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

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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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  (#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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  (#3) John Wayne

  • The Searchers, The Longest Day, Stagecoach, True Grit, Rio Bravo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Quiet Man, Cinema Paradiso, How the West Was Won, The Greatest Story Ever Told, Red River, Get Shorty, The Shootist, Sands of Iwo Jima, The Horse Soldiers, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Cowboys, Chisum, El Dorado, The Green Berets, The Alamo, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Big Jake, Imitation of Life, McLintock!, They Were Expendable, Rio Grande, The Undefeated, Flying Leathernecks, The War Wagon, In Harm's Way, Rooster Cogburn, The High and the Mighty, The Comancheros, Rio Lobo, Hondo, Angel and the Badman, North to Alaska, Cahill U.S. Marshal, Tall in the Saddle, Hatari!, Flying Tigers, The Conqueror, 3 Godfathers, The Star Packer, Hellfighters, The Fighting Seabees, Dakota, The Train Robbers, The Fighting Kentuckian, Dark Command, The Wings of Eagles, Back to Bataan, Reap the Wild Wind, Operation Pacific, Winds of the Wasteland, The Big Trail, Blood Alley, Texas Terror, The New Frontier, Red River Range, The Lawless Frontier, Riders of Destiny, The Man from Monterey, Sagebrush Trail, Paradise Canyon, The Telegraph Trail, Idol of the Crowds, Annie Laurie, Baby Face, Flame of Barbary Coast, McQ, Lawless Range, In Old Oklahoma, Texas Cyclone, Two-Fisted Law, The Lawless Nineties, Rough Romance, 'Neath the Arizona Skies, The Trail Beyond, The Lucky Texan, The Man from Utah, Randy Rides Alone, The Great K & A Train Robbery, Ride Him, Cowboy, The Hurricane Express, The Sea Chase, The Oregon Trail, Three Texas Steers, The Shepherd of the Hills, Legend of the Lost, Donovan's Reef, Cast a Giant Shadow, Jet Pilot, The Desert Trail, Big Jim McLain, Blue Steel, Four Sons, Santa Fe Stampede, West of the Divide, Overland Stage Raiders, Rainbow Valley, The Three Musketeers, The Life of Jimmy Dolan, The Forward Pass, Three Girls Lost, Brannigan, In Old California, Circus World, Without Reservations, Somewhere in Sonora, Reunion in France, Lady from Louisiana, Wake of the Red Witch, Trouble Along the Way, The Spoilers, Island in the Sky, Three Faces West, The Barbarian and the Geisha, Tycoon, Haunted Gold, A Lady Takes a Chance, The Long Voyage Home, The Shadow of the Eagle, Westward Ho, The Big Stampede, King of the Pecos, His Private Secretary, Born to the West, Girls Demand Excitement, Wyoming Outlaw, I Married a Woman, Allegheny Uprising, The Dawn Rider, Central Airport, The Black Watch, The Night Riders, Hangman's House, Men Without Women, The Lonely Trail, Seven Sinners, Mother Machree, Pals of the Saddle, Arizona, Noah's Ark, Pittsburgh, Brown of Harvard, College Coach, Maker of Men, Born Reckless, Salute, The Deceiver, The Drop Kick, Words and Music, New Frontier, Speakeasy, I Cover the War, A Man Betrayed, That's My Boy, Conflict, Lady and Gent, Lady for a Night, Adventure's End, California Straight Ahead!, Cheer Up and Smile, When the West Was Fun, Flashing Spikes, Bardelys the Magnificent, John Wayne: Lone Cowboy, La Classe américaine, John Wayne: King of the West, The Range Feud, Directed by John Ford, Running Hollywood, Rookie of the Year, The Hollywood Handicap, Desert Command, Hooray for Hollywood, CBS Salutes Lucy: The First 25 Years, Sea Spoilers, Raquel!

