History MemeticBadass / RealLife

* r/[=BatmanArkham=], is the Website/{{Reddit}} sub for ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'', which went insane due to eight years without content. The sub is now nigh-unrecognizable, having devolved into a never-ending spiral of absurd running jokes about "Man", "Jonkler", "Is he stupid?", "Is there a lore reason?", and "Officer Balls". It would simply be seen as quirky amusement, if it weren't for the fact that the jokes there began spreading to other subs and even non-Reddit sites like wildfire, leading to a new meme in the community: that the sub, or "Aslume", is in fact an indomitable entity that shall conquer the entire Internet.

[[caption-width-right:350:Speak softly and carry a big stick..]]

* UsefulNotes/JoeBiden was originally [[MemeticMutation "Diamond Joe" Biden]], a combination of TheCasanova, TheStoner, ThePrankster and a ButtMonkey. Then he was elected President and became this after the anti-Biden phrase [[StealthInsult "Let's Go, Brandon"]] was [[InsultBackfire turned around]] into [[AppropriatedAppellation Dark Brandon]], a silver-haired man in a sharp suit with GlowingEyes who is going to [[ChewBubblegum eat ice cream and put an end to all your malarkey.]]

* Conservative Americans tend to place UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump on a high pedestal, jokingly or not, due to his accomplishments as POTUS (such as brokering peace between the Koreas) and his hold-nothing-back attitude. Recently, a Twitter account called [[https://x.com/trump_history45?s=21&t=Z53-MsE7UPjp0Qubcz70NQ Trump History]] has been made for nothing but this by using AI art to create images of Trump accomplishing great feats throughout all of history, from being one of the first people to step on the moon to helping the Greeks at Thermopylae.

* Among people on the left, President UsefulNotes/BarackObama himself is considered a Memetic Badass. Just LOOK at all the pictures and gifs of him on Website/{{Tumblr}}--singing, dancing, doing the Vulcan salute with Creator/NichelleNichols, the man can do it all.

* According to Website/NicoNicoDouga, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichiro_Suzuki Ichiro Suzuki]] accidentally destroyed the Earth during one match.

* Among many of his fans, Creator/ChristopherLee was thought of like this. Want evidence? Go and read the comments of this Website/YouTube [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84i82QxNk74 video]]. He seemed to be older and more cultured version of Chuck Norris. The fact that he really ''was'' amazingly talented in a lot of different areas (as shown on his page) just backs it up.

* [[UsefulNotes/IceHockey Chicago Blackhawks]] rookie Andrew Shaw reached this status within DAYS of getting called up from the AHL after a fight 2 seconds into his first shift and 5 goals in his first 9 games. [[Website/{{Twitter}} #ShawFacts]] quickly [[AscendedMeme ascended]] and now [[Website/ChuckNorrisFacts Chuck Norris]] wears Andrew Shaw pajamas.

* And... why has it taken this long for Creator/LiamNeeson's Beard to get mentioned? Liam Neeson's Beard isn't made of hair. Liam Neeson's Beard is pure adamantium. Seriously. Not even Darth Maul's Lightsaber could cut through Liam Neeson's Beard. [[note]] The joke arises from a deleted scene (which for some reason is not on Website/YouTube yet) of a scene from ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' where Neeson, when practicing choreography with [[Creator/EwanMacGregor MacGregor]] and [[Creator/RayPark Park]], didn't quite duck out of the way in time from an oncoming blow from Park's metal pole, which would later be edited to become his lightsaber, and it passed through the beard he had grown for the movie. The studio added the visual and audio effects anyway, and a video was created of a red lightsaber passing through Liam Neeson's Beard without it being harmed.[[/note]]

* GQ magazine's Website/YouTube channel has featured retired US Navy SEAL Jocko Willink in a few videos breaking down combat scenes in films depicting the US military. His general visage (buzzcut, muscles, square jaw) and demeanor scream "career soldier", and you can bet that the comments on any video where he appears have latched onto this.

* Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn Fanfic Writers. On Twitter, they've become memetically known for being unstoppable in their drive to write after some posts showcasing Author's notes in several fanfics where they write their fics even through surgeries, weddings, funerals, and natural disasters. [[https://twitter.com/onlyhere4louis/status/1447144802370277377 Here's a thread on it]].

** Red Bull's Sergio "Checo" Perez earns the fame as the Mexican Minister of Defense that helped his teammate, Max Verstappen to earn his first World Driver's Championship.

* Video game composer [[AwesomeMusic/TimAndGeoffFollin Tim Follin]] has gained a reputation among VGM and chiptune enthusiasts as a certified badass for his absurdly impressive compositions that absolutely blow any other works from his contemporaries out of the water for their sheer complexity and raw power, especially based on the limitations of whatever hardware he happened to be working with. Adding onto this are three key factors: 1) Tim had almost no formal music education and was entirely self-trained from a young age, drawing on his love for prog rock bands like Yes and Genesis as his primary education instead. 2) The games that Tim composed music for, regardless of whatever merits they may have or lack, are mostly considered to be undeserving of their soundtracks and seem in some cases wildly out of place, both for their tone and for how hard they go. And 3) Tim was known to almost completely disregard whatever game he happened to be composing for and focus instead on simply maxing out the capabilities of the soundchip he was working with to make it his proverbial bitch. In essence, every Tim Follin soundtrack is him flexing his skills like an absolute boss and leaving everything else about the game in the dust.

* UsefulNotes/JoeBiden was originally [[MemeticMutation "Diamond Joe" Biden]], a combination of TheCasanova, TheStoner, ThePrankster and a ButtMonkey. Then he was elected President and became this after the whole [[StealthInsult "Let's Go, Brandon"]] business [[InsultBackfire was turned around]] into Dark Brandon, a silver-haired man in a sharp suit with GlowingEyes who is going to [[ChewBubblegum eat ice cream and put an end to all your malarkey.]]

* Duct tape. Yeah, duct tape. What can it ''not'' do?! If duct tape didn't exist, the world would have fallen apart already. [[TheForce It has a light side, and a dark side, and it binds the universe together.]]

** And speaking of Max Verstappen, the dude had a very dominant run during the 2022 and 2023 season so much so that he barely does any overtakes, let alone backmarkers, whenever after he secures pole position. You can tell he's worshipped by fans because he has not one, but ''two'' songs dedicated to him: "Super Max!" by Pitstop Boys and "33 Max Verstappen" by Carte Blanq and Max Power.

** And speaking of Max Verstappen, the dude had a very dominant run during the 2022 and 2023 season so much so that he barely does any overtakes, let alone backmarkers, whenever after he secures pole position.

** Similarly, Creator/GrantMorrison might not only be [[ComicBook/TheInvisibles the messiah of the Apocalypse]] but is also a wizard who can casually summon a new girlfriend for himself or be worthy to be abducted by aliens from a higher plane of reality.