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2[[caption-width-right:240:In this world, all of this happening at once is an everyday occurrence!]]
3->''"If all of us are awesome, everyone is."''
4-->-- ''VideoGame/BillyVsSNAKEMAN''
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6In the World of Badass, every character is a badass. Even the daintiest girly-girl will be a butt-kicking GirlyBruiser. Even the scrawniest of nerds will be a BadassBookworm. Far from [[BlackDudeDiesFirst dying first,]] the black dude will be [[ScaryBlackMan the guy you least want to mess with]]. And you should [[ManlyGay probably just steer clear]] [[AgentPeacock of gay people altogether]]. Even that [[TeamPet adorable dog]] might be [[KillerRabbit tough as nails]]. May or may not be RatedMForManly, after all badassery comes in many shapes, personalities and sizes. Oh, and expect a few or ''everyone'' to have an AwesomeMcCoolName.
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8Obviously, this is a dangerous place to be and will often overlap with CrapsackWorld and/or DeathWorld not only because of said danger but also because such worlds [[AdventureFriendlyWorld are fertile breeding grounds for the]] BlackAndGrayMorality that so often inspires [[ShootTheDog true badassery]]. This can lead to AntiHero, AntiVillain and HeelFaceRevolvingDoor characters popping up at frequent intervals. Other common character archetypes include the CowboyCop, CrazySurvivalist, {{Determinator}} and BloodKnight.
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10Frequently overlaps with EveryoneIsArmed. Compare EveryoneIsASuper, HadToBeSharp.
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12If the protagonist of a World of Badass has a {{Love Interest|s}}, expect them to become (or, in some cases, start out as) a BattleCouple. If they have kids, it's [[PapaWolf best to avoid]] [[MamaBear messing with said kids]]. [[BadassFamily In fact,]] [[BadassAdorable the kids may well be able to take care of themselves.]] And a NonActionGuy or FauxActionGirl doesn't even ''need'' action skills and manages to be a badass other ways, often by being a ScienceHero or GuileHero.
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14The 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. If every badass is an ActionGirl, then it's WorldOfActionGirls. See also WorldOfMuscleMen.
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23* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8f4hpBGDYQ Stunt City]] deodorant commercial.
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27* The [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] world of ''Manga/Bastard1988'' is filled with badassery at every turn, complete with heavy-metal-themed names.
28* ''Literature/BenTo'': Every single character is MadeOfIron, otherwise they'd all be in traction.
29* [[CrapsackWorld Filled of crap though it may be]], ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' is this. Four out of five people in this world need to be just a little bit badass at one point in their life in order to survive it, and this includes [[CoolOldGuy old]] [[NeverMessWithGranny people]], [[BadassAdorable little kids]], and princesses (if only for one moment). If they still don't qualify as true badasses, then they're usually big time [[ActionSurvivor action survivors]]. And even under the most [[BreakTheCutie horrific circumstances]], people don't just stop being badass: [[TookALevelInBadass they merely shift from one state of badass-ness to another.]] For instance, Casca starts out as an ActionGirl, then had a brief period of [[spoiler: being a PregnantBadass]] which horrifically ended with the Eclipse and her [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going insane as a result of it]]... only to having glimpses of her former self.
30* ''Manga/BlackButler'' has a whole lot of badass, for VictorianLondon. The [[BattleButler butler]] is a {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le demon, who can kill you with ''silverware.'' The Aunt's butler is a {{chainsaw|Good}} wielding, red haired psycho, who just happens to be a [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reaper]]. The house servants are an escaped human experimentation test subject with SuperStrength, a ridiculously skilled [[ColdSniper sniper]] who can shoot anyone dead from miles away and a badass ex-soldier. The fiancée is a [[DualWielding two sword wielding]] LittleMissBadass who can cut down a horde of zombies.
31* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' takes place in the fictional Thai city of Roanapur, a city riddled with corruption, crime and violence, where gunfights happen in a frequent business, and almost every named character can kick all sorts of ass, whether it be with a guns, knives, or your clever wits. This is especially true if you're a woman. Let's just put it this way, in Roanapur, if you have a name, then you are a SURVIVOR.
32* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. Any named character who resides in Soul Society or Hueco Mundo is able to kick your ass. Yes, even the wimpy WhiteMage, and yes, even the guy who transforms into a pink pumpkin. To say nothing of the human characters, who with the introduction of the Vandenreich number among the strongest characters in the series hands down.
33* In ''Manga/Brave10'', the 10 Braves have powerful elemental magic abilities and everyone kicks ass in this series. Only Isanami is an exception, and not quite [[spoiler:since she is a GodInHumanForm]]. By the sequel, she is able to beat Izumo no Okuni with battle fans.
34* The entire [[PsychicPowers Esper population]] of Academy City in ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex''. And the [[FunctionalMagic Magicians]] are no slouches either. As well as [[BadassNormal some of the normal ones too!]]
35* Despite being a GagSeries, ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'' is populated by Badass delinquents like Fireball of Junior 2 and Hospitalizer of Junior 3 among other crazy things like a gorilla and [[MadeOfIron Shinichi Mechazawa]].
36* ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}''. You can't be non-badass and survive in a world where Devils go for a walk when they're bored, much less in a city where the yearly ZombieApocalypse is a fundraising event. It's good that DeathIsCheap, otherwise AnyoneCanDie would have slaughtered most of the main cast by volume 8.
37* The world of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' where everyone is a super-powered martial artist, and even the comic relief {{Muggle|s}} Mr. Satan/Hercule is a BadassNormal who can kick any non-powered human's ass (and a zombie horde....with his bare hand...as an old man who hasn't fought in at least a decade....yeah, that's ''Dragon Ball'' for you).
38* ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'': Half of the cast is borderline insane, while the other half is badass in one way or another. No exceptions. And since ''Durarara!!'' takes place in the same universe as ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', this makes sense.
39* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', 10% of the world's population is made up of mages, and there are surprisingly few {{Squishy Wizard}}s.
40* Miyuverse AlternateUniverse in ''Manga/FateKaleidLinerPrismaIllya [=3rei=]''. How much more badass is it? Even [[spoiler:eternal ButtMonkey '''''Matou Shinji''''']] is a legitimately deadly threat!
41* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is an interesting case, in that the premise doesn't sound like it's trying too hard to be cool, but then you are given [[BadassPreacher Scar]], Major Armstrong, Colonel [[ColonelBadass Mustang]], [[BadassFamily the Elric brothers]], [[BadassTeacher Izumi Curtis]], [[BadassNormal Riza Hawkeye]], and many, ''many'' more. You can count the number of non-badasses on one hand, even though it's a series with tons of characters.
42* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. Sure, not everyone is as badass as [[{{Dracula}} Alucard]], but that's like saying not everything is as hot as the sun. (Or {{Alucard}}.) Kouta Hirano's other work ''Manga/{{Drifters}}'' also qualifies. It's to be expected, when your premise is to take notorious {{Historical Domain Character}}s, [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade give 'em]] [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade an upgrade]], and [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny have them fight each other]].
43* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' is a non-CrapsackWorld example. It is a comedic anime about anthropomorphic personifications of various nations, with some countries, for example the superpowers, being rather childish. America calls himself hero and loves video games, China loves Hello Kitty and Russia considers everyone his friend and loves sunflowers. Still, they're superpowers and we also see America swinging a buffalo over his head as a child, China beating up the entire Axis with a wok and Russia being late to a meeting because he was practising to stop tanks with his body...
44** In the Hetalia Bloodbath 2010, Sealand, who isn't even a real country, beats a mysterious enemy who was trying to kidnap him, showing he is literally MadeOfIron.
45** Then there's Italy, who's always quick to raise the white flag when he gets attacked. But as Chibitalia, he once defeated the Turkish Ottoman Empire. While the charakters in Hetalia in general don't spend that much time being badass, it doesn't mean they can't be, if they want to.
46* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' played this so extremely straight it becomes a {{Deconstruction}}. Well, when you have a ''10''-something hired killer from a MurderInc ''family''… Specifically, the deconstruction is: What happens to the non-badass people? Well, they die left and right, and the police are pretty much useless against the evil Badasses.
47* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. By Stardust Crusaders, it's practically invoked as a law. Stand Users seem to be drawn together by fate. So if you're one, chances are your daily life will generally involve badasses.
48* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple''. Just about everyone except Kenichi to start with, until he undergoes TrainingFromHell.
49* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', even the weakest mooks that the main character blows through en masse have [[Franchise/TheMatrix Agent]]-tier SuperSpeed, and things only go up from there.
50* In the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' series, the world of Mid-Childa is a non-CrapsackWorld example. Generally, the rule is that if it comes from Mid-Childa and has a name, it will be able to annihilate you. It doesn't matter whether you are talking about five year old girls, ferrets or six inch cute mascots. [[TomeOfEldritchLore Or books.]] This is because a large portion of Mid-Childan population are capable of magic, and damn near anyone with that talent attends a WizardingSchool where advanced magical combat replaces your regular PE. All of this under the auspices of the galaxy-spanning MildlyMilitary SpacePolice that is so short on hands that they're willing to hire nine year-olds, as long as they can use magic--all the while the memories of a centuries-long GreatOffscreenWar some 80 years ago are still painfully fresh. So yeah, it may not be a CrapsackWorld, but only because all the badasses in it at some point decided that there had to be another way.
51* Ironically, Cephiro of ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' qualifies as one. ''Everyone'' the girls meet is some kind of powerful swordmaster or wizard, even though it was a land of utter peace and harmony not so long ago. Even Lantis, by necessity a ProfessionalSlacker because of the general peace, is seriously formidable.
52* In ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'', ''anyone'' can be a spy if you look hard enough. That little kid down the street? A HollywoodHacking specialist. The nice guy running the bubble tea stand? Sells bullets in exchange for blood, eyeballs, or cash. Even the dolphins at an aquarium can be spies.
