Which was spectacularly stupid, since the fusion reactor was going to blow and Ripley knew it. :smack:
See also Heinrich Dorfmann from Flight of the Pheonix, everyone else was doomed without him. I actually think of that character as the inspiration behind Lester Malvo from the Series Fargo.
Elisha: You think my bare head is funny? Fine! How about you laugh at a bear’s head?!
The moral of that scripture is to never call a prophet “baldy.” 
Ripley didn’t betray her. As Ripley was starting to leave, the eggs started opening to release facehuggers (to impregnate Ripley & Newt). Ripley gives the Queen a “You stupid cheating bitch” look and then starts torching the joint. The facehuggers only serve one purpose and they weren’t coming out to wave goodbye.
Only one egg opened, which they pretty much do automatically when there is a human around, but the facehugger didn’t emerge. Ripley’s look was more of a “Did you really think I was gonna let your disgusting family live?”
I disagree with your interpretation but I suppose this isn’t the thread for it and it’s not especially important either.
Fair enough
After Will Munny shoots Skinny (“Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!” “Well, he should have armed himself if he’s going to decorate his saloon with my friend”) with one barrel of a double-barreled shotgun, he takes aim at Little Bill with the other barrel. Little Bill’s reply: “Alright Gentlemen. He’s got one barrel left. And when he fires that, take out your pistols and shoot him down like the mangy scoundrel he is!” And when Munny pulls the damned trigger…well, Little Bill does flinch a bit. But that’s all he does: “Misfire! Kill that son of a bitch!”
Gollum. Walked into Mordor alone, unarmed, wearing a loincloth. All the big name heroes bitched and moaned about how it was impossible without an army and that the Nine Walkers were basically a suicide squad, Gollum just beat feet. Then he went back and did it again. Say what else you like about the squirmy son-of-a-bitch, he had balls the size of grapefruit.
See also Lobelia Sackville-Baggins. Everybody else needed a mounted fucking army and giant pissed-off trees hurling boulders to take on Saruman and his forces; Lobelia just needed an umbrella and a grudge. Respect.
No one mentioned Loki?
I suppose that may be more ‘sympathize’ than admire courage. He stands at Thors side in the beginning of the first film, on more than one occasion in the comics he is useful in a battle, though more often than not he’s simply being hung by his own petatrd.
The book mentions that Woundwort’s final act is not totally pointless and useless; his attack delays and distracts the dog, allowing a few of his followers whom the dog would otherwise likely have killed, to get clean away, or dash into the Watership burrows and surrender themeselves to the Watership rabbits. Whatever other attributes Woundwort may have – he has guts and to spare, and / or he’s batshit crazy.
In the movie The Scorpion King the chief bad guy, Memnon, is a power-crazed and bloodthirsty conqueror. But he’s not a coward, he doesn’t rely on others to protect him or run from danger.
Also, IIRC, they never found his body.
Indeed. Groundsel, officer in the Efrafan expeditionary force who saves his life by surrendering to and subsequently joining the Watership-ites, retains lifelong a high degree of reverence for General Woundwort – who, he insists, did not die; but went off to find elsewhere, rabbits who would be worthy of his leadership.
I’m hesitant to wade into a religious debate, but, amazingly, it’s relevant to the thread.
Paul disagrees with your interpretation:
That whole chapter is basically about reconciling common sense human notions about justice with an apparently just God whose actions don’t always jibe with those notions.
Here Paul raises the obvious objection to the Egypt story: If God *made *Pharaoh sin, how can he still blame him for sinning? To which the answer is basically: You are ill-equipped to judge God, so don’t even try. (I know from past experience that most people’s Mileage May Vary, but I actually think that’s a pretty good answer.)
ETA: To be fair, the google search that found this also reveals differeing interpretations of “hardened Pharaoh’s heart.” Taking the Bible as a whole, though, this one seems most reasonable and consistent to me.
So, to bring it back around, I think there’s less evidence for the “Pharaoh was a Badass” interpretation than there is for the idea of “Zombie Pharaoh.”