Black Panther was pretty big, and Chadwicks passing had an impact on a lot of people for sure.
Movie Heroes Per Decade?
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Is Joker a hero though lol
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I want to say Black Panther ... his influence was so sadly cut short.Ceaser is highly well known. Maybe him? Or black panther?
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lol Oh right. I mean in the context of the movie I guess? But nahhhhh
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Well, we need a separate category for anti-heroes and villains.
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Nominees:
- Caesar (Planet of the Apes)
- Logan
- Spider-Man again
- Rey
lol kidding)
- Thor got his time to shine in 2017 too.
- Deadpool (2018 for DP2)
I'm leaning towards Logan or Spidey, but as far as being influential or a 'household name' maybe its actually Deadpool given how unexpected it was at the time.
LOL at the Rey inclusion.
40's has to be Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon.
Also, it's impossible to have this list and NOT have Indiana Jones OR Jack Sparrow on it.
At 1989, I'd say Batman was a 90's thing more than 80's. Same with 1999 Neo -- though he didn't have the same culture impact as Indy or Batman. I think I would put Sparrow over Neo.
I'd probably go with Deadpool as well, if somebody told me 10 years ago that a Deadpool movie, nevermind a THIRD Deadpool movie, was about to hit 1Billion in the box office I'd have laughed at them.I'm leaning towards Logan or Spidey, but as far as being influential or a 'household name' maybe its actually Deadpool given how unexpected it was at the time.
LOL at the Rey inclusion.
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I've never actually seen the film, but I know Bogart was huge.
I forgot Pirates completely. I guess we need to add in Indiana Jones ... the categories can't always be singular because there are certain eras wherein we had an embarrassment of cinematic riches.
I'd agree.
Really? Not sure I agree with that but I'm likely biased, thanks to hanging around a bunch of Alt kids and coders at the time ...
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Yeah, that makes sense. He's more of an antihero but guess he kinda straddles the line a bit.
If it wasn't for Casablanca, Bogart's singular "anti-hero" is Sam Spade. 1940's you think of film noir...
Are you guys just making your own list, devoid of cultural effects? There are so many heroes in each decade for those of the right age within it at the time.
I mean, 1970s was all about disaster movies and The Sting and Dirty Harry... and then came little Star Wars in 1977.
But Star Wars was so much bigger than just Luke Skywalker. You can take Luke out and still have a Star Wars movie. You can't take Dirty Harry or Indiana Jones out of their story and have a movie.
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Fair. So the decision to be made is whether we're sticking to speculative fiction (fantasy & sci-fi) or including action heroes in general. In which case we have to keep spies and detectives and adventurers in, and Sam Spade gets in.
The attempted exercise is to find the *one* that had the most impact at the time. An exercise in ruthless narrowing down. With maybe one or two others sharing the slot if we absolutely must.
I was born in the 70s, in time to see Star Wars as a small child but outside of being vaguely aware of things like The Towering Inferno or Dirty Harry, not much to go on.
We can set aside disaster films, villains and anti-heroes to make things simpler.
Very true, but if you have to pick a hero out of Star Wars, Luke is it. And no, I never bought Lucas retconning the saga as the rise and fall of Anakin. Even if so, he's no hero.
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I don't know how big Superman: The Movie really was; surely not as big as Star Wars at any rate, although if memory serves there was a lot of buzz surrounding the film and Cracked (or was it Mad) magazine targeted him for a parody -- Super Duper Man or some such.
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20s Zorro
30s Tarzan
40s maybe Rick Blaine
50s Tough, probably a western like Marshal Will Kane or Shane, or someone like Kikuchiyo from Seven Samurai who was possibly had a longer lasting impact
60s Janes Bond
70s Luke Skywalker although I can’t help but feel that for the majority it was Harry Callahan then Rocky
80s Indiana Jones
90s tough one, either John McClane, Jack Ryan or Ethan Hunt
00s Harry Potter, personally I would probably choose Spidey
10s Iron Man, Cap is a close second for me
20s it ain’t over yet, no idea, nothing really stands out, Wolverine for me right now
30s Tarzan
40s maybe Rick Blaine
50s Tough, probably a western like Marshal Will Kane or Shane, or someone like Kikuchiyo from Seven Samurai who was possibly had a longer lasting impact
60s Janes Bond
70s Luke Skywalker although I can’t help but feel that for the majority it was Harry Callahan then Rocky
80s Indiana Jones
90s tough one, either John McClane, Jack Ryan or Ethan Hunt
00s Harry Potter, personally I would probably choose Spidey
10s Iron Man, Cap is a close second for me
20s it ain’t over yet, no idea, nothing really stands out, Wolverine for me right now
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We all know it’s tied between Morbius or Black Adam for the 2020’s
I think Sparrow had more mainstream appeal than Neo. Part of that was due to rating and merchandising, but let's be honest, he's also more lovable.
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Yeah but for me, for both of those characters, each sequel eroded the appeal of the character.
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