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Harry Potter Cooler Than John McClane, Jack Bauer, Mad Max and The Batman?? EW Ranks The All-Time 'Coolest' Heroes!!
I am – Hercules!!
Foxy Brown cooler than Iron Man? Nancy Drew cooler than The Batman? Harry Potter cooler than Sanjuro Kuwabatake, Johnny Gray AND the T-800? The little boy with the magic wand? Do I need to rewatch those movies?
Entertainment Weekly has another cover story designed to fire neurons in pleasure centers and annoy fanboys. The rankings:
1. James Bond
2. Indiana Jones
3. Superman
4. Harry Potter
5. Ellen Ripley
6. John McClane
7. Han Solo
8. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
9. Robin Hood
10. Spider-Man
11. Mad Max
12. James T. Kirk
13. Foxy Brown
14. Will Kane
15. Dirty Harry
16. Jack Bauer
17. Nancy Drew
18. Batman
19. Atticus Finch
20. Sydney Bristow
They also pick the 20 best villains. They rank Catherine Trammell above Hans Gruber and J.R. Ewing above Norman Bates, which is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard. Sorry, Number Two, Anton Chigurh and ED-209, no room on the list for you so we could make room for the guy who made Bobby Ewing’s life a living hell.
1. The Wicked Witch Of The West
2. Darth Vader
3. Hannibal Lecter
4. The Joker
5. Alex DeLarge
6. Montgomery Burns
7. Catherine Tramell
8. Voldemort
9. Dracula
10. Nurse Ratched
11. J.R. Ewing
12. Norman Bates
13. Frank Booth
14. Annie Wilkes
15. Snow White’s Queen
16. Hans Gruber
17. Michael Myers
18. Gordon Gekko
19. Alex Forrest
20. Jack Torrance
Find explanations for all of EW’s choices, the good and the extraordinarily poor, here.
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43rd! oh and this list is horseshit
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indeed.
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like they picked names out of a hat.
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What a lasting impression.
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gordon gecko makes the list, but not hal.....
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Top Five in no particular order are:
Shatner Kirk
Indy
Han Solo
Reeve Supes
Connery Bond
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No Daniel Plainview?
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BULLSHIT. This list is immediately disqualified for that single error.
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Even more Gay
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Mar 28, 2009 11:11:14 PM CDT
NONE OF THOSE SO CALLED "HERO'S" COMPARE TO RON JEREMY!!!FACT!!!
by thefuckingcreepythinman
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So Gay
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"It's Daddy, shithead! Now, where's my bourbon?" Blue Velvet is the shit. And John McClane would rape Potter with a bullet for being higher on any list than him.
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shitty
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That is actually a very funny joke...
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HAL9000 too! What the fuck? And what about Anton Chigurh? Also Amon Goeth from Schindlers List. This list just sucked a fart from a hole.
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Mar 28, 2009 11:16:40 PM CDT
Tarzan? Zorro? Marshal Dillon? Lone Ranger? Wo Fat? Dr Loveless?
by fred
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He's right, having Harry Potter on the list and at Number 4 no less invalidates this whole list. Don't get me wrong. I'm a Potter Movie and Book Fan. But he is not cooler then all those others.
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Actually fuck the whole list idea
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Mar 28, 2009 11:21:27 PM CDT
This is why no one should ever make these kinds of lists...
by themarinebiologist
Since there are so many opinions and so many memorable characters, a definitive list would never be valid.
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and if you understood the film, then you'd realize that.
HAL was simply reacting to contradictory orders and programming. He wasn't evil at all - in fact, considering he was simply trying to complete the mission - a mission that was more important than the individual lives of the crew - he was something of the hero of the piece.
Anyway, the greatest villain ever was Eric Bogosian's character in Under Siege 2. Now that's some amusing evil I can back to the hilt. -
As this is EW I take it they are going off the movies, and there was nothing cool about a Superman movie in decades. Seriously, superhuman strength, laser eye beams, flight, and whats he doing, beating up a bald Kevin Spacey with some green rocks. Really COOL AINT IT!
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Batman is cooler than Superman. Anyone believing other wise enjoys crack sprinkled on their oatmeal.
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She was an annoying, cartoonish character. She was destroyed with water! WATER!!! Words NEVER uttered by anyone anywhere, "Remember the Wicked Witch from WOZ? She was cool!"
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Harry Potter's cooler than BATMAN??? Nancy Drew is, too??? Who voted on these, Mrs. McMullen's kindergarten class?Completely asinine ratings... why even post this nonsense?
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It's not even that everyone has their own idea of what's cool and what's not. It's also that, almost invariably, whoever puts these things together doesn't have his or her head screwed on straight.
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yoda is cooler than superman.
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HAL was a villian AND a victim. If you understood the film, you would have noticed that.
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Mar 28, 2009 11:33:01 PM CDT
These lists had to have been made by a woman. A CLUELESS woman.
by iron-kong
This list says Batman
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It the fact that they have such UNCOOL characters as Nancy Drew and Harry Potter kicking the butts off of eminently cool ones like Batman and Jack Bauer! It's like a 6 year-old made the choices, not adults actually familiar with the characters. :(
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No where to be found
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Okay, I'll grant you that. Guys who show more than a minimum of testosterone generally seem to have gotten the shaft. That explains why the wizard nerd who got naked with a horse on stage nabbed the #4 spot.
