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Like I Just Want to Be Special, I Just Want to Have Friends and I Just Want to Be Normal, I Just Want to Be Badass describes one of those wishes that consumers of media like to have fulfilled by the works they consume. Typically, males are somewhat more prone to harbor this wish. A tentative explanation for this could be the fact that badassery goes hand in hand with many cultures' standards of masculinity. In order to fulfill this wish, the creator of a work will usually create a viewpoint character and, over the course of the story, make the character badass. This allows the audience to identify with the viewpoint character and as such experience badassery by proxy. Another way by which the author can fulfill this wish of the audience is to take a character that has already established his badassery and give the character a trait which the intended audience will identify with. Additionally, a writer can take a characterization with already-established badass credentials and remove non-badass elements in order to highlight the badassery. On the other hand, this trope can be used in conjunction with Be Yourself, as we see a hero try to emulate more macho role models and fail miserably at imitating their machismo. At that point, they give up in despair and focus on what they can do, convinced that they are nothing special even as they learn some new knowledge or skills no one around thinks is important. However, when they are called upon to do what they have to for others, they find that those things they've learned have made them a near invincible Badass Bookworm who saves the day while the macho characters look on in astonishment. An Escapist Character targeted towards the male demographic will often be a product of this desire. This trope can, in Fanfic, lead to the creation of a Marty Stu. It is also strongly connected to a Power Fantasy (being a means by which this wish is fulfilled). This trope is very prone to being deconstructed. A possible reason for this is that producers are usually not particularly badass and as such may regard this particular wish of the audience as immature or naive. This, of course, is merely a speculation. However, whole industries are built on playing this trope straight and allowing the audience to fulfill its badassery fantasies by proxy. This can be akin to hanging a sign on your head saying, "Am looking for Deal with the Devil, apply within." Or an invitation for Training from Hell. It's hard to tell the difference at first... Arguably, video games in general have a strong element of this as their appeal. Many FPS games do at least in part avert or subvert this, however. During some action games, there is a level where the game radically changes pace and becomes something different. For instance, an action game will toss in a stealth level where the player character is stripped of all their weapons. These levels are subversions of this trope and gain their impact from the sudden loss of power the player character has experienced. Survival Horror games often rely on averting this to generate fear in the player. Feeling powerful and competent is not conducive to feeling scared, frightened, alone and weak. This trope applies in two circumstances. The first is that a character in the work is motivated by the trope (the in-universe version). The other is that the work engages with (fulfilling, parodying, or being to some extent motivated and/or changed by) its viewers Wanting To Be Badass (the meta-version). There is often considerable overlap between the two types; if this wish was not prevalent in viewers, they would probably react differently to characters motivated by the wish. The latter is so commonplace that only examples of playing with or subverting this expectation should be listed. Denying the fulfillment of this wish (i.e. averting or subverting the trope) can result in fans thinking the character is not badass enough for them. See also; Wish-Fulfillment, I Just Want to Have Friends, I Just Want to Be Beautiful, I Just Want to Be Special, I Just Want to Be Normal. Also heavily overlaps with I Want to Be a Real Man given that the concepts of badass and manly are frequently interconnected. Arguably the cause of the Power Fantasy. Compare/Contrast the Distaff Counterpart. Again, please remember that neither Wish-Fulfillment nor the fulfillment of any specific wish (including this one) is a bad thing. If reality matched our fantasies, we would not need to create fiction. |
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The Art of Manliness recognizes and deconstructs this trope. It gives advice to men about what it means to be masculine/badass while deflating some of the more immature ideas some have about being manly. | |
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In MapleStory, Evan struggles to live up to the legacy left by his predecessor, Freud, and suffers from constant self-doubt because of it. This isn't helped by Luminous' biting criticism of him. In the end, he does officially succeed Freud as the leader of the Legends and is one of the strongest adventurers in all of Maple World. | |
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Demon King Daimao fanfic Keena & the Defendants of Constan Academy has this happen to usual Damsel in Distress Keena, who not only wants friends (due to the remaining characters being Put on a Bus) but also wants to find herself useful in combat. Turns out she actually is skilled in combat. Chapter 6 reveals that she actually has trained and learned to fight but never got the opportunity to do so. | |
