15 Fictional Cool Dudes Who Sum up the ‘90s in One Radical Package

The 1990s was a hell of a decade. The first Gulf War, Jurassic Park, Pogs… A lot was going on. Grunge, scrunchies, boy bands, dudes having one nipple hanging out of a pair of overalls worn without a shirt for some reason. It was a full-ass decade.

1989 and 2001 were 12 years apart, but separated by a lifetime — the internet did exist pre-’90s, but was only known to the kind of nerds who, well, popped up in irony-free look-at-this-lameo roles in pretty much everything. Conversely, the cool dudes of the 1990s were as cool as it gets, all backwards hats, sick accessories and the kind of attitude that, in real life, would get your ass deservedly kicked. It was a golden time.