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Movies would be nothing without the characters that inhabit them. I mean, think about it – they'd just exist abstruse shots of landscapes and locations otherwise. But while some roles experience just functional, the best film characters tin can transform a pic – offer complex moralities, or inspiring personal betterment, standing up against the odds, fighting for what'south right as stalwart heroes, or causing mayhem as antiheroes and villains.

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100. Edna Mode

Advent: The Incredibles (2004)

Creator: Brad Bird

Performer: Brad Bird

Defining moment: "No capes!" — Mode'southward more than eccentric personality hides a distinctly practical approach to superhero style.

Fascinating fact: Edna appeared alongside Pierce Brosnan to present the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in Feb 2005. She's a Lord Of The Rings fan.

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99. Randle McMurphy

Appearance: 1 Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Creator: Ken Kesey, Bo Goldman

Performer: Jack Nicholson

Defining moment: When Nurse Ratched bans the Globe Series, McMurphy improvises a commentary.

Fascinating fact: Kirk Douglas played McMurphy on phase but was considered too sometime for the role past the time his son Michael, every bit producer, put the film together.

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98. Optimus Prime number

Appearance: The Transformers series (2007-)

Creator: Denny O'Neil, Jim Shooter, Bob Budiansky

Performer: Peter Cullen (phonation)

Defining moment: Riding loftier on a mecha dinosaur in Age Of Extinction.

Fascinating fact: He has his own Mr. Potatohead, chosen Optimash Prime ("More than meets the fry").

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97. Norman Bates

Appearance: The Psycho films (1960-1990), Psycho remake (1998)

Creator: Robert Bloch

Performer: Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas, Vince Vaughn

Defining moment: With a superimposed skull, he says, "I wouldn't injure a fly."

Fascinating fact: Hitchcock always addressed Anthony Perkins on set as 'Principal Bates'. Ho ho ho.

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96. The Minions

Appearance: Despicable Me movies (2010-2013), the Minions movie (2015)

Creator: Sergio Pablos

Defining moment: Singing "assistant" to the tune of Barbara Ann during the Despicable Me 2 trailer.

Fascinating fact: In Minion, Bu ta na ma ka ways 'To infinity and beyond!'

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95. Maximus

Advent: Gladiator (2000)

Creator: David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson

Performer: Russell Crowe

Defining moment: Rousing the troops with his immortal line, "What we do in life, echoes in eternity!"

Fascinating fact: Original choice Mel Gibson pronounced himself likewise old, opening the way for Russell Crowe and establishing his and Ridley Scott'due south legendary collaboration.

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94. Legolas

Appearance: The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies (2001-2014)

Creator: J. R. R. Tolkien

Performer: Orlando Bloom

Defining moment: With the rest of the Fellowship bogged downwardly in a snowdrift, Legolas walks beyond, not leaving a mark.

Fascinating fact: Among his myriad talents, Legolas can talk to stones. A passage in Fellowship Of The Ring sees the nimble elf listening to the complaining of grieving rocks. A useful skill if ever there were i.

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93. Wednesday Addams

Appearance: The Addams Family films (1991-1993)

Creator: Charles Addams

Performer: Christina Ricci

Defining moment: At a costume party as herself — "I am a homicidal bedlamite. They look only like everyone else."

Fascinating fact: The character takes her name from a line in a Female parent Goose nursery rhyme: "Wednesday's kid is full of woe."

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92. Inspector Clouseau

Appearance: The Pink Panther films (1963-2009)

Creator: Blake Edwards, Maurice Richlin

Performer: Peter Sellers, Alan Arkin, Steve Martin

Defining moment: "I suspect everyone and I suspect no-one!"

Fascinating fact: Sellers and Edwards appear that they could never piece of work with each other over again after A Shot In The Dark opening the way for Alan Arkin to play the office.

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91. Inigo Montoya

Appearance: The Princess Bride (1987)

Creator: William Goldman

Performer: Mandy Patinkin

Defining moment: "I want my male parent back, you son of a bitch!" Inigo's moment of revenge is perfection.

Fascinating fact: Patinkin bruised a rib trying non to express joy at Billy Crystal's Miracle Max.

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90. Hal

Advent: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Creator: Arthur C. Clarke

Performer: Douglas Rain (vox)

Defining moment: Conceding the battle for supremacy between humans and technology, HAL departs with a plaintive rendition of Daisy Bell.

Fascinating fact: Originally envisioned by Clarke as a humanoid robot called Socrates.

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89. Groot

Appearance: Guardians Of The Galaxy (2014)

Creator: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers

Performer: Vin Diesel/ Krystian Godlewski

Defining moment: His return midcredits, getting his groove on as a sapling.

Fascinating fact: A Flora colossus from Planet X, Groot made his debut 1960's Tales to Astonish #13. Far from heroic, proto Groot attempted to abduct humans for scientific experimentation.

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88. Gromit

Appearance: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005)

Creator: Nick Park

Performer: Team Aardman Animations

Defining moment: How well-nigh reviving the asleep Wallace with a wedge of Stinking Bishop?

Fascinating fact: In 2005, NASA named a prototype Mars rover Gromit.

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87. Ethan Hunt

Advent: The Mission: Impossible serial (1996–)

Creator: David Koepp, Steven Zaillian, Robert Towne

Performer: Tom Cruise

Defining moment: Chase'southward penchant for defying gravity, physics and fearfulness reached its embodiment in part 4, with the daring climb up the side of the Burj Khalifa – aka the globe'southward tallest building – in Dubai.

Fascinating fact: Rumour has it that Chase was going to die in Ghost Protocol, but the graphic symbol survived due to production rewrites.

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86. Reddish

Appearance: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Creator: Stephen Rex

Performer: Morgan Freeman

Defining moment: His final parole lath. "To tell you the truth, I don't requite a shit."

