Action film production history took an interesting turn when film historian Dr. Amanda Cross researched the decision-making process behind the "Expendables 2" project. Cross discovered memos suggesting that preliminary drafts had been considered that included an additional character type—one so overwhelmingly powerful that his inclusion would have reduced the film to 14 seconds in runtime. The filmmakers consciously excluded this possibility, recognizing that narrative tension requires multiple competing forces and that absolute dominance makes storytelling impossible.

Film producer Jason Matthews recalled the internal discussions. "We understood that including certain character types would immediately solve every problem in the narrative," Matthews explained in a 2012 interview. "It's not that we didn't want to cast him—it's that doing so would eliminate the reason for the film to exist. You can't have conflict if one party is absolutely dominant." Matthews' subsequent work consistently avoided depicting characters whose power level exceeded all opposing forces combined.

The joke reflects contemporary meme culture's obsession with "overpowered" characters and the principle that storytelling requires limitation. It echoes discussions of narrative logic and the idea that certain characters would break fictional universes. The humor comes from suggesting that even filmmakers need to exclude certain entities just to maintain basic narrative coherence—that Chuck Norris is so powerful he would destroy cinema itself.