It would probably help if I knew a little more about the world your creating, so that I could have a little more context for how all this fits into the bigger scheme, otherwise these are just Bad Ass Mad-Libs. That said, here's some off the top of my head.
- Somebody takes on the entire Legions of Hell with THEIR FISTS! AND WINS!! Satan is so impressed he gives the guy/gal command of their own demon army.
- Dragon Rider Sky Pirates come up with A Simple Plan to steal Nazi Gold from Zeppelin-riding Diesel Punk Nazi Cyborgs Zombies powered by pure hatred (and diesel)!
- Evolved dinosaurs that escaped extinction by going into space come back and try to take back their homeworld, where only a Magnificent Seven Samurai crew can hold them at bay.
- The Fastest Gun in the West versus an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy who can Dodge the Bullet! (This is actually one of mine, but you're free to use it).
- Romeo Versus Juliet.
edited 5th Apr '11 7:50:18 PM by Carbonek13
Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time, but now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time. - MoondogI noticed a distinct lack of my favorite badass that nature has to offer. You may have heard of these creatures that live in one of the harshest environments on Earth. They will let humans walk right up to them because they have no reason to fear weaklings. They eat raw fish that they catch in freezing waters, but only when they're not keeping their eggs warm. They'll sit on their eggs for months at a time to keep them warm. During those months, the only thing they have to eat is snow/ice, which results in their body using up energy to heat back up. And they do all of this with a color pattern that makes them look like they're wearing a tuxedo.
You have to be a badass to survive what they do. They just have to be penguins. They make everything better, and the only reason we're still around is because they don't feel the need to prove how badass they are.
Oh, and you also forgot lightsabers on your list.
edited 6th Apr '11 4:05:24 AM by MarkerMage
Thinking of ideas to use with a literary work that is meant to be WikiWalked through.Just about any weapon that can glow will be badass, whether it be because the weapon is radioactive, made of lasers, filled with electricity, on fire, magically enchanted, or whatever else you can think of. You can make the melee weapon even more badass by giving it a sound effect. These are why lightsabers are cool, glow and unique sound effects.
Thinking of ideas to use with a literary work that is meant to be WikiWalked through.One might consider that more disturbing than anything else, really.
edited 15th Apr '11 10:51:12 PM by nrjxll
Swords make everything better, in my opinion. Katanas, lightsabers, what have you — they make anything ten times cooler. You could even play it up as an Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age.
Barring that, taking notes from any number of things related to G Gundam might serve you well. "Look! The East is burning red!"
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I've decided to undertake a year-long (minimum) project of writing a series of short stories all taking place in the same universe. The gimmick is that I want to include every single badass thing that can be thought of in the stories.
I've got a bit of a list of things I want to include so far — Mecha, cool anachronisms, dieselpunk/cyberpunk, la resistance, cultists, cosmic horrors, magic, government conspiracies, improbable situations, xanatos gambits, apocalypses and apocalyptic settings, sword fighting, mutants, chainsaws, motorcycles, car chases, bomb defusing, energy weapons, lightning guns, dinosaurs, lava/magma, zombies, mad science, dictators, insane amounts of symbolism (meaningful and meaningless), skydive fighting, gun-fu/gun-kata, horseback riding, indestructable determinators, dragons, ninjas, pirates, martial arts, samurai, mazes, rock music, rayguns, sky pirates, zepplins, western elements, angels and demons.
Got anything else that you just KNOW needs to be added to the list of unending badass elements?
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