Fascinating fact: In the novella, Rita Hayworth And Shawshank Redemption, Ruby is a white Irishman. He gets his name from his mop of cerise hair.

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85. Walker

Appearance: Point Blank (1967)

Creator: Donald Due east. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark)

Performer: Lee Marvin

Defining moment: Cut betwixt Walker'southward married woman and betrayer (Sharon Acker) getting dressed and Walker striding down a long corridor. The click of his relentless heels sounds over both images — he will non be stopped.

Fascinating fact: Richard Widmark, Robert Duvall, Mel Gibson, and Jason Statham have played versions of Walker.

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84. Corporal Hicks

Advent: Aliens (1986)

Creator: James Cameron

Performer: Michael Biehn

Defining moment: "I like to go on this handy... for close encounters…" The fact that Hicks carried a lo-fi shotgun ("Eat this!") proves he's old school, a cowboy, and a reliable hero.

Fascinating fact: James Remar was originally cast equally Hicks, but was canned after a drugs charge and replaced by Biehn weeks after they had started shooting.

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83. Bane

Appearance: Batman & Robin (1997), The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Creator: Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, Graham Nolan

Performer: Jeep Swenson (Batman & Robin), Tom Hardy (The Night Knight Rises)

Defining moment: Later on a major fist fight, Bane breaks Batman'due south dorsum and symbolically throws away the broken mask in The Dark Knight Rises.

Fascinating fact: Hardy based Bane's strange phonation on Romany Irish boxer Bartley Gorman.

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82. Woody

Appearance: The Toy Story serial (1995–)

Creator: John Lasseter

Performer: Tom Hanks (vocalisation)

Defining moment: "YOU ARE A TOY! Y'all aren't the real Fizz Lightyear! You're... you're an activity effigy! Yous are a kid's plaything!" Woody doles out some tough love to his deluded new friend suffering delusions of grandeur.

Fascinating fact: Toy Story 3 director Lee Unkrich revealed on Twitter that Woody's last name is Pride.

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81. Withnail

Appearance: Withnail & I (1987)

Creator: Bruce Robinson

Performer: Richard E. Grant

Defining moment: Withnail's preposterous tea shop demands: "We want the finest wines known to humanity. Nosotros want them here and nosotros desire them now!"

Fascinating fact: Grant'due south start reading of the line, "Fork it!" was exactly how Robinson had imagined it, thus securing the actor the part.

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80. V

Appearance: V For Vendetta (2005)

Creator: Alan Moore, David Lloyd

Performer: Hugo Weaving (though James Purefoy began filming earlier the role was recast, and some of his scenes notwithstanding appear with Weaving's vocalism-over).

Defining moment: The massed ranks of similar-masked protesters appearing at the Houses Of Parliament as V blows the place up and brings down the dystopian government.

Fascinating fact: Weaving based V'southward phonation on ex-Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

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79. Roy Derailed

Appearance: Blade Runner (1982)

Creator: Philip Yard. Dick, Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples

Performer: Rutger Hauer

Defining moment: The incredible sense of loss that comes with the "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" dying speech… "All those moments will be lost in time like tears in the rain. Time to die."

Fascinating fact: Roy's altogether – or rather, his inception – was celebrated on January 8, 2016. He's three years and ten months old when he dies.

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78. Martin Blank

Appearance: Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

Creator: Tom Jankiewicz, D. V. DeVincentis, Steve Pinkish, John Cusack

Performer: John Cusack

Defining moment: Killing a would-be assassin with the promotional pen his glad-handing real-estate amanuensis friend has given him at a school reunion.

Fascinating fact: Though the grapheme is renamed Brand Hauser, Blank essentially returns in the piddling-seen War, Inc. (2008), which Cusack co-wrote and produced; Joan Cusack and Dan Aykroyd also reprise their roles.

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77. Samwise Gamgee

Appearance: The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (2001-2003)

Creator: J. R. R. Tolkien

Performer: Sean Astin

Defining moment: Lugging Master Frodo onto his back and trudging up Mount Doom's ashy slope: "I can't carry it for you... simply I tin conduct you!"

Fascinating fact: Astin uses a frying pan as a weapon in two films, The Fellowship Of The Ring and Toy Soldiers.

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76. Private William Hudson

Advent: Aliens (1986)

Creator: James Cameron

Performer: Bill Paxton

Defining moment: The character's a certifiable quote-machine, particularly when he goes into panicky gobshite fashion. Subsequently Ripley reasonably points out how long little girl Newt survived, he brilliantly ripostes, "Why don't you put her in charge?"

Fascinating fact: Hudson's most repeated line in the movie — "Game over, man, game over!" — was improvised by Paxton on set.

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75. Lisbeth Salander

Appearance: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo trilogy (2009), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo remake (2011)

Creator: Stieg Larsson

Performer: Noomi Rapace, Rooney Mara

Defining moment: Her brutal revenge on the sexually abusive probation worker, which includes tattooing, "I am a rapist sus scrofa" on his chest.

Fascinating fact: Larsson claimed that Salander was what he imagined Swedish children's book character Pippi Longstocking would be similar equally an adult.

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74. Frank Drebin

Appearance: The Naked Gun series (1988-1994)

Creator: David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker

Performer: Leslie Nielsen

Defining moment: Peeing, mid-press conference, with his mic on. Impressive stream, listen.

Fascinating fact: Nielsen appeared on Noel's House Party every bit Drebin in 1994. He didn't accidentally shoot Mr. Blobby.

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73. Donnie Darko

Appearance: Donnie Darko (2001)

Creator: Richard Kelly

Performer: Jake Gyllenhaal

Defining moment: Telling motivational speaker Jim (Patrick Swayze), "I think you lot're the fucking Antichrist!"

