Random Action Star Has The Butchest Character Names (19 items)

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  (#6) Kurt Russell

  • Forrest Gump, The Thing, The Fox and the Hound, Miracle, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China, Vanilla Sky, Tombstone, Backdraft, Stargate, Death Proof, Overboard, Sky High, Tango & Cash, Silkwood, Breakdown, Grindhouse, Poseidon, Used Cars, Escape from L.A., Dark Blue, The Best of Times, Furious 7, Executive Decision, 3000 Miles to Graceland, Soldier, Tequila Sunrise, Captain Ron, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Dreamer, Interstate 60, Touchback, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, Follow Me, Boys!, Swing Shift, Unlawful Entry, It Happened at the World's Fair, Fools' Parade, The Mean Season, The Hateful Eight, The Strongest Man in the World, Now You See Him, Now You Don't, Terror in the Aisles, The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band, Elvis, Charley and the Angel, Superdad, The Barefoot Executive, Amber Waves, Winter People, Guns of Diablo, Cutlass, Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A., The Longest Drive, Waco, The Captive: The Longest Drive 2, The Quest, The Deadly Tower, Guns in the Heather, Search for the Gods, The Art of the Steal, Bone Tomahawk

  The '80s basically belonged to Kurt Russell and his butch character names, which is crazy, because he seems like the nicest dad at softball practice. If you don't know any of these characters, you'll be in big trouble in little Internet: 

  • Grey Smoke (Laredo)
  • Snake Plissken (Escape from NY/Escape from LA)
  • RJ MacReady (The Thing)
  • Reno Hightower (The Best of Times)
  • Steve Stronghold (Sky High)
  • Crunch Calhoun (The Art of the Steal)
  • Stuntman Mike (Death Proof)
  • Wayland Jackson (Winter People)
  • Copper (The Fox and the Hound)
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  (#1) Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Terminator, Predator, Batman & Robin, Total Recall, Conan the Barbarian, The Expendables, The Expendables 2, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, True Lies, Commando, Around the World in 80 Days, Kindergarten Cop, The Running Man, Jingle All the Way, Conan the Destroyer, Twins, The Long Goodbye, The Rundown, Dave, Last Action Hero, Hercules in New York, Eraser, Encino Man, Raw Deal, The Last Stand, Junior, Red Sonja, Dr. Dolittle 2, Escape Plan, End of Days, Scavenger Hunt, The Villain, The 6th Day, Red Heat, Stay Hungry, Collateral Damage, Sabotage, Killer At Large, Maggie, Terminator Genisys, Christmas in Connecticut, Happy Anniversary and Goodbye, The I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special, The Kid & I, The Jayne Mansfield Story, Cry Macho, T2 3-D:Battle Across Time, Beretta's Island, The Expendables 3, Triplets, Unknown Soldier, Captive, The Legend of Conan

  Aside from playing the T-800 in a movie called The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger has rocked some of the most butch character names in film history: 

  • Trench (The Expendables series)
  • John 'The Eraser' Kruger (Eraser)
  • Jericho (End of Days)
  • Dutch (Predator)
  • Harry Tasker (True Lies)
  • Quaid/Hauser (Total Recall)
  • Ivan Danko (Red Heat)
  • John Matrix (Commando)
  • John 'Breacher' Wharton (Sabotage)
  • Handsome Stranger (The Villain; okay, that's a bit part)
  • Kalidor (Red Sonja; yeah, that's a real movie)
  • And don't forget Conan the f*cking Barbarian
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  (#18) Steven Seagal

  • Machete, Above the Law, Exit Wounds, Under Siege, Executive Decision, Out for Justice, Marked for Death, Hard to Kill, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, On Deadly Ground, The Glimmer Man, Submerged, Half Past Dead, Against the Dark, Into the Sun, The Onion Movie, The Foreigner, Born to Raise Hell, Black Dawn, Fire Down Below, Shadow Man, Today You Die, Belly of the Beast, Pistol Whipped, Mercenary for Justice, Maximum Conviction, Ticker, The Patriot, The Keeper, A Dangerous Man, Out for a Kill, Clementine, Driven to Kill, Attack Force, Urban Justice, Out of Reach, Flight of Fury, Deadly Crossing, Kill Switch, Force of Execution, Sheep Impact, Gutshot Straight, Dark Vengeance, Cyborg Nemesis, A Good Man

  Doesn't it feel like Steven Seagal is trying to butch up his character names just so people think he's more masculine than he actually is? He gives off that aroma. That being said, his characters names are kind of great: 

  • Cock Puncher (The Onion Movie)
  • Mason Storm (Hard to Kill)
  • Forrest Taft (On Deadly Ground)
  • Jonathan Cold (Black Dawn)
  • Torrez (Machete)
  • Decker (End of a Gun)
  • Axe (Attrition)
  • The Director (The Perfect Weapon)
  • Cross (Maximum Conviction)
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  (#2) Sylvester Stallone

