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The reputation of Team Gurren echoes far and wide! When they talk about its badass leader, the man of indomitable spirit and paragon of masculinity, they're talkin' about me! THE MIGHTY KAMINA!
— Kamina, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

The mighty realm of anime is no stranger to badasses whose names echo in legend.

  • Somewhat a dark example but fans have noticed that a few series have their characters killed thanks to any vehicle, usually a truck, ramming into them, setting off a lot of Reincarnation stories.
  • Angel Beats!: A clothespin! Y-you pin it... and it doesn't fall! The laundry doesn't get dirty! So beautiful!
    • There's also T.K. Most of the fandom believes he's God.
    • Shiina's appearance means that your force has been strengthen by a thousand men.
  • Chirico Cuvie from Armored Trooper VOTOMS, a man who is able to turn an otherwise scrapworthy mech into a killing machine on par with gundams. It's also one of the few reasons why he doesn't give every other army a curb stomping. And even if you do shoot down his mech? He'll survive and find another within a week ready to fight again and even outside a scopedog, he can shoot down planes with his pistol.
  • Attack on Titan: To the surprise of absolutely no-one, Captain Levi has developed into this. Also, more hilariously, the walnut from the second ending.
    • The Walls weren't built to protect humans from the Titans, they were built to protect the Titans from LEVI MOTHERFUCKING ACKERMAN.
  • Berserk has of course Guts The Berserker (his love is like a truck), The Black Swordsman (not that skinny teen from Sword Art Online), The 100 Man-Slayer manga protagonist with a BFS who makes Doomslayer look like Princess Peach in comparsion. Fans consider Guts no less than a giga-chad who is simultaneously also The Woobie to the greatest degree. There's also his purse for when Guts wears it, the purse "BECOMES A MANLY BAG◊".
    • Rickert became one after slapping Griffith himself in the face and getting away with it. He's no slouch with his ingenious inventions either, which include a repeating crossbow and a prosthetic arm cannon.
  • Baccano!:
    • Claire Stanfield. Most Baccano fans agree that he could take anything, from mere mob bosses to immortals to even possibly elder gods. And unlike Batman, he would need no preptime at all.
    • Jacuzzi Splot may make you groan in annoyance with his crybaby attitude, but he WILL make you groan in PAIN if you tempt him enough.
  • Black Butler:
  • Black Clover:
    • While Yami is already considered badass by the fandom, it is agreed by everyone that he's at his strongest when someone interrupts him when he's taking a dump.
    • In a similar case to Lord Twigo, Sekke of all people has become one, with people joking that he will become the next Wizard King, that he's the most powerful character of the manga or that he is the true Big Bad of the series, manipulating everything from the shadows and using his arrogant and unlucky facade to not draw the attention.
  • Bleach:
    • Aizen is famous for being an absolutely overpowered villain who is so powerful that not even multiple captains can defeat him. Years later when he comes back to the action, he's become so powerful that he can defeat the Gotei 13 while being bound to the chair he was imprisoned in. In fact, the only thing that stops him from being wrecking more shit is the chair. It is now Chair-kun, the most powerful being in the universe.
    • We have Aizen's truly gigantic couch, which has been theorized to be The Man Couch Behind The Man Behind the Man and the strongest character in the series. To a lesser degree, this applies to the rest of Aizen's furniture as well, all of which is over the top.
    • There is also Yammy, Espada # 10 who had been propelled to Godlike levels of power long before he was revealed to be in actuality, Espada # 0.
    • Kenpachi Zaraki is actually an alternate universe version of Chuck Norris. Just replace "roundhouse kick" with "cut you to little bits".
      • They say that if Kenpachi reached Bankai, the Universe would implode. An Ascended Meme (though not word for word) thanks to the anime.
      • It's more likely that his bankai is Chuck Norris.note 
      • Same result.
    • Squad 11, which Kenpachi leads, fears only one person more than their captain: the captain of "wimpy" Squad 4, Unohana Retsu. Who walks into Hueco Mundo, and promptly scares off a powerful Arrancar as well as an entire squad of his clones, with a polite request and gentle smile. She can scare anybody — even Aizen — into submission with with a polite request and a smile. Hell, she does not even have to be in the room. She even GOT FREAKIN' KENPACHI to back down. She's that terrifying. And here is why: She was the First Kenpachi — the person Zaraki desires to be!
    • Isshin's so badass he can take Aizen on with just his middle finger.
    • Chojiro Sasakibe was known for being a Memetic Loser due to his severe lack of screentime, being quickly defeated by Ichigo and later unceremoniously killed off at the beginning of the Thousand-Year Blood War arc. The anime adaptation of the Thousand-Year Blood War changes his reputation for the positive, particularly it adds a flashback scene where Sasakibe contributed to Yhwach's defeat 1000 years prior to the story, namely stabbing him from behind with a sneak attack. This led to countless memes of Sasakibe stabbing/cutting other characters from behind, and people joking about him being so dangerous to Yhwach that he decided to take Sasakibe out first.
  • Canaan: Need a taxi anyone?
  • A Certain Magical Index:
    • Touma Kamijou. In the Japanese side of the fandom: Put him up against anything, he'll Imagine Break it into oblivion, and he has his own meme: Sogebu (stands for Sono Gensou wo Buchikorosunote ). In the West? He's the freaking TouMAN.
    • Accelerator. Dude has invincible powers, loses them, and that just makes him even stronger. He's still Academy City's #1 esper.
    • Acqua of the Back is Superman.
  • CLANNAD: Tomoyo Sakagami. Mess with her and she'll juggle you with her feet.
  • Teresa from Claymore will cut your God in half. BEFORE HE BREATHES. Just ask the 4 other Claymores that attacked her.
  • Code Geass:
    • Margrave Jeremiah Gottwald is THE ULTIMATE SYMBOL OF CHIVALRY AND LOYALTY.
    • Suzaku Kururugi. In-show, he does boast some pretty impressive Charles Atlas Superpower, but the fandom has raised him to the point where his "Spinzaku" alter-ego can throw down in Artistic License – Martial Arts with Chuck Norris and at least draw.
    • Kyoshiro Tohdoh has also become one among certain segments of the English-speaking fandom, credited with such abilities as shooting lasers out of his eyes and consuming human souls through eye contact.
