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7	->''"....so if you give a crap feel free to check back in next week to satisfy your insatiable desire to read about grown people punching each other in the mouth or beating each other about the head and neck in a most furious manner."''
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9	[[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]], [[RankScalesWithAsskicking 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.
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11	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 [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/babadeepsingh Baba Deep Singh]]:
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13	->''This crazy-ass bastard is one of the most hardcore freedom fighters to ever live, and a dude so extreme balls-out in his insatiable quest for vengeance that something as inconsequentially-trivial as '''being fucking decapitated''' couldn't stop him from crushing his enemies to death with his nutsack.''
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15	Another example is the Japanese warrior monk [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/benkei Saito Musashibo Benkei]]:
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17	->''Benkei went out to the drawbridge leading towards the castle, clenched his naginata in his fists, and dared the army on the other side to fucking fuck with him. A couple punk-ass bitches thought they wanted a piece of SMB, but Benkei slapped the fail out of them with the blunt end of his bladed axe, knocking their brains out and sending crumpled remains splashing into the moat.''
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19	Or [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael Saint Michael the Archangel]]:
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21	->''So one day God and everybody are chilling out and this fucking insane-o motherfucking demon busts through the pearly gates ready to kick fucking asses and making the lesser angels (the fat kids and Victoria Secret models) piss themselves.''
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23	->''Holy shit everybody thinks they're totally fucked because look at this motherfucker. He's a fucking huge red monster with gleaming talons and spikes covering one-third of his body and glowing eyes and he looks PISSED. But instead of handing over St. Peter's keys like some kind of two-dollar pussy carjacking victim, God takes one look at this thing and is just like, "Mike, show this fucking douchebag the door". The Archangel Michael calmly nods his head, slowly takes the cigarette out of his mouth and flicks it onto the floor, cracks his knuckles and confidently strides towards Lucifer.''
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25	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 you need to convert to Norse religion, and how to go about this.]]
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27	Also, Ben recently wrote a book [[AuthorAppeal celebrating his love of scrotum crushing badasses]], called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin BADASS: The Book]], and is recommended reading for anyone who just can't get enough of of those who DareToBeBadass!
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29	Also, BADASS: The Book now has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocYk1aBj3t4&feature=player_embedded BADASS: The Book: the Trailer.]]
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31	In December of 2012, Ben Thompson started a webcomic with his friend and illustrator Manny Vega titled Badass Con Carne. Read it [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?ccpage=1 here]].
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33	Due to a server crash, most of the articles are currently unavailable, and Ben is currently working on reuploading them.
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36	!!This website PUNCHES YOU with examples of:
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38	* AcePilot:
39	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/shinohara Hiromichi Shinohara]]
40	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/rudel Hans-Ulrich Rudel]] - the most decorated UsefulNotes/WorldWarII pilot, and who flew ''2,500'' combat missions - more than any other pilot in ''history.''
41	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/foss Joe Foss]]
42	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=283661830799 M. M. Alam]], [[CurbStompBattle who took down five enemy aircraft in a minute]]. (Three confirmed kills, two disputed kills -- he definitely shot up five enemy aircraft, but whether he killed the two unconfirmed kills or merely damaged them to the point of needing to flee is unclear)
43	%%** And, of course, [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/richtofen Manfred von Richthofen]]
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45	%% Viewers shouldn't have to click a link to learn about examples; the point of TV tropes is to ''provide'' examples* ActionGirl: Too many to list. Any female profiled will definitely count. Searching the website by "Women" (or "queen") gives you an incomplete list.
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47	%%* AmazonBrigade: The White Tights and the Dahomey Amazons
48	%%* AntiHero[=/=]AntiVillain: Most profilees are one or the other.
49	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/tiberius Tiberius Caesar's]] denunciation of his erstwhile second-in-command Sejanus.
50	-->... and by the time the senate was done reading Tiberius' e-mail, they all thought Sejanus was sexing all of their wives, killing all of their sons, and stealing all of their money. On top of that, he didn't recycle, only used Styrofoam cups, and drove a crappy, environmentally-unfriendly car that only got like five miles to the gallon.
51	* AuthorAppeal: Badasses!
52	* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership:
53	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/capone Al Capone]] - Who also had an epic rivalry with fellow badass [[ByTheBookCop Eliot Ness]]
54	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/low Edward Low]]
55	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackson Andrew Jackson]], again.
56	* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever:
57	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/titanoboa The Titanoboa]]
58	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon Megalodon]]
59	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/komododragon The Komodo Dragon]], the world's largest lizard.
60	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/haastseagle Haast's Eagle]], a bird that preyed on moa and the ancestors of the Māori.
