History Website / BadassOfTheWeek

* CanadaEh: Defied in [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ernestsmith.html Ernest Smith]]'s article in the first paragraph.
--> "Canada gets a bad rap these days, with many Americans looking down on them as our pussier, slightly-British neighbors to the North, but anybody who's ever watched footage of the 1970's Philadelphia Flyers teams knows that Canadians can be some seriously hardcore motherfuckers who would just as soon cold-cock you in the chops as slash you between the legs with a goalie stick. These crazy bastards have an underappreciated history of badassery, and nowadays we don't really respect the fact that Canadians can be hard-drinking, hard-fighting, lumber-jacking motherfuckers who destroy all who oppose them in a flurry of bare knuckles, bizarre accents, and the Metric System."

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

** Charles Martel (His Latin surname was [[DropTheHammer "Martellus"]])

* RatedMForManly: It is a little known fact that Ben Thompson doesn't actually write the website's articles, they just appear to him the night before by a intangible conglomerate of the entire universe's badassery so he can post them online to give the article's subject the recognition the conglomerate feels they deserve.

--> ''"...who I'm pretty sure gets his wide-grasping epithet because he was literally able to grope [[LargeHam TWO BOOBS AT THE SAME TIME]]..."''

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/taidjinT'ai Djin]], a Shaolin monk and kung-fu grandmaster who was also a werewolf (well, kinda, at least he looked like one).

* {{Megalodon}}: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon Megalodon]].

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive As it turns out, this is a surprisingly common trope among the real-life badasses profiled.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=33837513055 Mochizuki Chiyome]] founded the ''kunoichi''- an order of female ninjas and spies- to avenge the death of her husband
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=84324331289 Ivajlo the Cabbage]]'s life as a pig-herder ended in the wake of a raid by the Mongolian Golden Horde- and his life as one of the most formidable military commanders in history began.

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

%%* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Too many authority figures are profiled to list; searching the website by "conqueror", "emperor", "head of state", or "queen" will give you an incomplete list.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:

* StockDinosaurs:
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/trex.html Tyrannosaurus rex]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=11577785209 The Saber-Tooth Tiger]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=931398313701 The Pliosaur]]

* SeldomSeenSpecies:
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/apiscerana The Asiatic Honey Bee]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger.html The Honey Badger]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/titanoboa.html The Titanoboa]]
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/haastseagle Haast's Eagle]]

** The Monkey King, after taking a bite out of all of the Peaches of Immortality, became so invincible even the gods themselves could not harm him, then proceeded to [[UpToEleven single-handedly fight and defeat]] ''[[UpToEleven the entire army of Heaven]]''.

* AwesomeMcCoolName:
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mccool Finn McCool]]
** Finn [=McCool=]'s best friend [[http://badassoftheweek.com/cuchulainn Cuchulainn]]--translated, his name is "The Hound of Culann."
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/quarrelsome Wolf the Quarrelsome]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ataturk Mustafa Kemal Ataturk]] - whose name quite literally translates into "Mustafa the Perfect, Father of the Turks." Yes, this guy was so badass that he was literally dubbed ''"perfect"'' by his instructors.
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/hardberger Max Hardberger]]. The name alone qualifies him as awesome, but that fact that this guy's job is to essentially serve as a maritime repo man whose specialty is in stealing ships ''back'' from pirates, it just pushes it to a whole new level.
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/zandi Jalil Zandi]]. Just say that name out loud and revel in the cool factor.
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl]].
** Brave-Swift-Impetuous-Male.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/akbar Akbar the Great]]-"Akbar" is Arabic for "great", so his name is essentially "Great the Great".
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/elcid El Cid Campeador]]; "El Cid" is Spanish for "The Lord", and "Campeador" means "Champion".
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wolverine Wolverine]].
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kratos Kratos]] (Greek for "strength" or "power").
** NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast:
*** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/punisher The Punisher.]]
*** Vlad the Impaler.
*** Sauron, whose name is Elvish for "The Abomination".
*** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rabbit The Killer Rabbit]].
*** Skeletor.
*** The Furies.
*** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/livereating Liver-Eating Johnson]].

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

* OverAndUnderTheTop: The site as a whole is full of loud hyperbole, which causes the solemn narrative of the [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gordonandshughart.html last stand of Shugart and Gordon stand out even more]].