  John Wayne is to butch character names what Led Zeppelin is to rock and roll. All his characters might as well have been named Butch McTuffguy, but these ones sound most like guys who would win a d*ck punching contest: 

  • Rod Drew (The Trail Beyond)
  • Biff Smith (California Straight Ahead!)
  • Duke Slade (Adventure's End)
  • Stony Brooke (Eight movies between 1938 and 1939)
  • Pittsburgh Markham (Pittsburgh)
  • Wedge Donovan (The Fighting Seabees)
  • Quirt Evans (Angel and the Badman)
  • Michael Patrick "Guns" Donovan (Donovan's Reef) 
  • Chance Buckman (Hellfighters)
  • Rooster Cogburn (True Grit)
  • Col. Cord McNally (Rio Lobo)
  • Taw Jackson (The War Wagon)
  • Hondo Lane (Hondo)
  • Robert Marmaduke Sangster Hightower (3 Godfathers)
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  (#4) Chuck Norris

  • DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, The Expendables 2, The Delta Force, Return of the Dragon, Missing in Action, The Game of Death, Sidekicks, Lone Wolf McQuade, Invasion U.S.A., Missing in Action 2: The Beginning, Braddock: Missing in Action III, Top Dog, Firewalker, The Octagon, Code of Silence, Silent Rage, An Eye for an Eye, Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection, Breaker! Breaker!, Forest Warrior, Forced Vengeance, The Wrecking Crew, Hellbound, Hero and the Terror, Good Guys Wear Black, The Hitman, The President's Man 2, Yellow Faced Tiger, A Force of One, The Cutter, The President's Man, Bells of Innocence, Logan's War: Bound by Honor, Bruce Lee and Kung Fu Mania, Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire, Chuck Norris: Private Lesson, Wind in the Wire, America Home of the Brave, Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion, The Novice

  Chuck Norris is a corny, bearded white dude who was in legit Chinese movies with legit Chinese martial artists, trading blows with the best in the world. He also kicked the crap out of communism and is definitely the kind of dude who seems like the nicest dad in the world until you knock up his daughter, then he breaks your neck with his d*ck. 

  • Chuck Slaughter (Huang Mian Lao Hu) 
  • J.J. McQuade (Lone Wolf McQuade)
  • Max Donigan (Firewalker)
  • Cordell Walker, Texas Ranger (Walker Texas Ranger series, Sons of Thunder)
  • Frank Shatter (Hellbound)
  • Chuck Norris (Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos)
  • Matt Hunter (Invasion USA)
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  (#5) Danny Trejo

  • Heat, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, From Dusk till Dawn, Con Air, The Devil's Rejects, Halloween, The Muppets, Desperado, Planet Terror, Spy Kids, Anaconda, Machete, Predators, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, Fanboys, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, Six Days Seven Nights, Reindeer Games, Grindhouse, The Salton Sea, XXX, Bubble Boy, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Machete Kills, Muppets Most Wanted, Animal Factory, Lock Up, Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams, Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter, Smiley Face, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, All Souls Day, Death Race 2, On Bloody Sunday, The Replacement Killers, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, Death Race 3: Inferno, Sherrybaby, Saint John of Las Vegas, Inferno, 12:01, Slayer, Los Locos, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, Eyeborgs, Hood of Horror, Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury, Amelia's 25th, Urban Justice, Toxic, La Linea, The Killing Jar, Reach Me, Cross, The Cloth, Last Light, Bad Asses, Necessary Evil, Zombie Hunter, The Book of Life, Delta Farce, Dilemma, Jaguar, Gun, Bulletproof, Do It for Uncle Manny, Shadows in Paradise, Alone in the Dark II, Nightstalker, National Lampoon's TV: The Movie, Human Factor, Point Blank, Violet & Daisy, The Art of Travel, Blacktino, Guns, Recoil, Richard III, Lost, Sushi Girl, High Hopes, Shoot the Hero, Skinny Dip, Force of Execution, Doublecrossed, Strike One, American Flyer, House of the Rising Sun, Dreaming on Christmas, Pastor Shepherd, Death Row, St. James St. James Presents: Delirium Cinema, Beatdown, Furnace, Champions, Jake's Corner, Modus Operandi, 7 Mummies, Venice Underground, The Lazarus Papers, Six Days in Paradise, Valley of Angels, Justin Time, The Weathered Underground, The Grind, Ticket to Vegas, Bad Ass, Ranchero, Tarantula, El Superstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Frances, The Blue Rose, Raggedy Anne, The Curse of El Charro, Ambition, Chasing Ghosts, Taphephobia, Dark Games, The Bill Collector, Through the Valley, The Last Hour, Living the Dream, Tennis Anyone?, Boston Girls, The Boys of Ghost Town, Perfectus, Breaking Wind, Vengeance, In the Blood, Dead in Tombstone, Counterpunch, Bullet, Redemption: The Darkness Descending, Rise of the Lonestar Ranger, The Insomniac, Snap Shot, Dream Date, Rise of the Zombies, Reaper, L.A. Slasher, The Contractor, The Prey, The Night Crew, Beyond Justice, Pendejo (Idiot), VANish, A Horse Story, Mucho Dinero, Vieques, The Ridiculous Six, Bad Asses on the Bayou, Ghostquake