61	* AuthorCatchPhrase: Badasses described as going progressively crazier will be described as losing his or her "already-tenuous grip on his/her sanity."
62	%%* AwesomeAussie:
63	%%** The country itself
64	%%** The Australian Light Horse
65	%%** UsefulNotes/NedKelly
66	%%** Steve Irwin
67	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=27450552861 Nancy Wake]]
68	%%* BadassAdorable:
69	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/brownell Katie Brownell]], again.
70	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rabbit The Killer Rabbit]]
71	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger The Honey Badger]]
72	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/m3wolverine M3 the Wolverine]]
73	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/apiscerana The Asiatic Honey Bee]]
74	%%* BadassArmy:
75	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/300spartans The 300 Spartans]]
76	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/australianlighthorse The Australian Light Horse]]
77	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/wingedhussars The Winged Hussars]]
78	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mayow The British Light Brigade]]
79	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/sealteamsix SEAL Team Six]]
80	* BadassBookworm:
81	%%** George Orwell
82	%%** Alexander Solzhenitsyn
83	%%** Aeschylus
84	%%** Sir Richard Francis Burton
85	%%** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/curie Marie Curie]]
86	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/davinci Leonardo Da Vinci]] -This man was able to kill people with a sniper rifle......''before they were even invented yet!''
87	%%** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/tesla Nikola Tesla]]
88	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/aldrin.html Buzz Aldrin]] - If strapping a rocket to your ass and braving deep space isn't an act of sheer balls, then epically jacking some asshole in the face after he calls you a liar and threatens your daughter should count.
89	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/neilarmstrong Neil Armstrong]] - The first man to set foot on another world.
90	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mccoy Jack McCoy]]
91	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babur Zahir-ud-din Mohammad Babur]]
92	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stapp John Paul Stapp]]
93	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=199503532062 Athena]]
94	%%* BadassBystander: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shrestha Bishnu Shresta]].
95	* BadassCreed - The Winged Hussars above had this: ''Kill First, Calculate Later''.
96	%%* BadassIsraeli - Jonathan Netanyahu, Imi Lichtenfeld, Zvika Greengold.
97	%%% "Too many to list" is never acceptable context.
98	%%%%* BadassNative:
99	%%* BadassNormal:
100	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=10728794035 Han Solo]],
101	%%** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/punisher The Punisher]]
102	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/odysseus Odysseus]]
103	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beowulf Beowulf]]
104	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/conan Conan of Cimmeria]]
105	* BadassPacifist:
106	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/ruseabagina Paul Rusesabagina]]
107	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/cooper Ryan Cooper]]
108	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/york Sergeant Alvin York]]
109	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/aki-ra Aki Ra]] - Uses little more than a pipe wrench and balls the size of small planets to disarm absurdly lethal anti personnel landmines.
110	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hawaabdi Hawa Abdi]]
111	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/garcia Juan Pujol Garcia]], who managed to scurry through a civil war serving both sides yet never firing a single bullet for either, and ensured the Normandy landings would be a success without so much as touching a rifle. The only people he ever killed were [[InventedIndividual fictional]].
112	%%* BearsAreBadNews - ([[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voytek Voytek the Soldier Bear]]) If you were a Nazi, you were pretty much fucked.
113	%%* BerserkButton: Ruksana Kauser, King Abdullah II (see "Four Star Badass")
114	* {{BFG}} [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/bfg9000 The BFG-9000]] TropeNamer.
115	* BoldlyComing: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/shepard Commander Shepard]]
116	--> This is the first thing that pops up when you run a Google Image Search for "space babes", but, honestly, this weird alien space eyeball tentacle-monster also happens to be a good visual representation of Commander Shepherd's military career – drifting around in outer space groping a hot babe with his appendages while random dudes shoot him in the face with rockets at close range without doing any noticeable damage.
117	* ButtMonkey: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?ccpage=1&ccid=657058123252 A 50/50 for Ian Forbes]], a man who enlisted in the British Royal Navy for [=WW2=]. His military career led him to being subjected to the ship he was on getting destroyed by enemy attacks over and over and finally taken prisoner for three years. That being said, against all odds he ''survived'' them all and died 72 years old "of very ordinary causes".
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119	* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive As it turns out, this is a surprisingly common trope among the real-life badasses profiled.
120	** [[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
121	** [[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.
122	* CaptainObvious: From the article on [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shonuff.html Sho'Nuff]]:
123	-->''When he gets super-pissed he starts [[PowerGlows glowing red]] and kicking ass. A lot of people can't do that.''
124	* {{Catchphrase}}: "Balls-out" appears often, sometimes multiple times in a single article. Even in the articles about women. Even in the article about the cow, and ''especially'' in the article about [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=16999521462 Buck Shelford]], where the author could use the phrase [[GroinAttack literally]].
