...and that reminds me of the most efficient way to bury a Texan government official: stick a pin in him then let all the hot air out, then fold him up and bury him in a matchbox.
The expectation is a fiction, so it doesn't matter which fictional hero is the expectation. Now, unlike this embarrassing reality, the fictional coward, Barney Fife, on more than one occasion, sucked it up, and stood up to the bad guys.
(Buffaloing = pistol whipping.)