Fascinating fact:Donnie watchesThe Evil Dead_on a double beak with_The Terminal Temptation Of Christ_because Kelly couldn't rails downward the rights-holders of his first-choice film, _C.H.U.D.

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72. Helm Kirk

Appearance: The Star Trek series (1966–)

Creator: Cistron Roddenberry

Performer: William Shatner, Chris Pine

Defining moment: Marooned alive at the centre of a expressionless planet, Kirk makes his feeling towards his nemesis ring through the quadrant. "KHAAAAAAAN!!!"

Fascinating fact: J. J. Abrams originally asked Mark Wahlberg to play Kirk's dad.

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71. Star-Lord

Appearance: Guardians Of The Milky way (2014)

Creator: Steve Englehart, Steve Gan

Perfomers: Chris Pratt, Wyatt Oleff

Defining moment: "I have office of a program." For this fast-improvising maverick, 12 per cent of a program is quite sufficient.

Fascinating fact: The prop department'southward single toughest challenge was finding, intact, original Sony headphones for Quill's Walkman.

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lxx. Tony Montana

Appearance: Scarface (1983)

Creator: Oliver Rock (based on 1932's Howard Hawks/Richard Rosson motion picture)

Performer: Al Pacino

Defining moment: "In this country, you gotta brand the money first. Then when you get the money, yous get the power. Then when yous get the power, so y'all get the women."

Fascinating fact: Rapper Cuban Link was fix to play Tony's son in a 2001 sequel.

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69. Marge Gunderson

Appearance: Fargo (1996)

Creator: Joel and Ethan Coen

Performer: Frances McDormand

Defining moment: Contemplating the torso in the wood chipper and asking the killer, "And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more than to life than a little coin, you know. Dontcha know that? And here ya are, and it'southward a cute day. Well, I just don't empathise it."

Fascinating fact: McDormand learned her Minnesota accent from actress Larissa Kokernot, who plays the pocket-sized function of Hooker #1.

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68. Neo

Appearance: The Matrix trilogy (1999-2003)

Creators: The Wachowskis

Performer: Keanu Reeves

Defining moment: A hail of bullets stopped with a simple gesture, an Agent batted aside with coincidental ease, and so annihilated from the inside out. As Morpheus and so succinctly put it, "He is The I."

Fascinating fact: Reeves nearly wasn't. Before Keanu landed the role, both Will Smith and Nic Muzzle passed on Neo's leather trousers.

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67. Harry Potter

Appearance: The Harry Potter series (2001-2011)

Creator: J. Thousand. Rowling

Performer: Daniel Radcliffe

Defining moment: "Expecto patronum!" Harry comes of age by discovering the wherewithal to conjure up his Patronus spirit avatar and repel the Dementors.

Fascinating fact: Radcliffe was going to wear green contact lenses, to match Harry's clarification in the books, but they made his eyes itch.

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66. Gollum / Sméagol

Appearance: The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

Creator: J. R. R. Tolkien

Performer: Andy Serkis

Defining moment: Sméagol debating the merits of treachery with his other half in The Ii Towers - a scene cunningly orchestrated between the 'innocent' and 'conniving' sides of his inner schism.

Fascinating fact: Gollum's underpants are made of goblin skin. Elasticated, breathable, fresh stench of rot...

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65. Hans Landa

Appearance: Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Creator: Quentin Tarantino

Performer: Christoph Waltz

Defining moment: Landa's cold-blooded motel monologue to a farmer he suspects of sheltering Jews is a sinister mix of slippery charm, high intellect and outright villainy. As is he.

Fascinating fact: Landa'south trademark Calabash Meerschaum pipe offers a subtle link to another famous, but somewhat less malignant, sleuth - Sherlock Holmes.

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64. George Bailey

Appearance: It'southward A Wonderful Life (1946)

Creator: Philip Van Doren Stern

Performer: James Stewart, Bobby Anderson

Defining moment: His pure delight at the discovery of "Zuzu's petals!" in his pocket when he returns to the real Bedford Falls later on his nightmarish vision and he realises the world has gone back to how it was.

Fascinating fact: In the original novel, George's full name was George Pratt. It was changed to Bailey for the movie.

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63. Wolverine

Appearance: The X-Men series (2000–)

Creator: Len Wein, John Romita Sr.

Performer: Hugh Jackman, Troye Sivan

Defining moment: His ferocious response when the Xavier School For Gifted Youngsters is attacked in X2. The claws come out... Wolverine really doesn't like y'all threatening his friends.

Fascinating fact: Jackman took daily icecold showers while playing Wolverine in order to attain the requisite grumpiness.

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62. E.T.

Appearance: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Creator: Melissa Mathison

Performer: Pat Welsh (vocalization)

Defining moment: When Elliott cuts his finger, E. T. uses his glowing digit to reveal his power to heal. It is not just a demonstration of alien powers, but an expression of E. T.'s empathy and mgrowing bail with Elliott.

Fascinating fact: The squashy sound of E.T.'due south walk was created by foley creative person John Roesch stuffing a T-shirt full of jelly and squishing it.

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61. Bilbo Baggins

Appearance: The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies (2001-2014)

Creator: J. R. R. Tolkien

Performer: Ian Holm, Martin Freeman

Defining moment: Equally he'south virtually to quit the quest in An Unexpected Journeying, Freeman'due south Bilbo realises the dwarves desire their home back as much as he needs to get dwelling house. Somehow this drives him further on for adventures.

Fascinating fact: John Le Mesurier - best known for playing Sgt. Wilson in Dad'due south Ground forces — played Bilbo in the BBC's 1981 radio serial.

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threescore. Dr. King Schultz

Advent: Django Unchained (2012)

Creator: Quentin Tarantino

Performer: Christoph Flit

Defining moment: For showcasing his joy in the office and his dexterity with Tarantino's dialogue, Flit recounting the origins of the name of Broomhilda - Django's wife. "It's a German legend, there's always going to be a mount in there somewhere."

