B-Movie Badass Matchoff

Every once in a while we get a theoretical matchoff of various fictional characters. This time, let’s try out some of the heavyweight non-serious badasses.

Jason Statham - Crank
Bruce Campbell - Army of Darkness
Antonio Banderas - Desperado
Bruce Willis - Hudson Hawk
John Cusack - Grosse Pointe Blank
Kurt Russell - Tango & Cash
Clive Owen - Shoot 'Em Up

Who would win them all? :cool:

Bruce Campbell hands down.

Hudson Hawk is the one who’s going to be the least like all the others. While they’d all be running around with dual pistols, he’d be planting mines and putting tranqs in their drinks. If a stray bullet doesn’t catch him and he can stay hidden long enough, he’ll win out in the long run.

Probably Crank-dude would be his toughest competitor just out of sheer unkillableness.

Ash’s (Bruce Campbell’s) biggest competitor would probably be Kurt Russell from Tango & Cash. Russell is probably a six shooter and hand-to-hand sort of guy. Ash is a chainsaw and boomstick guy. Those probably even out.

Er… hand down.

“Yo, she-bitch! Let’s go!”

Ash in a heartbeat.

I dunno

'Well, maybe I didn’t kill every single one of 'em, but basically, yeah, I killed ‘em.’

might set you up for a bad outcome

Hail to the King, baby.

But there is an error in the OP’s list. Kurt Russell’s Jack Burton would wipe the floor with Kurt Russell’s Cash.

Only if someone throws a knife at him. Wang and Egg Shen did all the heavy lifting in that movie.

Kurt Russell’s Soldier would work, though. He wound up killing more bad guys than were even sent to the planet!

Wang Chi would wipe the ground with Cash, while Jack Burton fumbled with his knife or gun, and said something heroic :smiley:

But where would Snake Plisskin fare in all this? And I object to the exclusion of Rowdy Roddy Piper and Keith David in this thread. . .

I considered putting Jack Burton up first, but if you watch the movie he really is just a truck driver. Outside of his reflexes, he’s really got no skill with either weapons or hand-to-hand fighting. He works as a main character almost largely because of how much he talks up his own skills just to time and time again fail, then come through right at the end and save the day and get the girl.

Someone once said that Jack was a sidekick who thinks he’s the hero.

Reminds me of the one episode of the Green Hornet I saw on TV once. “You all must fear as I proceed to send my sidekick out to kick your asses, while I sit back and have a nice refreshing coca cola!”