6. Doc Holliday (Tombstone)
Now, no one’s arguing that a visit to Doc Holliday wouldn’t be cool. As played by Val Kilmer in the kick-ass modern western
Tombstone, Holliday is a heavy smoking, hard drinking, gambling badass who cracks the best jokes, gets the hottest women, and generally spends his day being the most awesome guy in the room. Unfortunately for anyone with a toothache, Holliday is also a dentist. Well, a sometimes dentist. He mostly makes his living playing cards and shooting people, only turning to dentistry when his poker luck runs dry. In the movie, he never once puts his hands into anyone’s mouth. At least not for dental purposes. And lucky for them. You see, besides being a man of many appetites, Holliday also suffers from tuberculosis, a highly contagious fatal disease that causes its victims to cough uncontrollably. Even in the Old West where most people’s understanding of science was limited to “vampires hate garlic,” people had sense enough to avoid seeing a dentist who frequently erupted into uncontrollable fits of coughing. No matter how charming he was.