125	%%* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/oyama.html Mas Oyama]]
126	* {{Cincinnatus}} - [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/cincinnatus Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus.]] TropeNamer.
127	%%* ClusterFBomb: The entire website.
128	* ColdSniper:
129	** [[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 Mosin Nagant.
130	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zaitsev.html Vasily Zaitsev]] - This man set up a sniper school in the middle of Stalingrad while the Germans were still invading, [[BadassTeacher taught his students how to kill tons of soldiers]], [[OneManArmy while notching over 300 kills himself.]]
131	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pavlichenko Lyudmila Pavilchenko]]
132	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/harrison Corporal Craig Harrison]]
133	%%** Carlos Hathcock
134	** Seal Team Six gets mentioned for their sniping three Somali pirates with synchronized sniper shots.
135	%%** The White Tights
136	* ColonelBadass:
137	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/millett Lewis Millet]] - Probably one of the few badasses who quit his own army at one point because they weren't being badass enough''
138	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/arnauld 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.
139	* ConsummateLiar: Juan Pujol Garcia, who managed to convince the nazis that he was a deeply-entrenched spymaster with a gigantic network of spies all over the British Isles while sitting from his house in Lisboa, Portugal with only some tourist books and exactly zero time spent anywhere in the other side of the Channel. When the brits brought him in and gave him some additional support, he managed to convince the Germans the D-day landing would be coming from Pas de Calais rather than Normandy, ensuring its success.
140	* CoolPlane: The A-10, AKA the Warthog.
141	* CowboyCop
142	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stabler.html Detective Elliot Stabler]]
143	** Bass Reeves - who also was ImmuneToBullets.
144	** Eliot Ness - of the lawful variety.
145	* CrazyPrepared
146	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/chandragupta.html Chandragupta Maurya]]
147	* CrazySurvivalist
148	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/grylls Bear Grylls]]
149	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/koepcke Juliane Koepcke]]
150	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/yadav Yogender Singh Yadav]]
151	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/ralston Aron Ralston]]
152	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass
153	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/molly Molly The Cow]]
154	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/upham Charles Upham]]
155	* CulturedBadass[=/=]OfficerAndAGentleman: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/massoud 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.
156	* DareToBeBadass
157	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/autry Wesley Autry]]
158	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/kauser 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.
159	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/youde 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.
160	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/woods Ron Woods]]
161	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/akaiwa 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.
162	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/omari 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.
163	* DeathWorld
164	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/australia Australia]]
165	* {{Determinator}}
166	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/luttrell Marcus Luttrell]]
167	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/onoda Hiroo Onada]], who fought UsefulNotes/WorldWarII longer than most people would consider sane.
168	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babadeepsingh Baba Deep Singh]], who decided a trivial thing like ''[[OffWithHisHead being]]'' ''[[MajorInjuryUnderreaction decapitated]]'' was not going to stop him from kicking ass.
169	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/fazaldin Fazal Din]]
170	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/garibaldi Giuseppe Garibaldi]]
171	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/che Che Guevara]]
172	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voorhees Jason Voorhees]]
173	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/trenck Baron Frederick von der Trenck]]
174	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shelford 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.''
175	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/inouye Daniel Inouye]]
176	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/whittemore 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''.
177	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/jones 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!"
178	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
179	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/diomedes Diomedes]] wounded the gods Aphrodite and Ares with his spear.
180	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael The Archangel St. Michael]] defeated {{Satan}} in single combat.
181	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beowulf Beowulf]] killed the NighInvulnerable demon Grendel, and later, Grendel's mother.
182	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kratos Kratos]] killed just about every other character in the game, including the gods.
183	** 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 single-handedly fight and defeat ''the entire army of Heaven''.
184	* DyingMomentOfAwesome
185	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mototada Torii Mototada]]
186	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/donalejo Don Alejo Garza Tamez]]
187	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=52657811114 Captian Ernest E. Evans]]
188	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blackbeard 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.
189	** "Since nobody gets the better of a [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/predator 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."
190	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/khalid 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.
191	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hector Hector of Troy]]; being willing to face a NighInvulnerable warrior like Achilles in battle is pretty badass, even if you lose.
192	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/samson Samson]]:
193	-->''A couple days after he was locked up, the Philistine leaders decided to throw a huge banquet to celebrate their victory over this guy who had been their hated enemy for over twenty years. The entire nobility, along with about three thousand other Philistines got together at the Temple of the god Dagon to get wasted and offer up sacrifices. Once the party really got hopping and everyone started to get a little tipsy, they decided to bring Samson in so that everyone could yell mean things and throw tomatoes at him. So the guards fetched him from prison so he could serve the entertainment of the heathen jackass Philistines.\
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195	Samson couldn't see, so he begged his captors to place his hands on the two huge pillars that served at the primary supports for the Temple. The guards obliged him and then went back to whatever they were doing. Samson placed on hand on each pillar and called out to God for the strength to exact vengeance on his enemies. God was a lot more down with vengeance and destruction back then, so he once again gave Samson super strength. Samson pushed with all of his might, toppling both pillars and bringing the entire temple crashing down on top of the Philistines. Everyone was crushed to death.''