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/khan Genghis Khan]] - Was originally named Temujin, which means MadeOfIron

%%* BadassBeard:
%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/frederickbarbarossa Fredrick Barbarossa]]
%%** The aforementioned [[http://badassoftheweek.com/hardberger Max Hardberger]].

%%* BadassMoustache:
%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/armstrong John B. Armstrong]]
%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/nansen Fridtjof Nansen]] - This man made Iceland's most hellish weather his bitch.

* RedBaron

* RevolversAreJustBetter: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/500magnum.html The Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum]]

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

* AcePilot
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/shinohara Hiromichi Shinohara]]

** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/foss Joe Foss]]

** And, of course, [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/richtofen Manfred von Richthofen]]
* ActionGirl: Too many to list. Any female profiled will definitely count. Searching the website by "Women" (or "queen") gives you an incomplete list.
* AmazonBrigade: The White Tights and the Dahomey Amazons
* AntiHero[=/=]AntiVillain: Most profilees are one or the other.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Too many authority figures are profiled to list; searching the website by "conqueror", "emperor", "head of state", or "queen" will give you an incomplete list.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority

** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/low Edward Low]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackson Andrew Jackson]], again.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/titanoboa The Titanoboa]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon Megalodon]]
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/komododragon The Komodo Dragon]], the world's largest lizard.

* AwesomeAussie:
** The country itself
** The Australian Light Horse
** UsefulNotes/NedKelly
** Steve Irwin
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=27450552861 Nancy Wake]]
* AwesomeMcCoolName

* BadassAdorable:
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/brownell Katie Brownell]], again.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rabbit The Killer Rabbit]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger The Honey Badger]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/m3wolverine M3 the Wolverine]]
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/apiscerana The Asiatic Honey Bee]]
* BadassArmy
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/300spartans The 300 Spartans]]
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/australianlighthorse The Australian Light Horse]]
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/wingedhussars The Winged Hussars]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mayow The British Light Brigade]]
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/sealteamsix SEAL Team Six]]
* BadassBeard
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/frederickbarbarossa Fredrick Barbarossa]]
** The aforementioned [[http://badassoftheweek.com/hardberger Max Hardberger]].

** George Orwell
** Alexander Solzhenitsyn
** Aeschylus
** Sir Richard Francis Burton
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/curie Marie Curie]]

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mccoy Jack McCoy]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babur Zahir-ud-din Mohammad Babur]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stapp John Paul Stapp]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=199503532062 Athena]]
* BadassBystander
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shrestha Bishnu Shresta]].

* BadassIsraeli - Jonathan Netanyahu, Imi Lichtenfeld, Zvika Greengold.

* BadassNormal:
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=10728794035 Han Solo]],
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/punisher The Punisher]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/odysseus Odysseus]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beowulf Beowulf]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/conan Conan of Cimmeria]]
* BadassMoustache
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/armstrong John B. Armstrong]]
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/nansen Fridtjof Nansen]] - This man made Iceland's most hellish weather his bitch.

** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/ruseabagina Paul Rusesabagina]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/cooper Ryan Cooper]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/york Sergeant Alvin York]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hawaabdi Hawa Abdi]]

* BearsAreBadNews - ([[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voytek Voytek the Soldier Bear]]) If you were a Nazi, you were pretty much fucked.
* BerserkButton: Ruksana Kauser, King Abdullah II (see "Four Star Badass")

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

* ClusterFBomb: The entire website.
* ColdSniper

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

** The White Tights
* ColonelBadass

* FromNobodyToNightmare - many of the badasses demonstrate that this trope can be TruthInTelevision, rising from humble beginnings to become tyrannical rulers and dreaded warlords.
* GadgeteerGenius
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/macgyver Angus MacGyver]]
* HandicappedBadass
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/baldwin Baldwin IV of Jerusalem]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tamerlane Tamerlane]]

