Danny Trejo is een ekte ekte baas, de man heeft een heroïne verslaving gehad, was een echte gang member en heeft bijna 11 jaar achter de tralies door gebracht in onder andere de beruchte San Quentin (die als bijnaam de gladiator school heeft) gevangenis. Maar deze erg aardige Mexicaan word hier door uiteraard ge type casted door de film studio's en daarom vond de website ScreenJunkies het tijd om zes van deze karakters uit te lichten. Ironisch genoeg ontbreekt zijn rol als Geronimo in Blood in Blood OUt (1993) op deze lijst.

Trejo - Heat

I never realized that in Heat, one of the great crime sagas of the past...ever, he went by "Trejo," which, unless you've recently suffered a head injury, you'll realize is his actual last name. Zany, right?

Trejo is the wheelman for the big bank heist crew, but has to bow out when he realizes he's being tailed. Despite being his typically characteristic hard-ass self, we see Trejo in a very physically and emotionally vulnerable state as he lays beaten to within an inch of his life, asking De Niro's character to kill him as he doesn't want to live without his wife, who was killed by his assailants.

Sure, it demonstrates a soft side, but asking someone to kill you because you lost your wife is still insanely hard core. Imagine what he would have done to those guys if he wasn't gravely injured. It probably would have looked something like: