History Website / BadassOfTheWeek

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/zizka.html Jan Zizka]]. Notable that he ''kept leading'' his armies ''after'' the eyepatch became redundant, on account of becoming completely blind.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/haasteagle.html Haast's Eagle]].

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=206886827770 King Abdullah II]] – Current ruler of Jordan and career military leader. During a visit to Washington, the King found out that ISIS had brutally executed a captured Jordanian pilot. He immediately launched into Creator/ClintEastwood's revenge speech from ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'', and launched an ongoing series of revenge attacks on ISIS. He reportedly flew the lead aircraft on the first mission (which Jordan has officially denied).

* {{Megalodon}}: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=891929112476 Megalodon]].

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Wolf the Quarrelsome's article includes a 300 word paragraph analysing the meaning of the name.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=506519628414 Yakov (Jacob) Pavlov]] – The [=BotW=] website says it best: "One man. One building. One million Nazis." Led the defense of a key building in the Battle of Stalingrad for two months until the Nazis were annihilated by a fresh Soviet army.

* BadassNative: ''Too many to list.''

* BadassGrandpa
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html Tom Wanyandie]] - A PapaWolf who kicked the ass of a literal MamaBear!
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mmburugu.html Daniel Mmburugu]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/youde.html Yang Youde]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/whittemore.html Samuel Whittemore]] - This man was kicking ass for the British and later the colonies well into his eighties, ''[[MadeOfIron survived being shot in the face and being bayonetted thirteen times]]'', and lived to the ripe old age of 98.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/haasteagle.html Haast's Eagle]], the biggest bird ever to fly.

* AmazonBrigade: The White Tights

** [[http://http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackson.html Andrew Jackson]], again.

* SophisticatedAsHell

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

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Balls-out" appears often, sometimes multiple times in a single article. Even in the articles about women. Even in the article about the cow.

* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/johnpauljones.html John Paul Jones]] hasn't begun to fight and intends to go into harm's way.

* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: John Paul Jones hasn't begun to fight and intends to go into harm's way.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jubei.html Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi]], a samurai who may or may not have went 12 years as a ninja, and according to some legends wore an eyepatch like a pirate.

[[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ Badass Of the Week]] (warning! {{NSFW}} due to extreme language!) 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]], [[Comicbook/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/index.cgi?id=331896731212 this huge-ass beetle]], [[LandDownUnder Australia]], the [[RevolversAreJustBetter S&W .500]] [[HandCannon Magnum]], and the [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=635461029125 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 [[Film/HotelRwanda Paul]] [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=24092664445 Rusesabagina]] proves.

* AuthorAppeal ({{Badass}}es!)

* {{Badass}}: Everyone and everything listed.

** Khalid Bin Walid - Whom the Prophet Muhammmad dubbed [[RedBaron The Sword]] [[BadAss of Allah]]!

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/puller.html Chesty Puller]] - The most BadAss US Marine commander the world has ever seen.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackson.html Andrew Jackson]] - UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson, the man who [[MadeOfIron survived more duels and bullets than should be realistically possible]], and [[BadAss still kept kicking ass!]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tamerlane.html Tamerlane]] - Actually was called [[MeaningfulName "Timur The Lame"]], but he's called Tamerlane because he might have been a little gimpy, [[BadAss but he sure as hell wasn't lame.]]

* RefugeInAudacity (Many of the {{badass}} events depicted are more or less made of this)

* TrademarkFavoriteFood (for true {{Badass}}es)

* SerialKiller
** Elizabeth Bathory