-> ''Another sweet thing is that Godzilla is completely unpredictable, and, as such, represents the Ultimate Duality of Awesome: When he leaves the warm beaches of Monster Island and emerges from the dark waters near the Japanese coastline, you don't know if he's there to smash orphanages or save the universe from a rampaging giant space monster who shoots lasers out of its forehead and spits acid on hot Japanese babes. That's just how he rolls. One minute he's Earth's saviour, the next minute he's grabbing handfuls of cheering humans and grinding them between his massive, pointy teeth.''
* HeroicDog: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sgtstubby Sergeant Stubby The War Dog]]
* HeroicSacrifice
** Jonathan Netanyahu
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/gordonandshughart Gary Gordan and Randall Shughart]].
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=52657811114 USS Johnston and USS Samuel B Roberts]]

* HoldTheLine

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=52657811114 Taffy 3]]

* HumongousMecha
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/optimusprime Optimus Prime]]
* IFellForHours:
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/kittinger Joseph Kittinger]]

* {{Jerkass}}
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alcibiades Alcibiades]]

* KneelBeforeZod
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zod General Zod, The Trope Namer]]
* KrakenAndLeviathan:
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kraken The Kraken]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon Megalodon]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=931398313701 The Pliosaur]]
* LadyOfWar
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/matilda Matilda of Canosa]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/agustina Agustina de Aragon]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/joanofarc Joan Of Arc]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/isabella Isabella Of France]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/maibhago Mai Bhago]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sforza Catherine Sforza]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rani Rani Lakshmibai]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pingyang Princess Pingyang]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shepard Shepard.]]
* LargeHam: The entire entry for '''[[http://badassoftheweek.com/aggrocrag THE AGGRO CRAG.]]'''

* MinoredInAssKicking
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/heyerdahl.html Thor Heyerdahl]]

* MuggingTheMonster
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/shrestha Bishnu Shrestha]]. This retired Gurkha (which should say everything you need to know about how badass he is) was returning home on a train when forty gangsters boarded it, robbed the people on board, and [[AttemptedRape tried to rape a girl]]. Bishnu taught them the error of their ways in a storm of blood-spraying violence, killing three men and disabling eight more with just his kukri before the rest ran for the hills.

* NeverMessWithGranny: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/musa Jennifer Musa]]
* {{Ninja}}: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hanzo Hanzo Hattori]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voytek Voytek the Soldier Bear]].

* NonMaliciousMonster:
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/watermelonmonster The Watermelon Monster]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mobydick Moby Dick]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=187728219134 The Asiatic Honey Bee]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/godzilla Godzilla]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/titanoboa Titanoboa]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger The Honey Badger]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon.html Megalodon]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/trex.html Tyrannosaurus rex]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/m3wolverine M3 the Wolverine]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/haasteagle Haast's Eagle]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=11577785209 The Saber-Tooth Tiger]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=931398313701 The Pliosaur]]
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/panzer1000 The Panzer 1000 Tank]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/komododragon The Komodo Dragon]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rabbit The Killer Rabbit]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hantavirus The Hanta Virus]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blackdeath The Black Death]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/panther The PzKpfw V Panther Tank]]

* OneManArmy
** Henry Lincoln Johnson
** Peter Franciso (and was called this trope by name by FourStarBadass George Washington)
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/samson Samson]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/murphy Audie Murphy]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/greengold Zvika Greengold]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wittman Captain Michael Wittman]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/daly Sergeant Dan Daly]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/funk Leonard A. Funk]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gurung Lachiman Gurung]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pun Dipprasad Pun]]

* PapaWolf:
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html Tom Wanyandie]] (an elderly Native American man who fought off a ''literal'' MamaBear to protect his son)

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zeus Zeus]]
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/poseidon Poseidon]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=199503532062 Athena]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kratos Kratos]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/charun Charun the Hammer God]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rama Rama]]
** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/thanos Thanos]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael St. Michael the Archangel]]-not usually considered a god, but would be one by the standards of most pagan religions
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/kefka Kefka]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=290314930441 Galactus]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=537935724254 Camazotz the Death Bat]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=270155699 Hercules]] (but only after his death)
* {{Pirate}}:
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/edwardlow Edward Low]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blackbeard Blackbeard]]-TropeCodifier
** Again, [[http://badassoftheweek.com/cuchulainn Cuchulainn.]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/drake.html Sir Francis Drake]]
* PirateGirl:
** Anne Bonny
** Mary Read
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/chingshih.html Ching Shih]]

* ProfessorGuineaPig
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stapp.html John Paul Stapp]]
* RasputinianDeath
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rasputin.html Grigoriy Rasputin, the Trope Namer]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tlahuicole.html Tlahuicole]]
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/vader.html Darth Vader]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/heemeyer.html Marvin Heemeyer]] - Who did it with the [[TankGoodness KILLDOZER!]]
*** [[MemeticMutation ''So Granby, how do you like him now'']]?
** Justinian II (ran on this)
** More recently, Abdullah II of Jordan (see "Four Star Badass").
** Also [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=269178232573 Abu Azrael]], the scourge of ISIS in Iraq.

