History Main / WorldOFBadass

* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', the citizens of Berk have become battle hardened over generations of battling dragons. Hiccup is essentially a black sheep for ''not'' being innately badass (at least at first).
* ZigZaggingTrope in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. The world is indeed full of badass superheroes, but it turns out that ordinary people don't ''want'' superheroes around so they make them illegal. Many of the supers also wind up getting [[spoiler:picked off one by one by Syndrome's killer robot]]. The point is repeated a few times: "If everyone is super, no one is."

* Every noteworthy character in ''Manhua/RavagesOfTime'' is a certified badass, even more so than in the [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms source material]] and most adaptations. Keep in mind that "noteworthy" here means in excess of a few dozen characters, and the manhua has not even covered a third of the original novel!

* ''VideoGame/MordheimCityOfTheDamned'' is so much this, true to the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} source]] [[TabletopGame/{{Mordheim}} material]]. You have [[AmazonBrigade all-female]] [[DropTheHammer hammer-wielding]] [[WarriorMonk holy warriors]] [[ReligionIsMagic with supernatural powers]], conniving {{Ninja}} RatMen from a brutal empire under the earth, [[BodyHorror psychotic mutants]] and [[ReligionOfEvil deranged cultists]] who worship some ancient ''[[EldritchAbomination thing]]'' in a pit in the centre of the city, and a [[RagtagBunchofMisfits ragtag bunch of]] [[BadassNormal ordinary sellswords with nothing but discipline, gunpowder and sharpened steel]], all duking it out in a ruined city overrun by mutants, maniacs [[OurDemonsAreDifferent and worse]]. It truly is hell on earth, you need to be a badass just to survive a day, [[NintendoHard and even then not everyone is going to make it]].

** And even side-characters and civilian allies can step up to the plate without being bitten by a radioactive ''anything.'' J. Jonah Jameson may be a jerk but he won't back down from [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doctor Octopus]] when his people are in danger. [[Characters/MarvelComicsMaryJaneWatson Mary Jane Watson]] does ''not'' make a cooperative damsel in distress ([[AdaptationalWimp outside the Raime movies.]]) The X-Men's scientist friend [[Characters/XMenMutants Moira MacTaggert]] once pulled out a machine gun to battle a monstrosity calling itself Kierrok the Damned. [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] knows kung fu. The list goes on.

** Asgard, [[Characters/TheMightyThorThorOdinson Thor]]'s homeworld, definitely counts. The children are as strong as a Super-Soldier, and the average Asgardian can [[SuperStrength lift 25 tons.]]

* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim''. At first it seems like only a few people can really fight, but it becomes pretty clear that almost every minor character or random background extra could probably throw down with some bizarre fighting style or weapon if sufficiently provoked.
* ''ComicBook/SinCity''. Even the Comedy Relief bad guys, Shlubb and Klump, can withstand an explosion from close-range. Well, the Yellow Guy is anything but badass.
* ''ComicBook/LastManStanding'' is filled to the brim with badass characters. The only one who isn't is a RobotGirl, ironically.
* Jim Valentino's ''ComicBook/{{Normalman}}'' features the planet [[SdrawkcabName Levram]], where ''everyone'' has super powers. Everyone, that is, except the eponymous character normalman. And as the series progresses he gets increasingly badass [[BadassNormal without ever gaining super powers.]]

* ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'' and [[Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn some]] [[Fanfic/AForceOfFour other]] [[Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation fics]] set in the same FanVerse feature every single Pre-Crisis hero and heroine of ''Franchise/TheDCU'', including several [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Supermen]] and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Super]][[ComicBook/PowerGirl girls]], Franchise/{{Batman}}, several ComicBook/{{Robin}}s, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, Franchise/WonderWoman, the Franchise/GreenLantern Corps, Franchise/TheFlash, the entirety of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, Franchise/TeenTitans, ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes and ComicBook/InfinityInc, the [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Marvel family]]... and more.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. Justified, in that it's set post zombie apocalypse, and therefore everyone who's not badass is dead. Special mention must go to Michonne, Daryl Dixon, and Tyreese. Daryl beats a zombie to death despite having an arrow through his side, ''pulls the arrow out'' to shoot another zombie with, climbs out of a ravine and walks all the way back to home base despite his injuries, then gets mistaken for a zombie due to his blood-soaked state and ''shot in the head'' and still has enough left to throw off a one-liner before finally passing out. It's InTheBlood, apparently, since his older brother killed multiple zombies and escaped Atlanta immediately after [[LifeOrLimbDecision cutting off his own hand]]. Then there's Tyreese who can melee a swarm of zombies by himself with just a household hammer!!!...and survives!!, Then there's the bad ass action chick Michonne who wields a damn katana, and uses it ''very'' well.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', with a select few, is filled with these and is also a world of camp. The game ''is'' the SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' and the [[JustForPun tit]]ular protagonist is very much a [[DistaffCounterpart female Dante]]. [[note]]And now you know why fans [[FanPreferredCouple have a habit of]] [[CrossoverShip pairing them up]].[[/note]]

* Australia in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is a Country of Badass: the men fight everything they can get their hands on, the women have epic moustaches, and the girl scouts have been known to wrestle bears. The whole world still counts as [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Abraham Lincoln was the first]] [[KillItWithFire BLU pyro,]] [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent and George Washington was a spy.]] Also, [[BadassBookworm Shake]][[Creator/WilliamShakespeare spear]][[RocketJump icles]]. And [[JustForPun Kicasso]]. Oh yeah, and even a humble [[http://www.teamfortress.com/doommates/#f=4 taxi driver]] can make a powerful, Lovecraftian wizard back down.

* ''Film/TheMatrix''. You have rebels in {{Badass Longcoat}}s fighting against superpowered Agents who can take over anybody. And [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting Everyone knows Kung Fu fighting]].

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' is probably a ''universe'' of Badass. (Multiverse, really, but technicalities.)

* Many {{Cyberpunk}} novels e.g. Creator/WilliamGibson's ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'', Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/SnowCrash'', ''Literature/TheDiamondAge'' are like this. In a more or less {{Crapsack|World}} anarchy dominated by {{MegaCorp}}s where life is cheap some badass-y would be recommended for better survival rate.

* ''Literature/ThereIsNoEpicLootHereOnlyPuns'': The town of Durence is quiet, peaceful, and in the absence of much ambient mana, most of its residents are fading away into {{empty shell}}s. They did that on purpose, retiring there so that they could forget their pasts, and in many cases, so that the king would not bother to chase after them and arrest them, because antagonising the town is a colossally bad idea. Each of them is epically powerful, from Haldi the cheese mage who once ''destroyed the king's castle'' with a cheese golem, to Isanella, whose [[MakeMeWannaShout powers over sound]] let her disable a Royal Guard [[MamaBear for threatening her son]] ''before Isanella even speaks'', to Mrs Dabberghast the druid who can make the earth rise up in colossal thorn dragons and fill her enemies' lungs with ants.

* ''[[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' oh very much so! Ashley from ''Resident Evil 4'' even has one or two moments and she is a DamselScrappy.

* As the page image shows, ''VideoGame/SeriousSam''.

* ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'' has giant guns, nagical warriors, sword fighting, robotic soldiers, cybernetically enhanced women, homemade Flamethrowers, and dysfunctional yet badass teenagers.

* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', the citizens of Berk have become battle hardened over generations of battling dragons. Hiccup is essentially a black sheep for ''not'' being innately badass (at least at first).

%% * ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann''.

