Where to begin with Marcellus Wallace's (Ving Rhames) super-cool associate, Jules Winnfield (Samuel L Jackson)? Given that one of the first things we see him do is murder a group of men for ripping off Wallace, it doesn't initially seem like Jules is much of a hero at all, but later on, his character develops to become something much more interesting and multi-faceted. Compared to his partner Vincent Vega (John Travolta), he's a much more thoughtful and introspective character, culminating in the iconic diner scene, where Jules cooly diffuses Pumpkin (Tim Roth) and Honey Bunny's (Amanda Plummer) robbery of a diner, "buying" their lives so he doesn't have to kill them and ultimately renouncing his life of crime. Jules truly is an anti-hero who gets to have his cake and eat it, too: he's a bada**, wise-cracking killer, and then he reforms his ways at the end without it seeming at all forced. From practically the first moment we meet him, two things are clear: Jules is both incredibly smart and extremely violent, and so to see him favouring the former over the latter demonstrates significant personal growth. But on the basis of that diner scene, if someone ever pointed a gun in Jules' face again, he'd probably still be able to either kick their a** or talk them down. Sometimes a hero knows when not to fight, and that's clearly Jules all over.
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