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A specific form of Memetic Mutation when the fandom of a series exaggerates a character's capabilities and combat skills to preposterously epic god-like levels. Despite the name, it doesn't necessarily have to be a widely known Internet meme, and is sometimes just an in-joke among the fan-base. In some cases, the writers agree. While Memetic Badasses can come in all shapes and sizes, there are two recurring flavors: The Unironic Badass (a.k.a. The Chuck Norris): An admirable character who in canon has demonstrated enough impressive feats and is a big source of awesome moments, to the point that the fandom stops asking "What else can they do?" and instead wonders: "What else can't they do?" It's at this point that their abilities, if they weren't already hyperbolic to begin with, enter Tall Tale territory in Fanon. Expect to see them pull off feats Beyond the Impossible, inflict Russian Reversals on anyone or anything that messes with them, and embody any noun or concept they damn well wish, all thanks to their sheer awesomeness. The Ironic Badass (a.k.a The Shaggy Rogers): An otherwise weak, unimpressive or outright silly character whom Fanon — for the sake of ironic humor — portrays as much, much more awesome than they actually are. Unlike the above, it's not just the absurdity of their exaggerated feats that is played for humor. It's also the idea that this particular character, of all people, could kick ass and be more awesome than they have any right to be, running on the same principle as tropes like the Fighting Clown and the Lethal Joke Character. As such, it is very common to see them humiliate any conventionally "cool" character in a fight. Has a lot of crossover with the Memetic Loser, with some characters managing the dubious honour of having both as highly popular fan characterisations. Often overlaps with Fan Wank. Fear too the Memetic Psychopath, and especially the Memetic Molester. In-Universe character reputations belong in Shrouded in Myth, Living Legend, Famed In-Story, or The Dreaded. Upgrading the badassery significantly with a character from a previous work is an Adaptational Badass. When done to a historical character, it's a Historical Badass Upgrade. Compare Testosterone Poisoning. Contrast Memetic Loser. |
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Most Dream Theater videos on YouTube have exaggerated facts about their playing skills in the comments, but John Petrucci gets the most, partially due to the popularity of the John Petrucci Psycho Exercises videos. | |
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Bad Horse! He rides across the nation! The Thoroughbred of Sin! Bad Horse does not sleep. He waits. |
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Metallica: Cliff Burton was the original bassist who avoided Nobody Loves the Bassist. He could play while headbanging because his hair helped him play. | |
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And he fights vampires with kung fu. | |
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Channel Awesome The fandom seems to have decided that That Dude in the Suede is a badass. And capable of bringing down Insano's reign of terror. It Makes Sense in Context. God help Insano in May... Proven in the Year 3 event... Suede kicked butt. No wonder Insano didn't show up. In universe? SANTA CHRIST! SANTA CHRIST! WE ALL LOVE SANTA CHRIST! "Shall I tell ye the stories of Blood Beard Joe?" Malachite yet was already a badass in universe and it was proven to everyone when he let a car run into him and it exploded! He didn't even break his stride! CHUCK NORRIS!!!!!!!!!!! Don't Fuck With Mara Wilson SSSNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWFFFFLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMEEE!!!!!!!!!! Carl Copenhagen of Demo Reel, Ex-East German Police and Mercenary, Lived a life of killing dangerous animals and people too before becoming a mild mannered Camera man. Not, in fact, Nash Bozard himself, but his XCOM Assault officer, Colonel Igor Koslov, Savior of ERF. Mere mortals fear abduction by aliens. Aliens fear abduction by Igor Koslov. |
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"Elvis is Everywhere" by Mojo Nixon portrays Elvis Presley as a perfect godlike being whom all living beings are attempting to emulate through the process of evolution (or, as the song calls it, "Elvislution"). | |
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An in-joke among lonelygirl15 fans is to speculate that the Purple Monkey is an immortal being responsible for every plot twist in the series. A long time ago, Reed and Chuck Norris made a bet. The loser was supposed to wear a ridiculous cowboy hat. |
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Carmilla the Series has Elsie. Who in canon material shows up briefly, twice, once as Carmilla's 'study buddy' in Episode 3 and in Episodes 34-35 after being rescued by the Dimwit Squad. The fandom latched onto her cool appearance and badass army jacket and made her into the Queen of Swaghilia. | |
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Who would win a wrestling match: Lemmy or God? Trick question, Lemmy is God! | |