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Seriously. Totally stupid list. The fact that Alias even makes it on here is proof of the incompetence of its authors. Plus, Alex DeLarge is not a villain also - did they think that Kubric made movies about villians?
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Mar 28, 2009 11:40:44 PM CDT
Buffy at #8 over Mad Max and Dirty Harry? The fuck is that about
by mr spork
and Michael Myers is too low at 17.
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I mean outside of Bizarro world how the fuck has Superman ever been "cooler" than Batman? I mean remember, we're not talking better here, we're not talking character, we're not talking anything other than sheer coolness factor, and in the world of cool Batman always beats Superman. Hell, even the Adam West version Batman is cooler than Superman. But really, what can you expect from a list that put the Wicked Witch as the "coolest" villian of all time? Or who put Atticus Finch on the list of coolest heroes at all. I mean Atticus is a great character from a classic film and a fantastic book, but "cool"? Hardly. That's like calling Ritchie Cunningham cooler than The Fonze, this shit just does not compute. Clearly whichever drunken trouser monkey actually spewed this list into being did not have much of a grasp on the english language, because I'm thinking this word cool, he no means what I think you think he means, senor douche...
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damn you subject line limits
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Mar 28, 2009 11:43:17 PM CDT
god, dont post stupid lists. everyone knows they are bullshit.
by bmacsmith
you're better than that.
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Mar 28, 2009 11:43:23 PM CDT
Still can't get past the Wocked Witch being "cool" no less #1
by iron-kong
I want to punch babies. Not really. I just don't understand stupid.
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it had to be said. not enough Persians.
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noticing BOTH their film reviewers listed Speed Racer as one of the worst movies of 2008. Arseholes.
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movies, he sits around while others save his ass. Sad. Oh, and he is a rip-off of Tim Hunter and the Worst Witch.
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was speed racer the worst movie of 08? the day the earth stood still was easily the worst movie of 08. i personally think speed racer was one of the top 20 or so movies of last year
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And Batman should be at number one. From fantasy lit, I'd put Prince Corwin, and Fafhrd and Grey Mouser on the list; and from scifi film/tv my choices would be Snake Plisken and Kerr Avon.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just the truth and it colors EVERYTHING they write about.
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Mar 28, 2009 11:57:58 PM CDT
At least they had the balls to list Nurse Ratched as a villain
by darthpigman
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HIS NAME ALONE SHOULD PUT HIM ON THIS LIST!!!
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The Governator was about as "cool" a villian as you can get. Oh, and Darth Vader is definately cooler than the WWotW.
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JR Ewing was a culturally dominant villain for a very large chunk of time. But yeah, these lists are pretty dumb.
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And, for contemporary characters -- Benjamin Linus.
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As soon, as you said that, my voice, on its own, made the "dun-duun-duuuuun-deh-duh-duuuuuuuuh-duuuuun" that is his creepy theme.
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What about Luke Skywalker? Didn't everyone love him back in the day? Just goes to show how fickle people can be, I guess.
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wheres roddy piper from they live,
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Is a definite must. He was ALL the rage when those movies were coming out and still stands as a testament to what CGI can be when it tries to be believable.
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The Zone! zone.aintitcool.com/index.php
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How did that old saying go? A hero is only as good as the villain he faces? Seems like He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named should be the same rank as Harry.
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LOTR sucks ass. Noone with half a brain gives a shit about its characters. Except lifeless nerds of course.
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seriously, I demand that Superman and Batman's places be exchanged stat. I mean, seriously, Batman has been the top superhero in the public consciousness for the last 20 years! (okay, I'll admit he may have been eclipsed by Spider-man from 2002-2005, but seriously, he's the tops!) This is a guy who has both the single greatest and the single worst comic book movies to his name!
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if Bryan "I love Superman's steel cock" Singer didn't puss out on Superman Returns. And Batman is 100% cooler than Superman.
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Seriously though - all these ranking deals just serve to piss people off. The EW people's tastes aren't any better than anyone else's. You know what they say about opinions...
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How could he possibly not be on this list?
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He's kind of bumbles around for the first few movies. I hate when lists like this come out that disregard what the list is supposed to be about.
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Where the fuck is John Wayne on this bitch?
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Both lists would be half filled by characters from whichever movie they're currently whoring themselves out for. Right now - Watchmen. In a few weeks - Observe and Report (even though it wouldn't make sense). Then Star Trek and so on.
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Oversights: Sanjuro, Juror #8 from 12 Angry Men, The Dude, Terminator, Ash, Rocky, RJ MacReady, Roger Thornhill, Maximus...
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I will just say this:
The most glaring one left off the list, in my opinion, is Tarzan.
Even though he is one of the most influential heroes ever, and has been portrayed in countless films, he has never had a definitive, live action, Christopher-Reeve-as-Superman movie that became an all-time classic and mega-hit. That's why they didn't put him on the list. Plain and simple.
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where are The Cooler King, Blofeld, The Man with no Name... and these are just heroes I'm thinking about. Must stop thinking about this or will go crazy. It's like their list was completely random.