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Fire Emblem: Ross, Amelia, and Ewan from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones are three youngsters who join an army of badasses with zero fighting experience themselves. All three of them begin very weak physically, and express a desire to better themselves. It's a rather known fact among the fandom that if you choose to train them, they become blessed with Magikarp Power and end up as freaking powerhouses. In short, Ross, Amelia, and Ewan are three cases of "I Just Want to Be Badass" who more than get their wish. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and its sequel Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn has Reyson, one of the very beautiful and very frail princes of the heron tribe. In his support conversations with the protagonist Ike, Reyson reveals that he at times despised himself for his inability to fight after the human nation Begnion massacred the heron tribe and all but destroyed their home, Serenes Forest. He was jealous of his caretaker, the immensely powerful king of the Hawk laguz tribe, Tibarn, and tried to toughen himself up by force so that he'd be able to one day take revenge on humans...only to make himself sick in the process. He mostly came to terms with his status as a Non-Action Guy, seeing as he is able to help out through singing his magical galdrs, which do things like heal allies, cure them of harmful conditions, and grant them Extra Turns. |
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Cyril, the bellringer mouse from the Redwall fic The Urthblood Saga has as his life's ambition to become a warrior someday, resenting his status as a lowly abbey novice and feeling as if his elders will always treat him like a child. While he becomes somewhat less enthusiastic about the idea and more accepting of his place after his younger brother Cyrus just barely survives being wounded by a visiting soldier, he still has it as his ultimate goal. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Mac brags about being a badass constantly as well as knowing karate which he doesn't. Mac also likes his Action Heroes muscular and tough-looking and not just for the obvious reasons, though that too. However, he's too much of a Dirty Coward to fulfill this fantasy of his and live up to his claims. | |
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...Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, an even more savage deconstruction of this trope than Solid Snake. As an audience proxy character whom the player is encouraged to identify with, he essentially serves as a living lecture to the audience against wanting to be badass by, at the start of his portion of the game, first failing miserably at being badass and then being harassed by his girlfriend because of his emotional distance (a common trait of badassery). Then, in the later portion of the game, it is revealed that he is exceptionally badass. Unfortunately, the circumstances through which his badassery was generated were so excruciatingly traumatic that only a complete masochist would want to undergo them. Finally, when the audience gets their wish to be badass fulfilled, the game begins demolishing the fourth wall and reminding the players that they are playing a video game and hence are not really badass at all. During the game, several events and situations occur that directly copy (or are obviously analogous to) segments of the original Metal Gear Solid, further forcing the players to ask themselves whether or not they truly wish to be like Solid Snake (because being like Snake would not be nice, fun, heroic or awesome). If that weren't bleedingly obvious enough, the game's plot involves the entire game being a simulation of the events of the original game, designed to turn the player-character into Solid Snake!. | |
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In Cardfight!! Vanguard, the protagonist, Aichi Sendou wants to win the respect of his rival, Toshiki Kai by becoming good at the titular card game. It gets heavily deconstructed when he awakens the Psychic Powers known as Psyqualia, which make him strong but also make him Drunk on the Dark Side the more he uses them. | |
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Pulverizer in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012). He originally wanted to be a ninja like the turtles, but he sucks so bad at it that he can't even do a decent move right and was also too lazy to train in order to improve his skills or physique. He did get to join the Foot Clan though, who promptly use him as Cannon Fodder, and then he thought he could be like the turtles by dousing himself with mutagen, only to end up turning into a horrible blob monster. So in a way, he did get what he wanted. | |
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In Condorman, comic book writer Woodrow Wilkins insists on everything he writes being as realistic as possible. Therefore, he attempts to build and test all of the gadgets that his titular superhero will utilize. This dogged insistence on verisimilitude leads him to jump at the chance to go on a real spy mission, which leads him straight into a Defector from Commie Land plot and forces him to finally grow up a bit. | |
