T’was watching SPECTRE with my far better half last night, and I got to thinking to myself, “Self, I once considered a top-five list of favorite henchmen, but I totally forgot it. . .”
I know I’ve got two on my list, in order of their henchy-ness:
Sven-Ole Thorsen, an old-school musclehead that’s been in a lot of Arnold Schwarzenneger flicks, was “Mr Haft” in Sum of All Fears and the Soviet COB in The Hunt for Red October.
Dave Bautista, a new-school musclehead, who was a sidekick in Guardians of the Galaxy, a nurse in Hotel Artemis, but henched it up in SPECTRE.
I’m looking for non-lead actors/actresses who do the henching for main villians. The Empire/First Orders’ Stormtroopers don’t count, because their sheer population and uselessness water down the henchability factor.
Who’s some notable henchmen/henchwomen I’m missing?
Tripler
I gotta think about Westerns. . . some possible Ranch-henchers there, too.
I first saw Benicio del Toro as a minor henchman. I have no idea what else was going on in the scene where I first noticed him, because he commanded all the attention. I even pointed him out, and said “I want to see him as a major villain sometime.”
