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>>8920381
So is James Bond. Watch the Sean Connery and Roger Moore films. Everything Duke is applies. It's cheesy, but never ridiculous. He's not secretly a loser or a retard. He even fights his way into a movie set where they are filming the story of how he saved the world.
Austin Powers is is not smooth, smart, competent or sexy, but everyone somehow thinks he is. That's the joke
Duke Nukem is smug, cheesy, overconfident to an absurd degree, but he delivers, and that's the joke, in his universe he really is all that and more, singlehandedly saving the world multiple times, selling books about how he is so great, living a superstar life, fucking a ton of babes, etc.
You just expect irony where there's none because you are a dumb zoomer that uses expressions like "sexist" and can't really appreciate anything unironic and politically incorrect, welcome to the 90's pop culture where not everything was coated in two layers of irony and political correctness like today, heroes were morally upstanding and unambiguous, families were functional and united, and boys were raised to be real men.