John James Rambo was born on July 6,1946 and is a fictional character in the Rambo franchise.
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66 Facts About John Rambo
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John Rambo first appeared in the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell, but later became more famous as the protagonist of the film series, in which he was played by Sylvester Stallone.
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Morrell says that in choosing the name John Rambo he was inspired by "the sound of force" in the name of John Rambo apples, which he encountered in Pennsylvania.
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The name John Rambo was likely derived from a shortened form of Ramberget plus "bo".
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Furthermore, an Arthur J Rambo was an actual US soldier in Vietnam, but he never returned.
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John Rambo is shown to be prone to violence because of the torture he suffered at the hands of North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War.
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John Rambo has a muscular physique due to his time as a soldier in the army and his intense training regimen.
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John Rambo is an expert in surviving in dense forests against a large number of enemies due to his experiences in the Vietnam War.
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John Rambo is an expert in guerrilla tactics, weapons, and hand-to-hand combat.
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John Rambo enlisted in the US Army at the age of 17 on August 6,1964, although he states in John Rambo he was "drafted into Vietnam".
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John Rambo returned to the US in 1967 and began training with the US Army Special Forces at Fort Bragg, North Carolina under Colonel Samuel Trautman's tutelage.
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In late 1969, John Rambo was re-deployed to Vietnam as a member of a SOG brigade.
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John Rambo became part of a Special Forces Long-range reconnaissance patrol unit commanded by Colonel Trautman.
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John Rambo finally received his official military discharge on September 27,1974.
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John Rambo is picked up by Police Chief Teasle and dropped off at the city limits.
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John Rambo is charged with vagrancy and resisting arrest, and is sentenced to 35 days in jail.
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John Rambo flees, steals a motorcycle, and hides in the nearby mountains.
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John Rambo becomes the focus of a manhunt that results in the deaths of many police officers, civilians, and National Guardsmen.
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John Rambo then tries to pursue Rambo as he makes a final attempt to escape back out of the town.
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John Rambo, having found a spot he feels comfortable in, prepares to commit suicide by detonating a stick of dynamite against his body; however, he then sees Teasle following his trail and decides that it would be more honourable to continue fighting and be killed by Teasle's return fire.
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John Rambo goes to Barry's home but is told by his mother that Barry died of cancer brought on by Agent Orange exposure.
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John Rambo realizes that he is the last surviving member of his Special Forces unit.
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When searching John Rambo, Teasle discovers a large survival knife under John Rambo's jacket.
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John Rambo begins having flashbacks to his time in Vietnam when he was a tortured POW.
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John Rambo finds an old sack near a dumped truck which he uses as an item of clothing.
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John Rambo takes Galt's gun and radio, tends his own injuries, and eventually confronts the lawmen on the cliff above.
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John Rambo shouts to them that Galt's death was an accident, but Teasle tells John Rambo not to move or they will shoot.
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John Rambo says he wants no more trouble, and begins to back away, but the men open fire; John Rambo flees into the woods with Teasle and his deputies in pursuit.
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John Rambo is surprised to find any of the deputies still alive, and warns Teasle that it would be safer to let Rambo go and find him after the situation has calmed down.
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John Rambo is eventually cornered by the National Guard in an abandoned mine entrance.
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The men assume John Rambo is dead, but unknown to his pursuers, John Rambo has instead escaped into the mine tunnels.
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John Rambo eventually finds an old exit vent, near a main road from out of which the troops are clearing.
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Now heavily armed with an M60 machine gun, John Rambo destroys power transformers, knocking out the town's electricity.
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John Rambo sees Teasle on the station roof after destroying a gun shop and makes his way to the police station, taking out the police station's power before making his way inside.
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John Rambo reveals to Trautman how they were in a bar, talking about his friend's Chevy and driving to Las Vegas in it, when a boy came in with a booby-trapped shoeshine box.
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John Rambo had gone into the bar to buy beers when the box suddenly exploded, tearing his friend's lower body off.
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John Rambo then turns himself in to Trautman, and is arrested as Trautman walks free.
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John Rambo later meets Marshall Murdock, an American bureaucrat who is in charge of the operation.
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John Rambo tells Rambo that he is only to photograph the POWs and not to rescue them nor engage any enemy soldiers; Rambo reluctantly agrees.
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John Rambo is then told that an agent of the US government will be there to receive him in the jungles of Vietnam.
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John Rambo takes him to a POW camp where he is able to rescue Banks, a captive, killing a number of enemy soldiers with his bow in the process of doing so.
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When John Rambo calls for extraction, he is denied, as Murdock fears what will happen to him and his party if the American public learn about Murdock's activities and that American servicemen were still being held prisoner.
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John Rambo then asks him if he will take her with him to the US ; he agrees and kisses her, but they are attacked by some Vietnamese soldiers and Co is fatally shot by their commander, Tay.
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John Rambo kills the remaining guards and gets the captives into the chopper.
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John Rambo learns of the incident from embassy field officer Robert Griggs and convinces Griggs to take him through an unofficial operation, despite Griggs' warning that the US government will deny any knowledge of his actions if killed or caught.
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John Rambo refuses, having lost all faith in humanity at this point, but he is convinced by Sarah Miller to take them.
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Ten days after the missionaries are scheduled to return, their pastor comes to ask John Rambo's help in guiding hired mercenaries to the village where the missionaries were last seen.
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John Rambo agrees to transport the soldiers, then returns to his village and forges himself a new machete.
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When John Rambo stands down and tells the others to come, they follow without question with the leader in tow.
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John Rambo is seen walking along a Bowie, Arizona, highway until he sees a horse farm and a rusted mailbox.
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John Rambo is reluctantly led by Gizelle to the club where Gabrielle was last seen and confronts El Flaco, the man who last spoke with Gabrielle.
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John Rambo is immediately confronted, beaten and marked by the cartel, led by brothers Hugo and Victor Martinez.
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Enraged, John Rambo sends Maria away and rigs the ranch with traps for a confrontation, and later returns to Mexico to ask Carmen's help in finding Victor.
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Bollywood remake of First Blood was scheduled as of 2019 to be released in October 2020, with Tiger Shroff cast in the role of John Rambo expected to star in Hindi remakes of all five films in the John Rambo franchise.
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John Rambo was the captain of the team; he was the most popular kid in school; super athlete.
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Stallone has expressed interest in having John Rambo take refuge in an Indian reservation for the sixth John Rambo film.
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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.
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John Rambo has become the quintessential representation of America during the Reagan years.
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John Rambo film series 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.
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For example, John Rambo is rumored to have de-escalated the Bougainville conflict.
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John Rambo has been mentioned or referenced in many films, such as Die Hard, TV shows, cartoons, novels and comic books.
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The character of John Rambo has been featured in many lists of greatest action heroes.
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John Rambo inspired the character named Yousef Rambu from a Kuwaiti action movie Second Blood.
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