When Movie Characters Go Postal

Batman, Rambo, Jigsaw and more go from mild to wild...

Nov 26th 2009 By Simon Kinnear

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First Blood (1982)

Average Joe: Ex-Special Forces soldier turned drifter John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone)

What turns him?: Arrested on suspicion of being a nogoodnik by local Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy), then beaten by his deputy.

All of which brings back bad memories of ’Nam.

One-man postal service: You want a nogoodnik? You got one.

Playing up to perceptions, Rambo goes guerrilla, picking off Teasle’s men one-by-one, but – one accident aside – he makes a point of only maims instead of killing.

Thanks heavens for small mercies? Well… he runs up one hell of a damages bill in town. That’s just spiteful.

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- BigAndyT
  
  Nov 26th 2009, 19:37
  
  Paddy in dead mans shoes surely?
  
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- metalgatesolid
  
  Nov 26th 2009, 19:39
  
  What about Frank Castle in the "not bad but not brilliant" Punishers?
  
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- fezdaferret
  
  Dec 1st 2009, 4:04
  
  what about Liam Neesons Character Bryan Mills from Taken, surely one of the best films of last year
  
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