The 32 greatest '80s movies characters

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off

After the director-driven, “New Hollywood” movement ceased being in vogue, Hollywood studios reclaimed greater creative control and perfected the tentpole blockbuster. Movies became more expensive, with more experimentation of techniques in special effects and digital filmmaking. The stories contained in these movies followed suit. Fantasy characters became even more fantastical, whilst stories with more grounded worlds featured more robust characters who illuminated different depths of the human experience.

All told, 1980s movies look and feel far more different than previous decades. If you find that hard to believe, then these 32 greatest characters of ‘80s cinema should show just how much movies started looking beyond our natural world - and making us see new things within it.

32. Jane Craig (Broadcast News)

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Broadcast News

When business and pleasure mix in funny ways, you get someone like Jane Craig. In Albert L. Brooks’ prescient comedy Broadcast News, set in the television news industry, Holly Hunter’s lead character Jane Craig is an overachieving, overambitious dynamo who finds herself conflicted as she falls for the handsome and earnest, if also simple, rookie anchor Tom Grunick (William Hurt). Though she is obscenely skilled at her job and fiercely independent, Brooks’ movie shows that even the hardest people can be vulnerable when love is in - and on - the air.

31. Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)

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Nightmare on Elm Street screenshot

30. Frank Dux (Bloodsport)

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Bloodsport

After the death of Bruce Lee, the big screen yearned for action heroes who could pack a punch. Because Arnold Schwarzenegger was more adept with guns and swords, there was Jean-Claude Van Damme. A legit martial artist turned movie star, JCVD’s big break came from his starring role in the 1988 film Bloodsport, in the role of a fictionalized version of real-life U.S. Army veteran Frank Dux. While the facts of Dux’s story - who supposedly competed in an underground Hong Kong tournament - are lofty at best, there’s no arguing that Van Damme is at his best wearing Dux’s black shorts in a role foundational for ‘80s beefcake heroism.

29. Louis Tully (Ghosbusters)

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Ghostbusters

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28. “Brother” Mark Lee (A Better Tomorrow)

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A Better Tomorrow

So many people on the internet use GIFs and memes featuring Brother Mark without realizing who he is. In John Woo’s A Better Tomorrow duology - crown jewels in Hong Kong’s heroic bloodshed canon of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s - Chow Yun-fat stars as “Brother” Mark Lee, a bodyguard and gunman who plays a central role in Woo’s underworld epic. Masked behind aviator shades and a signature trench coat (which the character popularized to the point that trench coats in Hong Kong are colloquially named after him), Mark Lee oozes cool even when the action is too hot.

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Dirty Dancing

26. Gordon Gecko (Wall Street)

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Wall Street

25. Loretta Castorini (Moonstruck)

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Moonstruck

24. Radio Raheem (Do the Right Thing)

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Do the Right Thing

23. Puyi (The Last Emperor)

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The Last Emperor

22. Jake LaMotta (Raging Bull)

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Raging Bull

The title is quite an apt description for its main character. In Martin Scorsese’s 1980 classic drama Raging Bull, Robert De Niro plays real-life boxer Jake LaMotta (the movie is an adaptation of LaMotta’s memoir), a talented but short-tempered and hot-blooded middleweight boxer. While Jake flirts with success, his abrasive personality and destructive ways frequently get in his own way. In true Scorsese fashion, Jake doesn’t outright win or lose in the game of life. Instead, he is doomed to live in a prison of his own making.

21. Shermer High School Detention on March 24, 1984 (The Breakfast Club)

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The Breakfast Club

John Hughes’ seminal coming-of-age film The Breakfast Club takes place on one fateful afternoon inside the library (and hallways, and gymnasium) of Shermer High School. Gathered for detention are five students: popular overachiever Claire (Molly Ringwald), varsity jock Andrew (Emilio Estevez), nerdy Brian (Anthony Michael Hall), shy loner Allison (Ally Sheedy), and rebellious John (Judd Nelson). These five undergo a life-changing experience that makes them question the walls they put up on a daily basis. The Breakfast Club is one of the most enduring teen movies for a reason, with its collection of unforgettable young adults who show that connections can be made in the unlikeliest of places - and with the unlikeliest of people.

