Action_hero

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness.

Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

This is a list of action heroes who appear in a number of genres including action films, adventure films, swashbuckler films, television Westerns, old-time radio, adventure novels, dime novels, pulp magazines, and folklore. These heroes often display exaggerated physical characteristics such as extreme physical stature and/or fitness.

Contents 1 Action heroes 1.1 Actors 1.2 Cinema 1.3 Literature and pulp fiction 1.4 Radio 1.5 Television 1.6 Games 2 Female action heroes 2.1 Actresses 2.2 Cinema 2.3 Literature, comic books, and pulp fiction 2.4 Television 2.5 Games 3 Further reading 4 External links

Action heroes

Actors

Errol Flynn

Humphrey Bogart

Clint Eastwood

Bruce Lee

Sylvester Stallone

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Will Smith

Jackie Chan

Denzel Washington

• Amitabh Bachchan
• Humphrey Bogart
• Charles Bronson
• Jackie Chan
• Sean Connery
• Tom Cruise
• Johnny Depp
• Ajay Devgan
• Vin Diesel
• Clint Eastwood
• Douglas Fairbanks
• Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
• Harrison Ford
• Errol Flynn
• Clark Gable
• Mel Gibson
• Tom Laughlin
• Bruce Lee
• Jet Li
• Dolph Lundgren
• Ralf Möller
• Chuck Norris
• Tyrone Power
• Brad Pitt
• Basil Rathbone
• Keanu Reeves
• The Rock
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Steven Seagal
• Will Smith
• Wesley Snipes
• Sylvester Stallone
• Jason Statham
• Robert Taylor
• Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Denzel Washington
• John Wayne
• Bruce Willis
• Chow Yun-Fat
• Toshiro Mifune

Cinema

• James Bond (film series) - James Bond (character)
• Rocky Balboa (character) in the Rocky (film series)
• Billy Jack (four films between 1967 and 1977)
• Indiana Jones
• The Terminator films - Kyle Reese and Terminator (character)
• John Rambo in the Rambo films
• John McClane from the Die Hard series
• Casey Ryback from the Under Siege films.
• Snake Plissken
• Paul Kersey from Death Wish (film) and its four sequels
• Zorro
• Napoleon Wilson from Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film)
• Xander Cage from the XXX film
• Jason Bourne from The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum
• Neo from The Matrix trilogy
• Frank Martin from The Transporter and The Transporter 2
• Ethan Hunt from the Mission: Impossible film series
• Harry Callahan from the Dirty Harry film series

• Max Rockatansky from the Mad Max film series
• John Shaft from the Shaft series

Literature and pulp fiction

• Iliad and Odyssey: Odysseus and a number of other characters
• Beowulf (hero) in Beowulf
• King Arthur
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Robin Hood
• D\'Artagnan - The Three Musketeers
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Ben Hur
• Ivanhoe
• Zorro
• James Bond in James Bond novels (Ian Fleming)
• Doc Savage
• The Shadow
• The Spider
• Conan the Barbarian
• Tarzan
• Drizzt Do\'Urden

Radio

• The Green Hornet
• The Lone Ranger

Television

• Jack Bauer from the 24 television series

Games

• Link from the Legend of Zelda series
• Gordon Freeman from the Half-Life series
• Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid series
• Sam Fisher from the Splinter Cell series
• Master Chief from the Halo series
• Leon S. Kennedy from the Resident Evil series
• Duke Nukem from the Duke Nukem series
• Christopher Blair from the Wing Commander series

Female action heroes

Michelle Yeoh

Sigourney Weaver

Linda Hamilton

Lucy Lawless

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Uma Thurman

Lucy Liu

Halle Berry

Angelina Jolie

Main article: List of women warriors in folklore, literature, and popular culture

