100 Greatest Movie Characters: 43

"Tonight... you pukes will sleep with your rifles! You will give your rifle a girl's name! Because this is the only pussy you people are going to get! Your days of finger-banging old Mary Jane Rottencrotch through her pretty pink panties are over! You're married to this piece, this weapon of iron and wood! And you will be faithful!"

43. Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
Full Metal Jacket

A loud, abrasive Drill Sergeant with a penchant for insult and swears. Just like any good Drill Sergeant, Hartman has no problem with torturing his Privates (not like that, you creep). Unlike most, however, Hartman seems to get a much more sadistic pleasure out of torturing them (okay, if you're not going to take this seriously, just get out).

As Hartman reviews his new team, he takes an immediately disliking to Pvt. Leonard Lawrence, who he names "Pvt. Pyle." Pyle is more than a nuisance for Hartman, he's the worst thing to come into his life. Pyle is a misfit to him: he's overweight, afraid of heights, weak, and stupid pile of shit. Essentially everything he despises as a Marine.

Played by real life former Marine drill instructor R. Lee Ermey, Hartman is, while exaggerated to a degree, he's more than a realistic representation of what many troops in Boot Camp dealt with in the past. A violent, foul-mouthed man who will yell at you until you straighten up. Or die trying.

Defining moment: His meeting of the recruits. Wasting no time in whipping them into shape, he immediately insults them, intimidates them, and nicknames them. Not particularly in that order.