Pool of Participants and Stats

We have scoured movies from around the world of cinema, doing our best to select participants in these contests.  As we find more, we will add more to the pool.

Here, you will find the master list of Movie Pop Culture characters that we use to hold the Movie Pop Culture Showdown!  We will also do what we can to keep track of their wins, losses, and what showdowns you can find them in.

The Participants

Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Last Crusade, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)

Flash Gordon (Flash Gordon)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • The classic sci-fi adventure film Flash Gordon (1980) stars former Playgirl-centerfold[4] Sam J. Jones in the title role. Its plot is based loosely on the first few years of the comic strip (in particular the famous Alex Raymond Sunday page, “Flight of the Hawkmen”,[citation needed]) revising Flash’s backstory by making him the quarterback of the New York Jets instead of a poloplayer. Raymond’s drawings feature heavily in the opening credits, as does the signature theme-song “Flash!” by rock bandQueen, who composed and performed the entire musical score.

RoboCop (RoboCop, RoboCop 2, RoboCop 3)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • OCP Crime Prevention Unit 001 (formerly Detroit Police Officer Alex James Murphy and usually referred to as simply RoboCop) is a fictional Detroitcyborg police officer and protagonist from the feature film series of the same name. The character begins as a human being who is killed in the line of duty by a vicious crime gang. Subsequently, Murphy is transformed into the cyborg entity by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products.

Terminator (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • “The Terminator” (also known as the T-800, T-850 or T-101) refers to a number of fictional characters portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger – a cyborg, initially portrayed as a programmable assassin and military infiltration unit. “The Terminator” character first appeared as the titular antagonist in The Terminator, a 1984 film directed and co-written by James Cameron, and its sequels. The first film in the series features only one cyborg: the one portrayed by Schwarzenegger, although a second Terminator played by Franco Columbu is shown in a future flashback scene. In the first two sequels, Schwarzenegger’s Terminator is pitted against other Terminators; it appears briefly in the third sequel as a CGI model. In the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day andTerminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Schwarzenegger reprises the role, but with a twist: Schwarzenegger is the hero instead of the villain playing a different but visually identical Terminator in each of the three films. Within the Terminatoruniverse created by Cameron, Terminators of the same “model” share identical characteristics. In the production of the films, this has allowed multiple Terminators to be portrayed by Schwarzenegger. In the context of the stories, this plot device provides a certain continuity for the human characters, by exploiting their emotional familiarity with a particular “human” visage.

Selene (Underworld, Underworld: Evolution)

Buckaroo Banzai (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)

Ash (Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 4
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: 2012
  • Ashley J. “Ash” Williams is the fictional protagonist of The Evil Dead franchise. He is portrayed by Bruce Campbell and created by director Sam Raimi. Throughout the series, Ash has to face off against his loved ones inside an abandoned cabin as they are possessed by “deadites”, the evil souls of the dead. He was named the 24th greatest movie character of all time by Empire Magazine.

Ellen Ripley (Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Ellen Ripley is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Alien film series played by American actress Sigourney Weaver, and the only character to appear in every film of the franchise (not including the two crossover prequels). The character is often considered as one of the bests of all time: it was heralded as a seminal role for challenging gender roles, particularly in the science fiction, actionand horror genres, gave world recognition to Weaver and remains her most famous role to date.

James Bond

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • The James Bond film series is a British series of motion pictures based on the fictional character of MI6 agent James Bond (code designation “007″), who originally appeared in a series of books by Ian Fleming. Earlier films were based on Fleming’s novels and short stories, followed later by films with original storylines. It is the longest continually-running film series in history, having been in ongoing production from 1962 to the present (with a six-year hiatus between 1989 and 1995). In that time Eon Productions has produced 22 films, at an average of about one every two years, usually produced at Pinewood Studios. The series has grossed just over US$5 billion to date, making it the second-highest-grossing film series of all-time (behind Harry Potter). Six actors have portrayed 007 in the Eon series, with the Connery films largely setting the style and mood of the series, and Roger Moore starring in the most films.

Jason Bourne (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Supremacy)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • In the films, the character of Jason Bourne, portrayed by Matt Damon, varies from the character described in the novels. The films omit the Vietnam War and the character of Carlos the Jackal. They also focus significantly more on the female roles of Nicky (Julia Stiles) and Marie (Franka Potente).  In the films, David Webb was born in Nixa, Missouri. He was a Captain in the United States Army Special Forces, a Roman Catholic, and his Social Security Number is 829-63-1204. Other details vary in different parts of the trilogy: his blood type is O- on his dog tags but A+ in his induction report, and numerous birth dates are given, including August 21st, 1969 on his file in Supremacy and September 13, 1970, as indicated by his various files in Ultimatum.

Alice (Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction, Resident Evil: Afterlife)

Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 3
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Jack Burton is possibly the greatest hero to ever walk the Earth at least in his own mind. With the help of his friend Wang Chi and his quick reflexes, he saved Chinatown and possibly the entire world. Some people would say that it was Wang Chi who saved the world, but I’d like to think that Jack played a small part. That’s how the story begins very small.  Jack Burton is a long-haul truck driver who delivers pigs and pork products around the country in his semi named The Pork Chop Express. The truck is rumored to register at 6.9 on the Richter scale. He also dabbles in amateur broadcast radio and shares his wisdom over the CB radio.

Predator (Predator, Predator 2, Predators, Alien vs. Predator, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Known to Earth as The Predator, he is one of a close clique of alien hunters who scour the galaxies seeking the ultimate surge of excitement as well as the prize of the most glorious catch. The Predators land on varied habitable planets and are drawn by intense heat as well as conflict between native races. They possess advanced survival and destruction technology, notably light-bending camouflage as well as wrist-mounted explosives capable of obliterating entire cities. The Predators are, naturally, carnivorous creatures but also have a code of honor.

Lieutenant Marion ‘Cobra’ Cobretti (Cobra)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Marion Cobretti, codenamed “Cobra”, (Stallone) is a police officer from a division of the Los Angeles Police Department known as the “Zombie Squad”. He is called into a hostage situation at a grocery store when negotiations fail. Cobretti kills the gunman, but before his death the criminal mumbles of a New Order: a group of Neo Fascists who believe in killing the weak and leaving only the strongest and themselves to live and rule the world.

