History Website / BadassOfTheWeek

* SamuelLJackson

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voorhees.html Jason Vorhees]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pajota.html Juan Pajota]] - Philippine guerrilla leader during WW2. As Cpt. Robert Prince of 6th Ranger Battalion, US Army put it: "The Guerrillas were our flanking protection at the Cabu River, which was no more than a mile from the camp... there was a sizable force of Japanese, but Pajota and his men just killed everything in sight that came up that river and across the bridge. They were the ones that kept this thing from being a tough deal for us."

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=116680329270 Hans-Ulrich Rudel]] - the most decorated WorldWarII pilot, and who flew ''2,500'' combat missions - more than any other pilot in ''history.''

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/arnauld.html Lothar von Arnauld]] - a WorthyOpponent who always followed the rules of warfare and still managed to become the most successful submarine commander of WorldWarI.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/onoda.html Hiroo Onada]], who fought WorldWarII longer than most people would consider sane.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tyrannosaurusrex.html Tyrannosaurus rex]]

* CulturedBadass[=/=]AnOfficerAndAGentleman: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/massoud.html Ahmad Shah Massoud]] was an Afghan freedom fighter whose guerrilla tactics forced the USSR out of Afghanistan. He then fought against the Taliban for the rest of his life because he strongly believed in democracy, religious tolerance, and equality, and he supported education, the arts, and women's rights.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/quarrelsome.html Wolf the Quarrelsome]]

* RatedMForManly

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/leomajor.html Leo Major]] - [[OneManArmy This man killed an entire town worth of soldiers in ONE Night!]]
*** And, his take on how he did: ''I fought the war with only one eye, and I did pretty good!''

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/millett.html Lewis Millet]] - Probably one of the few badasses who quit his own army at one point........''BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T BEING BADASSED ENOUGH!''

* '''RatedMForManly'''

* NauseaFuel: The quotation heading Mary E. Walker's entry, a viewing of battlefield surgery in the American Civil War, is... unpleasant.

* BadassIsraeli - Jonathan Netanyahu

->''"....so if you give a crap feel free to check back in next week to satisfy your insatiable desire to read about grown people punching each other in the mouth or beating each other about the head and neck in a most furious manner."''

[[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ Badass Of the Week]] (warning! {{NSFW}}!) is a website created by "Amazing Ben Thompson" in 2004, that exists primarily to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin provide weekly profiles of many and sundry]] [[BadAss badasses.]] The various badasses covered range from fictional characters such as [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], [[ThePunisher the Punisher]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] to RealLife badasses such as [[ColdSniper Simo Häyhä]], [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Saladin]], and [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]], to the outright ''bizarre'', such as [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beetle.html this huge-ass beetle]], [[LandDownUnder Australia]], the [[RevolversAreJustBetter S&W .500]] [[HandCannon Magnum]], and the [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/aggrocrag.html AGGRO CRAG]] (aka the '''AGGRESSIVE ROCK'''). The exact criteria for badassery vary, ranging from individual acts of ordinary heroism to face-melting acts of blind bravery and violence. Of course, being a face-crushing, scrotum stomping killing machine isn't required for inclusion, as the ManlyTears-inducing article on [[HotelRwanda Paul]] [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rusesabagina.html Rusesabagina]] proves.

Part of the humor of the site comes from its [[ShownTheirWork surprising historical accuracy]] used in conjunction with references to various historical figures in [[SophisticatedAsHell vulgar, irreverent language]]. An example of the former regarding the great Sikh hero [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babadeepsingh.html Baba Deep Singh]]:

->''This crazy-ass bastard is one of the most hardcore freedom fighters to ever live, and a dude so extreme balls-out in his insatiable quest for vengeance that something as inconsequentially-trivial as '''being fucking decapitated''' couldn't stop him from crushing his enemies to death with his nutsack.''

Another example is the Japanese warrior monk [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/benkei.html Saito Musashibo Benkei]]:

Or [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael.html Saint Michael the Archangel]]:

->''So one day God and everybody are chilling out and this fucking insane-o motherfucking demon busts through the pearly gates ready to kick fucking asses and making the lesser angels (the fat kids and Victoria Secret models) piss themselves.''

