{"id":33589,"date":"2023-08-27T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33589"},"modified":"2023-08-27T08:54:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T12:54:13","slug":"the-10-most-underrated-90s-movie-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33589","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Most Underrated &#8217;90s Movie Heroes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z082723underrated90sheroes.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Robert Vaux came up with his list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/most-underrated-90s-movie-heroes\/#johnny-mnemonic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10 Most Underrated &#8217;90s Movie Heroes<\/a>.\u00a0 Vaux&#8217;s list is an interesting one, although we only had one hero in common.\u00a0 Before you click over, below is my list and rationale for my choices of the 10 Most Underrated &#8217;90s movie heroes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>10. Frank Horrigan<\/strong> from <em>In the Line of Fire<\/em> (1993): Horrigan was a young Secret Service agent who was part of the team assigned to protect President Kennedy the day he was assassinated.\u00a0 Now he&#8217;s older, guilt ridden and determined to save the current President from a clever psycho.\u00a0 Horrigan could be retired on a beach somewhere, but he&#8217;s still willing to give his life to protect the leader of the free world.\u00a0 Yeah, that&#8217;s a hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>09. Butch Coolidge<\/strong> from <em>Pulp Fiction<\/em> (1994): Although Butch accepts money to take a dive, he gets two chances to redeem himself (and does both times).\u00a0 Butch doesn&#8217;t follow-through on the set-up.\u00a0 Later Butch and the a man who wants to kill him are captured by two sadistic rapists.\u00a0 Butch has a chance to escape but puts his life on the line to save the man who wants him dead.\u00a0 Wouldn&#8217;t you say that qualifies as a hero?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>08. Samantha Cain (Charly)<\/strong> from <em>The Long Kiss Goodnight<\/em> (1996): Samantha begins the movie as a small town school teacher.\u00a0 We could stop right there since most teachers are heroes.\u00a0 But if that isn&#8217;t enough for you, by the end of the movie the President offers Samantha a chance to return to the CIA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>07. Lornette &#8220;Mace&#8221; Mason<\/strong> from <em>Strange Days<\/em> (1995): Mason is a bodyguard who puts her life on the line repeatedly to save a friend.\u00a0 Hero?\u00a0 Check.<\/p>\n<p><strong>06. John Patrick Mason<\/strong> from <em>The Rock<\/em> (1996): Despite being held without a trial for 30 years, Mason agrees to help take down an elite military unit threatening to kill untold thousands.\u00a0 Qualifies as a hero in my book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>05. Cameron Poe<\/strong> from <em>Con Air<\/em> (1997): is a former Army Ranger which by itself makes him a hero.\u00a0 Then when three men attempt to assault his wife, he takes them on.\u00a0 Hero again, right?\u00a0 Well, since Poe accidentally kills one and is sent to prison, maybe not.\u00a0 But when Poe is on a flight of convicts who take over the plane, Poe works to assist the police.\u00a0 So, hero again, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>04. William Wallace<\/strong> from <em>Braveheart<\/em> (1995): William Wallace led the battle to free his Scottish countrymen from the rule of the tyrant King Edward I of England.\u00a0 Anyone willing to give their life for the greater good is a hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>03. Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan<\/strong> from <em>The 13th Warrior<\/em> (1996): Ahmed is a lover and poet.\u00a0 When he is banished to the North, Ahmed ends up traveling with Viking warriors.\u00a0 Ahmed, despite his fears, joins the warriors to defend a small village from bearlike human cannibals.\u00a0 John Wayne said, &#8220;The definition of a hero is someone who is scared but saddles up anyway.&#8221;\u00a0 Ahmed qualifies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>02. Freddy Heflin<\/strong> from <em>Cop Land<\/em> (1997):\u00a0 When Heflin learns of the corrupt police living in his community, he risks his life to save another cop and expose the criminals.\u00a0 Heflin does this despite the NY Detective shutting down his investigation and no other cops willing to take a stand.\u00a0 Heflin is a hero.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>01. Hawkeye<\/strong> from <em>Last of the Mohicans<\/em> (1992): Hawkeye risks his life repeatedly to save others, even people who have wronged him.\u00a0 Hawkeye even offers his life in exchange for the life of another.\u00a0 Hawkeye is recognized as an honorable man by his friends and enemies.\u00a0 If only all heroes were as worthy of the title &#8220;HERO&#8221; as Hawkeye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Vaux came up with his list of the 10 Most Underrated &#8217;90s Movie Heroes.\u00a0 Vaux&#8217;s list is an interesting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33589","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=33589"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33647,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33589\/revisions\/33647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}