The ending of film “The Brave One”, when Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) eventually puts a bullet into the assailant’s head without any hesitation, and walked away from it like nothing happens, manifests the vigilante that exists in Bain’s mind vanishes at last. Simultaneously, the masculinity which transforms Bain to a “Night Walker” fades away with the vigilante, as well. Vigilante films have always been the mainstream films in Hollywood, especially after the catastrophic event 9/11. Interestingly, Sisco King considers some perspective in the movie as reflections of 9/11 in her analysis of “The Brave One”: “TBO deploys the rhetoric of trauma to construct and make sense of national history and identity, framing 9/11 as a culturally traumatic event akin to Vietnam in its destabilization of the politics of visibility and gender.” Nevertheless, I argue that “The Brave One” is not o…