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shinohara.html Hiromichi Shinohara]]
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/rudel.html Hans-Ulrich Rudel]] - the most decorated WorldWarII pilot, and who flew ''2,500'' combat missions - more than any other pilot in ''history.''
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/joefoss.html Joe Foss]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hervor.html Hervor]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sandes.html Flora Sandes]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/yegorova.html Anna Yegorova]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/connor.html Sarah Connor]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shepard.html Commander Shepard.]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zeus.html Zeus]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/capone.html Al Capone]] - Who also had an epic rivalry with fellow badass [[ByTheBookCop Eliot Ness]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/edwardlow.html Edward Low]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/spartans.html The 300 Spartans]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/lighthorse.html The Australian Light Horse]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hussars.html The Winged Hussars]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sealteamsix.html SEAL Team Six]]
* BadassBeard

** The aforementioned [[http://badassoftheweek.com/hardberger.html Max Hardberger]].

** George Orwell
** Alexander Solzhenitsyn

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/curie.html Marie Curie]]

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/tesla.html Nikola Tesla]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mccoy.html Jack McCoy]]

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/solo.html Han Solo]],

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html Tom Wanyandie]] - A PapaWolf who kicked the ass of a literal MamaBear!

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/youde.html Yang Youde]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/armstrong.html John B. Armstrong]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/nansen.html Fridtjof Nansen]] - This man made Iceland's most hellish weather his bitch.
* BadassPacifist:
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rusesabagina.html Paul Rusesabagina]]

* BerserkButton: Ruksana Kauser

* BowtiesAreCool: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rusesabagina.html Paul Rusesabagina]] isn't afraid to rock the bowtie.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/oyama.html Mas Oyama]]

* ColdSniper
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html Simo Häyhä]] - Called [[RedBaron ''The White Death'']] by the [[{{Irony}} Russians]] during the Winter War for [[OneManArmy headshotting over 500 of their men]] with a non-scoped [[CoolGuns Mosin Nagant.]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/harrison.html Corporal Craig Harrison]]
** Carlos Hathcock

* ColonelBadass

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stabler.html Detective Elliot Stabler]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/molly.html Molly The Cow]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/autry.html Wesley Autry]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/woods.html Ron Woods]]

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/omari.html Anthony Omari]] - When machete-wielding thieves broke into the Kenyan orphanage he ran, he ran them off by chucking a hammer into their faces. When they came back the next night for payback, he dished out even more hammer-related injuries, while taking a severe wound to the face. Not that it stopped him from kicking their asses.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/luttrell.html Marcus Luttrell]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/onoda.html Hiroo Onada]], who fought WorldWarII longer than most people would consider sane.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babadeepsingh.html Baba Deep Singh]], who decided a trivial thing like [[OffWithHisHead ''being]] [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction decapitated'']] was not going to stop him from kicking ass.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/trenck.html Baron Frederick von der Trenck]]

* DyingMomentOfAwesome
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mototada.html Torii Mototada]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/donalejo.html Don Alejo Garza Tamez]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ranavalona.html Ranavalona The Cruel]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/viriathus.html Viriathus]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hideyoshi.html Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tomyris.html Tomyris]]

** William The Conquerer

** Peter The Great

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/washington.html George Washington]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wellington.html The Duke of Wellington]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael.html Saint Michael the Archangel]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/scaeva.html Cassius Scavea]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/caesar.html Julius Caesar]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/akbar.html Akbar The Great]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alitalib.html Ali ibn Abi Talib]]

* HeroicDog: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sgtstubby.html Sergeant Stubby The War Dog]]

** Jonathan Netanyahu

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger.html The Honey Badger]]

--->''Not only is he more drug resistant than Ozzy, but in the weeks after being fitted with a GPS tracker by an enterprising, stupidly-brave, presumably-deceased scientist armed with a ten-foot pole and a suit of +2 Chainmail, he summited the highest peak in Glacier National Park – 10,466 feet – covering the last 4,900-feet by running straight up a sheer cliff face in the span of 90 minutes. Through 20-inch deep snow. In the middle of January, when temperatures were in the single digits. His tracker didn't explain why, but we can only assume the answer involves teabagging the summit just out of principle.''