20. The Terminator (The Terminator)

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The Terminator

The enormity of Terminator 2: Judgment Day can make it hard to remember that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s original T-800 was, in fact, the bad guy. The original 1984 action thriller The Terminator was all about Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) escaping the crosshairs of “The Terminator,” an unstoppable cyborg assassin from the future. With Schwarzenegger still in the early days of his career, the bodybuilder-turned-actor fleshes out The Terminator with steely ferocity, his sheer physicality frightening while still making complete meals out of minimal dialogue. (“I’ll be back.”) While subsequent sequels have turned Schwarzenegger’s T-800 into a model hero, never forget that his original programming was to destroy humanity at any cost.

19. Raymond (Rain Man)

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Rain Man

Disregarding its harmful stereotypes of individuals with autism, Dustin Hoffman’s Raymond in Barry Levinson’s Rain Man is still a startling combination of actor and character working like cinematic chemistry. Hyper intelligent but deeply socially inept, Raymond is a sympathetic figure whose talents are precious; the tragedy is that few others lack the time and patience to understand him. That includes his own brother Charlie (Tom Cruise). Heavily based on the real-life “megasavant” Kim Peek, Raymond is a character who definitely deserves a spot in the canon of 1980s movie characters. Yeah.

18. Joel Goodsen (Risky Business)

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Risky Business

17. Tony Montana (Scarface)

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Scarface

The world was his. Almost a decade after Al Pacino played the definitive mafia don in Francis Ford Coppola’s first two Godfather movies, Pacino became a different, and more violent type of gangster in Brian De Palma’s searing crime epic Scarface. Unlike the more composed and measured Michael Corleone, Tony Montana is fiery and volatile, the chip in his shoulder burrowed deep to the bone. In his fast rise and furious fall in Miami’s criminal underworld, Tony Montana is the physical embodiment of the immigrant’s American dream - including the parts of it that feel like a nightmare.

16. Flyora (Come and See)

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Come and See

War is hell, and you can see its corrosive powers in the face of a child. In Elem Klimov’s anti-war epic Come and See, Aleksei Kravchenko stars as Flyora, a Belarusian boy conscripted into service during World War II. Taken from his family, Flyora just barely survives from the onslaught of Nazi cruelty. Kravchenko’s facial expressions throughout Come and See are forever haunting, his big eyes and crooked mouths illustrative of how the war machine utterly devours the soul. The movie’s unforgettable ending, with Flyora unloading his rifle into a photograph of Adolf Hitler and set to a montage of Hitler’s life in reverse, tells that what little bit of humanity we have left must be kept safe. If not for ourselves, but for the good of our species.

15. Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure)

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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Leave it to two rockin’ California teenagers to impart a moving message of universal brotherhood. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter co-star in the Bill & Ted movie franchise with 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, a rollicking time travel comedy where Bill and Ted recruit real historical figures to help them with their homework. While Bill and Ted are simple guys, they embody big time “dudes rock” energy as kind, enthusiastic best friends who only want to help the world through their music. The world could use more people like Bill and Ted, just as much as we ought to be more excellent to each other. Party on forever, dudes.

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As Tears Go By

13. Rick Deckard (Blade Runner)

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Blade Runner

Is he human? Or is he a Replicant? The answer doesn’t matter as much as the act of questioning it at all. In Ridley Scott’s profoundly influential sci-fi noir Blade Runner, Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a hard-boiled bounty hunter of humanlike androids whose latest case encourages in him startling and disturbing visions about the truth of his existence. While it’s the villain Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) whose climactic monologue imbues the movie with philosophical depth, don’t forget that it’s directed towards Rick, who is on his own violent journey of understanding what it means to be more human than human.