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RWBY: As the show's most popular villain, Roman Torchwick never stopped being top dog of the antagonists, is only toying with Cinder by pretending to be unaware and compliant with her nebulous grand scheme as he builds up his dragon's horde of Dust, that furthermore his humoring her is the only thing that is keeping her in a position of power at all, he can pimp-slap any of the heroes into submission without missing a beat no matter the odds, could pickpocket the whole cast blind without a single person becoming aware, rules over all human and Faunus gangs alike with Machiavellian absolute authority, and is only deigning to remain in Ironwood's custody because he can make use of the position he's in. Those are the same fans who don't believe he's actually dead. Mercury Black, thanks to being in three of the best fights of Volume 3, his constant smug demeanor and a rip-roaring metal song in "I'm The One", to the point where some chan boards nicknamed Mercury "The One", out of respect during Volume 3. Even with his lessened screen-time in the Mistral Arc, Mercury managed to only add to this status in Volume 6 with the revelation that he doesn't even have a Semblance thanks to his father. Many fans took this as a sign of Merc's utter badassery that even without a Semblance, he was able to go toe-to-toe with Pyrrha and Yang, and both only won because he threw both fights. After his dressing down of Jacques Schnee, many fans insinuate that James "Two Seats" Ironwood replaced both of his testicles with some form of God chairs. Most also believe that, should Ironwood get a third seat on the council, he would become all-powerful and single-handedly destroy Salem and the Grimm. His Amity Arena art confirms that he dual-wields revolvers which just made him even more of a badass in the eyes of his fans. Kali Belladonna. While she had little actual screen time during the attack at her mansion and was mostly shown to be a Combat Pragmatist with a skill to improvise and adjust to a dangerous situation, even taking out Yuma with a tea tray, most fans consider her to be on equal footing with her husband or possibly even above him in skill and strength. She became especially known for her badass one-liner when shooting Mooks that cornered her in the library. In Volume 8, the manner in which The Hound was introduced was badass enough to make it the first Grimm to score a victory against main characters. It kicked the asses of Oscar, Ren, Yang and Jaune because it can shapeshift new body parts as needed, employed human-level intelligence, and it can talk. |
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Wands don't kill people. Jason Frost kills people. | |
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Not, in fact, Nash Bozard himself, but his XCOM Assault officer, Colonel Igor Koslov, Savior of ERF. Mere mortals fear abduction by aliens. Aliens fear abduction by Igor Koslov. | |
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In a meta way, SCP-682 from SCP Foundation is one. Stories about new ways of killing it always end up in describing how it made it stronger. Alto Clef can't be seduced because his crotch is a hand, and that hand holds a gun. SCP-999. Given that it can subdue SCP-682, fans off-site jokingly claim that 999 can tickle just about anything into submission. |
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In The Slender Man Mythos, some have made Zeke Strahm one of these. When you can manage to give an epic Do Not Go Gentle speech in the face of a depraved, unstoppable, utterly horrific Eldritch Abomination, you are a badass. To really drive this point home, he became the first person to actually shoot Slender Man. HE SHOT SLENDER MAN IN THE CHEST. It didn't do much good, but still... As of "Ashen Waste", Evan from Everyman HYBRID for going after him with a baseball bat, and the Hybrid crew in general for trying to "run the fucker down". Again, it didn't actually work, but points for effort. |
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Malachite yet was already a badass in universe and it was proven to everyone when he let a car run into him and it exploded! He didn't even break his stride! | |
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Agents of Cracked brings us The Chief, who, among other things, eats lead and craps bullets (so his toilet gets all...shot up, when he poops), rides a triceratops to work, drinks tiger blood milkshakes for breakfast (MILKSHAKES, FOR BREAKFAST!), and personally knows Die Hard (Not Bruce Willis, Die Hard). Turns out he belongs to a pantheon of other such Chiefs, all of whom are equally badass (Up to and including sexually assaulting a mountain). | |
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And on that note, for a non-god version of this, Ragnar Lodbrok takes the cake. | |
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V3's Bobby Jacks, who after scoring a headshot on another student while his back was turned, was named 'Bocelot' (a reference to Revolver Ocelot) by other handlers, who joked about him killing other students with triple ricochet shots, scoring headshots from halfway across the island, and firing his gun and killing a student in V4 a year later. | |
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Angela Gossow of Arch Enemy has this reputation, and to a lesser extent, so do all female artists who scream or growl in metal and metalcore bands (see the vocalists for The Agonist, Otep, Walls of Jericho, and Straight Line Stitch for more examples.) | |
