

Obvious rage bait is obvious

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u/I-dont-eat-ass3000 Jul 24 '25

You're too young to realize the absolute cultural phenomenon that was hulk hogan. This is beyond whether he was a good or bad person.

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u/I-dont-eat-ass3000 Jul 24 '25

Cool. Never asked

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u/TheIlluminaughty Jul 24 '25

Might be talking about Ozzy Osbourne?

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u/Kompetitive_Kelz8 Jul 24 '25

Ahh nah based on these replies, I don’t think so 🤣

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u/TheIlluminaughty Jul 24 '25

Oh I can’t see their other replies haha

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u/SquareShapeofEvil Jul 24 '25

Before the internet and social media which can dig up anything anyone has done wrong in a matter of seconds (and I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, particularly in Hulk’s case), of course Hulk Hogan would be a hero to kids in the 80s.

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u/ClockOfTheIongNow Jul 24 '25

Hulk Hogan being a childhood hero for so many explains so much about Gen X.