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Arnold Schwarzenegger as

matrix
Toughness 20(obviously)
Intelligence 16 (similar to Bennett)
Strength of Good/Evil 15 (good, but does murder a lot of people)
Plot Importance 20 (duh!)
Effectiveness 20 (just leaves bodies and gets the girl)
Special Ability STEAM PIPE THROW (20) obviously a wining move all the way

Vernon Wells as

bennett
Toughness 18 (tough, but ultimately defeated)
Intelligence 16 (he’s smart, he has an edge)
Strength of Good/Evil 20 (obviously a grade-A badass)
Plot Importance 17 (great baddie – important for the film)
Effectiveness 13 (doesn’t actually achieve THAT much in all honesty)
Special Ability BALSA WOOD SMASH (5)

Rae Dawn Chong as

Cindy
Toughness 10 (takes out mall security/police van, and allegedly does advanced karate)
Intelligence 17 (flies the plane, reads instructions, calls Kirby)
Strength of Good/Evil 14 (took some convincing to join the quest, but had a heart of gold)
Plot Importance 17 (rescues Matrix, flies the plane, tricks Cooke)
Effectiveness 9 (could have done more to aid our hero’s cause, and phoned Kirby a bit late)
Special Ability SEAPLANE PILOT (3)

Bill Duke as

Cooke
Toughness 17 (takes Matrix to the limit)
Intelligence 11 (steals a car, but falls for Matrix’s trick)
Strength of Good/Evil 9 (only a henchman – doesn’t really do anything evil)
Plot Importance 12 (does quite a few key things)
Effectiveness 14 (completes trashman mission and Bennett fake death mission, but fails to stop Matrix)
Special Ability CAR STEAL(12)

David Patrick Kelly as

sully
Toughness 7 (only acts hard towards little girls and women. Practically cries like a baby when Matrix catches him)
Intelligence 8 (giving Matrix money to buy a beer as to “give us a little more time with your daughter” wasn’t the wisest thing to say)
Strength of Good/Evil 9 (like Cooke, just a henchman, most evil thing done is to call a frightened air stewardess a “fuckin’ whore”)
Plot Importance 15 (creates one of the film’s best scenes in the shopping mall and leads Matrix to the motel room)
Effectiveness 18 (one of the film’s most popular characters with cracking dialogue and use of cigarettes)
Special Ability the “FAG GRIN” (10) useful for pulling fuckin’ whores

Charles Meshack as

henriques
Toughness 12 (easily taken out by Matrix on the airplane)
Intelligence 7 (doesn’t see it coming, and he laughs at Sully’s joke about spending time with Matrix’s daughter)
Strength of Good/Evil 14 (he’s one badass, smug s.o.b.)
Plot Importance 10 (lets Matrix escape!)
Effectiveness 3 (not in the slightest bit effective, Matrix snaps his neck like a chicken wing)
Special Ability THE SHIRT OF DOOM (6) blinds his opponents with his jazzy dress sense.

Alyssa Milano as

JENNY
Toughness 3 (Displays almost no feats of strength, but does manage to get her father to throw his arms up in the air and “surrendurr”)
Intelligence 7 (Best place to hide she can think of is under the bed….manages to escape from her room in Val Verde although it takes her several hours)
Strength of Good/Evil 20 (Surely no one else in Commando is more good than the innocent Jenny?)
Plot Importance 20 (again, surely no-one else can beat Jenny for plot importance, with no daughter to kidnap or rescue the film wouldn’t exist!)
Effectiveness 5 (apart from a couple of escape attempts and a one-liner Jenny spends almost the entire film either being kidnapped or being held hostage.
Special Ability SANDWICH MAKING (12) – Not impressive on the face of things, but she does manage to make a sandwich with ingredients so secret not even the Superhuman senses of her father can detect them

James Olsen as

kirby
Toughness 4 (a bit old these days, he’s getting a little “rusty”)
Intelligence 20 (the main man, he taught Matrix to be “silent and smooth” and just about everything else he knows)
Strength of Good/Evil 16 (obviously a hero, but could he have protected Jenny better?)
Plot Importance 10 (leads Arius’ henchmen to Matrix’s house…doesn’t actually do much – but is an important man for Matrix to trust)
Effectiveness 10 – (leaves inept soldiers Jackson and Harris to protect Matrix’s family…misses the action twice and is left with just bodies)
Special Ability THE BODY REMOVAL (7) – useful, but not particularly impressive.

Dan Hedaya as

Arius
Toughness 12 (talks a big game but doesn’t deliver)
Intelligence 17 (only mistake he made was kidnapping Jenny)
Strength of Good/Evil 19 (pretty badass but no Bennett)
Plot Importance 15 (is one of the main reasons for the film!)
Effectiveness 10 (doesn’t get his way and does very little damage – overshadowed by Bennett)
Special Ability THE HOLLOW THREAT (5)

Gary Cervantes as

Diaz
Toughness 13 (looks good on the seat, kills soldier)
Intelligence 3 (rookie move to confront the worlds angriest, most ruthless man, when a note would do)
Strength of Good/Evil 4 (looks like a bit of a ringleader of the violence, soldier killer)
Plot Importance 11 (tells Matrix what’s basically going on, allowing his quest to begin)
Effectiveness 7 (kills soldier well, but fails to talk Matrix round)
Special Ability ASK THEM NICELY TO COOPERATE (2)

piss ant soldier
Toughness 15 (fearless in the face of Matrix’s wrath))
Intelligence 1 (dumb but tough?)
Strength of Good/Evil 8 (just a job)
Plot Importance 5 (just there as cannon fodder, serve no other purpose but to die)
Effectiveness 10 (the grenade hurts Matrix, delays the eventual murder of Arius and Bennett)
Special Ability ‘WARM BUTTER’ THROAT CUT (13)

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  • Fucking Whore
    "THE SHIRT OF DOOM (6) blinds his opponents with his jazzy dress sense." LOL LOL
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