196	** After getting impaled on King Arthur's lance, Sir Mordred, realizing he had no hope of survival, pushed the lance ''further into his own body'' so he could get close enough to [[HeroKiller stab King Arthur to death with his sword.]]
197	** 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.)
198	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beowulf Beowulf]] died saving Geatland from a terrifying dragon when he was killed by the dragon's venomous bite.
199	* EldritchAbomination:
200	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kraken The Kraken]]
201	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/horsemen The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse]]
202	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=290314930441 Galactus]]
203	** [[http://www.boomtron.com/thanos Thanos]]
204	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=537935724254 Camazotz the Death Bat]]
205	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/godzilla.html Godzilla]]
206	* EverythingsBetterWithSamurai
207	** Tomoe Gozen - [[LadyOfWar Who, considering she was the only female samurai, is pretty damn impressive!]]
208	* EvilOverlord
209	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sforza Caterina Sforza]]
210	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ranavalona Ranavalona The Cruel]]
211	** UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler - The ORIGINAL Dracula.
212	* EyepatchOfPower
213	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/leomajor Léo Major]] - [[OneManArmy This man killed an entire town worth of soldiers in ONE Night!]]
214	*** His take on how he did: ''I fought the war with only one eye, and I did pretty good!''
215	*** And his reasons for doing it: He thought it would be awesome if he went into battle looking like a pirate with an eyepatch.
216	** [[https://badassoftheweek.com/zizka Jan Žižka]]. Notable that he ''kept leading'' his armies ''after'' the eyepatch became redundant, on account of becoming completely blind.
217	* FamilyValuesVillain: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/edwardlow 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.
218	* FeatheredFiend:
219	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/haastseagle Haast's eagle]].
220	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/trex.html Tyrannosaurus rex]]-not a bird, but feathered nonetheless.
221	* FluffyTheTerrible: the name of the man who saved Bulgaria by crushing multiple invasions by both the Mongols and the Byzantine Empire? [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=84324331289 Ivajlo the Cabbage]]
222	* FourStarBadass
223	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/viriathus Viriathus]]
224	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hideyoshi Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]
225	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alparslan Alp Arslan]]
226	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tomyris Tomyris]]
227	** UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte - This man was the ultimate subversion of CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys.
228	** UsefulNotes/RamsesII
229	** Xenophon
230	** The Surena
231	** Alaric The Bold - Who, despite being a Visigoth barbarian, was also very clever.
232	** Khalid Bin Walid - Whom the Prophet Muhammmad dubbed [[RedBaron The Sword]] of Allah!
233	** Charles Martel (His Latin surname was "Martellus")
234	** William The Conquerer
235	** Jan Žižka - The man who fought off three crusades with an army of peasants and never once lost a battle.
236	** Harald Hardrada - [[MeaningfulName his surname means "hardass"]]
237	** El Cid Campeador (Possibly the only badass so badass, he scared the shit out of his enemies even after he was literally dead)
238	** UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler
239	** UsefulNotes/PeterTheGreat
240	** UsefulNotes/HoratioNelson (Called [[RedBaron "Britannia's God Of War'']] by Lord Byron for a reason)
241	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/saladin Saladin]]
242	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/washington George Washington]]
243	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wellington The Duke of Wellington]]
244	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/taylor Zachary Taylor]]
245	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/patton George S. Patton]]
246	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/puller Chesty Puller]] - The most badass US Marine commander the world has ever seen.
247	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alexander Alexander the Great]]
248	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackson Andrew Jackson]] - UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson, the man who [[MadeOfIron survived more duels and bullets than should be realistically possible]], and still kept kicking ass!
249	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael Saint Michael the Archangel]]
250	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/zod General Zod]]- TropeNamer for KneelBeforeZod.
251	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/scaeva Cassius Scavea]]
252	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/caesar Julius Caesar]]
253	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt]] - This wasn't a man, he was a walking Chuck Norris meme!
254	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/winstonchurchill Winston Churchill]] - Served as a British battalion commander in World War I and as Prime Minister of Great Britain in World War II.