      • The fact that Tohdoh's English voice actor is Steve Blum (considered the English equivalent of Norio Wakamoto on this very wiki for a reason) may be a contributing factor.
    • Clovis la Britannia and Rivalz Cardemonde have both qualified, thanks to a plethora of So Bad, It's Good Fanfictions that were spawned on a certain image board. Some of the sheer badassitude attributed to Clovis in certain fanfics has to be read to be believed. Clovis remained extremely popular among certain fans throughout the series run, despite having bit it within three episodes. His popularity may have contributed to him being mentioned and referenced throughout the first series and into R2.
    • Lelouch vi Britannia only misses out on this page because he doesn't need to be exaggerated. He really did hit an army with a mountain. And a volcano.
  • Only Ange in Cross Ange can claim to break a metallic arm with her ass. While she was cavity searched. In Super Robot Wars V, if the Vilkiss is in a space map, she still opens the Vilkiss' cockpit to deliver her killing blow with her machine gun without any space suit or even a mask! Remember the abovementioned Chirico Cuvie? Even he had to wear a mask!
    • There's only one awesome maid in this series capable of serving Ange, and that's Momoka Oginome, TOPPU MEIDO! She can even survive anything with just a frying pan on her chest!
  • Space pimp Banjou Haran from Daitarn 3 is essentially James Bond with a Humongous Mecha, with all of the badass that implies.
  • After Kirigiri's death in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School, the fanbase split into two groups: those who reacted with sadness, and those who proclaimed that she was too badass to die, that this was an obvious fakeout, that her being imprisoned and poisoned and forcibly sedated was no guarantee that her murderer had succeeded, etc.
    • Izuru Kamukura had always held this title after Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls showed him punching through solid steel with his bare hands without flinching, but the anime elevated it after, in short order, he completely curb-stomped (literally) Junko and back-handed Mukuro into a wall...while staying completely seated on his bed. Cue thousands of posts proclaiming his real title was Ultimate Badass, that his hair was a measurement of his power, that if he ever got serious he would end the show on the spot, etc.
  • Hei AKA Chinese Electric Batman from Darker than Black. Even before getting his power, he was badass incarnate, after getting it, he's pretty much the most dangerous Contractor in the world. His coat is also bulletproof only when he wears them, because he's just that badass.
  • In terms of Power Levels, Elder God Demonbane is one of the end-all discussions of Power Level arguments out there (not just limited to Humongous Mecha either): essentially, anything a character can do, there exists a Demonbane who can do it better.
  • Daimon Masaru (known as Marcus Damon in the dub) from Digimon Data Squad, due to his in universe ability to punch and actually hurt enemy Digimon. The finale of the series has Masaru punching and defeating Yggdrasil, the Digital World equivalent of God. Needless to say, this is carried over to his finale in Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time, which has him punching bigger and more impressive things and the fandom has run with it.
  • The Dirty Pair. Hell, even their name is because of their reputation. Space stations, buildings, cities, whole planets (and in one Adam Warren comic, an entire star cluster) get destroyed in their adventures. Never mind that it's not actually their fault.
  • Dragon Ball:
    • Although possibly a localized example, Mr. Popo from became this on the GameFAQs board devoted to the series. The origin of this is a filler scene where he manages to catch the punches of Super Saiyans Trunks and Goten, despite being far, far less powerful than them. So many topics were made asking how he could do this, that eventually the posters just ran with it. This is also the case in Dragon Ball Z Abridged, whose version of Mr. Popo is... massively over-the-top, prone to random acts of cruelty, and hilarious. It helps that one of his earliest appearances in Dragon Ball has him casually and literally eating the Kamehameha.
      "Enjoy the climb back up, BITCH!"
      "I'll tell where they're not. Safe.
    • In the first episode of Dragon Ball Z, there is an anonymous farmer who tries to confront Raditz with a shotgun, only to be casually murdered and never heard from again. At some point, this character became known as "Farmer With A Shotgun" and generated rumor that he is phenomenally powerful, and could even defeat Cell or Majin Buu (or Raditz, for that matter) for good.
    • Also postulated to be the most powerful characters in the series (and in all of existence) by GameFAQs: Mr. Satan (of course), Dr. Briefs' cat, and a random at one of the tournaments wearing a t-shirt that says "Super Saiyan" on it.
    • SON FRIGGIN GOKU. His Power Level is OVER NINE THOOOOOUUUUUUUUUSAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!!! And even before that, he was beating back entire armies with a magic stick and taking people up to the moon. He then killed the Demon King with one hand and beat his more powerful son with all his limbs disabled. You also can't kill Goku unless it's on his terms. When one of the most notable memes among the fandom is whether or not someone can beat Goku, he's one of these full-stop.
    • Don't piss Son Gohan off, or you'll be finished! He vaporized the Ultimate Life Form when he was just eleven.
    • Perhaps the best example though has to be Chi-Chi. Goku may be the strongest being in the Universe, but he's scared crapless by his wife. Hell, Chi-Chi would've won the Cell Games in one episode.
    • Baby Pan is jokingly regarded as one of the most powerful beings of Universe 7, able to fly into outer space and beat up Future Trunks while still be just a year old. Some even claim that Pan holds the record of being the youngest person (literally as a fetus) to ever go Super Saiyan since Videl is able to partake in a Super Saiyan God ritual when she is pregnant with Pan.
    • Broly's power is maximum!!
    • Cooler, Frieza’s cooler older brother is frequently considered this especially in the Dragon Ball Fighter Z community where he wields guns and plants Goku in the ground like a “dumbass ass tree”.
    • Roshi's turtle, anyone? It obviously has the power to suppress its power level, and even General Blue knew better than to engage the turtle in a fight. Turtle > SSJ4 Gogeta.
    • Bulma gets this in Dragon Ball Super for being the only character (aside from Whis) who is able to get away with scolding and hitting Beerus. It even appears that Beerus is scared of Bulma, sweatdropping or looking nervous whenever Bulma gets angry. That's right, the God of Destruction is intimidated by this one mortal. She's also jokingly said to be immensely powerful for her slap scratching Beerus in Battle of Gods, while sustaining little damage from Beerus knocking her down.note 
    • Yamcha has received this status for getting away with smacking Beerus. Yamcha's playable incarnation in Dragon Ball Fighter Z also gets this due to how surprisingly awesome he is to play, with numerous comments on gameplay videos declaring him one of the most powerful beings in the Dragon Ball universe.
