Are You an Expendable?

Have you integrated the belief that you are a replaceable employee?

The Expendables is an American ensemble action thriller franchise starring Sylvester Stallone (2010, 2012, 2014) and paying tribute to the blockbuster action movies of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the golden era of Jack Welch. The films have been box-office successes. They are action-packed and fun.

The main characters are mercenaries who seem to have been raised and trained with the belief that they are expendable — and they surely have experimented its reality first-hand in the field.

“We’re both the same! We’re both mercenaries! We’re both dead inside!”, do we learn with James Munroe, a rogue C.I.A. agent and main antagonist to Barney Ross (the leader of The Expendables) in the first opus.

Maybe those mercenaries have indeed lost hope and have finally embraced the conception that they are what they are considered to be: expendable. But we trust that beyond the forceful, snappy and lyrical expressions that they use to show-off toughness, The Expendables, as team members, certainly don’t see each other as such: they have learned to know and trust each other through multiple shared adventures and they know their qualities and flaws. They know how they can rely on each other’s unique talents, they understand the…