Frank Martin (Transporter, Transporter 2, Transporter 3)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Frank Martin is the protagonist and reluctant hero of the films and television series. He is portrayed as an former-special forces operator who was a team leader of a search and destroy unit. His military background includes operations “in and out of” Lebanon, Syria and Sudan. He retires from this after becoming fatigued and disenchanted with his superior officers. In simple terms, he got tired of seeing his best efforts turned to nothing by the same people paying him to do the job. So he puts his skills to action as a private driver for hire.

Smith (Shoot ‘em Up)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • With his strong love for Guns and Carrots… Mr. Smith gained recognition as a pistol champion at the age of 14, then was intercepted by black ops and trained to the cold blooded pistol packing bad boy he’s known to be. Shoot ‘Em Up is a 2007 action film, starring Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, andMonica Bellucci. The film was written and directed by Michael Davis and produced by Susan Montford, Don Murphy and Rick Benattar. The film was released on September 7, 2007.

Connor MacLeod (Highlander, Highlander 2, Highlander 3, Highlander 4)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Connor MacLeod, also known as The Highlander, is a fictional character in theHighlander film series, as well as the television programs Highlander: The Series, and Highlander: The Animated Series. In the films, he is portrayed by Christopher Lambert.  The character of Connor MacLeod is divided between many separate continuities; the original movie, each sequel, the television series, and the multiple animated series. Although varying from leading man to supporting character in each different continuity, Connor’s importance to each continuity’s story is not to be overlooked.

Gabriel Van Helsing (Van Helsing)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • In the 2004 film, “Van Helsing”. Portrayed by Hugh Jackman in this film with some differences from the Stoker character. Known as Gabrial Van Helsing he is a much younger version who works for a group called the Knights of the Holey Order who hunt evil monsters and vanquished them from the Earth established by the Pope. Van Helsing has faced many enemies even a monstrous Mr. Hyde who he defeated in Paris in Notre Dame but after so many killing he is passed off as a murderer and became the most wanted man in Europe. After facing Mr. Hyde he is sent on a new assignment to hunt the evil Count Dracula, the lord of all vampires. With is sidekick Carl Van Helsing heads to Translyvannia to help Anna Valerous fight against snarrling Werewolves, the monsterous Frankenstien Monster, Count Dracula’s three evil vampire brides, and the master of all evil himself, the dark lord of vampires, Count Dracula.

Xander Cage (xXx)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Xander Cage, a.k.a. xXx, a law-breaking, extreme sports enthusiast, with a propensity for rebellious behavior, is ‘hired’ by Augustus Gibbons to go undercover in order to find out more about the underground group ‘Anarchy 99′ and in particular their leader ‘Yorgi’, a Russian ex-soldier who has a grudge against society and authority. Three were conflciting reports to if and how Xander Cage may have died shortly after his the completion of this mission.

Darth Vader (Star Wars)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Vader is depicted as the cunning, brutal enforcer of the Galactic Empire’s rule across the galaxy. Vader serves as the apprentice of Emperor Palpatine, using the dark side of the Force to mercilessly pursue the Jedi and the Rebel Alliance to the ends of the galaxy. The prequel trilogy recounts the heroic rise and tragic fall of Vader’s former self, Anakin Skywalker.

Jay & Silent Bob (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Jay and Silent Bob are fictional characters portrayed by Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith, respectively, in Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse, a fictional universecreated and used in most films, comics and television by Smith, which began inClerks. Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in most of Smith’s films with the exceptions being Jersey Girl, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Cop Out, and Red State. In Smith’s universe, the characters are shown spending most of their time selling marijuana in front of the convenience store in the Clerks films. An exception to their drug trafficking occurred in Clerks: The Animated Series, in which they were selling illegal fireworks instead of drugs.

Riddick (Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick)

Jules Winfield (Pulp Fiction)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Whether he was working for gang boss Marsellus Wallace or not, for years one thing that gangster Jules Winnfield openly recited was a version of the Biblical chapter Ezekiel 25:17 to his victims before he killed them. One day, a job for Wallace goes awry when his employees Winnfield and Vincent Vega go to recover a briefcase that was stolen from Wallace. Winnfield and Vega dispatch Wallace’s ex-partners with gunplay and ease. When their work seems complete, an extra man who was hiding in a spare room in the apartment attacks the hitmen by surprise, shooting at them with his .357 handgun. None of the extra man’s shots hit their targets. Jules and Vincent shoot the extra man dead.

Hans Gruber (Die Hard)

  • Showdowns: 2012, 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Hans Gruber, an ex-member of a radical West German movement called the Volksfry, is the leader of a group of ruthless psychopaths intent on stealing $640 million in bearer bonds from the Nakatomi Corp. in Los Angeles. Using a courier truck, they gain access to the building and 2 other men let them in after murdering the security guard at the desk. The other men cut off escape routes by locking off elevators, cutting telephone lines, and sealing the parkade doors! Gruber & the others storm into the company’s Christmas party and round up hostages, but they are unaware that NYPD officer John McClane – husband of one of Nakatomi’s executives – is in the building & has escaped detection by going up the fire stairs. Hans savagely murders senior executive Joseph Takagi after Takagi tells them he does not have the codes to unlock the vault holding the bonds, and they are forced to start drilling into the vault.

Will Kane (High Noon)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • In High Noon, Will Kane is a town marshal. It is his wedding day and his last day as a lawman. He is about to leave town with his bride to start a new life when some men come to town and tell him that a man he sent to prison some years earlier has just been released and is arriving on the noon train. Kane and the townsfolk who remember him, know that he is coming to town for one reason: to kill Will. Will’s friends tell him to leave town which he does but Will feels that running away is not a solution and returns to face him. Will tries to find support from his friends but none wants to help. They all tell him to leave. Will is all alone to face his old foe. He chose to stand up and face a gang of four notorious killers alone.

