Thanks to Cody Walkers work in "Dodge Ball to Save the Planet" as superhuman Martin Van Buren, the character has taken a life of it's own amongst my friends.
It all began when my brother introduced me to a game they simply called "The Game", where you tell a story based around everyone playing each other in a situation, where you draw cards, and depending the card drawn, you have to do terrible terrible things to either yourself or another player...the last one standing by the ending of the deck of cards being the winner. Naturally, there was a lot of Chuck Norris, Morgan Freeman, and Neil Patrick Harris cameos...
Then...one fated session, I went first, and dammit all if I didn't drawn a King of Spades. Meaning I had to do something really...really bad to myself right off the bat. It had to be bone jarring, it had to be blood splattering...
So...I had Curtis the Blonde Asshole run me over in a red sportscar, accompanied by Former President Martin Van Buren. What escalated afterwards was a fight breaking out between Curtis and my brothers character and into a Cheese-Cake factory...Where Chuck Norris just happened to be enjoying some Cheese cake.
My turn again...
And thus, Van Buren locked eyes with Chuck Norris, and they commenced to do battle with one another in an epic free-for-all, fueled by some yet unspoken grudge held against one another.
Since that session, I have gone on to use Former President Martin Van Buren on many occasions in many RPG's, even going so far as to plan a book, detailing the adventures of Former President Martin Van Buren, the Cosmic Warrior, as he journeys across the stars in a space-faring spanish Ghalleon with his buddies Captain Jake the Whizpan, and his stalwart apprentice, Brian the Sexsaber.
In short...Thank you, Cody...You have inadvertedly given birth to the destroyer of worlds.
