When I think of the words anime, comic books, and bad ass the first name that pops into my head is unsurprisingly Quentin Tarantino the second is the original Bad Mother F*&er Samuel L. Jackson.
It would be foolish to argue that Samuel L. Jackson is not the baddest mother f&^er in Hollywood today, all you would have to do is look at Snakes on a Plane and realize that no other actor could elevate such a B-movie to the heights it achieved......or you could look at his wallet :)
Jackson, however, is a geek in disguise for in the same year that he plays bad mother (shut your mouth) Shaft he also plays a comic book geek/villain in Unbreakable.
He is the only man to star in one of the baddest of movies Goodfellas as well as the geek favorite Star Wars series. He is the star of action movies such as Die Hard With a Vengeance and The Long Kiss Goodnight but he also is the star of an anime series Afro Samurai.
In the next few years he will become even geekier by starring in an additional nine movies for Marvel replacing David Hasselhoff as Nick Fury. Combined with the two he has already done as well as the comic book great though cinematic failure The Spirit, soon Samuel L. Jackson will be a part of twelve comic book based movies which I think seals the deal of geekhood.
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