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The Lyrical Nanoha series has a few examples. Teana Lanster during Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS was a deconstruction of this. She was so desperate at being a badass as quickly as possible that her reckless actions placed both her and her teammates at risk. While she did eventually Take a Level in Badass, she didn't do so until she let go of this mindset and concentrated on refining the skills and talents she had at a more sensible pace. Einhart Stratos in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid is a straighter example. Driven by the Genetic Memory of her ancestor, she is in a constant quest to become strong enough to protect everyone she cares about. This drive of hers only became more intense when she met and trained with the old cast of Nanoha, as she realized just how far she still has to go before she could reach their level. Vivio is just like Einhart in that regard, although fighting is more of a hobby for her than a compulsive drive. She wants to be strong enough to one day be able to protect those that gave her the chance to have a normal life, especially her Nanoha-mama. Rinne from ViVid Strike! is another deconstruction. Due to her history with being bullied, she has an almost pathological need to be the strongest there is to keep anything else from being taken from her. This ends up alienating her from everyone around her and would ultimately cause her to drive away her childhood friend Fuka. And unlike most examples, she actually hates martial arts. |
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Kosuna of Desert Punk just wants to be the #1 Action Girl in the Great Kanto Desert, and becomes an apprentice handyman to Kanta to do so. She then spends the rest of the series learning that survival in the desert involves a lot of grunt work, trickery and that doing your job right means using your gun as little as possible. | |
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In The Night Unfurls, this desire is portrayed in a simple, positive manner. After being rescued by Kyril, Sanakan and Hugh ask him to help them become stronger. They would then become his apprentices to spar and train hard, Taking a Level in Badass in the end, with more than enough power to murder dozens of greenskins and bandits. This trope is how Lily felt back when she was rescued by Kyril from her Prison Rape. She hated herself for being powerless, and thus wanted to train under the Hunter, to prove herself worthy. Her hard work pays off in the end, and as of now, Lily is glad to possess the skills needed to defend the weak. |
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RWBY: Jaune is motivated by the desire to be a great hero just like his father and grandfather, as he can't bear to be just a "nobody". This leads to him enrolling in Beacon Academy, despite his distinctly lackluster fighting skills or appetite for combat. He forges his transcripts to get into the elite school, and has to receive extra training from his team-mate Pyrrha to catch up to the other students, who have been training for years. Pyrrha once says that she's never met anyone with more drive to better themselves than Jaune. | |
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In Double Homework, Dennis, through his manipulations, wants to be good with girls, something that he is decidedly not. | |
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This is the defining trait of the Chaos Hero from Shin Megami Tensei I; having been bullied and abused all his life, he just wants to gain enough power to stand on his own and not have to rely on anyone, even if he has to sacrifice his humanity to get there. This is a core principle of the chaos alignment - survival of the strongest. | |
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Megami no Hanabira: Sara wants to be badass for someone other than herself: her girlfriend Kaede got hurt protecting her from a demon, and Sara wants to learn to protect herself so Kaede doesn't have to push herself too far for her. | |
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Deadpool 2: after getting his first taste of murder thanks to Wade's advice, Dopinder becomes desperate to become a mercenary like him, however he is basically brushed off when Deadpool and Weasel set about assembling X-Force. He is absolutely pissed when he sees he got passed over in favor of Peter. He ends up getting his wish at the end of the film, though. | |
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Cloud Strife in Final Fantasy VII is a deconstruction of this trope as well (in addition to attacking the audience for having this wish in the first place). Cloud so wanted to be badass that he deluded himself into living in a fantasy world where he was an elite super-soldier, all to impress the ladies. The revelation of this delusion resulted in a cataclysmic nervous breakdown as well as having to save the world from an Omnicidal Maniac. Unlike with Raiden, the audience does eventually get its Wish-Fulfillment. | |
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Po Ping, the title character of Kung Fu Panda has spent most of his life wishing to be a legendary kung fu master like his idols, the Furious Five. That wish ends up being granted inadvertently and he's forced to grow into the role of being a badass, but ultimately succeeds. | |