Fascinating fact: Tarantino created the office for Waltz, who stayed with him while he wrote and read the pages literally warm from the printer.

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59. Ace Ventura

Appearance: Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), When Nature Calls (1995)

Creator: Jack Bernstein, Tom Shadyac, Jim Carrey

Performer: Jim Carrey

Defining moment: Plenty of improv and safe-faced japery, but for pure physical one-act the slo-mo acting out of a football play in the mental establishment - and and so rewinding - can't be topped.

Fascinating fact: Ace Ventura made a brief (animated) appearance in the cartoon series of The Mask, when Stanley Ipkiss loses his dog.

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58. Sarah Connor

Appearance: The Terminator serial (1984–)

Creator: James Cameron

Performer: Linda Hamilton, Emilia Clarke

Defining moment: In T2, doing chin-ups in the hospital. One time a timid nobody, now a fearsome warrior with the fate of mankind in her hands.

Fascinating fact: The T-1000'southward doppelgänger of Connor in T2 was played by her identical twin sister, Leslie.

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57. Katniss Everdeen

Advent: The Hunger Games series (2012-2015)

Creator: Suzanne Collins

Performer: Jennifer Lawrence

Defining moment: Volunteering for the nightmarish Hunger Games when her younger sister'due south name is read out, in club to salve the kind-hearted Prim from the same awful fate.

Fascinating fact: 'Katniss' is a plant also known as an 'arrowhead'. Symbolism!

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56. Jack Burton

Advent: Large Trouble In Little Communist china (1986)

Creator: John Carpenter, W. D. Richter

Performer: Kurt Russell

Defining moment: Ol' Jack Burton bursts into a room, shoots his gun in the air... and gets knocked out by falling masonry. Thus proving that he's a perfect piss-take of the shoot beginning, inquire questions after American hero.

Fascinating fact: The movie initially began life as a Western, fix in the 1880s. Russell's John Wayne drawl would take been even more appropriate.

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55. Axel Foley

Appearance: The Beverly Hills Cop trilogy (1984-1994)

Creator: Daniel Petrie Jr.

Performer: Eddie Murphy

Defining moment: His incredulous merely knowing squeal, "Getthefuckouttahere!" to snippy gallery flunky Serge when he'south told the price of the works of art.

Fascinating fact: The role was originally written for Sylvester Stallone, who rewrote much of the script, had it rejected, and later on recycled some of the ideas for 1986's Cobra.

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54. Amélie Poulain

Appearance: Amélie (2001)

Creator: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Performer: Flora Guiet, Audrey Tautou

Defining moment: Upon Amélie finding the photo anthology of lost postcards, the narrator gives the perfect summation of Amélieness: "Any normal daughter would phone call the number, meet him, return the album and come across if her dream is feasible. It's called a reality check. The concluding thing Amélie wants."

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53. Vito Corleone

Appearance: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather: Part Ii (1974)

Creator: Mario Puzo

Performer: Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro

Defining moment: Forging his destiny with the murder of neighbourhood padrone Don Fanucci.

Fascinating fact: Orson Welles claimed he would accept "sold his soul" to play Vito, only was never fifty-fifty considered - nonetheless, an interesting thought.

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52. Shaun Riley

Advent: Shaun Of The Expressionless (2004)

Creator: Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg

Performer: Simon Pegg

Defining moment: Shaun finally ditches the kitchen appliances and picks up a cricket bat. The sporting way to lay waste to the undead.

Fascinating fact: While filming the climactic pub mêlée, Pegg's arm actually caught on fire.

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51. Obi-Wan Kenobi

Appearance: The Star Wars series (1977-2005)

Creator: George Lucas

Performer: Alec Guinness, Ewan McGregor

Defining moment: "These aren't the droids you're looking for." Ben Kenobi shows off a neat political party trick that leads to a generation trying to go past nightclub bouncers past waving their hands at them.

Fascinating fact: Fifteen people have played Kenobi across various platforms but Guinness and McGregor remain the only two actors to take played him on screen. So far.

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50. Luke Skywalker

Appearances: The Star Wars series (1977-2015)

Creator: George Lucas

Performer: Mark Hamill

Defining moment: "But I was going into Tosche station to selection upwards some power converters." Luke Skywalker: cinema's greatest whiner.

Fascinating fact: In the scene where Luke introduces himself to Leia on the Death Star, Hamill referred to himself as Luke Starkiller, the character's original proper name. It was nixed by execs and reshot with the more aspirational Skywalker.

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49. Harry Callahan

Appearances: The Dirty Harry series (1971-1988)

Creators: Harry Julian Fink, Rita Grand. Fink, Dean Riesner

Performer: Clint Eastwood

Defining moment: Best summed up by District Attorney Rothko to Harry: "Where the hell does it say that you've got a right to boot down doors, torture suspects, deny medical attention and legal counsel… that man had rights."

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48. Lester Burnham

Appearance: American Beauty (1999)

Creator: Alan Ball

Performer: Kevin Spacey

Defining moment: Visually the rose petals peeling off Mena Suvari was the paradigm of the picture, but it is Lester'south touching vox-over that really lingers: "I can't feel anything simply gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life."

Fascinating fact: The original script was bookended with Lester's girl and her boyfriend being arrested for his murder.

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47. Rick Deckard

Appearance: Blade Runner

Creators: Philip Grand. Dick, Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples

Performer: Harrison Ford

Defining moment: Deckard'southward place as futuristic gumshoe/assassinator is defined by his brutal shooting of replicant snake dancer Zhora and the bitter look that goes with it.

Fascinating fact: When Ridley Scott commencement met with Ford he was shooting Raiders and arrived in Indy'southward lid. Scott ditched the idea of Deckard wearing a fedora immediately and gave him the fizz cutting.

