{"id":7107,"date":"2021-02-27T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T13:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-40-toughest-movie-characters\/"},"modified":"2021-02-27T13:01:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T13:01:23","slug":"the-40-toughest-movie-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/lifestyle\/the-40-toughest-movie-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"The 40 Toughest Movie Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Stillwell There are a lot of ways to define toughness\u2014from physicality and swagger to mental fortitude and strength of character\u2014but as a film fan, you tend to know toughness when you see it. It\u2019s the way the character is framed, the way the music swells, or the sheer odds the movie places in the protagonist&#8217;s way.As such, some of the toughest men and women in film history are also some of the most beloved and heroic. Still others are shrewd, vengeful, and shockingly villainous. Whatever side they&#8217;re on, the iconic folks on this list are all unrelentingly feisty\u2014but one character trumps the rest in terms of toughness. Click through to find out who.*Warning: Some entries contain heavy spoilers. 1 of 40 40. Forrest Bondurant (Lawless) You could probably populate this list with just Tom Hardy characters. In Legend, he played twin gangsters who tore up London. In Bronson, his take on the titular serial killer was appropriately terrifying. Hell, even Bane in The Dark Knight Rises broke Batman\u2019s back and nearly detonated a nuke in Gotham City.But Forrest Bondurant, in 2012\u2019s criminally underseen bootlegging thriller Lawless, remains Hardy\u2019s most badass character. Known for being \u201cinvincible,\u201d he survives a slit throat and multiple gun shots (as well as a fall through some thin ice), and deals with the perpetrators of crimes against him in 10 times as brutal fashion. 2 of 40 39. Frank Lucas (American Gangster) Like Hardy, Denzel Washington is an actor who could own a lot of&#8230; Click below to read the full story from Esquire<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/entertainment\/g35654347\/toughest-movie-character\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Stillwell There are a lot of ways to define toughness\u2014from physicality and swagger to mental fortitude and strength of character\u2014but as a film fan, you tend to know toughness when you see it. It\u2019s the way the character is framed, the way the music swells, or the sheer odds the movie places in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1230,"featured_media":7108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The 40 Toughest Movie Characters - The Daily Herald<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-40-toughest-movie-characters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The 40 Toughest Movie Characters - The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Michael Stillwell There are a lot of ways to define toughness\u2014from physicality and swagger to mental fortitude and strength of character\u2014but as a film fan, you tend to know toughness when you see it. It\u2019s the way the character is framed, the way the music swells, or the sheer odds the movie places in the&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-40-toughest-movie-characters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Daily Herald\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-02-27T13:01:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Augustine Buresh\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/\",\"name\":\"The Daily Herald\",\"description\":\"Your Super Aggregated News, Blog &amp; Magazine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-40-toughest-movie-characters\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/7107-the-40-toughest-movie-characters.jpg\",\"width\":980,\"height\":490,\"caption\":\"The 40 Toughest Movie Characters\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-40-toughest-movie-characters\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-40-toughest-movie-characters\/\",\"name\":\"The 40 Toughest Movie Characters - The Daily Herald\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-40-toughest-movie-characters\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-02-27T13:01:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-02-27T13:01:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/a36e0451c1ded887dc20b86bad192080\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/the-40-toughest-movie-characters\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#\/schema\/person\/a36e0451c1ded887dc20b86bad192080\",\"name\":\"Augustine Buresh\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/11284406ee263475e4ee100bc32bb85d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Augustine Buresh\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}