    • Vegeta has a power level over 9000 due to the amount of juice he drinks. He managed to beat up Golden Frieza and Beerusnote , both of which Goku had failed to defeat not long before his first fight with them, and defeated Frost in one punch just for looking kinda like Frieza. Like any good Dragon Ball character, he also has a habit of getting back up again no matter what he's hit with.
  • Shizuo from Durarara!!. It took getting stabbed in the knees with pens twice for Shizuo to notice he was getting attacked.
    • Shuji directly asks Celty the "who would win in a fight?" question, which causes her to burst out laughing. It's Shizuo against an unkillable fae with the ability to give darkness physical form — Of course Shizuo would win.
      • Shizuo is this so much in-universe that Tom considers anyone who lives in Ikebukuro but doesn't know about him as most likely public school dropouts.
    • Mikado is considered one now after the pen-stabbing incident with Aoba.
    • Izaya, on the other hand, will troll you out of your clothes. And then stomp on your cellphone.
  • Fairy Tail:
    • When your name is Erza Scarlet, is there really anything more to say?
      "That's Erza for ya!"
    • What will Natsu eat? He eats from an Explosion.
    • Mirajane doesn't tolerate you harming her family.
    • Gildartz made Natsu cry.
    • Played for Laughs in canon with Lucy, who would get credited with a bunch of wild, incredible deeds... maybe ten percent of which she actually performed, and which were all horrendously exaggerated due to unreliable word-of-mouth.
  • The Familiar of Zero: Saito can and will simply walk into Mordor.
  • Fate Series:
    • The Servant Archer from Fate/stay night had such a badass final fight, it spawned the creation of the word/concept of GAR. (Note: This one is actually true.)
    • The Berserker from Fate/Zero, also known as GA­Rserker. His first scene in the anime is already badass enough, but it goes up to eleven when he TAKES OVER A JET FIGHTER AND DOGFIGHTS GILGAMESH. He also kicks Saber's ass in the span of 40 seconds (she did have limited use of her left hand but it would've barely made a difference), later curb-stomps her until he runs out of mana, and shoots a minigun from the hip in midair.
    • Given how powerless he is and how amusingly full of himself yet completely pathetic he behaves, it was inevitable that Shinji has become a bit of an ironic memetic badass in the fandom.
  • Thanks to his infamous and vastly parodied catchphrase, Fist of the North Star's Kenshiro regularly wanders into meme battles from out of nowhere. Which, ironically, is how every single non-essential story in the HnK universe starts out. One particular example had him challenge and utterly destroy a near-hundred person band of marauding raiders who had recently ravaged a small township he had passed through. He simply stood in the way of the only exit from the cavern, and stated any who made it past would be granted amnesty and live past this day. Yeah, no surprises what happens next.
    • Also, Raoh. When a real-life funeral is held when the character dies, you know they're one of these.
  • Nasa, the protagonist of Fly Me to the Moon, has gained a reputation as a badass among Romantic Comedy protagonists; not only did he survive a direct hit from Truck-kun, but he also married and kissed his Love Interest in the opening chapters of the manga/first episode of the anime, while most would take dozens of not hundreds of volumes/episode to even get to Holding Hands.
  • Klaus Heinz van dem Eberbach of NATO Intelligence, from From Eroica with Love. So badass he is known as "Iron Klaus". When he arrived on Alaska, the local FBI commented "I heard that all the Alaskan bears are migrating out after hearing that Iron Klaus is here".
  • THIS PRACTICE OF BADASSERY HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THROUGH THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS!!!
    • Roy Mustang deserves a spot on here. He closes his wounds with FIRE. He also never cries, it just happens to rain sometimes.
      • When he's fuhrer all female officers will wear TINY MINI SKIRTS!!!
    • King Bradley killed a tank. With a sword.
      • You don't bring a tank to a Bradley fight!
      • You don't bring a Bradley to a tank fight!
    • Izumi doesn't even need vital organs to KICK YOUR ASS.
  • Full Metal Panic!: Believe me — ask anyone, and they will tell you it's canon that Gauron is an immortal zombie. People probably conceded to his immortal superpowers when he survived a deadly explosion the five billionth time.
  • Future Diary's Yuno Gasai is the unstoppable Yandere of all Yanderes. Don't get in her way, and whatever you do, don't hurt Yukki.
  • Getter Robo:
  • Fictional example: Much of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is about Laughing Man imitators. His already godlike hacking abilities are exaggerated by the media and greedy corporations.
    • The Major. There will always be plenty of people who will have the rank of Major, but to fans, there can only ever be one "The Major."
  • In three and a half years, Golgo 13 will have killed everyone on the planet.
  • The late Daisuke Gōri: "'I AM THE PRINCIPAL OF OTOKO JUKU EDAJIMA HEIHACHI!'''''"
    • Edajima Heihachi has since been given his own manga about how he became the principal of Otokojuku. Amongst other insane acts of badassery, he took (and passed, top of his class) the entrance exam to Tokyo University at twelve years of age. He rescued the Emperor of Manchuria from a prison cell on accident, and mastered Kung Fu just by watching someone else practice it for 30 seconds. Need we say more?
  • Hellsing:
    • Alucard, a character so powerful that there is basically no way to actually exaggerate the stuff he can do, gets this treatment often.
    • Integra gets this treatment at lesser degree, because she's the one sending Alucard to be a badass. "SEARCH AND DESTROY!"
    • A curious in universe example of this is Sir Shelby Penwood, who went down Hellsing history as a true hero and badass who can slice through Zeppelin and nazi armies.
    • Piss off the police girl, and you get "NO FORGIVENESS! EVER!"
    • Father Alexander AAAAAAAAAMEEEEEEEEENNNNN!!!!!!!!
    • Just about every character in Hellsing gets this treatment. Seriously.
  • Hetalia: Axis Powers:
    • "ALL HAIL PRUSSIA! PRAISE HIM! ON YOUR KNEES!"
    • Hungary, the manliest character in all of history, would like Austria's vital regions returned.
    • YOU WILL ALL BECOME ONE WITH RUSSIA. Not to mention that he broke Busby's Chair which is supposed to send anybody who sits in it to hell... twice!