53* This does not apply to the main setting in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' (which is modern day Japan), but the world Tohru and the other dragons come from definitely qualifies. In episode 2, Tohru and Kanna have an awesome DBZ-like battle with cool explosions, battle aura, and power beams. They call it playing/roughhousing, since they're only at what is considered a ''human'' level in their world.
54* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' plays with this. In a word where everybody has super powers, not all of them are fitting to big acts of badassery, such as simply attracting small objects. The series though focus on the group of in training super heroes that scored the highest grades on the entrance test, thus focusing on a group with powers such as SuperStrength, control gravity, create fire and ice, create various objects, having engines on their body, creating explosions and so on.
55* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Almost everyone relevant to the plot displays their badassery in one way or another.
56* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is filled with badass fighters and magicians. The residents of the Magical World can also kick ass.
57* ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' depicts a village in France where everybody, with no exception (children, old women and nuns included), is an assassin trained to mass-murdering or die in attempt. As just are the main characters, Mireille and Kirika and most part of the other characters as well.
58* ''Manga/OnePiece''. If you don't have a [[TouchedByVorlons Devil Fruit]] or do not already have [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower an inhuman degree of strength]], you're most likely to be ''just'' MadeOfIron. That's mostly the reason nobody usually dies in ''One Piece'' outside flashbacks, [[spoiler:at least until the Marineford War]].
59* Being a DeconstructiveParody of the {{Shonen}} genre, ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' is a world where monsters, aliens, mutants and city-leveling events happen on a daily basis, the only thing getting in their way being every kind of superhero imaginable only just barely being able to stop them. The titular hero Saitama is the most badass of them all, having God-mode level physical power capable of eliminating any threat with a single punch.
60* ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', a world where humans are more likely to be fighting along side of their Pokémon instead of just hanging back.
61* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' has this as a running theme in the Youkai World, where there is a pecking order based on how strong you are, and it's a ruthless [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]].
62* ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins''. Various characters within the series possess such incredible strength that massive amounts of destruction is quite common.
63* ''Manga/SoulEater''. Pretty much every single character who isn't cannon fodder for the kids' GottaCatchThemAll schooling is badass at some point in time.
64* In ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', you pretty much have to be this if you even hope of surviving in the Demon World, a place populated with [[PhysicalGod A and S Class Demons]]. Hiei himself [[LevelGrinding slaughtered over 500 A class demons]] in order to get himself to an S Class demon. To prevent an all out war between three nations, the Demon World had to set up an AsskickingLeadsToLeadership Tournament where the winner would be crowned king of the Demon World.
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68* TabletopGame/{{Chess}} gives us one of the smallest ever Worlds Of Badass, where even [[{{Mooks}} the]] [[BadassNormal un-promoted]] [[RedShirt Pawns]] can potentially force the [[SuperSoldier enemy]] [[ActionGirl Queen]] to retreat. Well, since everyone on the board is a OneHitPointWonder, this is pretty much {{justified|Trope}}.
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73* Really, any major super hero comic universe fits here. Creator/MarvelComics, Creator/DCComics, Creator/ImageComics, Creator/ValiantComics, Creator/{{Wildstorm}}, etc. They all have hundreds of [[SuperpowerLottery super-powered characters]] and [[BadassNormal martial artists]] running around planet Earth alone. That's ignoring the various [[CosmicEntity cosmic beings]] and [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien powerful aliens]] outside of Earth.
74** And even side-characters and civilian allies can step up to the plate without being bitten by a radioactive ''anything.'' [[Characters/MarvelComicsJJonahJameson 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 Raimi 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.
75** Special shout-out to those chosen to be Characters/{{Green Lantern}}s. They have to be badass ''just to qualify to get the ring in the first place!''
76** Asgard, [[Characters/MarvelComicsThorOdinson Thor]]'s homeworld, definitely counts. The children are as strong as a Super-Soldier, and the average Asgardian can [[SuperStrength lift 25 tons.]]
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79* ''ComicBook/LastManStanding'': The series is filled to the brim with badass characters. The only one who isn't is a RobotGirl, ironically.
80* ''ComicBook/{{Normalman}}'': The series 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.]]
81* ''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.
82* ''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.
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86* ''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]].
87* ''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]].
88* Even some of the most minor characters of ''Fanfic/TheDreamLandStory'' could still kick your ass.
89* ''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''.
90* ''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 [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Supermen]] and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Super]][[ComicBook/PowerGirl girls]], ComicBook/{{Batman}}, several ComicBook/{{Robin}}s, ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, ComicBook/WonderWoman, the ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps, ComicBook/TheFlash, the entirety of the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, ComicBook/TeenTitans, ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes and ComicBook/InfinityInc, the [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Marvel family]]... and more.
91* 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.
92* Probably the revamped C'hou in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'' qualifies, given that there are over 20,000 outworlders who have been selected by the gods to help them overcome the Black Tower; 50,000 live-for-combat skahs; city guards who are tougher than a good percentage of the previous two groups; and some of the G'heddi'onians, like the wizards who rule the city of Daarthayu.
93** Ironically, the four most powerful people on the planet (by a lot, actually) are [[BadassPacifist Badass Pacifists]] who only occasionally slide into (resolutely nonlethal) MartialPacifist territory.
94* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': Danny meets many, many superheroines.
95* ''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]]).
96* ''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''']]!)
97* ''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.
98* ''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.
99* ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40k'' due to ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'''s over-the-top influences. It starts with Shinji and spreads throughout the cast from there.
100* The [[MissingEpisode now-deleted]] ''Fanfic/SnowAngels''. Every single character kicks copious amounts of ass, such that even {{Muggles}} can [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out Cthulhu]].
101* ''Fanfic/TokimekiPokeLiveAndTwinbee'':This series proves that even High School and Elementary School students who also happen to be [[IdolSinger School Idols]] can become competent Pokémon Trainers, some of whom are even Champion-level Trainers or stronger to boot!
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105* 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).
106* 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."
107* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': Almost every named character is some kind of kung fu master and even those that aren't have their moments.
108* ''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]].
109* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Mostly downplayed as the Toads aren't particularly shown to be strong in general, but platforming is practically a basic skill needed whenever you're in the Mushroom Kingdom. Toad's tour shows that things like jumping across moving platforms several stories above the ground is something that Toads calmly go through on a daily basis. Just living with them ensured that Peach was able to perform impressive aerobic feats in a dress and high-heels. Mario, as a comparison, is incredibly athletic by human standards yet still struggles with platforming for quite a while.
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113* ''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.
114* ''Film/TheExpendables''. Besides the girl, [[AllStarCast the entire main cast]] is pure badass. In the second film, even the girl is [[ActionGirl badass]].
115* ''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.
116* ''Film/KungFuHustle''. The wimpiest guys in the film beat up a whole precinct of cops.
117* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. Justified, in that the strong dominate the weak, and only the stronger can protect the weak.
118* 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.]]
119* ''Franchise/TheMatrix''. You have rebels in {{Badass Longcoat}}s fighting against superpowered Agents who can take over anybody. And [[EverybodyWasKungFuFighting Everyone knows Kung Fu fighting]].
120* ''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]].
121* The ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' series. Even the women are manly, and ''Film/{{Predators}}'' has a doctor who seems inoffensive [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes but is someone to fear anyway]]]]. ''Film/ThePredator'' even has a kid who talks down a grizzled military man!
122* 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.
123* The ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series, complete with [[Film/TheTerminator a waitress]], [[Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines a veterinarian]] and [[Film/TerminatorDarkFate a factory worker]] becoming {{Action Girl}}s.
124* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
125** A grand majority of the characters in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' have flashy superpowers or kick butt in different ways. Almost inevitable for a film based on Marvel comics.
126** Plenty in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''; even a NonActionGuy such as Trask turns out to be badass.
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131* 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.
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134* ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'': Almost every character is a badass. Aside from the title character, his wife is a retired hooker who is somehow able to kill half a dozen assassins with a meat cleaver and a cauldron of stew, his wife's best friend is a spymaster of spymasters, the seeming DamselInDistress can kill men with her bare hands, and convince her former captors to pledge loyalty to her; ''her'' husband is one of the two greatest warriors in India. And on and on.
135* ''The Crest of Zabutur'' brings us the world of Mencu, populated with creatures called Serenghe. Given that [[EveryoneIsASuper all of them]] possess some form of elemental manipulation abilities, you'll be hard-pressed to find even a civilian who cannot hold her ground in combat.
136* From Creator/JimButcher is ''Literature/CodexAlera''. The humans are descendants of a Roman legion who '''all''' have ElementalPowers. (The [[TheCallPutMeOnHold one exception]] is [[BadassNormal way, way more awesome than most of them could ever hope to be]]) They share the place with Neanderthal-elves that [[BondCreatures bond with]] giant ground sloths and terror birds, telepathic yetis, 8-foot-tall centuries-old {{wolfm|an}}en with BloodMagic, and [[strike:[[VideoGame/StarCraft the Zerg]]]] the Vord, a HordeOfAlienLocusts led by a {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le [[LightningBruiser juggernaut]] of a HiveQueen. Other denizens include nature spirits that start to resemble {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and sea monsters that are about forty feet long as ''infants'' and tend to eat anything that comes close. Even the ''accountants'' can kick your ass.
137* Called out, and somewhat subverted at the start of Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'':
138--> ... self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed,... Like every other creature on the face of the earth, [Godfrey Waterhouse IV] was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo -- which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.\
139As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, [his parents] were the nicest you could ever hope to meet....
140* In Creator/HarryHarrison's ''Literature/{{Deathworld}}'' series, the planet Pyrrus is a literal world of badasses. Even small children have to learn to be incredibly strong, quick-witted, and deadly to [[EverythingTryingtoKillYou survive for very long on Pyrrus]].
141* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. If you intend to mess with someone here, make sure they're not harmless old men, witches, wizards, dwarves, trolls, Mrs. Cake, demons, gods, gnomes, D'regs, hairdressers, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Mrs. Cake]], werewolves, vampires, pictsies, heroes, [[RuleOfThree Mrs. Cake]], assassins, monks, Sir Samuel Vimes, Death, Susan Sto Helit, Lord Vetinari, the Luggage, or last, but not least, the Librarian ([[RunningGag and Mrs. Cake]]). It's a wonder that anyone else is left in the place.
142** Ankh-Morpork has The Shades, which is such a dangerous neighborhood that in ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'', the revolutionaries don't even bother building barricades on the Shades side, because not even the ''freaking army'' will go in there.
143--->'''Vimes''': "You know what they call a horse in the Shades, Fred?"\
144'''Fred''': "Yeah, Sarge. Lunch."
145** An entire ''town'' called Bad Ass appears in ''Literature/WyrdSisters''. Unsurprisingly it is the home town and base of Granny Weatherwax. Visitors to Lancre have been warned. Apparently a donkey once stopped midstream and refused to go either forwards or backwards. But that's their story.
146 ** Possibly a ShoutOut to Shea and Wilson's ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy, in which the Texan town of Bad Ass is a throwback to earlier ornery Confederate ways and has a robust attitude to all those northern carpetbagging liberal sissy notions such as desegregation. Bad Ass is an embarrassment to the rest of the USA, which uncomfortably realises that badass is how the rest of the world sees the ''whole'' of America.
147* Very few characters in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' are not some degree of awesome:
148** The [[LittleMissBadass twelve-year-old girl]] can demolish fallen angels and vampires without blinking.
149** The [[NonActionGuy tiny, nerdy little medical examiner]] helps fend off hordes of zombies.[[spoiler: And as of ''Skin Game'' is a Knight of the Cross with a ''lightsaber''.]]
150** The housewife is... well... [[KnightTemplarParent herself]].
151** The five-nothing, hundred-pound blond lady who looks like a cheerleader will [[CuteBruiser kick your ass]] and [[FairCop arrest you]].
152** The fairies [[TheFairFolk will steal your soul, then eat your face]].
153** Goblins are only seen briefly, but apparently vampires fear them.
154** Pixies are one-foot-tall hyperactive winged people... who recite the Rifleman's Creed, but with box-cutters.
155** The three Billy Goats Gruff [[spoiler: [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot carry submachine guns]]]]. The oldest of them took down three members of the Senior Council.
156** There is an [[spoiler:[[RuleOfCool undead polka-powered tyrannosaurus]]]].
157** The CEO of a security company? None other than [[spoiler: [[Myth/NorseMythology Odin]] [[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] [[PhysicalGod All-Father]]]]!
158** SantaClaus likes to [[spoiler:go riding with TheWildHunt]]! ''And'' is [[spoiler: a persona of the above-mentioned Odin]]!
159** And then there's the White Council of Wizards. They range from pretty dangerous under the right circumstances all the way up to PersonOfMassDestruction[=/=]OneManArmy. Oh, and pretty much every one of them is both a CombatPragmatist and a {{Determinator}}.
160* Creator/DavidEddings flirts with this trope from time to time.
161* Creator/JamesHSchmitz's ''Literature/FederationOfTheHub'': its society is purposely being manipulated in order to raise the vitality of the human race. Since the Hub's main exports are {{Magnificent Bastard}}s, it works.
162* Nearly everyone in ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' is a hardcore fighter to some degree. Those (few) who aren't make up with wits what they lack in brawn.
163* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' is the ActionGirl par excellence, but after looking at the rest of the cast, one begins to feel she's hardly remarkable in a universe that contains, among ''so'' many more, her parents, [[BadassAdorable her pet]], [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething her best friend]], her monarch, [[BadassCrew her subordinates]], [[WorthyOpponent most of her opponents]], [[IronLady those opponents' President]], {{Space Marine}}s, super-spies, {{Ambadassador}}s, an AmazonBrigade, and Victor Cachat.
164* 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.
165* OlderThanFeudalism: ''Literature/TheIliad''. The protagonist Achilles single-handedly pushes back the entire Trojan army back to the Trojan walls and is such a mighty warrior that Zeus tells the gods he's worried Achilles might [[BeyondTheImpossible break Fate itself]] in his desire to conquer Troy, Hector duels Achilles (he loses, but the fact that he's even willing to fight at all is awesome), and gets 2 books dedicated to him slaughtering people on the battlefield, Diomedes [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu wins fights with not one but]] ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu two gods]]'' and is described by the Trojans as being [[TheDreaded even scarier than Achilles]] despite the fact that he, unlike Achilles, [[BadassNormal is fully human and has no superpowers]]... Basically the only important character who isn't a total badass is Paris of Troy.
166* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'': World of Badass is an excellent description of Barsoom where the {{Mad Scientist}}s carry swords; the Damsels In Distress are likely to slip a dagger between your ribs and little old men can give the best swordsman on two planets a fight to remember.
167* The ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' series has badass characters in droves, ranging from {{Physical God}}s to {{Badass Normal}}s. Among the hundreds of named characters it would be easier to list who ''isn't'' a badass. Those would include... well... the Mhybe and Challice D'Arle. That's about it.
168* World of Badass is a literal description of what happens to the setting of ''Men''. There are only eleven people left on the planet, all men, and they are all '''incredibly damned awesome.'''
169* While not quite everybody in Literature/NoNeedForACore, it could be anybody. Your local alchemy shopkeepers also know how to whip up alchemical bombs, drugs, or other useful items on the fly. The seamstress might know how to use her enchanted needles to sew your limbs to your body. And a harmless gardener may turn out to be a seven-tailed kitsune druid with a cassowary companion.
170* With the frequent intermingling of gods of various pantheons and mortals in Creator/RickRiordan's ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and [[TheVerse the universe]] it shares with his [[Literature/TheKaneChronicles other]] [[Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard works]] you would be very hard pressed to find anyone who can say they aren't at least some form of badass. The main characters (usually demigods or magicians with various awesome powers) regularly fight and slay some of mythology's greatest monsters, and aren't afraid to tell the gods themselves where they can [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu stick it]] when their jerkassery and petty bickering gets too much. Even some [[BadassNormal completely normal]] humans without these abilities can claim to have done something crazy and/or awesome: such as a teenage girl throwing a plastic hairbrush at the ruler of the Titans, a [[PapaWolf dad]] strafing a mob of monsters in a Sopwith Camel after his daughter was kidnapped, or the title character's parents fighting monsters with a sword and a shotgun they ''literally just found'' not a few moments ago.
171* ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies''. Even ''[[TheDitz Lydia]]'' is decapitating "unmentionables."
172* ''Literature/PrideWars'': Pretty much everyone is trained to fight.
173* Anything ever written by Creator/JohnRingo. Whether the protagonist is a grisly military veteran, an average joe or a teenage girl, they're never helpless or overwhelmed, always aware of their surroundings, and pack copious amounts of grit, determination, firepower and, most importantly, GenreSavvy.
174* The ''Literature/{{Sandokan}}'' saga is set in such a world: Marianna, Sandokan's {{Love Interest|s}} (and later wife), is a MilitaryBrat who can shoot a rifle with the best and has no qualms hunting tigers; Darma, Tremal Naik's daughter named after his pet tiger, is actually more dangerous than her namesake, as tigers can't shoot; Tremal Naik and his old crew in the Black Jungle (of which only Kammamuri survived their debut novel) made a living out of hunting tigers in a very dangerous jungle; the Thuggee killed off most of Tremal Naik's fellow hunters, with their leader Suyodhana overpowering Tremal Naik in single combat (and he's [[PintSizedPowerhouse lean and short]] while Tremal Naik is described as tall and muscolar); and so on, with the title of most badass character being shared by Sandokan (who killing a tiger with a knife and came out on top in his DuelToTheDeath with Suyodhana, to cite two of his feats) and Paddy O'Brien (the self-styled [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Demon of War]], a small and fattish MadScientist who invented [[DeathRay a ray to ignite the magazines of enemy warships]]. It takes a ''cannon shell to the face'' to kill him, and even then he has the time to complain for the destruction of the machine he just blew up an enemy ship with).
175** This is actually a constant in Emilio Salgari's works, with ''Sandokan'' merely being the one to stand out the most for the sheer quantity of badass ''named'' characters: the science-fiction novel ''Le Meraviglie del Duemila'' has loads of ''unnamed'' characters that fly through the world in airships carrying what amounts to small ''nukes''.
176* Tellos, the setting of ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror,'' is very much this. It's a CrapsackWorld where humans HadToBeSharp to avoid extinction, and the vast majority of people are [[HeroesPreferSwords skilled duelists]] as a result.
177* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': Middle Earth's First Age is full of Elven Lords and Human Heroes. Just to name a few:
178** Fëanor: Explicitly stated to be the most clever and skilled elf to have ever lived. When Morgoth, the most powerful and evil being in all the world visited his home, he told the GodOfEvil in no uncertain terms to piss off and slammed the door in his face. Killed fighting seven Balrogs at once despite being sorely wounded and on fire for most of the fight. When he died of his wounds, [[{{Determinator}} his sheer rage and refusal to die peacefully caused his body to immolate into ash]].
179** Fingolfin: Defied Morgoth before his own gates, and actually managed to hurt him and maim him, though he was killed in the fight.
180** Then you have [[NobleBirdOfPrey Thorondor, king of the Great Eagles of Manwë]], who steals away heroic Fingolfin's body from Morgoth's own hands and also takes the chance to ''rake Morgoth's face'' using his talons.
181** Finrod Felagund: NiceGuy King of Nargothrond and Galadriel's brother. When a werewolf tried to eat his friend Beren, he broke free from his chains and fought the werewolf with his bare hands and ''[[ManBitesMan teeth]]''. His HeroicSacrifice was deemed so noble that he became the first elf in history to reincarnate in the lands of Valinor.