Col. Hans Landa (Inglorious Basterds)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Standartenführer (Colonel) Hans Landa is an Austrian SS officer assigned to the Sicherheitsdienst. He is nicknamed The Jew Hunter in reference to his keen ability to locate Jews hiding throughout Occupied France. Egotistical and ambitious, Landa takes a great deal of pride in this reputation and its associated nickname. Landa is cruel and ruthless, but charming, extremely polite, and diabolically intelligent. Besides German, he fluently speaks at least three other languages: English, French andItalian. Despite several loyalty awards within the SS, Landa has no real faith in Nazism or loyalty to the Third Reich. Landa is driven by psychopathic ambition alone. By the end of the film, he opportunistically switches sides and assists the Basterds in assassinating Adolf Hitler and his inner circle. Landa even manages to negotiate a hefty deal including a house on Nantucket Island, his military pension, public recognition as an operative working with the American Office of Strategic Services and to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Rick Blaine (Casablanca)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Rick Blaine’s past is very sketchy, and we never know his previous occupation or why he cannot return to his home country, the U.S. In 1935 he fought the facists in Spain and in 1936 ran guns to Ethiopia, always on the “good” side. In Paris frequents the cafe “La Belle Aurore”, run by a man he calls “Frenchy”, and during this period he met Ilsa Lund, the love of his life. When the Germans marched into Paris he and Ilsa, along with Rick’s trusted friend and piano player Sam, planned to run away to Marseillaise, but Ilsa left him stranded on the train station with only a note saying, “I cannot go with you or ever see you again. You must not ask why. Just believe that I love you. Go, my darling, and God bless you. Ilsa.”

Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Charles Foster Kane was born of humble origins in the fictional settlement of Little Salem, Colorado in 1863. A mine given to his parents (to settle a bill for room and board) happened to be rich in gold. To secure a better future for the eight-year-old boy, his parents gave him over to Walter Parks Thatcher in 1871, who raised him in luxury until he became an adult. However, Kane hated Thatcher immediately for ripping him away from his family and he attended numerous colleges, all of which expelled him, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Cornell.

Sam Spade (Maltese Falcon)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Like most of Dashiell Hammett’s detective characters, Sam Spade is a man with no specific past, just a job to do and an amoral code of ethics that drives him to get it done. Hammett himself said: “Spade has no original. He is a dream man in the sense that he is what most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and in their cockier moments thought they approached. For your private detective does not or did not ten years ago when he was my colleague want to be an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner; he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander or client.” Unlike Hammett’s most frequently used character, the unnamed “Continental Op,” Spade works for himself, does not always get along with the police, and appears to have some appeal for the opposite sex.

Will Munny (Unforgiven)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming. A dark Western that deals frankly with the uglier aspects of violence and the myth of the Old West, it stars Eastwood in the lead role, with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.

Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Forrest Gump is a fictional character who first appears in the 1986 eponymous novel by Winston Groom. Forrest Gump also appeared on screen in the 1994 film of the same name directed by Robert Zemeckis. Gump was portrayed as a child by Michael Humphreys and portrayed as an adult by Tom Hanks, who won anAcademy Award for the role. The portrayal of Forrest in the novel is notably different from the portrayal in the film. He later reappears in the 1995 novel Gump and Co.In 2008, Forrest Gump was named the 20th greatest movie character of all time by Empire magazine.

Anton Chigurh (No Country for Old Men)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Anton Chigurh is an emotionless, compassionless killing machine. His inability to comprehend human life is matched only by his ability to take it, as he does with ruthless abandon throughout the running of No Country For Old Men. Hired to track down drug money by a group of Americans, he quickly kills those who hired him and begins to search for the money on his own. He carries a cattlegun, which fires a cylinder from a hose which is connected to a tank of compressed air to destroy cylinder locks and dispatch a host of victims. He also carries a silenced assault shotgun. It is said that Anton Chigurh is now one of the most iconic villains of all time.

Maximus Decimus Meridius (Gladiatior)

  • Showdowns: 2012, 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: 2
  • Titles: None
  • A morally upstanding Hispano-Roman general in Germania, turned slave who seeks revenge against Commodus. He had been under the favor of Marcus Aurelius, and the love and admiration of Lucilla prior to the events of the film. His home is near Trujillo in today’s Province of Cáceres, Spain (in fact the city where he’s from is Mérida). After the murder of his family he vows vengeance. Maximus is a fictional character partly inspired by Marcus Nonius Macrinus, Narcissus, Spartacus, Cincinnatus, and Maximus of Hispania.

The Tramp (Modern Times)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • The Tramp, as portrayed by Chaplin, is a bumbling but usually good-hearted character who is most famously presented as a vagrant who endeavors to behave with the manners and dignity of a gentleman despite his actual social status. However, while he is ready to take what paying work that is available, he also uses his cunning to get what he needs to survive and escape the authority figures who will not tolerate his antics. Chaplin’s films did not always portray “The Tramp” (or “The Little Fellow,” as Chaplin called him) as a vagrant, however. The character was rarely referred to by any names onscreen, although he was sometimes identified as “Charlie” and rarely, as in the original silent version of The Gold Rush, “The Little funny Tramp.”

Norman Bates (Psycho)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Inspired by the ghoulish real-life murderer Ed Gein, Robert Bloch created Norman Bates as the protagonist of his novel, Psycho. Norman is a fat, middle-aged drunkard who has an unnaturally close relationship with his mother. He runs the motel his mother owns. But Mother is insane; and when she suspects Norman of desiring an attractive young guest, she sneaks into the girl’s room and stabs her to death as she showers. Norman covers up the murder; but Mother soon kills a private investigator hired to find the girl.

Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 2
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Hannibal Lecter M.D. is a fictional character in a series of horror novels by Thomas Harris and in the films adapted from them. Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The novel and its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, features Lecter as the true antagonist after the other two serial killers of each story. In the third novel, Hannibal, Lecter becomes the main character. His role as the antiherooccurs in the fourth novel, Hannibal Rising, which explores his childhood and development into a serial killer.