    • ALL HAIL FLYING MINT BUNNY, OUR GOD, THE CREATOR.
    • As of Hetaween 2011, we have Romano. Or better said: GRANDMANO.
    • Finland (specifically Sniper Finland) seems to be becoming this, mostly on the grounds that any country that could produce someone like Simo Hayha is automatically a badass.
  • Issei Hyoudou in High School D×D. He's got at least SEVENTEEN badass tropes in his name, three more than Yuri Lowell and just as many as the freaking Dragonborn.
    • Not too far behind we have Gasper — or better, GARsper — being able to twist time to his liking and literally blow stuff up, Azazel, with all the crazy — and stylish things he does, and Sirzechs, as... Well, if he scared Hades shitless he's got to be badass.
  • Jewelpet:
    • Garnet can finger snap the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe away...and while Iron Man snaps once and dies, she can snap repeatedly without feeling a thing and doesn't need the Infinity Stones to do the Snap.
    • Luea is stated to be able to do more damage in a single episode than Korra can in her entire show. Why, you ask? Luea's canon feats alone include turning Sakutaro into a toothpick, creating a massive water tornado, repeatedly encircling a large area in six seconds and lighting it on fire to heat up everyone around her, crushing a giant monster with the entire Leaning Tower of Pisa, landing on a moving plane, and levitating a castle into space. She even one-shotted Amon and Zaheer (the former so hard he exploded) and blew up Lord Shen's ship just by kicking a soccer ball into it. Oh, and it's a good thing Ruby dodged her punch, for it's powerful enough to one-shot Parallax, Broly, and a Mega Kaiju.
  • JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
    • It's become something of a joke among fans that series author, Hirohiko Araki, is an ageless immortal◊ (or an immortal fairy).
    • Joseph goddamn Joestar, espeically when he says "Your Next Line is" which he used even on the Ultimate Life Form. In Battle Tendency with no Stand, posing and plenty of bullshit, he wrecked four Aztec superbeings who were 10 times more powerful than Dio was in Phantom Blood and he's the only JoJo who got to live until old age. Even as a 69 year old man in Stardust Crusaders he still generates Perverse Sexual Lust in and out of universe "OH MY GOD" and it's pretty confirmed had Alessi used his Fountain of Youth Stand on Joseph (returning him to his prime) the adventure would've been over in no time at all, because peak Joseph is just that badass.
    • While Robert E. O. Speedwagon is a Badass Normal at best, his status as the series' biggest Ensemble Dark Horse has resulted in him being proclaimed as the strongest character in the franchise.
    • Golden Wind:
      • While Giorno Giovanna is canonically the strongest character in the entire series thanks to his evolved Stand, Gold Experience Requiem, being able to No-Sell literally any attack, many fans joke that he could beat anyone even without Requiem, just as long as Il vento d'oro is playing.
      • Guido Mista, who manages to be both this and Memetic Loser. Despite suffering from The Worf Effect a number of times throughout the Part, fans often treat him as a Deadpool-esque badass with a harem of every character in the Part.
  • Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple:
    • Furinji Hayato]] can take on the US army and win. Also he used people as weapons.
    • Anything in Shigure's hands becomes a deadly weapon though she won't kill you.
    • Apachai can punch through a few walls and down a few stories without killing you.
  • Takamachi Nanoha in Lyrical Nanoha: mostly justified, though her tendency to shoot first (because magic damage can't kill people) extended by fans into outright battle lust to befriend people through maximum firepower rather than a last resort.
  • Macross Frontier:
    • Because Ozma Lee IS A MAN!, he punched the curse of pineapple cake in the face, and then ate it.
    • Machida, a NUNS VF-171 pilot who appears for roughly 20 seconds in a single episode. In a world where Red Shirts last about ten and generally die in a flurry of Stock Footage, we see what at first glance appears to be said Stock Footage of a flight getting killed by missiles. The missiles come in and... get dodged as Machida laughs "You thought that was going to work every time?!" Commence ass kicking of two red vajra (which usually require combined arms attacks from the protagonists to take down). Has becomes something of a meme for any random vehicle pilot (at least Valkyrie pilots in any Macross series) who should be a Red Shirt and yet does something beyond the call of the Red Shirt, since obviously all of them were Machida. Yes, this goes retroactively to all the older Macross series too.
  • For decades, the Mazinger franchise codified plenty of Mecha tropes, but wasn't exactly a notable machine, when others like the Elder God Demonbane and Getter Emperor eclipsed what Mazinger Z can do in terms of abilities and power. In comes Mazinger ZERO, whose immense Story-Breaker Power leads to every Humongous Mecha in The Multiverse ever created fighting ZERO, yet only beat the latter into submission. It's telling that ZERO has put Mazinger back into the upper echelons of the Mecha genre when Massively Multiplayer Crossover Super Robot Wars explicitly states ZERO is the single greatest threat to all parties.
  • Char Aznable from Mobile Suit Gundam is stated to make anything three times faster (from a statement that Char's custom red Zaku was three times faster than a normal Zaku). This is also expanded to just mention the word "three times" in some way, like Char Aznable is three times as badass as Chuck Norris.
    • Additionally, it became a common meme that everything painted red in Gundam is three times faster that its counterparts. At one point Gundam 00 lampshaded it with Trans-Am system which, when activated, actually paints an otherwise traditionally colored Gundam red and makes it exactly three times faster than before.
      • The Zudah showed what would happen if you tried to make a suit go three times faster without a red coat of paint. It explodes.
      • Da Red wunz go faster, ya gitz!
      • Points must be given to Major Duvall for going out in style, as well as completing his objective as he does so, comparable to Norris Packard's own awesome death.
    • "Nu Gundam isn't for Show!" And how given it single handely stopped an asteroid
    • Mobile Fighter G Gundam: Master Asia could solo the Gundam multiverse. On foot and armed only with a sash.
      • Also, anytime a person fights a Humongous Mecha that's not a Mecha-Mook on foot tends to be referred to as channeling the great Undefeated Of The East.
    • Bright Noa: slapping spineless wimps into MEN OF DESTINY since UC 0060.
      • In Super Robot Wars 4, this is completely canon: He is responsible for making Shinji Ikari a Badass, and has killed the Angels! He's also proven himself to be so awesome a battle commander, forces from over 50 different mecha anime have been willing to concede to his authority.
