The 5 Most Awesome Fictitious Presidents of All Time!

There have been many actors who have portrayed the office of the President of the United States throughout the history of film and television. In honor of President's Day, I thought that I would take a look back and compile a list of the 5 most can-do, badass, hardcore Presidents who never were. So, without further ado I bring you:


          The 5 Most Awesome Fictitious Presidents of All Time!!

 

5. Dennis Haysbert--President David Palmer--24 

Jack Bauer's right hand man for the first four seasons of 24, Palmer was a man who knew how to get the job done while never compromising his principles. His biggest, possibly only, flaw was that he married a contemptible harpy. He is now happily retired and selling auto-insurance somewhere in the mid-west.      

          

                                                       

4. Bill Pullman--President Thomas J. Whitmore--Independence Day
President Whitmore was a former fighter pilot during the first Gulf War, so when the world comes under attack by aliens bent on destroying the entire human race, he's not just going to sit idly by and watch other people do the fighting for him. Just take a gander at the expression on his face in the picture above. Those aliens never stood a chance. President Whitmore will next be seen in Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me.

3. Harrison Ford--President James Marshall--Air Force One
This one should really speak for itself. Han Solo as the President of the United States!! After giving an aggressive speech about how the U.S will not tolerate acts of terror, the President's plane is hijacked by a team of terrorists led by Gary Oldman. President Han Solo then shows these terrorists zero-tolerance as he kills them off one by one. President Marshall can currently be seen portraying some sort of doctor in Tom Vaughan's Extraordinary Measures.

2. Peter Sellers--President Merkin Muffley--Dr Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Alright, he may not be ass-kickingly awesome in the same way that the other Presidents on this list are, but there is no way I could make a list of the "most awesome fictitious Presidents of all time" and not include Merkin Muffley. President Muffley did the best he could when faced with an impossible situation. A lesser President would have just fled from the war room in hysterics. President Merkin can currently be seen calling the President of Russia on the telephone, in the youtube video embedded below:

1. Tommy 'Tiny' Lister--President Lindberg--The Fifth Element
Here he is, the Most Awesome Fictitious President of All Time!! The man who once wrestled against Hulk Hogan as Zeus in No Holds Barred! President Lindberg presided over not just the United States, but the entire World. It is never explained how this one-world government came to be, but it was most likely created because Zeus's awesomeness was so powerful that all of the World's governments voluntarily handed over their power to him. President Lindberg has no fewer than TEN movies coming out in 2010, so you should be able to see him just about anywhere.