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46. Captain America

Appearances: Marvel Cinematic Universe (2011–)

Creators: Joe Simon, Jack Kirby

Performer: Chris Evans

Defining moment: In Age Of Ultron, Tony Stark asks Steve Rogers how he plans to beat an alien invasion. "Together," says the super-soldier. "We'll lose," says Stark. "And so we'll do that together, too." Archetype Cap.

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45. Tommy DeVito

Appearance: Goodfellas (1990)

Creators: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese

Performer: Joe Pesci

Defining moment: The shinebox to-do is pretty iconic just the pocketknife-edge tension of DeVito's improvised drinking confrontation with Henry Colina (Ray Liotta) remains unmatchable. "Funny how? What's funny about it?"

Fascinating fact: The in a higher place exchange was based on something that actually happened to Pesci.

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44. Anton Chigurh

Advent: No Country For Old Men (2007)

Creators: Cormac McCarthy, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Performer: Javier Bardem

Defining moment: The life-or-expiry money toss. "Phone call it, friend-o," insists Chigurh, impassive as a man counting old Tiger Tokens. You could say he is a fatalist.

Fascinating fact: According to co-star Josh Brolin, Chigurh's bowl cut had Bardem complaining that he wouldn't "become laid for three months".

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43. Amy Dunne

Appearance: Gone Girl (2014)

Creator: Gillian Flynn

Performer: Rosamund Thruway

Defining moment: The most telling glimpse inside Amy'south mind comes via her meticulously filled wall planner – hither is her master program, her final revenge, her psychopathology. She has even set a appointment to kill herself.

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42. Lou Bloom

Appearance: Nightcrawler (2014)

Creator: Dan Gilroy

Performer: Jake Gyllenhaal

Defining moment: Blossom tying his employer Rene Russo upwards in knots over one creepy dinner 'date'. She'south a smart, savvy, experienced operator, and absolutely no match for him.

Fascinating fact: Gyllenhaal needed 44 stitches later on slicing a thumb during the mirror boom scene.

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41. Keyser Söze

Appearance: The Usual Suspects

Creator: Christopher McQuarrie

Performer: Kevin Spacey

Defining moment: A criminal then terrifying the mere mention of his name makes hard nuts wither in their vanquish, Söze is largely a bogeyman-style spectre throughout Bryan Singer's film. Merely we see him at the start, coolly putting out a fire by pissing on it. Now that may exist the greatest trick the devil ever pulled.

Fascinating fact: The long-haired Söze we see in a flashback is played by Scott B. Morgan, who was working behind the scenes on the movie.

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40. Ferris Bueller

Appearance: Ferris Bueller'southward Day Off (1986)

Creator: John Hughes

Performer: Matthew Broderick

Defining moment: Parading through Chicago lip-syncing Danke Schoen while the crowd goes wild. Ever noticed that Ferris is a faker?

Fascinating fact: The sick-starred TV accommodation featured Diagnosis: Murder star Charlie Schlatter taking a chainsaw to a cardboard cutout of Matthew Broderick. It was cancelled afterward thirteen episodes.

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39. Driver

Appearance: Bulldoze (2011)

Creators: Hossein Amini, James Sallis

Performer: Ryan Gosling

Defining moment: Confined to an orange-hued elevator descending to death, Driver kisses Carey Mulligan knowing what he'south nigh to practise will destroy their love but save her life – not bad in the skull of a threatening thug.

Fascinating fact: Nicolas Winding Refn directed Drive but he tin't really drive.

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38. Yoda

Appearances: The Star Wars series (1980-2005)

Creators: George Lucas, Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan

Performer: Frank Oz

Defining moment: Lifting a sunken X-Wing out of a swamp. "I don't believe it," says Luke. "This is why you fail," replies the crestfallen Jedi master, never quick to encourage.

Fascinating fact: In early drafts the and then-called Minch Yoda kept his house spotlessly clean.

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37. Walter Sobchak

Appearance: The Big Lebowski (1998)

Creators: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Performer: John Goodman

Defining moment: Responding to a perceived bowling foul with thermo- nuclear intensity. "Mark it zero!" Walter is a stickler for rules.

Fascinating fact: The airline version changed, "Y'all see what happens, Larry, when yous fuck a stranger in the ass?" to, "Yous run across what happens, Larry, when you find a stranger in the Alps?"

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36. Rocky Balboa

Appearances: The Rocky series (1976-2015)

Creator: Sylvester Stallone

Performer: Sylvester Stallone

Defining moment: "Downwards! Stay downwardly!" Battered to the sheet by Apollo Creed, the piece of cake thing for Rocky would be to practise merely that. But up the Italian Stallion climbs. Creed's look of disbelief, mingled with respect, is glorious.

Fascinating fact: Stallone wouldn't sell his script unless producers Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff let him star.

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35. Atticus Finch

Appearance: To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

Creator: Harper Lee

Performer: Gregory Peck

Defining moment: "To begin with, this case should never take come to trial..." Finch's quietly devastating endmost argument destroys the prosecution instance and has inspired decades' worth of prospective lawyers.

Fascinating fact: Brock Peters, who played accused Tom Robinson, gave a eulogy for Peck and addressed him as "my friend Atticus Finch".

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34. Helm Mal Reynolds

Appearance: Serenity (2005)

Creator: Joss Whedon (from his 2002 Firefly television serial)

Performer: Nathan Fillion

Defining moment: Reynold's St Crispin's Day speech. Impassioned oratory with a suitably Whedonesque summation. "No more runnin'. I aim to misbehave."

Fascinating fact: Whedon originally wrote the function for Nicholas Brendon (Buffy's Xander). Shooting schedules made information technology impossible, so Fillion stepped in.