    • Ali Al Saachez of Gundam 00 is quite popular, and egregiously so. Some fans adore seeing him for not what he is, but what they have turned him into, and it has affected some people's views on the plot (usually positive). A particular trait is his abnormally high survival rate and "high score" on main character kill counts, both on and off screen. After all, "Prince Ali, mighty is he!"
      • Furthermore, he doesn't wear the seatbelt for his safety. He wears it for the car's.
    • Patrick Colasour could take on all the memetic badasses on this page, get knocked into a black hole, and pull himself out of it unscathed.
    • Lacus Clyne will take over the universe with a smile, her songs, and her army of Haros! She does. As the leaderess of the PLANTs, that is.
    • Mix one part Zeta-era Amuro Ray, one part Quattro Bajeena and one part Bright Noah in a blender and set to liquefy. Add Hot-Blooded Sideburns. The result? JAMIL NEATE.
    • Tobia Arronax is considered one for all the amazing feats he pulls off in Crossbone, which include surviving being shot in the chest, hijacking a Gundam you were fighting against on foot, being a pirate, and having a 13-bladed beam saber.
    • Daguza Mackle from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn is heading in this direction, for taking on an ace custom with a handheld bazooka. He does it again in Episode 3, but this time to Full Frontal's Sinanju.
    • Harry Ord is one among ∀ Gundam fans, described on its page as "Char minus ambition plus awesome".
      • The Turn A itself, on account of being undeniably the most powerful Gundam ever made (well, unless the Turn X counts as a Gundam, in which case there is room for debate); most stalemated Gundam vs. Gundam "who would win"s end with "Turn A kills them both".
    • Gihren Zabi is depicted in the original series as a cold-hearted dictator willing to kill millions and permanently damage the Earth's environment if it means he'll get to rule it, but because of games like Gihren's Greed (which, if you do a "good" playthrough as him and win, results in an ending where Gihren takes over the Earth and leads it into a glorious future) some fans have taken to joking about Gihren as if he were a benevolent dictator who could have singlehandedly solved everything in the series and brought about everlasting peace.
    • Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury's Chuatury "Chuchu" Panlunch became this thanks to her Memetic Hair, but clearly exploded in popularity after slugging two bullies in the face and later getting in the winning shot by sniping Shaddiq's Mobile Suit in the head with a wrecked beam sniper gun.
      • In the second cour, Felsi Rollo joined Chuchu after she saved Guel from dying in his Mobile Suit and chewed both him and his brother Lauda for their idiocy. Because of this act, Felsi suddenly became a badass that could save anyone from the Gundam franchise's infamous tragic moments.
  • Monster: Johan Liebert can make you kill yourself just by smiling pleasantly.
  • In a similar vein to Kamina's sunglasses, it's agreed that adding Go Nagai's trademark fiery sideburns and eyebrows to a character will make them more manly and/or Hot-Blooded. Observe◊. This has even become a part of the industry itself, with tribute characters such as Gai Daigoji and Meito Anisawa sporting a pair of impressive 'chops.
  • My Hero Academia:
    • Kinoko Komori is this due to her extremely lethal and just as underutilized power which allows her to grow Mushrooms anywhere. Including inside your body. She can give you literal brain rot by growing mushrooms on your brain. Or stop your heart by clogging every artery in your body at once. Horikoshi himself seems to have realized just how much potential Mushroom has to be a Story-Breaker Power which is why in the finale he has Kinoko matched up against Dabi, who is able to take advantage of her quirk's only meaningful weakness which is that her mushrooms can't grow in high temperature environments.
  • Naruto:
    • Due in large part to him starting a chain of events that ultimately caused Sasuke to defect from Konoha by letting it slip that Itachi came by, thus bringing the story to where it is now, Aoba Yamashiro has been hailed as a badass Spanner in the Works or Chess Master by the fans. Recently, his legend grew when he showed up again with a team of reinforcements after two major villains succeeded in killing a major secondary character. The villains were ordered to retreat shortly thereafter, but that didn't stop the fans from claiming that they had, in reality, ran in terror at the sight of Aoba and his Murder of Crows no Jutsu. It's worth noting that the databooks state his favorite phrase is in fact "Just as planned". He's also stated to be the "door master", generally with shoops showing him killing people by opening a door.
    • For a time on GameFAQs, a running joke on the Naruto boards claimed that the strongest person in the manga was Iruka Umino. The man who did little more than get hit in the spine with a giant shuriken. Ironically, this is one of the reasons fans cite as him being near immortal, as well as claiming that he possesses the Rinnegan and can dual-wield two BF Zabuza swords, which are memetically mutated into insanely powerful weapons of mass destruction which "cannot be beat" (based on an ad for a toy of one which accomplished the feat of tearing rice paper).
    • Einstein's original theory of relativity said: If Might Guy kicks you, your relatives will feel it. Humorously, near the end of the manga, Might Guy unleashes a technique that bends space and time.
    • It is all part of Shikamaru's plan. ALL of it; no matter how strange or farfetched. Its All According to Plan. An excerpt from this thesis that meticulously details exactly why Shikamaru is hot shit:
      "8. Number Eight, He fucking moves shadows. Do you even understand that. Moves...Shadows. THEY ARE FUCKING SHADOWS. IF HE WANTED TO HE WOULD FUCKING TAKE THAT SHADOW ON THE MOON AND PULL THE EARTH AND MAKE A FUCKING EPIC COLLISION."
    • And then there's GARuto... His latest form, Tailed Beast Mode◊, has a longrobe. Made of chakra. So far, no character has managed to look that awesome (and open a skyscraper-sized can of whoopass while doing so!).
    • The Raikage was badass from the word "Go", and it now seems Kishimoto is trying to outdo himself each week. So far he's broken a table by accident, broken through a wall instead of taking the door, tanking a Chidori with little more than a scratch, nearly killed Sasuke, survived Jugo's Beam Spam, punched through Amaterasu to get to Sasuke (nearly killed him again!) and chopped his own burning arm off with his hand. BAD. ASS. Dude doesn't even have a name yet His name is A. It's now generally accepted that his punches are nearing Falcon-level, and can solve pretty much anything. ANYTHING. He also broke the "Zabuza sword", and then he decapitated Kisame, WITH HIS ARM! And not even his good arm (because he didn't have it anymore)!
