Charles Bronson Bracket #1 Lee - (Bruce Lee In Enter the Dragon) He tastes his own blood before he calmly takes you apart. Vs. #8 Doc Holliday - (Val Kilmer in Tombstone) He’s your Huckleberry. Say When. #12 King Leonidas - This is SPARTA! Vs. #4 John McClane - (Bruce Willis in Diehard) Yippy Kay Yay, mother****er! #11 Bruce (Jaws) - You are gonna need a bigger boat. Vs. #3 Robocop - Cop gets murdered..gets re-created as a super-human cyborg. #7 Neo - (Keanu Reeves in the Matrix Series) He is the chosen one. Vs. #2 Dirty Harry - (Clint Eastwood as Detective Harry Callahan) Do you feel lucky punk?
King Leonidas versus John McClain is tough. King Leonidas faced almost 1 million persons. McClain surfed on a jet plane.
If it helps, historians pretty much agree that the Spartans at Thermopylae didn't face anywhere near 1,000,000 Persians. Edit: Oh, and it's McClane, not McClain. McClain is either a misspelling of the Die Hard character, or of the Republican nominee for president (who could easily be in this bracket too).
It was more like 750,000+ and it was more than 300 troops. 300 spartans but a whole bunch of other Greek cities.
The easiest thing to do with the Greek histories of them -v- Persia is to transfer a zero from the end of the Persians to the end of the Greeks which ends up in much more historically credible numbers
That is just not true... The Persians had a much larger pool of warriors. The Greek Cities could only muster armies of 15,000. It is a fact that the Spartans were turned down by all of the Greek City States for troops...and they DID send their best 300 (Kings guard) along with what was a group of around 2000 more volunteers and held back a Persian army that did number in the hundreds of thousands (about 300,000) according to most historical scholars.
Especially not beating McClane... I thought Leonidas was awesome in 300, but he had some of the greatest warriors of Sparta by his side, set up an ambush in a bottleneck, and basically had enemy troops impale themselves on spears... McClane has, basically singlehandedly, thwarted four terrorist plots with no forewarning, very little backup, and, in some instances, no shoes... Not even those sandals Leonidas wore...
Well you know there is something about Leonidas' fashion sense that just makes me doubt his badass credentials.
Well the historical scholars just haven't studied logistics. It was until the advent of railways in the mid 19th century that armies of 50,000+ coould be reliably fed in the field. Even the large armies of the Napoleonic era lived off the land or had very short campaign seasons. When you consider the logistical requirements of Xerxes campaign you end up with a figure of approximately 100,000 soldiers that could be transported and sustained in the field, and you'd need another 100,000 people working the supply lines. Add in camp followers, merchants and other assorted hangers on and you might get up to 300,000 involved in the campaign, but that's a long way short of 1,000,000 soldiers claimed by the Greeks.
SO basically, you agree with me. I said 300k. That is what the scholars all think xerxes mustered up.
I dont see Lee losing in this tournament. The guy was a Badass on screen and off it. Not sure if anyone else can say that.
