Sean Connery
When a young Sean Connery lived in Edinburgh, the city’s notorious Valdor gang targeted him. After he stopped one of them from taking his jacket, six of them followed him to a balcony—where he jumped them, grabbed one by the throat, and cracked his head into another.
From that moment on, the Valdors knew Connery was a “hard man” and treated him with great respect. Then he became James Bond.