Rambo: The Video Game – Based on First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rambo III. Released in 2014 for Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3

There's still some of this discrimination going on, too. This is from 2010 and it's an anecdote, but it shows that long hair on males still isn't considered OK by some. McPhillips, Andrew (March 9, 2022). "Rogue Company Update Adds Rambo". Game Rant. Archived from the original on February 18, 2023 . Retrieved February 18, 2023. The 2022 Mountain Goats album, Bleed Out, references Rambo, in both the title and lyrics of the song First Blood, which asserts that ‘John Rambo never went to Vietnam’ in the chorus. Rambo III – Based on Rambo III. Various games released in 1989 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Sega Mega Drive, Master System, ArcadeThe Rambo film series also introduced and popularized the concept of the One Man Army in films, in which a protagonist is a well-trained individual who can defeat countless enemies by himself. Rambo's weapons also became part of American pop culture. Weapons such as the M60 machine gun and the bow became synonymous with the character. But it was his signature weapon, the survival knife that became popular, which led to an increase in knife sales during the 1980s. [ citation needed]

Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate brings Rain, Mileena, and Rambo". PlayStation Blog. October 8, 2020 . Retrieved October 8, 2020. Litsky, Frank. Mowatt Sidelined for Entire Season, The New York Times, September 1, 1985, accessed May 14, 2007. There is an alternative ending where Rambo wants to die and tells Trautman to kill him. Trautman does not respond. Soon after, Rambo hands a gun to Trautman, who proceeds to pull the trigger and shoot Rambo in the stomach; Rambo subsequently dies of his wounds. Trautman then walks away, leaving Rambo's body in the station. Sprague, Mike (June 12, 2019). "Stallone happy to return as Rambo if Last Blood is a hit". JoBlo.com . Retrieved June 13, 2019. Rambo has become the quintessential representation of America during the Reagan years. President Ronald Reagan referred to Rambo in public speeches to exemplify his political ideology and aggressive foreign policy. Towards the end of the 1985 Beirut hostage crisis, President Reagan stated at a press conference that: "Boy, after seeing Rambo: First Blood Part II last night, I know what to do next time this happens." Reagan often referred to Rambo: First Blood Part II as a model for his domestic and foreign policies. For instance, in his 1985 Labor Day speech, Reagan stated that he would clean the federal tax system "in the spirit of Rambo". [26]Holt, Douglas B. (2004). How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding. Brighton, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Press. ISBN 1422163326. This cookie is set by the provider Akamai Bot Manager. This cookie is used to manage the interaction with the online bots. It also helps in fraud preventions In all five films, Rambo is portrayed by Sylvester Stallone. In the animated TV series, the character is voiced by Neil Ross. Arthur John Rambo: Staff Sergeant from Montana, Vietnam War Casualty". www.honorstates.org . Retrieved October 22, 2021.