255	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/akbar Akbar The Great]]
256	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alitalib Ali ibn Abi Talib]]
257	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/barbarossa Hayreddin Barbarossa]]
258	** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20071227130044/http://www.badassoftheweek.com:80/khan.html Genghis Khan]] - Was originally named Temujin, which means MadeOfIron
259	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tamerlane 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.
260	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/attila Attila the Hun]]
261	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/darius Darius the Great]]
262	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hannibal Hannibal Barca]]
263	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ataturk Mustafa Kemal Ataturk]] (So badass he has a monument dedicated to him in the capital of Australia, a former enemy)
264	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pingyang Princess Pingyang]]
265	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=206886827770 King Abdullah II]] – Current ruler of Jordan and career military leader. During a visit to Washington, the King found out that ISIS had brutally executed a captured Jordanian pilot. He immediately launched into Creator/ClintEastwood's revenge speech from ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'', and launched a series of revenge attacks on ISIS. He reportedly flew the lead aircraft on the first mission (which Jordan has officially denied).
266	** UsefulNotes/{{Skanderbeg}}
267	* FromNobodyToNightmare: many of the badasses demonstrate that this trope can be TruthInTelevision, rising from humble beginnings to become tyrannical rulers and dreaded warlords.
268	%%* GadgeteerGenius: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/macgyver Angus MacGyver]]
269	%%* HandicappedBadass:
270	%%** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/baldwin Baldwin IV of Jerusalem]]
271	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tamerlane Tamerlane]]
272	* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Franchise/{{Godzilla}} in ''Badass: Birth of a Legend:
273	--> ''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.''
274	%%* HeroicDog: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sgtstubby Sergeant Stubby The War Dog]]
275	%%* HeroicSacrifice:
276	%%** Jonathan Netanyahu
277	%%** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/gordonandshughart Gary Gordan and Randall Shughart]].
278	%%** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=52657811114 USS Johnston and USS Samuel B Roberts]]
279	%%* HistoricalHeroUpgrade
280	* HistoricalVillainUpgrade:
281	** PlayedForLaughs in the article on [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/murdoch Rupert Murdoch]], which portrays him as literally a super villain.
282	** Enemies of the profilee tend to be described as jackasses, assholes, etc., even if there's no particular reason to think that they were such. Again, PlayedForLaughs.
283	* HoldTheLine:
284	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/21sikhs 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.]]
285	%%** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=52657811114 Taffy 3]]
286	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/wilson Jack Hanson]] (mentioned, but not the main subject of the linked article) mounted a one-man defense with his machine-gun to let the other three men of his section escape in the night. Some hours later, his regiment counterattacked and retook his position, [[HeroicSacrifice finding him dead]] [[LastStand in front of his machine-gun with an empty pistol and a bloodied machete in his hands with twenty-two enemy corpses around his foxhole]].
287	%%* HumongousMecha: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/optimusprime Optimus Prime]]
288	%%* IFellForHours: [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/kittinger Joseph Kittinger]]
289	* ImprovisedWeapon: The [[http://badassoftheweek.com/homedefense entire article on home defense]] pretty much hits every single permutation of improvised weaponry.
290	* {{Jerkass}}:
291	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alcibiades Alcibiades]]
292	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/justinian 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."
293	* KillerRabbit: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/rabbit No prizes for guessing.]]
294	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger The Honey Badger]]
295	*** On the subject of the African Honey Badger: ''But the Honey Badger doesn't give a crap – he comes across a puff adder that is eating a rat, and his first instinct is [[RefugeInAudacity to run up, grab the rat]] '''[[RefugeInAudacity out of the snake's mouth]]''', [[RefugeInAudacity carry it a few feet away, and then eat the rat right in front of the snake]] just to show the adder that he's a bitch. After eating the stolen meal, the Badger then decides, "[[BigEater Screw it, now I'm going to eat this damn snake too]]". This really takes being an asshole to another level, [[ArsonMurderAndAdmiration which is something I can appreciate]]. The adder and the Ratel fight, and the Honey Badger kills the viper, but not before being bitten in the face and pumped full of enough venom to kill a creature three times its size. [[ImplacableMan The Badger succumbs to the poison, falls unconscious, but then – amazingly – somehow]] '''[[ImplacableMan comes back to life and continues devouring the already-half-eaten snake]]'''.''
296	*** Honey Badger [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg don't give a shit]].
297	** Also there is [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/m3wolverine 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.
298	--->''Not only is he more drug resistant than Ozzy, but in the weeks after being fitted with a GPS tracker by an enterprising, stupidly-brave, presumably-deceased scientist armed with a ten-foot pole and a suit of +2 Chainmail, he summited the highest peak in Glacier National Park – 10,466 feet – covering the last 4,900-feet by running straight up a sheer cliff face in the span of 90 minutes. Through 20-inch deep snow. In the middle of January, when temperatures were in the single digits. His tracker didn't explain why, but we can only assume the answer involves teabagging the summit just out of principle.''