Actresses

• Jessica Alba
• Devon Aoki
• Kate Beckinsale
• Halle Berry
• Honor Blackman
• Neve Campbell
• Tia Carrere
• Lynda Carter
• Connie Chan Po-chu
• Angie Dickinson
• Tamara Dobson
• Eliza Dushku
• Vivica A. Fox
• Anne Francis
• Jennifer Garner
• Sarah Michelle Gellar
• Teresa Graves
• Pam Grier
• Linda Hamilton
• Gloria Hendry
• Darryl Hannah
• Angelina Jolie
• Famke Janssen
• Milla Jovovich
• Keira Knightley
• Lucy Lawless
• Iyari Limon
• Lucy Liu
• Angela Mao
• Nora Miao
• Demi Moore
• Carrie-Anne Moss
• Diana Rigg
• Sharon Stone
• Uma Thurman
• Lindsay Wagner
• Sigourney Weaver
• Peta Wilson
• Michelle Yeoh

Cinema

• Alice - Resident Evil
• Æon Flux 2005 - Æon Flux
• Alien and Aliens (film) - Ellen Ripley
• Cleopatra Jones
• Coffy
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Elektra Natchios - Daredevil and Elektra
• The Heroic Trio
• Kill Bill - Beatrix Kiddo, O-Ren Ishii, Vernita Green, Elle Driver, Gogo Yubari
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life 2003 - Lara Croft
• Lady Snowblood 1973 - Yuki Kashima a.k.a. Lady Snowblood
• Sarah Connor - The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Serenity 2005 - River Tam
• Supercop
• Ultraviolet 2006 - Violet Song jat Shariff
• Wing Chun

Literature, comic books, and pulp fiction

Further information: List of superheroines

• Ballad of Mulan: Hua Mulan
• Honey West
• The Lord of the Rings: Éowyn
• Wonder Woman
• The Whale Rider: Paikea Apirana

Television

• The Avengers - Cathy Gale Emma Peel Tara King
• The New Avengers (television) - Purdy
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1992 - Buffy Summers, Faith Lehane, Kennedy

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• Firefly - Zoe Washburne
• Dark Angel - Max Guevara
• Get Christie Love
• Honey West (TV series) - Honey West
• Nikita
• Charmed - Prue Halliwell, Phoebe Halliwell, Piper Halliwell, Paige Matthews, and Billie Jenkins
• Xena of Amphipolis Gabrielle ofPotidaea,Vallesca,Callisto and EphonyXena: Warrior Princess (1995 - 2001)
• Relic Hunter.Sydney Fox

Games

• Samus Aran in Metroid
• Tifa Lockhart and Yuffie Kisaragi in Final Fantasy VII
• Meryl Silverburgh in Metal Gear Solid
• Rinoa, Quistis, and Selphie in Final Fantasy VIII
• Yuna, Rikku, and Paine in Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2
• Lara Croft in Tomb Raider
• Nariko in Heavenly Sword
• Joanna Dark in Perfect Dark
• Jill Valentine in Resident Evil
• Rayne in Bloodrayne

Further reading

• Ho, Sam. "Licensed to Kick Men: The Jane Bond Films." The Restless Breed: Cantonese Stars of the Sixties. Hong Kong: Urban Council of Hong Kong, 1996. ISBN 962-7040-50-9
• Inness, Sherrie A. (ed.) Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• Kim, L. S. "Making women warriors: a transnational reading of Asian female action heroes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. No. 48, Winter, 2006.
• Magoulick, Mary. "Frustrating Female Heroism: Mixed Messages in Xena, Nikita, and Buffy." The Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 39 Issue 5 (October 2006).
• Osgerby, Bill, Anna Gough-Yates, and Marianne Wells. Action TV : Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks. London: Routledge, 2001.
• Tasker, Yvonne. Action and Adventure Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2004.
• ———.Spectacular Bodies : Gender, Genre, and the Action Cinema. London and New York: Routledge, 1993.

External links

• Female action heroes photo gallery - Boston Globe
• The Lost Action Hero - Washington Post

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