Open the pod bay doors please HAL.
—Dave Bowman
Dave Bowman is an esoteric starchild übermensch that represents Odysseus in Kubrick's 2001. He is unforgiving of mistakes involving antenna control devices. This was the reason he killed HAL 9000. HAL probably came back to life, though (probably in an alternate universe).
Bowman's claim to fame had something to do with flying into a black hole thing. Some say this made him poop grenades. Others say he did what Vakama couldn't do, namely, destroy the Kanohi Vahi.