* ''Manga/BlackButler''. A whole lot of badass, for Victorian England. The [[BattleButler butler?]] A {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le demon, who can kill you with ''silverware.'' The Aunt's butler? [[spoiler: A {{chainsaw|Good}} wielding, red haired psycho, who just happens to be a [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reaper.]] The house servants?]] An ex-badass soldier, a ridiculously skilled [[ColdSniper sniper]], and one with SuperStrength. [[spoiler: The girlfriend?]] A [[DualWielding two sword wielding]] can of zombie killing [[spoiler: LittleMissBadass]].

* It doesn't matter what someone's archetype is in ''Literature/HorizonInTheMiddleOfNowhere'', because they'll be able to abuse the setting's [[ClarkesThirdLaw Sufficiently Advanced Science]] to be badass. Kimi, a dancer, is literally ''untouchable'' in combat. Shirojiro, a merchant, can fight giant robots ''with his bare hands''. Toori, a fool, is a ''bottomless'' energy well. Neshinbara, an author, can make ''anything'' happen just by ''writing it''. And they're the '''support''' types. Armed characters will do anything from be a shield, to cut anything they want, to summon legions of the undead instantly, to ground flying ships in single blows, and anything in between.

* ''ComicBook/SinCity''. Even the Comedy Relief bad guys, Shlubb and Klump, can withstand an explosion from close-range. Well, the Yellow Guy is anything but badass.
* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim''. At first it seems like only a few people can really fight, but it becomes pretty clear that almost every minor character or random background extra could probably throw down with some bizarre fighting style or weapon if sufficiently provoked.
* Jim Valentino's ''ComicBook/{{Normalman}}'' features the planet [[SdrawkcabName Levram]], where ''everyone'' has super powers. Everyone, that is, except the eponymous character normalman. And as the series progresses he gets increasingly badass [[BadassNormal without ever gaining super powers.]]
* ''ComicBook/LastManStanding'' is filled to the brim with badass characters. The only one who isn't is a RobotGirl, ironically.

* ''Fanfic/HarmonysWarriors'', a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, is an overall positive example of this, as most of the major characters are an {{Main/Expy}} of various characters and heroes from the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''.
* The [[MissingEpisode now-deleted]] ''Fanfic/SnowAngels''. Every single character kicks copious amounts of ass, such that even {{Muggles}} can [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out Cthulhu]].

* ''Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns'' [[FusionFic fuses two already-badass settings]] -- ''Franchise/MassEffect'' and ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' -- and turns nearly every NonActionGuy from the former into a bonafide badass. That includes [[{{Ambadassador}} Ambassador Udina]] (who has a PowerFist and an EyepatchOfPower), [[DeadlyDoctor Doctor Michel]] (who responds to Fist's goons breaking into her office by going at them with a buzzsaw axe), ''[[ButtMonkey Conrad Verner]]'' (who is at least able to hold his own in a gunfight!) and even [[spoiler: [[AGodAmI Niftu Cal]]]] (who can now seriously back up his claims of being [[spoiler: a '''BIOTIC GOD''']]!)
* ''Fanfic/TheReactsverse'', including its main component fics ''Fanfic/WeissReacts'' and ''Fanfic/LucinaReacts'' is this. Even the ActualPacifist and the [[LivingToy living plushie]] are a BadassPacifist and LittleMissBadass respectively.
* ''Every'' Franchise/KamenRider that appear in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'' count. Special mention goes to the fic's main characters: the central character of an intergalactic BountyHunter ([[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus Aran]]), an [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Armored Rider]] with profound self-loathing who often snarks bitterly at everyone around him [[spoiler:and at himself]](Mitsuzane Kureshima), and '''MOST''' especially the [[AttentionWhore self-centered]] SmugSuper CameraFiend BadassBiker ([[Series/KamenRiderDrive Gou Shijima]]).

* ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40k'' due to ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'''s over-the-top influences. It starts with Shinji and spreads throughout the cast from there.
* ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'' and [[Fanfic/KaraOfRokyn some]] [[Fanfic/AForceOfFour other]] [[Fanfic/SupermanOf2499TheGreatConfrontation fics]] set in the same FanVerse feature every single Pre-Crisis hero and heroine of ''Franchise/TheDCU'', including several [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Supermen]] and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Super]][[ComicBook/PowerGirl girls]], Franchise/{{Batman}}, several ComicBook/{{Robin}}s, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, Franchise/WonderWoman, the Franchise/GreenLantern Corps, Franchise/TheFlash, the entirety of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, Franchise/TeenTitans, ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes and ComicBook/InfinityInc, the [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Marvel family]]... and more.
* ''Fanfic/PoniesAndDragons'': Hinted at in the thousand-year flash-forwards, where Alicornhood has become a lot more common: Even ''Derpy'' has ascended; the Mane Six and Trixie are also confirmed alicorns, with Shining Armor's ascension heavily hinted at. Meanwhile, Gilda's become the griffin equivalent of an alicorn.
* Even some of the most minor characters of ''Fanfic/TheDreamLandStory'' could still kick your ass.

* In the ''Manga/OnePiece'' and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' crossover ''Fanfic/{{Justice}}'', this is implied to be a literal example, as Chopper finds out that there's not much, if any, genetic difference between a human from Earth and a human from the One Piece world, meta-humans and Devil Fruit users excluded, thus speculates that it's the environment of the world itself that makes even people like Nami and Usopp have physiques that have Superman seeing them as non-powered physical powerhouses.

* ''Fanfic/{{Coreline}}'': This is a standard of the setting. The ''mildest'' example of someone who has appeared [[SharedUniverse in the stories]] with an extra level in badass is an AlternateSelf of [[Anime/{{Free}} Haruka Nanase]] who works as a U.S. Coast Guard rescue swimmer and [[MadeOfIron shrugs off]] a surprise beatdown by [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Peter Griffin]].

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* ''Film/TheExpendables''. Besides the girl, [[AllStarCast the entire main cast]] is pure badass. In the second film, even the girl is [[ActionGirl badass]].
* The entire Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as a whole. But '''ESPECIALLY''' ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Special notice to [[BadassBystander the old guy in Stuttgart who stood up to Loki.]]

* In full force in ''Film/TheRaid''. From the tenants of the building to the police team that heads inside, every officer and gangster puts up some sort of fight. Even Tama's meth cooks break out some impressive martial arts when the cops run into them. ''Film/TheRaid2Berandal'' continues the trend.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. Justified, in that the strong dominate the weak, and only the stronger can protect the weak.
* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': Not to the extremes of other works, but there are a lot of courageous characters in the story. Everybody pulls off risky schemes to either save their skin or save others.
* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'': ''Everyone'' in this movie kicks ass. Not just the obvious Ethan Hunt, Ilsa Faust, and August Walker, but also Luther, [[BadassBookworm Benji]], The White Widow, Solomon Lane, and even Director Hunley get a fight scene or two. The only major characters who don't do any fighting are Erica Sloane (who never participates in field ops herself), [[spoiler: Julia, and her new husband]].
* ''Franchise/JohnWick''. Pretty much everybody in the setting are hitmen, assassins, bounty hunters, and all kinds of deadly killers from all walks of life who are part of a criminal underworld so vast, they act as their own law enforcement that governs themselves. Even civilians in the setting rarely bat an eye or panic that much when people start killing each other right next to them.

* ''Series/{{Alias}}''. Even relatively dorky characters like Mitchell got to save the day or make sassy remarks while being horrifically tortured from time to time.

* ''Series/TwentyFour''. Put it this way: Kim Bauer has fought off psychotic kidnappers, smashed her abusive employer in the face with a crowbar, broken out of police custody by setting fire to the transport van ''while she's in it'', fought off seasoned, bloodthirsty war criminals with a hot coffee pot, and more. In any other series? She'd be a bona fide ActionGirl. In this one? She's a DamselScrappy. That's right -- these are the accomplishments of the LEAST badass person in the main cast. And then there's Behrooz Araz, a doe-eyed teenager, who enacts some seriously badass [[ImprobableWeaponUser Shovel Fu]] on Day 4.

