Chow Yun Fat - opening scene of Hard Boiled.
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It's cliché, but I'd say Clint Eastwood, in almost anything. If I had to pick a scene, either "Do you feel lucky?" or the final shootout in A Fistful of Dollars.
Favorite badass characters? Terrance Stamp in The Limey, Alain Delon in Le Samourai, and Anne Parillaud or Jean Reno in Nikita. Runner-up goes to Michael Caine in Get Carter, only because I didn't really like the movie overall.
Terence Stamp in The Limey. But no specific scence.
HA!! Most excellent x-post!
Geena Davis, Long Kiss Goodnight. The scene with her tied to the water wheel thingie.
1. Snake Plissken--any scene.
2. William Munny--"We they should've armed themselves."
3. Jason Bourne--fighting an armed man with a rolled up magazine.
Good answers! I remember watching Chow Yun Fat blowing away people on the escalator because they were in the way!
Damn, I guess I better see the Limey.
This question is partly motivated by just watching Clive Owen in Shoot 'Em Up.
But (trusting my gut):
Clint Eastwood in The Unforgiven
Bruce Lee with nunchuks
Aragorn facing down the Uruk Hai at Amon Hen
Michael Caine giving the "I do this every day" speech" in Get Carter
Val Kilmer in Tombstone: "I'm your huckleberry."
Buffy stopping Angelus' sword two inches from her face
Brock Sampson turning an anal cavity search into mayhem.
Daniel Craig in Casino Royale in the opening parkour chase.
Cochise (the bigger black guy) of The Warriors in the bathroom scene, and also against the Baseball Furies.
Matt Damon as Jason Bourne in the Paris apartment scene from Bourne Identity.
Ooh, Cash is with me on two.
Good call on Geena.
(Pssst... it's "I'm your huckleberry" and "You're a daisy if you do")
The brief shot where Val Kilmer shrugs off Wyatt's coat and points the shotgun at the boys in the OK Corral.
(Pssst... it's "I'm your huckleberry" and "You're a daisy if you do")
Oops, Emmett will never forgive my lapse.