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* [[Film/ThreeHundred Leonidas and the Spartans]]. While the Spartans were already commonly regarded by historians as one of the most badass civilizations in all of history, this movie, also making bored high school history students interested in a quaint little city state that they would not even know existed in the first place, exaggerated the idea further that the Spartans were really a race of hypermuscular Supermen who can each kill millions by themselves while wearing only underwear. It's like applying Website/ChuckNorrisFacts to an entire city.
** When you are attempting a ridiculously deadly stunt and anybody says [[YoureInsane This is Madness,]] repeat this phrase: '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis This! IS! SPARTA!!!]]'''
* [[Film/{{Avatar}} Quaritch is not on Pandora]]. ''[[RussianReversal Pandora is under Quaritch]].''
* Creator/MichaelBay, who will make any film he directs ''awesome''. "Awesome", as in '''[[MadeOfExplodium EXPLOSIONS!]]'''
* Gaston from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. Because no one fights like Gaston, and no one hunts like Gaston, etc. {{Lampshade}}d in ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' where they have a RunningGag of him butting in on other characters' conversations to say "No one [does what you're talking about] like Gaston!" (Actually, that episode might have been the inspiration for Gaston's meme.) In one episode, in which Clarabelle is gathering gossip, Gaston begrudgingly concedes that he has, indeed, seen others hunt like Gaston. There's also the Gaston Reads meme on dA. And at least one TakeThat as well. [[http://shadow-aspect.deviantart.com/art/Legends-of-Laughter-Ch1-2-256704523 No one can get eaten like Gaston!]] He ''was'' forced to avert his meme [[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse once]], though -- in which someone mentioned shutting up, he states "No one shuts up like... nevermind."
* All of this may be true, but ''nobody'' fucks with [[Film/TheBigLebowski the Jesus.]]
* Lampshaded in ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'':
-->'''William Wallace:''' Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace.\\
'''Young Soldier:''' William Wallace is seven feet tall!\\
'''William Wallace:''' Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the English with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.\\
''(Scottish army laughs)''
** Continued to it's logical conclusion [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcoVxbutl8g here.]]
* Creator/BruceCampbell and his [[ThisIsMyBoomstick boomstick]]. He's the most famous BMovie actor around. He's fought and killed just about everything you can think of; [[AlienInvasion aliens]], [[Series/BurnNotice mercenaries]], [[Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr bandits]], [[EvilTwin himself]], [[Series/JackOfAllTrades Napoleon's army]], [[Franchise/EvilDead an evil army of the dead]], and [[NoBudget bad stop-motion effects]]. He was a corpse in ''[[Film/{{Congo}} Congo]]'', yet still the most awesome thing in the entire movie.
* As far as WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob is concerned? PIERRE KIRBY.
* The [[BadassBystander Bank Manager]] in the opening scene of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' didn't grab a shotgun and start blowing the Joker's gang away while screaming threats because he was a secret mafioso; he did it because Creator/WilliamFichtner is '''just that badass'''!
* ''Film/DirtyHarry''.
** You really don't want to make his day.
** Ask yourself, punk, "Do I feel lucky?" Huh? Well, do ya?
** He's played by Creator/ClintEastwood who is already a MemeticBadass, so this was a given.
* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'' has Hermann Fegelein. What do you mean you can't find Fegelein? Then look for him! [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler The Führer]] wants to see him AT ONCE! [[GagSub I will not be made a fool of for being unable to find the man who ruined my day. ANTICS!]] Bring me Fegelein! [[WebVideo/HitlerRants FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN!]]
* Captain Nascimento from the Brazilian movie ''Tropa de Elite'' (a.k.a. ''Film/TheEliteSquad''). When Bruce Banner gets mad, he becomes [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]]. When Hulk gets mad, he becomes Capt. Nascimento.
* ''Film/TheExpendables'' is a rare example where '''the film itself''' has achieved MemeticBadass status. This is based mainly on the fact that it's a throwback action movie directed by Creator/SylvesterStallone and starring [[Creator/JasonStatham almost]] [[Creator/JetLi every]] [[Creator/DolphLundgren living]] [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger action]] [[Creator/BruceWillis movie]] [[Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme actor]] [[Creator/ChuckNorris available]]. The trailer alone, apparently, will put hair on your chest and give you a third testicle, if you're a dude. If you're a girl, you'll walk out of the theater pregnant.
