@hungrier said in Manual trivia:
Anyway, I had to look up some of them, but from what I can tell, my thinking based on Rambo and Mad Max is confirmed
Indiana Jones - his name is in the movie titles throughout, with the others starting from the second movies of their seriesMad Max, same reasoning
e: Or I misremembered the Mad Max and Indiana Jones series
Well done. To clarify: the others don't include the character's name in the initial film. Billy Jack first appeared in "Born Losers", Gator in "White Lightning" ("Gator" was the sequel), Indy in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the Kettles in "The Egg and I", and Rambo in "First Blood".
I had originally included Trinity (played by Terence Hill), but sources differ on whether the character in the earlier film "Boot Hill" was actually Trinity or someone else, hence the edit.