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Joxer from Xena: Warrior Princess lives and breathes this trope. Aphrodite even grants his wish in one episode. | |
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Rinne from ViVid Strike! is another deconstruction. Due to her history with being bullied, she has an almost pathological need to be the strongest there is to keep anything else from being taken from her. This ends up alienating her from everyone around her and would ultimately cause her to drive away her childhood friend Fuka. And unlike most examples, she actually hates martial arts. | |
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Paul in Duumvirate. His best friends are Transhuman badasses, and he desperately wants to keep up. | |
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In The Riches, little old lady Nina wants to run away from her pampered mundane suburban life to live a life of excitement and danger as a travelling con-artist. | |
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In Toy Story That Time Forgot, Trixie laments the fact that Bonnie plays her as anything but a dinosaur, so when the Battlesaurs offer her to join them, she accepts without hesitation. Later on, after defusing the conflict with them by tricking Bonnie and Mason into playing with the toys (via convincing Reptillus to turn off the Optimum X), she's learned to appreciate her Master of All role. | |
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Einhart Stratos in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid is a straighter example. Driven by the Genetic Memory of her ancestor, she is in a constant quest to become strong enough to protect everyone she cares about. This drive of hers only became more intense when she met and trained with the old cast of Nanoha, as she realized just how far she still has to go before she could reach their level. | |
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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and its sequel Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn has Reyson, one of the very beautiful and very frail princes of the heron tribe. In his support conversations with the protagonist Ike, Reyson reveals that he at times despised himself for his inability to fight after the human nation Begnion massacred the heron tribe and all but destroyed their home, Serenes Forest. He was jealous of his caretaker, the immensely powerful king of the Hawk laguz tribe, Tibarn, and tried to toughen himself up by force so that he'd be able to one day take revenge on humans...only to make himself sick in the process. He mostly came to terms with his status as a Non-Action Guy, seeing as he is able to help out through singing his magical galdrs, which do things like heal allies, cure them of harmful conditions, and grant them Extra Turns. | |
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In Smallville, this is their interpretation of the Wonder Twins and Booster Gold. | |
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Isidro in Berserk is like this: even though he works a lot better as a Fragile Speedster with short blades and throwing rocks, he idolizes Guts (a Lightning Bruiser) and his BFS. This leads to problems, as he always insists on fighting like Guts instead of focusing on his true strengths like evasion, an accurate throw, and quick wits. Because his wish to be badass causes problems, there is at least a certain element of deconstruction at work here. Guts himself is possibly the most badass character in all of fiction, but it's a sure bet that no one who followed the series actually wants to be him. | |
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The protagonist of Kung Fu Hustle has been trying to be one since he was bullied as a boy by older kids. In his mind, this means to join the baddest gang in China. He finally gets his wish, but only after a Heel–Face Turn and a pummelling by the Beast "unblocks his chi", resulting in him becoming the greatest kung-fu master in history. | |
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Silver Falls Gaiden: Deathly Delusion Destroyers and Ruby River focuses on the entire town of Silver Falls teaming up to search for the protagonist's missing husband. While most simply want to help out of the goodness of their hearts (given that Silver Falls is deep in Lovecraft Country, they know the importance of banding together), a couple of them have secondary motives. Georgia was hospitalized and too injured during the events of 3 Down Stars to do anything, and feels guilty about being useless. She's all healed up and ready to fight 3 weeks later. Similarly, Slim also feels guilty for not being to help in Galaxy Bound Curse due to being too drunk. However, he's just as uselessly drunk as before. Given that the search involves exploring a dense forest teeming with Lovecraftian monstrosities, Slim would be more of a liability than help. The protagonist gently, but firmly tells him to go back into town and sober up over some coffee. | |
