Kinda curious if you've ever seen First Blood. It's not really a typical action movie and nothing like the other Rambo movies.
See my post earlier in the thread. It's obviously referring to Rambo 2 and beyond where it got constructed as hyper masculine patriotism
While true for some of those, not all those movies aren't the same in their portrayal of men:
First Blood is about a returning soldier being shunned by society and has a PTSD reaction to his treatment. He doesn't want to hurt anyone and is only trying to survive in a world that is very different from the one he left. Rambo is the most human character in the entire thing and it's only his friend and commander who is able to "take him out", not with violence but with a heart to heart talk.
Rocky is about an amature boxer being given the chance at greatness and being an underdog, acknowledged for not being smart, but being caring and loyal. He has compassion, when he's told to get money near the start of the film, he lets the guy go and then it chastised for it.... but even that guy acknowledges that he's a good guy. He doesn't fight anyone unless it's in the ring.
In both First Blood and Rocky, the violence is either in competition or as self-defence.
The rest, aye, I suppose.
Against read my earlier post.