Top 10 action heroes
Our top 10 movie action heroes revealed!
We all have our very own favourite movies and our favourite action heroes, and with Cash for Kids Superhero Day on the horizon we thought we'd share our top 10 with you!
10. Iron Man What’s better than a high-tech superhero who rockets through the atmosphere and shoots missiles from his hands?
9. Sarah Connor (The Terminator) The patron saint of mama bears, Sarah Connor embraced the role of Mother to Humanity’s Saviour, transforming herself into a lean and mean guerrilla fighter.
8. Batman Forget about Bruce Wayne. He died that fateful night at the opera, right beside his parents. There is only Batman, the angry, grieving shadow who will always save Gotham from its worst elements and impulses.
7. The Terminator Good or bad, Terminators never quit, and this franchise might not, either. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a bad Terminator in the first film and a good Terminator in the second, and there are also other kinds of Terminators that can turn itself into liquid and just an endoskeleton and… yeah. You get the idea.
6. Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry) As cold and unforgiving as his legendary 44 Magnum, Harry Callahan is the quintessential rogue cop, whose sarcastic quips and Ray-Bans inspired 40 years of imitators.
5. Indiana Jones Globetrotting, grave-robbing college professor Dr. Jones had brains as well as a bullwhip, combined with little patience.
4. John McClane (Die Hard) He’s just a regular dude who smokes too much, gets winded and cries when pulling shards of glass out of his bare feet.
3. Jason Bourne (The Bourne Trilogy) Matt Damon’s character became a more relentless, hard-charging robot in the sequels, but the original makes you feel for a guy rediscovering his own sense of self after being trained as a government murder machine. Oh, and car chases? He’s got that covered.
2. Ellen Ripley (Alien) Ellen is one hard-core space jockey who goes toe to, uh, hideous claw-thing with the icky Xenomorphs. When she’s not blowing away hideous creatures that want to impregnate her with their disgusting, chest-bursting spawn, she’s chilling with her cat Jones.
1. James Bond However you prefer your Bond — stirred with a Sean Connery brogue, chased with a dash of Roger Moore, served by Pierce Brosnan or shaken by a pair of bulging Daniel Craig biceps—you can’t help but admit that no action hero looks better in a well-tailored suit with a martini in his hand.
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