  Danny Trejo has been in about 350 movies and every single one of his characters is named something like "Gun Face Charlie," so it's pointless to count them all down, but these are the toughest on his IMDB: 

  • Johnny Sixtoes (Inferno)
  • Razor Charlie (From Dusk Till Dawn series)
  • Johnny-23 (Con Air)
  • Machete (Machete)
  • El Patron (Shuang Dao)
  • G-Man (Eyeborgs)
  • Bismarck (Saint John of Las Vegas)
  • Drayke Salgado (Recoil)
  • Tijuanna Maxx (St. James St. James Presents: Delirium Cinema)
  • Jackhammer (Chronology)
  • Aguilar (The Night Crew)
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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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  (#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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  (#8) Steve McQueen

  • The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, The Towering Inferno, The Blob, The Getaway, Papillon, The Cincinnati Kid, Tom Horn, The Sand Pebbles, On Any Sunday, Hell Is for Heroes, The Thomas Crown Affair, Le Mans, Somebody Up There Likes Me, Nevada Smith, Soldier in the Rain, The Hunter, Junior Bonner, The Reivers, Love with the Proper Stranger, The War Lover, An Enemy of the People, The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, Baby the Rain Must Fall, The Honeymoon Machine, Never So Few, Never Love a Stranger, Dixie Dynamite, Defender, Girl on the Run

  Steve McQueen is about as butch as it gets, so most of his characters have decidedly unbutch names. You don't want to over do it, right? But when the butch gets turned on with McQueen, it really turns on: 

  • Vin Tanner (The Magnificent Seven)
  • Rocky Papasano (Love with the Proper Stranger)
  • Frank Bullitt (Bullit)
  • Boon Hogganbeck (The Reivers)
  • Doc McCoy (The Getaway)
  • Chief O'Hallorhan (The Towering Inferno)
  • Papa Thorson (The Hunter)
  • Nevada Smith (Nevada Smith)
  • Buzz Rickson (The War Lover)
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  (#9) Charles Bronson

  • The Great Escape, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, Death Wish, Battle of the Bulge, House of Wax, Death Wish II, Family of Cops, Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops 2, The Mechanic, Vera Cruz, Telefon, Breakheart Pass, Chato's Land, Raid on Entebbe, Red Sun, 10 to Midnight, Pat and Mike, Apache, Death Wish 3, The White Buffalo, Run of the Arrow, Murphy's Law, From Noon till Three, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, The Sandpiper, Breakout, Kid Galahad, Guns for San Sebastian, Hard Times, A Thunder of Drums, The Indian Runner, The Stone Killer, Mr. Majestyk, This Property Is Condemned, Villa Rides, 4 for Texas, Death Hunt, The Valachi Papers, Drum Beat, The Evil That Men Do, Someone Behind the Door, Adieu l'ami, St. Ives, Act of Vengeance, Jubal, Death Wish V: The Face of Death, Master of the World, Final Shot, Caboblanco, Chino, Bloodhounds of Broadway, Rider on the Rain, Crime Wave, Guns of Diablo, My Six Convicts, Lola, Family of Cops 3, You're in the Navy Now, Borderline, Miss Sadie Thompson, Red Skies of Montana, Never So Few, La Classe américaine, Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects, Assassination, X-15, Messenger of Death, Tennessee Champ, Love and Bullets, Off Limits, Cold Sweat, You Can't Win 'Em All, The Marrying Kind, The People Against O'Hara, Diplomatic Courier, When Hell Broke Loose, The Mob, Machine-Gun Kelly, Big House, U.S.A., Charles Bronson: Vital Hits, Donato and Daughter, Showdown at Boot Hill, The Bull of the West, The Meanest Men in the West, Gang War

  If you've never seen the Death Wish films, all you need to know about Charles Bronson can be summed up by the fact that he's played two different characters named Wolf:

  • Wolf Larsen (The Sea Wolf)
  • Nobby Bullaid (Public Defender)
  • Eddie Loder (M Squad)
  • Rogue Donovan (Yancy Derringer)
  • Wolf Hagan (Playhouse)
  • Joseph "Jock" Yablonski (Act of Vengeance)
  • Jay Killian (Assassination)
  • Garret Smith (Messenger of Death)
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  (#10) Lee Marvin

