4. John McClane (Die Hard, 1988)
Yippee-ki-yay, motherf***er's, John McClane is here and he's going to knock ten shades of you know what out of you while wearing a vest. That's right he's such a tough guy he can actually get away with wearing only a vest and he doesn't even slightly begin to look like a twonk. Terrorists the world over grew to fear the power of the vest as if it were Superman's cape or Batman's cowl. McClane is also one of those guys who'll talk to you while he's beating your ass into the ground. He's a wise cracking son of a bitch who prefers action to words unless those words happen to be smack talk - he's the 80's equivalent of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson in the body of Stone Cold Steve Austin. As McClane - who is the prototype for Keanu Reeves in Speed and Wesley Snipes in Passenger 57 - has got older and his hair has begun to retreat further and further some of his badass qualities have become watered down but don't ever think that means you can take him lightly because if a man takes Detective John McClane (the anti-Bond) too lightly he's going to have his ass handed to him.