On Henchmen
Every cinematic villan has at least one henchman. This employee is usually not a charm school graduate, a model or a scholar. Yet whatever we may judge in them as lacking, they more than make up for in loyalty.

They endure great hardships. I sense they lack affirmation from their supervisor and I presume, health care benefits.

Also, as burly and imposing as they appear to be, they are fairly easily defeated by the cinematic hero. Even a wiry hero is able to take down a whole slew of henchmen within five minutes of screen time.

The henchmen always seem to blunder their way into some easily avoidable snafu. They hit a brick wall after rushing too hard at the protaganist, who merely eludes them by stepping to the side. Or they end up in a big heap of fellow henchmen, caught up in a pile of arms and legs like a game of Twister gone awry.