If you had to go back in time, and kill one person...

[Hawk of Battle]

Whoever started this thread...

Or maybe Edison. He was a dick.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I guess the obvious answer would be some sort of ruthless dictator such as the aforementioned Hitler or someone else responsible for a massive amount of deaths such as Stalin. However, there's a good reason to give pause before doing so. In one of the most famous scenes from classed Doctor Who, the Fourth Doctor tells us why:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RxBstFm69A

Kudos for mentioning the great scene.

Has to be Richard Dawkins. In a freak accident. Just as he says "May God strike me down if I lie".

That would be so funny.

 

[BrownGaijin]

John Wilkes Booth. Get the whole Southern reconstruction completed generations than it actually did.

 

[martin's a madman]

The first Homosapien! Just to be a troll.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

tommy wiseau, the split second after the room was publicly released.

how DARE he take down the nostalgia critics review!

 

[Shilkanni]

Um... Karl Rove?

A lot of possible targets seem like they would be easily replaced by someone just as bad.
I like the idea behind Edison, and I do think Hitler is a good choice to target.

The further you go back the more impact it could potentially have.

 

[DocBalance]

Do I get a cookie for being the first to say John Wilkes Booth?

I'm related to John Wilkes Booth, no killing my ancestors!

OT: Richard Nixon. That bastard did more damage to this country than every previous president combined.

 

[Shaun Hastings]

The guy who killed Martin Luther King.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Neils Bohr. He was a useless moron anyway (shut up, he was!)

 

[AndyFromMonday]

I would kill no from the past if given the chance. Any small change can affect the present one way or another and due to that change being unpredictable I'd rather not change anything. If I DID have a way to predict what will happen then I have a few targets on my list right now.

 

[Tenkage]

Sarah Connor

 

[Red Rum]

Whoever came up with the bright idea for fake movie trailers.

 

[Holyeskimo]

Going for the obvious choice of hitler.

 

[dangdiggityderek]

Thomas Edison. Then the world would have gone with Tesla instead.

Tesla was fucking awesome!

OT: Whoever didn't admit Hitler to art school. Then I would take his place and let him into the school, and thus (most likely) prevent WWII.
If not Hitler his father who was a sick fuck for creating him through incest
Course, it would be easier to just kill Hitler, but I've always been curious as to what kind of paintings he could have done if he had been accepted to art school and hadn't gone batshit psycho.

 

[Jonny The Kay]

Frank Miller AFTER he wrote The Dark Knight Returns

 

[Theninja'skatana]

god. That way i could shape humans the way i want (wings anybody?) besides guns>smiting
Or get god to smite fox news then i'd laugh for the rest of my days

 

[Sejs Cube]

I'd kill the OP, thereby preventing this thread.

 

[Tdc2182]

Myself, just to see who I really was.

If you dont get it, basically I would be killing whatever baby my parents had and figuring out where I actually came from, seeing how killing myself would create a time paradox.