I just finished reading The Fall of Reach, the book thats prequel to the first halo game. I knew he was badass...but Master Chief is far deeper and stronger than the game lets you know.
I was thinking about it, and the only other fictional character that runs in the same vein as him is Roland from the Dark Tower series. Both are the last of their kind, both are on a mission to save everything, and neither one is very imaginative. In addition they've both been trained from an early age in the art of war and each is in the peak physical/mental status they can be.
So now I wanna know, who do you think is the biggest badass motherfucker? I'll give two very brief descriptions. I'm not trying to do justice with them, just give background. I'm putting them in spoiler tags because I'm not sure if they're spoilers or not.
Roland is a gunslinger from the long dead kingdom of Gilead. He's searching for the Dark Tower, the nexus of time and space. He has two specially made guns with sandalwood grips. From an early age he was trained to be a gunslinger. He's not the most imaginative, nor is he the most perfect...but he's the last one still alive. He's the youngest person ever to achieve the status of gunslinger. He did so by defeating his trainer with a hawk. Roland has taken down entire armies (human and not), towns, and laid supposedly the hottest chick this side of kingdom come (in his world).
Master Chief was taken when at the age of 6 from his home planet as part of the secret millitary SPARTAN project. He was brutally trained along with 150ish other children. When he was 6-7 years old, he led an operation to neutralize 6 millitary men armed with (I forgot the name) shock police batons. All he and his trainees had were rocks and surprise in the woods. He stole a dropship and got all of his fellow trainees back. The last person to enter the dropship was supposed to be left in the wilderness to die, so he made sure he went on last. He became squad leader. Later, in his teens, all the trainees underwent a risky surgery to physically augment them past what any normal human could be. Around half of the trainees didn't make it through the surgery. Soon after, he single-handedly killed 3 helljumpers with his bare hands. Master Chief wasn't the fastest, smartest, or strongest spartan. He was the most tenacious, bravest, and best. He's never gotten on anybody (his closest female friend is an AI).
This isn't Master Chief vs. Roland, that isn't a fair or applicable fight. I want to know who you think is a bigger BAMF. I'll let you know my personal opinion after the polls been going for a bit because I don't want to sway people who don't know both of the characters.
[edit: If there are other fictional characters you think belong in this poll, persuade me and write a little background spoiler for them.]
On May 29 2009 10:56 Kennigit wrote: Kenshiro from Fist of The North Star. You should watch all of these because Ken is my biggest inspiration and he will change your life!
On May 29 2009 10:45 inss wrote: Hiro Protagonist from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
"Last of the freelance hackers and Greatest swordfighter in the world".
or the character Raven from the same book.
"an Aleut harpoon master named Raven whose motorcycle's sidecar packs a nuke wired to go off should Raven ever be killed."
the guy has "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" tattooed on his forehead.
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken."
Having not liked Halo, and having enjoyed The Dark Tower series this one was an easy vote for me... With the exception that even Roland isn't --that-- badass considering some of the characters across all the books/games/movies i've witnessed.
Hiro Protagonist from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
"Last of the freelance hackers and Greatest swordfighter in the world".
or the character Raven from the same book.
"an Aleut harpoon master named Raven whose motorcycle's sidecar packs a nuke wired to go off should Raven ever be killed."
the guy has "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" tattooed on his forehead.
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken."
On May 29 2009 09:27 KurtistheTurtle wrote: I was thinking about it, and the only other fictional character that runs in the same vein as him is Roland from the Dark Tower series. Both are the last of their kind, both are on a mission to save everything, and neither one is very imaginative. In addition they've both been trained from an early age in the art of war and each is in the peak physical/mental status they can be.
Roland spends the vast majority of the Dark Tower series at less than his peak physical state.
Eh, Morgoth? lol... but I guess that depends on your definition of BAMF... I can think of quite a few heroes/Villians that are definitely cooler or more stylistic than Morgoth, but very few that could actually take him in a fight.
Kenshiro basically hits 500 times with the tips of his fingers while yelling the most awesome battle cry within like 2 seconds. Then you explode. Can't get much more badass than that.
On May 29 2009 10:56 Kennigit wrote: Kenshiro from Fist of The North Star. You should watch all of these because Ken is my biggest inspiration and he will change your life!
As far as fictinal BAMFs go I'm all for Jules, but I have to mention a guy who does unspeakable things then turns them into 100% profit. I'm talking of course about Mr. Talented.
On May 29 2009 10:45 inss wrote: "an Aleut harpoon master named Raven whose motorcycle's sidecar packs a nuke wired to go off should Raven ever be killed."
the guy has "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" tattooed on his forehead.
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken."
On May 29 2009 10:56 Kennigit wrote: Kenshiro from Fist of The North Star. You should watch all of these because Ken is my biggest inspiration and he will change your life!
On May 29 2009 10:45 inss wrote: Hiro Protagonist from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash
"Last of the freelance hackers and Greatest swordfighter in the world".
or the character Raven from the same book.
"an Aleut harpoon master named Raven whose motorcycle's sidecar packs a nuke wired to go off should Raven ever be killed."
the guy has "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" tattooed on his forehead.
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken."