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done posting now, this is upsetting
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It was a Top 20, not a goddamn Top 200.
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Agree on all fronts. They called it a "cool" list...but put Nancy Drew on it, et al.
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Mar 29, 2009 12:58:43 AM CDT
they left Shawshank Redemption off their list of the best of the
by badmrwonka
so, I gave up on them...
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darth vader has definetly lost his cool factor. i cant look at him without thinking of that whiney teenager that he was supposed to be. also the stupid 'noooo!' scene.
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I can understand (if not condone) many of the other choices, but come on.
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Isn't that some shitty fat washed up rapper?
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Mar 29, 2009 1:19:21 AM CDT
Who the fuck still thinks EW is a credible mag anyway?
by nobody_touches_buddy_revell
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The Kurgan.
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these lists are fucking stupid. i would imagine there would be more shit in your pants when faced with a Sith Lord or a hungry cannibal then when faced with an ugly lady in a pointy hat holding a broom.
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Conan
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1. Emperor Palpatine
2. Sauron
3. The Joker
4. Darth Vader
5. Terminator (t-800, first film)
6. T-1000
7. Michael Myers
8. Voldamort
9. Freddy Krueger
10.Khan
11.PinHead
12.Darth Maul
13.Jason Voorhees
14.Doctor Octopus
15.Hannibal Lecter
16.Magneto
17.Jigsaw
18.Leatherface
19.Agent Smith (the matrix)
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Mar 29, 2009 1:38:05 AM CDT
1. Heath Ledger Joker 1. Christian Bale Batman....you know why?
by jesiah
Unlike most everyone else on the list, they don't care about the name of the labels on their clothes and wear custom-made clothes. The coolest people were always the ones that didn't give a motherf@*& what the rest of the campus thought. Nuff said
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Mar 29, 2009 1:41:54 AM CDT
1. Heath Ledger Joker 1. Christian Bale Batman....you know why?
by jesiah
Unlike most everyone else on the list, they don't care about the name of the labels on their clothes and wear custom-made clothes. The coolest people were always the ones that didn't give a motherf@*& what the rest of the campus thought. Nuff said. And seriously, not a lot of lists really count anymore, and the last time I bought an ew mag was on the eve of Heath winning the oscar and there was a nice black & white photo on the cover of him. Side note: today I picked up gigantic vinyl banners for The Dark Knight, one with Heath solo with the gun and shtuff flying around and the other one with Joker/Dent/Batman holding up a card, election button, and batarang respectively. Weekend's goin pretty good for me and this list aint gon' change that
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"Look what he did to me...it was Callahan!" No clue to what's cool.
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1. Indiana Jones
2. Han Solo
3. Batman
4. Luke Skywalker
5. Jason Bourne
6. Spider-Man
7. Aaragorn
8. Wolverine
9. James T. Kirk
10. James Bond
11. John Mclaene
12. Rocky
13. Robocop
14. Sarah Connor
15. Ripley
16. Rambo
17. Obiwan Kenobi
18. Harry Potter
19. Superman
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my lists are better. you might not agree with the exact order on those lists... but you would be hard pressed to knock anybody off my top 20's
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with the fucking wicked witch of the west. and nancy drew? really? henry huggins got shafted...
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It can not get cooler than Eastwood in the Sergio Leone's Dollar's Trilogy. NOT possible. Special shout out to John Matrix from Commando. And Bruce Lee from real life!
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"Big mistake!"
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Cooler Than Han Solo? FUCK YOU!!!
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Clarence Boddicker from Robocop should be on the list. Towards the top of the list.
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Cooler Than Batman? YOU MUTHERFUCKER!!!!
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Charles Dance in The Golden Child!
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Viggo Mortensen's a stone cold pimp!
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Come on, who's cooler than Jeff Goldblum?
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Mar 29, 2009 2:16:42 AM CDT
Val Kilmer's Doc Holiday should really be on here.
by the_genteel_gentile
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Mar 29, 2009 2:16:49 AM CDT
Magazines use these lists to remind us they still exist.
by flim springfield
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Mar 29, 2009 2:18:27 AM CDT
T.L. Jones as Claw Shaw aka Clay Burtrand in JFK!
by the_genteel_gentile
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Mar 29, 2009 2:22:52 AM CDT
DIABLO CODY WRITES FOR EW! THAT'S AL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THAT
by thefuckingcreepythinman
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THAT' what the funk I'm talkin 'bout. EW is the absolute worst! "RRRIIIIIGGS!!"
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If you're only going to go on and completely ignore what "cool" means? If EW had used Greatest or Top instead, I'd be all "Eh, fine, whatever." But this just made me mad. Dammit, EW, Harry Potter isn't even the fourth coolest hero in 20th century children's literature. I even say this as a fan of the kid! And in no way is Superman cooler than Batman. No sir, uh-uh.
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No Steve Mcqueen? EAT COCK!!
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Talkbackers can do so much better. List of AICN annoyances: #1- Fievel. SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT THE ZONE, NOBODY GIVES A SHIT!
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DECECTIVE JOHN KIMBLE! JACK SLATER! HARRY TASKER! DOUGLAS QUAID!
