Christian Bale
Best for: Steel-eyed determination
If you like your action heroes cold, hard and relentless, Christian Bale’s your man. His Batman in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight’ trilogy may lack the crumpled charm of predecessor Michael Keaton, but we know which one we’d rather have defending us from evil.
Key films: ‘Terminator: Salvation’, ‘The Dark Knight’, ‘Out of the Furnace’