On May 29 2009 10:45 inss wrote: "an Aleut harpoon master named Raven whose motorcycle's sidecar packs a nuke wired to go off should Raven ever be killed."
the guy has "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" tattooed on his forehead.
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken."
On May 29 2009 12:59 gameguard wrote: enders not that badass if you read the sequels. His too nice.
Well, yeah, I guess so. If you look at him just in Ender's Game, then he's a badass.
Maybe just Bean. Achilles was pretty BA too.
I think Bean is much more of a badass than Ender. Don't get me wrong, I love Ender's character, but he's kinda emo T_T.
then if u read the sequels with bean you'll learn the extent of his non-badassness. except when he was a kid he was actually badass. never stop growing bean...
Master Chief was taken when at the age of 6 from his home planet as part of the secret millitary SPARTAN project. He was brutally trained along with 150ish other children. When he was 6-7 years old, he led an operation to neutralize 6 millitary men armed with (I forgot the name) shock police batons. All he and his trainees had were rocks and surprise in the woods. He stole a dropship and got all of his fellow trainees back. The last person to enter the dropship was supposed to be left in the wilderness to die, so he made sure he went on last. He became squad leader. Later, in his teens, all the trainees underwent a risky surgery to physically augment them past what any normal human could be. Around half of the trainees didn't make it through the surgery. Soon after, he single-handedly killed 3 helljumpers with his bare hands. Master Chief wasn't the fastest, smartest, or strongest spartan. He was the most tenacious, bravest, and best. He's never gotten on anybody (his closest female friend is an AI).
This is the kind of stuff that makes 13 year old nerdlings think that halo3 is _so_ COOL!
Could that story be any more cliché?
"hi im master chief i'm a copy of samus aran from metroid games, except i'm more boring and i fite in warr hurr"
Master Chief was taken when at the age of 6 from his home planet as part of the secret millitary SPARTAN project. He was brutally trained along with 150ish other children. When he was 6-7 years old, he led an operation to neutralize 6 millitary men armed with (I forgot the name) shock police batons. All he and his trainees had were rocks and surprise in the woods. He stole a dropship and got all of his fellow trainees back. The last person to enter the dropship was supposed to be left in the wilderness to die, so he made sure he went on last. He became squad leader. Later, in his teens, all the trainees underwent a risky surgery to physically augment them past what any normal human could be. Around half of the trainees didn't make it through the surgery. Soon after, he single-handedly killed 3 helljumpers with his bare hands. Master Chief wasn't the fastest, smartest, or strongest spartan. He was the most tenacious, bravest, and best. He's never gotten on anybody (his closest female friend is an AI).
This is the kind of stuff that makes 13 year old nerdlings think that halo3 is _so_ COOL!
Could that story be any more cliché?
"hi im master chief i'm a copy of samus aran from metroid games, except i'm more boring and i fite in warr hurr"
Well that entire game is one cliche basically. Its so generic, it could have only succeeded on the x-box.
1.Movies hmm watch Zatoichi - basically an old blind samurai kills 5 million ninjas and stuff, and yes he is better than this shit Daredevil . And ofc the bad guy from No Country For Old Man, forgot his name lol 2. Anime Seto Kaiba lol haha, seriosly he is badass 3. Games Uther from Disciples 2, another badass 8 years old kid with huge sword and twisted mind
I heard this bloke called god created the known universe in 7 days then watched as his only son was tortured by his own creation which he had made in his own image.
He was brutally trained along with 150ish other children. When he was 6-7 years old, he led an operation to neutralize 6 millitary men armed with (I forgot the name)
the helljumpers part of th elite squad of marines who literally jump to their deaths
On May 29 2009 12:28 Sonu wrote: id say Cheif, but seriously SC characters such as Samir, Zeratul, Raynor, Alexe are more deep in terms of lore. thats just my opinion
if u;ve read the bks then u would noe MC is pretty damn deep as well... it's just that they killed some of his personality while they wer etraining him to be a BAMF
No character from a manga/anime or a Japanese RPG has or ever will be a BAMF, I dont know what some of you are smoking. I see a lot of good submission though, my initial impulse was to go with
On May 29 2009 13:15 Liquid`NonY wrote: Karsa Orlong <3
After reading that book (The House of Chains by Steven Erikson) I am inclined to agree entirely. Though Anomander Rake from the same series of books is a close second so far.
So many good fictional BAMF's to choose from though!
However, on a serious note, Sam Fisher saved the world 4 times already single-handedly yet never was recognized.
"If I'm captured or killed, I know that no one will come to rescue me. I won't even get a funeral because the nation that I protect can never admit that I exist. So my death would go unremarked, my bones uncleaned. I don't know if that day will come...but I know that it must not be today."
God I can't stand Neal Stephenson... I don't know what it is. I like a lot of science fiction but for some reason Stephenson, and I guess his biggest influence, William Gibson, always failed to impress me. If I had to pick a BAMF from sci fi I'd definitely go with the Shrike from Hyperion...
The amount of badass in this thread is ridiculously mind boggling i have seen way to many amazingly manly and badass options to even narrow down my vote to 3 lol
What has the world come to? Picking some pussies (few excluded, like Duke Nukem) for BAMF. Master Chief? There's absolutely nothing badass about him... Ibram Gaunt is a badass soldier, shooting his own men, not wearing some pussy super strengthening armour with personal shield etc. He leads his men from the front, armed with a sword and a gun. Basically, I could pick most of the WH40K characters as BAMFs, because that's who they are.
there is a picture without text of sephiroth I think. My favorites are GIANT OCTOPUS and Nicol Bolas. 7/7 flying elder dragon legend who rips your mind apart just by looking at you.