182** Lúthien: 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.
183** Ecthelion of the Fountain: Champion warrior of Gondolin and the original owner Glamdring, the sword Gandalf would come to use. Killed Gothmog, Morgoth's general and Captain of the Balrogs by impaling it on his helmet crest.
184** Glorfindel: Slew another Balrog by [[TakingYouWithMe tackling him off a bridge and plunging to their mutual deaths]].
185** Húrin Thalion: ''Thalion'' being the sindar word for "badass". Performed a one-man LastStand against an army of orcs and trolls and was only captured because he became buried under their bodies and his battleaxe ''melted'' because it got so soaked in bile-blood. Brought before Morgoth and offered "mercy", Húrin ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu mocks Morgoth to his face]]'' even in the face of a horrible curse that will affect all his family and descendants.
186** 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 Lúthien? I expected something harder."]] Sets out on a quest that is basically Frodo's journey into Mordor on [[HarderThanHard Nightmare Difficulty]], and succeeds!
187** Eärendil: Middle Earth half-elf astronaut. Sailing to the land of the Valar in the world's DarkestHour, he arrives to pull a BigDamnHeroes against Morgoth's flying forces with his own force of angels and giant eagles. Leading the attack, he personally shoots down Ancalagon the Black, a dragon big enough to shatter a mountain when its dead body fell from the sky.
188** Azaghâl, King of the Dwarves. Crushed under the body of a colossal dragon named Glaurung, but [[DyingMomentOfAwesome stabbed it in the belly with a dagger using his last ounce of life]], sending the wyrm screaming in pain back to Morgoth. Effectively saving his entire army in the process.
189** Rog, one of the twelve lords of Gondolin and head of the House of the Hammers of Wrath, led a counterattack against the forces of Morgoth and ripped the whips from the hands of the Balrogs and began beating them with their own weapons!
190** [[{{God}} Eru Ilúvatar]], who remains very hands-off with His creation for most of time, is so outraged by the arrogance and cruelty of the Númenóreans that he makes a single exceptional moment of direct involvement by destroying the entire continent of Númenor in a mix of the Sinking of Atlantis and the Great Flood. Eru Ilúvatar's divine retribution is so powerful that it literally changed the shape of Arda, turning the world round. [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty Not forgetting Sauron's treacherous hand in all this]], Eru smites the rogue Maia so badly that he can never again take physical form in the world!
191** 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 Azaghâl'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.
192* ''Literature/SnowCrash''. You have Hiro the {{Determinator}} pizza delivery boy[=/=]PlayfulHacker[=/=]MasterSwordsman who takes out an aircraft carrier singlehandedly when the crew refuse to listen to [[{{BFG}} Reason]]. You have Y.T the teenage skateboard courier who takes no shit from anyone and has enough self-defence gear to take out an entire FBI hit team by herself. You have Raven the PsychoForHire BadassBiker with glass knives and a nuclear bomb in the sidecar that is tied to his vitals. You have Uncle Enzo, TheDon who [[spoiler:fights and probably kills Raven with just a straight razor and his wits]], you have Ng the HandicappedBadass who uses a modified 30-ton airport firetruck with Internet access as his "wheelchair", and you have Juanita the [[NerdsAreSexy hot nerd]] who can literally hack into your brain. Even characters who only appear for a few pages are completely awesome.
193* ''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 [[MakeSomeNoise 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.
194--> Mr Jones was a nice man and if Quiss ever felt the need to die slowly and painfully by having spawn, he wouldn't mind Mr Jones teaching them. He baked cookies, listened to students, never had a student fail since he took over in the last 5 years. It was the only hope this community had of reaching a standard education.\
195Quiss also knew the man was hearty. He confiscated a black wand from a student yesterday. In a town like this, magical weapons were a dime a dozen and outside of this town, they would all sell for a small kingdom's annual income.\
196Thankfully, Mr Jones dispatched the skeleton army the brat raised before history class was over and had a stern talk with the mother of the student, the Black Bog Witch who was now the town's glass and Metal crafts shop owner.\
197The woman could make cauldrons like no one's business. How she managed to make them of clay she kept to herself.\
198Mr Jones was alright in Quiss' book. The fact he was a Knowledge Demon from the 142nd layer of the abyss didn't make the clean shirt and nice tie any less attractive. Many women and men had often fought with their spouse about who got to go to the parent-teacher meeting to stare at his straight teeth and ''lovely'' hair.
199* In order to be a Literature/TimeScout, you have to be a badass. Hell, just to associate with a time scout will probably require you to be a badass. The only people who aren't badasses are tourists. They're just kind of annoying.
200* ''Literature/TheTraitorSonCycle'': vast majority of the characters belong to one army or another, and in this world, human armies have to contend with the Wild creatures, who all have either sharp teeth, sharp claws, advantage of mass and height, awesome magic abilities or all of this at once. Even the civillians are more likely than not to be sorcerers of serious power, and the dragons are just short of PhysicalGod - and they still get killed by the {{Badass Normal}}s.
201* ''Literature/WarriorCats''. Yes, nearly every single one of the 700-some characters is trained to fight and can hold their own in a battle. (Except the kittypets, but some of them are pretty basass too.)
202* ''Literature/TheWitchlands'' sometimes feel like they're populated solely by either {{Badass Normal}}s or witches. Granted, there are civillians mentioned from time to time, but if a character gets a name, they're a badass - no exceptions.
203* ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' is a {{justified|Trope}} example. Nearly all of the survivors have stories of badass survival, from which one can infer that non-badasses could not survive the ZombieApocalypse.
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207* ''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.
208* ''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.
209* ''Series/BabylonFive'': This is a show that has diplomats that can endure torture, break chains, personally command battle fleets, or even out -- [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] multi-million year old space demons. It also has an outpost commander who goes back in time and becomes a MessianicArchetype. Not to mention {{Battle Butler}}s that can pick up a man with one hand or fiendishly arrange for the prisoners to be lost in paperwork and found somewhere where they won't be exterminated.
210* In ''Series/{{Banshee}}'', even the weakest characters tend to be MadeOfIron. The strongest tend to be a OneManArmy.
211* The Doctor of ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a habit of making his companions badass. Over the course of series 6 alone, Amy Pond goes from a flirtatious FieryRedhead to a full on ActionGirl, while her husband has broken the badass scale because he has [[TookALevelInBadass taken so many levels.]] And that's not taking into account the other 40-odd years of continuity. Let's face it, the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} is as much a World of Badass as it is a WorldOfHam. Considering that the Whoniverse is full of [[TheMaster god-like psychopaths]], {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s, Time-Traveling mutant [[ExaggeratedTrope Super]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Nazis]] in flying {{mini|Mecha}}tanks, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and other baddies like flesh-eating shadows, there's no wonder it's this trope. The ''least'' badass character would be a tin dog, and even he wields a built in gun.
212* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'''s significant characters include a BadassBookworm hero who can build {{doomsday device}}s, one pregnant badass who guns down enemies in hard labor and another pregnant badass who heads up an armada, a villain who's TooKinkyToTorture, a priest who used to be an [[HitmanWithAHeart assassin]], a CuteBruiser with a fondness for {{groin attack}}s, and a BadassBureaucrat who survives three {{bad boss}}es. Even a [[TheScrappy scrappy]] in this [[TheVerse verse]] will be able to melt metal with her screams or mystically survive molecular dispersement.
213* ''Series/GameOfThrones''. [[DecadentCourt Westerosi politics can be very hazardous to your health]], so if you aren't a great fighter, thinker, schemer and[=/=]or liar, you will certainly wind up with your name on the death list.
214* In the {{Toku}}satsu ''Series/{{GARO}}'', the Makai, a hidden civilization of demon hunters, is clearly this. Be it Priest or Knight or any other entity that hails from or connected to it, you're pretty much going to be powerful and badass.
215* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''. Almost every character in this show, be they princess, middle-aged mother, or barmaid, seems to be a rather good fighter. (Salmoneus may be an exception.) This rule seems to also apply (perhaps to a lesser degree) to the spinoff ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''.
216* ''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 that lie beneath Middle-earth, Maiar wandering among the creatures of Middle-earth, the AlwaysChaoticEvil Orcs are scarily efficient, you have graceful warriors like the Elves of Eregion and Lindon or the ProudWarriorRace Dwarves of Khazad-dum, Galadriel being Xena-like warrior, and Sauron, the most infamous badass of the Second age ,is about to screw over everyone for the centuries to come.
217* Everyone in ''Series/{{Lost}}'' gets their badass moment.
218* The cast of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' is comprised of a Badass Wizard (Merlin), a BadassNormal (Arthur), a PrettyPrincessPowerhouse (Morgana), a [[DamselOutOfDistress Badass Damsel]] (Guinevere), a CoolOldGuy (Gaius), a [[RankScalesWithAsskicking Badass King]] (Uther), a HeartbrokenBadass (Lancelot), and a BadassCrew (the Knights of the Round Table). Oh, and a giant fire-breathing dragon.
219* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Where the most seemingly harmless member of the team can kill you without leaving a single trace. Again, this is also broadly true on ''Series/{{JAG}}'' & ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' as well.
220* ''Series/{{Nikita}}''. Seriously. The {{Deuteragonist}} is an ex-SexSlave turned sniping, shotgun-wielding CombatPragmatist ActionGirl. TheSmartGuy can call on {{Attack Drone}}s and isn't shabby in melee either.
221* ''Series/{{Pizza}}'': Australia is a dangerous place to run a pizza place.
222* ''Series/PrisonBreak'': If you didn't become a badass on ''Prison Break'' then most likely you would end up dead.
223* ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'': Given the plateau is a DeathWorld, what else could the world be?
224* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Being the first fully-fleshed out live action version of Franchise/TheDCU, Smallville quite naturally evolved into a ''massive'' example of this trope. First of all, it's centered around the future Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}}, young Clark Kent, along with BadassNormal characters like [[Characters/SupermanLexLuthor Lex Luthor]], [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]], and Jonathan Kent. And then we get other superheroes like ComicBook/GreenArrow and the rest of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, along with many of DC's supervillains. Put it this way, almost every main or recurring character (and even most of the one-shot characters) either ''are'' badass already, or ''become'' badass with CharacterDevelopment.
225* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'': Basically any character that ''isn't'' a badass is just there for decoration. Virtually every character of note kills somebody. The result is an AnyoneCanDie situation, since the entire show pretty much amounts to a bunch of badasses all trying to kill each other. ''Spartacus'' is notable not just for the sheer number of badass characters, but also for their variety. Relevant types include ActionGirl (Mira and Saxa), CoolOldGuy (Lucius), DarkActionGirl (Naevia, of all people), DreadlockWarrior (Barca), GeniusBruiser (Spartacus), HandicappedBadass (Ashur), HeartbrokenBadass (most of them), OneManArmy (Caesar), PregnantBadass (Lucretia and Illithyia), ScaryBlackMan (Doctore), and SilkHidingSteel (Sura and Aurelia).
226* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': The Pegasus Galaxy is not a safe place to live. After millennia of the Wraith treating the entire galaxy like a [=McDonald=]'s drive-through, even noncombatants have to be badass to survive. Any given day in Atlantis could turn up something new and horrible to kill you, but every single person on Atlantis knows the risks and keeps fighting the good fight, regardless.
227* ''Series/StargateSG1''. Even the resident nerds are {{badass|Bookworm}}. And then there's Bra'tac -- [[OldSoldier 130+ and still kicking arse]].
228%%* ''[[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''.
229* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' revolves entirely around a [[EveryoneIsBi bisexual]] [[FiveManBand team of alien hunters]]: immortal Captain Jack, [[BewareTheNiceOnes outwardly mild archivist Ianto]], [[ActionGirl police-trained Gwen]], [[DamselOutOfDistress shy and tech-savvy Tosh]], and [[TheLancer field-capable doctor Owen]]. Translation? Any one of them can and will kick the ass of anyone who gets in their way or hurts their team, probably in a variety of ways.
230* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'', especially in later seasons where the fights lasted longer.
231* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010''. 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.
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235* 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!
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239* ''Roleplay/HonorableHogwarts'' has done this with the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' universe.
240* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}''. There are the [[DarkIsEvil vicious]] [[HumanoidAbomination Makuta]] who have an army of spiders and AnimatedArmor; the brain-washing, element-manipulating Bohrok; a sleeping god; and [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking freaky looking vehicles]]. To deal with it, they have Toa warriors, who have an [[ElementalPowers an elemental power]], a CoolMask with another power, and at least one weapon. Hell. Yes. Oh, and pretty much every character has been around for centuries, if not millennia. Some of them (and all the Glatorian) [[OldMaster are over 100,000 years old.]]
241** Then, of course, you have the Order of Mata Nui, a secret organization of badasses dedicated to protecting the Universe and occasionally doing the dirty work; the Brotherhood of Makuta, led by the above-mentioned [[AnimatedArmor beings]] who've won the SuperpowerLottery [[TheNeedless and don't need to worry about little things like sleep and food]]; [[TheDreaded the Dark Hunters,]] a bunch of thieves and killers for hire...it says a lot when some of the ''least'' badass characters are only BadassNormal.
242* ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'': With few exceptions, everyone, everywhere can kick serious ass.
243* TabletopGame/SystemsMalfunction: A CyberPunk {{LARP}} which takes this trope [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]].
244* ''Roleplay/InfiniteJustice'': Being a crossover between ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Creator/MarvelComics, and Creator/DCComics will do this to a world.
245* A sleepy American desert town where the local teens can defeat an EldritchAbomination with a sling and a book, the local community radio host can best an 18 foot tall five-headed dragon without a weapon, and where repeated global conspiracies, town-destroying and world-ending events, and otherworldly invasions are thwarted by ordinary citizens with little more than the normal things found around town like science and bloodstones. ''PodCast/WelcomeToNightVale''.
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249* Occurs in ''Pinball/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines '' by default, since the two main characters are [[TerminatorTwosome the dueling Terminators]]. The only non-badass characters are the tiny figures of John and Kate cowering behind the T-850.
250* Enforced in ''Pinball/WWFRoyalRumble,'' since everyone is a badass by default.
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254* ProfessionalWrestling is, in {{kayfabe}}, a world a badass. Even the wimpiest jobbers are enormous, muscular dudes who fight other enormous muscular dudes for a living. And behind the scenes, it takes an enormous amount of physicality, endurance and tolerance to work through matches.
255* How convincing any given case was varied, especially when Kodo Fuyuki got the book and started [[AudienceAlienatingEra allowing non athletes in the ring]], but [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling]] at least tried to present every conceivable style and competitive division within pro wrestling as equally valid. It was part of Atsushi Onita's belief that "everything should be allowed in puroresu". Beyond this, FMW was a dangerous place, where sharp hazards were common place and any given lacerating edge could also be connected to a high voltage circuit or rigged to trigger a landmine. ''No'' wrestler was theoretically safe from this, so even the lowliest of FMW {{jobber}}s had to be some degree of badass.
256* In Wrestling/RingOfHonor pretty much anyone, once they're in the ring and the bell has rang, should be expected to put up ''some'' kind of fight, no matter how many times they've been easily beaten or runoff outside of matches. Even drug addicted {{spoiled brat}} rave kids in the depths of depression will fight back from the seeming break of defeat against soon to be main event acts like Generation Next numerous times before getting pinned. Even [[Wrestling/JoeyRyan the sleazy porn star pampered by a wealthy foreign dictator]] can get a HopeSpot against [[Wrestling/TylerBlack the number one contender to the world title]]. Even said dictator, [[CowerPower whose cowardice]] is legendary, will execute slams and throws from the top rope when forced to wrestle without backup. Even "obese" or "anorexic" rookies like Bobby Dempsey and Cheeseburger tend to show quite a bit of resilience before the moments we're [[TookALevelInBadass supposed to take them a little more seriously]]. Even the "delicate" reporter [[BestKnownForTheFanService best known for her cleavage]] will go down swinging against center of the women's division who is bigger than most men. Even the Las Vegas style show boys who previously could not lift a single car tire when working together or stand to dig a hole for more than a couple of minutes can suddenly roll, run and jump around like crazy while apply hold and executing counters, becoming two thirds of the trios champions, even if actual star wrestler Wrestling/DaltonCastle did most of the work. [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]] apparently isn't a fan of this trope, as he has occasionally down rated ROH matches for little other reason than the feeling some people are trying too hard show what they can do and too little to play their roles.
257* Almost every fed using the "super indie" model at least tries. ROH, a company literally created to put a spotlight on talented wrestlers, probably isn't even the most extreme example. Around the same time Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla was founded on the philosophy ''every'' wrestler should be given enough time to "get their shit in".
258* Wrestling/DragonGate is distinct among pro wrestling feds as GlassJawReferee does not apply nearly as often as expected. At one point there was a violent feud between the collective referees and one of the many {{power stable}}s. Also, while Dragon Gate is usually as monogendered as any stereotypical Japanese fed, with a particular focus on cut {{pretty boy}}s, on the rare occasion valets do appear they will usually be high flying {{garbage wrestler}}s. The standard wrestlers still win, 9 times out of 10 against the more unconventional foes, but the fact that they can even put up a fight, and technically even have a belt to challenge for in the Open The Owarai Gate, is still weird.
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262* ''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.
263* ''TabletopGame/FengShui'', naturally, since it's based on action movies, especially Hong Kong ones.
264* ''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.
265* The ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' universe, of course. This happens largely through a twisted form of natural selection; the insufficiently Badass simply die in droves at the hands of the rest.
266** That being said, a few worlds earn a specific mention, such as Cadia, which stands directly on the one way out of the setting's version of hell (that's saying quite a lot, actually (the Warp actually ''is'' Hell in the lore)), forcing the population into becoming the best soldiers of the Imperial Guard.
267*** Catachan might be an even better example than Cadia. It's a world where every plant and animal is poisonous, carnivorous or both, the jungle constantly encroaches on any settlement laid down and needs to be burned away every day, the native flora and fauna include [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Venus_Mantrap venus flytraps that can move and eat people]], [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Catachan_Devil scorpions the size of tanks]] and [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Catachan_Barking_Toad frogs which can explode and kill anything within a kilometer]], and the natives are all [[HeroicBuild hugely muscled]], [[MadeOfIron tough-as-nails]] knife-loving Franchise/{{Rambo}}-esque survivalists. Cadia is a world where people have to be badass or they get killed as adults. Catachan is a world where everyone has to be badass or they ''don't see adulthood''.
268*** During the Indomitus Crusade launched by the revived Roboute Guilliman, the Crusade reached Catachan only to discover the planet's...well, everything, was so deadly and aggressive even the daemon armies of Chaos fled the world and avoided it. Much to the Crusade's amusement (it even boosted morale). After all, horrific, world-smashing abominations from beyond the pale are afraid of a planet humans successfully settled. "Badass" doesn't even begin to cover the Imperial Guard (who survive to become Veterans, at least).
269*** Cadia is a world where everybody has to be badass or they get killed as adults (or children, as there are child regiments fighting there). Krieg and [[UsefulNotes/RedsWithRockets Valhalla]] are worlds where everybody has to be badass AND they get killed as adults.
270*** Mordia is a world of badasses who live strictly disciplined lives to maintain order (really, every hive world should emulate them). So focused on discipline that they are known to execute commissars for negligence of duty if they feel the commissars were being too lenient. Commissars in Warhammer 40,000 commonly shoot their own soldiers in battle to motivate the others to fight harder out of fear. Commissars fear the Mordians. The Mordian Iron Guard regiments take this badassery and discipline to an extreme to the point that they stand in firing lines to blaze away at the enemy. Fortunately, they have carapace armor sewn into their clothing and each squad has its own house-sized tank firing over their heads. This tactic works very well, too. They also have entire companies of super-heavy tanks any one vehicle of which is capable of turning the tide of entire wars.
271* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy'', although in this case it's one-third natural selection, one-third the will of the gods, and one-third taking on Bloodthirsters ''without'' semiautomatic rocket grenade launchers or tanks the size of small cities.
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275* The entire world, including the primary setting of Seoul, became this in ''VideoGame/AgentsOfMayhem'' after an in-universe event known as "Devil's Night". Even the movie stars, fashion models, and football players became badass real quickly, if they weren't already!
276* ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns''. Even the seemingly harmless bartender robot can (and will) kick your ass.
277* ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'' is a world where even a pathetic coward in the Seyran army's drum corps can become a fearsome OneManArmy MagicKnight. The ''real'' heavy hitters on every side are outright [[PersonOfMassDestruction Persons of Mass Destruction]]. And it takes thousands of years and entire ''civilizations'' composed of these people to defeat the BigBad.
278* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' is MADE of this trope. From a rampaging demigod whose strength seemingly has no limit and who gets stronger the angrier he gets, a deity that becomes bigger than the Earth itself, to another one who has a sword that can extend all the way from Earth to the ''fucking moon'', and pierce right THROUGH IT! And that's just the three characters revealed in the ''demo''.
279* ''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 [[{{Pun}} 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]]
280* ''VideoGame/BlazblueCrossTagBattle'' takes several of Franchise/BlazBlue's biggest badasses, the [[VideoGame/Persona4 Investigation Team]], the cast of VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth, and [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Team RWBY]], and tosses them all together in a gigantic clash of worlds.
281* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' is all about being a badass in a DeathWorld of badass where only badasses survive. If someone is alive in Pandora, it's because that person was cunning and careful enough to not die due to the scorching sun, the flaming lava rivers or the freezing polar wastelands, can kill the universally carnivorous local fauna that eats absolutely everything they see and is well adapted for that task, and can fend off the local bandits that are permanently and universally AxCrazy. It goes as far as calling high level enemies "Badass", and giving you a literal TookALevelInBadass in the form of Badass Tokens that permanently increase your stats and are obtained by clearing minor challenges.
282* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' is a world of badasses, fueled by the epic awesome of HeavyMetal.
283* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' for the most part has a rather large percentage of the population being superheroes and/or supervillains.
284* ''VideoGame/ComeOn285Enemies'' is a world where [[TitleDrop 285 enemies]] rush Ito, who, time and time again, [[OneManArmy beats them all down]]. And that's nothing to say of his adversaries, too!
285* The ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' series, which involve ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}''-like soldiers fighting off aliens and terrorists. This is especially present with ''Neo'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEqu2ITiOPI opening]].
286* The ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' series is this by default: With human life on Earth destroyed following the Apocalypse, the only remaining beings are superhumans fighting among themselves in the ruined remains, meaning you have to be a badass to survive. The main protagonists are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who belong to an ancient {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} that they [[OneManArmy singlehandedly destroyed]] in order to [[DefectorFromDecadence protect all of creation]]. By themselves, they are phenomenally powerful warriors that can make short work of anything that crosses their path. Together? They are a force capable of rivaling Heaven and Hell. Angels and demons themselves are fairly badass, with the former using advanced futuristic technology while the latter employs {{eldritch abomination}}s alongside the legions of Hell (although they are fairly easily cut down by the protagonists). Outside of Earth, other forms of life exist and all of them are comparatively superior to humanity in one way or another. Really you could count the number of non-combatants in one hand and some would still have traits that makes them awesome such as the Makers (giants with the reputation of builders and smiths, but still have super strength and can go toe-to-toe against a Horseman in a single duel).
287* From the same company as ''Halo'', we have ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}''. The basic premise is a solar-system spanning, five-way war between The Guardians, immortal [[PersonOfMassDestruction Persons of Mass Destruction]], The Fallen, GadgeteerGenius SpacePirates, The Hive, magic wielding, death worshipping, undead monsters, The Vex, {{Reality Warp|er}}ing, {{Hive Mind}}ed robots that covert entier ''planets'' into machines, and The Cabal, a militarized, heavily armed GalacticSuperpower with a penchant for {{Orbital Bombardment}}s and {{Earth Shattering Kaboom}}s. And that's not even counting the [[AIIsACrapshoot Rogue A.I.]] hiding somewhere in the wilderness, or the handful of Guardians who have made a FaceHeelTurn over the centuries.
288* Almost every major character introduced in the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' series is a badass, though it's mostly justified by them having supernatural powers. However, even normal humans can be badasses too; like [[BadassNormal Lady]] who has ridiculous stamina, and [[WrenchWench Nico]] who can ram demons with her van. There are only a few double subversions such as Kyrie who's presented as a DamselInDistress by the events of ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' (but was willing to use her body as a shield to protect a child from a demon attack), or Patty who's just a little girl in the [[Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries anime adaptation]] (but was risking her life to wake Dante up and tried to pull the Rebellion despite her small body).
289* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'', very much so. Nearly any character with a name has some ability to fight and pull of some insane fancy attack that defies the laws of physics. And since demons solve nearly everything through fighting, Netherworlds quickly turn into this because of how their inhabitants keep trying to assert their dominance.
290* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', more so than the first game. Fewer cowering screaming people, bigger dragons, and nobody flinches from battling the guy that according to the tales killed a High Dragon with a rusty spoon. Given what kind of place [[EldritchLocation Kirkwall]] is, most of the population HadToBeSharp.
291* The ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors''/''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'' series quickly spring to mind, where even a [[WaifFu 90 lb girl]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser wielding beautiful twin fans]] can kick epic levels of ass on a battlefield filled with thousands of sword-wielding {{Mooks}}.
292* The eponymous province of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' is this by way of GrimUpNorth. It doesn't matter if it's the tiniest, most peaceable village or a bustling metropolis; if it gets attacked by dragons or vampires, ''everyone'', from soldiers to town guards to merchants to housewives, will ready a weapon or a spell and throw down. [[TooDumbToLive Whether they're any]] ''[[TooDumbToLive good]]'' [[TooDumbToLive at it is something else.]]
293** On a cultural level, the entire planet of Nirn. Every race still around has carved out their own territory by force (or survives by decentralized/nomadic tribes too tough for their "hosts" to kick out, like the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orsimer]]; and Tamriel's history is full of warring [[BadassArmy armies]], [[SlaveLiberation vengeance]] on a [[GenocideBackfire massive scale]], and invasions by [[HornyVikings Atmorans]], [[EliteArmy Akiviri]], and [[ArabianNightsDays Redguards]]. {{Steampunk}}-happy Dwemer (who are absolutely not [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame the same]]) regularly spit in the face of [[BigBadEnsemble Daedra]] while pursuing their own [[GodhoodSeeker divinity]]...or, rather, they ''[[EvilIsNotAToy did]]''. From [[OurDragonsAreDifferent immortal, divine tyrants]] to [[ANaziByAnyOtherName supremacist empires]], some new form of evil threatens the world just about every week--and gets beaten down by everyone from [[AnAdventurerIsYou wandering heroes]] to [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething demigod Emperors]]. If you think you can survive on Nirn without being badass on a national scale...well, you can ask the [[WasOnceAMan Falmer]] or [[ToServeMan Men of Akivir]] how that goes.
294* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, bare minimum, requires EVERYONE be an ActionSurvivor, and if you want to enjoy a healthy lifespan in a post apocalyptic world where quite often [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything tries to kill you]], being some sort of badass is about the only way to enjoy most of your natural lifespan.
295* In any given FightingGame all the characters can kick your ass. [[JokeCharacter Nearly]] every {{play|erCharacter}}able [[PromotedToPlayable character]] in an ActionGame is going to be able to fight his or her way through countless {{Mooks}} to reach his/her goals. Even the JokeCharacter might be badass [[LethalJokeCharacter in the hands of the right player]].
296* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' is probably a ''universe'' of badass. (Multiverse really, but technicalities.)
297* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'', where a little girl can with a little experience and luck destroy an entire army by herself.
298* ''VideoGame/FrontMission''. Everyone knows how to pilot an asskicking [[AMechByAnyOtherName wanzer]]. ''Everyone''.
299* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' has plenty of examples.
300** Gears are so hardcore that they wield assault rifles with [[ChainsawGood chainsaw bayonets]], can reload the hard way, so the shots have higher damage, and can shrug off anything except direct hits with explosives or [[BoomHeadshot headshots from anti-tank rifles]]. {{Revolvers|AreJustBetter}} sever limbs, machine guns mulch targets, and Torque Bows (don't let the name fool you, it's more like a hybrid of a bow, a Gauss gun, and an RPG) double as lethal melee weapons. The best part? By the third game, ''female Gears do all of these things as well''.
301** On the enemies' side, you have one of toughest video-game mooks ever, with basic soldiers dying after a whole magazine of SMG ammo or withstanding a point-blank shotgun blast.
302*** Locust women are even tougher than the men. The biggest Locust males get are the Boomers and their variants, while the female Locust are the Berserkers. Ten foot tall mountains of rage, pain, and more rage that run as fast as a speeding truck and hit as hard as one too. In ''Gears of War: Aspho Fields'', Colonel Victor Hoffman speculates Locust males have to hold Berserkers down so they don't kill anyone when it's time to "get busy". And then there are the creatures the Locust Horde use...
303* ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' is a game where major characters who can't fight are extremely rare.
304* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', a tradition continued in its SpiritualSuccessor, ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''.
305* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. Granted, most of the perspective is from the military of both humans and the Covenant. ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' puts this [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] with ''everyone'' getting a chance to show how badass they are - even the Unggoy.
