Horror’s Greatest Heroes: the 10 Best Monster-Fighters!

Horror does n’t just have to be about chilling monsters and their victims — some of our preferent horror stories let in awesome giant - slayers , who are on a missionary station to pass over out everything slimy or toothy . Here are horror ’s 10 greatest heroes .

We scoured the internet to find the greatest monster - hunter in revulsion , and we alsoasked our Facebook Sir Frederick Handley Page . Here ’s what we issue forth up with :

Gordon Freeman (Half-Life)

When we first meet the protagonist of Half - Life , he ’s a theoretical physicist working for a research deftness which accidentally opens a portal , bringing hostile beast into the chemical compound . In the first game , the player is Freeman , fighting alongside fellow employee to tame both the creatures and the military unit that ’s been send to eliminate witnesses . In the games , Freeman never talks and there are no cut scenes . The instrumentalist is in control of him at every twist , and Freeman has to bring home the bacon out over almost insurmountable odds .

Sheriff Eben Olemaun (30 Days of Night)

The sheriff of Barrow , Alaska , Olemaun has to contend off the hordes of vampires who have come to Alaska to take advantage of the farsighted stretching without sun . By come in himself with vampire blood , Olemaun fights off the lamia elder Vicente to make unnecessary the township , and – spoiler alert – in doing so , he makes himself vulnerable to sun and turns to ash when the Dominicus prove , fundamentally sacrificing himself to save the townsfolk .

Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden (The Dresden Files)

you’re able to find Harry Dresden in the Chicago jaundiced pages , under the header of “ wizard , ” but he ’s no caper . Even if he is consider unrefined by the repose of the wizarding community ( the fact that they speak to each other in Latin , and Harry ’s Latin is from a correspondence course does n’t assist that perception ) he is one of the strongest wizards , in terms of gross magical ability . He expend that power to influence as a form of supernatural tec , often confer with with Chicago ’s police department . Throughout the volume , Dresden tangles with vampires ( both the blood - crapulence form and the sexual - vigour - draining - succubi kind ) , faerie , and a fairly persuasive demon . His allies admit loup-garou and holy horse of the cross .

Vampire Hunter D

When the world is blast to rubble at the spell of the millennium , sport and vampires begin to preyon the human beings who survive . Flash forwards to the class 12,090 when D is a half - human , half - vampire ( a dhampir ) who becomes the bang-up lamia - hunter of them all , take on the most powerful vampires admit the 10,000 year sure-enough vampire Count Magnus Lee . Riding a cybernetic sawbuck and wielding a crescent longsword , D has an talisman that can ward off optical maser and little nuclear blasters , and a super - powerful symbiote living in his left-hand ribbon . When monsters kidnap women and misbehave , D ’s the dhampir who’llstand up and say , “ Your time is come to an end . Your sort must look extinction . you could not survive , you must die . That is the rule of nature . ”

Hellboy (Hellboy)

As a demon come up to Earth by Nazis , Hellboy is n’t initially someone you ’d pick as a monstrosity - slayer – but actually , Hellboy works for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense , fighting the forces of darkness . He is , in fact , “ the existence ’s greatest paranormal researcher , ” and he fights behemoth from myth , fable , and folklore . If you need someone who can fight a Lovecraftian creature , as well as the more traditional vampires , he ’s your man .

Abraham Van Helsing (Dracula by Bram Stoker)

The original , and still one of the expert . produce by Bram Stoker as the protagonist in Dracula , Van Helsing is a foxy vampire - killer , who leads a team to put down Dracula . Here ’s how he ’s described in chapter nine :

He is a apparently arbitrary man , this is because he bang what he is lecture about better than any one else . He is a philosopher and a metaphysician , and one of the most advanced scientists of his Clarence Shepard Day Jr. , and he has , I think , an absolutely unresolved head . This , with an iron nerve , a snappishness of the glass - creek , and never-say-die resolving power , self - command , and toleration exalted from virtue to blessing , and the good-hearted and truest nub that beats , these shape his equipment for the noble study that he is doing for mankind , work both in theory and practice , for his survey are as all-inclusive as his all - embracing fellow feeling .

Movie adaptations have emphasise him as a lamia hunter and have often dally up the action level in his function . * cough * Hugh Jackman * cough * He ’s also been played by Peter Cushing , Anthony Hopkins , Christopher Plummer and Mel Brooks .

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Ellen Ripley (the Alien movies)

When it comes to unfathomable , pitiless menaces in deep space , there ’s really only one person you ’d call . ( Well , apart from the Doctor , perhaps . ) Ripley is the reign title-holder of blank space horror , who take down xenomorphs with an indomitable violence . ( And do n’t you dare call her “ the Final Girl . ” ) All you really need to know is , “ Get away from her , you gripe ! ”

Sam and Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

The Winchester pal are third - generation teras - huntsman , but they ’ve gone beyond just sway on the family custom . In the aspect of unstoppable prophecies and cosmic manipulation by the force of Heaven and Hell , they still stand up for their humanity and exemption of option . Whether it ’s a creature of caption or Paris Hilton , nothing can keep the Winchesters down for long . But we ’ll letthis quote from TV Tropessum them up :

Fans disagree on a pot of matter , but most can safely match that Dean ’s graveyard slide and stabbing the living dead to her coffin in “ child Should n’t Play with Dead thing ” and Sam decollate Gordon with barbed telegram in “ Fresh lineage ” were the most awe-inspiring kills ever .

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Sunnydale ’s champion redefined monster - killing for a new contemporaries . The Hellmouth lures numberless vampires , demons and weird forces of evil to Sunnydale , and only one adult female stands in their room . Her resolution and resourcefulness are in direct proportion to her snark and obession with things like becoming promenade queen . Greco-Roman second let in her self - sacrifice swan dive at the end of “ The Gift . Plus the manner she catches Angel ’s brand between her medallion , showing that when she ’s mislay all her friends and helpers , she still has the greatest resourcefulness of all – herself . Buffy ’s forever our hero sandwich , even if we do n’t quite understand the late comedian storylines .

Ash (The Evil Dead trilogy)

Hail to the King , baby ! Ash definitely won the most votes on our Facebook page . say Julius Flywheel : “ Ash ticks ALL the box . with child lines , hyphen and elan , winning smiling , derring do and a great moustache . ” Adds Lee Von : “ No powers , just attitude . amount get some . ” The clinching argument come from Paige Hammermill : “ Buffy is a unspoiled alternative , but I recall she loses out because while she did die twice , she never chopped off her own paw and rig it w/ a chainsaw . ” Undisputed .

Runners up : Simon Belmont , Beowulf , Solomon Kane , Drop Dead Fred , Jessica Harper in Suspiria . Amy Irving in The Fury , Dr Loomis from the original Halloween film , the Frog Brothers , Captain Kronos , R.J. MacReady , Riddick , Alice from the Resident Evil series , the Monster Squad , Vincent Price in the Last Man on Earth .

Additional coverage by Katharine Trendacosta . Thanks also to everyone else who paint a picture characters on ourFacebook Thomas Nelson Page . Top image viaFanpop .

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