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Mar 29, 2009 2:33:01 AM CDT
Jean Reno as LEON: THE MOTHA-LOVIN' PROFESSIONAL!
by the_genteel_gentile
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Oscar Meyer is to fine cuisine. Who reads that rag anyway? EW is going to fold before the end of 2009, you just wait and see...
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Chow Yun-Fat in Hard Boiled.
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Except Kirk should be number 1.
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Joe Peci from Casino!
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There is no sense arguing over this stuff. EW would be better off just running photo captions than struggling to string sentences into paragraphs.
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I'm confused!
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EW, you really need to lay off the sauce. No wonder print media is dying.
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Gay guys love the Wicked Witch. No joke.
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This list is teh suck.
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...should probably rank amongst the coolest. Perhaps they thought that would be too obvious, given his name and all...
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Still, I wouldn't get too worked up over a list from Entertainment Weekly.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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20. Charlie Chan
19. Peter from "Dawn of the Dead" ('78)
18. Horshack
17. All members of "Team America: World Police"
16. George Bailey
15. Johnny Wadd
14. "Baby Geniuses". All of 'em.
13. ScriptGirl's breasts. All of 'em.
12. "Jesus of Nazareth"
11. Captain Merrill Stubing
10. Shaft
9. Professor Van Helsing (when played by Cushing)
8. Ferris Bueller
7. Gamera (friend to all children, which is always cool)
6. Mr. Moto
5. Lawrence of Arabia
4. King Kong (as depicted in '33)
3. Sam Spade
2. Barney Fife
1. Gilligan
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In no specific order.
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I agree...Mad Max needs to be a lot higher on that list.
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instead I visit websites like this one, 'cause this is where I find my people.
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If they get the end of movie 7 right, then he is one damn cool character. Great fucking ending, and God help David Yates if he gets that one wrong!
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the bad dudes list.
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Mar 29, 2009 6:29:22 AM CDT
Number One Villains = Everyone On Wall Street
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
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The choice were based of movies so I understand most of them. I love the Harry Potter movies but Harry ain't cool.
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surely the whole point of harry potter is that he ISN'T cool! fuckit, Aragorn should be on there. infact, looking at the EW site, they should empoy a rule.... if you're not holding a weapon in your profile pick, you dont belong on this list. unless your name is superman or james bond...
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I'd rather read 20 incoherent ramblings from harry than one more list of greatest (insert bullshit here) compiled by some entertainment industry asshole. why did this shit get posted? to shot that EW sucks? isn't that common knowledge already?
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The reason they picked Harry Potter so high is because EW is owned by the same company that owns Warner Brothers that produces the Harry Potter films.
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Seriously? How is batman not at the top of the hero list. Below Buffy? Give me a fucking break. And the voters were cool enough to put Atticus Finch on there, but then they put him below Foxy fucking Brown? Wow. Who let the gay out?
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what is this 7th grade. This is total crap. And how the hell is Superman "cooler" then Batman or Spiderman, he's a total square.
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And yet Nancy Drew is. What's wrong? They didn't have room for the Hardy Boys, too?
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Buffy? nancy drew? WTF?
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that's all i can think. plus you realize EW is paid very well by whatever companies have movies coming out soon. so there you go- don't lose sleep over it. their list does not HAVE TO be your list.
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they don't even know why. it just comes to their house, addressed to them. they have never gotten a bill or signed up for it.strangely enough, they are big dvd/bluray buyers. so EW/Warner must somehow have tacked their sales. and either they areidiots losing money on a magazine they apparently give away fro free, or it's a brilliant propaganda campaign with disposable revenue. and looking through i have noticed that a warner movie gets several pages of articles and hype where other studios are lucky to get one or 1 and a half pages- even if it's a huge movie. so there you go. EW is bullshit.
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How could they leave off Maximus?
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I guess he was listed for the Love Guru.
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EW is shit anyway. This list is laughable though. I like Harry but I mean come on.
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Aragorn, Gandalf, Frodo. Sauron, Gollum. I think some of these guys should be listed somewhere.
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None from the Lord of the Rings? Not that Potter is bad, but LOTR is iconic.
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When you have a list and it doesn't have ROCKY, RAMBO or TERMINATOR on it, fuck off ET WEEKLY!
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sure he was a great character but he was just used as a symbol. and he didnt do much other than shot a dog.
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all LOTR characters were quickly forgotten once it was over with. i blame the 12 oscar wins, it gave people a reason to stop caring.
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I think we all need to have a bit of perspective on this and realize we are all complete nerds and only care about the most badass villains from comic-book, sci-fi, etc type movies/shows. I think its hard for us to take any list seriously because we are all so disdainful of pedestrian entertainment. We are the Uber-Nerds, and our lists, while superior, wouldn't gel with most of the people who read EW. Just a thought.
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to throw at old women and stuff so they don't complain that movies from there time weren't recognized. It's like people who say Citizen Kane is the best movie ever because AFI and shit told them it was. Not that Citizen Kane isnt great, I'm just saying. Maximux Decimus would have been a better pick than Atticus, but he had to be on the list for tradition.
