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** Probably all of [[Humphrey Bogart]]'s characters fit this trope.

* [[Star Wars|Han Solo]]. Compare these two lines:

Later: [[Changed My Mind, Kid|"You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!"]] }}

* [[Indiana Jones]] is pretty quick to anger, unafraid to [[Combat Pragmatist|fight dirty]], broke poor Marion Ravenwood's heart in the past, and will always place [[Honor Before Reason]] and do the right thing.

* Mike, the [[Artist Disillusionment|disillusioned poet]], in ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]''.

* In ''[[Clueless]]'', Cher's father Mel is a tough, feared stony divorce lawyer who can make his maid scurry away in fear just by entering the room. However, he's also a devoted father not only to his daughter Cher but to Josh, his stepson from a previous (failed) marriage to whom he remains a loyal father-figure and mentor despite the fact that they have no blood relation together.

* Stathis Borhans in the 1986 remake of ''[[The Fly]]'' is probably this trope personified. At first he is a sleazy, jealous, jilted ex-lover of the protagonist's love intrest, but after a certain mishap involving a housfly and a teleporter, he becomes a [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Hero]] and storms into the lab of the man-monster to save the woman he still loves. [[It Got Worse|It does not end well for Stathis.]]

* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', Eddie Valiant is shown to be quite a jerk towards Toons because of his old grudge. He's generally mean, sarcastic and filled with anger, so God help you [[Berserk Button|if you hint that he works for Toons]]. But, however, if you can get to a contact with him, he'll stick with you untill the end and you'll find out that he's a nice guy after all, he just still brooding over his brother's death and that's why he appears to be so cold and bitter.