History BoisterousBruiser / RealLife

* [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Babe Ruth]] was famous for his prodigious eating, drinking, and womanizing, but he was also a great lover of fun and capable of great humor -- to say nothing of being [[BunnyEarsLawyer the best ballplayer of his time, if not ever]]. He also seems to have been [[FriendToAllChildren pretty good with kids]]--which makes a kind of sense, since he never properly grew up himself. He was, however, horrible with names, calling everyone "kid" (including Lou Gehrig, who was a great friend of his until Gehrig's mother fell out with Ruth's wife).

** President UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt has a not-undeserved reputation as one of the manliest motherfuckers to ever inhabit the Oval Office, being a war hero, [[AmericansAreCowboys cowboy]], police commissioner, [[EgomaniacHunter big game hunter]], and exercise nut (counting football, polo, hiking, boxing, and wrestling among his favorite pastimes) who [[RealMenGetShot survived a gunshot to the chest in a botched assassination attempt during his 1912 reelection bid]], beginning a campaign speech immediately afterward by [[BadassBoast boasting that a bullet won't be enough to stop him]]. ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' and ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'' are particularly famous for their MemeticBadass portrayals of TR.

** President UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt has a not-undeserved reputation as [[RatedMForManly one of the manliest motherfuckers to ever inhabit the Oval Office]], being a war hero, [[AmericansAreCowboys cowboy]], police commissioner, [[EgomaniacHunter big game hunter]], and exercise nut (counting football, polo, hiking, boxing, and wrestling among his favorite pastimes) who [[RealMenGetShot survived a gunshot to the chest in a botched assassination attempt during his 1912 reelection bid]], beginning a campaign speech immediately afterward by [[BadassBoast boasting that a bullet won't be enough to stop him]]. ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' and ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'' are particularly famous for their MemeticBadass portrayals of TR.

* Charles Barkley was one of the biggest {{Boisterous Bruiser}}s in the NBA. He was an aggressive and physical player and was involved in several altercations both on and off the court (including, most unfortunately, an attempt to spit on a heckler that hit a little girl instead). He was also gregarious and talkative, making the NBA's "All Interview Team" almost every year he was in the league. When the DreamTeam went to the Olympics in 1992, they were cautioned to stay in their hotel as much as possible due to death threats from terrorists. Barkley completely ignored these warnings and spent his evenings strolling around Barcelona, drinking and talking with the starstruck locals. When asked where his security was, he held up his fists and said, "This is my security."

* Charlemagne was a giant by any standard of his day, a renowned warrior as much as a ruler, and oh yeah, he was so informal that when he wasn't holding court with more or less anyone willing to drink and eat with him, he was insisting they join him while he bathed so the festivities wouldn't be unduly interrupted. He was the least formal king ever; his court was a constant party at which state business would from time to time get handled. And then the King would say (paraphrasing), "Excellent! Now for the wine!"

%% * Tsar UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat of Russia.

* Another English king, UsefulNotes/CharlesII, also fits the trope: called the "Merry Monarch," Charles brought back color and, shall we say, ''joie de vivre'' back to England after years of stern Puritan rule. He loved a good joke (he's one of Britain's [[DeadpanSnarker snarkier]] monarchs) and a good drink, had an [[ReallyGetsAround obscene number of mistresses]] (producing many bastards with the surname [=FitzRoy=][[note]]Including the ancestor of the captain of HMS ''Beagle'' who asked UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin to come along on the famous trip to South America[[/note]]), and was often rumored to [[AnythingThatMoves have liaisons with men, as well]] (though he still had [[PetTheDog a soft spot]] for his wife Queen Catherine, standing by her side when she came under fire and when she became DelicateAndSickly). He also enjoyed the theater (something else the Puritans had banned), and the RestorationComedy dates from the first decade or so of his reign.

%%** President UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt was a bully example of this trope, especially in ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'', which throws in a handful of MemeticBadass.

* Another English king, UsefulNotes/CharlesII, also fits the trope: called the "Merry Monarch," Charles brought back color and, shall we say, ''joie de vivre'' back to England after years of stern Puritan rule. He loved a good joke (he's one of Britain's [[DeadpanSnarker snarkier]] monarchs) and a good drink, had an [[ReallyGetsAround obscene number of mistresses]] (producing many bastards with the surname [=FitzRoy=][[note]]Including the ancestor of the captain of HMS ''Beagle'' who asked UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin to come along on the famous trip to South America[[/note]]), and was often rumored to [[AnythingThatMoves have liaisons with men, as well]] (though he still had [[PetTheDog a soft spot]] for his wife Queen Catherine, standing by her side when she came under fire and when she became an IllGirl). He also enjoyed the theater (something else the Puritans had banned), and the RestorationComedy dates from the first decade or so of his reign.