    • A gets it from his Badass father who faced 10000 shinobi BY HIMSELF for three days!!!
    • The entire Hidden Cloud Village can be considered memetically badass, due to spawning a lot of badass ninjas (Word of God has actually stated they're tied for having the biggest army, and have the best economic strength), and everybody claims that their ninjas can destroy a village with one pebble, due to a joke that happened in Chapter 450 when someone from the Cloud Village thought they accidentally did exactly that.
    • A more specific form of this is how some joke that Karin has "Kage level dodging skills" for how she was able to stand in middle of a battle against multiple Kage without getting injured in the crossfire. It may also be called "Kage level survival skills" and also refer to how she was set on fire once (and by Amaterasu fire to boot) and later getting kicked across a bridge and hitting both the ground and a wall from about 50m in the air, again with minimal visible injury, and then surviving being impaled by a sword made of electricity.
    • The Fanon said that, Tora the cat was said to be a descendant of Nibi the Demon Cat.
    • Paperwork can defeat even the mightiest Kage.
    • Drunken Rock Lee is unstoppable; not even Madara can No-Sell him.
    • The real reason Kisame committed suicide is because he knew he could not stand a chance against Yamato's Headgear. Yamato's headgear is so badass, it is the only non-human/demon to receive any votes in the latest popularity contest.
    • OF course, who could forget the REAL mastermind of the series, Ramen Guy Teuchi? For a while his name was thrown out there for contender of the 6th coffin, because Tobi had every right to be scared of his lethal godliness. Then when Tobi's identity was questioned, Ramen Guy was another contender because who else could orchestrate the series' events like this? No body would have seen the sharingan because he always squints. But that was thrown down because the fans got over their joke and agreed that Tobi couldn't be Ramen Guy. If he was, Tobi would have taken over the world LOOONNG ago.
    • Hashirama is this in-universe for very, VERY, VEEERRRRRYYYY good reason.
    • Some people joke that Tenten will be the hero of story, because she's THE minor character among the Konoha 11.
    • Itachi has entered your mind the minute you start fighting him.
    • In the short extra The Day Naruto Became Hokage, Himawari Uzumaki became famous for knocking out Naruto with one hit! Rule of Funny was probably at work here, and Naruto obviously didn't want to hurt her, but that hasn't stopped fans from joking that she is now the most powerful character, or that she should have been the hero in Boruto: Naruto the Movie.
  • Jack Rakan in Negima! Magister Negi Magi. In his case, the meme is mostly reserved for his awesome style rather than actual power. The actual power part of it left over is enough to break reality thrice just to Bright Slap Negi followed by some cheery advice. And the third one's the charm because he came back to stay alive and joined the fight that was going on. Immediately. HE'S THAT BADASS!
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion:
  • One Piece:
    • After the Whitebeard War story arc, the fandom is now divided between those who apply this treatment to Whitebeard, and those who apply it to Admiral Akainu.
    • And MANSOPP
      • Now overshadowed by GOD USOPP, the true mastermind behind the attack on the SMILE factory and the most dangerous member of the straw hat alliance.
    • Nami also gets this treatment by the fan base. She's the only one who could beat the tar out of Luffy and get away with it, also actually being capable of hurting him, which no one could before the Amazon Arc. Oda also joined on in this, claiming she's beating up HIS SPIRIT!!note  Also, she pawned the Monster Trio in the Fishman Island Arc which none of the arc villains were able to do, with the Fandom claiming that she's the strongest Straw Hat who could beat the Emperors in seconds. And this badassery seems to be escalated when she managed to tame one of Big Mom's dragons and making him an ally of the Straw Hats.
    • Also, PWNGoat. Just by virtue of being the fleet admiral Sengoku's pet fans jokingly attribute all kinds of super-powers to it ...
    • Silvers Rayleigh swam the Calm Belt!
    • Luffy has also somewhat gained this status, seeing as how Eiichiro Oda revealed that Luffy can stretch every part of his body...
      • Gear Third anybody? Hehehe...
    • Anyone who carries the Will of D in their name; fans don't know what it is, but since it's been pretty much outright stated to be very important to the Myth Arc in some way and pretty much every known carrier of it is a badass in their own right, it's become a fandom joke to add this to people's names (either completely ironically to weak characters who pretend that they're stronger than they really are, or jokingly to actually-strong characters who accomplish something awesome) to signify that they're clearly a highly important and kickass figure in the One Piece world. Just a few examples include "Buggy D. Clown" for Buggy the Clown, "Con D. Oriano" for filler character "Condoriano", and the below mentioned "Ma D. Monk" for "Mad Monk" Urouge.
    • Shanks. All he has to do is look at you and you'll either: 1) back down, or 2) faint.
      • He's also the greatest mediator in all of anime & manga, if not fiction. How do you get a Hopeless War to end? Get Shanks to step in, let him say "This war is over", and no-one will dispute it.
    • Buggy the Clown. After bullshitting his way through the entire Impel Down and Marineford arcs by gathering a following of notorious criminals, fighting alongside Luffy, Ivankov, Crocodile, Jimbei and all the other big names, revealing that he was on Gold Roger's crew and becoming a fucking Warlord, Buggy has been worshiped as the true main character of One Piece and the one who will become the Pirate King, if not the Pirate God.
    • "Mad Monk" Urouge got an ironic following after appearing to be the weakest of the Worst Generation, complete with the usual brags about his power. Post-timeskip, however, he proved to have taken a few levels in badass by actually defeating one of Big Mom's stronger subordinates. Cue full revival of the following, complete with the "Ma D. Monk" nickname and claims even Kaido fears him and actually jumped from that cloud to run away from him. Urogue giving Luffy The Worf Effect in One Piece Stampede only helped matters.
    • Charlotte Katakuri. Badass design. Badass powers. Badass Observation Haki. Voiced by Joseph Joestar and inspires Perverse Sexual Lust for his appearance. He’s such a Memetic Badass, a lot of the fanbase were genuinely rooting for Katakuri in his fight with Luffy.