* {{Samurai}}
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jubei.html Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/musashi.html Mushashi Miyamoto]]
** Tomoe Gozen, again.
* ScaledUp: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/titanoboa.html TITANOBOA]]

* SerialKiller: Elizabeth Bathory
* ShoutOut: Got one in VideoGame/{{Mass Effect 2}}--a character mentions the publication "Badass Weekly".

* ShroudedInMyth

* SilkHidingSteel - [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=52787309381 Wu Zetian]]'s modus operandi

* TrademarkFavoriteFood (for true badasses)

* TranquilFury

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

* TyrannosaurusRex
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=655968832614 Tyrannosaurus rex]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/godzilla.html Godzilla]]

* AuthorAppeal: Badasses!

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/grylls Bear Grylls]]

** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/haasteagle Haast's eagle]].

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=187728219134 The Asiatic Honey Bee]]

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/haasteagle Haast's Eagle]], a bird that preyed on moa and the ancestors of the Maori.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=187728219134 The Asiatic Honey Bee]]

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ralston Aron Ralston]]

** In a similar vein, just before falling to his own death, Professor James Moriarty managed to grab onto Sherlock Holmes and [[TakingYouWithMe take him with himself]]. When Doyle announced Sherlock's death in his (intended-to-be) final novel, Moriarty became one of the only fictional super villains to put a real-life nation in mourning. (This was later retconned so Holmes survived, however).

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

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zod General Zod]]- TropeNamer for KneelBeforeZod.

** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/stamfordbridge The Viking At Stamford Bridge]]

** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/pavlov Yakov (Jacob) Pavlov]] – The tagline for his page in the [=BotW=] website's article list says it best: "One man. One building. One million Nazis." Led the defense of a key building in the Battle of Stalingrad for two months until the Nazis were annihilated by a fresh Soviet army.

[[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ Badass Of the Week]] (warning! {{NSFW}} due to extreme language!) is a website created by "Amazing Ben Thompson" in 2004, that exists primarily to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin provide weekly profiles of many and sundry]] badasses. The various badasses covered range from fictional characters such as [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]], [[Comicbook/ThePunisher the Punisher]], and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] to RealLife badasses such as [[ColdSniper Simo Häyhä]], [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Saladin]], and [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]], to the outright ''bizarre'', such as [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=331896731212 this huge-ass beetle]], [[LandDownUnder Australia]], the [[RevolversAreJustBetter S&W .500]] [[HandCannon Magnum]], and the [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=635461029125 AGGRO CRAG]] (aka the '''AGGRESSIVE ROCK'''). The exact criteria for badassery vary, ranging from individual acts of ordinary heroism to face-melting acts of blind bravery and violence. Of course, being a face-crushing, scrotum stomping killing machine isn't required for inclusion, as the ManlyTears-inducing article on [[Film/HotelRwanda Paul]] [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=24092664445 Rusesabagina]] proves.

Part of the humor of the site comes from its [[ShownTheirWork surprising historical accuracy]] used in conjunction with references to various historical figures in [[SophisticatedAsHell vulgar, irreverent language]]. An example of the former regarding the great Sikh hero [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=920214520551 Baba Deep Singh]]:

Another example is the Japanese warrior monk [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=554303921367 Saito Musashibo Benkei]]:

Or [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=31557723089 Saint Michael the Archangel]]:

The site also includes a fan mail section and a series of random articles the site's writer decided to throw in, such as why [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/norsereligion.html you need to convert to Norse religion, and how to go about this.]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=811350218024 Hiromichi Shinohara]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=116680329270 Hans-Ulrich Rudel]] - the most decorated UsefulNotes/WorldWarII pilot, and who flew ''2,500'' combat missions - more than any other pilot in ''history.''
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=892647119786 Joe Foss]]