  • The Dirty Dozen, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Cat Ballou, The Big Red One, The Wild One, The Big Heat, The Caine Mutiny, The Delta Force, The Professionals, Paint Your Wagon, Bad Day at Black Rock, Point Blank, Emperor of the North, Gorky Park, The Comancheros, The Killers, Ship of Fools, Hell in the Pacific, Attack, Seven Men from Now, The Iceman Cometh, Monte Walsh, The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday, The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission, Gun Fury, Donovan's Reef, Hangman's Knot, Avalanche Express, The Raid, The Stranger Wore a Gun, Death Hunt, Pocket Money, Shout at the Devil, Raintree County, The Spikes Gang, The Duel at Silver Creek, Sergeant Ryker, Pete Kelly's Blues, Violent Saturday, Prime Cut, A Life in the Balance, Seminole, The Missouri Traveler, Gorilla at Large, The Klansman, Classic Cinema: Richard Burton Triple Feature, Dog Day, The Rack, Shack out on 101, Eight Iron Men

  The most old school of old school tough guys. Lee Marvin definitely comes from a time before screenwriters felt they should add nuance to a character's name. Which one of these nombres do you prefer?

  • Col. Harry Wargrave (Avalanche Express)
  • Colonel Flynn O'Flynn (Shout at the Devil)
  • Sam Longwood (The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday)
  • The Killer (A Life in the Balance)
  • Harry Spikes (The Spikes Gang)
  • Sheriff Track Bascomb (The Klansman)
  • Steel Kelly (The Twilight Zone)
  • Vince Stone (The Beat Heat)
  • The Sergeant (The Big Red One)
  • Meatball (The Caine Mutiny)
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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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  (#12) Vin Diesel

  • Saving Private Ryan, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Iron Giant, The Fast and the Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6, Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Awakenings, Riddick, Boiler Room, Fast & Furious, XXX, Knockaround Guys, The Pacifier, Find Me Guilty, Furious 7, The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury, Babylon A.D., XXX: The Return of Xander Cage, The Machine, A Man Apart, Strays, Multi-Facial, Los Bandoleros, The Last Witch Hunter, Riddick: Blindsided

  Vin Diesel, like Sly Stallone, has a habit of writing his own parts (or at least producing them), so of course his characters have the most butch names in modern Hollywood. Which would you prefer to bench press a city bus?

  • Xander Cage (xXx Series)
  • Dominic Toretto (The Fast and Furious Series)
  • Shane Wolfe (The Pacifier)
  • Taylor Reese (Knockaround Guys)
  • Chris Varick (Boiler Room)
  • Groot (Guardians of the Galaxy)
  • Shroom (Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk)
  • Kaulder (The Last Witch Hunter)
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  (#13) Patrick Swayze

  • Donnie Darko, Dirty Dancing, Ghost, The Outsiders, Point Break, Red Dawn, Youngblood, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, Uncommon Valor, The Fox and the Hound 2, Powder Blue, The Pacifier, 11:14, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Tall Tale, Next of Kin, Black Dog, George and the Dragon, Skatetown, U.S.A., Grandview, U.S.A., Steel Dawn, Keeping Mum, Along for the Ride, Waking Up in Reno, Father Hood, Tiger Warsaw, Icon, City of Joy, Three Wishes, Green Dragon, One Last Dance, Letters from a Killer, King Solomon's Mines, Jump!, The Comeback Kid, Christmas in Wonderland, Return of the Rebels

  Thanks to his training as a dancer, you may not think of Patrick Swayze (RIP) as a butch-ass motherf*cker, but if that's how your mind works, check your preconceived notions. Because the Swayz-dog played plenty of muscley brutes in his day, including: 

  • Dalton (Road House)
  • Chuck "Tiger" Warsaw (Tiger Warsaw)
  • Johnny Castle (Dirty Dancing)
  • Bodhi (Point Break)
  • Jed (Red Dawn)
  • Ace Johnson (Skatetown USA)
  • Darrel Curtis (The Outsiders)
  • Pecos Bill (Tall Tale)
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  (#14) Burt Reynolds