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In universe? SANTA CHRIST! SANTA CHRIST! WE ALL LOVE SANTA CHRIST! | |
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Ludwig van Beethoven, Trope Codifier of a Badass musician. Court etiquette was suspended for him because he didn't care but he was tolerated since he was frickin' Beethoven. | |
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Tricky the clown, also known (and even regarded by the creator themself) as the UNSTOPPABLE NEVADEAN CHAMPION, from the Madness Combat series is definitely regarded as this. Being an unstoppable hazard that is incredibly insane, unstoppable, bloodthirsty and being able to mold reality to his liking without any care thanks to the Portable Improbability drive. He's nearly unbeatable with only the main protagonist: Hank, having stood a chance, and despite that he's also died to the clown a few times. Even the series' Big Bad had a rough time with him, when the Auditor absorbed Tricky's corpse, it ended up being a bit too much that it actually ended up with Tricky gaining the Auditor's halo an powers! Forcing the Auditor to help Hank out in order to have his sworn enemy take care of Tricky for him. This has even reached a point where if, another Memetic Badass like the Corrupted Boyfriend defeats or even corrupts Tricky, can be decried as Fandom Heresy. | |
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The Pokémon Trading Card Game has several classic examples. Most notably, Charizard from Base Set conforms to this trope to a T: although it is one of the slowest attackers from the set, one of the most inefficient, outclassed in both HP and attack power by nearly every stage two since 2007, and no rarer than any other holographic, the casual fandom (as well as retro fans) adamantly claims that it is the undisputed strongest card in the game. | |
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MOTHERFUCKING SLAYER is the most badass band this side of Venom! | |
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Prâk "Bane" Jaws, from Tear of Grace's Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor series. Not only is he more or less Bane from The Dark Knight Rises in Uruk form, but he also has the ability to walk away in one direction only to then immediately attack Tear from behind. There's a reason he was Tear's Climax Boss in the penultimate mission of the game. | |
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Keith Moon: Perhaps one of the purest concentrations of Awesomeness Is Volatile in real life. | |
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Brandon Tenold devoted four episodes of his Cult Movie Review show to the late, great Doug McClure. For a brief time in The '70s, nobody fought big rubber monsters better. McClure was such a badass that he could take a arrow to the face and shrug it off. | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd will take you back to the past, to play the shitty games that suck ass, even if he would rather have a buffalo take a diarrhea dump in his ear. | |
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The Bible: Jesus Christ. If it wasn't for him, God wouldn't have forgiven our sins. Unlike c.f. Optimus Prime, Jesus never blasted Roman soldiers with an ion rifle or demonstrated an ability to turn into an awesome truck... but he could have if he wanted to. Heck, he wouldn't even need the ion rifle or transformation powers, he could just take out all of the Roman soldiers with his bare hands. And he fights vampires with kung fu. And he pwns kids at sports. Then there's Michael the archangel, patron saint of police officers, military, mariners, paratroopers, EMTs, the Greek Air Force, knights, swordsmiths, and grocers. It's said Satan and his various minions greatly fear Mother Mary. The rosary is the strongest weapon a prayerful person has in their arsenal. David slew Goliath with a pebble and a sling (actually easier than it sounds). |
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A few Magic: The Gathering players have also gotten the Chuck Norris treatment: Jon Finkel, who is widely considered the best Magic player ever. Mike Flores, who... isn't. Mike Flores is the world's foremost plagiarism detective. Razor Ramon got one, just for having the balls to name his deck "Hard Gay". And he won with it! |
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And an expy of the equally badass Fernando Lamas (the bar setting is an homage to Billy Crystal's SNL homage to Lamas). | |
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The manager of the English branch of hololive joined Ina, Gura, and Amelia during a game of Left 4 Dead 2. Not only did she have a surprisingly good grasp on the game, but she went out of her way to protect her teammates. Her reputation as a badass would be cemented in one fight where she attacked a Tank with a katana, intentionally drawing the monster's aggro, and subsequently killed the Tank with only a sliver of her health left. | |
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The chef from Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time melts butter by screaming at it, peels potatoes with his teeth, chops food with an axe, and generally demolishes the entire kitchen (and the occasional assistant) in the course of making delicious food. It helps that he's very, very Swedish. | |