306* Every player character in ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' and ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'' is a badass. Even the designated NonActionGuy[=/=]ActionSurvivor can single-handedly NonLethalKO his way through a building full of TheMafiya.
307* Overlaps with EverybodyWasKungFuFighting in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire''.
308* The world of ''VideoGame/KunioKun''/''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom''. Unlike other [[BeatEmUp Beat 'em Ups]] where you're fighting a specific gang or crime syndicate, here you fight everyone in the city, and everyone is a capable fighter.
309* In ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' game ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', every character you can play as is capable of killing entire legions of Mooks single-handedly. Fowl farmer who can kill scores of enemies with bomb arrows? Check. 35-year-old Manchild who slaughters his foes by popping a balloon in their faces and tossing bombs at them? Check. Ten-year-old "Princess?" who can beat up the king of evil by throwing butterflies at him? Super check.
310* ''VideoGame/{{Mabinogi}}'': Even aside from the [[PlayerCharacter PCs]], you see a lot of memory sequences (and actual fight scenes) of NPC army characters being extremely badass.
311* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', we get Tuchanka, the homeworld of the krogan, who are the resident {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} of the series. All krogan are unstoppable juggernauts fueled by rage and copious amounts of headbutting. The krogan had nuked themselves back to the Stone Ages because modern technology had made life too easy, so this overlaps with {{CrapsackWorld}}. All krogan encountered in the game are warriors, whether they be soldiers or mercenaries, and their weapons of choice are their skulls.
312** For extra fun, consider the physiology of the Krogan- This was a race that had to be hostile-genetically-engineered so that only one-tenth of a percent of their children survived, and they have wide-set eyes, a prey-type evolution.
313* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'', where everyone is a hard-boiled double agent who may or may not have supernatural abilities. A world where a woman gives birth to one of the most famous Chessmasters in video game history via a messy C-section ''and then immediately leads the charge at Normandy on D-Day''. A world where a hapless rookie sent on a suicide mission with no gear at all ends up becoming ''the'' greatest ProfessionalKiller in the world. A world where a mute female sniper who respirates through her skin and a legendary PMC commander suffering from old wounds and bad hallucinations can annihilate an entire Soviet tank division. A world where katana-wielding cyborgs get into fistfights with hulking, nanomachine-implanted, all-American senators. A world where Earth's biggest badasses are nothing more than extremely well-trained men and women with charisma, willpower and [[PunchPackingPistol a silenced pistol]] facing some of the most dangerous things the world has to offer, and they ''always'' coming out on top.
314* Any {{M|assivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame}}MORPG city's population will consist of various badasses who's day job is usually killing things. People who aren't badasses tend to be 5 or 4 to a city.
315* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' is set in a pseudo-medieval/stone age/bronze age DeathWorld populated with dinosaur-like and dragon-like creatures that make UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex look like a pussy, and nearly all of them are MadeOfIron and possess ElementalPowers. The eponymous human "monster hunters" are all BadassNormal {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s (keep in mind that GenderIsNoObject [[ActionGirl is in full effect here]]) armed with traps, gadgets and some really, ''really'' big weapons. Chefs cook some ''[[FoodPorn amazing]]'' meals to keep the hunters fed and full, the smiths make weapons and armour from monster scales and claws as well as iron and steel, the fishermen and traders all have {{Cool Boat}}s and brave dangerous monster-infested waters to do their jobs, the elders who live in the hunting zones do so unarmed and alone, you can just go on and on.
316* ''VideoGame/MordheimCityOfTheDamned'' is so much this, true to the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} source]] [[TabletopGame/{{Mordheim}} material]]. You have [[AmazonBrigade all-female]] 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]].
317* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', where everyone with a name has some degree of badass in some completely insane way in them. Might as well call it a World of ''Awesome''.
318* Being a CrapsaccharineWorld in need of heroes, ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'' is filled with various forms of badass in its playable roster, ranging from the British ActionGirl to a cowboy to a vigilante SuperSoldier to the HuskyRusskie powerlifter to a CyberNinja to the GamerChick turned MiniMecha pilot to a [[ReligiousRobot robotic Buddhist monk]] to [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a super-intelligent gorilla from the moon]], and more.
319* ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' took this trope a bit further; it's not just one world anymore. ''Six worlds of badasses'' exist and all of them include a lot of badass people both heroes and villains (Earth, Phantom World, Hell, Alternate Earth, VideoGame/EndlessFrontier, and the different star systems in the future).
320* ''VideoGame/{{Rebuild}}'': It's not uncommon to have survivors with maximal level in soldier. Hell, if you're playing in a huge city, ''everyone'' will have maximal level in soldier at the end. Even the scientists, who in the second game can learn combat skills as well.
321** In the third game, it's ''encouraged'' through perks like [=McGyver=] and [[CombatPragmatist Scrapper]], the former adding half of one's science skill and the other adding the ''entirety'' of one's scavenging skill to their combat ability. It really says something when while the other 4 skills you can have rarely can exceed 20, you can get your combat skill on most survivors up to ''30'', which is three-times the maximum of what your natural skill can be.
322* Everyone has a badass moment in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''. Even Ashley from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' has one or two moments and she is a DamselScrappy.
323* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', also know as "Epic [[RatedMForManly Manly]] badassery: The Video Game Series". Its HGame parody, ''VideoGame/SengokuRance'', basically is the same formula, just with a different gameplay engine and tons of estrogen due to massive amounts of GenderFlip (though none of the women are less badass as a result).
324* As the page image shows, ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' is a world full of badasses and action.
325* Every ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' game and their spinoffs either ultimately turn into this over the course of the game or already are from the get go. In fact, ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', and ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' pretty much have this as a survival prerequisite.
326** ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' recently took this [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]]. In other ''SMT'' games, if you didn't have demons, demon power, or could otherwise fight them in some way, you were screwed. In this game, though, not only is demon summoning ability available to pretty much everyone worldwide as long as you have a cellphone (which IRL and ingame are easy to get and very widespread) and a free downloadable app, even that isn't necessary in one level where ''unarmed, non demon summoning civilians'' are fighting demons and demon summoners and doing pretty well.
327*** Not to mention the fact that the first game had an in-game justification[=/=]HandWave on why normal unarmed humans could hope to stand up to demons in a fight and not be killed in a single hit from them: no such thing exists in the second game, implying that everyone's [[BadassNormal just that strong normally]].
328* In ''VideoGame/{{Sifu}}'', ''anyone'' the Student runs into in their quest for vengeance is going to be able to kick their ass as they're perfectly capable of single-handedly kicking everyone's asses in turn. It doesn't matter if they're junkies in the slums, clubbers who're part of a cult-like martial arts school, or random employees in a healing retreat, ''everyone'' knows Kung Fu.
329* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'': When the [[DeathWorld entire setting of the game]] is a [[ApocalypseHow Class 0 apocalypse]] filled with eyeless rabid dogs, monkey-like mutated soldiers, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Cthulu-mouthed abominations]], [[InterfaceScrew psychically]] [[MindRape augmented monsters]], and [[ApocalypseHow periodic class 3b emissions]], it's pretty hard not to be anything but a BadassNormal. Oh, and did we mention that there are also localized physical anomalies, ranging from [[KillItWithFire scorching jets of flame]] to [[AlienGeometries space-time portals]]?
330* ''VideoGame/StarCraft''. Especially in ''VideoGame/StarCraftII''. The medics wear power armor.
331* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' has evolved over the years from regular tournaments to epics where the fate of the world lies in the hands of martial artists the world over, and most martial arts are SupernaturalMartialArts to some extent as these fighters throw out KiAttacks, use ElementalPowers to strengthen their attacks with [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[ShockAndAwe lightning]], and [[AnIcePerson ice]], and can easily break stone, concrete, and steel with their bare hands and feet. The World Tour mode of ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6'' takes this further, as EverybodyWasKungFuFighting is in full-effect: street fights are as commonplace a sight as street food vendors, and the player can challenge virtually any NPC they cross paths with to a fight.
332* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' (Yes, even Boss and his Borot get to be badass). Likewise, the ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier''. It's more like several interconnected worlds, who are [[{{Ninja}} all]] [[HumongousMecha badass]] [[DeathWorld in]] [[TheEmpire a]] [[CattlePunk unique]] [[{{Magitek}} way.]]
333* 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 [[PunnyName Kicasso]]. Oh yeah, and even a humble [[http://www.teamfortress.com/doommates/#f=4 taxi driver]] can make a powerful, Lovecraftian wizard back down.
334* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is set in Gensokyo, a realm that has become the nexus of Japan's magic and badass. When a character that can freeze their opponent solid in an instant and another that can shatter boulders with their fists are mocked by fans and other characters for being ''too weak'', then this trope is inevitable.
335** Subverted with the Moon, which houses an advanced nation of god-like individuals known as the [[UltraTerrestrials Lunarians]]; on one hand, they're stated to have fought off the whole might of the above crashing down at them in the distant past, yet by their present state, they've soundly been fought to a stalemate and minor defeat by both [[MugglesDoItBetter humans sending soldiers on the moon with 70s era technology]] as well as the [[RedShirt same fairies]] that are often considered weaklings in Gensokyo proper. It remains to be seen whether or not their planned invasion of Gensokyo will end in failure.
336* ''VideoGame/UrbanRivals'': When 22 factions are vying for control of the city, even the weakest combatants have to be BadassNormal.
337* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'': During the ActionPrologue, rural characters seems to respond to an Imperial invasion remarkably well, every house seems to have a rifle in it, and then the protagonist's sister drives out an old tank that was hiding in the barn. The following scenes quickly explain Gallia has a policy of universal conscription, weapons handling and crisis response are taught in high school, and Isara mentions she had done a tank engineering elective and had been maintained the Edelweiss on her own time.
338* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': An army of fascist clones on one side, a MegaCorp on the other, and caught between them are all the little people who have to survive in a post-apocalyptic, transhumanist wasteland where half the animals are actually robots that violently defend their territory. Then there are the Tenno, the player characters, who work with all of them at once in order to play the big sides against each other and keep the innocents safe.
339* ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'' has almost all the characters, both good and evil, either human, robot and alien, all of them badass in their own way. Even the people you save can be recruited and become temporary superheroes in their own right. It's less a world of badass and more a ''universe of badass''.
340* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', Pretty much ''any'' named character who's done something relevant is likely to be a badass -- such as Illidan, Malfurion, Tyrande, Jaina, Thrall, Arthas, Uther, Varian, Fandral, Archimonde, Kil'jaeden, Medivh, Maeiv...
341* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'': The main character is a BadassBookworm who [[spoiler:shrugs a plot-induced coma off in only 30 minutes of gameplay, while it took [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]] half a disc]], his mentor singlehandedly ends a war against giant killer death robots and shouts haikus in battle, the puffball "mascot"-looking character can tank tons of damage, equip heavy armor, and hits 9999 HP before any other character; said puffball's race charges into battle against aforementioned evil killer death robots alongside humans and not-elves, the medic is the only character with a semi-reliable instant kill move, the effeminate-looking not-elf prince is described as "looks like a sissy, but he's got guts", a minor comic relief character survives having a troop transport dropped on him and is nigh-fearless even when faced with one of the tougher baddies in the game, and did we mention they're all fighting giant evil killer death robots that eat people? [[spoiler:And the main character kills, then becomes a god.]] Not to mention that both continents that the game takes place on are what remains of two warrior gods who fought each other to a standstill, making the term "world of badass" almost literal.
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345* 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.
346* The Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} itself. If they have a name, they have badass points:
347** In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' every main character has severe badass credentials by the end except Shinji, really. Yes, even [[BadassAdorable Ilya]] and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Sakura]]. ''[[VisualNovel/FateHollowAtaraxia Fate/hollow ataraxia]]'' barely changes the cast, but even those few it adds are amazing, such as Bazett Fraga [=McRemitz=], a human who can go toe to toe with Servants -- in fact, [[spoiler:she has her own Noble Phantasm, which only Servants are supposed to have]].
348** ''Literature/AngelNotes'', a virtually unknown piece of work within the Nasuverse, involves swords so long they can carve out chasms in the earth, and humans slaughtering an EldritchAbomination. World of raging badass indeed -- then again, it did give us Archer.
349** And by extension of the Nasuverse, ''VideoGame/BattleMoonWars''.
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353* Creator/MontyOum's ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'' series is this. Of course, ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' and ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' are both badass worlds, but the power and skill of many characters is increased considerably and everyone is capable of kicking huge amounts of ass. The clearest example of this is [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Kairi]]; while [[LetsGetDangerous she does admittedly have her moments in the games]], she mostly stays out of fighting, but she is depicted in ''Dead Fantasy'' as an unstoppable BadassAdorable whirlwind of ass-kicking.
354* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': A show where some of the greatest warriors in fictional history are pitted against each other in the UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny. Win or lose, each fighter is a badass to some extent or another.
355** In Death Battle itself, several warriors have had their homeworlds described as this. ''Franchise/DragonBall'' was noted to be a "universe full of planet-busters" and the aforementioned world of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' was one to the extent that Boomstick immediately fell in love with it.
356--->'''Wiz:''' The world of Remnant is... well, crazy. Vicious creatures called Grimm run wild, entire cities have gone to waste, and every single weapon is also a gun. Even nunchucks.
357--->'''Boomstick:''' Oooh, that sounds like Disneyland to me. The happiest, most gun-filled place on Earth!
358* ''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]].
359* 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''.
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363* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' is pretty much this combined with RuleOfCool. Ninja doctor with a velociraptor-riding, revolver-toting bandito sidekick. Whole family of ninjas. Pirates that fly around in their airships. A zombie-killing [[spoiler:chrononaut/]]astronaut for a mayor. The list of badasses goes on.
364** One story involves an army of primitively-armed humans attacking, successfully at first, a fortress full of ''gun-toting dinosaurs''. Some of the humans turned into [[Myth/PaulBunyan giant lumberjacks]] and ''wrestled'' the dinosaurs to death. In case it's not obvious, insane badassery is pretty much the entire point of this comic.
365** King Radical is from an alternate dimension called the Radical Lands, where everything (including the living helicopter-tree hybrid, and the sun) wear sunglasses for starters, also badass nicknames are the norm. And title character Dr. [=McNinja=] would be considered an average citizen in that alternate universe.
366** Then there's the giant ghost powered robot made from the city using the city's zombie defence system.
367* 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.
368* 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.
369* ''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''.
370* 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.
371* Lyle Phipps manages to invoke this trope in ''Webcomic/{{Great}}''. Everyone he interacts with is inspired to become awesome in what they do because of him.
372* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': If you've managed to get into the Medium and you're not badass already, you will be soon enough. In a more literal CrapsackWorld example, Alternia. Even surviving past ''infant-hood'' in [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Troll]] society requires a certain degree of badassness, since [[BizarreAlienBiology wigglers]] are put through a series of harrowing trials immediately after they hatch. It says a lot that ''a thirteen-year-old blind girl'' from Alternia is one of the most badass characters in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' (how do you think she survived being effectively orphaned and blind for all those years?), and that even the wimpiest among the trolls has strong psychic abilities that [[TheBeastmaster allow him to tame and raise a virtual army of monsters.]] Although he usually uses them to play card games. Speaking of which, effectively everything on Alternia can be fatal. {{LARP}}ing is extremely dangerous, every sport is a BloodSport, those card games involve hatching actual, extremely dangerous {{Mons}}, and so on. No wonder those twelve kids beat Sburb in less than a month.
373* St. Louis is a city of badass in ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}''. All the characters have their moments. Here's a list: Rocky Rickaby, who dances in and out of danger and gets in all sorts of trouble; Aunt Nina, a [[NeverMessWithGranny badass grandma]]; Freckle [=McMurray=], who goes from quiet ex-cop to "murders three recurring villains with a Tommy gun while laughing like a maniac" almost immediately after finding the Lackadaisy; Mitzi May, who is simply an Action Girl; Dorian "Zib" Zibowski, who is a total badass without ever picking up a weapon; Mordecai Heller is, well, Mordecai Heller and the list goes on.
374* ''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.
375* ''Webcomic/TheNoordegraafFiles'' has giant guns, magical warriors, sword fighting, robotic soldiers, cybernetically enhanced women, homemade Flamethrowers, and dysfunctional yet badass teenagers.
376* 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.
377* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has a truly fascinating example. The galaxy is just filled with {{Mooks}} for Tagon's Toughs to savage, and {{Worthy Opponent}}s to return the favor. But the Toughs themselves have a ''contagious'' case of Badass. They pick up a (ir)reverend (because he was the sole applicant) and a doctor (based on her cup size). The reverend is soon skewering enemy eyeballs with a fencing foil. The doctor ends up leading troops into curbstomps and delivering speeches "Like Patton with boobs". They grab an entertainment AI that simulated a holographic boy band because it wanted to quit. It's soon deftly piloting entire warships in a war against [[EldritchAbomination dark matter entities]]. They grab a bunch of loser thugs off from a WretchedHive on a ScavengerWorld. The one with no arms can float like a butterfly (with gravitic assists) and sting like a bee (as in wrestle entire gangs with her tongue). They grab a WrenchWench off a UNS battleplate that wants to get rid of her. She slaughters mobs singlehandedly (with PoweredArmor and PostVictoryCollapse). They grab a fast-food worker [[ADegreeInUseless with a background in Memetics]] that started dating one of their members and got accidentally picked up during a chaotic mission. She ends up promoted to lieutenant and strong-arming a scholar task force to track down the {{Precursors}} and ensure the survival of current civilization as a whole. Join The Toughs. Be Badass.
378* ''Webcomic/SupernormalStep'' goes beyond WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief in its diverse range of Badass characters. The whole series seems like an OriginalCharacterTournament waiting to happen.
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382* The whole point of ''Website/BadassOfTheWeek''. Being a badass is kind of a requirement for being featured.
383* 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.
384* Just about every rapper in ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' is a total badass.
385* The Internet itself is portrayed as one in ''WebVideo/{{Mission 404}}''.
386* ''Website/{{Neop|ets}}ia'' can be described as being a planet that wears BadassAdorable as its [[PlanetOfHats hat]].
387* ''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.
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391* ''[[Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar]]'' franchise:
392** 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.
393** ''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.
394* 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.
395* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''. Though Huey's portrayed as a martial arts expert, he's constantly matched or bested by senior citizens, psychotic women, and even Uncle Ruckus.
396-->'''Ruckus:''' "What? You think you the ''only'' one to learn the ancient and deadly art of the Nunchaku?"
397* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' falls under this trope by virtue of being a WorldOfHam. We're talking about a show that's about a BadassAdorable [[BadassArmy Army]] of kids going against equally badass ([[BewareTheSillyOnes if more than equally silly]]) villains, led by a HumanoidAbomination bent on harming and oppressing the world's children.
398* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy wished that his life would be like an action movie. And like an action movie, things went FromBadToWorse.
399* 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.
400* Everyone in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' qualifies to be this as there are so many martial artists, demons, wizards, magical creatures and whatnot altogether.
401* ''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.
402* Just about ''every'' character in ''WesternAnimation/ObanStarRacers'' is either an AcePilot, superpowered alien, or both. Even the grumpy TeamDad and his two mechanics still have fiery spirits. Then again the whole race is competing [[spoiler: for who gets to be a space god]], do you honestly think you could last ''without'' being badass?
403* ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'': The main characters are a {{Sentai}} team made of a teenage HenshinHero and his KillerSpaceMonkey teammates. Throughout the series, they encounter plenty of powerful and dangerous warriors, aliens and robots.
404* 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).
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