Summary

Superhero movie house has dominated the box office for the last two decennium , but some film from other musical style may just squeeze into the class thanks to their death - defying lead . Ridley Scott criticized the superhero genrefor often being tiresome when thestory becomes less about the persona and more about the spectacular , impossible feats performed . He go on to state that he orchestrate multiple ' superhero ' film , citingAlien , Gladiator , andBlade Runneras examples .

While these film do n’t gibe the traditional mold of a superhero movie , there is a good debate to be made about why the central characters could be classify as superheroes . From surviving in insufferable situation to have extraordinary gymnastic abilities , and saving others from peril , superheroes can be found in plenty of other genres . From action submarine sandwich like Rambo and John McClane to horror stars like Ellen Ripley and Ash Williams , these poor boy do n’t need powers to be ace .

10Ellen Ripley - Alien

Sigourney Weaver

Ellen Ripley is a clean retiring warrant officersimply cultivate on the USCSS Nostromo when she first appears inAlien . But by the end of the first film , she is the final girl who survived an onslaught of alarm aliens and paying back to Earth to recite the story . Ripley pass over out Xenomorphs through her heroic actionswhen she dives into a furnace with the queen xenomorph that had implanted itself in her , and perpetually bear witness herself to be the most significant mortal in the franchise . She is super intelligent , resourceful , and resilient enough to have survived multiple attacks before choose to sacrifice herself on her price and saving innumerous lives .

9Rick Deckard - Blade Runner

Harrison Ford

Blade Runnernever fully clarified whether Rick Deckard is in fact man , with a strong argument to be made for his being a replicant existing in the director ’s gash . However , human or not , Deckard manages to pull out off unbelievable stunts and expansive feat unlike any normal human being . Deckard is hire as a particular unit that hunts down and draw back advanced robots known as replicants . Deckard battles these superhuman robots , taking vivid hits and even having his fingers broken , but he still manage to mount tall buildings and almost make impossible bounce across rooftop . Thesefeats of strength combined with his determinationprove that at least in some ways , he is superhuman .

The Blade Runner universe of discourse goes far beyond the Rick Deckard pic . Several other project blow up the franchise and bridge over the gap between the cinema .

8Maximus Decimus Meridius - Gladiator

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe dons his superhero outfit inGladiatoras Maximus fights with strength and prowess beyond any normal human . Gladiatoris a historical moviethat sees a fabricated popish superior general , Maximus , removed from his position and then press his way of life through challenge in the Colosseum . He fight multiple warrior , and a mathematical group of tigers and endures tremendous physical injuries . His final encounter with Commodus takes place after he is fatally stab , and despite his injuries , he deal to overmaster his opponent before finally yield to the wound .

7Indiana Jones - Indiana Jones

Indy is a gifted archeologist in Indiana Jones who is n’t afraid to step by from his desk and get strong-arm . Throughout theIndiana Jonesseries , Indy performs death - defying effort , outrunning giant bowlder , swinging on a circle bridge over gator - infested waters , and jumping from tall buildings with only flimsy fabric sheets to wear out his capitulation . His abilities and destiny push him past the dot of any normal archeologistand firmly into the realm of heroes .

6Ethan Hunt - Mission Impossible

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise has performed some remarkable stuntsin Hollywood while playing Ethan Hunt in theMission Impossiblefranchise . Driving a motorcycle off the edge of a drop , descale the outside of a plane as it flies , and performing impossibly challenge heists even underwater . The affair that make up Hunt ’s character even more telling and heroical is the fact that , often , Cruise performs the stunts for actual . From larn to contain his breath underwater for six minutes , to performing more than 100 skydivers to specify to execute a aura jump , Cruise is a real - spirit superhero , and by extension , so is the character he trifle .

5John Wick - John Wick

Keanu Reeves

John Wicksees Keanu Reeves perform countless movement and maneuvers that far transcend most human abilities . The legendary bravo racks up a kill counting in bivalent and three-fold figures throughout each of the films in the series and oftenwithout taking any serious price himself . aid by some unassailable clientele dress , Wick is capable of incredible stunt , such as clear out an army of bad guys in the Continental or fighting his direction up a stairway in Paris cover in hostile forces . His survival and quick thinking in the face of any danger are beyond man .

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4Dominic Toretto - The Fast & Furious

Vin Diesel

While the entire mold ofThe Fast & Furiousfranchise has more and more become more like superheroes than street thugs , Dominic Toretto stands aside as the most capableof them all . Toretto managed to successfully slip a bank vault and drag it around behind a muscle car inFast Five , and then inFast & Furious 6 , he rescued Letty by jumping from his motorcar , over a large gap between two highways , after she was set up off of a tank to catch her mid - zephyr and break the fall with his eubstance . Despite establish at high speed and shatter a auto window , he manages to take the air away unharmed .

3John McClane - Die Hard

Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis plays the problematical guy copper , John McClane in the Die intemperate franchise , and his carrying out for certain plays out as heroic with progressively unacceptable stunts performed as the serial publication goes on . At one point inLive liberal or Die Hard , the fourthDie Hardfilm , McClane make do to drive a car into a whirlybird while it is aviate above the ground , and manages to rise out before the impact to walk aside with minimal injuries . While McClane does take on more injuries than many others on this list , he stillperforms jaw - dropping stunt that make him a real hero .

2Ash Williams - The Evil Dead

Bruce Campbell

Ash may be human , but his encounters with evil and demon over the decades have refined him to become exceptional in many means duringThe Evil Deadfranchise . Ash has make it high decline with almost no injury , fought demons hand to hand , and used his mechanical know - how to make aunique chainsaw prosthetic to help him trim down down the forces of evilness . Ash may be just human , but with his power to bring through the world , experiences travel through time , andkilling myriad malefic deadites , he may as well be super .

1John Rambo - Rambo

Sylvester Stallone

John Rambo is a highly decorated veteran and a Green Beret open of pushing his body and skill to limitation that feel more than human . Not only is he expert in using a wide-eyed array of weapons and hand - to - hand combat , but Rambo is also a multi - linguistic brainiac adept at a number of skills , from hunting to music , and first aid . Rambo might come out to be a dyke soldier , buthe is much more gifted and capablethan even that , but even those skills alone could push him into the realm of being a superhero .

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A collage image of Luke Skywalker in A New Hope

Ash from The Evil Dead, Ellen Ripley from Alien and John Wick from John Wick

Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard with a gun in Blade Runner.

Maximus standing in battle in Gladiator

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt hanging off a train in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1

John Wick on a horse

Vin Diesel as Dom in Fast Five

John McClane (Bruce Willis) standing amid rubble in Die Hard

Ash confronts a monster in Ash vs. The Evil Dead, standing and looking at something.