Just finished Transmetropolitan. It's amazing how much development Spider Jerusalem goes through. And he is also a big motherfucker who is fictional. Recommended read for everyone who enjoys creative comic books.
On May 29 2009 13:15 Liquid`NonY wrote: Karsa Orlong <3
After reading that book (The House of Chains by Steven Erikson) I am inclined to agree entirely. Though Anomander Rake from the same series of books is a close second so far.
So many good fictional BAMF's to choose from though!
nony has taste... and if you've read past house of chains, you'll see that in fact karsa makes rake look like a little girl. (comparatively that is)
On May 17 2010 22:10 7mk wrote: ^ woot, never heard of that movie before. Mads Mikkelsen is awesome though, might have to check this out
Man this movie is an experience by itself, just watch it with some alcohol in the blood to be fully penetrated by it. An I really mean it when I say penetrated, just watch it you will see. Monster terrorist movie.
On September 21 2009 03:25 Manit0u wrote: What has the world come to? Picking some pussies (few excluded, like Duke Nukem) for BAMF. Master Chief? There's absolutely nothing badass about him... Ibram Gaunt is a badass soldier, shooting his own men, not wearing some pussy super strengthening armour with personal shield etc. He leads his men from the front, armed with a sword and a gun. Basically, I could pick most of the WH40K characters as BAMFs, because that's who they are.
Ibram Gaunt shooting his own dudes? He does that like once, then every other time he feels like actually being a Commissar, and not a Colonel, he pussies out because someone forgets it's the Grim Dark Future and tries to usurp his authority. then he...
Totally loses his eyeballs and only manages to kill a Daemon Prince thanks to the stupidest plot twist ever (so this stupid flower on his shirt stops him from dying from this 239846293864 ft tall motherrfucker from the darkest pit of Chaos Hell. Yeah, awesome)
40k is a good source of BAMF's because the fluff is so awesomely over the top it just begs to have BAMF's inserted in there. Like the 17 Primarchs we all know about, all BAMF's, and the Emperor to boot. Or the Tyranid Hive Mind. Or Eldrad Ulthuan, pre-getting eaten by the Necrons (He causes the second and third wars of Armageddon by manipulating Ghazghull Mak Uruk Thraka into attacking the biggest Imperial armour manufactoring planet they've got, just beacuse it saves a fwe Eldar lives. Awesome), or the C'tan gods, or Eversor Assassins, etc.
The trick in 40k is to find the NOT Bamfs, who shall be known.
Ghazghull, for the aforementioned reason. Abaddon, for going on 13 black crusades and still not really achieving much (well, they blew up St Josmans Hope and Macharia. ) Blood Angels for being emo pansies with stupid twilight hair and 'sexy vampire' imagery. Fuckers. Dark Angels for being regular emos. Space Wolves for drinking bear, riding massive thunderwolves, growing huge awesome neckbeards and shouting at everything. Oh wai- Ibram Gaunt, as noted above. Only Ghost who was a proper BAMF was M'koll. Fucker kills a Chaos Dreadnought with a lasgun. A fucking lasgun. And then he acts like it was nothing. Top that Gaunt. And he knows super duper lasgun ninjitsu-esque bo staff skills. Coll was kinda alright, Try Again Bragg was just he Big Friendly Giant dood, Larkin was kind of a lark, Brin Milo was 'eh', Caffran was a good everyman and Rawne is kind of like a shitty version of Vegeta (ie; 'I'LL BETRAY YOU ALL AND KILL YOU ALL, nah, I don't mean it, really. Honestly. Ah, w/e'). M'koll and Mk'venner, mostly M'koll, true Ghost Badasses. All Tau Heroes. Oh, look at me I'm old/ I sit back all day and don't do shit. Well, O'Shavah does have a super sweet blade but his fluff really needs more work done on it! Expand that motherfucker! All IG heroes that do not hail from Catachan. They're all rod-up-arse pansies, except for Sly Marbo (40k's Rambo, right down to the huge fucking knife), Colonol Iron Hand Straken (loses like half his body, gets a sweet robocop enhancement and then goes around throwing Squithoths onto ork warlords or some shit) and that bloke who runs around with a Heavy Bolter. Because, fuck, it's an entire heavy bolter and he don't give a shit. Lucius the Eternal. Oh, look at me, I resurrect everytime I die, which is like a bazillion times and counting. Jeez, if only I could be badass like Kharn the Betrayer and NEVER DIE! Well, ok, Kharn did but he earnt his revival goddammit! Fuck lucius. Also a member of the pink armour brigade of Chaos Marines. Pink!
There's probably loads more out there, but I got nothing so far.
Agreed, Mkoll is uber. And why do you say DAs are emo? Ezekiel is so hardcore he can make people go insane by just looking them in the eyes. Anyway, when it comes to badasses, I think you forgot Ahriman
You'll note that right after I shit on the DArk Angels, I pump up the Space Wolves and those two never really got along.