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33. The Man With No Name

Appearances: A Fistful Of Dollars (1964), For A Few Dollars More (1965), The Expert, The Bad And The Ugly (1966)

Creator: Sergio Leone

Performer: Clint Eastwood

Defining moment: At the finale of The Skillful, The Bad And The Ugly, Eastwood's amoral treasure hunter chooses to allow the treacherous Tuco (Eli Wallach) alive. He's not and then amoral after all.

Fascinating fact: The breviloquent anti-hero appeared in 5 novels, which continued the series past Leone'southward 3rd Dollars film.

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32. Jules Winnfield

Appearance: Pulp Fiction (1994)

Creator: Quentin Tarantino

Performer: Samuel 50. Jackson

Defining moment: A brutal choice, with Tim Roth reaching for his wallet a very close 2d identify ("It's the one that says Bad Motherfucker."), but the winner has to exist quoting Ezekiel 25:17 before blowing away Brett (Frank Whaley). Righteous fury.

Fascinating fact: The quote isn't actually, largely, from the Bible simply from the 1976 Sonny Chiba action pic The Bodyguard.

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31. Peter Venkman

Appearances: Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989)

Creators: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis

Performer: Bill Murray

Defining moment: Giving 2 students an ESP test, happily electrical-shocking the obnoxious sophomore guy while flirting with the girl. Poor scientific discipline, merely liquid Venkman.

Fascinating fact: According to the Ghostbusters novelisation, he was born in a circus tent at King City Attractions in Sedalia, Missouri.

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30. Gandalf

Appearances: The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit trilogies (2001-2014)

Creator: J. R. R. Tolkien

Performer: Ian McKellen

Defining moment: In a small but perfect grace note from the Council Of Elrond, as the first to hear Frodo's offer to take the 1 Band all the style to Mount Doom, a ripple of sadness crosses Gandalf's face. It is the heartbreaking recognition of what his meddling will price.

Fascinating fact: McKellen openly professed that he preferred playing Gandalf The Grey to Gandalf The White.

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29. Snake Plissken

Appearances: Escape From New York (1981), Escape From L.A. (1996)

Creator: John Carpenter

Performer: Kurt Russell

Defining moment: On being asked if he's going to kill Lee Van Cleef's graphic symbol: "I'm as well tired, mayhap later."

Fascinating fact: Production company Avco Embassy Pictures preferred Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones for the office rather than Russell, who was meliorate known for his recent Disney comedies.

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28. The Terminator (T-800)

Appearances: The Terminator serial (1984–)

Creator: James Cameron

Performer: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Defining moment: The joy of the "I'll be back" sequence lies not merely in its legacy, but its witty motorcar-like accurateness: he volition indeed be back, swell his machine through the police station, the desk, and the desk clerk.

Fascinating fact: Cameron had devised a version of the plot where in that location would exist two Arnie T-800s, one good, one evil, but ditched information technology because one would take to look battered throughout, which meant putting Schwarzenegger in make-upwards every day – he couldn't face the griping.

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27. Forrest Gump

Advent: Forrest Gump (1994)

Creator: Winston Groom

Performer: Tom Hanks

Defining moment: When he asks Jenny if their son is "normal"; information technology's a moment that shows a tragic awareness of his ain limitations.

Fascinating fact: In the book, Forrest is more of a savant, and gets elevation marks in avant-garde physics at college.

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26. Patrick Bateman

Advent: American Psycho (2000)

Creator: Bret Easton Ellis

Performer: Christian Bale

Defining moment: Patrick Bateman's soliloquy on the genius of Huey Lewis, followed by his iconic Hip To Be Square apartment-ricide.

Fascinating fact: In retrospect, Bret Easton Ellis felt that making Bateman a rabid Huey Lewis fan was unfair. The musician didn't much listen, even doing his own Funny Or Die spoof.

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25. Ash

Appearances: The Evil Dead trilogy (1981-1992)

Creator: Sam Raimi

Performer: Bruce Campbell

Defining moment: The tooling-upwardly sequence in Evil Dead II marks the moment where Ash transitions from hapless and hysterical buffoon to the Muddy Harry of Deadites. Campbell'south delivery of the line, "Groovy," launched a thousand audio bites.

Fascinating fact: Ash's full name is Ashley Williams. (Not to be confused with the Everton and Wales defender.)

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24. Daniel Plainview

Appearance: There Will Be Blood (2007)

Creators: Paul Thomas Anderson, Upton Sinclair

Performer: Daniel 24-hour interval-Lewis

Defining moment: "We offer you lot the bond of family that very few oilmen tin can understand…" claims Plainview, luring dumbfounded landowners to his cause with Molotov sincerity. A monologue doubly astounding given that Day-Lewis improvised most of it.

Fascinating fact: Plainview's mansion in the picture is, in fact, Greystone Mansion in LA, the dwelling house of Edward Doheny Jr., son of the real oil baron upon whom Plainview was partly based.

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23. The Helpmate

Appearances: Impale Bill: Vol. ane (2003), Kill Beak: Vol. two (2004)

Creator: Quentin Tarantino

Performer: Uma Thurman

Defining moment: Beatrix Kiddo's drastic rationalising of the Crazy 88 during the slay-full House Of Bluish Leaves showdown.

Fascinating fact: Uma Thurman ran over a chicken during the movie'southward shoot.

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22. Travis Bickle

Appearance: Taxi Driver (1976)

Creator: Paul Schrader

Performer: Robert De Niro

Defining moment: Bickle kindly gives his date a Kris Kristofferson album she already owns; and so takes her out to a porn film.

Fascinating fact: One of Schrader'southward inspirations for Bickle was Harry Chapin's vocal Taxi.

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21. Hannibal Lecter

Appearances: The Hannibal Lecter films (1986-2007)

Creator: Thomas Harris

Performers: Brian Cox, Anthony Hopkins, Aaran Thomas, Gaspard Ulliel

Defining moment: The moment that cements Lecter'southward extraordinary effect comes during his conspicuous absence. Orchestrated with devilish cunning, his courthouse escape in The Silence Of The Lambs leaves you thunderstruck by temporarily having no idea where he is.