299	%%* KneelBeforeZod: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zod General Zod, The Trope Namer]]
300	%%* KrakenAndLeviathan:
301	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kraken The Kraken]]
302	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon Megalodon]]
303	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=931398313701 The Pliosaur]]
304	%%* LadyOfWar:
305	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/matilda Matilda of Canosa]]
306	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/agustina Agustina de Aragon]]
307	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/joanofarc Joan Of Arc]]
308	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/isabella Isabella Of France]]
309	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/maibhago Mai Bhago]]
310	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sforza Catherine Sforza]]
311	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rani Rani Lakshmibai]]
312	%%8* [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pingyang Princess Pingyang]]
313	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shepard Shepard.]]
314	%%* LargeHam: The entire entry for '''[[http://badassoftheweek.com/aggrocrag THE AGGRO CRAG.]]'''
315	* MajorlyAwesome: [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/roberthenrycain Major Robert Henry Cain]] landed for Operation Market Garden, and also proved himself MadeOfIron for continuing to personally defend against the German counterattack despite being shot by a machine gun (kept firing his PIAT at vehicles anyway), having a PIAT round explode in front of his face (only blinded him for a half-hour) and his eardrums burst from all of the explosions from the fighting (he just stuffed some bandages in his ears). Eventually his force was bereft of [=PIATs=], so he fired a mortar at an airplane from a virtually horizontal angle. By the end of the attack, he was believed to be responsible for knocking out four Tiger I tanks and two self-propelled guns and he, ''of course'', won a Victoria Cross.
316	* MinoredInAssKicking: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/heyerdahl.html Thor Heyerdahl]]
317	* MooseAndMapleSyrup: Defied in [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ernestsmith.html Ernest Smith]]'s article in the first paragraph.
318	--> "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."
319	* MundaneMadeAwesome: The grandfather of [[http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=434873628949 Harald Wartooth]] was known as Ivar the Wide-Grasping. The article of Harald is replete with tales of carnage and violence, but Ben theorizing the reason for Ivar's appellation stands out as unique and of a very different nature from the rest of the article...
320	-->"...who I'm pretty sure gets his wide-grasping epithet because he was literally able to grope [[LargeHam TWO BOOBS AT THE SAME TIME]]..."
321	* 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.
322	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast:
323	** Wolf the Quarrelsome's article includes a 300-word paragraph analysing the meaning of the name.
324	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/punisher The Punisher.]]
325	** Vlad the Impaler.
326	** Sauron, whose name is Elvish for "The Abomination".
327	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rabbit The Killer Rabbit]].
328	** Skeletor.
329	** The Furies.
330	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/livereating Liver-Eating Johnson]].
331	%%* NeverMessWithGranny: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/musa Jennifer Musa]]
332	%%* {{Ninja}}: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hanzo Hanzo Hattori]]
333	* NinjaPirateZombieRobot:
334	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jubei 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.
335	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voytek Voytek the Soldier Bear]].
336	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/taidjin T'ai Djin]], a Shaolin monk and kung-fu grandmaster who was also a werewolf (well, kinda, at least he looked like one).
337	%%* NonMaliciousMonster:
338	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/watermelonmonster The Watermelon Monster]]
339	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mobydick Moby Dick]]
340	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=187728219134 The Asiatic Honey Bee]]
341	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/godzilla Godzilla]]
342	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/titanoboa Titanoboa]]
343	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger The Honey Badger]]
344	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon.html Megalodon]]
345	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/trex.html Tyrannosaurus rex]]
346	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/m3wolverine M3 the Wolverine]]
347	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/haasteagle Haast's Eagle]]
348	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=11577785209 The Saber-Tooth Tiger]]
349	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=931398313701 The Pliosaur]]
350	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/panzer1000 The Panzer 1000 Tank]]
351	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/komododragon The Komodo Dragon]]
352	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rabbit The Killer Rabbit]]
353	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hantavirus The Hanta Virus]]
354	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blackdeath The Black Death]]
355	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/panther The PzKpfw V Panther Tank]]
356	* NoodleIncident: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/optimusprime "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?"]]
357	* NoPunctuationPeriod: The first paragraph of articles typically features one or more run-on sentences.
358	* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gurung "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."]]
359	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: 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]].
360	* OldSoldier: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/whittemore 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.
361	* OneManArmy:
362	%%** Henry Lincoln Johnson
363	%%** Peter Franciso (and was called this trope by name by FourStarBadass George Washington)
364	%%** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/samson Samson]]
365	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/murphy Audie Murphy]]
366	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/greengold Zvika Greengold]]
367	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wittman Captain Michael Wittman]]
368	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/leomajor 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.
