56. Jack Burton

Appearance: Big Trouble In Little 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 first, ask questions later American hero.

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

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