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* Boomer the Kangaroo from ''film/OurLipsAreSealed''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', Numbuh Four is often portrayed as the toughest and most courageous of the team. However, to balance things out, he's also about as intelligent as a dirt clod.

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** ''Everyone'' in Australia is like this in [[AlternateHistory TF2 canon]], turning it into a futuristic metropolis where even the women sport burly mustaches. This is because the awesomeness is entirely from [[AppliedPhlebotinum exposure to]] [[{{Unobtanium}} Australium]]. [[ColdSniper The Sniper]] gets mocked for being only a regular example of this trope, lacking the muscles and preferring to pick fights from far away. [[spoiler:This is because he is actually from New Zealand, which in this universe is a bizarre mix between [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Krypton]] and {{Atlantis}}, and is full of mad scientists and other intellectuals like him.]]

* Liam Williamson from ''Webcomic/ThisIsTheWorstIdeaYouveEverHad''. He kills monsters for a living, and even the creator admits he's badass.
* Australia from ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'', naturally.
* Steve and Terry from ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'', as they're based on Steve and Terri Irwin.

* Creator/DeeBradleyBaker voices every Clone Trooper from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' with an Australian (allegedly New Zealand) accent--an entire ''army'' of awesome Aussies.

* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs.'' gets one in Dan vs. the Dinosaur, to help them track down said dinosaur.
* The titular character of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''.
* Opal of ''WesternAnimation/{{Pearlie}}'' is a fairy version of this.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' has Jasiri, who's technically African by dint of being a hyena, [[UnexplainedAccent but speaks with an Australian accent]] because her voice actress Creator/MaiaMitchell is Australian. As for the "Awesome" part, she's not only gifted in fighting against [[SmugSnake Janja]] and his gangs, but she's the first hyena in the entire ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' series not to be a [[HeinousHyena craven evil scavenger]].
* Sheryl Goodspeed from ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'' is voiced by Creator/ClaudiaBlack and is hands down one of the most badass Human characters in the entire show.
* ''WesternAnimation/KoalaMan'': Parodied with Big Greg, a buff blonde macho man who otherwise comes across as a bit of a blowhard. He's also voiced by Creator/HughJackman to complete the image.

* Kiddy Phenil of ''Manga/SilentMobius'' is an Australian policewoman who was rebuilt into a powerful cyborg after an encounter with a cyborg serial-killer in Tokyo. Now, she fights demons with fists and big guns.

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** The [[BigBad villain]], Percy [=McLeach=], is an evil version of this trope, a poacher and trader in Australian wildlife who keeps ''a pet goanna'' and is able to fight off a horde of hungry crocodiles.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'' had a villainous example in the form of Johnny Quick, an Australian-accented speedster who is the EvilCounterpart of the Flash and one of the founding members of the Crime Syndicate. He's also the only one of them to undergo a HeelFaceTurn to pull off a HeroicSacrifice to help the Justice League save the entire multiverse.
* ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheOutback'': Chaz Hunt appears to be a clear-cut example of this trope, presenting himself as a Steve Irwin-esqe, fearless bushman who has accomplished many dangerous and impressive feats prior to the events of the movie. [[spoiler: {{Subverted}} when it turns out he's not this at all.]]

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* Mick Dundee, Paul Hogan's character in ''Film/CrocodileDundee'', is the {{trope codifier}} (much to many Australians' dismay). Something of a subversion, since his famous claims turn out to have been substantially exaggerated, and he's a bit clueless when out of his element. Still decidedly tough, though. They also meet an aborigine friend of Dundee who is an urbane city dweller who is just happening to be in the bush for a visit and they can hear him stumbling about in the dark complaining that he hates being there.

* [[ActionGirl Erin]] in ''Film/YoureNext'' was raised by a CrazySurvivalist on a compound in the Outback before moving to the US. This background makes her ''very'' well-suited to fighting off a home invasion.
* Boomer the Kangaroo from ''Our Lips are Sealed''.