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Mar 29, 2009 10:07:34 AM CDT
I first read the headling as "Harry Potter cooler than John McCa
by spectrebeeyatch
These lists are stupid. I'm pretty sure I did not see Rambo on that list... So fuck them.
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Mar 29, 2009 10:21:30 AM CDT
Blade #1 coolest hero, Ledger's Joker #1 coolest villain.
by leafar the lost
Fuck these bullshit lists! Its very clear that the writers of EW have no idead that they are writing about, and they are racist scum.
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As soon as I saw that these lists were immediatly disreguarded. And no Sherlock Holmes? the most popular character in the last 200 years? That is poo poo my friends.
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The Greatest or Best of Lists by VH-1 and Rolling stone especially piss me off.
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Uhhhh, I think we have here a miscarriage of justice. Hmmmm, and why am I addressing the court in my underwear?
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All these lists really indicate is how easy to use the internet is, even for people who have'nt a fucking clue otherwise.
Also factoring in the kind of evolutionary dead end who reads the EW website, its a gold plated miracle that Hanna Montana isnt top of the heroes list.
Any fanboy, geek, nerd, film fan, parents basement dweller, overgrown adolescent (me) worth his or her salt would at a glance be able to tell this list was compiled form the opinions of people who have to think about breathing.
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Mar 29, 2009 11:00:35 AM CDT
I think it's cool that Michael Myers is the only slasher on the
by the reluctant austinite
Unless you count Norman Bates. No Freddy. No Jason. I've always been a "Halloween" guy, so it just tickles me.
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Okay, but seriously (well I am serious he is a great hero), anyone can make a list. This is just a list from Entertainment Weekly. I can respect the AFI film list etc in that I consider it a more legitimate list. If any can be considered legitimate that would be it. EW is all flash, and no substance going off of press releases and the whims of filmakers. It's not that I don't like EW mind you, but every "article" is just a fluffy opinion piece. Not hat I'm against fluff mind you, but let's understand this isn't serious writing in any sense of the word, the exception being The King's weekly column.
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but I guess that's what you get when a publication makes a half baked list to bait nerds into arguing with them for more hits/views.
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I flip through EW whenever I see it, searching for the Stephen King column. I read it, and then I put the magazine back.
The only thing good about lists is they more often than not give me that oomph to make up my own, infinitely superior, list. It's all subjective, and trying to make an all-encompassing statement of how anything is the greatest is just stupid.
It also helps the moronic think they've made a decision by giving them a list from which to choose and agreeing or disagreeing about its merits. Most people that get all hung up on these things don't bother to think about the necessity of the list in the first place. They certainly don't think about the authority of the people creating the lists.
In other words, this is drivel for the drivel hungry. The sheep zombies that think American Idol is the epitome of television programming.
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T-2 AHNOOLD > harry potter
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That magazine is tween centric garbage now. After the 4th Twilight cover story, not to mention The Hills, and High School Musical covers, I'm done. I don't know anyone that still reads this rag. I found I was getting all the relevant information I cared about 15 minutes after sitting down with it. Why waste the $15 a year?
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The wicked witch of the west?? Fuck off.
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...is most likely influenced by the popularity of Sherlock Holmes, is on a Greatest Characters list that Holmes is not on.
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Not sure how I would do my own list, but I know that either Scaramanga or Goldfinger need to be on it. The fact that James Bond tops the Heroes list, yet there is no Bond Villain on the Villains list also explains why these lists are COMPLETE SHIT.
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You can quote me on that. Little speccy brat.
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Especially the villains one. I love ED-209 in a crazy way, so he would definitely be on my list. And the omission of Chigurh and HAL9000? That's fucking ridiculous. Voldemort ranked above Dracula?!? In what universe is Voldemort a better villain than the most badass vampire ever? Well, at least Vader and Hannibal Lecter are near the top.As for the heroes list, I love that Buffy made the grade. She'd be even higher on my list, but I'll accept a top ten spot. Plus, it's pretty awesome that Sydney Bristow was included, too. Jennifer Garner was the best thing about the show and her character is what kept me interested in Alias as it started to become repetitive. I agree that Indy, Bond, and Ripley deserve to be ranked very high, but I agree with Herc that the notion that Harry Potter is a "cooler" hero than John McClane, Mad Max, Jack Bauer and Batman is completely off-the-radar nuts. I'm a Harry Potter fan (though not a completely obsessed one) and while I quite like the story and love some of the books, the character of Harry is far more of a pop culture phenomenon than a "cool" hero. I like the characters that Rowling created, but nothing about Harry makes me scream "cool." Either way, the overall heroes list is a pretty decent bunch. I just highly disagree with the rankings on that list. But that cracked-out villains list is another story...
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...except for James Bond being #1. I'm good with that.
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Ok , harry potter cooler than Han Solo? Insanity.....And I see Snow White's evil queen? where's fucking Meleficent?
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No Anton Chigurh or Daniel Plainview?
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1) Boba Fett
2) Snake Plisken
3) Bill Moony (sp?) and Josey Wales (tie)
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Colossus, and VIKI were not villains. They were just cold caluclating logic machines either trying to do the best for the most, or to understand conflicts in programming.