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The Walking Dead: Andrea is this in Season 1 and the first part of Season 2. By the end of Season 2, however, she can actually hold her own against a surprising amount of walkers before hitting the ground exhausted. Unfortunately, this is dropped early on in Season 3 after she becomes a part of the Governor's inner circle. She spends the rest of the season trying to prove herself as a powerful, diplomatic leader in Woodbury. She has moments, but overall, no one really takes her seriously, and her actions throughout the season - such as abandoning Michonne for a stranger and repeatedly defending the Governor despite knowing about his unstable tendencies - cause her to be labelled as The Scrappy by most fans. Eventually, all of her indecision and poor choice in loyalty culminate in her death. | |
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Agni in The Witch's Throne. Her physical abilities are not enough to help her friend Grom in battle, and she wishes she could become stronger to help him fight. | |
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Teana Lanster during Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS was a deconstruction of this. She was so desperate at being a badass as quickly as possible that her reckless actions placed both her and her teammates at risk. While she did eventually Take a Level in Badass, she didn't do so until she let go of this mindset and concentrated on refining the skills and talents she had at a more sensible pace. | |
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Victorious: The episode "The Gorilla Club" had Tori wanting to get the part of a troubled girl in movie, but being told she was too nice for the part. She spends the whole episode trying to toughen up by engaging in risky behaviors. This climaxes with her fighting a gorilla. | |
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Deconstructed in both Mass Effect 1 and 2 by both Corporal Jenkins and Conrad Verner. In the case of Jenkins, he has a highly romanticized image of what it means to be a soldier, and when he actually goes on the first major mission in the game, he's gunned down and killed in minutes. In the case of Conrad Verner, he's more played for laughs and is a Take That! of the players. | |
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In Chrono Crusade, this was one of the major motivations of Joshua, whose Blessed with Suck Healing Hands powers confined him to his bed. After being disappointed by a suggestion from Father Remington to go through Training from Hell to grow strong, Aion offered him a Deal with the Devil to gain immense power through a pair of demon horns. It worked, but also turned him insane and allowed Aion to kidnap him and use his powers for his plans. This kicks off the main plot of the series when his sister makes her own Deal with the Devil to be able to rescue him. | |
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In Pursuit of a Single Ideal: Illya really, really wants to be a Magical Girl because she wants to know how it's like to be as powerful as the magical girls she sees on TV. Unfortunately, she's a Wrong Genre Savvy in a Magical Girl Genre Deconstruction story, and only starts realizing when her brother Shirou is torn to pieces and Mind Raped by one of the "monsters of the week". | |
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"I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince. He does not beat Mike Tyson. | |
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This is the reason Hammer from Xenogears eventually turns evil. In the end, he's practically the only one on your team who isn't superpowered in some way, and this weighs heavily upon him. | |
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West Side Story (2021): Unlike the stage version and 1961 film, Chino is not a member of the Sharks. However, he wants to join out of a desire to help protect the Puerto Rican community from the Jets' bigotry. He also thinks that being someone who stands up to injustice, like Bernardo does, will make MarÃa respect him. However, when the rumble ends up becoming an all-out brawl, Chino is only clutching Bernardo's dead body, clearly terrified of the violence happening around him. | |
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Usopp of One Piece has this as his primary goal. He has stated his personal mission to be becoming "a brave warrior of the sea", and he has definitely worked to meet that goal ever since the Arlong Arc. By Water 7/Enies Lobby, and definitely by the time-skip, he has completely managed to Take a Level in Badass. Most characters in the story, like Luffy, strive to become the next Pirate King. Others have entirely different goals that fit this trope. Zoro, for example, wants to replace Mihawk as the world's strongest swordsman. |
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This is the basic idea of Wanted, both the original comic and the movie adaptation. The protagonist is a loser guy who becomes a badass when he finds out he has a badass gene inherited from a father he never knew. The comic book (but not the movie) also attempts to deconstruct this trope by scolding the reader for identifying with the main character, who's essentially a violent sociopath. Perhaps not coincidentally, Wanted was written by Mark Millar, the same guy who also wrote Kick-Ass. | |
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In How to Train Your Dragon (2010), Hiccup wants to be acknowledged and respected by his village, as well as his father and the girl he crushes on. He does achieve all of this, but not in the way he expected. | |