Oh, and the Iron Cage and Peturabo is fuckign badass. Holy shit. Forgot that, some of my favourite horus heresy fluff.
Ahriman? Well, accidentally damning your entire legion to automata doesn't constitute badassery, it constitutes major fuckupery. His next move is to try and find the Black Library and after 10,000 years he doesn't seem to have got much closer. No, he does not count as badass.
This is probably a waste of a post--I don't know if anyone will recognize this guy--but I'm casting a vote for Mikhayl Ruzhyo, an antagonist (but not really a villain) who appears twice in Tom Clancy's NetForce series. One of my favorite characters ever that no one's heard of.
edit: Here, the least I can do is supply an excerpt (ellipses are mine). It's long-ish; read if you're interested:
excerpt from NetForce: Night Moves, written by Steve Perry Mikhayl Ruzhyo squinted into the desert sun. Although he was relatively fair-skinned, he had tanned since he'd moved here, and now he was the color of good holster leather, lines etched into his face, veins prominent on his bare arms. The days were not as hot here in Nevada as they would be in a couple of months, and the nights were still chilly, but it was warm enough out. He stood in front of the small Airstream trailer he had purchased and towed to the five-acre plot of sand and scrub weed he had also bought, feeling the hot wind play over him. He was more or less alone. [...] He was grateful for the solitude. Since retiring from wetwork, he'd had few occasions to even talk to people, much less have to kill them. He had money banked he could retrieve as needed, using a computer card. Once a week or so, he drove almost two hours into town and bought his supplies in one of several large supermarkets where he was totally anonymous; he did not chat with the clerks when he checked out. [...] Ruzhyo had paid cash for his car, a Dodge SUV, used but not too old, and had done the same for the trailer, both of which he had purchased through classified ads in a Las Vegas newspaper. The land he had acquired using one of the safe names he held, and, to avoid arousing undue interest, had given a substantial down payment to the seller and paid monthly notes from the same account since, automatically deducted on the first of each month. His profile could hardly be any lower. The trailer had a generator and batteries, even air-conditioning, but he used the cooler rarely. He relished the heat. He could not say he was happy--he had not been happy since the cancer had claimed Anna, and he did not ever expect to be so again--but he could say he was content. His life was simple, his needs few. The biggest project on his agenda was building a natural stone wall along the perimeter of his property. It might take ten years, but that hardly mattered. Or he had been content, until today. As he scanned the rock terrain, the dust and heat-hazed hills in the distance, he knew something was wrong. There were no signs he could see to tell him what the problem was. No helicopters overflew him, no dust clouds betrayed vehicles trying a stealthy approach. He lifted the powerful binoculars and did a slow scan of the surrounding countryside. His five acres was on a rise, slightly higher than most of the surrounding area, and he had a good view. [...] He lowered the binoculars. Nothing to be seen, no cause for concern, but in his gut he felt that something was wrong. He headed for the trailer. He had weapons in a flat box hidden under the floor in the bedroom. Perhaps it was time to take them out and keep them handy. No. Not yet, he decided. There was nothing at which to shoot. Perhaps the feeling was wrong; perhaps his gut was merely troubled by a badly digested meal or a parasite. He gave himself a tight smile. He had not survived as long as he had by entertaining such rationalizations. At his best, he had been like a roach seeing a sudden light in the night. Run first, worry later. It had kept him alive when many others in his profession had died. He had learned to trust it over the years. No, something was wrong. Whatever it was, it would manifest itself sooner or later. Then he would deal with it. He went into the trailer.
On August 07 2010 03:47 Stratos_speAr wrote: Space Marines shit on every other fictional character ever in terms of BAMF-ness. You simply can't compare anyone else to a Space Marine.
Except maybe an Ork, Necron, Eldar, Tyranid...
We'll just go ahead and say 40k is the most BAMF universe ever created.
A setting in which every single thing is "badass" is a setting in which nothing is badass.
40k is what Starcraft would be if Starcraft were a bunch of roided-up jocks comparing junk in the locker room.
On May 29 2009 09:52 Chuiu wrote: This thread so fucking fails. Who gives a fuck if some protagonist of a shitty fps is more of a bad ass than some book hero.
Here's another stupid poll:
Poll: Biggest bamf? (Vote): Barbie (Vote): Jar Jar
omg i just died in laughter. omg
that is the funniest response i have ever seen to a poll. and the results themselves are fucking hilarious. HAHAHAHAHA
This guys a badass, if any of you play MTG. Sealed an anchient evil TWICE, then decided to go solo on his last attempt till that dumb elf chick ruined it all~ and his abilities are awesome to.
First turn he comes out you can put your opponent to 10 and finish them, or if you can get him to his Ult you can just tap all there land / overdraw and discard / waste fogs, and attack with there weenie monsters.
And the sword hes rockin looks pretty fancy to~ xD
Why does everyone keep posting pokeman anime characters? What is this obsession with childish Japanese cartoon characters being "tough" because all japanese cartoons depict their characters as somehow being able to blow up the world and other equally ridiculous shit.