** And, of course, [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/richtofen.html Manfred von Richthofen]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=21512215752 Al Capone]] - Who also had an epic rivalry with fellow badass [[ByTheBookCop Eliot Ness]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=113240319839 Edward Low]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackson.html Andrew Jackson]], again.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/titanoboa.html The Titanoboa]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon.html Megalodon]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=106948521692 The Komodo Dragon]], the world's largest lizard.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/haasteagle.html Haast's Eagle]], a bird that preyed on moa and the ancestors of the Maori.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mccool.html Finn McCool]]
** Finn [=McCool=]'s best friend [[http://badassoftheweek.com/cuchulainn.html Cuchulainn]]--translated, his name is "The Hound of Culann."
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/quarrelsome.html Wolf the Quarrelsome]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ataturk.html Mustafa Kemal Ataturk]] - whose name quite literally translates into "Mustafa the Perfect, Father of the Turks." Yes, this guy was so badass that he was literally dubbed ''"perfect"'' by his instructors.
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/hardberger.html Max Hardberger]]. The name alone qualifies him as awesome, but that fact that this guy's job is to essentially serve as a maritime repo man whose specialty is in stealing ships ''back'' from pirates, it just pushes it to a whole new level.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=122867315593 Jalil Zandi]]. Just say that name out loud and revel in the cool factor.
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/heyerdahl.html Thor Heyerdahl]].

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/akbar.html Akbar the Great]]-"Akbar" is Arabic for "great", so his name is essentially "Great the Great".
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/elcid.html El Cid Campeador]]; "El Cid" is Spanish for "The Lord", and "Campeador" means "Champion".
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wolverine.html Wolverine]].
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kratos.html Kratos]] (Greek for "strength" or "power").

*** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/punisher.html The Punisher.]]

*** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rabbit.html The Killer Rabbit]].

*** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/livereating.html Liver-Eating Johnson]].

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/brownell.html Katie Brownell]], again.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rabbit.html The Killer Rabbit]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger.html The Honey Badger]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/m3wolverine.html M3 the Wolverine]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=50131147458 The 300 Spartans]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=32929083874 The Australian Light Horse]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=55690916930 The Winged Hussars]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mayow.html The British Light Brigade]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=968168214502 SEAL Team Six]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/frederickbarbarossa.html Fredrick Barbarossa]]
** The aforementioned [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=721060724786 Max Hardberger]].

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/curie.html Marie Curie]]
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/davinci.html Leonardo Da Vinci]] -This man was able to kill people with a sniper rifle......''before they were even invented yet!''
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/tesla.html Nikola Tesla]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/neilarmstrong.html Neil Armstrong]] - The first man to set foot on another world.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mccoy.html Jack McCoy]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babur.html Zahir-ud-din Mohammad Babur]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stapp.html John Paul Stapp]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html Bishnu Shresta]].

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/punisher.html The Punisher]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/odysseus.html Odysseus]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beowulf.html Beowulf]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/conan.html Conan of Cimmeria]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=835184829585 John B. Armstrong]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=957432122363 Fridtjof Nansen]] - This man made Iceland's most hellish weather his bitch.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=24092664445 Paul Rusesabagina]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/cooper.html Ryan Cooper]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/york.html Sergeant Alvin York]]
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/aki-ra.html Aki Ra]] - Uses little more than a pipe wrench and balls the size of small planets to disarm absurdly lethal anti personnel landmines.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hawaabdi.html Hawa Abdi]]

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

* {{BFG}} [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/bfg9000.html The BFG-9000]] TropeNamer.
* BoldlyComing: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/shepard.html Commander Shepard]]

* {{Cincinnatus}} - [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/cincinnatus.html Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.]] TropeNamer.

