The Real Russian Rambo!

"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherhugger in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Alexander Bichkov. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherhugger in the world. The position is taken."-Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (slightly altered)