Who is your idea of an Alpha Male?

YUL BRYNNER!

Yup Brynner
Sydney Poitier
Idris Elba

I thought this was quite a good definition of a modern alpha male, and they are so much more likeable than the old version.

modern alpha male

My vote goes to Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson as he seems to be a loving husband and father, good to his fans, motivational and handsome!

Tom Hardy, so alpha!

Thomas Shelby as acted by Killian Murphy, Thomas is a proper badass, but Killian is a softy, kind and quiet,so obviously,a great actor!

Well I wouldn’t want a beta. There’s something very attractive about those powerful males. Donald Trump is not one of them, he’s a joke.

Ugh, I can’t think of anything worse.

And I think Trump would like to be an Alpha male and has been trying to be one, and likes to feel as though he is one, but actually I'm not really sure that he really IS one.

Even the term 'Alpha Male' makes me feel queasy. It would be someone I'd want to avoid, that's for sure.

No feminine side to the men I like.
I like a man's man (whatever that is)
Vinnie Jones, I suppose, I'd consider an alpha male.

Grandma70s

To me it means a male I wouldn’t like.

Me too!
Not interested.

I’d much rather have a man who’s not afraid to show his feminine side once in a while. An alpha male would be my worse nightmare.

Load of rubbish. Man is a man with all his faults too.

Sean Connery
Harrison Ford

In the animal world the Alpha Male is very dominant and only associates with females for mating, at others times he is often solitary. If he does stay with the herd he will drive off any competing males.

The antithesis is

Trump/Biden

I think Henry VIII fits the description. One who took charge. Or Henry V - the Shakespeare version.

Some of the men mooted here as Alpha Males, Gordon Ramsey, John Wayne would be my worst nightmare, personally having had quite a dominant father growing up, I wouldn't want someone who comes across as a subjugator. Ideally, as partners we should be equal and have different strengths and weaknesses, ultimately A Yin to each others Yang.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Bear Grylls, all that pushing the boundaries physically, I imagine feeds into that image. No that I ever feel inclined to watch him either.

I've only partially RTT.
But to me, it's a euphemism for bit of a git.
My neighbour describes her adult son as an alpha male, and I think she expects you to understand 'the code'.

Grandma70s
“To me it means a male I wouldn’t like”.

Exactly that.

And they always leave disaster in their wake.

Posters saying their OH is not that useful as we don’t know them!

I think some people are really mixing Alpha males up with their Number 1 male
You’ve got a Hero
You ve got a pin up
You ve got a leader
an alpha male is quite, quite different

Far north and chestnut your examples are leaders
Deedaa your example is a hero
None of the examples in the original post have anything to do with alpha males in the true meaning
The heading should have read “Who is your idea of your number one male”

An Alpha male is not normally a nice character He is bumptious opinionated full of himself the sort that talks over you and only sees his own opinion as correct Hates strong women The sabre rattlers Trump and Putin are certainly Alpha males as was Hitler and many other world leaders devoid of compassion or the ability to see others points of view
I don’t see Johnson as one he’s a bumbling shaggy ditherer who over eggs his leadership

As Whitwave says it’s the chest beater

“ On a fictional level George Clooney carrying the boy out of the storm drain in ER was definitely Alpha.”

So is an alpha male the same as a hero ?

Silver backed gorilla.

Any human male trying to imitate that chest beating behaviour is pathetic.

Donald Trump.