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The Witch of Knightcharm: The protagonist Emily really wants to be a powerful witch that fights evil magicians and protects innocents, but as she learns early on, just because she wants that and spends her time fantasizing about being that doesn't mean she's actually all that tough. When she later decides to 'defect' to an evil Wizarding School, she tells herself that her main motive is to undermine the school from within and thus make up for her past failures, but she has to admit she's also hoping the school's Training from Hell will help her become strong enough to actually fight villains. | |
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Terra of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep so desperately wishes for this that it makes him very easy to manipulate by Master Xehanort, and as a result causes several tragic moments throughout the game. Incidentally, he directly interacts with young Riku. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Miles "Tails" Prower, per his Image Song. Originally a bully victim, meeting Sonic and joining him in his adventures helped him break out of his shell, but he still retained some of his timidness, always living in his idol's shadow. By Sonic Adventure he was thrust into a situation that made him realized he couldn't keep depending on Sonic forever, leading to him single-handedly taking Eggman on for the first time and saving the city from him. | |
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Nevere Burvelle, the protagonist of The Soldier Son by Robin Hobb, is this. He's raised to be an Officer and a Gentleman, goes through Training from Hell... and in the end is thwarted by magic that makes him grossly obese. He grows into something quite non-traditional, but clearly not the badass he (and his dad) expected. Thus, Nevere is a subversion (or, if it's his Wanting To Be Badass that causes his being thwarted, he is a deconstruction) of the trope. Nevare never had much of a choice. As the second son, he was (by religious doctrine) always meant to be the soldier of the family. The ending of the first book, however, shows that he was well on his way to being badass and the potential was solidified even more throughout the rest of the series, thanks to his Trainer From Hell. |
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Baki the Grappler: "If one is born as a male, at least once in his life he will dream of becoming the strongest man alive. Grappler is the martial artist who aims to become the strongest in the world!" | |
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Tedd in El Goonish Shive. Especially after he felt weak about something far worse than a school bully. His attempts look less badass and more adorable than he'd like to. But at the same time he tries to circumvent his powerless status and back from the foreshadowing dream we know he can accept becoming more like his apparently Evil Overlord counterpart in an Alternate Universe, if he needs this to fight back. | |
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Boldores and Boomsticks: Casey is awed by Team RWBY's physical feats and asks them to train her to be like them. | |
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Kasumi of Samurai Gourmet deconstructs this. He's just trying to enjoy his retirement, and the obstacles to this are usually no more than social awkwardness. Still, when those obstacles arise, it cues the Indulgent Fantasy Segue where a Sengoku ronin shows him how a real samurai would handle the situation. This tends to inspire him toward action, but not always all the way, since real life is real life. | |
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In Kick-Ass, two characters become superheroes: the title character because he wants to help people... and in a straighter version of this trope, Big Daddy because he was frustrated with his marriage and thought his life was boring. He even creates a fake Back Story to enhance his new identity. | |
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After the death of his mother, the titular protagonist of Ringing Bell decides he wants to be a wolf. The problem? He's a lamb. Chirin thought that being a sheep is boring and that sheep are just a bunch of cowards - he wanted to be tough and powerful as a wolf. In the end, Chirin does become extremely strong however he lost everything in his quest to become powerful. He's not accepted by other sheep, he took revenge on his mentor, and he's not a wolf. | |
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Ross, Amelia, and Ewan from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones are three youngsters who join an army of badasses with zero fighting experience themselves. All three of them begin very weak physically, and express a desire to better themselves. It's a rather known fact among the fandom that if you choose to train them, they become blessed with Magikarp Power and end up as freaking powerhouses. In short, Ross, Amelia, and Ewan are three cases of "I Just Want to Be Badass" who more than get their wish. | |
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In Thalia's Musings, Thalia speculates that this is her sister Calliope's reason for dating Ares, the Pantheon's resident Dumb Muscle. That, and Ares is hot. | |
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Oz: All Clayton Hughes wants is the respect of his fellow COs and the inmates, but his efforts to get it blow up in his face without fail. It doesn't help that these attempts generally involve excessive force and are of questionable legality. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Several Pokémon have shown that this is their primary motivation. Often this is simply shown by them wishing to become their very powerful final form. Others have shown they just want to be better. | |