  • Boogie Nights, Deliverance, Smokey and the Bandit, The Longest Yard, The Longest Yard, Striptease, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Cannonball Run, Driven, Without a Paddle, Mystery, Alaska, The End, Cannonball Run II, The Dukes of Hazzard, City Heat, Bean, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Semi-Tough, Hooper, Stroker Ace, Smokey and the Bandit II, Six Pack, Citizen Ruth, White Lightning, Best Friends, At Long Last Love, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Nickelodeon, The Man Who Loved Women, Navajo Joe, Paternity, Hustle, Gator, Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, Cop and a Half, Meet Wally Sparks, Sharky's Machine, Operation C.I.A., 100 Rifles, The Legend of Frosty the Snowman, Rough Cut, Lucky Lady, Starting Over, Mad Dog Time, Tempted, Breaking In, Broken Bridges, Shamus, Shark!, Deal, W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings, Sam Whiskey, Switching Channels, Not Another Not Another Movie, Delgo, Grilled, Fuzz, The Cherokee Kid, Cloud 9, Heat, The Man from Left Field, The Crew, Malone, The Hollywood Sign, Stick, The Hunter's Moon, Hotel, Snapshots, End Game, Hard Ground, Rent-a-Cop, Forget About It, Impasse, Miss Lettie and Me, Fade-In, Uphill All the Way, Raven, The Last Producer, Time of the Wolf, Physical Evidence, Reel Love, Crazy Six, The Maddening, A Bunch of Amateurs, Angel Baby, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms, Universal Soldier III: Unfinished Business, Skullduggery, Johnson County War, Randy and the Mob, Big City Blues, The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, Run, Simon, Run, The Librarians, Hard Time: Hostage Hotel, Hard Time: The Premonition, Hard Time, Comics Open, Waterproof, Armored Command, Double Jeopardy, Pups, The Winds of Whoopie, Stringer

  What is it about Burt Reynolds? He exudes such butch, creepy cool. Maybe "cool" is the wrong word, but it's the one that comes to mind. Whatever you want to call his particular, hairy-chested, porn-stached brand of manhood, he's played:

  • Sam Whiskey (Sam Whiskey)
  • Gator McKlusky (Gator)
  • Stroker Ace (Stroker Ace)
  • Seagrass Lambert (Hollow Creek)
  • Bandit (Smokey and the Bandit)
  • Billy Clyde Puckett (Semit-Tough)
  • Jefferson Steel (A Bunch of Amateurs)
  • John "Chill" McKay (Hard Ground)
  • Hunt Lawton (Johnson County War)
  • Rocky Rhodes (The Twilight Zone)
  • Wood Newton (Evening Shade)
  • Logan McQueen (Hard Time series)
  • The Assassin (Ripcord)
  • Quint (Gunsmoke)
  • Navajo Joe (Navajo Joe) 
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  (#15) Jean-Claude Van Damme

  • The Expendables 2, Bloodsport, Kung Fu Panda 2, Timecop, Last Action Hero, Street Fighter, Kickboxer, Cyborg, Missing in Action, Breakin', Hard Target, The Quest, Universal Soldier, JCVD, Lionheart, Sudden Death, Double Team, No Retreat, No Surrender, Maximum Risk, Double Impact, Universal Soldiers: Regeneration, Nowhere to Run, Legionnaire, Knock Off, Death Warrant, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, Universal Soldier: The Return, Replicant, The Order, Inferno, Derailed, Assassination Games, In Hell, Until Death, Second in Command, Welcome to the Jungle, Wake of Death, Dragon Eyes, Full Love, The Hard Corps, The Exam, Narco, Black Eagle, Barbarous Street, Beur sur la ville, Monaco Forever, The Shepherd: Border Patrol, Rzhevsky vs. Napoleon, Six Bullets, U.F.O., Enemies Closer, Swelter, Pound of Flesh

  Ya boy JCVD has played so many karate man characters with ridiculous names it's almost impossible to parse out the most manly. But these definitely have the most testosterone: 

  • Frank Dux (Bloodsport)
  • Gibson Rickenbacker (Cyborg)
  • Kurt Sloane (Kickboxer)
  • Luc Deveraux (Universal Soldier series)
  • Chance Boudreaux (Hard Target)
  • Darren McCord (Sudden Death)
  • Jack Quinn (The Shepherd)
  • Walker (Timecop)
  • Ivan Kraschinsky the Russian (No Retreat, No Surrender)
  • Master Durand (Kickboxer: Vengeance)
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  (#16) Michael Jai White

  • The Dark Knight, Why Did I Get Married?, Why Did I Get Married Too?, Black Dynamite, Exit Wounds, Spawn, Undisputed II: Last Man Standing, Blood and Bone, Trois 2: Pandora's Box, Getting Played, Universal Soldier: The Return, True Identity, The Philly Kid, Freaky Deaky, Silver Hawk, City of Industry, Justice, Breakfast of Champions, Spawn 2, El Gringo, We the Party, Ringmaster, Tyson, Shaughnessy: The Iron Marshal, Freedom Song, The Wizards Hunter: The Hunt for Evangelion Crowley, Tactical Force, Skin Trade, Thick as Thieves, Ring of Fire 3: Lion Strike, Mutiny, Ring of Fire, Mortal Kombat: Rebirth, Android Cop, Three Bullets, Somebody's Child, Chocolate City