"In temperatures between −40 and −20 degrees Celsius, dressed completely in white camouflage, Häyhä was credited with 505 confirmed kills of Soviet soldiers, 542 if unconfirmed deaths are included. The unofficial Finnish front line figure from the battlefield of Kollaa places the number of Häyhä's sniper kills over 800. A daily account of the kills at Kollaa was conducted for the Finnish snipers. Besides his sniper kills, Häyhä was also credited with over two hundred kills with a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun, thus bringing his credited kills to at least 705. Remarkably, all of Häyhä's kills were accomplished in fewer than 100 days with a very limited amount of daylight per day."
Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. He served his one mandatory year in the military, and then became a farmer. But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country.
Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. In six feet of snow. And 20-40 degrees below zero.
Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got fucking scared. He became known as "The White Death" because of his white camouflage outfit, and they actually mounted whole missions just to kill that one guy.
They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. He killed them all.
Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. He killed all of them, too.
Over the course of 100 days, Hayha killed 542 people with his rifle. He took out another 150 or so with his SMG, sending his credited kill-count up to 705.
Since everyone they had was either too dead or too scared to go anywhere near him, the Russians just carpet-bombed everywhere they thought he might be. Supposedly, they had the location right, and he actually got hit by a cloud of shrapnel that tore his coat up, but didn't actually hurt him, because he's the fucking White Death, damn it.
Finally on March 6th, 1940, some lucky bastard shot Hayha in the head with an exploding bullet. When some other soldiers found him and brought him back to base, he "had half his head missing." The White Death had finally been stopped...
...for about a week. In spite of having come down with a nasty case of shot-in-the-face syndrome, he was still very much alive, and regained consciousness on March 13, the very day the war ended.
On August 07 2010 03:47 Stratos_speAr wrote: Space Marines shit on every other fictional character ever in terms of BAMF-ness. You simply can't compare anyone else to a Space Marine.
Except maybe an Ork, Necron, Eldar, Tyranid...
We'll just go ahead and say 40k is the most BAMF universe ever created.
A setting in which every single thing is "badass" is a setting in which nothing is badass.
40k is what Starcraft would be if Starcraft were a bunch of roided-up jocks comparing junk in the locker room.
The Tau aren't badass, so they have something to compare themselves to.
Hiko Seijuro is Rurouni Kenshin's master. He moves so fast, he creates a vaccum and that cape he wears? It weighs like 180 pounds.
Broly
Broly doesn't take ten episodes to do shit, he does it in just one movie. Oh and he doesn't really need to power up to like supersaiyan 23 to fight all the dbz warriors, alone.
"In temperatures between −40 and −20 degrees Celsius, dressed completely in white camouflage, Häyhä was credited with 505 confirmed kills of Soviet soldiers, 542 if unconfirmed deaths are included. The unofficial Finnish front line figure from the battlefield of Kollaa places the number of Häyhä's sniper kills over 800. A daily account of the kills at Kollaa was conducted for the Finnish snipers. Besides his sniper kills, Häyhä was also credited with over two hundred kills with a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun, thus bringing his credited kills to at least 705. Remarkably, all of Häyhä's kills were accomplished in fewer than 100 days with a very limited amount of daylight per day."
fucking baller. he even survived it. didnt expect that
On May 29 2009 09:52 Chuiu wrote: This thread so fucking fails. Who gives a fuck if some protagonist of a shitty fps is more of a bad ass than some book hero.
Here's another stupid poll:
Poll: Biggest bamf? (Vote): Barbie (Vote): Jar Jar
omg i just died in laughter. omg
that is the funniest response i have ever seen to a poll. and the results themselves are fucking hilarious. HAHAHAHAHA
"Always, Winston, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever."
Teddy Roosevelt was more badass then any fictional character.
On November 02 2010 15:15 bobobobojos wrote: Drizzt is the best, he has unparralled swordsmanship and is incredibly intelligent. A drow on the surface who wont take shit from no1
On November 02 2010 15:15 bobobobojos wrote: Drizzt is the best, he has unparralled swordsmanship and is incredibly intelligent. A drow on the surface who wont take shit from no1
Artemis Entreri. Checkmate.
Seriously though, my vote goes to Minsc from Baldur's Gate 2..
On November 02 2010 15:15 bobobobojos wrote: Drizzt is the best, he has unparralled swordsmanship and is incredibly intelligent. A drow on the surface who wont take shit from no1
Artemis Entreri. Checkmate.
Seriously though, my vote goes to Minsc from Baldur's Gate 2..
Correct. He doesn't need to live for 1000 years and have a tortured past to be great.
Many bad ass fictional characters come to mind, like Guts from Berserk, Duke Nukem, or Sepiroth from ff7 But the biggest bad ass without a doubt is Alucard from the Hellsing manga/anime imo. It just does not get any more bad ass then that. The anime is worth a watch as a cult classic if you feel like following the adventures of a true monster instead of a cliché good guy hero for once.
hello? dr. freeman of course!?! i mean...i know some other theoritical physicists but they are way more boring and i think nobody of them has ever come close to a crowbar
"In temperatures between −40 and −20 degrees Celsius, dressed completely in white camouflage, Häyhä was credited with 505 confirmed kills of Soviet soldiers, 542 if unconfirmed deaths are included. The unofficial Finnish front line figure from the battlefield of Kollaa places the number of Häyhä's sniper kills over 800. A daily account of the kills at Kollaa was conducted for the Finnish snipers. Besides his sniper kills, Häyhä was also credited with over two hundred kills with a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun, thus bringing his credited kills to at least 705. Remarkably, all of Häyhä's kills were accomplished in fewer than 100 days with a very limited amount of daylight per day."
fucking baller. he even survived it. didnt expect that
The guy goes to hell, cuts his own arm that is being chewed by a mfing demon and later on puts a cannon where his hand used to be... oh and he wields a sword larger than him.