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rani.html Rani Lakshmibai]]

* MinoredInAssKicking

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wittman.html Captain Michael Wittman]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/funk.html Leonard A. Funk]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/lopez.html Jose M. Lopez]] The guy who singlehandedly killed over a hundred nazis in one battle, and stared down a Tiger tank. The Germans even resorted to calling artillery down on him. It wasn't enough.

* PapaWolf:

* {{Pirate}}:

* RedBaron

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/litvyak.html Lydia Litvyak, the "White Rose of Stalingrad"]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tlahuicole.html Tlahuicole]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/heemeyer.html Marvin Heemeyer]] - Who did it with the [[TankGoodness KILLDOZER!]]

* SerialKiller

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/quarrelsome.html Wolf the Quarrelsome]]

** [[http://gestaltmash.com/2010/07/thanos-badass-of-the-week/ Thanos]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pajota.html Juan Pajota]] - Philippine guerrilla leader during WW2. As Cpt. Robert Prince of 6th Ranger Battalion, US Army put it: "The Guerrillas were our flanking protection at the Cabu River, which was no more than a mile from the camp... there was a sizable force of Japanese, but Pajota and his men just killed everything in sight that came up that river and across the bridge. They were the ones that kept this thing from being a tough deal for us."

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[[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ Badass Of the Week]] (warning! {{NSFW}}!) is a website created by "Amazing Ben Thompson" in 2004, that exists primarily to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin provide weekly profiles of many and sundry]] [[BadAss badasses.]] The various badasses covered range from fictional characters such as [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], [[ThePunisher the Punisher]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] to RealLife badasses such as [[ColdSniper Simo Häyhä]], [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Saladin]], and [[CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]], to the outright ''bizarre'', such as [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beetle.html this huge-ass beetle]], [[LandDownUnder Australia]], the [[RevolversAreJustBetter S&W .500]] [[HandCannon Magnum]], and the [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/aggrocrag.html AGGRO CRAG]] (aka the '''AGGRESSIVE ROCK'''). The exact criteria for badassery vary, ranging from individual acts of ordinary heroism to face-melting acts of blind bravery and violence. Of course, being a face-crushing, scrotum stomping killing machine isn't required for inclusion, as the ManlyTears-inducing article on [[HotelRwanda Paul]] [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rusesabagina.html Rusesabagina]] proves.

* EverythingsWorseWithBears ([[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voytek.html Voytek the Soldier Bear]]) - If you were a Nazi, you were pretty much fucked.

* BadassAbnormal
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kefka.html Kefka]] - Go ahead, laugh at his [[MonsterClown clownish looks]]. He'll just turn into [[PhysicalGod an overpowered deity]] and waste you like he epically devastated an [[ApocalypseHow entire planet]]!
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/vader.html Darth Vader]] - How many badasses do you know who can choke the shit out of you over a camera phone?
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wolverine.html Wolverine]] - The Tv Tropes servers would implode from listing all the examples of the faces this guy wrecked.

[[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ Badass Of the Week]] (warning! {{NSFW}}!) is a website created by "Amazing Ben Thompson" in 2004, that exists primarily to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin provide weekly profiles of many and sundry]] [[BadAss badasses.]] The various badasses covered range from fictional characters such as [[StarWars Darth Vader]], [[ThePunisher the Punisher]], and [[FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] to RealLife badasses such as [[ColdSniper Simo Häyhä]], [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Saladin]], and [[CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]], to the outright ''bizarre'', such as [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beetle.html this huge-ass beetle]], [[LandDownUnder Australia]], the [[RevolversAreJustBetter S&W .500]] [[HandCannon Magnum]], and the [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/aggrocrag.html AGGRO CRAG]] (aka the '''AGGRESSIVE ROCK'''). The exact criteria for badassery vary, ranging from individual acts of ordinary heroism to face-melting acts of blind bravery and violence. Of course, being a face-crushing, scrotum stomping killing machine isn't required for inclusion, as the ManlyTears-inducing article on [[HotelRwanda Paul]] [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rusesabagina.html Rusesabagina]] proves.

** Ned Kelly