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[Every Action Film Ever] Are these heroes all psychopaths?

I understand that sometimes people get killed, especially when they are ‘bad guys’. But damn- what’s with all the witty lines said to what are now corpses after these fights? Seems like these heroes really love killing.
gpt
To quote Dr. Perry Cox:

> You see Dr. Wen in there? He’s explaining to that family that something went wrong and that the patient died. He’s gonna tell them what happened, he’s gonna say he’s sorry, and then he’s going back to work. You think anybody else in that room is going back to work today? That is why we distance ourselves, that’s why we make jokes. We don’t do it because it’s fun — we do it so we can get by…and sometimes because it’s fun. But mostly it’s the getting by thing.

Talking smack in the face of danger is often a stress reaction, an attempt to manage the strain on the mind. People who *can't* cope in some way tend not to perform well in high-stress situations. If the hero loved killing, they wouldn't crack wise to take their mind off it; they'd just reload with a smile on their face (compare John McClane from Die Hard trying to keep his shit together in Nakatomi Plaza versus Zenia Onatopp from GoldenEye doing literally *nothing* to conceal how much satisfaction she gets from gunning down computer techs and strangling people).