When Sinatra was done being the biggest BAMF up here he went down below, while there he and Che Guvera had a heart to heart and then became....
the most BAMF in this or the underworld, cause some times being a BAMF doesnt mean you cant do it with style and class. best Manny Quote: Manny: I think we should team up - be partners. Domino: Oh, I would, but I could never be partners with someone who was so much more of a man than me. Manny: Oh, come on... I've seen your wife.
hahaha good stuff, classic lucas arts
o ya gotta add one more hilarious quote from Manny's side kick Glottis: Manny, until now we scraped along the ground like rats, but from now on, we soar. Like eagles. Yeah. LIKE EAGLES... ON... POGO STICKS.
They never check, they never ask, they never think. Tell them the state is menaced by quadrillions of battle droids, and they will not count. Tell them you can save them, and they will never ask—from what, from whom? Just say tyranny, oppression, vague bogeymen that require no analysis. Never specify. Then they look the other way when reality is right in front of them. It's a conjuring trick. The key is distraction, getting them to watch your other hand. Only single-minded beings don't join in the shared illusion, and keep watching you too closely. Single-minded beings are dangerous. And they either work for me, or they don't work at all.
Those who do not serve my ends, no matter how powerful they are, will be eliminated.
Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design.
For all anime fans, you can imagine Berserk, Gantz, Ninja Scroll, Wrath of the Ninja and Rurouni Kenshin having Walt Disney level of violence compared to this one...
The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a slow-moving filter feeding shark, the largest living fish species. The largest confirmed individual was 12.65 metres (41.50 ft) in length. The heaviest weighed more than 36 tonnes (79,000 lb), but unconfirmed claims report considerably larger whale sharks.
God from the bible for sure, fucker created everything and even impregnated a bitch without her realizing it then bails and doesn't even pay child support.
How has a thread about BAMFs gone like 26 pages without a single mention of Gandalf. FFS, who else has died and then come back out of pure badassery. Who has smitten the ruin of a Balrog upon the mountainside? Anybody else mentioned in this thread thousands of years old? Who has shaped world events like Gandalf? I'm disappointed in you TL.
Alucard from Hellsing is definitely pretty badass. Just when you think he's one, his mangled corpse turns into a hellish nightmare of eyes and dogs that obliterate all that dare challenge him
On November 22 2010 13:12 Krazilec wrote: How has a thread about BAMFs gone like 26 pages without a single mention of Gandalf. FFS, who else has died and then come back out of pure badassery. Who has smitten the ruin of a Balrog upon the mountainside? Anybody else mentioned in this thread thousands of years old? Who has shaped world events like Gandalf? I'm disappointed in you TL.
Túrin is by far the biggest BAMF in Tolkien's lore.
On November 22 2010 14:10 Enzyme wrote: Alucard from Hellsing is definitely pretty badass. Just when you think he's one, his mangled corpse turns into a hellish nightmare of eyes and dogs that obliterate all that dare challenge him
He always bored me because you know nobody can really beat him. He just makes it appear that way to mess with their heads.
Roland would easily win if more people were familiar with him. =\
Gatsu (of Berserk) is. The title effectively tells it already. He was inspired by Mad Max, just that he's Bad Max' coolness exponentiated. http://img29.imageshack.us/i/gatsu04uh8.png/
The intro of Berserk allone... he has sex with a woman, the woman turns into a demon, he sticks a cannon (not a pistol - a real cannon, bombard, artillery) which is integrated in the metal hand prothesis he wears into her mouth and blasts away her head. In a flashback (effectively telling all of his life) it's revealed that he was found as a newborn under a hooked women in her blood, kills his stepfather (a mercanary leader) in self defense when he's approximately 12 years old and his only real friend during childhood is his sword, which he hugged when he felt lonely. Most of his life since age five is on battlefields, the rest in mercenary camps, always carrying a sword which is actually too big for him as a child but he doesn't care. He doesn't really get a vision or dream, but finds out that all he can and wants to do is swinging big swords, so that's what he does. The first time he experiences a "home" with people results in his best friend turning into a demon, raping Gatsu's girlfriend in front of his helpless eyes (as he's hold back by other demons) resulting in him stabbing off his own left arm with a broken dagger as this was his last weapon. Gatsu also almost broke his girlfriend's neck when they had sex for the first time and he suddenly went into a Berserker rage, when the situation made him remembering how he was raped in a mercenary camp after his first real battle. You see, it can be hard to find an un-raped person in Berserk.
Just something to note, some of the spoiler tags contain some pretty serious spoilers so proceed with caution.
Blondie. (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.) Or most Clint Eastwood western characters. But Blondie is, I feel, the more iconic, and badass of them, he has some pretty awesome moments. + Show Spoiler +
Escaping the noose. Firing a cannon with his cigar. A few others, and just his overall attitude.