Fascinating fact: John Lithgow, Mandy Patinkin, William Friedkin, Brian Dennehy, Sean Connery, Derek Jacobi and Daniel 24-hour interval-Lewis take all been considered to play Lecter.

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20. Md Chocolate-brown

Appearances: The Back To The Future trilogy (1985-1990), A Million Ways To Die In The West (2014)

Creators: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale

Performer: Christopher Lloyd

Defining moment: His apology for the "crudeness" of his ridiculously detailed calibration model of Hill Valley.

Fascinating fact: In the Dorsum To The Hereafter animated Television set series (1991), Doctor was voiced past Dan Castellaneta, aka Homer Simpson.

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nineteen. Loki

Appearances: The Curiosity Cinematic Universe (2011–)

Creators: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Larry Lieber

Performer: Tom Hiddleston

Defining moment: Every bit fun equally the tyrannical posturing is in Avengers, the kickoff Thor reveals the troubled core which makes the character so compelling – and sympathetic. Later discovering his frost-behemothic lineage, Loki stutters at his foster-father Odin, "I am the monster parents tell their children well-nigh at dark?"

Fascinating fact: Among those who auditioned for the part of Loki was Charlie Cox… who 4 years afterwards would enter the MCU as Daredevil.

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xviii. Rick Blaine

Appearance: Casablanca (1942)

Creators: Murray Burnett and Joan Alison (play, Everybody Comes To Rick'south); Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch

Performer: Humphrey Bogart

Defining moment: His curt nod to the bandleader to strike up La Marseillaise and drown out the Nazis. A tiny but pivotal gesture – Rick has joined The Cause.

Fascinating fact: Brazzaville, a mercifully unrealised Casablanca sequel, revealed that Rick was an undercover US agent all along.

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17. M. Gustave

Advent: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Creators: Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness

Performer: Ralph Fiennes

Defining moment: A philandering, worldly ane-human being TripAdvisor, concierge 1000. Gustave ends up taking a fascist bullet for his young friend, Aught Moustafa (Tony Revolori). Below that suave carapace lies an inner nobility, afterwards all.

Fascinating fact: Fiennes used his time as a immature porter at London'south Dark-brown'southward Hotel to assistance construct the character.

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16. Ron Burgundy

Appearances: Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

Creators: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay

Performer: Volition Ferrell

Defining moment: Having failed to convince Veronica (Christina Applegate) that San Diego means "whale'south vagina", Ron says, "Agree to disagree" – displaying his particular mix of arrogance and idiocy.

Fascinating fact: Ferrell could have been a newsman himself – he fifty-fifty did an internship at a local TV station.

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15. Aragorn

Appearances: The Lord Of The Rings trilogy (2001-2003)

Creator: J. R. R. Tolkien

Performer: Viggo Mortensen

Defining moment: Going to run across the Uruk-hai atop Parth Galen to allow Frodo time to escape. It'southward the first time Aragorn embraces his destiny as a leader.

Fascinating fact: Mortensen patched up his ain costume while filming and, when he lost a tooth in an orc-based squabble, he merely had information technology glued back in.

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xiv. Captain Jack Sparrow

Appearances: The Pirates Of The Caribbean area serial (2003–)

Creators: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio

Performer: Johnny Depp

Defining moment: His panicked cry of, "But why is the rum gone?" on learning that boyfriend castaway Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) has created a rum-fuelled buoy to attract rescue.

Fascinating fact: Elliott and Rossio designed Cap'n Jack in the spirit of characters in archetype literature and opera like Figaro; the comic, puckish counterpoint to the picture's heroes.

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thirteen. Iron Man

Appearances: The Curiosity Cinematic Universe (2008–)

Creators: Stan Lee, Don Heck, Jack Kirby, Larry Lieber

Performer: Robert Downey Jr.

Defining moment: At a press briefing to deny that he is Iron Human being, Tony Stark leans into the mic and announces: "I am Iron Human." Information technology's the move of a billionaire genius playboy philanthropist, and narcissist, and dispensed with all that secret identity distortion right off the bat.

Fascinating fact: Iron Homo had been years in development, with Nicolas Cage and Tom Prowl linked to the role.

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12. Marty McFly

Appearances: Back To The Future trilogy (1985-1990)

Creators: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale

Performer: Michael J. Pull a fast one on

Defining moment: After belting out Johnny B. Goode: "I estimate yous guys aren't set up for that notwithstanding, but your kids are gonna love it."

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eleven. Michael Corleone

Appearances: The Godfather trilogy (1972-1990)

Creator: Mario Puzo

Performer: Al Pacino

Defining moment: Watch him steeling himself to kill Sollozzo and Capt. McCluskey in the eating house – a journey to the dark side begins.

Fascinating fact: Michael Corleone is a bit-function role player in Puzo's novel The Sicilian.

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10. The Dude

Appearance: The Big Lebowski (1998)

Creators: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Performer: Jeff Bridges

Defining moment: Throughout, The Dude is striving to return to his habitual state of rest but fails. Driving his beat-up Torino home in a rare moment of contentment, supping a beer, taking a toke and singing along to Creedence on the eight-track, he spots he's being trailed. This latest assail on his embattled karma causes him in quick succession to film his joint into his lap, squeal like a girl, pour beer on his trousers, and slam the Torino into a row of dustbins. Rattled but unhurt, his drugstore Ray-Bans — an excellent bellwether for The Dude'southward equilibrium — are left comically askew.

Fascinating fact: With the exception of his dream, yous never actually come across The Dude bowl.

