Three years ago I was scarred by Slate's infamous "Rediscovering He-Man" story (which is, I have to tell you, one of the funniest pieces I've read anywhere ever), in which the author discovered a (possibly unintentional, but still hilarious) gay subtext to my favourite childhood hero.
Now the jokesters at Cracked have published a list of The 7 Most Pathetic GI Joe Characters...
And now I am left with a shattering reassessment of almost all my childhood TV heroes. All, that is, except for the Thundercats. Any moment now somebody's going to go and make a fake movie trailer about them, using CGI-enhanced footage of Brad Pitt, Vin Diesel and Hugh Jackman.
Oh. Looks like that already happened.