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'': The first movie has a nameless truck driver who fights off Dom and his gang with a shotgun. This has resulted in fans dubbing the trucker the most powerful being in the films' setting as he is the only person to beat Dom, something two drug lords (one even has an entire corrupt police force at his disposal), an elite DSS squad, an ex-SAS and his team and his even more dangerous ex-black ops brother AND a mercenary force with enough armaments to annihilate a small country could never do.
* ''[[Film/TheFinalSacrifice "ROWSDOWER saves us, and saves all the world!"]]''
* ''Film/FreddyVsJason'': Lori Campbell decapitated [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] with [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]]' machete!
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'':
** [[BadassAdorable Elsa]] [[CurbStompBattle will shortly kick your ass.]] And, according to the fandom, can freeze Voldemort and Gandalf. It's not uncommon for "evil [=AU=]" fics to turn her into a PhysicalGod who turns her kingdom into a frozen wasteland (which may be a reference to ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' itself).
** Anna is often treated as a LightningBruiser on par with Creator/BruceLee.
* Bill the Butcher from ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'' will teach you to speak English with his ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]'' knife.
** [[Film/ThereWillBeBlood Daniel Plainview's]] "I drink your milkshake!" became the basis for a meme for someone who "pwned" someone in some way: "(x) drank (y)'s milkshake"
** Anyone played by Creator/DanielDayLewis in general.
* They don't call Franchise/{{Godzilla}} king of all monsters for nothing. In ''[[Film/GodzillaFinalWars Final Wars]]'', he managed to [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] nearly all of the major past monsters ([[MyFriendsandZoidberg and Zilla]]) [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome ONE. AFTER. ANOTHER.]]
* [[Film/Hellboy2004 There are things that go bump in the night. And we are the ones that bump back.]]
* [[Film/TheHungerGames Seneca Crane's Beard]]. That is all.
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones''. Maybe [[IndyPloy he's making this up as he goes]], but he doesn't belong in a museum.
* [[Film/InglouriousBasterds Sgt. Donny Donowitz]] doesn't bash Nazis' skulls in with his baseball bat; the skulls cave themselves in rather than be hit by him.
* Creator/SamuelLJackson and almost any character played by him.
* Franchise/JohnWick. It doesn't matter how ridiculously overpowered you are; if you kill his dog, he ''will'' kill you and he ''will'' look awesome doing it.
* ''Film/KickAss'': Hit-Girl, and in some circles, [[CatUpATree Mr. Bitey.]]
* In-universe, ''Film/KillBill'''s Pai Mei is so badass that legends about his badassery are over ''a thousand years old''.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
** Aragorn, King of Gondor. Who here has the audacity to leap into the middle of a mob of angry berserkers with nothing but an oversized knife and an attitude from Hell?
** Legolas. He jumps on the back of a massive beast that can singlehandedly rip apart Gondor's armies, kills every single person on it, then sprints to the forefront and kills it with ease. This is a beast that has very, very thick skin and is very large.
** Who not only fought, but wounded [[EldritchAbomination Shelob]]? The world's most badass gardener, Samwise Gamgee. Then he killed a bunch of orcs singlehandedly. Also, you know that [[TheCorrupter One Ring]] that seduces ''every single person'' who so much as looks at it? He gives it up with barely a struggle.
** Let it be known Éowyn is no man and caved the Witch-King's head in.
** It took three arrows thicker than his finger and bigger than his leg to take Boromir down. The only reason he died at that point was because [[ChronicallyKilledActor he was played by]] Creator/SeanBean.
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/grond_arrives.png Grond, the Wolf's Head.]] Forged in Mordor, made of rune-enchanted steel, pulled by giant rhinoceros-like beasts. Manned by Mountain Trolls.
-->'''Orcs''': "[[BattleCry GROND!]] [[BatteringRam GROND!]] [[ICallItVera GROND!]] GROND!
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** [[Film/IronMan Tony Stark]] can build anything -- in a cave! With a box of scraps!
