{"id":2989,"date":"2009-04-03T21:11:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T01:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:46:40","slug":"20-all-time-coolest-heroes-in-pop-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2989","title":{"rendered":"20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2009\/z040309coolest_heroes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"287\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Entertainment Weekly.com<\/strong> listed their choices for the <em><strong>20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture<\/strong><\/em>. (Sadly the list is no longer available.) I decided to play along.\u00a0 Just <strong>using their list<\/strong>, I came up with <strong>my top ten<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.\u00a0 Spider-Man:<\/strong> Who wouldn&#8217;t want spider-senses, be able to swing through the city, and girlfriends like <strong>Mary Jane Parker<\/strong> and <strong>Gwen Stacy<\/strong>?\u00a0 I&#8217;m talking the comic book versions of course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>09.\u00a0 Superman<\/strong>: When I was a kid I loved <strong>tv series<\/strong>.\u00a0 The first movie with <strong>Christopher Reeves<\/strong> also rocked.\u00a0 Everything after that &#8212; not so cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>08.\u00a0 Mad Max<\/strong>: If it wasn&#8217;t for <strong>Beyond Thunderdome<\/strong>, <strong>Max<\/strong> might have rated higher!<\/p>\n<p><strong>07.\u00a0 Dirty Harry<\/strong>:\u00a0 Who doesn&#8217;t love <strong>Clint<\/strong> as <strong>Harry Callahan<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><strong>06.\u00a0 John McCane<\/strong>: Yippe-kiaaaaaa!<\/p>\n<p><strong>05.\u00a0 Indiana Jones<\/strong>: <strong>Harrison Ford&#8217;s<\/strong> signature role is nerdy cool!<\/p>\n<p><strong>04.\u00a0 Batman:<\/strong> So many versions [<strong>Neal Adams, Marshall Rogers, Frank Miller, Adam West, Tim Burton&#8217;s, Christopher Nolan&#8217;s<\/strong>, etc.] and each one works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03.\u00a0 Jack Bauer:<\/strong> No matter how bad things get, <strong>Bauer<\/strong> stays cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>02.\u00a0 James Bond:<\/strong> Like <strong>Batman<\/strong>, so many versions, but <strong>Connery<\/strong> and <strong>Craig<\/strong> are the coolest <strong>Bonds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>01.\u00a0 Captain James T. Kirk<\/strong>: Star Fleet Captain and ladies man.\u00a0 Now THAT is cool.<\/p>\n<p>Okay,\u00a0 I played fair and used <strong>EW&#8217;s list<\/strong>&#8230; but what about <strong>John Rambo, Riddick, Marv<\/strong> from <strong>Sin City<\/strong>, and <strong>James West<\/strong> to name just a few who didn&#8217;t make the cut?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment Weekly.com listed their choices for the 20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture. (Sadly the list is no longer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,54,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-movies","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41265,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/41265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}