* Anything Creator/JossWhedon has ever done. (Except ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog''). You had to be badass to survive any of his worlds besides for that. One's infested with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer vampires, demons, useless Powers That Be, Hellgods and everything else]], [[Series/{{Firefly}} one is much like the Old West… with lasers, spaceships, compressed air instead of gunpowder and space zombies]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''. If your character can't be described as an utter badass, you are doing it wrong. You know that you are living in a World of Badass when the ''fairies'' are soul-eating {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and are some of the ''weakest'' beings in the setting.
* ''TabletopGame/FengShui'', naturally, since it's based on action movies, especially Hong Kong ones.
* ''TabletopGame/StrikeLegion'', where even the lowliest mooks with 1 in their stats are as good as the real life best in their fields, and things only go up from there.

* In ''VisualNovel/MajikoiLoveMeSeriously'', there are very few characters who can't fight, and many who take it to a ridiculous degree. The anime even opens with a war game including the entire school. The same event is also in one of the routes.

* Shock, on Stickpage.com, is a stick animation based in a world so badass, that ''[[http://www.stickpage.com/shock2play.shtml this]]'' is what happens when you want to apply for a position ''AS THE FUCKING JANITOR''.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', another of Monty Oum's creations, takes place in a world filled with supernatural monsters, magic, robots, ninjas, beast-men, witches, and [[BadassAdorable adorable ass-kicking angels]] with insanely awesome {{mix and match weapon}}s. The resident ButtMonkey easily decapitates 10-foot tall demon bears. Even the [[PreciousPuppy corgi]] is capable of beating [[MiniMecha Mini-Mechas]].

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' comes very close. Every character from top to bottom seems to get at least one moment of absolute badass, from the protagonist, to her {{Love Interest|s}} (and another, [[BettyAndVeronica and third]]), to a traveling show full of [[spoiler:minor [[MadScientist Spark]]s]], to some supposedly [[{{Mooks}} random soldier]] who woke up to find his airship on fire, to that ''[[PrincessesPreferPink pretty pink princess]]'' (fake, though [[spoiler:she's a noble too]]). Oh, and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070516 Mechanicsburg]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081105 managed to]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111214 clearly]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120824 stand out]] even ''there''.
* In the world of ''Webcomic/AxeCop'', if you have a name, chances are good that you are either a good guy with superpowers or a bad guy about to be destroyed.

* Lyle Phipps manages to invoke this trope in ''Great''. Everyone he interacts with is inspired to become awesome in what they do because of him.
* ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'' would count. Giant guns? Check. Magical warriors? Check. Sword fighting? Check. Robotic soldiers? Check. Cybernetically enhanced women? Check. Homemade Flamethrowers? Check. Dysfunctional yet Badass Teenagers? Triple - check.

* The Snafu comics by Bleedman; ''Webcomic/PowerpuffGirlsDoujinshi'', and ''Webcomic/GrimTalesFromDownBelow''. Like mainstream print comics, the two feature superheroes, robots, aliens, beings of supernatural origin, etc.; rightfully fitting this trope from the get-go, but the real icing on this cake of badassery is that the characters have all on their own saved the world and/or universe at one point or another, and are now all together in one continuity.
* ''WebComic/{{Noblesse}}'': Anyone ([[BeautyEqualsGoodness attractive]]) in the series will inevitably be badass: thanks to the [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Noblesse]], his butler, his butler's employees, plus their friends as well as their enemies who consists of EliteMooks and worse, many ''buildings'' have been demolished in their fights.
* Every named character in ''Webcomic/TheGodOfHighSchool'' is fully capable of kicking ass. Even the weakest characters are able to leave massive craters in a boxing ring as a side-effect of a single move. As for the stronger characters... well let's just say that entire ''planets'' aren't safe.
* The main setting of ''Webcomic/{{Dogfight}}'' consists of [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animal characters]] engaging in martial arts for the sake and meaning of justice. Pretty much most of the protagonists are martial artists with well-choreographed fight scenes that take advantage of their animal anatomy and psychology.