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Junior Jedi Knights: The second half of the series features a boy named Uldir Lochett, who wants to be a Jedi despite only being mildly Force-sensitive, and has an inflated view of his own importance and destiny (although he does get some Character Development). | |
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Carver from Dragon Age II. He suffers from a massive inferiority complex due to his twin sister having magic, and his older sibling either also being a Mage or just a better fighter than he is. Much of his interactions with the other party members revolve around him (rather unsuccessfully) trying to prove he can be more than just Hawke's kid brother. Depending on the player's choices, these issues can get either better or worse as the story progresses. In two of the game's Downloadable Content, he can serve as a Guest-Star Party Member, and is generally Older and Wiser. Carver may even say that he misses adventuring with Hawke, and be confident enough to explicitly patronize his older brother/sister. The whole game deconstructs this audience desire (as well as the concept of the Big Bad). Yes, Hawke becomes insanely badass, to the point of being an in-universe Memetic Badass, but s/he is also partially responsible (inadvertently) for some of the most disastrous events in the plot, and may lose everything s/he has fought for and everyone s/he cares about. |
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An (in)famous episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where wimpy, nerdy Jonathan had an attack of this trope and used a spell to turn himself into a full-blown Marty Stu. Buffy being, well, about Buffy, obviously this couldn't last. After his infamous fall from grace in season 4 onwards, Spike has an interesting case of "I just want to be badass again". In the season 5 episode crush, he gets close to accomplishing this when Drusilla invites him to terrorise the globe with her again. This being Spike however, it doesn't last until even the end of the episode, and he ends up even more pathetic than before as a result. |
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Impmon from Digimon Tamers does NOT enjoy being a Harmless Villain. This eventually ends up being deconstructed, as the lengths he goes to to become badass drive him crazy with power, causing him to become a REAL villain and go on a murderous rampage. He's appropriately horrified when he snaps out of it. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Negi Springfield definitely qualifies. Already a hard-working prodigal mage at the age of 10, his quest for power increases after many of his students become his mischievous followers, making him constantly worried for their safety. It doesn't help that he's surrounded by a lot of powerful people such as his more combat-trained pupils (Setsuna, Mana, Kaede, Ku Fei), his father's friends (Jack Rakan, Alberio Imma, Takamichi), and his former enemy (Evangeline), some of whom are game-breakingly powerful. Oh, and his father? An incredibly powerful war hero who is practically worshipped across the Magic World. That's a lot of hurdles to jump over. It's no surprise then that he would push himself to incredible extremes, even learning Evangeline's Dark Magic. He's definitely not your standard shounen hero. | |
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In Tangled, Flynn Rider modeled himself on a fictional character, an adventurer, The Charmer, and rich enough that he could do anything and go anywhere. Which explains Flynn's career as a thief. | |
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Durarara!!: Mikado definitely qualifies because he wants to change something. It's what led him to create Dollars. Later on, you actually see that he has been badass all along. | |
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The Court Jester: Hawkins' first scene establishes that he desperately wants to be a soldier in the Black Fox's group of freedom fighters, but he gets relegated to baby-sitting the infant heir to the throne. | |
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Tuffy Smurf of The Smurfs (1981) wants to be just like Hefty Smurf and will prove himself to be like him constantly by doing some daring things that usually put the other Smurfs in danger. | |
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The Kingdom Hearts series has Riku, who swung this way in his younger days. He just wanted to be strong enough to protect his friends. Ten years later, growing dreams of glory and adventure made him swing more towards I Just Want to Be Special. Terra of Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep so desperately wishes for this that it makes him very easy to manipulate by Master Xehanort, and as a result causes several tragic moments throughout the game. Incidentally, he directly interacts with young Riku. |
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A subplot in Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed is Shaggy and Scooby tired of being The Load of the gang and trying to be real detectives, | |
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