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pavlichenko.html Lyudmila Pavilchenko]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/harrison.html Corporal Craig Harrison]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/millett.html Lewis Millet]] - Probably one of the few badasses who quit his own army at one point because they weren't being badass enough''
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/arnauld.html Lothar von Arnauld]] - a WorthyOpponent who always followed the rules of warfare and still managed to become the most successful submarine commander of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/grylls.html Bear Grylls]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/koepcke.html Juliane Koepcke]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/yadav.html Yogender Singh Yadav]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ralston.html Aron Ralston]]

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/autry.html Wesley Autry]]
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/kauser.html Rukhsana Kauser]], who managed to gun down ''the most wanted terrorist in India'' when he started beating on her father and tried to rape her.
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/youde.html Yang Youde]], a rural Chinese farmer whose response to a MegaCorp's attempt to steal his land was to ''build homemade artillery'' and blast the company's gang of club-wielding enforcers in a battle straight out of the wildest tower defense games.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/woods.html Ron Woods]]
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/akaiwa.html Hideaki Akaiwa]], when faced with a tsunami that flooded his town, chose to don a suit of SCUBA gear and swim through the black, nighttime, debris-strewn waters to rescue his wife, and then went ''back in'' to save his mother, and now works as a one-man search-and-rescue unit, combing the disaster zone for others in need of help.
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/omari.html Anthony Omari]] - When machete-wielding thieves broke into the Kenyan orphanage he ran, he ran them off by chucking a hammer into their faces. When they came back the next night for payback, he dished out even more hammer-related injuries, while taking a severe wound to the face. Not that it stopped him from kicking their asses.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/australia.html Australia]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/luttrell.html Marcus Luttrell]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/onoda.html Hiroo Onada]], who fought UsefulNotes/WorldWarII longer than most people would consider sane.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babadeepsingh.html Baba Deep Singh]], who decided a trivial thing like ''[[OffWithHisHead being]]'' ''[[MajorInjuryUnderreaction decapitated]]'' was not going to stop him from kicking ass.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/fazaldin.html Fazal Din]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/garibaldi.html Giuseppe Garibaldi]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/che.html Che Guevara]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voorhees.html Jason Voorhees]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/trenck.html Baron Frederick von der Trenck]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shelford.html Buck Shelford]], a New Zealand rugby player who quite literally ''[[GroinAttack had his testicles torn open]]'' in the middle of a game, and ''kept on playing.''
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/inouye.html Daniel Inouye]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/whittemore.html Samuel Whittemore]], who ambushed an entire British regiment and killed three men before the rest of the regiment shot and bayonetted him. He survived and lived to the age of ''98''.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=467123511541 John Paul Jones]] fought a hours long battle with aBritish 50 gun warship after his own vessel had been shot to shit and lost most of it's crew and armament. When asked if he had struck his flag Jones replied, "I have not yet begun to fight!"

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/diomedes.html Diomedes]] wounded the gods Aphrodite and Ares with his spear.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael.html The Archangel St. Michael]] defeated {{Satan}} in single combat.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beowulf.html Beowulf]] killed the NighInvulnerable demon Grendel, and later, Grendel's mother.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kratos.html Kratos]] killed just about every other character in the game, including the gods.

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blackbeard.html Blackbeard]] [[RasputinianDeath survived being shot five times and stabbed twenty times unfazed right before he was finally decapitated.]] Some legends state that he still didn't die even then.
** "Since nobody gets the better of a [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/predator.html Predator]] warrior and lives to tell the tale, if he's about to die from his wounds he activates the self-destruct on his wrist and leaves behind a gigantic fucking smoking crater in his wake, obliterating himself and any bastard lucky enough to get a cheap shot in on him."
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/khalid.html Khalid ibn Al-Waleed]] was such a BloodKnight that he lamented on his deathbed that he would die of old age and not in battle.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hector.html Hector of Troy]]; being willing to face a NighInvulnerable warrior like Achilles in battle is pretty badass, even if you lose.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/samson.html Samson]]:

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beowulf.html Beowulf]] died saving Geatland from a terrifying dragon when he was killed by the dragon's venomous bite.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kraken.html The Kraken]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/horsemen.html The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]

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

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/leomajor.html Léo Major]] - [[OneManArmy This man killed an entire town worth of soldiers in ONE Night!]]

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/zizka.html Jan Žižka]]. Notable that he ''kept leading'' his armies ''after'' the eyepatch became redundant, on account of becoming completely blind.
* FamilyValuesVillain: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/edwardlow.html Edward Low]] was known for being the most bloodthirsty pirate in the Caribbean, but was a loving family man up until his wife died in childbirth. Because he never got over his wife's death, he always let women and unmarried men go free when he captured them.