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WTF? Over The Doctor? HORRIBLE!
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EW has met its judgment day.
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Pfffffft, no!
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No way is he cooler than Han Solo; in fact, he doesn't belong anywhere on the same list as Han Solo.
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the villain is the ring. also the real heroes of that story are Aragorn and Sam, Frodo not so much. he carried the ring, but he never would have made it without Sam. gay.
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Either that or the flaming gay dude in the cube next to her.
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Han Solo, Captain Kirk, Indiana Jones, Tony Stark... those are cool heroes. Non-cool heroes are people like Harry Potter, Luke Skywalker, etc (great heroes, but not "cool").
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The Tramp is the coolest character ever or maybe spinal tap.
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Mar 29, 2009 1:59:06 PM CDT
I would put Mavra at the top of this list!
by the_man_behind_the_curtain
And you can too by going to:http://www.mymavra.comRemember, she's not YOUR Mavra. She's my Mavra!See you there.
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He is THE template for all super heroes. It doesn't matter if Iron Man and Batman are "cooler"! The list should be invalidated due to the fact that Nancy Drew is on here. They should have thrown a lit match on this list as soon as someone mentioned her name. Jack Bauer? Over-rated. Atticus Finch? Pass. Will Kane? Um...no. Sydney Bristow should be lumped in there with Buffy like they lumped in Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger with Michael Myers. That brings me to the Villains list.JR Ewing? What the fuck were the licking when that was mentioned? The queen from Snow White? Gordon Gekko and Alex Forrest? This list was an Epic Fail on every conceivable level!
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NOT WORTH READING. EW=FAIL.
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But cool he ain't
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Are you serious? Is this list made by commies? You have people like Ozymandias who wipe out 1 third of the world's population... Benjamin Linus who commits genocide on the Dharma initiative, master manipulator... and then you have a wall street investor who is greedy and makes lots of money. WTF
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Sacrilege!
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...throw one in for the black people so they don't get uptight.
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Why the fuck is this shit on this site? Everyone knows EW sucks donkey balls.
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LOL...They have the white house...they should be quiet for now. Lol.
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Let's face it, nothing from the current decade should really be on such a list.
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then Derek Flint must be included, since nobody was ever cooler than James Coburn.
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that's why potter is high on the list.
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and you can't have a villains list without the SHAM-WOW guy on it. That dude scares the shit outta me.
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Johnny Depp in Crybaby was so cool he gave me frostbite.
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is to NOT go to EW's web site - that's what they're trying to achieve with their BS list. Buffy is a "fun, kick-ass" character. She is not cooler than Batman.
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this is the stupidest goddamn list I have ever seen. I should have known any mag that will put some of the reality show, famous for nothing trash that EW puts on their covers would be fucking incompetent in something like this.
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I think the Sham Wow guy just got busted for beating up a hooker.
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http://tiny.cc/7O49Z
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Did they say what their definition of "cool" is? "Cool" meaning "neat"?
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Seriously...what the fuck is Buffy doing on this list? She was just a hot bitch who killed vampires...lots of those on Sci-Fi channel movies.
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Lists suck. Fuck'em.
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I mean, where's Sonny Chiba as Terry Tsorugi in THE STREET FIGHTER!!!
How about Charles Bronson in any DEATHWISH movie?
Better yet, Robert Ginty and Maro Van Peebles in EXTERMINATOR 2.
Oh, oh... Let's not forget David Carradine as Frankenstein in DEATH RACE 2000 as one of cinema's coolest heroes.
These Best Thing Lists are always the same old fucking thing.
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And yeah, of course Buffy, but uh, not over Batman. Fuck EW.
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As a character, the guy isn't cool. He's naive. A boyscout. The rest of the JLA roundly calls him out on this on a regular basis. Clearly, those people that compiled this list aren't serious, so I stopped reading.
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where is he?
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tHe MaStEr DoEs NoT aPpRoVe Of ThIs ShItTy LiSt.
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You know that dude could have been a rapist, you know they say the pure alabama black snake is an untamed beast!
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Sure we got to see Dullea travel through some colorful lights into the Jupiter atmosphere and have some ribs and booze and chill as a Starbaby, with the big bad HAL destroyed, except the multibajillion dollar mission went to shit and the scientists back on Earth wondering what the fuck happened and starting ths mission all over again.
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Mar 29, 2009 6:12:58 PM CDT
Harry Potter's wand shrank in the presence of Hermoine Granger
by feralangel
You know, strong capable women do that to some men. So that's why Rowling had Harry marry that nothing cipher of a character, Ginny. So very non-threatening, you see. Also it happened because the bitch can't write.
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or even Moore, and not wack ass monkey we have now.
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End of story.
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The_Genteel_Gentile good mention, can't believe he's absent, i mean what the... the fuck? he dude could have been wearing mickey mouse shorts with big yellow buttons and he'd still be cool personified.
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yeah, bullshit.
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...and they are way under represented on this list.
