3. Dutch – Predator
What to do about Arnie, the Predator franchise and lists of Badasses? Adrian Brody buffed up for Predators in surprising and impressive fashion. Danny Glover not only polished off a Predator in Predator 2, when 12 more appeared from the mist he drops his weapons and says “who’s next?” Now that’s Badass.
But we probably need Arnie in this list. The Terminator is pretty Badass but he’s a cyborg so that’s probably out. John Matrix can smell baddies and eats Green Beret’s for breakfast, but his final fight is against an Australian in a string vest, which is a bit weird. Danko was pretty tough, but Dutch takes on a 7-foot hunter-killer without any conventional weapons, so probably just about deserves the nod here.
A lot of the manliness on display here is a little bit silly. Things like “I ain’t got time to bleed” or carrying a minigun (Old Painless) that normally gets mounted on a helicopter, but boiling the finale down to Dutch and his training, experience and wits against the Predator (finally weaponless and unmasked) is excellent, legitimate Badass stuff.