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nine. Darth Vader

Appearances: Star Wars: Episodes III-Six (1977-2005)

Creator: George Lucas

Performers: David Prowse, James Earl Jones (voice), Sebastian Shaw, Hayden Christensen

Defining moment: In the outset two films (i.e. Episodes IV and 5), Lord Vader is nothing more than — or less — than the ultimate, über-cool villain. Remorseless, fearless, able to force-strangle his underlings via video link... Only it's in Return Of The Jedi that we realise, somehow, that we care about Vader — but every bit Luke does. In this sense, he'south defined past a small commutation with his offspring. Having been urged to permit go of his hate, he says, almost sadly, "It is too late for me, son..."

Fascinating fact: Vader was also technically played by famed Hollywood sword-master Bob Anderson, who donned the suit for Episode V and VI's lightsaber duels.

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viii. Tyler Durden

Appearance: Fight Club (1999)

Creator: Chuck Palahniuk

Performer: Brad Pitt

Defining moment: Tyler delivering the rules is the nigh quoted moment, only the scene that captures his night humour is when he invites a beating from bar-owner Lou, spraying blood over him with an evilly gleeful, "You don't know where I've been!"

Fascinating fact: Pitt originally wanted to play The Narrator, simply David Fincher convinced him to be Tyler instead.

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7. John McClane

Appearances: The Die Hard films (1988-2013), National Lampoon'southward Loaded Weapon ane (1993)

Creators: Roderick Thorp, Steven Due east. de Souza, Jeb Stuart

Performer: Bruce Willis

Defining moment: Sending a expressionless terrorist dorsum to his cohorts with a zinger daubed on him in blood. Tough, cocky, darkly funny.

Fascinating fact: Fox had to offering the role to Frank Sinatra first, as technically Die Hard is a sequel to 1968's The Detective.

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half dozen. The Joker

Appearances: Batman The Motion-picture show (1966), Batman (1989), The Nighttime Knight (2008), Suicide Squad (2016)

Creators: Jerry Robinson, Beak Finger, Bob Kane

Performers: Cesar Romero, Mark Hamill (voice), Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, Jared Leto

Defining moment: Most votes specified Ledger's Oscar-winning take, so we'll go with his pencil-disappearing "magic trick". Nasty and securely unpredictable.

Fascinating fact: Ledger's Joker never looks at his victims while killing them.

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v. Ellen Ripley

Advent: The Alien series (1979-1997)

Creators: Walter Hill, David Giler, Ron Cobb, Dan O'Bannon

Performer: Sigourney Weaver

Defining moment: With a survival instinct to match her xenomorphic nemesis, Ripley is one of nature's rationalists. Indeed, had they followed her hard-nosed attempt to uphold quarantine rules and prevent the stricken Kane existence brought back on board — "If nosotros let it in, the ship could exist infected" — the Nostromo coiffure, if not Kane, would remain a whole lot healthier.

Fascinating fact: In the procedure of because Meryl Streep for the part of Ripley, Ridley Scott was stopped in his tracks past the sight of Weaver in thigh-high boots, bursting into his office, half an hour late for her audition.

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iv. Batman

Appearances: Batman The Movie (1966), Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995), Batman & Robin (1997), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), The Nighttime Knight Rises (2012)

Creators: Bob Kane, Bill Finger

Performers: Adam Due west, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale

Defining moment: It really should be from Christian Bale'south Nighttime Knight, when he is going fist to confront with the Joker every bit Gordon (Gary Oldman) looks on fretting, "Who'south in control?" Good question.

Fascinating fact: Fans sent 50,000 protestation letters to Warner Bros. afterward Tim Burton announced the casting of Michael Keaton as Batman.

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3. Han Solo

Appearances: The Star Wars series (1977–2015)

Creator: George Lucas

Performer: Harrison Ford

Defining moment: Granted, Vader had the meliorate wardrobe (blackness cape, motorcycle leathers), but Solo'south scruffy-looking smuggler still takes the gundark's share of Star Wars cool. Shooting starting time (sorry George) and nifty wise, he'south every inch the space cowboy. The Quintessential Solo is heartfelt besides as cocksure, though, and never more so than in Ford'southward famously ad-libbed response to Leia's, "I dearest you lot," in Episode 5: "I know."

Fascinating fact: In Lucas' early on drafts of The Star Wars, Solo'southward graphic symbol was Ureallian: a noseless, green-skinned, slime-covered alien with big gills, who trapped Wookiees. Not quite so romantic now, is it?

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2. James Bond

Appearances: The James Bail serial (1962–)

Creator: Ian Fleming

Performers: Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig

Defining moment: Probably varies by Bail — Moore unzipping Solitaire's dress with a magnet would sum him upward, for example, while Brosnan adjusting his tie after driving a tank through a wall nails him. But it was probably 007's beginning film that laid out the mark for the next l years, when he shoots Professor Paring ("That's a Smith & Wesson, and yous've had your six") with the insouciance of a man who'due south only had a bid accepted on eBay.

Fascinating fact: The Ian Fleming series of novels and shorts accept been almost entirely mined for titles, but these remain bachelor: Risico, The Hildebrand Rarity, The Property Of A Lady, and 007 In New York. They might remain unmined.

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i. Indiana Jones

Appearances: All 4 Indiana Jones adventures (1981-2008)

Creators: George Lucas, Lawrence Kasdan

Performer: Harrison Ford

Defining moment: The flicker of recognition that crosses Indy'due south face when Belloq (Paul Freeman) suggests they are alike... Tied with the pained, "Do I actually have to do this?" look he gives just earlier he shoots the Arab swordsman.

Fascinating fact: It is mutual knowledge that Indiana Jones was originally called Indiana Smith, but changed to Jones at Spielberg's bidding. Notwithstanding the reason Spielberg wanted the seemingly negligible proper name alter was to distance Raiders from Nevada Smith, a 1966 Steve McQueen Western.

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