* King UsefulNotes/HenryVIII (the one with the six wives) was said to be one of these. To his friends, at least. To his enemies or to anyone whom he suspected of betraying him, he could be a total murderous bastard. Henry's BoisterousBruiser aspect often gets played up in portrayals of him, notably the version of him played by Creator/CharlesLaughton in ''Film/ThePrivateLifeOfHenryVIII''.

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* Shaquille O'Neal.

* Paul Sorvino could be thought of as a Latin-American BRIAN BLESSED.
* Certain Caribbean pirates. Particularly "Black" Bart Roberts.
* [[http://www.drunkard.com/issues/10_06/10_06_andre_giant.html Andre the Giant]].
* UsefulNotes/NikitaKhrushchev ([[AlternateCharacterInterpretation possibly]]).

** President UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt was a bully example of this trope!
*** Especially in ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire'', which throws in a handful of MemeticBadass.

* Gary Busey

* Creator/MickeyRourke.
* Creator/JohnGoodman.

* And UsefulNotes/EdwardIV was another...well over six feet tall, a terror on the battlefield, and also amiable, [[ReallyGetsAround famous for his mistresses]], and a party animal almost to his dying day. His grandson Henry VIII resembled him strongly when young.

* Tsar UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat of Russia.

* Among tennis players, the FieryRedhead Boris Becker was this, and it especially showed whenever he played against [[TheStoic Stefan Edberg]].

* Interestingly, Liu Bang, who founded the [[UsefulNotes/DynastiesFromShangToQing Han Dynasty]] of China was one of these. Born to a family of reasonably well-off peasants, he was famous in his hometown for loving drinking and fighting. He was also famous for being a really charismatic guy, especially while drinking; he was such a good conversationalist and storyteller that people would stay at the bar way longer than they expected just to keep partying with him. This led barkeeps to pour him free drinks, because the people coming in and staying long because of him way outweighed the cost of the free booze. He was also a brilliant political strategist, a brave warrior, and a highly competent military commander—and a legitimately great emperor (the complicated politics surrounding his succession notwithstanding—and even that was mostly just bad luck and turned out well in the end). Despite this, Zhang Fei is more often remembered to fit the trope.

* [[HornyVikings Vikings]]. A favorite pastime during feasts was inventing short poems which either [[BadassBoast told about one's own accomplishments]] or [[TheRoast insulted another as subtly and cleverly as possible]]. The proper way to answer such an insult was to counter it with a poem of your own. Someone pulling out a sword during such friendly banter was considered nothing but a brute, and as such not [[WarriorPoet a proper viking]].

* [[UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} Babe Ruth]] was famous for his prodigious eating, drinking, and womanizing, but he was also a great lover of fun and capable of great humor--to say nothing of being [[BunnyEarsLawyer the best ball player of his time, if not ever]]. He also seems to have been [[FriendToAllChildren pretty good with kids]]--which makes a kind of sense, since he never properly grew up himself. He was, however, horrible with names, calling everyone "kid" (including Lou Gehrig, who was a great friend of his until Gehrig's mother fell out with Ruth's wife).

* Among tennis players, the FieryRedhead Boris Becker was this, and it specially showed whenever he played against [[TheStoic Stefan Edberg]].
* [[UsefulNotes/JosipBrozTito Josip Broz, better known as Tito.]] He liked to show off, and had an incredible constitution. During UsefulNotes/WorldWar2, he could march for really long distances without tiring, leaving his companions huffing and swearing as they forced themselves to keep up. And remember, he was around 50 years old then!

* Interestingly, Liu Bang, who founded the [[UsefulNotes/DynastiesFromShangToQing Han Dynasty]] of China was one of these. Born to a family of reasonably well-off peasants, he was famous in his hometown for loving drinking and fighting. He was also famous for being a really charismatic guy, especially while drinking; he was such a good conversationalist and storyteller that people would stay at the bar way longer than they expected just to keep partying with him. This led barkeeps to pour him free drinks, because the people coming in and staying long because of him way outweighed the cost of the free booze. He was also a brilliant political strategist, a brave warrior, and a highly competent military commander. Despite this, Zhang Fei is more often remembered to fit the trope.

* [[UsefulNotes/JosipBrozTito Josip Broz, better known as Tito.]] He liked to show off, and had an incredible constitution. During UsefulNotes/WorldWar2, he could march for really long distances without tiring, leaving his companions huffing and swearing as they forced themselves to keep up. [[BadassGrandpa And remember, he was around 50 years old then!]]