* ''Website/{{Neop|ets}}ia'' can be described as being a planet that wears BadassAdorable as its [[PlanetOfHats hat]].
* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': EVERYONE is badass.They take on an immortal HumanoidAbomination that can MindRape and mentally snap nearly anyone. But then again... Ones that deserve mention are [[Blog/SeekingTruth Zeke Strahm,]] [[Blog/WhiteElephants Robert,]] [[Blog/AReallyBadJoke Maduin,]] and Amalgamation Sage.
* The Internet itself is portrayed as one in ''WebVideo/{{Mission 404}}''.

* Every anime that WebVideo/CJDachamp reviews has the characters act as if it's a HoodFilm. Every character is treated as a stone-cold badass, or someone who wants to be one, willing to show disrespect to anybody else if it means being the best. Characters who prove themselves to be TheDreaded among badasses might be added to the Round Table of Black Air Force Activity, reserved only for the baddest of the bad.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', you can count the characters who ''aren't'' badass on one hand. Even most of the ones who don't bend [[BadassNormal make up for it]]. To wit, one episode opens up with a random ''old guy'' '''in a fight with a [[MixAndMatchCritters platypus-bear]]'''. A century-long world war, in which few people in the series aren't involved in, will do this to people.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' subverts this trope in terms of its franchise, but provides some justified exceptions. The main plot involves a brewing city-wide war between [[KungFuWizard benders]] and [[{{Muggles}} non-benders]], but, unlike its [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender predecessor series]], there are far fewer badasses in the world due to a seventy year stretch of peacetime and prosperity. The vast majority of the city's populace ''aren't'' fighters. They sit on the sidelines throughout the series. The police, who practice a rare art [[ExtraOreDinary known as metalbending]], are woefully outmatched against the military-strength Equalists. Even the Order of the White Lotus, who were the pinnacle of badassness in the original series, have become little more than mooks due to the long peace. The heroes and villains are the only real exceptions. The [[BadassNormal non-bender Equalist]] revolutionaries have dedicated training camps for their rank-and-file, and extensive financial and technical support to arm themselves. Meanwhile, the heroes only have extensive martial arts training due to their unusual backgrounds: two members are [[JustifiedCriminal former gangsters]] turned pro-athletes who lived on the street, another was given extensive self-defense training after her mother's murder, and the show's heroine is a KungFuJesus whose powers depend on martial and spiritual perfection.
* Cybertron, homeworld of the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''. Even the planet ''itself'' is badass, what with being a badass god, Primus in disguise. Even the least badass of Transformers is usually still a twelve foot tall car/robot hybrid with built in missiles and stuff. The least badass Transformers are probably either the Mini-cons (until they unleash their full [[spoiler: Unicron-given]] powers and become a [[spoiler: giant glowing green Unicron and battle the Chaos-bringer hand-to-hand]] or G1 Wheelie (except in the versions where he lived on a DeathWorld all his life and has a necklace made of Sharkticon teeth. And still does the annoying rhyming thing which was made cool).
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy wished that his life would be like an action movie. And like an action movie, things went from bad to worse.

* The entire cast of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. The ''least'' badass character would probably be the mutated flying CatGirl who can shoot electricity out of her hands.