* The protagonist of ''Film/DakotaHarris'' singlehandedly foils a Nazi plot to change the outcome of the war using an [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum alien artifact]] capable of time travel.
* In ''Film/SavagesCrossing'', the HeroAntagonist Mory is a {{Gunslinger}} and trucker who can take down a drug-crazed serial killer and fight toe-to-toe with a mercenary BountyHunter.
* Subverted with Kirk Lazarus in ''Film/TropicThunder''. He's an Australian method actor who had won five Academy Awards for his work...and because of how intense his method acting is, he is going through an identity crisis, and for most of the movie, [[RefugeInAudacity he acts and speaks as]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice a stereotypical black man]] for his role in the FilmWithinAFilm, going as far as to get skin pigmentation for the role.
* Bennet from ''Film/{{Commando}}'' is another evil variation. AxCrazy, in charge of a team of PrivateMilitaryContractors, a BloodKnight, and one of the rare characters able to go toe-to-toe with [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger John Matrix.]] Being played by actual Aussie Vernon Wells doesn't hurt.
* Roger Wesley from ''Film/TheOtherGuys'' is another evil version of this trope. He's a highly skilled mercenary who ultimately serves as TheHeavy for the film's plot.
-->'''Roger Wesley:''' There are three things I love in this world: Music/KylieMinogue, small dimples just above a woman's buttocks... [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and the fear in a man's eyes who knows I'm about to hurt him]].

* Jack West from the series named after him, by Creator/MatthewReilly.

* The [[Literature/AhrimanTrilogy Ahriman Trilogy]] gives us Caitlin Reid, a veteran of a survivalist camp who uses her knowledge of chemistry to create weapons specifically tailored to EldritchAbomination physiology. And she does it while giggling.

* Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo is ''clearly'' the most badass Australian out there.
* Jim Taggart from ''{{Series/Eureka}}''.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' gives us [[ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} Slade Wilson]] and Billy Wintergreen, two renegade Australian Security Intelligence Service agents who can [[ArrowCatch catch arrows]] and love swords. Slade is frequently depicted as a OneManArmy, whether fighting alongside or against our hero Oliver Queen.
* ''Series/ANZACGirls'', suitably for a drama about Australian nurses serving on the front lines of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, has four; Grace Wilson, Olive Haynes, Alice Ross King, and Elsie Cook. (The fifth main character, Hilda Steele, is equally awesome, but she's a Kiwi.) Grace Wilson and Alice Ross King in particular are practically Australian nursing royalty; the former won the Royal Red Cross and was eventually knighted, and the latter won the Military Medal for courage under fire.

* Johnny Thunder, the Franchise/{{LEGO}} character.

* Implied in ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', where the entire world has been ravished by the demonic invasion... ''except'' for Australia, which remained completely untouched.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' provides the trope picture with [[TestosteronePoisoning SAXTON HALE]], who fights apex predators and [[BigFootSasquatchAndYeti yetis]] for fun. He also invents weapons and runs a company based off of it in his spare time.
** ''Everyone'' in Australia is like this in [[AlternateHistory TF2 canon]], turning it into a futuristic metropolis where even the women sport burly mustaches. This is because the awesomeness is entirely from [[AppliedPhlebotinum exposure to]] [[{{Unobtanium}} Australium]]. [[ColdSniper The Sniper]] gets mocked for being only a regular example of this trope, lacking the muscles and preferring to pick fights from far away. [[spoiler:This is because he is actually from New Zealand, which in this universe is a bizarre mix between [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Krypton]] and {{Atlantis}}, and is full of mad scientists and other intellectuals like him.]]
** While Sniper is downplayed in comparison, he is an example himself, in the style of ''Film/CrocodileDundee''. [[spoiler: Although it was later revealed that he's a New Zealander by birth.]]

* Ian "Hunter" St. John, from ''VideoGame/WingCommander''.