Rambo inspired the character named Yousef Rambu (an Arabic form for "Joseph Rambo") from a Kuwaiti action movie Second Blood (2016). [32] [33] Rambu has been portrayed by bodybuilder Abdulhadi Al-Khayat. [34] Rambo raids Victor's home, killing several guards and decapitating Victor. In retaliation, Hugo leads a group of hitmen to Rambo's ranch, where each falls victim to the rigged traps. Saving Hugo for last, Rambo mutilates him and rips his heart out as an act of revenge. In the aftermath, a weakened Rambo sits on the porch of his father's house, vowing to continue fighting and to keep the memories of his loved ones alive. During the credits, Rambo saddles up his horse and rides off into the sunset. This cookie is used to detect and defend when a client attempt to replay a cookie which helps to identify if the cookie is set by IT systems or a Human user. It manages the interaction with online bots and takes the appropriate actions. Among the Kamula of Wawoi Falls in Western Province, Papua New Guinea, Rambo was very popular in the late 1990s.In this film Rambo: Last Blood, eleven years after the events in Burma, Vietnam War veteran John Rambo lives in Bowie, Arizona, in his deceased father's horse ranch, which he manages with his old friend, Maria Beltran, and her granddaughter, Gabrielle. Gabrielle reveals to Rambo that a friend of hers, Gizelle, has found Gabrielle's biological father, Manuel, in Mexico. Against Rambo and Maria's wishes, Gabrielle secretly drives to Mexico to ask why Manuel had abandoned Gabrielle and her mother years ago. Gizelle leads Gabrielle to Manuel's apartment, where he reveals to her that he never really cared for Gabrielle or her mother. I always thought of Rambo when he was 16 or 17—I hope they can do the prequel—he was the best person you could find. He was the captain of the team; he was the most popular kid in school; super athlete. He was like Jim Thorpe, and the war is what changed him. If you saw him before, he was like the perfect guy. [14] David Morrell says that in choosing the name Rambo, he was inspired by "the sound of force" in the name of Rambo apples, which he encountered in Pennsylvania. These apples, in turn, were named for Peter Gunnarsson Rambo, who sailed from Sweden to America in the 1640s, and soon the name would flourish in New Sweden. The name Rambo was likely derived from a shortened form of Ramberget (a hill on the Hisingen island in Gothenburg, where Peter Gunnarsson was born) plus "bo" (meaning "resident of"). Today, many of his descendants can still be found in this region of the US. Morrell also felt that its pronunciation was similar to the surname of Arthur Rimbaud, the title of whose most famous work, A Season in Hell, seemed to him "an apt metaphor for the prisoner-of-war experiences that I imagined Rambo suffering". [4] Furthermore, an Arthur J. Rambo was an actual U.S. soldier in Vietnam, but he never returned. [5] His name can be seen on the Vietnam War Memorial wall in Washington, DC. He was granted the first name "John" as a reference to the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again". [6] [7] The 1989 film UHF features a fantasy sequence where the main character George Newman (played by "Weird Al" Yankovic), wearing a muscle suit, searches a Vietnamese POW camp for his kidnapped friend Stanley Spadowski. The sequence is a parody of Rambo: First Blood Part II. Teasle looks at Rambo, still smiling, but it's becoming more of a sneer. "There's a diner about thirty miles up the highway."

In the 1994 film True Lies, Helen ( Jamie Lee Curtis) says "I married Rambo", after discovering her husband Harry ( Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a very capable CIA operative. The film's director, James Cameron, co-wrote the screenplay for the second Rambo film along with Sylvester Stallone. After the violence at the camp and on the river, Soviet and Vietnamese troops are scrambled to find and kill Rambo. While they are hunting for Rambo in a forest, he kills a number of them using guerrilla tactics. Vietnamese soldiers continue to chase Rambo into and through a village. In a patch of tall grass there, Rambo sets a booby trap explosion that ignites a fire, burning many of the Vietnamese soldiers.

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John Rambo is considered a cultural icon. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] The character influenced many action heroes and films in the 1980s and 1990s. The John Rambo character became a prominent part of pop culture, and "Rambo", a word that can function as a noun, adjective, or a verb, became part of the English language. Perhaps more crucial from a cultural perspective, Rambo is a word that can be found in the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary. According to this source, Rambo is "a Vietnam War veteran represented as macho, self-sufficient and bent on violent retribution." As well, it is widely popular to use adjectives such as Ramboesque, Ramboid, or Ramboism, to denote an ideological position that resembles Rambo's attitude and behavior. During the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Stallone said he would continue portraying Rambo if the fifth film succeeded. [12] Grunberg, however, said that Rambo: Last Blood "closes the circle", hoping it would conclude the film series. [13] In September 2019, Stallone confirmed that he has plans for a prequel to the series; although he would not reprise the title role, he would like to explore who Rambo was before the war: Mendelson, Scott (May 22, 2015). " 'Rambo: First Blood Part II' Was The 'American Sniper' Of Its Day". Forbes. ISSN 0015-6914. OCLC 892320816. In 2013, a Cheetos commercial features a little boy (played by child actor Indiana Wilson), who is dressed up like Rambo, as he goes around blowing darts through a blowgun just by taking deep cleansing breaths and aim at targets all over town. [ citation needed] A Bollywood remake of First Blood was scheduled as of 2019 [update] to be released in October 2020, with Tiger Shroff, cast in the role of Rambo, expected to star in Hindi remakes of all five films in the Rambo franchise. [11]