    • Stealth Black/Soba Mask, Sanji’s Henshin Hero. A heroic contender to Sogeking or even Great Saiyanman, the protector of soba stands and the naked women of the public bath house, wrecker of dinosaurs and so badass even the stoic Law and X-Drake fanboy over him In-Universe. This along with some awesome theme music made Soba Mask be considered by some of the fanbase to be more badass than even his real identity Sanji.
    • Kozuki Oden “The Chad” who started the “Harem Wars”. Utterly idolised by the fanbase from the moment he appeared casually using a man’s cremation to boil his food and only got more fan worship when he fought Whitebeard and held all nine of his men above his head while being boiled alive, which wasn’t enough to kill him. Oden is considered the ultimate badass fusion of Luffy, Zoro and Sanji’s best traits, most epic flashback character and One Piece’s equivalent to Samurai Jack.
  • One-Punch Man:
    • Saitama, the eponymous character. He only needs one punch to beat ANYONE. In particular, on VS forums, just 'one punch' is the answer to many debates involving him. Hilariously, while it's not a status he has in-universe, it's gotten to such a point that he rivals even Chuck Norris and Captain Falcon as the biggest Memetic Badass of all time.
    • There is also King, who routinely beats Saitamanote  and can beat any opponent with his luck, even defeating monsters without even fighting them, thus making him 'Zero Punch Man'.
    • Mumen Rider is also considered a badass for his Determinator attributes
    • Various gag characters, like the mosquito that Saitama failed to smash, the cat that scratched his face, and the Hotdog Man monster, are also given this treatment by the fandom sometimes.
  • Penguindrum: Kanba Takakura will kill Gods and Goddesses and all that stands in his way FOR HIMARI'S SAKE!!
  • Pokémon: The Series:
    • GARY MOTHERFUCKING OAK... was here, Ash is a loser. There are 8 badges to earn in Kanto◊, but he somehow earned ten of them. And then he went to try and earn one more.
    • Ash's Buizel is another example. As one forum put it, "WATCHA GONNA DO WHEN BUIZELMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU!?!"
    • Tobias, in a rather tongue-in-cheek manner. We know he has two Legendaries and curbstomps everyone, so people joke that he also has ridiculous things, such as a shiny Arceus.
    • Giovanni. Whatever he does, is done LIKE A BOSS!.
    • Alain, due to his strong track record, more mature attitude and the fact that he defeated Ash's Ash-Greninja and won the Pokemon League despite not really even caring that much about the League itself. This has morphed by fans into making him stronger than every trainer and being able to defeat legends, and saying that he'll take over the show and be the new main character, stealing away Ash's Implied Love Interest Serena on the side by being such an impressive battler.
    • The recurring Bewear that replaces Team Rocket's "blasting off" Running Gag in the Sun and Moon series, for its ability to show up anywhere to whisk them away, pulling feats such as hopping across high rooftops and running on water in the process. Nicknames such as "Ninja Teddy Jesus" have been making the rounds.
    • Ash’s Lycanroc began getting this treatment when it became the Pokémon which finally won Ash a League. Some fans even produced memes about Ash ditching Greninja for it.
  • Princess Tutu the character may have not yet reached memetic badass status, but Princess Tutu the series has. There's something to be said about the fact that the testosterone-laden cesspit of 4chan not only respects a Magical Girl series about ballet, but affectionately nicknames it Guitar Ninjas. (Ads on site are NSFW)
  • Puella Magi Madoka Magica:
    • Homura is a Crazy-Prepared badass packing heat who can still find time to flip her hair while she kicks witch ass.
    • Junko Kaname is a Memetic Badass Normal. She's among the few characters (from all media) the fandom assumes can take on Homura on even footing in fanart.
  • Commander Kuunugi from RahXephon is an in-universe and out-of-universe example. He buries Mulians under the trees in his garden.
  • Record of Grancrest War ends with Theo becoming Emperor, but fans praise him as "Theo-sama", destroyer of oppressors, greater than George Washington, etc, even in response to episodes where he's "just" an unusually badass warlord.
  • Record of Ragnarok:
    • As far as fans are concerned, the frog-like being that gives Raiden salt to start his battle against Shiva (referred to as "Salt Frog" by fans) is a supreme god that even Zeus doesn't stand a chance against.
    • Despite not participating in Ragnarok and seemingly not possessing any of the abilities he's known for, fan like to portray Jesus as one of the most powerful beings in the series.
  • Orion Eden in Saint Seiya Omega. He was capable of curb-stomping one of the strongest Gold Saints in the entire series. He only needed to pull one Orion Devastation and it sent Virgo Fudou flying like a kite. In fact, Eden and Phoenix Ikki (of whom Eden is an expy) pretty much curb-stomp every battle they're in.
  • Makoto from School Days is dubbed Man-koto and jokingly worshiped on a certain image board for attracting and banging pretty much anything female in the cast without hesitation or mercy. If you count the games, this includes the mothers, sisters, and several threesomes. He doesn't get away with this in the end pays for his actions (sometimes) and is hardly an admirable character, but that's why this is Memetic Badass.
  • Vy Low a.k.a. Scarface from Shadow Skill. He killed a giant evil werewolf by looking at it, to death.
  • In Slayers the main character, Lina Inverse, often finds that her reputation as a violent, cruel, infinitely powerful sorceress has preceded her: often just the rumor that she's in town can reduce entire populations into terrified, quivering wrecks. Of course, when she's banking on her reputation producing that effect, no one has heard of her. More precisely, no one has heard of the "Beautiful Genius Sorceress, Lina Inverse". Everybody has heard of "Lina Inverse, Dragon Spooker and the Enemy Of All Who Live".
  • Tezca Tlipoca from Soul Eater. Not only is he able to defeat Medusa and Justin Law AT THE SAME TIME (and then being able to track down Justin Law) but he also wears A FUCKING BEAR MASK AND A TUXEDO! You can't get more badass than that.
    • And HE WILL NEVER DIE!!!!
    • Black☆Star has surpassed GOD!!!
    • FOOLS! Excalibur's legend began in the 12th century!
  • Over Justice, the two dimensional hammy flaming skeleton space cop from Space Patrol Luluco. His obsession with Justice and the law make him a god amongst men and aliens, and his burning justice utterly incinerates the Life Fibers from Kill la Kill. He's just that devoted.
  • Zeorymer of the Heavens is this thanks to its explosion-themed powers, ominous theme song, and overpoweredness in Super Robot Wars. The pilot, not so much.
  • Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann:
    • The reputation of Team Gurren echoes far and wide! When they talk about its badass leader, the man of indomitable spirit and paragon of masculinity, they're talkin' about none other than THE MIGHTY KAMINA!!!

      Adding his shades to any photo= instant badass! And... guess whose picture that is on the top of this page: KAMINA!!

      To prove this point: In the first episode, he squared off against a Humongous Mecha. With only a katana. The kicker: Word of God states that, even without Yoko or Simon's help, He would've won!

      Later, he was killed. Got up. and then avenged himself!
    • Simon's presence makes enemy units explode out of his sheer awesomeness. He invented teleportation just to give a friend a Get A Hold Of Yourself Man punch. When given the option of either his woman or the universe, he chooses both and uses his awesomeness to back it up.
    • Ironic inversion: Lordgenome is as powerful as many Memetic Badasses have been made out to be: when his mech gets beaten in a Beam-O-War by Simon's Mini-Mecha, he climbs out of it and punches the other mech in the face and fistfights it (without a scarf, no less); later, he makes an epic Heroic Sacrifice by recreating his mech out of nowhere, catching a Big Bang, and converting it and himself into a crapload of raw power for the heroes. While he maintains a cult following thanks to his rugged good looks and shirtlessness, he rarely sees the same treatment other characters do.
    • Additionally, Bruce Ironstaunch. While he only appears briefly as a crowd extra during Rossiu's speech about executing Simon, he instantly was raised to this status among Westerners due to the fact that he's seen making a gesture that indicates approval in Japan, but just the opposite in the West. And hey, Rossiu deserved it. In fact, fans have declared that he was the one who threw a rock at him shortly after.
  • For Vash the Stampede in Trigun, this is actually a bad thing. He has powerful enemies and despite the fact that the man himself is a Martial Pacifist (with a heaping helping of Obfuscating Stupidity ) the fact that cities and towns tend to be destroyed wherever he goes gives him a terrible reputation for destruction, and that reputation only serves to heighten the destruction and madness that surrounds him.
  • Umineko: When They Cry:
    • Rosa Ushiromiya. She acquired the Fan Nickname "Rosa Musou" (Invincible Rosa), after she fought off tons of magical goat-butlers who killed the rest of her family with a sawed-off rifle, a purse with a bar of gold inside and a fountain pen.
    • After EP7, we have WILL MOTHERFUCKING WRIGHT. Notable feats include being able to stand up to Bernkastel, facing off an army of demonic cats with an arm missing while protecting Lion, returning in EP8 with his arm fully healed, and HEADBUTTING A GOAT BUTLER TO DEATH. Just because he insulted the mystery genre!
  • Exodia from Yu-Gi-Oh!, noted as the only being capable of frightening Anonymous.
    • Rex Godwin from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds is quickly headed in this direction on the online game Duel Monsters Unlimited following the first twenty seconds of this vid.
      • Jack Atlas from the same series gets a lot of this, too, to the point where it is said he demands his name be written JACK ATLAS. He gets his new trump monster by telling an Eldritch Abomination that it's now his bitch, and that there's nothing it can do or say about it.
    • Yami Yugi wins every game ever, even games that he is not currently playing.
    • Seto Kaiba fully ascended to this after Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions, though he'd been on the border for a while. After it became canon that he bought entire cities, built a space station shaped like his company's logo, invented cyberspace, shrugged off being absorbed into a Hive Mind, broke his way into the afterlife, and shaped the face of culture for generations, there's really not much for the fans to add. It's become very common for fans to big him up even further, claiming him to be probably the most intelligent and wealthy individual to ever exist, and noting that every single series, conflict, and idea in the franchise can be traced to one man's salty runback.
    • Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V has quite the fondness for its Anti Heroes.
      • Kurosaki Shun. His debut duel was a OTK against three people with a blazing machine falcon with 16.400 attack points. And it got better. Not to mention how he's a literal One-Man Army even in a fist fight. Eventually he got a reputation in the fandom akin to Batman.
      • Another guy compared to Batman is Akaba Reiji. Everything always goes according to his plan, his deck is pure awesome, and he's a spectacular Cold Ham.
      • And JACK ATLAS is back for more.
      • Kurosaki Ruri sure follows her brother's footsteps. She gook Shun's Weak, but Skilled Zerg Rush deck up to eleven, won her battle from the inside and only lost against Shun because she forfeited the match. On top of that, her secret Boss Monster Independent Nightingale became an infamous card in the meta for its Game-Breaker combo with the Tyrant Neptune and Supreme King Dragon Starving Venom.
  • In a rather bizzare example, the Iguan from Zoids was elevated to badassery on both sides of the Pacific in different ways. In the US, "Iguan" became a stock answer for any stock stupid question, starting with "What Zoid is the most powerful" and going downhill from there. It became a meme in the fandom that Iguan was the most powerful Zoid ever, that it could destroy anything with its mighty Iguan Kick and so forth. Meanwhile, in Japan, Iguan became a fan favourite in fanart and kitbashes, depicting its rival with the Godos as the greatest and deadliest rivalry of any Zoids (and helping to escalate the Godos to similar standards). The kicker? The two memes appear to be entirely unrelated, which seems to make Iguan's badassery even more so. For the record, Iguan is a small and innocuous generic mook Zoid that never appeared in any of the anime, and only rarely appears in licenced media. The toys then added to Iguan's badassery in two ways:
    • First came the Lizar from the 80's American Technozoids line. A recolour of the Iguan, Lizar was never released and is only known from a pair(?) of prototypes, making it something of a legend in the toy collecting community.
    • Then, in 2008, Tomy-Takara released the limited edition "Dark Iguan", an in-world badass upgrade.
  • Zombie Land Saga: The "Legendary" Tae Yamada. Whereas the other girls’ titles explain why they’re legendary (“Legendary Biker Boss: Saki Nikaido”, “Legendary Heisei Idol: Ai Mizuno”, etc.), Tae's does not. Thus, viewers take her and every little thing she does to simply be legendary. Adding fuel to the fire was the later revelation that she is played by a real-life legend in the anime industry, Kotono Mitsuishi, who voiced the title character of the ground-breakingly popular Sailor Moon series.

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