Action fans everywhere received a roundhouse kick to the feelings today. Chuck Norris, a longtime actor and martial artist, passed away at the age of 86 after being hospitalized in Hawaii yesterday. Norris was known for many things, including movies like The Way of the Dragon and The Delta Force, cameos in everything from The Goldbergs to Dodgeball, and even his own Saturday morning cartoon.
But his most iconic contribution to pop culture is divided down generational lines. Younger fans know him as the subject of the classic “Chuck Norris Facts” memes, which lauded him as the most powerful man on Earth, like “Chuck Norris can believe it’s not butter,” or “There’s no such thing as evolution, just species Chuck Norris allows to live.”