Quint (Jaws)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Quint, known in the film and book as just Quint, or Mr. Quint, is a veteran shark hunter and captain of the Orca (his boat, named after the only natural enemy of the Great White). When Amity’s regular fishermen and several outsiders fail to catch the great shark, Chief Brody calls on Quint for help.  Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley‘s novel of the same name. It is regarded as a watershed film in motion picture history, the prototypical summer blockbuster. In the story, the police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant man-eating great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council, which wants the beach to remain open to draw revenue from tourists during the summer season. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. Roy Scheider stars as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Murray Hamilton as the mayor of Amity Island, and Lorraine Gary as Brody’s wife, Ellen. The screenplay is credited to both Benchley, who delivered the first draft, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script duringprincipal photography.

Buffy (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • The character of Buffy first appears in the 1992 Buffy the Vampire Slayer film, played by Kristy Swanson. The film, written by Joss Whedon, depicts Buffy as a shallow high school cheerleader who is informed by a man named Merrick (Donald Sutherland) that she has been chosen by fate to battle the undead. Buffy reluctantly undergoes training in her abilities by Merrick, and as her responsibility as the Slayer causes her to become alienated from her valley girl peers, she finds friendship and romance with fellow outcast Pike (Luke Perry). Merrick eventually comes to respect Buffy’s rebellious nature, and she defeats vampire king Lothos(Rutger Hauer) by relying on her own contemporary style as opposed to traditional Slayer conventions. Although this film is not in continuity with the later television series, in 1999, author Christopher Golden adapted Joss Whedon’s original script into a comic book entitled “The Origin“, which Whedon later confirmed to be “pretty much” canonical.

Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • “Because of his nature,” Tyler works night jobs where he sabotages companies and harms clients. He also steals left-over drained human fat from liposuction clinics to supplement his income through soap making and create the ingredients for bomb manufacturing, which will be put to work later with his fight club. He is the co-founder of Fight Club, as it was his idea to instigate the fight that led to it. He later launches Project Mayhem, from which he and the members commit various attacks on consumerism. Tyler is blond, as by the narrator’s comment “in his everything-blond way”.

Bub (Day of the Dead)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Real name unknown. “Bub” is a former military man who turned into a zombie sometime during the late 1970′s. He was captured for reasearch by a small military/scientist group in the state of Florida that was at the time working on a cure for the zombie virus. He was given his nickname by Dr. Logan, “Bub” being the name given to his father by his country club pals. After the facility he was being held in was overun by zombies, “Bub” escaped. His wherabouts are unknown to this day. He however, does enjoy the occasional bong toke, or blunt, with his zombie home dawgs.

Harry Calahan (Dirty Harry)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 3
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Callahan is known as “Dirty Harry” for his ability to handle situations too violent and unpredictable for conventional police methods, a trait that often proves fatal to his partners. Nonetheless, the danger Callahan poses to those working beside him is greatly outweighed by his success in bringing violent criminals to justice. The deranged and psychotic “Scorpio Killer” (Dirty Harry), a ring of vigilante police officers led by a rogue lieutenant (Magnum Force), a group of terrorists who kidnap San Fransisco’s mayor (The Enforcer), a gang of sub-human rapists (Sudden Impact), and a deranged movie buff (The Dead Pool) are but a few of the villains who meet violent ends after tangling with Callahan.

The Man With No Name (Fist Full of Dollars, A Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 2
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • “The man with no name” is a mysterious man who travels the country on his mule. He wears a signature poncho and hat, always smokes cigars, and always carries a .45 with a snake on the handle. The “Man With No Name”, as personified by Eastwood, embodies the archetypical characteristics of the American movie cowboy — toughness, exceptional physical strength or size, independence, and skill with a gun — but departed from the original archetype due to his moral ambiguity. Unlike the traditional cowboy, exemplified by actors John Wayne, Alan Ladd, and Randolph Scott, the Man with No Name will fight dirty and shoot first, if required by his own self-defined sense of justice. Although he tends to look for ways to benefit himself, he has, in a few cases, aided others if he feels an obligation to, such as freeing a couple held captive in A Fistful of Dollars and comforting a dying soldier after the bridge explosion in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Korben Dallas (The Fifth Element)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • A post-America taxi driver in New York City with a grand military background simply lives his life day to day, that is, before he meets Leeloo. Leeloo captures his heart soon after crashing into his taxi cab one day after escaping from a government-run laboratory. Korben soon finds himself running from the authorities in order to protect Leeloo, as well as becoming the center of a desperate ploy to save the world from an unknown evil.

Seth Gecko (From Dusk Till Dawn)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Seth Gecko is one of the main characters in the original From Dusk Till Dawn movie. He is the elder of the infamous “Gecko Brothers” duo of harden criminals,. He is portrayed by George Clooney.  Seth Gecko was originally in prison prior to the events of “From Dusk Till Dawn” but was broken out by his younger (more-psychotic) brother, Richie. From Dusk till Dawn is a 1996 horror film directed by Robert Rodriguez. The movie stars Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino and Juliette Lewis.

Kikuchiyo (The Seven Samurai)

  • Showdowns: 2012, 2013
  • Rounds Won: 3
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Kikuchiyo is the 7th samurai recruited. He’s turned down at first, as he’s the only one of the seven who’s not really a samurai, but is eventually accepted by the group after trailing them for quite a while. He turns out to be a farmer’s son (despite a fake birth certificate as a samurai), and a good fighter.  Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese adventure drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film takes place in 1587 during the Warring States Period of Japan. It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven masterless samurai (ronin) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.

Zorro (The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Zorro first appeared in “The Curse of Capistrano”, a short story by Johnston McCulley published in the magazine All Story Weekly on August 19, 1919. The story caught the attention of Douglas Fairbanks, who soon brought the swashbuckling hero to the silver screen inThe Mark of Zorro. The resounding popularity of the film prompted McCulley to publish 65 more stories featuring Zorro, which have since inspired countless film, television and literary adaptations throughout the world. The character of Zorro is most notable for pioneering the use of disguise and dual identity to fight crime and injustice, though many argue that McCulley probably borrowed these ideas from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy or The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père. It can be said that any superhero who uses a cape, mask or secret identity is borrowing elements from Zorro mythology, since Bob Kane has credited Zorro as the prototype for the character of Batman, which in turn influenced many superhero characters that followed.

