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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 9640895" data-attributes="member: 9254">All Action Movies give the protagonist a degree of plot armor.  An Action Hero is a Jonah, irrationally surviving irrational dangers.To me the main difference between Super Hero and Action Movie hero is that everyone agrees the Action Movie hero got lucky and by all rights should be dead several times over.  Meanwhile superheroes shake the flattened bullets out of their spandex and go home, reserving celebratory schwarma for alien invasions.The Last Action Hero movie had a degree of internal deconstruction, where Schwarzenegger's character explains some of the stupid things he does are calculated risks (head on crash between car with modern airbags vs one without) but that he is playing the odds and will eventually lose. And  even if he lives, people around him die, which is why he had no family or friends. Fast and the Furious started as Action Movie and kept upping the ante until they became a Super Hero movie where everyone derives super powers while touching a vehicle, so that smoking car tires can prevent the vehicle from being lifted off the road.In the beginning it was "how did we live" and turned into "too bad for you I still have my car"</blockquote>