12 things people expect in an Action Hero

Akay Brothers
Sep 6, 2018 · 2 min read
Source: jaimeporta.com

From the true birth of the genre in the 70s starting with the cool customer feel of Clint Eastwood and the outstanding skills of Bruce Lee to our current crop of action figures, the genre has evolved considerably and continuously in our movies and books.

All this while, the action hero has few universally definable traits that remained constant in this journey and in there honor, we are listing 12 things that more or less can be found in almost all action heroes we’ve seen over the years.

  1. Blue Eyes, Square jaw, Pointed Nose, No Extra Flab
  2. Trench Coats — Love them
  3. Gorgeous Wife/Female Partners or Handsome Hunks
  4. Able to rise above all the moral ambiguity if something threatens their country/family
  5. Always Never lost — Inbuilt Navigation system
  6. Coffee Lover — No Milk, No Sugar and almost always Black
  7. No Money Qualms — Ready to blow up a million dollars without blink of an eye
  8. Heavy drinker but never more than a mild hangover
  9. Never tired — Nonstop stamina
  10. Indestructible
  11. Trauma in the past
  12. Crazy Determined Resilience

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