Conan (Conan The Barbaian, Conan The Destroyer)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • The first live action film about the barbarian traces the barbarian’s origins in Cimmeria — something Howard himself never addressed. Conan’s family is slain by raiders and Conan himself is enslaved, growing into adulthood as a pit fighter. When he is freed by his master, Conan charges into the word headlong with a sense of child-like wonder, making allies and eventually falling in love with a thief named Valeria. When he by chance discovers the identity of the raiders that murdered his family and destroyed his village as a child, now a snake cult led by the evil Thulsa Doom, he vows to cleave his bloody revenge even as an elderly king pays him to rescue his daughter from Doom.

Wicked Witch of the West (Wizard of Oz)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • The Wicked Witch of The West is the terrifying nemesis of Dorothy and all the residents of Oz in the “The Wizard of Oz,” a children’s story by American author L. Frank Baum. Onscreen the most memorable portrayal has been that of beloved character actress Margaret Hamilton in the spectacular 1939 MGM technicolor musical, which starred Judy Garland as Dorothy.  In the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz, Margaret Hamilton plays the Wicked Witch of the West as a stooped, green-skinned witch dressed in a long black dress with a black pointed hat. This representation of the Wicked Witch has become a standard for what witches look like and an archetype for human wickedness. While this relationship is not mentioned in Baum’s books, in the movie, the Witch is the sister of the Wicked Witch of the East. In fact, she appears in the film much earlier on than in Baum’s original novel, demanding the Munchkins reveal who killed her sister, not long after Dorothy‘s arrival in Oz. Therefore, the Witch’s role is made much more prominent than in the novel, as she seeks revenge against Dorothy for destroying her sister, even though it was an “accident”. She is more menacing than her literary counterpart, making Dorothy too afraid to ever lose her temper with the witch, unlike Baum’s original depiction. The Golden Cap is not mentioned, but the witch does hold what could be considered the cap, after the poppies fail to work. She is killed when Dorothy throws the water when she lights a fire to threaten the Scarecrow. The character ranks No. 4 in the American Film Institute‘s list of the 50 Best Movie Villains of All Time, making her the highest ranking female villain, as well as placing 90th on Empire’s 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.

Rocky Balboa (Rocky)

  • Showdowns: None
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  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Robert “Rocky” Balboa was born on July 7, 1948. A Roman Catholic, he quit school after the ninth grade. Up to 1975, Balboa was living in the slums of Kensington, Philadelphia working as an enforcer for a local loan shark while at the same time fighting the local club circuit. By this time, Rocky had fought in 64 fights, winning 44 (38 knockouts) and losing 20. A source of pride for Balboa was that he had never had his nose broken in a professional fight, though this would happen in his first fight with Apollo Creed. He is close friends with Paulie Pennino whose sister, Adrianna Pennino, he would ultimately marry.

Charlene Baltimore (The Long Kiss Goodnight)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a mother and schoolteacher with a seemingly normal life in the small town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Eight years previously, she was found pregnant and badly injured, suffering complete amnesia after being found washed up on a beach in New Jersey. Since that time, she has hired a series of private investigators to try to uncover her past with no success, the latest (and one of the few she can afford) being wisecracking, ethically challenged private investigator Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson). When television footage of a parade she participated in is broadcast, a one-eyed convict, “One-Eyed” Jack (Joseph McKenna), recognizes her immediately and escapes on a mission of revenge.

Neo (The Matrix)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Thomas A. Anderson (alias Neo, also known as The One, The Anomaly, and Mr. Anderson) is a fictional character and the main protagonist of The Matrix franchise, as well as having a cameo in The Animatrix short film, Kid’s Story. He was portrayed by Keanu Reeves in The Matrix Trilogy and The Animatrix. Andrew Bowen provided Neo’s voice in The Matrix: Path of Neo. In 2008, Neo was selected by Empire as the 16th Greatest Movie Character of All Time. Neo is also an anagram of One, a reference to his destiny of being The One who would bring peace.

Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet)

  • Showdowns: 2012
  • Rounds Won: 0
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Robby the Robot is a fictional character who has made a number of appearances in science fiction movies and television programs after his first appearance in the 1956 MGM science fiction film Forbidden Planet.  Robby the Robot is a 7-foot (2.1 m) tall fictional robot originally created in the mid-1950s by MGM’s prop department; the robot quickly became a science fiction icon in the decades that followed.  In Forbidden Planet, Robby exhibited artificial intelligence, but with a distinct personality that showed a (possibly unintentional) dry wit, presumably programmed by Dr. Morbius. He was instructed by Morbius to be helpful to the Earth starship crew; he synthesized and transported to their landing site the lead alloy shielding needed by its crew. While the film’s poster depicts a fierce character abducting a maiden, no such scene was actually in the film; Robby only carried one person, crewman Dr. Ostro when he was mortally wounded by his own actions with the Krell’s “plastic educator.” Robby’s speaking “mouth” was a monochromatic blue light organ, synchronized to his synthetic voice, its band of curved tubes located directly below his transparent conical “face” dome.

Tron (Tron, Tron: Legacy)

Rick Deckard (Blade Runner)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Rick Deckard is the protagonist of Ridley Scott’s seminal science-fiction film, Blade Runner. In the future, “replicants,” artificially created and cybernetically enhanced beings, are indistinguishable from naturally born human beings, but are not entitled to the same rights as natural humans. Out of fear, society has deemed their freedom a liability and danger for the general populace. As a result, the “Blade Runner” unit was created as a specialized section of the police. Blade Runners are essentially bounty hunters, and are required to hunt down and “retire” rogue replicants. In other words, Blade Runners are tasked with the execution of replicants.

Indigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)

  • Showdowns: None
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  • A spaniard that is an expert in fencing, he has a bit of a drinking problem and spends his entire life looking for the six-fingered man (who killed his father). Inigo and his only friend Fezzik later join Westley in storming the castle. It is in this climactic scene that Inigo finally gets his revenge when he meets Count Rugen.   The Princess Bride is a 1973 fantasy novel written by William Goldman. It was originally published in the United States by Harcourt Brace, while in the UK it is/was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. It was made into a film of the same name in 1987 by Rob Reiner, and an attempt to adapt it into a musical was made by Adam Guettel.

John Rambo (First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part 2, Rambo 3, Rambo)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • John J. Rambo was born on July 6, 1947 in Bowie, Arizona to a Native American (Navajo) father (R. Rambo) and an Italian American mother (Marie Drago). Rambo graduated from Rangeford High School, and then was drafted into the United States Army at the age of 17 on June 8, 1964. He was deployed to South Vietnam in September 1966. He returned to the U.S. in 1967 and began training in the Special Forces (Green Berets) at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In late 1969, Rambo was re-deployed to Vietnam. In November 1971, he was captured by North Vietnamese forces near the Chinese-Vietnamese border and held at a POW camp, where he and other American POWs were repeatedly tortured. Rambo escaped captivity in May 1972, but was then re-deployed. At some point in his military career he also apparently received training in flying helicopters.

Madmartigan (Willow)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Sword for hire with no allegiances. Greatest swordsman alive. In spite of himself, he is drawn to doing the right thing. Willow is a 1988 American fantasy film directed by Ron Howard and produced/co-written by George Lucas. Warwick Davis stars in the film, as well as Val Kilmer,Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh, and Patricia Hayes. With a sword and sorcery setting, Davis stars as the eponymous lead character and hero Willow, a reluctant farmer who plays a critical role in protecting a special baby from a tyrannical queen.

Snake Plissken (Escape from New York, Escape from L.A.)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • A convicted bank robber and highly trained mercenary Snake Plissken is encounters on missions rescues. He has long hair and wears an eye patch. Plissken spend time at jail for a recent bank robbery gone wrong when he was given the chance to gain a pardon. The job was to find the President of the U.S. whose plane crashed in New York which is now maximum security prison. The bridges are mined and the skies guarded. Seemed like a good deal for Plissken however there is a catch. He is injected with an device that will kill him in twenty three hours. The only way to survive is another injection during the last fifteen minutes of the twenty three hours. In order to have this done he must rescue the President and a Tape recording. Snake is armed with technical gear and weapons including a Suppressed Scoped Mac-10, Scoped Magnum, throwing knifes, Glider, and other tools. Snake Plissken embarks on one of the most dangerous missions he’ll ever encounter in both New York and Los Angeles.

The Mariachi (El Mariachi, Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • “El Mariachi” Was a traveling mariachi in search of a steady employer. He got mixed up with another man carrying a guitar case in the same town, and was hunted down. He fell in love with a girl named Domino, however, she was killed and El Mariachi was shot in the hand, nearly causing him to never play guitar again.  El Mariachi went out and got revenge on all those who destroyed his life. Eventually leading up to his brother, “Bucho”. Bucho kills his only friend, Buscemi and causes El Mariachi great grief. El Mariachi falls in love with another girl, Carolina. They eventually marry and have a daughter together. However, years later, a man named General Marquez kills Carolina and their daughter and leaves El Mariachi for dead. He is sought out by Agent Sands and is caught up in a battle against the Barillo cartel, who plans to assassinate the president. However, El Mariachi meets again with Marquez and exacts his revenge, avenging his loved ones and bringing him to peace.

Hawk the Slayer (Hawk the Slayer)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Hawk the Slayer (1980) is a sword and sorcery movie directed by Terry Marcel and starring John Terry and Jack Palance. The protagonist is Hawk, a hero in the Dark Age, where the Evil ruled the world. In this movie , the wicked Voltan kills his own father because his father refused to turn over the magic of the “last elven mindstone.” However, before the old man dies, he bequeaths to his other son, Hawk, a great sword with a pommel shaped like a human hand. The sword’s hilt comes to life, grasping the mindstone. The sword has now been imbued with magical powers which include responding to Hawk’s mind. Hawk then vows to avenge his father and to kill Voltan. Voltan’s evil touches the whole countryside, and in time, there comes to a solitary convent one Ranulf, a man who has survived the attack of Voltan, an evildoer described as “the devil’s agent.” Ranulf reports to the nuns of Voltan’s attack on his people, who have been “hacked to pieces”, even the women and children. Ranulf’s injured arm is saved, but his hand is beyond saving. He is nursed back to health.

Dar (The Beastmaster, Beastmaster 2, Beastmaster 3)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • The Beastmaster is a 1982 fantasy film directed by Don Coscarelli and starring Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, John Amos and Rip Torn. The film was marketed with the tagline “Born with the courage of an eagle, the strength of a black tiger, and the power of a god.” The Beastmaster tells the story of Dar (Marc Singer), the royal son of a king named Zed (Rod Loomis) who was stolen from the womb of Zed’s queen (Vanna Bonta) by a witch under the command of vicious high-priest sorcerer Maax (Rip Torn). A poor villager saves Dar from being sacrificed and raises him as his own son, teaching Dar how to fight and witnessing the boy’s ability to telepathically communicate with animals.

Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)

  • Showdowns: None
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  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Jason Voorhees, the son of Pamela Voorhees, was born deformed. He lived with his mother at Camp Crystal Lake (his mother was the camp cook), in the city of Crystal Lake. Jason was bullied incessantly until, in 1957, he tried to prove to the bullies that he could swim and drowned in Crystal Lake. Jason Voorhees is a fictional character from the Friday the 13th series. He first appeared in Friday the 13th (1980), as the young son of camp cook-turned-murderer,Mrs. Voorhees, in which he was portrayed by Ari Lehman. Created by Victor Miller, with contributions by Ron Kurz, Sean S. Cunningham, and Tom Savini, Jason was not originally intended to carry the series as the main antagonist. The character has subsequently been represented in various other media, including novels, comic books, and a cross-over film with another iconic horror film character, Freddy Krueger.  The character has primarily been an antagonist in the films, whether by stalking and killing the characters, or acting as a psychological threat to the lead character, as is the case in Friday the 13th: A New Beginning. Since Lehman’s portrayal, the character has been represented by numerous actors and stuntmen, sometimes by more than one at a time; this has caused some controversy as to who should receive credit for the portrayal. Kane Hodder is the best known of the stuntmen to portray Jason Voorhees, having played the character in four consecutive films.