** Film/{{Thor}} will throw a hammer through your mouth and have it go out the back of your head. End of argument.
*** Who's gonna put the hammer down? THOR'S GONNA PUT DA HAMMER DOWN!!
** Agent Phil Coulson. The short "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer" shows that it is entirely justified.
** ComicBook/{{Thanos}} from ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' can [[spoiler: turn anything to dust with a snap of his fingers. ''Anything'' -- ranging from characters from other works of fiction to pesky things like your student loans]]. However, he's always going to stop his destruction halfway, leaving the other half [[Memes/AvengersInfinityWar perfectly balanced, as all things should be]].
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': The Avengers may be badasses in their own right, but they'd still be stuck with the Snap if it wasn't for the universe's greatest hero, [[spoiler: the rat that accidentally freed Scott from the Quantum Realm]].
** Scott Lang himself has become this thanks to the Thanus [[MemeticMutation meme]].
* Creator/IanMcKellen is Magneto '''and''' Gandalf. Seriously: Just back away slowly.
* [[Film/MeanGirls How do I begin to explain Regina George?]]
** Four for you, Glen Coco! You go, Glen Coco!
* From ''Film/TheMightyDucks'', Coach Gordon Bombay has become this to many Anaheim Ducks fans, and even some fans of other teams, especially in light of the 2015 Western Conference Finals, where it was the Ducks against the Blackhawks, shortened to the Hawks. And then after Emilio Estevez actually tweeted his support of the Ducks before Game 5 of said series, [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFQXplaUEAExoTk.png this formation happened.]]
* Morbius from ''Film/Morbius2022'' says [[BeamMeUpScotty “IT’S MORBIN TIME!”]] In actuality, his film just gained a huge [[SoBadItsGood ironic fanbase]] that like to pretend he’s [[Memes/Morbius2022 the most popular superhero of all time from the most successful film of all time]] because of how badly his movie [[BoxOfficeBomb flopped]], ''[[EpicFail twice]]'', along with his actor Creator/JaredLeto [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 already being notorious for being in another incredibly-poorly-received superhero movie]].
* Blog/UnshavedMouse turns ''{{WesternAnimation/Mulan}}'' into one of these (while she's already pretty Badass in her film).
--> "Those of you lucky to still have your lives, take them with you. However leave the limbs you have lost. They belong to me now."
** Yao will hit you so hard, it'll make your ancestors dizzy!
* In ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie'', Mike and the Bots [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall mock their very own credits]] and learn that the Construction Coordinator was a guy named Rando Schmook. Automatically, they declare him "The Amazing RANDO!"
* Creator/LiamNeeson, particularly after his post-''Film/{{Taken}}'' career reinvention. This was particularly helped along by the Series/KeyAndPeele sketch revolving around his badassery. Hell, he even showed he could [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGuPKSBpyBY poke fun at that idea]]. As a popular joke runs: he's been [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010 Zeus]] and [[Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe Jesus]], and he's [[TheMentor trained]] [[Film/BatmanBegins Batman]] and [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Darth Vader]]; [[TooDumbToLive how stupid do you have to be to try to kidnap his daughter?]]
* ''Film/PacificRim'': The Kaidanovskys seem to be [[http://lukemckinney.net/2013/08/21/pacific-rim-how-the-kaidanovskys-survived/ approaching this status]]
** Also [[Creator/RonPerlman Hannibal Chau]] wants his goddamn shoe back '''''now'''''.
** Radiation gets Stacker Pentecost poisoning.
* '''[[JustForFun/{{Hello}} HELLO!]]''' MyNameIsInigoMontoya. YouKilledMyFather. PrepareToDie.
* Film/{{Sharktopus}}. [[RuleOfCool A giant, genetically-altered Shark/Octopus with swords on the the tips of his tentacles.]] That is all.
* As of ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Watson has reached this level, due to his general ability to kick ass, take names, and save Holmes' butt about fifteen times.
* [[Franchise/{{Shrek}} Shrek]]. [[Music/SmashMouth Somebody once told him]] that he was gonna roll the world. Considering that Shrek is one of the most [[MemeticMutation memetic]] characters in history, he was bound to become one of these. There was once a point in time where people continuously jokingly requested for him to be a fighter in the [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros series]]. Sadly, [[Creator/MasahiroSakurai Sakurai]] denied it. Why? He’s too powerful to be in any fighting game.