369	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/daly Sergeant Dan Daly]]
370	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/funk Leonard A. Funk]]
371	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/captaindavis.html Captain Johnathan R. Davis]]: One prospector, two revolvers, one bigass bowie knife, and the most awesome mutton chops ''ever'', versus eleven heavily-armed bandits. Guess who wins.
372	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha Simo Häyhä]] So much so that the Soviets actually ordered artillery bombardments just for the express purpose to try and kill him. They failed.
373	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gurung Lachiman Gurung]]
374	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pun Dipprasad Pun]]
375	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/lopez 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.
376	* OnlyAFleshWound: [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/wilson Benjamin F. Wilson]], who was severely wounded on an attack in the Korean War and pulled back to be put a stretcher. As the attack later faltered as a company commander and a platoon commander for his attacking company were incapacitated, he wordlessly went off the stretcher to lead the attack and would subsequently kill four enemies with his entrenching tool before his company withdrew from the objective under cover of artillery. He would proceed to singlehandedly capture multiple enemy emplacements [[MadeOfIron just a day later]], though [[DentedIron he was finally evacuated to a hospital after this day due it worsening his injuries]].
377	* PantheraAwesome: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=11577785209 The Saber-Tooth Tiger]]
378	* PapaWolf: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html Tom Wanyandie]] (an elderly Native American man who fought off a ''literal'' MamaBear to protect his son)
379	* PhysicalGod:
380	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zeus Zeus]]
381	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/poseidon Poseidon]]
382	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=199503532062 Athena]]
383	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kratos Kratos]]
384	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/charun Charun the Hammer God]]
385	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rama Rama]]
386	%%** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/thanos Thanos]]
387	%%** [[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
388	%%** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/kefka Kefka]]
389	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=290314930441 Galactus]]
390	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=537935724254 Camazotz the Death Bat]]
391	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=270155699 Hercules]] (but only after his death)
392	%%* {{Pirate}}:
393	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/edwardlow Edward Low]]
394	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blackbeard Blackbeard]]-TropeCodifier
395	%%** Again, [[http://badassoftheweek.com/cuchulainn Cuchulainn.]]
396	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/drake.html Sir Francis Drake]]
397	%%* PirateGirl:
398	%%** Anne Bonny
399	%%** Mary Read
400	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/chingshih.html Ching Shih]]
401	* PredatorsAreMean: Articles on predatory animals often describe them as evil, monsters, etc.
402	* ProfessorGuineaPig: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stapp.html John Paul Stapp]]
403	%%* RankScalesWithAsskicking: 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.
404	* RasputinianDeath: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rasputin.html Grigoriy Rasputin, the Trope Namer]]
405	* RedBaron:
406	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/richtofen.html Manfred von Richthofen]], "[[TropeNamer the Red Baron]]".
407	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/litvyak.html Lydia Litvyak, the "White Rose of Stalingrad"]]
408	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/massoud.html Ahmad Shah Massoud, the "Lion of Panjshir"]]
409	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html Simo Häyhä, "The White Death"]].
410	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/khalid.html Khalid ibn Al-Waleed, "The Sword of Allah".]]
411	** Vladimir Dracula, or "Vlad The Impaler".
412	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/foley.html Mick Foley, "King of the Death Match".]]
413	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/elcid.html El Cid Campeador (Spanish for "the Lord Champion").]]
414	** Peter Francisco, "The Samson of the West".
415	** Jan Žižka, "Jan the One-Eyed"
416	** Harald Hardrada, "The Devastator of Bulgaria".
417	** Horatio Nelson, "Britannia's God of War".
418	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/charles.html Charles XII of Sweden, "The Alexander of the West".]]
419	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/massoud.html Ahmad Shah Massoud, "The Lion of Panjshir".]]
420	** The Monkey King, "Great Sage, Equal of Heaven".
421	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/punisher.html The Punisher.]]
422	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/conan.html Conan of Cimmeria, or "Conan the Barbarian"]].
423	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/puller.html Chesty Puller, "The Tiger of the Mountains"]].
424	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/bishop.html Billy Bishop, "The Lone Wolf"]].
425	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/attila.html Attila the Hun, "The Scourge of God"]].
426	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/solonik.html Alexander Solonik, "Superkiller"]].
427	%%* RedemptionEqualsDeath:
428	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tlahuicole.html Tlahuicole]]
429	%%** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/vader.html Darth Vader]]
430	* RefugeInAudacity (Many of the events depicted are more or less made of this)
431	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/hondatadakatsu.html Honda Tadakatsu]] won a battle where he was outnumbered 60-1 by openly attacking the enemy army. The opposing general was so impressed at Tadakatsu's balls that he acknowledged his badassery by withdrawing and conceding without any blood being spilled.