  • Rocky, Men in Black, First Blood, Rocky IV, Rocky III, The Expendables, Rambo: First Blood Part II, The Expendables 2, Rocky II, Rocky Balboa, Antz, Rambo, Rocky V, Judge Dredd, Bananas, Demolition Man, Cop Land, Over the Top, Cobra, Rambo III, Klute, Tango & Cash, Driven, Escape to Victory, Staying Alive, Zookeeper, Nighthawks, Death Race 2000, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Oscar, Cliffhanger, Lock Up, Avenging Angelo, Daylight, Escape Plan, Bullet to the Head, Get Carter, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn, Farewell, My Lovely, Grudge Match, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, Shade, Rhinestone, Assassins, Mandingo, Paradise Alley, The Lords of Flatbush, The Specialist, Lovers and Other Strangers, F.I.S.T, Cannonball, Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Taxi 3, D-Tox, Capone, The Party at Kitty and Stud's, Reach Me, Your Studio and You, The Good Life, Ultimate Fights, No Place to Hide, The Expendables 3, Rambo: Last Blood

  Sylvester Stallone pretty much only play characters so ripped and hard you can hear them flexing. The extra oil on those muscles is he writes and produces most movies in which he appears. He basically created the template for Vin Diesel's career. And his writing habit totally explains names like:

  • Rocky Balboa (Rocky series)
  • John Rambo (Rambo series)
  • John Spartan (Demolition Man)
  • Judge Dredd (Judge Dredd, duh)
  • Marion "Cobra" Cobretti (Cobra)
  • Cosmo Carboni (Paradise Alley)
  • Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (Death Race 2000)
  • Ray Quick (The Specialist)
  • Henry 'Razor' Sharp (Grudge Match)
  • Gabe Walker (Cliffhanger)
  • Raymond Tango (Tango & Cash)
  • Lincoln Hawk (Over the Top)
  • Kit Latura (Daylight)
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  (#7) Dolph Lundgren

  • Rocky IV, The Expendables, The Expendables 2, Rocky V, A View to a Kill, Bio-Dome, Masters of the Universe, The Punisher, Johnny Mnemonic, Universal Soldier, Universal Soldiers: Regeneration, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, The Fat Slags, Something, Something, Something, Dark Side, Showdown in Little Tokyo, Dark Angel, Joshua Tree, The Minion, Missionary Man, One in the Chamber, Detention, The Mechanik, The Final Inquiry, Command Performance, Silent Trigger, Jill Rips, The Last Warrior, Cover Up, Retrograde, Pentathlon, Small Apartments, Direct Contact, Red Scorpion, The Killing Machine, Sweepers, Men of War, Stash House, Diamond Dogs, Bridge of Dragons, The Package, The Shooter, In the Name of the King 2, Storm Catcher, Agent Red, Skin Trade, The Peacekeeper, Direct Action, Blackjack, The Defender, Hidden Agenda, The Expendables 3, Battle of the Damned, Blood Of Redemption, Puncture Wounds

  Despite having a Master's degree in chemical engineering from Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology, Dolph Lungdren is still booked to play oily muscle men with names like: 

  • Konstantin Kovar (Arrow)
  • Gunner Jensen (The Expendables series)
  • He-Man (Masters of the Universe)
  • Warchild (Blood of Dragons)
  • Axel (Blood of Redemption)
  • Maxwell (Ambushed)
  • Max Gatling (Battle of the Damned)
  • Xander Ronson (Diamond Dogs)
  • Lance Rockford (The Defender)
  • Frank Cross (The Peacekeeper)
  • Frank Castle (The Punisher)
  • Nikolai Rachenko (Red Scorpion)
  • And classic Rocky IV villain, Ivan Drago
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  (#11) Carl Weathers

  • Rocky, Predator, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Happy Gilmore, Rocky IV, Rocky III, Rocky II, Little Nicky, Eight Crazy Nights, Balto III: Wings of Change, The Comebacks, Semi-Tough, Force 10 from Navarone, Action Jackson, Alien Siege, Friday Foster, Death Hunt, The Sasquatch Gang, The Bermuda Depths, The Four Deuces, Bucktown, OP Center, Hurricane Smith, Battleships, In the Heat of the Night: By Duty Bound, Dangerous Passion, Braker, Toy Story of Terror, Elevator Seeking

  It's hard to think of Carl Weathers and his planet-sized biceps in any other context than that of Predator, but he's not just a oily guy who dies in the jungle, he's also: 

  • Hugh McKraken (American Warship)
  • Sgt. Jericho "Action" Jackson (Action Jackson)
  • Freddie Wiseman (The Comebacks)
  • Adam Beaudreaux (Street Justice)
  • Apollo Creed (The Rocky Series)
  • Dillon (Predator)
  • Dreamer Tatum (Semi-Tough)
  • Bateman Hooks (The Hostage Heart)
  • Carl Weathers (Arrested Development)
  • Sundog (Death Hunt)

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