* In the original ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' trilogy, recurring Marine NPC Private Chips Dubbo became a MemeticBadass thanks to having some of the best dialogue in the series and a kickass attitude.
* While Australia doesn't exist in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', it has a parallel in Gran Pulse - and since both [[spoiler:Fang and Vanille]] come from Gran Pulse, they fit this category easily.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': Miranda Lawson is voiced by an [[Creator/YvonneStrahovski Australian actress]], and her father is named after an Australian poet, so she's ''probably'' Australian. While Miranda lacks things like the crocodile-teeth hat, an extravagant moustache or muscle development like a bad-tempered house, she's still an extremely useful teammate with a counter to every kind of defence, whose loyalty power is to hoist enemies up with her biotics and slam them into the ground with phenomenal force.

* Fighting game ''VideoGame/{{Schwarzerblitz}}'' introduces us to Wally Alba, an Aussie sentient [[{{RaptorAttack}} velociraptor]] with a [[{{BFG}} minigun]] who was raised in the outback and works as a {{Bounty Hunter}}.
* ''VideoGame/{{Wipeout}}'' gives us the racing team Triakis Industries, born as a weapon-manufacturing conglomerate and boasting the best-shielded craft in the competition. If they're described in their bio in Website/ThisVeryWiki as "the result of Saxton Hale getting warped into the far future and running a racing team", it has to count for something. Bonus points for their name being inspired by the leopard shark.[[note]]Which, amusingly, can't be found in Australian waters.[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' has Junkrat and Roadhog, two criminals on an international crime spree together. The former is a trigger-happy explosives expert with a ''very'' hammy accent and the latter has the most hit points of any hero in the game. Although considering that in the Overwatch universe the Australian outback has become an irradiated wasteland where only hardened scavengers can survive, it's somewhat justified.
** ''Overwatch 2'' introduces the Junker Queen, the leader of the gang Junkrat and Roadhog used to be a part of. She wields a shotgun that she reloads by pulling out the entire magazine tube, a big knife, and an even bigger axe, and has a magnetic gauntlet that lets her attract the knife back to her hand after throwing it and spin the axe around like a sawblade.
* Deke from ''VideoGame/FearEffect''.

* Lord Raptor from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' is an Australia-born [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie]] [[MusicalAssassin rock star]]. In the English dub of ''Anime/NightWarriorsDarkstalkersRevenge'', he is even given a thick Aussie accent.
* Kano from the Franchise/MortalKombat series was given a RaceLift from Japanese-American to Australian following the first movie, leading to him becoming a villainous example of the trope.
* Chloe Frazer from the ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' series, first introduced in ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'', is a mixed-race female version. Born to an Indian father and an Australian mother, Chloe is an avid treasure hunter like old flame Nathan Drake, but she's a lot more unscrupulous and self-serving than he is. As for "Awesome", she's the playable character in ''VideoGame/UnchartedTheLostLegacy'', so you get to show off her formidable combat skills as she competes against Indian terrorists as a [[OneManArmy One-Woman-Army]]. Bonus points for being voiced by Creator/ClaudiaBlack!

However, compare that to the typical depiction of UsefulNotes/AustralianAborigines. They are usually depicted as slender and easygoing; they don't need to be physically tough to survive the Outback considering they [[NativeGuide know the land inside and out, and know to how to live in it without blundering through it]].

* [[ButtMonkey Captain Boomerang]] from ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' is a massive {{deconstruction}}. ''Nobody'' likes him. [[{{Jerkass}} Not that he ever gives anyone any reason to]]. At one point, another Australian tells one of his team mates that most Australians think he's an American pretending to be an Australian. That said, he is [[NotSoHarmlessVillain deceptively dangerous]], and has a shockingly high body count even if it's usually through trickery rather than the brute force associated with the trope.

* Boomerang, the supervillain from ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' and ''ComicBook/SuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'', however, is much more affable, if not as dangerous or competent.

* [[ButtMonkey Captain Boomerang]] from ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' is a massive {{deconstruction}}. ''Nobody'' likes him. [[{{Jerkass}} Not that he ever gives anyone any reason to]]. At one point, another Australian tells one of his team mates that most Australians think he's an American pretending to be an Australian. That said, he is [[NotSoHarmlessVillain deceptively dangerous]], and has a shockingly high body count even if it's usually through trickery rather than the RatedMForManly type-feats associated with the trope.

