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There are movie heroes even more badass thanJohn Wick ? ! Yes , there sure as shooting are .
The man of pure will , Babayaga himself , the bogeyman you send off to down The Boogeyman , is one of the best activity poor boy we ’ve ever had . He looks coolheaded , he loves dogs , and hedoesn’t get paid by the hourso he ’s efficiently deadly to a terminal degree . He is so badass he does n’t even need one - liners , explosions , or much more than his name to instill fear from outlaw to kingpins . And yet , there ’s a short list of awesome action picture who can be argued to fill in him by just a little .
So far , John Wick is three - for - three in awesome legal action pic , but this list domiciliate those who ’ve had full sagas , or even just a single effort that prove they might just be more badass than the infamous Mr. Wick .
Brian Mills - Taken
The sequels may have trailed off in quality but that firstTakenstands tall to this day . From the moment he lets his daughter fuck she ’s about to be ' take ' we get the sense this is n’t a normal activity templet and Brian Mills is n’t any veritable ' activity grandpa ' . His " particular stage set of skills " has become infamous as a solution of this first flick , and the succinct detective work and action set firearm that follow stamp this effort with course .
There ’s just something satisfying about go through someone who knows for sure what to do and then doing it without the usual hokey complicatedness result . Bad guys did defective guy things , and Brian Mills economize his daughter regardless . And he did n’t postulate any ' markers ' or ' coins ' to get it done . Just a badass doing badass things .
Wolverine - Logan
Wolverine ’s always been a badass , but his turn in the titularLoganlands him a spot here . The forever young , always healing , Adamantium - claw animal in the end got put down , but not before an astonishing last flurry . As his body at long last gives out on him after years of running it in the red , he bring forth a reason to live and to unleash his violence one more time , and it ’s glorious .
Across the ten - Men dealership , Wolverine had plenty of limb - chopping action mechanism fun but this swansong to his news report elevated him into the badass Hall Of Fame . Brutal , beautiful , and with add feel to top it off . John Wick could only desire for such an conclusion , but he ’s already had his ' happily ever after ' and now he ’ll never lie soundly again .
Ash Williams - Evil Dead
Ash Williams undoubtedly has some of the most insanely badass moments of anyone on this listing . yell in elated rage as you sever your hand off so you could bond a chain saw to it is an immediate badass Marguerite Radclyffe Hall pass . Even if you do n’t weigh his belated efforts inAsh Vs Evil Dead , the wild , improvisational chaos that Ash blusters through in theEvil Deadtrilogy never gets old .
Bruce Campbell puts so much wacky personal magnetism into everything Ash does that put him next to Wick makes them seem like entirely separate species . Plus , Ash Williams knows when a unholy Deadite is just play opossum and needs a double - tap . When you ’ve got that much experience share with supernatural evil , you ’re badass without interrogative sentence . Plus , the Kuki of a badass never hurts .
Maximus Decimus Meridius - Gladiator
Maximus is as inspirational as he is badass , and inspirational beats inducing fear like Mr. Wick . Given one of the most flagrant antagonists ever in Emperor Commodus , Maximus went from General , to buckle down , toGladiator , to heroic martyr all in one showing .
He can hit quicker , stronger , more experient foe with a diverseness of weapons . He pull through near - destruction and the release of his family to rise up and remove a despot with his bare custody . He even made those around him better just for being with them , and what ’s more badass than that ? Probably doing it while having a coolheaded catchphrase . Yes , we are flirt with !
Chev Chelios - Crank
While John Wick attain his project with a cool focus , Crank ’s Chev Chelios survives unceasing hovering death by being too call down to ever stop . receive to constantly keep his rake pumping or his mechanical heart electrified brightly forces him to accomplish badassery in a never - end stream of violence ( and sometimes make out ) .
Never - not scowl in some form or fashion , he leave a trail of destruction you ’d usually demand a armoured combat vehicle to carry through . Easily Statham ’s most over - the - top character , it still overflows the badass - metre metre after time . John Wick carry out his awesomeness without raise up the masses . Chev Chelios makes the nightly word with his dying and wake up the next day for more .
John Creasy - Man On Fire
' Creasy ’s fine art is decease , and he ’s about to paint his masterpiece ' . You could supersede Creasy ’s name for John Wick ’s and it ’d check just as well , so Creasy matches Wick at the very least . That one job is so brimming with badass potential you might expect the residuum of the story not to be able to subsist up to it . human being On Firedoes so much more than that .
Denzel Washington ’s John Creasy rampages through Mexico in the name of the little girl who gave him a glimpse of in force times . With her snatch and botched ransom , hearing about her death push him over the edge . Seeing someone die on the inside only to turn out again as a magnetic dreary reaper who collects pain as repayment should n’t be this fun , but it ’s that and more by the last .
John McClane - Die Hard
Die Hard ’s John McClane’sbadass credentialsshine moderately bright . John Wick has pass off buildings and survived . John McClane bound off towers with a attack hose - harness and swung back deep down to finish off his wife ’s kidnapper ! John Wick ’s answer to most every problem is a bullet ( or a pencil ) , while McClane on occasion clear a brain-teaser or a conspiracy on the side of his various forms of havoc .
John Wick is a world - class assassinator venerate among assassins as he kill everyone in line - of - good deal . John McClane is still ' just a cop ' and yet live the things he does despite no fortune of have any clue how or what to do beforehand . That ’s the remainder .
Dutch - Predator
He campaign to a TKO / Tapout / Nuke - icide with a freaking alien secret plan - hunter ! The tilt of things more badass than that could fit on a post - it note . You might dismiss Dutch from the badass stakes just because he calculate the part so much it ’s like he had an unjust reward , but that ’s what happens when you ’re Arnie .
The list of iconic instant and lines from Dutch are too many to recount here , but depending on the terrain Dutch could potentially outmanoeuvre Wick . Where Dutch baksheesh ahead is that he had to fight a personnel he had no way of ever preparing for , while John Wick eff how people fight from innumerable skirmish . stage for degree of difficulty , if you will .
The Bride/Beatrix Kiddo - Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino ’s uber - heroine who rose from the dead to take revenge of the ' roar rampage ' variety show . While we ’re told about John Wick ’s iron - will and completion of ' insufferable job ' from before the series , we actually get to see Beatrix Kiddo ’s variation of that .
She play off Mr. Wick in have an iconic smell , a signature weapon , an unstoppable will , and a unpitying efficiency bordering on god - like death - dealing . However , she in the end run her world of destructive murder with her kid in tow to the boot , while John seems to only sink deeper with every body he makes cold .
Atticus Finch - To Kill A Mockingbird
Of the many types of badass listed here , there is one that only Finch embodies the saint of and that ’s standing in the expression of ignorance and injustice . Everyone else had some personal skin in the game , but Atticus Finch stepped into an field he could ’ve avoided had he been anyone less badass than himself . Every second in his vicinity beam a presence none of these badasses can quite touch .
There ’s a visceral joyfulness to watching John Wick throw multiple tongue into the last guy rope in a flurried gang combat , that ’s always going to be true . But there ’s a real chance that if John Wick walked into a room and was confront by little more than Atticus Finch ’s admonishing gaze , he ’d back out of the elbow room slowly and thank his luck to do so .
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