* Disney seems to consider Maleficent from ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'' one of these. In any given Disney crossover storyline, be it in books, video games, or theme park attractions, she's usually one of the Big Bads if not THE BigBad. Then again, few other Disney villains have ever actually summoned up ''the powers of Hell?'' It also helps that she can turn into one of the most fearsome looking dragons in the history of animation. Maleficent is quite possibly the most evil villain that Creator/{{Disney}} has featured in a movie. After having captured the prince, and having placed Sleeping Beauty under the sleeping spell, she announces that she is going to let the prince go... [[ToThePain when he's 118 years old (she outright states that she's going to keep him there for 100 years.) So that planting a kiss on Sleeping Beauty will likely be the last thing he ever does.]] Not only is he likely to drop dead as soon as he finishes kissing her Aurora is going to be left broken-hearted and have not aged a day. The animated Maleficent was absolutely cruel in every way. In fact there seems to be only one thing in the world she ever showed any kindness for and that is her pet raven.
* Italian actor Creator/BudSpencer. According to fans, he's so strong that Creator/GordonRamsay ''praises his cooking'', and he once insulted Creator/ChuckNorris' mum and Chuck ''offered him a drink''. In fact, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZyaGA8vS6U he can punch into submission anything but an out-of-order bancomat]], [[https://cdn-img-i.facciabuco.com/203/fdqbtfkl8d-vegeta-spaventato-dopo-che-bud-spencer-mette-fuori-uso-goku-nei-nuovissimi-episodi_b.jpg can easily defeat Goku]] and [[https://scontent.fgoa1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/39945295_376997379502614_3989716733253386240_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=825194&_nc_ohc=rY_TwGCxUpwAX9mad_r&_nc_ht=scontent.fgoa1-1.fna&oh=00_AfCpYNFbjCYNIqHj3m6h1Dth2TSfAnCrGyy3paBZ70ntXQ&oe=6402180E can snap Thanos out of existence without Infinity Stones]].
* [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy The Tobey Maguire iteration of Spider-Man]], particularly under the influence of [[Film/SpiderMan3 the symbiote]], has undergone a recent rebranding in the Website/YouTube community as “Bully Maguire”, in which he is so insanely overpowered that he [[spoiler:can snap Thanos out of existence ''without'' the Infinity Stones]] in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', can take on all of the opponents that Neo did in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' without breaking a sweat [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments (except for hurting his back after doing a backflip)]], can be put in the role of any Sith Lord in ''Franchise/StarWars'' no matter how overpowered they are, etc. It started ironically due to symbiote-influenced Peter Parker being a MemeticLoser originally (originally going by the much less flattering "Emo Peter"), but the hilarity of seeing symbiote-Peter’s [[EvilIsPetty personality]] combined with unbelievable strength and power has made the meme of him being a badass catch on.
* Fledgling example: [[http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=91523 Captain Christopher Pike]] of ''Film/StarTrek2009''. Don't forget [[http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=76045 Captain Robau]]. The shields on the ''Kelvin'' don't keep enemy phasers out. They keep Captain Robau ''in.''
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Yoda. Greater than Mace Windu he is. Greater Jedi than all others combined, times Mace Windu squared, he is. Muppet he is. Puts all the Sith to shame he does.
** Sheev Palpatine, a Sith Lord with [[EvilIsHammy UNLIMITED]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide POWWWWWWWWAAAAAH!]] who is also [[IAmTheNoun the entire Galactic Senate]].
** Boba Fett went out like a punk on screen, taken out by a blind man and a pole. But he looked so [[ShroudedInMyth gosh-damn mysterious]] in his [[RuleOfCool cool body armor]] that fans assumed that he [[HesJustHiding must in all essences]] be the Galaxy Far, Far Away's version of Franchise/{{Batman}}. And so, in ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', that is indeed what he became. Even in his seventies and [[UnexplainedRecovery recovering from]] a ''terminal'' illness, he could still manage to beat the stuffing out of anyone who gets in his way. Parodied heavily in WesternAnimation/RobotChicken's ''Star Wars'' specials, in which he's more of a SmallNameBigEgo. In the new canon, where he appears onscreen in ''Series/TheMandalorian'' and ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', his badassery is downplayed compared to ''Legends'', but he still escaped the Sarlacc, got back in the game and even took over a crime syndicate.