* Zigzagged in ''Series/StarTrekPicard''. Major character Elnor, a WarriorMonk MasterSwordsman, shares the Australian accent of his actor, Creator/EvanEvagora, who's from Melbourne. However, Elnor is a [[SpaceElves Romulan]] with no connection to Australia whatsoever. This is notably primarily because it departs from the long speculative fiction tradition of [[TranslationConvention giving]] all English-speaking aliens British or American accents, because, [[SarcasmMode of course]], only ''those'' accents [[TheQueensLatin are neutral]].

* Sydney Savage from ''ComicBook/DangerGirl'': a former member of the S.A.S. who is an expert with [[WhipItGood the bullwhip]]. Her sister Sonya also qualifies being a former member of A.S.I.S and a MasterArcher whose skills with the bow are compared to that of a deity by world-class archers.

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* [[ButtMonkey Captain Boomerang]] from ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' is a massive {{deconstruction}}. ''Nobody'' likes him. [[JerkAss Not that he ever gives anyone any reason to]]. At one point, another Australian tells one of his team mates that most Australians think he's an American pretending to be an Australian. That said, he is [[NotSoHarmlessVillain deceptively dangerous]], and has a shockingly high body count even if it's usually through trickery rather than the RatedMForManly type-feats associated with the trope.

* Boomerang, the supervillain from Creator/MarvelComics, however, is much more affable, if not as dangerous or competent.

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* Sir John Monash, UsefulNotes/WorldWarI general and last man ever knighted on the field of battle. Held responsible by King George for winning the entire damned war. One notable quote: King George commented that they just 'might' win the war using Monash's tactics. Monash's reply, a single incredulous 'might?'
** The way he reported it in his diaries, the King began a sentence with the words "If we win this war--" at which point Monash interrupted[[note]]a gross and unthinkable breach of Royal protocol[[/note]]: "''If'' we win?". It was rumoured at one point that if the war had stretched into 1919, the King intended to sack Field-Marshal Haig and put Monash in charge of ''the entire British Army''.
** Monash being AFatherToHisMen contributes much to his reputation.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simpson_Kirkpatrick John Simpson Kirkpatrick]], a stretcher-bearer during the Gallipoli campaign, became an integral part of the ANZAC legend when he acquired a donkey and spent three and a half weeks tirelessly and fearless working to transport wounded British soldiers to safety under heavy fire until he was finally killed by machine gun fire.

* UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel, the TropeNamer for MagnificentBastard, said that, if he had to take Hell, he would use the [[UsefulNotes/AussiesWithArtillery Australians]] to do so. And the [[UsefulNotes/KiwisWithCarbines New Zealanders]] to hold it.
** Expand that, and you get pretty much the history of the Australian armed forces. Yes they suffered losses from time to time, but generally did pretty well overall.

** The [[BigBad villain]], Percy [=McLeach=], is an evil version of this trope, a poacher and trader in Australian wildlife who keeps ''[[CoolPet a pet goanna]]'' and is able to fight off a horde of hungry crocodiles.

* ''VideoGame/{{Wipeout}}'' gives us the racing team Triakis Industries, born as a weapon-manufacturing conglomerate and boasting the best-shielded craft in the competition. If they're described in their bio in Wiki/ThisVeryWiki as "the result of Saxton Hale getting warped into the far future and running a racing team", it has to count for something. Bonus points for their name being inspired by the leopard shark.[[note]]Which, amusingly, can't be found in Australian waters.[[/note]]

* {{Wolverine}} is so much of a badass that in the cartoon pilot ''WesternAnimation/PrydeOfTheXMen'' they gave him an Australian accent.
** Which is HilariousInHindsight with {{Wolverine}} being played by (actual) Awesome Aussie Creator/HughJackman in the X-Men films.

* Music/{{Pendulum}} is the most popular drum and bass band to ever come out in the planet. They now reside in London, but their hometown is Perth, Australia.

* Monterey Jack, {{the big guy}} from ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers''.