Poll: The Most Impressive Genre or Sub-Genre Icon

Results of 507 votes:

1. 1.
   

   Sigourney Weaver in Aliens (1986)

    

   ... female space heroine
2. 2.
   

   Sylvester Stallone in Rocky (1976)

    

   ... underdog boxer
3. 3.
   

   Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

    

   ... adventure hero
4. 4.
   

   Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)

    

   ... mafia boss
5. 5.
   

   Charles Chaplin in City Lights (1931)

    

   ... tramp
6. 6.
   

   Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

    

   ... pirate
7. 7.
   

   Sean Connery in Goldfinger (1964)

    

   ... secret agent
8. 8.
   

   Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator (1984)

    

   ... terminating killer cyborg
9. 9.
   

   Natalie Portman in Black Swan (2010)

    

   ... ballerina
10. 10.
    

    Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

     

    ... psychopathic psychatrist
11. 11.
    

    John Wayne in Rio Bravo (1959)

     

    ... cowboy
12. 12.
    

    Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry (1971)

     

    ... police officer
13. 13.
    

    Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

     

    ... FBI agent
14. 14.
    

    Uma Thurman in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

     

    ... female revenger
15. 15.
    

    Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz (1939)

     

    ... wicked witch
16. 16.
    

    Toshirô Mifune in The Bushido Blade (1981)

     

    ... samurai, Inspired by pbn
17. 17.
    

    Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek (2009)

     

    ... humanoid alien
18. 18.
    

    Al Pacino in Scarface (1983)

     

    ... drug kingpin
19. 19.
    

    Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can (2002)

     

    ... con man
20. 20.
    

    Bruce Willis in Die Hard (1988)

     

    ... X-Mas crusher
21. 21.
    

    Mel Gibson in Braveheart (1995)

     

    ... historical medieval hero
22. 22.
    

    Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

     

    ... innocent prisoner
23. 23.
    

    Peter Sellers in Being There (1979)

     

    ... simpleton
24. 24.
    

    Ralph Fiennes in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

     

    ...bad sorcerer
25. 25.
    

    Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games (2012)

     

    ... dystopian female fighter
26. 26.
    

    Eli Wallach in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

     

    ... mexican outlaw
27. 27.
    

    Tom Hulce in Amadeus (1984)

     

    ... classic musician
28. 28.
    

    Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society (1989)

     

    ... teacher
29. 29.
    

    Christopher Lee in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)

     

    ... vampire
30. 30.
    

    James Stewart, Donna Reed, Carol Coombs, Karolyn Grimes, Jimmy Hawkins, and Larry Simms in It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

     

    ... family father
31. 31.
    

    Sylvester Stallone in First Blood (1982)

     

    ... guerilla combat soldier
32. 32.
    

    Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

     

    ... astronaut