The Bride (Kill Bill)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Beatrix Kiddo (primarily known as The Bride or Black Mamba) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the movie Kill Bill directed by Quentin Tarantino. She is portrayed by Uma Thurman and was selected by Empire Magazine as one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.  The Bride, codenamed “Black Mamba“, is a former member of the “Deadly Viper Assassination Squad“, an elite, shadowy group of assassins. A formidable, ruthless warrior trained under martial arts master Pai Mei (Gordon Liu), she served at the right hand of Bill (David Carradine), her boss and lover, a position that provoked the furious envy of Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah). Kiddo, a master of the Tiger/Crane style of kung fu, is the only Viper to learn the “Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique”, a method of killing a person by quickly striking five pressure points around the heart with the fingertips. After the victim takes five steps, the heart explodes and he/she falls dead. Pai Mei supposedly refused to teach this technique, which was said to be “the deadliest blow in all of martial arts”, to Bill or anyone else. Kiddo’s determination wins his respect, however, and he teaches her the forbidden technique – a secret that Kiddo withholds from Bill until they meet for their final showdown.

Martin Riggs (Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 2, Lethal Weapon 3, Lethal Weapon 4)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Martin Riggs (born October 16, 1950)[citation needed] is a fictional police officer and protagonist from the Lethal Weapon franchise. He is played in all four films by Mel Gibson. Riggs joined the United States Army at age 19, eventually becoming a member of Special Forces, receiving specialized training in weaponry and hand-to-hand combat. These skills would later serve him well when he became a police officer. Most of Riggs’ time in special forces was in Vietnam, where he served as an assassin under the CIA‘s “Phoenix Project” directive; while his ability as a trained killer would later plague hisconscience, he thought of it as “…the only thing I was ever really good at.”  In 1984, Riggs’ wife of 11 years, Victoria Lynn, dies in a car accident, sending him into a deep depression. Driven to the brink with grief and anger, he regularly puts himself (and anyone else near him) in harm’s way, secretly hoping someone will put him out of his misery, something he has been unable to do himself. This total disregard for his safety gives him an edge over his enemies, turning him into a Lethal Weapon. By the end of the first movie, he has resolved these suicidal thoughts. In the second film, we learn that his wife’s death was actually a murder attempt on Martin himself, gone wrong.

Max Rockatansky (Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • “Mad” Max Rockatansky, sometimes referred to as The Road Warrior and The Man with No Name, is the main character from director George Miller‘s Mad Max franchise, appearing in the films Mad Max, Mad Max 2, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Max was played by actor Mel Gibson.  Max Rockatansky is a man of average medium height, with a strong and lean build. In Mad Max, he is 23 years old; in Road Warrior he is 28; and in Beyond The Thunderdome he is 41. In the first film, he wore his leather patrol uniform, which eventually started to wear out from being in the wasteland for the past 5 years and it became his protective armor. In the third film, his hair is past his shoulders and has a blond patch over one temple, and all his clothes are mismatched.

Martin Blank (Grosse Pointe Blank)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American black comedy film, directed by George Armitage, and starring John Cusack and Minnie Driver.  In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Grosse Pointe Blank the 21st greatest comedy film of all time. The film’s soundtrack features mainly independent music hits from the 1980s.  Professional assassin Martin Q. Blank (John Cusack) finds himself depressed, irritable and dissatisfied with his work. A major irritant is his chief rival Grocer (Dan Aykroyd), whose effort to cartelize the hitman business puts him at potentially lethal odds with the solitary Martin. Following a botched contract, Martin receives an invitation to his class of ’86 10-year high school reunion in his home town of Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Initially reluctant to attend, he is pressured into it by both his therapist (Alan Arkin) (who rejects Martin as a patient, but continues to permit sessions with him out of fear) and his secretary (Joan Cusack) (the only person with whom Martin has more or less normal interactions). She books him a contract in Michigan that coincides with the reunion, ostensibly to smooth things over with the client whose contract was botched.

Axel Foley (Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Beverly Hills Cop 3)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Axel Foley is a fictional character, portrayed by Eddie Murphy, and is the main protagonist of the Beverly Hills Cop film franchise. He is ranked number 78 on Empire Magazine’s list of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time. Sylvester Stallone was originally intended to be Axel Foley.  Foley (born August 25, 1959) is a Detroit native and small-time juvenile hoodlum who attended Mumford High School. After a few years in which he was unemployed, Foley joined the Detroit Police Department in 1983. A talented policeman, Axel is also known to bend the rules, which annoys his boss, Inspector Todd, who was killed in a shoot-out in 1994. Foley is an only child with no close relatives except his parents.

Shaun Riley (Shaun of the Dead)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
  • Titles: None
  • Shaun Riley is a late twenties slackabout who lived with best friend Ed and former college roommate Pete. Despite holding down a day job as a sales advisor at a local electronics store, Foree Electronics, Shaun suffered from a serious unwillingness to take initiative and do things, preferring instead to drink at his local pub, the Winchester, with Ed; it was largely this which brought him into trouble with his girlfriend Liz, who eventually dumped Shaun after he failed to book a table for them at a local restaurant. He also had serious issues with his mother, Barbera, and her second husband, Philip; Shaun and Philip’s relationship had been nothing but antagonistic since Philip arrived, prompting Shaun to avoid his mother as often as possible, and “failing” to introduce Liz to her.

Dr. Emmett Brown (Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III)

  • Showdowns: None
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  • Titles: None
  • Doctor Emmett Lathrop “Doc” Brown, Ph.D. (born Emmett von Braun) is a fictional character and one of the lead characters in the Back to the Future film trilogy, in which he is the inventor of the first time machine, which he builds out of a DeLorean sports car. The character is memorably played by actor Christopher Lloyd in all three films, as well as in the live action sequences of the animated series. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta in the animated series. The character’s appearance and mannerisms are loosely inspired by Leopold Stokowski and Albert Einstein. In 2008, Dr. Emmett Brown was selected by Empire magazine as one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time, ranking at #76.