Solid Snake. (Metal Gear Solid) The dude is just tough as nails. Not really sure how to articulate what makes him badass outside of that. He just is.
General Grievous. (Star Wars) Killing Jedi with martial ability alone is quite impressive. Add to this essentially being blown to bits and somehow surviving and getting turned into a cyborg with an awesome cloak? Not to mention actually managing to run away in a stylish fashion. Oh, and his four lightsaber moment. Pretty badass.
Tassadar. (Starcraft) Spoilers for the original Starcraft Protoss campaign. + Show Spoiler +
His crashing the Gantrithor into the Overmind, sacrificing himself to destroy it is badass in its own right. But also his learning of Dark Templar energies and how to use them is very cool. As was his standing up to Judicator Aldaris and the conclave.
Zeratul. (Starcraft) Possible spoilers for the original Starcraft and Brood War. + Show Spoiler +
All his kills, actions, and words, really, are badass. And his fight vs Kerrigan in Wing of Liberty was very impressive.
Fenix. (Starcraft) Not quite as badass as the other Protoss that I've mentioned. But Fenix's attitude and bravery are really what makes him stand apart, and he seemed a very strong warrior as well.
Logan Ninefingers, a.k.a. the Bloody-Nine. (The First Law Trilogy, by Joe Abercrombie.) The guy's just a stone cold killing machine, especially when the Bloody-Nine takes over. Really though, most of the northmen are badass, like Harding Grim (think I got the name right), and Black Dow.
Marsh. (Misborn series, by Brandon Sanderson.) Spoilers for the books. + Show Spoiler +
He was always pretty cool, but when he appeared at the end of the first book as an Inquisitor it was just awesome. Really almost every time he appeared in the book after that was badass, especially in the end of book three, where he's just really beat up. Missing spikes, dented face, etc.
Beric Dondarrion. (A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin.) Spoilers for A Song of Ice and Fire, not sure which book though, they've all ran together in my head. Best not take chances and say the whole series. + Show Spoiler +
Sort of like a badass version of Robin Hood who can legitimately light swords on fire, consistently comes back from the dead, (Which he'll hopefully do again.) is from what I can tell a good fighter. And despite basically being a bandit, seems to have a good cause.
Ser Barristan Selmy. (A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin.) Spoilers for A Song of Ice and Fire, again not sure which book. So we'll say the whole series to be on the safe side. + Show Spoiler +
Really it was when he owned the baby Manticore with his staff that I started to really become impressed by this guy. Plus he seems to be one of those sticking to their honor, sort of blokes. Unfortunately I don't have a list of badass things he's done, but I'm sure there are more to come.
And a few honorable mentions that spring to mind. (Never realized how many badass characters there where, until this question was asked.) Mr. Smith (Matrix) Rorschach (Watchmen)
A lot of BAMFs in this thread but ONLY Guts has the right qualities to be a true one, you guys really have to know what this guys been through, then again you probably wouldn't want to, it's FUCKED UP.
Thors of Vinland Saga is a true bamf as well (omg another manga I'm becoming so nerdy) His dying moments after sacrificing himself in the most calm manner and - after beeing lethally wounded as you can see - calmly managing to talk his enemies into sparing his comrades' and son's lifes. + Show Spoiler +
Beric Dondarrion. (A Song of Ice and Fire, by George R.R. Martin.) Spoilers for A Song of Ice and Fire, not sure which book though, they've all ran together in my head. Best not take chances and say the whole series.
I posted some BAMF's in this thread already, but something just sprung into my mind and i must say although many won't know him, Quinn Dexter from Peter F. Hamilton's Reality dysfunction series is the absolute biggest Badass Motherfucker i ever met in any fictional work!
I see it's been mentioned several times, but Guts from the manga Berserk (the manga, not the less-than-unsatisfactory anime) is very much the man of choice here. There are plenty of badasses around, but there's a variety of damn good reasons Guts won the only SaiGar anybody ever cared about. It's not his backstory, his face, his weapon, his body or the terrible things that happen to everything he's ever cared for, it's all of these things.
The man was a child mercenary, and was sold by his mercenary foster father to a massive black man who raped the hell out of him. Guts then proceeded to put a crossbow through the guy's eye at the first available oppurtunity and slaughter his foster father. This was him at his least badass, well before he became a man.
On November 26 2010 09:26 Jugglenaught wrote: I see it's been mentioned several times, but Guts from the manga Berserk (the manga, not the less-than-unsatisfactory anime) is very much the man of choice here. There are plenty of badasses around, but there's a variety of damn good reasons Guts won the only SaiGar anybody ever cared about. It's not his backstory, his face, his weapon, his body or the terrible things that happen to everything he's ever cared for, it's all of these things.
The man was a child mercenary, and was sold by his mercenary foster father to a massive black man who raped the hell out of him. Guts then proceeded to put a crossbow through the guy's eye at the first available oppurtunity and slaughter his foster father. This was him at his least badass, well before he became a man.
Well not entirely fiction Doc Holiday was a real person but I don't think was as a BAMF as the movie made him look. I mean come on suffering from TB and still killing is always pro. Val Kilmer portrayed it perfectly, plus the mustache is pretty epic.
