The Avengers are assembling but they wouldn’t have been able to without The First Avengers, Steve Rogers aka Captain America.

The first Jason Statham movie of the year, Safe, is out this Friday and for Action Hero of the Week this week we’re featuring one of his previous bad asses, wrongfully imprisoned race driver, Jensen Ames, from Death Race.

Recruited to take his dead brother’s place as the operator of an “avatar” alien body on the planet Pandora, marine Jake Sully becomes the leader of the Na’vi, leading them into battle against the invading colonists and marines.

Agent Dunham is sort of the brawn to scientist father/son brains of Walter and Peter Bishop as they deal with mad scientists, genetic mutations, time travel, alternate realities and other Fringe events.

He’s the best there is at what he does, but what he does best isn’t very nice.

A man of few words and bred for nothing but combat, Sgt. Todd learns the value of human life when he defends the citizens of Arkadia 234 from an assault by his former colleagues.

Getting into pit fights, out running enormous artillery guns and stopping maniacal villains is all in a day’s work for the world’s greatest consulting detective.

Raised like a dog by a vicious loan shark, Danny reveals his amazing martial arts every time he’s “unleashed” and eventually uses his skills to defend his adopted family.

Walking soundboard (and undercover cop), John Kimble, is the latest addition to the ranks of Action Hero of the Week.

She may only be 11 but Mindy Macready aka Hit Girl could easily murder you in a dozen different ways.

Taking the sensibilities of a cowboy into the outer reaches of space, Captain Malcolm Reynolds and the crew of the Serenity dodge the authorities and do whatever odd jobs come their way.