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/viriathus.html Viriathus]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hideyoshi.html Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alparslan.html Alp Arslan]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tomyris.html Tomyris]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/saladin.html Saladin]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/washington.html George Washington]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wellington.html The Duke of Wellington]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/taylor.html Zachary Taylor]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/patton.html George S. Patton]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/puller.html Chesty Puller]] - The most badass US Marine commander the world has ever seen.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alexander.html Alexander the Great]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackson.html Andrew Jackson]] - UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson, the man who [[MadeOfIron survived more duels and bullets than should be realistically possible]], and still kept kicking ass!
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael.html Saint Michael the Archangel]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zod.html General Zod]]- TropeNamer for KneelBeforeZod.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/scaeva.html Cassius Scavea]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/caesar.html Julius Caesar]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/roosevelt.html Theodore Roosevelt]] - This wasn't a man, he was a walking Chuck Norris meme!
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/winstonchurchill.html Winston Churchill]] - Served as a British battalion commander in World War I and as Prime Minister of Great Britain in World War II.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/akbar.html Akbar The Great]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alitalib.html Ali ibn Abi Talib]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/barbarossa.html Hayreddin Barbarossa]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/khan.html Genghis Khan]] - Was originally named Temujin, which means MadeOfIron
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tamerlane.html Tamerlane]] - Actually was called [[MeaningfulName "Timur The Lame"]], but he's called Tamerlane because he might have been a little gimpy, but he sure as hell wasn't lame.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/attila.html Attila the Hun]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/darius.html Darius the Great]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hannibal.html Hannibal Barca]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ataturk.html Mustafa Kemal Ataturk]] (So badass he has a monument dedicated to him in the capital of Australia, a former enemy)
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pingyang.html Princess Pingyang]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/macgyver.html Angus MacGyver]]

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/baldwin.html Baldwin IV of Jerusalem]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tamerlane.html Tamerlane]]

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

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/gordonandshughart.html Gary Gordan and Randall Shughart]].

** PlayedForLaughs in the article on [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/murdoch.html Rupert Murdoch]], which portrays him as literally a super villain.

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/21sikhs.html The 21 Sikhs]], a single unit of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOntheTin twenty-one Sikh soldiers]] holding a small fortress outpost on the Indian border against a force of invading tribesmen that numbered over ''twenty thousand''. They managed to hold for most of a day, while ounumbered 500:1 until the British could organize a counterattack. While all of them were wiped out, no one doubts the size or sturdiness of their balls, especially as every single one of them ''volunteered'' to stay and fight. When word of their actions reached the British Parliament, it received [[ManlyTears a standing ovation from the entire British government.]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/optimusprime.html Optimus Prime]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=34802515170 Joseph Kittinger]]
* ImprovisedWeapon: The [[http://badassoftheweek.com/homedefense.html entire article on home defense]] pretty much hits every single permutation of improvised weaponry.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alcibiades.html Alcibiades]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/justinian.html Justinian II]] "was a ruthless, merciless motherfucker who crushed all who opposed him, brutally eliminated his enemies, and let nothing stand in the way of his insane, over-the-top, possibly-misguided mission to stomp the lower intestines of anybody ballsy enough to think they could screw with him for any reason."
* KillerRabbit: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/rabbit.html No prizes for guessing.]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger.html The Honey Badger]]

** Also there is [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/m3wolverine.html M3]], a male wolverine so badass he will tear his way out of a tagging trap, claw his way ''into a trap'' just to maul a rival, and climbed the steepest mountain in his range at the coldest time of year for no sane reason.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zod.html General Zod, The Trope Namer]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kraken.html The Kraken]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon.html Megalodon]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/matilda.html Matilda of Canosa]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/agustina.html Agustina de Aragon]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/joanofarc.html Joan Of Arc]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/isabella.html Isabella Of France]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/maibhago.html Mai Bhago]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sforza.html Catherine Sforza]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rani.html Rani Lakshmibai]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pingyang.html Princess Pingyang]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shepard.html Shepard.]]
* LargeHam: The entire entry for '''[[http://badassoftheweek.com/aggrocrag.html THE AGGRO CRAG.]]'''

* {{Megalodon}}: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon.html Megalodon]].

