Everyone loves a bada**. There are few characters more entertaining than someone who can fend for themselves all on their own while delivering some awesome lines and giving us some great fight scenes. Well tonight, I'm going to honor the very best of awesomeness. Not just in movies, but in games as well. So here we are, The Top 10 Coolest Characters... Ever.
#10:
Rick Blaine (Casablanca)
For those of you who've seen Casablanca (I certainly hope that most of you have) you may be thinking "Rick Blaine isn't a bada**! Sure he's cool, but he's not a bada**!" Sorry to sound like a jerk but... you're totally wrong if you think that. Rick Blaine is awesome, and he doesn't even have to try that hard to be cool. He only really gets into one fight in the entire movie and it only involves one gunshot, but that shows that he's even more bada** because he doesn't need to fight to prove that he is. He's got the swagger, the deliveries, and the personality to fit amongst the coolest of characters.
#9:
The Terminator
The Terminator is hands down Arnie's most awesome role. And that goes for all three of the movies that he was in. His humorous but still intimidating quotes, his lack of subtlety, and his extreme determination make him so much fun to watch, and both easy to hate in the first movie, and easy to cheer for in the two sequels. It's just Arnold being Arnold.
#8:
Jak
Now this really only applies to Jak II, Jak 3, and Jak X seeing as he was interesting but not really bada** in the first game, and well, we don't need to bring up The Lost Frontier :x. But still, Jak is insanely awesome, with his love of danger, skill with guns, and of course, his powers with Dark and Light Eco. Every line he delivers is gruff and cool, mainly because of the great performances by Mike Erwin (the voice actor). Even if you haven't played the games, you've gotta admit that Jak is an undeniable bada**.
#7:
Han Solo
Han Solo has to be the most awesome character in the Star Wars series. He does have an advantage because he's Harrison Ford, but he's still awesome. With his (sometimes over-the-top) smoothness, cocky but still cool lines, and his accuracy with a gun even after having fired second :P, Han Solo is the coolest of the Star Wars galaxy, and the seventh in ours.
#6:
Ben Wade (3:10 To Yuma)
What I love about this character is how many sides there are to him.Ben Wade is an infamous bandit whose been captured and is now being escortedto a train station where he's being puton the 3:10 To Yuma train. During the journey to the station,Wade is constantly trying to escape. Sometimes he tries smooth talking his captors, by making them promises once they release him and things like that. And other times, he's flat out brutal, andcan actually be kind of scary. And Russell Crowe gives a great performance in the role, making him even more awesome.
#5:
Kratos
Well, this was pretty obvious. You're not gonna find many characters more awesome than The Ghost of Sparta. He's brutal, angry, has a massive supply of abilites, and has the booming voice of TC Carson. It's interesting because most of the characters that I've put on here so far are more of the suave and silent bada**es, but Kratos is nothing but a cyclone of rage and chaos. It's just an interesting contrast.
#4:
Achilles
Yes, there's actually a literary character on this list! While I have red The Illiad, I'm basing this more off of the movie Troy, in which Achilles is played by Brad Pitt. I'm going to go ahead and admit this, I actually like Troy, it's kind of a guilty pleasure movie for me. But no matter what your opinion on the movie is, you have to admit that Achilles is ridiculously awesome. Not only does he lead an entire army of bada** mercenaries, but he himselfisalso the greatestwarrior who ever lived. Add those two together, and your bound to have a pretty kick a** character. And while this certainly isn't Brad Pitt's best performance, he does what's necessary, which is just to be a bada**.
#3:
Scorpion
How can anyone not love this undead hell raiser? Mortal Kombat has a massive arsenal of bada** characters, but Scorpion tops them all by miles. With his deep, tyranncial voice, fierce moves, ability to create fire out of nowhere, and of course, the chain spear, Scorpion has had a high spot in the realm of cool characters for years and years, and it's not looking like anyone will take his place any day soon.
#2:
The Man With No Name
Well, yeah. When making a list a list of the all time coolest characters, at least one Clint Eastwood should be on it. And for me, it's gotta be The Man With No Name. He really personifies what it means to be a fictional bada**. He's mysterious, can put up a hell of a fight, doesn't talk that much, and in the end, always manages to execute things perfectly. And of course the hat, pancho, and cigarillo are the icing on the cake. But now that we've already used The Man With No Name, Scorpion, and Kratos, who could possibly be the #1 coolest character of all time?
#1:
Black Dynamite
This may not quite be the best movie of all time, and it may not quite be my favorite movie of all time. But this is hands down the most entertaining movie of all time. Nothing has ever had my eyes glued to my TV screen the way Black Dynamite did, and that's not just because of how brilliantly written and acted the movie is, it's primarily just how friggin' awesome the title character is. This movie is not at all supposed to be taken seriously, and they use that to their advantage with how far and over the top Black Dynamite's abilities go. If John Shaft was "hotter than Bond and cooler than Bullitt", then I don't even want to think about what that makes Black Dynamite. That wouldmake someone's brain explode having to think about that. There are some seriously cool characters on this list, but none of them come within ten miles of Black Dynamite. And that's saying quite a lot.
( P.S. I know thatmy writing for this countdown was pretty brief and notvery well thought out. And I realize that this wasn't my most"cinematically intellectual" countdown either, but I still stand by my choices, and I'll make sure to get you guys a better Top 10 list next weekend ;) )
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