# Who’s saved the world the most times? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584 "2005-05-19T15:19:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/21 "2005-05-19T16:59:46Z")
I think one of the various Doctor Who versions would be a good candidate. My guess would be the Jon Pertwee version. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/22 "2005-05-19T19:27:06Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > I’m sure he’s not the winner, but you could probably credit Patrick Stweart with at least 2. The _Star Trek: TNG_ and _X-Men_ series. > > I think the winner, as in al things action movieish, is going to be the Governator. > > You’ve got: _The Terminator (T2 & T3), End of Days, True Lies, Total Recall, Red Sonja_ at least. > > Granted, in one case he saves Mars, not Earth, and in another he stops Nuclear Terrorists, which while big might not equate to “destroy the world”. Depends on your defintions. In T2, he did not save the world as evidenced by the fact that there was a T3. And in T3 all he did was save two people from nuclear war. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/23 "2005-05-19T19:39:41Z")
Teri Garr and Jeffrey Jones get one point. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/24 "2005-05-19T19:41:26Z")
No mention of Kim Possible or the Powerpuff Girls? They save the world (and the day) more times before breakfast than Bond or those other guys did in their entire careers. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/25 "2005-05-19T19:46:39Z")
You know, probably the best way to go about definitively answering this would be to make a list of movies and TV shows in which the world is saved, and which character does the saving. That said… howzabout Sean Connery? As James Bond; As Ramirez in Highlander 2; and… uh… Allen Quatermain… Hmmm… That’s three, at least. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/26 "2005-05-19T19:48:58Z")
On the other hand, Bruce Willis - not in Die Hard, but the other three mentioned, plus arguably Hudson Hawk - wherein he prevents the destruction of the global economy. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/27 "2005-05-19T19:50:53Z")
I’m gonna go with Fox Mulder and Dana Scully… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/28 "2005-05-19T20:33:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Well, Mike Myers has saved it three times. As Austin Powers and who else? I mean, the world wasn’t exactly in danger in _Wayne’s World_ or _So I Married an Axe Murderer_. Personally, I think it’s probably Ahnold, though some of his saves are a bit debateable. But I would count T2: He did stop a nuclear war. Just because the world didn’t stay saved, doesn’t mean that it wasn’t saved for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Monstre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@Monstre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monstre)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/29 "2005-05-19T22:52:47Z")
> [@ronincyberpunk](#): > > 12… 13 - they’re so close they may as well be the same. I mean seriously. Don’t go busting my balls about 1 measley monkey 😉 Perhaps they were baker’s monkeys… And in Die Hard 1, 2, and Vengeance, he saved a building, an airport, and various portions of a city. But he’s working his way up. In the next Die Hard, he ought to be saving at least one U.S. state. [Or maybe another country?](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/combined) Will Smith has at least 3 saves – _Independence Day_, _I, Robot_, and _Men in Black_. And Kevin Bacon probably hasn’t saved the world the most times, but I’m sure he’s within a half-dozen degrees of being the winner. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/30 "2005-05-19T23:00:03Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > As Austin Powers and who else? I mean, the world wasn’t exactly in danger in _Wayne’s World_ or _So I Married an Axe Murderer_. There are three Austin Powers movies. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2005, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/31 "2005-05-19T23:02:40Z")
Ben Affleck’s got two saves; _Armageddon_ and _Clear and Present Danger_. And a half point for defeating the Nazis and the Japanese almost single-handedly in _Pearl Harbor_. Minus a point, however, for trying to destroy the world in _Dogma_. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/32 "2005-05-20T03:36:13Z")
Hm. How would one count points for Mel Blanc, the Voice of Looney Toones? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fortean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/96bed5/32.png) [@Fortean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fortean)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/33 "2005-05-20T09:46:28Z")
So is Arnie the winner then, followed by Will Smith? And I’ll ignore that slur about poor Frodo. Yeah, he saved the world. Yeah, it was kind of an accident. You could say the same for most heros. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2005, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584/34 "2005-05-20T10:36:43Z")
It seems almost nobody has understood the rules stipulated in the OP. > [@Fortean](#): > > As different characters, of course [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-s-saved-the-world-the-most-times/304584.md?page=1)