Chan Ka-Kui
The Action Hero: Jackie Chan's signature role in Police Story and sequels saw him play Hong Kong's coolest cop - a on🧸e-man tornado who'll s꧋top at nothing to get the bad guys.
Most Iconic Moment: How dedicated is he? Well, in Police Story he's 🌞quite happy to hang onto the back of a bus from an umbrella in pursuit of his man.
Coolest Catchphrase: "Super c🅷ops in Hong Kong are cheap and ✱plentiful like commodities in supermarkets."
El Mariachi
The Action Hero: Wandering guitarist driven by vengeance to fill his case full of guns - first played by Carlos Gallardo in El Mariachi before Antonio Banderas popularised the role in Desperado .
Most Iconic Moment: The bar fight in Desperado , as El Mariachi and a bad guy both scramble amoཧngst the corpses to find a gun th📖at hasn’t fired all of its bullets.
Coolest Catchphrase: "Bless me, Fath🌞er, for I have just killed quite a few men."
King Leonidas
The Action Hero: The Persian-slaying Spartan king was an actual real-life legend, but 300 still managed🌜 to supersize him with gut꧒s, gusto and Gerard Butler's abs.
Most Iconic Moment: Kicking a messenger into a bottomless pit just fꩵor having the temerity to 🥃mock him.
Coolest Catchphrase: "Spart💖ans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty, for tonight, we dine in hell!"
John Shaft
The Action Hero: Richard Roundtree plays the black private dick that's a sex machine to all the chicks. More pertinently, he's also the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all ab🧔out.
Most Iconic Moment: Shaft restores pride after 🌄being spat at by a racist cop by smashing a bottle of scotch over his head.
Coolest Catchphrase: "Don't let your mouth get your ass in trouble."
Snake Plisken
The Action Hero: Eyepatch-wearing, Kurt Russell-shaped soldier-turned-criminal who is the go-t🦹o guy for covert infiltration-and-rescue missions during World War 3.
Most Iconic Moment: Snake lets the President know exactly what he thinks of him by switching a vital cassette tape for one containing swing music in Escape From New York .
Coolest Catchphrase: "I don't give a fuck about your war or your p🐼resident."
Blade
The Action Hero: W🅰esley Snipes' 'Daywalker' is half-human, half-vampire, all action as he puts fellow blood-suckers 🐎in their place.
Most Iconic Moment: Blade makes one hell of an entrance in his 1998 debut, by dropp💖ing in on a vampire club to slaughter the ravers and rescue their human victims.
Coolest Catchphrase: "Some motherfuckers are always tryin🍸g to ice-skate uphil♚l."
Zorro
The Action Hero: What do Douglas Fairbanks, Tyrone Power, Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas have in common? They've all played characters who have 🃏adopted the mask and sword of the 19th century outlaw.
Most Iconic Moment: Fairbanks leaves the titular The Mark Of Zorro by scar🍸ring his enemies𓄧 with a telltale Z to let people know who defeated them.
Coolest Catchphrase: "Never attack in anger."
Katniss Everdeen
The Action Hero: Jennifer Lawrence became a mega-star playing the District 12 citizen who breaks protocol by volunteering to take part in The Hunger Games . But that's OK, because she's pretty handy wꦇith a bow and arrow.
Most Iconic Moment: Getting the attention of haughty sponsors by firing an arrow throuܫgh an apple.
Coolest Catchphrase: "May the odds be ever in your favour."
Martin Riggs
The Action Hero: Mel Gibson's loose cannon cop and Vietnam vet, literally a Lethal Weapon , who is driven into depression by the death of his wife and needs police partner Roger Murtaugh to pull him back fꦇrom the brink.
Most Iconic Moment: Beating mercenary Mr Joshua - who has already been arrested - in hand-to-hand combat just to prove t♎o a point.
Coolest Catchphrase: "This is a real badge, I'm a real cop, andꦬ this is a real fucking gun!"
Frank Bullitt
The Action Hero: Steve McQuee🍷n's cool cat of a San Francisco cop fights corruption with his gun in his shoulder holster and his hands behind the wheel of a Mustang.
Most Iconic Moment: The epic up-and-down-the-hills car chase, o🔜f course.
Coolest Catchphrase: "You sell whatever you want,𒊎 but don't sell it here tonight."
