Posted on 05/04/2009 5:39:43 PM PDT by smokingfrog
In tribute to stogie lover Wolverine, we rundown five other action heroes that are smokin’ hot – literally
Cinema’s archives are dusted in the ash of burnt out cigars. Meatier than cigarettes and less fussy than pipes, the stogie has become cinematic shorthand for manly strength, very rarely to be found in the delicate paw of the fairer sex. They’re a favourite with those bastions of masculine ruthlessness, the gangster flick and the western. In the former they famously gave Tony Montana (Al Pacino) something to chew on in Scarface while Clint Eastwood’s Man with No Name in the Dollars trilogy opts for the Spanish cigarillo yet their CV doesn’t stop there. They’ve have also made memorable appearances in comedies (Groucho in every Marx brothers film, Gomez Addams in The Addams Family outings) and are capable of suggesting both wealth and power (Gordon Gecko in Wall Street) or working class spirit (Paulie in Rocky).
Certainly, the trend has suffered in recent decades due to the anti-smoking movement, yet some secret smokers still manage to sneak under the radar and one such fella is back on the big screen – Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It’s the burly berserker’s first solo movie, but far from the first time we’ve seen him with a stogie between his lips. It was amid a cloud of cigar smoke that he made his dramatic entrance in 2000’s X-Men, quietly puffing away in his corner of a bar before entering a cage fight and now we track his habit back through the ages with this prequel tale.
And so to celebrate the return of Wolverine, we sniff out five other cinematic action hero smokers.
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Yeah he wasn't a movie character, but in some ways that makes him even better!
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The Comedian from Watchmen???!!!
How is this slime a hero? By raping another cheeseball phony hero? By shooting a pregnant woman in the stomach killing her and his baby?
No wonder Watchmen tanked at the box office, if this is what Hollywierd thinks is a “hero”.
(countdown to the “its deeper than that, its a thinking man’s movie” reply)
I gotta go with the Man with No Name.
I gotta go with the Man with No Name.
Sgt. Rock from the 50- 60’s comic book series .
“I don’t have to tell you the story. You all know it. Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: those that are already dead and those that are gonna die. Now get off your butts. You guys are the Fighting 29th.”
When I saw this thread title the first character I thought of was Sgt. Fury!
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Damn right. They shoulda said Charles Bronson. 
When he spits, somebody dies.
One of the best movies ever, IMHO.
George Kennedy in “Airport”
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