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html Bishnu Shrestha]]. This retired Gurkha (which should say everything you need to know about how badass he is) was returning home on a train when forty gangsters boarded it, robbed the people on board, and [[AttemptedRape tried to rape a girl]]. Bishnu taught them the error of their ways in a storm of blood-spraying violence, killing three men and disabling eight more with just his kukri before the rest ran for the hills.

* NeverMessWithGranny: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/musa.html Jennifer Musa]]
* {{Ninja}}: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hanzo.html Hanzo Hattori]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jubei.html Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi]], a samurai who may or may not have went 12 years as a ninja, and according to some legends wore an eyepatch like a pirate.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voytek.html Voytek the Soldier Bear]].
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/taidjin.html T'ai Djin]], a Shaolin monk and kung-fu grandmaster who was also a werewolf (well, kinda, at least he looked like one).

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/watermelonmonster.html The Watermelon Monster]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mobydick.html Moby Dick]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/godzilla.html Godzilla]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/titanoboa.html Titanoboa]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger.html The Honey Badger]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/m3wolverine.html M3 the Wolverine]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/haasteagle.html Haast's Eagle]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=867340431878 The Panzer 1000 Tank]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=106948521692 The Komodo Dragon]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rabbit.html The Killer Rabbit]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hantavirus.html The Hanta Virus]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blackdeath.html The Black Death]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/panther.html The PzKpfw V Panther Tank]]
* NoodleIncident: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/optimusprime.html "In this sense, he's the Christ-like figure of the 80's children's cartoon era. How's that for symbolism, Mrs. Fernandes, you bitch?"]]

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gurung.html "Every couple of years, the Gurkhas fighting in Afghanistan get in trouble because they're always beheading the corpses of Taliban fighters. That's not even a joke."]]
* OldSoldier: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/whittemore.html Samuel Whittemore]] - This man was kicking ass for the British and later the colonies well into his eighties, ''[[MadeOfIron survived being shot in the face and being bayonetted thirteen times]]'', and lived to the ripe old age of 98.

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/samson.html Samson]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/murphy.html Audie Murphy]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/greengold.html Zvika Greengold]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wittman.html Captain Michael Wittman]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/leomajor.html Léo Major]]: He singlehandedly took 93 German soldiers defending some sort of Headquarters prisoner, and then took on an entire town alone and drove the entire German presence out over the course of nine hours, liberating an entire town by himself.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/daly.html Sergeant Dan Daly]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/funk.html Leonard A. Funk]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html Simo Häyhä]] So much so that the Soviets actually ordered artillery bombardments just for the express purpose to try and kill him. They failed.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gurung.html Lachiman Gurung]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pun.html Dipprasad Pun]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/lopez.html Jose M. Lopez]] The guy who singlehandedly killed over a hundred nazis in one battle, and stared down a Tiger tank. The Germans even resorted to calling artillery down on him. It wasn't enough.

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

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kratos.html Kratos]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/charun.html Charun the Hammer God]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rama.html Rama]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=83806249790 Thanos]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael.html St. Michael the Archangel]]-not usually considered a god, but would be one by the standards of most pagan religions
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/kefka.html Kefka]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/edwardlow.html Edward Low]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blackbeard.html Blackbeard]]-TropeCodifier
** Again, [[http://badassoftheweek.com/cuchulainn.html Cuchulainn.]]

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

** Iron woman [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=329819625394 Grace O'Malley]] pirate queen.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=420115219989 Sir Francis Drake]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=136867521431 Felix Von Luckner]] managed to be one of these during World War One!

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/stamfordbridge.html The Viking At Stamford Bridge]]

** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=52657811114 The Battle Off Samar]] [[DavidVsGoliath David of the sea kicks Goliath's]] Ass!
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=506519628414 Yakov (Jacob) Pavlov]] – The tagline for his page in the [=BotW=] website's article list says it best: "One man. One building. One million Nazis." Led the defense of a key building in the Battle of Stalingrad for two months until the Nazis were annihilated by a fresh Soviet army.

* BadassGay:
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/lamaupin.html Julie d'Aubigny]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alcibiades.html Alciabiades]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/davinci.html Da Vinci]]
** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=29009176046 Two for the price of one!]]

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses - At least, when [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pingyang.html she]]'s a LadyOfWar who got there by raising a massive rebel army against an incompetent ruler and [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] both the army and the numerous other rebel groups trying for the throne.