6 Movie Characters Who Were Just Too Damn GOOD To Die

3. John Rambo - First Blood

If the Rambo franchise had been true to the novel it was initially based on, we wouldn't be sitting in 2018 looking at the prospect of another chapter. In fact, we wouldn't have any sequels at all - or at least certainly none with John Rambo himself.

That's because in the novel that First Blood is based on, Rambo's last stand culminates in him committing suicide. He plans to blow himself up with dynamite, but not before attempting to be killed by the special ops team. And the film was headed that way too, with Rambo begging Colonel Trautman to kill him. The death scene was actually filmed...

But that was never going to fly - not when Sylvester Stallone recognised the appeal of the character and the potential for sequels. The actor/writer changed the ending to save Rambo and he ended up in prison instead.

It was nothing like the fitting end that had been initially planned - and Rambo went on to be nothing like the character he first appeared to be - but at least we got an occasionally entertaining action franchise out of it.