** [[FanNickname TR-8R]], the Stormtrooper from ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', started reaching memetic badass levels when he took on Finn (who has a lightsaber) with a ''baton'' and kicked his ass.
---> ''[[SignatureLine "TRAITOR!"]]''
** Obi-Wan Kenobi can defeat anyone, because he has the high ground.
** Everyone lets Chewbacca win, because when he loses he rips arms off.
** [[Film/RogueOne Chirrut Imwe]], who doesn't need [[BlindWeaponmaster sight]] ''or'' [[BadassNormal the Force]] to kick your ass. Shoots TIE Fighters down with a crossbow and ''yawns'' while doing it. ''He is one with the Force and the Force is with him.''
** Luke Skywalker, who, as of ''Film/TheLastJedi'', [[spoiler: [[AstralProjection astral projected himself]] across the ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome entire universe]]'' just to [[{{Troll}} fuck with his punk-ass nephew.]]]]
** Snoke's PraetorianGuard. [[spoiler: Fought Rey and Kylo Ren to a standstill without Force powers.]] 'Nuff said.
** Coleman Trebor (the green [[LizardFolk Vurk]] Jedi who is easily killed by Jango Fett in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'') is a completely ironic example of this trope, with fans insisting he is the strongest Jedi despite his unimpressive showing.
** [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Jar Jar Binks]] [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenrant.com/star-wars-details-prove-darth-jar-jar-theory/amp/ is secretly a Sith Lord]] and was the GreaterScopeVillain all along.
* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'':
** Bonecrusher hates this page and everyone on it. The only reason he hasn't ground the servers to dust and killed everyone who's ever edited the page is because it provides a handy list of people he needs to kill, and Bonecrusher hates to be unprepared.
** Optimus Prime would like you to '''give him your face!'''
* ''Film/{{Tremors}}'': [[CrazySurvivalist Burt Gummer]]. [[CatchPhrase Doin' what he can with what he's got]]
* [[Film/{{Troy}} Achilles]]. "Who would win? [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Achilles or]] ...?" ([[Film/ThreeHundred Leonidas]] / [[Film/{{Gladiator}} Maximus]]/ Franchise/{{Superman}} / [[Website/ChuckNorrisFacts Chuck Norris]]...) Experts have even pronounced him "Str8 gangsta", of all things. ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}'' fans [[https://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments=1&v=DrkguvGFnrE debate at length]]: ''"Achilles is kinda cheating with the heel thing..."'' And the answer is: [[RunningGag Achilles]]. He had a [[AchillesHeel body part named after him]], making this trope OlderThanFeudalism. Unfortunately this makes him still vulnerable to heel kicks...ones that ''he'' delivers.
* [[Film/{{Undisputed}} Yuri Boyka]]. [[MemeticMutation He is the most complete fighter in the world.]]
* The version of Film/VanHelsing of the self-titled movie -- at least [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/01/19/ in Tycho's book]].
* In the 2011 film ''Film/{{Warrior}}'': Tommy becomes one in-universe after his video hits the web. He does eventually prove to be worth his fame. %% This entry was added automatically by FELH2. In case the wording doesn't make sense, rewrite it as you like, remove this comment and tell this troper.
* "You [[Film/TheWarriors Warriors]] are good. Real good." "The best." Not really a BadassBoast, as they have already proven this to be factually true.
* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'':
** Ralph is gonna wreck it. It doesn't matter what it is. HE'S GONNA WRECK IT!
** If it's a monster, Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun will obliterate it with a machine gun, even on a day away from work. Even during her wedding. Calhoun earned the title of "Queen of Badassery" BEFORE she existed (that is, before her game was plugged in the arcade).
* [[Film/YoureNext Erin Hanson]] is not a FinalGirl. She's ''the'' FinalGirl to outshine all others. She is the smartest, most resourceful and capable of them all, and no slasher would survive a fight with her. Just ask the killers in her own movie. Oh wait...you can't. [[spoiler: Because she violently killed every last one of them.]]

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