| “ | Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth!? | „ |
| ~ Carter to Lee when he didn't respond to Carter. |
Detective James Carter is one of the two main protagonists (alongside Inspector Lee) of the Rush Hour film series.
He is an arrogant LAPD detective who disliked working with partners until he gets paired with Inspector Lee and they did not get along at first, but later became friends.
He was portrayed by Chris Tucker.
His Good Ranking[]
What Makes Him Admirable?[]
In General[]
- He and Lee stopped many villains and foiled their plans.
- He worked with the LAPD to stop many criminals.
- He saved Lee on occasions.
Rush Hour[]
- He investigates the selling of the C4 from Clive Cobb and arrests him, although he accidentally blew up his car, along with the C4, losing a lot of evidence.
- He reluctantly kept Inspector Lee out of danger under the orders of Warren Russ.
- He took a cigarette from a high person and told him it was bad for him.
- He willingly teams up with Lee to save Consul Solon Han's daughter, Soo-Yung who was kidnapped by Juntao and Sang.
- Although he and Lee didn't like each other at first, they started to work together and became partners and friends.
- He tried to explain what happened at the Foo Chow restaurant to Russ and took responsibility for jeopardizing the ransom for $50,000,000 for Soo-Yung's life by explaining to Han.
- He goes back on the mission to save Soo-Yung after being kicked off the mission by the FBI and gets Lee to come back after telling him the story of how his father died.
- He dispersed the crowd by telling them to exit the building so nobody will get killed by Juntao or Sang.
- He tries to save Soo-Yung who had a bomb vest strapped to her.
- He kills Sang who tried to kill Warren Russ.
- He saves Lee from falling to his death.
- While he rejected his position in the FBI and the badge given to him, it was because of how Warren Russ and Dan Whitney treated him and Lee unfairly on the case of rescuing Soo-Yung.
- He loses his selfish behavior and became more selfless by the end of the first film.
Rush Hour 2[]
- He and Lee try to investigate Ricky Tan and Steven Reign's counterfeiting business.
- He stops the chicken lady from killing a chicken.
- He and Lee work together with Isabella Molina to stop Reign's laundering through $100 million.
- He distracts the guards, helping Lee sneak past them.
- He saved Lee from being blown up by a tiny bomb in his mouth by taking the duct tape off him.
- He fights Hu Li and knocks her out unconscious.
- He tries to fight Ricky Tan who was in a confrontation with Lee.
- He also tries to stop Lee from killing Ricky Tan out of revenge, stating that it wasn't worth it and he'd only encouraged him to do so when Ricky Tan starts insulting Lee's father.
Rush Hour 3[]
- Although he shot Isabella in the neck, it truly was an accident and he tries to apologize to Lee.
- He and Lee try to stop Lee's brother Kenji who tried to kill Han.
- He and Carter make a promise to Soo-Yung to find the man responsible for the attempted assassination of Han.
- He and Lee fight off the Chinese hitmen and protect Han from being injured more.
- He saved Lee from being killed by Jasmine.
- He and Lee save Genevieve from being killed by the Chinese mobsters.
- He drops his gun so Soo-Yung won't get killed in the elevator wheel.
- He attempts to save Lee who nearly fell to death by Kenji.
- He defeats Kenji's henchmen.
- He saved Soo-Yung from her death.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Despite losing his selfishness in the first film, he still has moments of jerkishness, egotism, and arrogance after his development, such as sometimes mistreating Lee and not taking important problems seriously.
- He can be racist at times, especially towards Asian people, and even insulted Lee upon first meeting him, and once arrested 2 Iranians out of prejudice and 9/11 histeria, until realizing they're actually scientists who were researching cures at the UCLA.
- He is very reckless as he blew up Clive's car with a C4 inside and blowing the sting operation (although he was trying to stop Clive) and sometimes getting himself and Lee in trouble.
- He is lethal and aggressive as he brutally interrogated a French assassin and was willing to shoot him in the head if he did not talk and held the taxi driver, George at gunpoint after he insulted the NBA and Halle Berry and forced him to sing the National Anthem.
- He slapped an innocent man on the helmet riding a motorcycle to ride it to catch Lee.
- He was willing to let Warren Russ die at the hands of Sang after he dismissed him from the assignment of saving Soo-Yung.
- He sometimes blames Lee for something he did himself.
- He is perverted, as he joked about sleeping with Tania Johnson and asked what color panties she had on, enjoyed watching Isabella undress with binoculars along with Lee, and made the french actresses in the dressing room strip naked after lying about being their costume supervisor named "Bubbles".
External Links[]
- James Carter on the Heroes Wiki
- James Carter on the Rush Hour Wiki
- James Carter on the Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki
