A bloody, battered, tank top-wearing everyman takes on the world.

In the late 80s and mid-90s (and again in 2007), no one defined that role better than Bruce Willis as John McClane.

Shoeless in a room full of broken glass, fighting an entire German army division (or a rogue US Army division) with an endless clip and an equally endless wit, John McClane was a much earlier version of the man we’ve come to know as the Lunatic Fringe.

John McClane doesn’t care about your arsenal, your numbers, or your advantages. He’s coming at you, German terrorists and/or Timothy Olyphant, logic and rationality be damned.

Seems familiar, doesn’t it? (Jump to 7:30)

"Is that all you guys got?" – Dean Ambrose, resident badass.

Ambrose is sometimes down, but never out. Beaten and bandaged but always lurking, waiting to kick open a door with a gun taped to his back and take everyone down with him. You think you have him beaten, tossed out of the building, and you’re winning (That’s right I mean YOU Seth Rollins). But then the trunk of the car pops open, and here comes Ambrose with a tire iron to prove you wrong.

Ambrose has been called an anti-hero here and there in the last few months, but the tag doesn’t fit quite right. He’s one man fighting against a machine that is threatening what’s his, and doing it with little regard for his own well-being. Dean isn’t an anti-hero, he’s an ACTION HERO.

This scene from the original Die Hard basically sums up Ambrose’s current singles run:

Someone take Dean Ambrose’s shoes, and give him a gun and a cigarette.

Yippee ki yay, Mr Rollins.