It's simple, there's always going to be those characters that no one mentions, yet everyone recognizes from a movie. I was thinking about this the other day and thought of a guy who never gets appreciation:


That's right. It's the random truck Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Despite the fact that he bears a striking resemblence to Paul Hogan, it is not him (although the thought of Crocodile Dundee serving in the Third Reich would be fucking awesome), but that doesn't make him any less cool. People will always go about how cool the Cairo swordsman or the German mechanic were as far as minor villians were in that film, but they don't hold a candle to this motherfucker. In fact, it's not really even known if the swordsman wanted to fight Indy, or if he was just showing off his swinging skills to an already pissed off and dysentary-sick Indiana Jones. As far as the mechanic, well he is cool and all...but you take one look at the guy and you know he's a killing machine, he could've very well killed Indy if he wasn't so stupid to play around with him for so long.

But random truck Nazi doesn't fuck around. He takes his job very, very fucking seriously. We're not given any insight to the background of random truck Nazi, but given the way he handles things, we can only assume he was a tough son of a bitch. He decides to take action after the other 5 truck Nazis couldn't get the job done, even though one of them does give Indy a minor gunshot wound. While all the others casually approach Indy from the sides, random truck Nazi bravely climbs the top the speeding truck. In a very Indy-esuqe moment, he loses his hat and mutters "scheisse".

He slides his way into the driver's seat. Exploiting Indy's gunshot wound, random truck Nazi punches Indy several times in the arm before casually throwing him through the windshield. Indy narrowly holds on for dear life as random truck Nazi puts the pedal to the metal trying to squish our American friend like a bug. Indy climbs under the truck and out the other side to slip through the passenger's side, kick ol' random truck Nazi in the teeth and throw him through broken windshield. Unfortunately for random truck Nazi, Indy had already damaaged the front of the truck so badly before, that random truck Nazi had nothing to grasp. With one fell "WHOA!" he meets his untimely end.

Random truck Nazi died for what he believed in. He bravely died fighting for his country and his men. Although he didn't kill Indy, he showed the most intent to do so with the chance he was given, since so many others always seem to toy with Indy, so their deaths aren't nearly as memorable. In fact, random truck Nazi came closer than any of the main villians ever did and aside from the Temple strangler or the Monkey man, I can't think of anyone who came as close. Farewell you brave knight, you...random truck Nazi, for while the world may forget you for what you were, I'll never forget you for what you did...or came close to doing.

SoldierHawk is on the right path, these are mostly people from large franchises who don't get recognition because they're overshadowed by other villians in the movie. I would ALMOST say Bob from Batman, but he's got a pretty large following.