They're also blunt: A guy in a unitard pummels another guy — pow! — and saves the day, the girl and the studio.
George W. Bush was not a nice, blunt, honest guy who happened to be a conservative; he was a serial liar pursuing a hard-line agenda, who among other things deliberately misled America into war.
In two years in office, Mr. Christie has promoted his reputation as the big, blunt-talking guy — he insisted this week that he was no "ballerina" in changing positions on marriage, or anything else.
Her message to the international elite was fairly blunt: "You guys need to shape up the way you operate - we can't carry on as before". What about plans for the UK economy post-Brexit?
Leon was created by Hideki Kamiya as a contrast to Chris Redfield from the original Resident Evil, who he felt was the "blunt, tough-guy type".
In private, Mr Lee was blunter: "You guys are giving China a free run in Asia," the Financial Times reports him saying.
Joe the Plumber and Friends put together an ad that used a fairy-tale motif to blast Blunt as a guy who hangs out with — yes! — "insider friends" as opposed to Purgason, a "regular guy" who, for purposes of carrying out the theme, was armed with a really big sword.
The Americans are themselves right out of the movies: the Inglourious Basterds, as they are known, are a kind of Jewish Dirty Dozen, led by a Gentile, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), a blunt, jawjutting tough guy from Tennessee (which is where Tarantino is from).
He combines the blunt simplicity of a guy's guy (the arena shook with thunderous applause as Ryan, reaching his finale, shouted, "We can do this!