Where the fuck is Humphrey Bogart's Sam Spade? The guy was the original PI, before Magnum, Jake Gittes, Phillip Marlowe, Shaft, everyone. And no was cooler than Bogart (save for maybe Mitchum). Where the fuck is SPADE?! Plus, on the villain side, you want to talk great villains, where is the Fatman from the Malterse Falcon (Sydney Greenstreet). Never has crime been so damn entertaining and eloquent. Where is Barbara Stanwyck/Phyllis Detrietchson from Double Indemnity? She was the original femme fatale. Where is fucking Peter Lorre from M? He was a fucking child murder for god's sake. And where, of where the fuck is Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera? The image is fucking iconic as hell!
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I can't believe The Emperor wasn't even given a spot on the bad guys list. How can Jack Bauer barely be cooler than Nancy Drew? Here's to wishing Nancy has a tender moment with Bauer so she can die 20 seconds later.
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What is the world coming to when I'm not the number 1 hero *AND* villain.
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East bound and down, bitches!!!!!!
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did i not make the villians list?
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the gayest entertainment magazine published. That's "gay" as in the "written mainly by flamboyant homosexuals" way. Cover-to-cover, weekly, without fail, hype out of bounds for the absolute worst, most shallow product pop culture can offer. If you want to read about the latest fashions of the "Gossip Girls" or you want three issues a year dedicated to "American Idol," then EW is your source.
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Scorpius was one of the best and most complex bad guys in sci-fi history. And John Crichton earned his spot on the list of coolest heroes when he dumped brain probe Scorpius into a dumpster and shouted in victory "CAN I GET A HELL YEAH?!"
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Commendant Grayza, also from Farscape, deserves mention just for the outfit!
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Seriously, what'd you expect from "Entertainment Weakly?"
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...im sure it has...but this stop motion video by Patrick Boivin has two of the top Coolest Heroes Bruce lee and Iron man doing battle... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywu1DeqXTg4&feature=channel_page
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGI1yawZ8hs&feature=channel
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The hero and villain from a comic book movie that took itself way too seriously? I'll pass.
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Mar 30, 2009 12:15:14 AM CDT
Godzilla should have been on both top 20 lists
by spifftacular squirrel girl
Also agree with some that Freddy Krueger should have been the best villains list over Catherine Tremmel.
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All you big fat fags who whine that the guy who kills people with a bicycle pump/aqualung thing in that shitty Coen Brothers movie wasn't on the list can fuck right off. J.R. Ewing was the best villain in TV history back when people actually watched television.
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Thank you very much!
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One cool pug.
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Brett and Bart Maverick.
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I really don't like to be a hater, but really, is this worth reporting on? EW makes a crappy list that pisses off everyone every fifteen minutes. I'll never understand why people care about arbitrary lists of things made by editors to fill space.
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Not a hero! Sydney Bristow? WTF? What about Princess Fucking Leia?
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Kamal Khan? No fucking James Bond villains?
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Can't really blame them, though, I guess.
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What the fuck?
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I mean the Son of Zeus. You are cool too, Herc, but the original one was awesome.
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But this list was done but idiots, so...
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Took a second, but yeah, that explains it...
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Also, no Rooster Cogburn? "Fill your hands, you Son of a Bitch!"
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Good, bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
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He would have kicked the Wicked Witch of the West's ass. No water necessary. And Darth Vader isn't #1? WTF. He'd kicked everyone's ass. No one beat Vader. Vader beat Vader. "Oh you have flying Monkey's. I have two f'n Death Stars, bitch."
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A list of the coolest heroes of all time and no Chief Martin Brody?! I mean he whacks a great white, gets hammered on wine when things shit at work, smokes away whilst eyeing up his hot wife, argues with the mayor and aint afraid to say he is afraid of the water. A cool cat no less. And one can argue over these lists until the cows come home, however this list is so WAY OFF it is untrue...
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And while we're at it, where the fucking fuck is Blade?I ask you, what hero is cooler than Blade? Not that cunt James Bond, I'll tell you that for nothing.
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That is a girl's drink.Also, James Bond does not understand about motherfuckers always trying to ice skate uphill.
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Mar 30, 2009 7:57:32 AM CDT
Indiana Jones, I'm willing to concede, is pretty cool
by franklin t marmoset
But his weapon of choice is a whip!Blade has a sword!And Indiana Jones better not think about trying that 'take out a gun and shoot a guy with a sword' bullshit on Blade. Blade will chop you right in half for that shit.
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You really have to include a guy whose skills include kicking ass while covered in oil.Harry Potter, as far as I'm aware, cannot do that. Plus, Harry Potter is a shit driver.
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...I would also like to nominate Zen for the hero list.Zen would drag James Bond up the outside of a building and then kick that smug douchebag right off again.
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Because she was kicking all that ass to help her poor sick mother.What asses has James Bond ever kicked for his poor sick mother?None!
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Him out of District 13?There'a a guy who knows how to act in a casino. He sees asses, he kicks them.What did James Bond do in the casino? Played cards!
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The only reason I even get it any more is because I pay 15 cents an issue.
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That alone exudes coolness. Clint Eastwood doesn't care about lists.
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I cant believe some of the characters that made it compared to these two. In my mind, Scorpius blows Darth Vader away in terms of being actually intimidating / effective as a villain.
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What about that, huh? HUH?? :P
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Not for the list but worth mentioning
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Though Sonny Chiba in most of his roles is also up there.
