The top 5. 0 sci- fi movie protagonists On the face of it, compiling a list of truly great sci- fi protagonists should be easy. Pick a load of familiar names from a hat, write some breathlessly adoring drivel beneath them, and head off to the pub to reward a job well done.
Except it was never going to be as simple as that – and compiling lists seldom is. For every character making an appearance in the list below, there were at least two other possible candidates who didn't quite make the cut. Some sci- fi heroes were removed, then quickly reinstated. The order was jiggled around, then reordered again. At one point, your humble writer realised there were more than 5.
There are some names I’ll probably wish I’d included when I look back over it tomorrow, or in a year’s time, and there’ll be several more, no doubt, listed in the comments which I’ll also wish I’d included. What follows, then, is a nervous attempt at compiling the 5. God list. There are characters in here which hail from the earliest years of the genre in cinema, and one or two who’ve arrived on the big screen only a week or two ago. There are heroes from hurriedly- made B- movies, and heroines from multi- million dollar franchises. Some have been on epic adventures that span a galaxy, while others have fought more personal battles in a single location. Whatever they get up to, they’re the glue that hold some classic genre movies together.
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Jack Deth. The Trancers series. Less charitable readers might consider Jack Deth to be a poor cousin to Blade Runner’s Rick Deckard, but what Charles Band’s Trancers movies lacked in budget and artistry, the early ones more than made up for charm, novel ideas and humour. Deth, played by Tim Thomerson, is a 2. Trancers. In a plot device straight out of a Philip K Dick novel, it’s a drug rather than a machine that propels characters through time, and in the first film, Deth travels back to 1.
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Los Angeles to catch a criminal by the name of Martin Whistler. Deth was the proud owner of a particularly cool sci- fi gadget – something called a . With his big shoulder pads, slicked back hair (“Dry hair’s for squids”) and his wonderfully terse way with words (“I'm from another time, another world. I don't even know what you people eat for lunch”) he's a true B- movie hero. The Trancers sequels didn’t exactly improve as they were rolled out – 2.
Trancers 6 used stock footage of Thomerson from earlier films – but Deth was a great character, a hard- boiled detective with a delectable range of high- tech gizmos. He’s also one of the few sci- fi heroes to narrate his own trailers.
The Fifth Element (French: Le Cinquième Élément) is a 1997 English-language French science-fiction action film directed and co-written by Luc Besson. Release Info: Plot: In April 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in Princes Gate, London and took all inside hostage. Over the next six days a tense.
Riddick. Pitch Black, The Chronicles Of Riddick. More than any other genre, we’d argue, the protagonists in science fiction cinema are divided along two lines: those of intellect and those of action. Riddick, first introduced in 2.
Pitch Black, is firmly in the second camp, but there’s something about Vin Diesel’s almost wordless charisma that makes him far more interesting than he could have been. A convict from an early age, an encounter with an eye surgeon left Riddick with an acute sensitivity to light – an affliction that isn’t without its upside, since he gets to wear a cool pair of goggles all day, and can see quite clearly at night. This stands Riddick in good stead when he crashes, along with an entire ship full of passengers and criminals, on a planet populated by giant killer bats in Pitch Black. If 2. 00. 4’s The Chronicles Of Riddick was a less than brilliant follow- up to the breezy B- picture fun ofthe film mentioned above, the anti- hero’s found refuge in some thoroughly decent videogames, and a not- bad- at- all animated short (Dark Fury). Here’s hoping next year’s Riddick, which sees Vin Diesel again teamed with David Twohy, will prove to be a return to big- screen form. Robert Neville. I Am Legend. Francis Lawrence’s 2.
Richard Matheson novel which inspired it, but for the first half, I Am Legend almost comes close. In a future Manhattan left almost deserted following a viral outbreak, military scientist Robert Neville (Will Smith) trudges the streets alone with his dog, and locks himself away in his fortress- like apartment by night. Will Smith’s performance - lonely, wracked with guilt - is among his best, and I Am Legend is a world away from the largely interchangeable heroes he played in sci- fi fare such as Independence Day and I, Robot. The incursion of some unconvincing CGI monsters in the film’s second half derail much of what was good about I Am Legend’s opening, but while the atmosphere lingers, there’s always Smith’s superb portrayal to enjoy. James Cole. Twelve Monkeys.
Quite possibly the toughest hero to travel through time (except for maybe Jean Claude Van Damme’s character in Timecop), James Cole was brought brilliantly to life by Bruce Willis. Terry Gilliam trained all his demented creativity on this apocalyptic sci- fi film, but all the visuals and batty performances (not least Brad Pitt’s) would have been for nothing without a great leading turn to tie it all together, and this film counts among Willis’ finest yet, and it’s certainly the best in his genre canon. Like all the best sci- fi protagonists, Cole’s journey through the film is intellectual as well as physical, and in the final scene, he makes an astonishing, quite moving discovery which brings the apparently non- linear story full circle. A truly great film, and an equally great performance. Donnie Darko. Donnie Darko.
A deceptively complex character, Donnie Darko was played by a young Jake Gyllenhaal in a sublime early performance. Although he’s ostensibly just another troubled, middle- class teenager growing up in 8. America, Donnie is also a time traveller, capable of superhuman feats of strength (which includes leaving an axe buried in the hideous bulldog statue squatting outside his school), and has a supernatural best friend – a six- foot- tall rabbit with a dire warnings of a coming apocalypse. Richard Kelly’s debut is a stormy, murky stew of music, incongruous images and sometimes impenetrable pseudo science – but like a teen- centric David Lynch movie, Donnie Darko’s weirdness actually counts in its favour.
The key to the film’s success, though, is Donnie himself – a neurotic hero who retains his humour, creativity and puckish sense of mischief in the face of impending oblivion. John Carter. John Carter. It’s remarkable to think that a hero as influential as Carter has taken so long to make it to the big screen - although there was the straight- to- DVD Princess Of Mars (2. John Carter is a veteran of the American Civil War who finds himself transported to Mars, where he discovers that the planet’s lesser gravity has given him enormous strength and the ability to leap huge distances. Reluctantly drawn into another civil war, this time between rival Martian tribes, Carter eventually becomes the protector of princess Dejah Thoris. An (almost) unwavering force for good, Carter may seem rather one- dimensionally heroic by modern standards, but his influence on other writers and filmmakers can’t be underestimated - Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Superman, and Avatar’s Sully all owe a debt to the brawny hero, and it’s good to see him finally take centre stage in his own movie.
What a pity, then, that his big- screen debut wasn’t more readily embraced by critics and some moviegoers. Download Streaming Divx Movies Infinity Chamber (2017). Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.
The X- Files. Although either character could have easily been given their own entry on this list, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are so memorable as a sci- fi double act that it made sense to keep them together – still bickering and flirting, no doubt, even after all these years. The simple conceit of a sceptical FBI agent (that’s Gillian Anderson’s Dana Scully) teamed with a paranormal investigator agent (David Duchovny’s Fox Mulder) provided the jumping- off point for almost a decade’s worth of TV, as well as two spin- off movies.