Harry Potter Cooler Than John McClane, Jack Bauer, Mad Max and The Batman?? EW Ranks The All-Time 'Coolest' Heroes!!
Published at: March 28, 2009, 11:43 p.m. CST by hercules
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.