* There is not a single weak character in ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo''. Not in the "major" category, anyway.
* ZigZaggingTrope in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. The world is indeed full of badass superheroes, but it turns out that ordinary people don't ''want'' superheroes around so they make them illegal. Many of the supers also wind up getting [[spoiler:picked off one by one by Syndrome's killer robot]]. The point is repeated a few times: "If everyone is super, no one is."
* In ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite'', pretty much anyone who isn't a ninja is a martial arts expert of some kind, from Whorephanage staff to living preschool-show puppets.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''. Their entire world arguably counts. They've got an elite team of builders who smash mooks in the most awesome way possible and can build ''anything'' to kick your ass. [[spoiler: Even the citizens count once they've got their creativity back, they can build gigantic mechs to kick robo-ass in the most awesome ways possible.]] Even the most ridiculously average guy could take out an entire highway of police cars and bikes filled with robots trying to murder him with [[CarFu Motorcycle Fu]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda''. Almost every named character is some kind of kung fu master and even those that aren't have their moments.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', the citizens of Berk have become battle hardened over generations of battling dragons. Hiccup is essentially a black sheep for ''not'' being innately badass (at least at first).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Every single inhabitant of Smileyland is a badass, from the juvenile delinquent with his own arsenal to the seemingly quiet fat ugly girl.
* Everyone in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' qualifies to be this as there are so many martial artists, demons, wizards, magical creatures and whatnot altogether.

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' a MegaCrossover [[FusionFic fuses several badass settings]] (''Literature/HarryPotter'', ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', ''Creator/MarvelComics'' and ''Creator/DCComics'', with hints of other fandoms) and has a considerable number of characters [[TookALevelInBadass step up]] and [[AdaptationalBadass outdo their canon counterparts for badassery]]. Since it's a CrapSaccharineWorld in the fine Marvel tradition and most of the main cast are Avengers or close to them, they kind of have to be, particularly since Harry, the main character, is considerably more of a WeirdnessMagnet than in canon.
** Also, a fair number of characters are Asgardians (including Harry - long story short, Thor was incarnated as James Potter), who come from a world with EverythingTryingToKillYou. While humans are noted to [[HumansAreSurvivors evolved for survival]], Asgardians are explicitly stated to have [[WarGod evolved for war]].

The World of Badass will occasionally, due to the comparably high JustForFun/HolyShitQuotient, overlap with the WorldOfHam and AdventureFriendlyWorld. However, it's also possible for this trope to be applied to [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack]] or {{Dystopia}}n worlds where every character is a badass out of necessity, see HadToBeSharp. This trope is not to be confused with WorldOfBuxom, although the two can overlap (see BoobsOfSteel for proof). If every badass is an ActionGirl, then it's WorldOfActionGirls. See also WorldOfMuscleMen.

* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Almost everyone relevant to the plot displays their badassery in one way or another. (Even Sakura, eventually.)

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': One cannot survive the tumultuous Second Age without being clever, a great warrior, a chessmaster or a believer in the PowerOfFriendship. This is a world where gods can sink entire lands under water, demons and other unknown horrors lie beneath Middle-earth, Maiar, the AlwaysChaoticEvil race is scarily efficient, you have graceful warriors like the Elves of Eregion and Lindon or the ProudWarriorRace Dwarves of Khazad-dum, Galadriel is an unparalleled warrior, and the most badass of them all, Sauron.

** Even ordinary people get in on this. Every time the Men take up arms against Morgoth's armies, they die in heroic rearguard actions and face-meltingly awesome {{Last Stand}}s, or lead crippling guerrilla warfare attacks. When the Dwarves marched while gathering King Azaghal's body away from the battle, their anger and sorrow was so terrible that Morgoth's soldiers didn't dare take the opportunity to attack them.

** Beren Erchamion: When his putative father-in-law sets him an ImpossibleTask ("Go to Hell and come back with a gem from Satan's crown, and ''then'' I may consider letting you marry my daughter!"), his reaction is basically [[RefugeInAudacity "Pfft, ''that's all'' you want for Luthien? I expected something harder."]] Sets out on a quest that is basically Frodo's journey into Mordor on [[HarderThanHard Nightmare Difficulty]], and succeeds!

** Luthien: RebelliousPrincess. Entered Morgoth's stronghold, danced before him, put him and his entire army to sleep with a single spell and casually walked out the chamber with the Silmaril from Morgoth's crown. Died and convinced the God of the Dead to revive her and her lover.