12. Totoro (My Neighbor Totoro)

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My Neighbor Totoro

He’s big, he’s furry, he growls - and we’re not talking about your friend’s husband the morning after Super Bowl Sunday. We’re talking about Totoro, the oversized bear/rabbit spirit in Hayao Miyazaki’s animated fantasy My Neighbor Totoro. As a vehicle for Miyazaki to explore concepts like animism and environmentalism, Totoro splits the difference between eerie and inviting, being so huggable even if he’s just a bit off-putting. Since the release of My Neighbor Totoro, its title character is so iconic that he alone represents the universal appeal of Japan’s animation canon, not to mention as a mascot for the legendary Studio Ghibli that created him.

11. John McClane (Die Hard)

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Die Hard

All John McClane wants to do is to make up with his estranged wife. But to do that, he’ll have to survive one hell of a Christmas at Nakatomi Plaza. From John McTiernan’s Die Hard comes Bruce Willis as NYPD officer John McClane, whose holiday visit to Los Angeles goes up in smoke from a terrorist heist. While McClane has as many quips (“Welcome to the party, pal!”) as he does bullets, what makes him so great are what make him human. He’s flawed. He’s petty and just a bit jealous over his wife’s new life without him. But it’s his determination and resilience - lest we forget, he’s barefoot through most of this ordeal - that make McClane so much more dimensional than most other action movie heroes.

10. Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

9. Mr. Miyagi (The Karate Kid)

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The Karate Kid Part II

8. Lando Calrissian (The Empire Strikes Back)

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The Empire Strikes Back

He’s the smoothest, coolest dude in the galaxy, so much so that Star Wars fans still love him even after his one-time betrayal of Han and Leia. A handsome scoundrel who runs Cloud City, Billy Dee Williams’ Lando - introduced in the 1980 Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back - brought style to George Lucas’ pulp sci-fi universe. In contrast to the more pragmatic Han Solo, Lando isn’t afraid to dress up and get down, with an iconic silk cape (just because) and a carefully groomed mustache. Though he does sell out the heroes to Darth Vader, his redemption in Return of the Jedi has made certain his legacy as the guy Leia tells Han not to worry about.

7. Marty McFly and Doc Brown (Back to the Future)

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Back to the Future

No one questions why a teenager is best friends with a manic, geriatric scientist. That’s because Michael J. Fox’s Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd’s Doc Brown are simply electric together, with Brown’s boundless enthusiasm for experimentation that compliments Marty’s own inherent thirst for adventure. (He’s a teenager! OfcourseMarty is down for reckless adventures!) Separately, Marty and Doc are great characters. But it’s the two together, through their overall onscreen chemistry, that really take Back to the Future to the next level, making the whole trilogy so timeless in its appeal as an ‘80s classic.

6. Axel Foley (Beverly Hills Cop)

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Beverly Hills Cop

5. Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)

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The Princess Bride

4. Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

3. Nausicaä (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)

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Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

2. Ivan Drago (Rocky IV)

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Rocky IV

1. John Rambo (First Blood)

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First Blood

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1Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

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Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

2Arcs review: “A whole lot of game in a small package”

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3Path of Exile 2 review: “A stellar start to a thrilling and brutal dark adventure”

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4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: “The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years”

4Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: “The best adventure Indy has embarked on in over 30 years”

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Shadow brandishes a gun in Sonic The Hedgehog 3

1Sonic the Hedgehog 3 review: “Keanu Reeves as Shadow is wasted whilst Jim Carrey steals the show”

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3Kraven the Hunter review: “The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action”

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Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor and Nicola Coughlan as Joy in Doctor Who Christmas special Joy to the World

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2Secret Level review: “An uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses”

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5Cobra Kai season 6, part 2 review: “Returns to the sort of hard-hitting form that made it such a fan favorite in the first place”

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Cobra Kai season 6, part 2 review: “Returns to the sort of hard-hitting form that made it such a fan favorite in the first place”

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