7 Movie Heroes Who Fell For The Same Sh*t In The Sequel

3. Magnum Force - Harry Callahan

Harry Callahan is the manliest man ever, and that is a scientific fact. A mere look of disdain from the magnum-packing inspector is enough to cause most men to shrink in his presence, and women to swoon at his feet. And being honest, it's not as if he doesn't get to use that disdainful face €“ a cocktail of disgust and fury is what seems to power this maverick cop throughout his many adventures €“ disgust at the system, disgust at his colleagues, disgust at the world. Whatever's there to be disgusted by, you can bet your bottom dollar Harry's growled over it, and probably pointed a gun at it too. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the first movie, where Harry €“ disgusted with the authorities' treatment of the Scorpio case €“ lobs his badge into the drink after justly murdering the antagonist. The message is pretty clear €“ he's sick of the system and what it's going to do to him for being in the right. However, he's still back for the next film, happily swanning around San Francisco as an Inspector and continuing to get into ridiculous scrapes. Yet you could probably understand this, and Callahan addresses his change of heart in the next film when he explains that though he hates it, it's the best system available and he'll stick to it until something better comes along. Yet still, Harry almost never uses this system when a gun will do, and I guess that's what makes him so iconic. He prefers to shoot first and ask questions later, so when he gets good evidence (the slug in the wall) that Davis is one of the men behind all the hit-squadding which makes up this film's plot, you can bet stuffs going to go down. Yet for the only time in his life, he chooses to defy his own impulsive attitude, instead choosing to see how this one plays out. This seems to be in direct contrast to the original film, in which Callahan was constantly left aghast at how nobody stopped Scorpio before he could kill again. Harry is a vigilante, pure and simple, and he has reasonable evidence (and let's face it, that's all he needs) that Davis is behind some of the whackings which punctuate proceedings. Even if he didn't shoot him on the spot, that's more than enough to get him in and interrogate him retro-policeman style. But he doesn't, and predictably, it ends up with his partner Smith being blown up, with the granite-hewn Inspector almost suffering the same fate. It's made all the worse by the fact Harry didn't apply what he'd learnt against Scorpio €“ that it's best to cut evil off before it do terrible things, rather than chase them after the fact. Who knows, if he'd have done that, maybe they could've caught Briggs earlier too.