Light from Death Note. I don't read/watch/play books/movies/series/games as much as you people though. Maybe Auron from Final Fantasy X could compete though.
Guts has done nothing but kill since he was born and now fights an endless stream of demons 24/7 without any supernatural powers but a set of armor that stabs him to fix broken bones so he can keep killing. He also wields a sword bigger than he is with one hand because he cut off the other and replaced it with a cannon.
Solid Snake has saved the world countless times, beaten the shit out of the greatest soldier that ever lived, had sex with every woman on the planet (it is implied), and stopped a rampaging group of AIs that literally controlled the entire planet while looking to be about 70 years old and on oxygen
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Seriously, nothing can come close to either of these guys.
I'm not sure if anyone said Knuckles but he wins by default. If you're walking down the street and Knuckles is near by, you better run, cause this mother fucker beats people up for no reason.
Guts has done nothing but kill since he was born and now fights an endless stream of demons 24/7 without any supernatural powers but a set of armor that stabs him to fix broken bones so he can keep killing. He also wields a sword bigger than he is with one hand because he cut off the other and replaced it with a cannon.
Solid Snake has saved the world countless times, beaten the shit out of the greatest soldier that ever lived, had sex with every woman on the planet (it is implied), and stopped a rampaging group of AIs that literally controlled the entire planet while looking to be about 70 years old and on oxygen
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Seriously, nothing can come close to either of these guys.
gats escaped certain death, saw his only love raped by demons; lost his best friend, because he became a demon, wich also raped gats' woman, tainted gats' child with the devil and now haunts him with vengeance.
oh, he also saw his loved one lost completely track of life and humanity after thinking she was safe and sound.
EDIT: did i mention that he was raped when he was 8yo? oh, and that it was because his "father" sold him. pretty nice huh?
and i'm still at volume 17 on the manga, imagine what else this BAMF will do.
Alucard from hellsing, because he is literally invincible. There is no force on heaven or earth that can destroy him. How can you be more of an imba BAMF than that....? Lame, I know, but invincible and more powerful than anything could ever possibly be.
Roger Sterling is disappointed at the amount of anime characters in this thread.
Might I suggest a website that isn't based around Asian culture, which Anime happens to be a part of? I shudder to think what you actually expected in this thread =/
On January 09 2011 03:36 RoosterSamurai wrote: Alucard from hellsing, because he is literally invincible. There is no force on heaven or earth that can destroy him. How can you be more of an imba BAMF than that....? Lame, I know, but invincible and more powerful than anything could ever possibly be.
On January 09 2011 03:36 RoosterSamurai wrote: Alucard from hellsing, because he is literally invincible. There is no force on heaven or earth that can destroy him. How can you be more of an imba BAMF than that....? Lame, I know, but invincible and more powerful than anything could ever possibly be.
That's the opposite of badass.
Everyone has a different definition of 'badass'. To that guy, being unbelievably OP falls into the category i guess. Personally, Guts/Gatz from Berserk (manga) is the definition of badass. Yeah the guy's very strong and skilled but what truly makes him stand out is that he's faced all kinds of trauma and hardships from a young age and he just keeps on going and never gives in.
I'm not sure if there is much to explain here He's just pure badassery, all while bad ass metal music playing in the background. Didn't matter if his face was falling off, he didn't complain at all and just kept shooting.
He's actually called Gatts and yeah is a god damn badass but i have to give all my tribute to the Shrike!
Hail to the Shrike! The Master of Pain!
Description: The Shrike does not normally communicate in any way with other entities it generally 'appears' near its victims and blinks about them before killing them in a flash of opening flesh and gore; sometimes it leaves its victims alive and transports them to an eternity of impalement upon an enormous artificial 'tree of thorns'. The tree of thorns is described as unimaginably large, alive with the agonized writhing of countless human victims of all ages and races.
The Shrike can travel through time, appearing to move much faster than light and appearing to exist everywhere simultaneously if it desires. It is essentially immune to virtually all conventional weaponry, most of which simply has no effect on it whatsoever.
On January 09 2011 03:36 RoosterSamurai wrote: Alucard from hellsing, because he is literally invincible. There is no force on heaven or earth that can destroy him. How can you be more of an imba BAMF than that....? Lame, I know, but invincible and more powerful than anything could ever possibly be.
That's the opposite of badass.
Everyone has a different definition of 'badass'. To that guy, being unbelievably OP falls into the category i guess. Personally, Guts/Gatz from Berserk (manga) is the definition of badass. Yeah the guy's very strong and skilled but what truly makes him stand out is that he's faced all kinds of trauma and hardships from a young age and he just keeps on going and never gives in.
Your guy can flick cigarettes, smack talk, swear and rape people all he wants...All I'm saying is see how badass he seems when he's fighting versus an opponent he has no hope of beating =/ That is how I based my decision.
She saw the signs of impending doom while the world buried its head in the sand.
She challenged and defeated the Queen of the Night in her very lair.
She vanquished a raging bear so massive it was made of constellations... which vanquishing she delayed, only so that her friends wouldn't see her true power.
Twilight Sparkle, earth pony and student of the sun.
From manga: it has to be Gatts. From books: it has to be Sparhawk from The Elenium and the Tamuli series of books. From film: I'd go with Samuel L. Jackson, regardless of the film - even Unbreakable.