Robin

There's a post from a while back that notes that while Generation X may discount the importance of the Awakening, there were still unavoidable influences that weren't always adversarial or otherwise negative.

Similarly, while Boomers may be Gen X's least favorite people as a group, many of them had a direct and positive influence. Including the late Robin Williams.

There are people who think Dead Poet's Society is not only a great but an important film.  There are probably fewer that consider Hook a compressed microcosm of the post-Awakening Boomer mindset, even if it seems like an example to Gen X of What Not To Do When You Grow Up. (It does, however, have a Prophet who succeeds without sacrifice, based on pure moral superiority, in an effort to save the next generation....)

If there was one undeniable chunk of his art that touched us when we were willing to listen, though, it was the comedy album Reality ... What a Concept. Frequently played at parties or wherever people were together in the early 80s,  the source of its subversive attitude wasn't easy to pin down.  It was definitely different from the albums put together by the previous generation of comics. The only similarity was in having cuts where one section ended and another began, usually where a specific persona was started or stopped. The rapid-fire references, and lightning moves from one line to another, all said that How Things Were Done didn't have to be the only way. It was funny where you knew what he was saying, it was funny where you didn't, it was funny when he was ridiculing Old(er) Hollywood ("send in the clowns") or then-active televangelists ("I know you can walk without that chair!").

Prophets are supposed to rebel against What Came Before, tearing down so that a new world can be built up again. Some, Robin Williams, do it more thoroughly than others.  Nobody will quite be able to walk in his footsteps, for he made quite a mark.