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lol i stopped reading the list when i hit #4.
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That's pretty lame.
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HAL is not a traditional villain, but he still fulfills the necessity of a villain in the narrative. He opposes the protagonist and makes his journey difficult to complete. So while he isn't your usual bad guy, I still think of HAL as a brilliant, unpredictable villain.Regarding Ash, I can't believe I forgot about him! He is one of the great modern screen icons, so his absence from the hero list is ridiculous.As a gigantic He-Man fan, I would love to see him included on a list like this, but that would probably cause several other geeks to have brain aneurysms, so that might not go over well.But I AM glad that The Transporter dude wasn't invited onto the Heroes list. I would be far more frustrated if Jason Statham was anywhere near those twenty names.
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And Gollum is not a villain.
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If you've seen this movie, there's no way she should have been left off...
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...Aragorn, Sauron or even Saruman?!! Stupid public, what do THEY know?
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...considering EW's habit of shoving him into everything. Still I am amazed by this list. I notice they have expanded the list to include tv so they could shove some women onto the list. But if you're gonna include tv, where's jack Lord, Rockford, Mannix, God, all the old time western heroes like Richard Boone or the Rifleman. And I agree, no Steve McqQueen(Bullitt) or Dereck Flint? As for villains, I keep wainting for Harry Reickle from the Silent Partner to show up on one of these lists. EW evden gave a shout out to this film last year when it hit dvd. And no Bond villains? Ridiculous.
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Since when? Oh sure, we all give him plenty of sympathy but he's a villian...no doubt. How is he not?
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Heh, thanks for that larf of the day. I doubt if 99.9% of the readers here even know who that character was. may as well throw in Paladin and Nick Adam's "The Rebel" while you're at it. Hah, still funny! "Where's Festus, Doc?"
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Goran Suton.
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Thetan 69! http://tinyurl.com/8lbr76
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yeah they're pretty much equal in my book. batman is cool because he's like james bond, dracula, sherlock holmes and a ninja rolled into one with a clint eastwood disposition. superman is cool, because if he wanted to, he could incinerate batman with a glance and destroy most of his toys with minimal fuss. and all the more cool is that he has these vast powers and is not corrupted by them. as cool as it would be to see the batmobile roaring down the street, i have to say it would be intensely cool to see a man catch a plane out of the sky. but we're not talking about the wow factor here are we...we're talking about what's fashionable, and superman would be hard pressed to be considered fashionable in this cynical world. even superman comics today are hued with cynicism as the character is written to be naive, clinging to a black and white sense of right and wrong. yes, clark was heavily shaped by his smallville upbringing, but this is also a seasoned journalist that has travelled the world and even the universe, so i think we can stop painting him into that corner. he can be self righteous at times, but the fact that he has flaws means that he is a complete character, not that he is uncool.
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Yeah but Blade loses points for tax evasion. no cool dude!!
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less interesting character of all time
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Give me a break--any villains list that doesn't include Don Logan (Ben Kingsley) in "Sexy Beast", Max Cady (the DeNiro version or the Mitchum version--I prefer Mitchum) from "Cape Fear", Jack Palance as Jack Wilson in "Shane",Kevin Spacey as John Doe in "Seven" (no, I'm NOT using the lame-o spelling with the 7 in it)and Lawrence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell in "Marathon Man" (make sure to floss, now)is just plain lame bullshit.For that matter, Ralph Fiennes should be on there for Amon Goeth in "Schindler's List", not Volder-dork. Jesus Christ--Montgomery Burns?? How irredeemably lame can it get?
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How about John Huston as that son of a bitch Noah Cross in "Chinatown" ?? Christ, I could probably get to a dozen more if it was worth the mental energy to go on.This is one limp dick villains list.
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Mar 30, 2009 8:50:07 PM CDT
Jesus Christ should be #1 hero, and the Devil the #1 villain.
by leafar the lost
If we include all of the movies about Jesus Christ, then he should be the #1 coolest hero, and the Devil should be considered the #1 coolest villain. In the "Passion of the Christ", for examples, you see Jesus get his ass kicked for almost all of the movie, and then the Romans nailed Him on two pieces of wood. The Devil was watching the whole thing, and in one scene he/she was holding a demonic infant that scared the shit out of me. I believe that Mel Gibson was drunk when he directed that movie. Didn't he call some cop "Sugar Tits"? I mean really, fuck him, and I mean Mel not the other guy.
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People will still be watching John Wayne kick ass when nobody remembers who Han Solo was. So there.
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If Nancy Drew is on the list Wonder Woman should be too.
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Because correct me if I'm wrong, but the only reason anyone even noticed, went to see, or talked about Basic Instinct was the fact that Sharon Stone flashed her beaver.
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C'mon, be reasonable. I know this list is about Fictional characters, but let's have at least some standards of plausibility.
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Obviously, EW's list is garbage -- but it succeeded in getting people talking, which was no doubt the point. Getting geeks to debate is liek shooting fish in a barrel. Personally, I think about half the list is ok and half the list is intentionally inflammatory or at the very least corporate ass-kissing. My full response to the list and my personal top-25 is here: http://tinyurl.com/dc94ea
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