Keyser Söze (Usual Suspects)

  • Showdowns: None
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  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Keyser Söze is a fictional character in the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. According to Roger “Verbal” Kint, Söze is a crimelord whose ruthlessness and influence have acquired a legendary, even mythical, status among police and criminals. The character was named the No. 48 villain in the American Film Institute‘s “AFI’s 100 Years…100 Heroes and Villains” in June 2003.  According to “Verbal” Kint (Kevin Spacey), Söze was once a petty drug dealer beginning his criminal career in his native Turkey. The entity that is Keyser Söze is born when rival Hungarian smugglers invade his house while he is away, rape his wife and hold his children hostage; when Söze arrives, they kill one of the children to show him their resolve, then threaten to kill his wife and remaining children if he does not surrender his business to them. Rather than give in to their demands and to spare his family from having to live with the memory of what has happened, he shoots his own wife and remaining children and all but one of the Hungarians, knowing that the survivor would tell the mafia what has happened.  Söze goes after the mob, killing dozens of people including the mobsters’ families, friends and even people who owe them money as well as destroying their homes and businesses. He then goes “underground”, never again doing business in person and remaining invisible even to his henchmen, who almost never know for whom they are working. One of the most famous lines from the movie, spoken by Kint, is: “The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” This is a paraphrase of a phrase in a story by Charles Baudelaire, as translated from the original French. Neither McQuarrie nor Singer realized this at the time and they “borrowed it from people who were quoting Baudelaire themselves.”  Söze’s ruthlessness is legendary; he is described as having had enemies and disloyal henchmen brutally murdered, along with everyone they hold dear, for the slightest infractions – and as having personally murdered people who have seen and can identify him. Over the years his criminal empire, including the drug trade and the smuggling of weapons and materials flourishes as does his legend; he becomes, as Kint says during his interrogation, “a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night.

Johnny 5 (Short Circuit, Short Circuit 2)

Scott Howard (Teen Wolf)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • High school student Scott Howard is seventeen years old, sick of being average and wishing he were special. His father runs a local hardware store. Scott plays basketball for his high school’s team, the Beavers, with a not-so-good win-loss record. The girl of his dreams, Pamela Wells, is dating Mick, a jerk from an opposing high school team, the Dragons. After another of the team’s losses, Scott begins to notice strange changes to his body. While at a party, Scott keeps undergoing changes and eventually he returns home, locks himself in the bathroom, and undergoes a complete change and becomes a werewolf, while his father demands that he open the door. He tries to refuse, only to finally give in and obey, to find his father has also transformed into a werewolf.

Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 2)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
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  • Peter Venkman, Ph.D. is a fictional character from the Ghostbusters franchise. He is a parapsychologist and member of the Ghostbusters, appearing in the filmsGhostbusters and Ghostbusters II and in the animated television series The Real Ghostbusters. In both the live action films, he was portrayed by Bill Murray, and was voiced in the animated series first by Lorenzo Music and then by Dave Coulier.  In 2008, Peter Venkman was selected by the magazine Empire as one of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time, described by Empire’s Nick de Semlyen as “the ultimate New York hero: cynical, sarcastic, secretly sweet-natured”, ”a man possessed by manic spontaneity, with a wont to twirl in circles around a public concourse or declare undying love for a woman he’s just met”, and the “most popular” character played by Murray.

Tequila Yuen (Hard-Boiled)

  • Showdowns: None
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: None
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  • Inspector “Tequila” Yuen (Chinese: 袁浩雲) is a fictional character who appears in the 1992 film Hard Boiled and the 2007 video game Stranglehold, played and voiced by Chow Yun-fat. He is an inspector with the Hong Kong Police Force and is extremely skilled with fire arms. He is also a heavy drinker, which led to him being nicknamed “tequila“. Empire magazine ranked Tequila 33rd in their “The 100 Greatest Movie Characters” poll.  Tequila Yuen is introduced in Hard Boiled playing a clarinet in a bar, where, it seems, is the only place he feels at home. The barman, Mr. Woo, also seems to be his closest friend. Tequila is also portrayed as a typical anti-hero and he has a total disregard for authority. Although he shows little emotion other than anger for most of the time, he proves to be a loyal friend and a romantic, with strong moral values.

Jeffrey (The Killer)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: None
  • Rounds Lost: 1
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  • Ah Jong, an assassin who accidentally blinds singer Jennie when he is on a mission for the criminal organization, the Triads. Ah Jong decides to take on one last mission to pay for surgery to repair her eyes. Ah Jong is called John and Jeff in some subtitled prints of the film. The nickname given to Ah Jong by Li is Ah B which roughly translates to baby or kid. In some dubbed and subtitled prints, his nickname is Dumbo or Butthead.

Maximilian (The Black Hole)

DjangoDjango (Django Unchained)

John MatrixJohn Matrix (Commando)

Austin PowersAustin Powers

NeytiriNeytiri (Avatar)

Blues BrothersJake and Elwood Blues (The Blues Brothers)

ElvisElvis (Bubba Ho-tep)

CondormanCondorman (Condorman)

John MurdochJohn Murdoch (Dark City)

John PrestonJohn Preston (Equilibrium)

Nicholas AngelNicholas Angel (Hot Fuzz)

  • Showdowns: 2013
  • Rounds Won: 1
  • Rounds Lost: None
  • Titles: None
  • Hot Fuzz is a 2007 action comedy film directed and co-written by Edgar Wright, and co-written and starring Simon Pegg alongside Nick Frost. The three and the film’s producer Nira Park had previously worked together on the television series Spaced and the 2004 film Shaun of the Dead. The film follows two police officers attempting to solve a series of mysterious deaths in a small English village.


Mr. MiyagiMr. Miyagi (The Karate Kid, The Karate Kid Part II, The Karate Kid Part III, The Next Karate Kid)

Bryan MillsBryan Mills (Taken, Taken 2)

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