432	* RevolversAreJustBetter: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/500magnum.html The Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum]]
433	%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:
434	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/heemeyer.html Marvin Heemeyer]] - Who did it with the [[TankGoodness KILLDOZER!]]
435	%%*** [[MemeticMutation ''So Granby, how do you like him now'']]?
436	%%** Justinian II (ran on this)
437	%%** More recently, Abdullah II of Jordan (see "Four Star Badass").
438	%%** Also [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=269178232573 Abu Azrael]], the scourge of ISIS in Iraq.
439	* RuleOfCool: Articles tend to be based on the coolest accounts of the profilee's life, rather than the most reliable.
440	%%* {{Samurai}}:
441	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jubei.html Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi]]
442	%%** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/musashi.html Mushashi Miyamoto]]
443	%%** Tomoe Gozen, again.
444	%%* ScaledUp: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/titanoboa.html TITANOBOA]]
445	%%* SerialKiller: Elizabeth Bathory
446	* ShoutOut: Got one in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' --a character mentions the publication "Badass Weekly".
447	* ShowyInvincibleHero: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/macgyver.html Angus MacGyver]].
448	-->''When Mac gets captured and shackled to the wall of a dank, lightless underground dungeon the question is never “is he going to be able to get out of this?” – it’s, “how is he going to use a coat hanger, some rusty thumbtacks, a Swiss Army knife, some duct tape and a magnifying glass to break free, kick this goon’s ass and disable the time bomb before his girlfriend gets blown up?”''
449	* ShroudedInMyth:
450	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/quarrelsome.html Wolf the Quarrelsome]].
451	--->Another thing that totally rocks about Wolf the Quarrelsome is that he only appears in history twice, and both times he's kicking ass.
452	%%* SilkHidingSteel - [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=52787309381 Wu Zetian]]'s modus operandi
453	* SophisticatedAsHell - the typical tone of the site, mixing detailed historical research with highly creative use of expletives.
454	* TankGoodness: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/panther.html The Panther Tank]]
455	* TestosteronePoisoning: A website so manly it'll make hair grow on your chest, even if you're a woman.
456	** [[http://gestaltmash.com/thanos Thanos]]
457	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kratos.html Kratos]]- [[MeaningfulName "Power", as described by the Greeks.]]
458	* ThreateningShark: The [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/megalodon Megalodon]], a PrehistoricMonster combined with SeaMonster.
459	* TrademarkFavoriteFood (for true badasses):
460	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beefjerky.html Beef Jerky]]
461	* TranquilFury:
462	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kuhnhausen.html Susan Kuhnhausen]]
463	* UnPerson: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/damnatio.html Damnatio Memoriae]]
464	* VillainProtagonist: Many articles have one. Searching the archives by "monster" or "super villain" will give you an incomplete list.
465	* WoodenShipsAndIronMen: [[http://badassoftheweek.com/johnpauljones.html John Paul Jones]] hasn't begun to fight, and he intends to go into harm's way.
466	** Iron woman [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/omalley Grace O'Malley]] pirate queen.
467	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/drake Sir Francis Drake]]
468	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=579429818534 Michiel De Ruyter]] sailed up the Thames to burn the shit out of the Royal Navy.
469	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/luckner Felix Von Luckner]] managed to be one of these during World War One!
470	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=234593721988 Hell Roaring Healy]] one point for the USCG.
471	* YouShallNotPass:
472	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/stamfordbridge The Viking at Stamford Bridge]]
473	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/benkei.html Saito Musashibo Benkei]] - [[HoldTheLine This man was told to defend his lord's castle]], [[{{Determinator}} and he died standing up and refused to fall to the ground even after death and more arrows wounds than anyone could possibly withstand]]. Whether, this is insane or not, one thing is clear: [[MyMasterRightOrWrong he followed his orders until death, just like he was supposed to.]]
474	** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pajota.html Juan Pajota]] - Philippine guerrilla leader during UsefulNotes/WW2. As Cpt. Robert Prince of 6th Ranger Battalion, US Army put it: "The Guerrillas were our flanking protection at the Cabu River, which was no more than a mile from the camp... there was a sizable force of Japanese, but Pajota and his men just killed everything in sight that came up that river and across the bridge. They were the ones that kept this thing from being a tough deal for us."
475	** [[http://badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=52657811114 The Battle Of Samar]] [[DavidVsGoliath David of the sea kicks Goliath's]] Ass!
476	** [[https://www.badassoftheweek.com/pavlov Yakov (Jacob) Pavlov]] – An older version of the [=BotW=] website's article list (sadly no longer active) had this as its tagline for his page: "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.
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