  Michael Jai White seems like he prefers to play against type - his type being one of the most jacked guys on the planet, who has face-breaking martial arts skills - but that doesn't mean he hasn't played a few butch boys in his career. Maybe you've heard of: 

  • Black Dynamite (Black Dynamite, duh)
  • John "Falcon" Chapman (Falcon Rising)
  • Jax Briggs (Mortal Kombat: Legacy)
  • Big D (Fedz)
  • Isaiah Bone (Blood and Bone; no, you perv, it's not about having sex with a woman on her period)
  • The Man (Three Bullets)
  • Hampton Hines (Pandora's Box)
  • Coleman Vaughnes (Freedom Song)
  • Odell Williams (City of Industry)
  • Buck (2 Days in the Valley)
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  (#17) Mickey Rourke

  • Iron Man 2, Sin City, The Expendables, Man on Fire, The Wrestler, Body Heat, Angel Heart, The Rainmaker, Rumble Fish, Diner, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, 1941, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Heaven's Gate, Spun, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Domino, Buffalo '66, The Pledge, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Animal Factory, Immortals, Thursday, 9½ Weeks, Get Carter, Double Team, Wild Orchid, Year of the Dragon, 13, Barfly, Desperate Hours, Johnny Handsome, Bullet, Fade to Black, Killshot, Masked and Anonymous, White Sands, Out in Fifty, The Last Outlaw, Stormbreaker, The Informers, Passion Play, Homeboy, Eureka, A Prayer for the Dying, Francesco, Java Heat, Shades, Picture Claire, The Courier, Point Blank, City in Fear, The Last Outlaw, Fall Time, Love in Paris, Exit in Red, F.T.W., Act of Love, Love in the Hamptons, Shergar: Discover the Heart of a Champion, They Crawl, Black Gold, The Hire: The Follow, Mentoring Mickey Rourke, Generation Iron, Dead in Tombstone, Thicker Than Blood, Black November, Ashby

  For someone reason, Mickey Rourke is usually booked to play characters with Eastern European names, or names no human would ever have in real life. Maybe because he was a handsome sex prince who decided to destroy his face by becoming a professional boxer? 

  • Marv (Sin City)
  • Ivan Vanko (Iron Man 2)
  • Harley Davidson (Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man)
  • Armand "Blackbird" Degas (Killshot)
  • Randy 'The Ram' Robinson (The Wrestler)
  • Kasarov (Thursday*)
  • King Hyperion (Immortals)
  • Tool (The Expendables)
  • Bruiser Stone (The Rainmaker)
  • Stavros (Double Team)
  • Butch "Bullet" Stein (Bullet; that's right, one of his characters is literally named Butch)

  * - Not a sequel to Wednesday
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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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  (#19) Jim Brown

  • Mars Attacks!, Any Given Sunday, The Dirty Dozen, The Running Man, He Got Game, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, She Hate Me, Small Soldiers, Ice Station Zebra, Original Gangstas, Take a Hard Ride, 100 Rifles, Fingers, Rio Conchos, Three the Hard Way, Animal, Jim Brown: All-American, Slaughter, The Condor, Black Gunn, I Escaped from Devil's Island, The Grasshopper, ...tick...tick...tick..., Riot, Dark of the Sun, L.A. Heat, Slaughter's Big Rip-Off, Kid Vengeance, New Jersey Turnpikes, Superbug Rides Again, Crack House, The Black Candle, The Split, The Slams, On the Edge, Twisted Justice, Dream Street, Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema, Killing American style

  An old school tough guy if ever there were one, Jim Brown has some great character names (even if you can't remember what movies they're in). He's also one of the greatest NFL players of all time, and broke all kinds of records.  

  • Geronimo Armstrong (She Hate Me)
  • Butch Meathook (Small Soldiers)
  • Lt. Sunset (Killing American Style)
  • Slammer (Hammer, Slammer, & Slade)
  • Fireball (The Running Man)
  • Steamroller (The A-Team)
  • Slaughter (Slaughter's Big Rip Off)
  • Gunn (Black Gunn)
  • Montezuma Monroe (Any Given Sunday)
  • Berwell (Animal)

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