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During the third Desert Bus for Hope charity drive Matt Wiggins turned down an offer for $500 if he wore eyeliner. Hundreds of ridiculous accusations were made about how evil Matt was, including that he invented Desert Bus, midichlorians, and canceled Firefly. Two public access Twitter accounts carried out the meme (Things Matt Did and Things Matt Did 2). He was eventually redeemed by a) promising to watch Battlefield Earth, and b) this. | |
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Uncyclopedia has AAA, the greatest gamer who ever lived. | |
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The fandom seems to have decided that That Dude in the Suede is a badass. And capable of bringing down Insano's reign of terror. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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In-Universe example: George Washington among other things invented cocaine, threw a knife into heaven (which scared God shitless), he routinely made love to bears, and possibly possessed as many as thirty penises. | |
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Survival of the Fittest V3's Bobby Jacks, who after scoring a headshot on another student while his back was turned, was named 'Bocelot' (a reference to Revolver Ocelot) by other handlers, who joked about him killing other students with triple ricochet shots, scoring headshots from halfway across the island, and firing his gun and killing a student in V4 a year later. Furthermore: Nobody killed Bocelot. He just got bored. John Rizzolo is just your average player, except a little more cunning and a lot more sadistic. THE RIZ!, however, is so entirely badass that he creates cliffs from nowhere and drop kicks anyone he wants off of them. His Rizzlefandom on the SotF Rizwebsite has gotten to the point where Rizzlehandlers, often discussing entirely unRizrelated things, will add 'Rizzle' or 'Riz' to their words. Lance Vanguard and Zack Dynamite, two rejected names for Characters in v4. A rejected Troll profile gave us THE GODDAMN BUBBA DOVER. It was a Scary Black Man, with Blaxploitation tropes. Rather than being annoyed, it backfired and the handlers of the board seized on this one instead, to the point where any mention of badass characters is sure to mention him at some point or another. |
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On the Iron Maiden forum Maidenfans, they even founded the Holy Church of Adrian Smith. (note: he's the guitarist) | |
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Epic Meal Time: Muscles Glasses is definitely played up as this, culminating in coming Back from the Dead and winning a long series of arm-wrestles with various superheroes at Comic-Con. He also won a rap battle just by wordlessly flipping off his opponent. | |
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Taken literally in M.U.G.E.N, where she works like the F1 button, but on steroids. By that, we mean she can take down nearly any character, even god-tiered ones such as Chuck Norris. There have been several versions of her, with varying cheapness for each version. | |
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The eponymous Ninja of Ask a Ninja often makes astonishing claims about what he and other ninjas can do. Like how a ninja can go through a snowstorm without being hit by a single snowflake, or that they are faster than the speed of light. They are the speed of darkness. He also claims that he killed 4500 people in a day and that the Black Death was a ninja. | |
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Gilgamesh was the first fictional badass that we know of. He is still one of the greatest, memetism aside. Among other things, he killed the Humbaba, killed the Bull of Heaven, carried around 600 pounds worth of swords and generally forged the idea of Rank Scales with Asskicking. | |
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Shape Snatch in the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game. Look at it and despair at its horrible power! This became an Ascended Meme in the Duelists of the Roses spin-off, where it was one of a few cards turned into a powerful immortal variation and given an actual ability. People have joked that the near-worthless card Zone Eater would be able to defeat the ultimate Big Bad of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds, Z-one (pronounced Zone). |
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Mike Patton, the Insufferable Genius Man of a Thousand Voices. He can scream like Fay Wray and croon like Dean Martin. Just as this entry was typed he finished another side project with eleven different musical genres in it. He's been everywhere and done everything in the world, including Your Mom, and can fully and utterly convince you of it. | |
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As of "Ashen Waste", Evan from Everyman HYBRID for going after him with a baseball bat, and the Hybrid crew in general for trying to "run the fucker down". Again, it didn't actually work, but points for effort. | |
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It is a well-known fact among fans that while it is possible to kill Till Lindemann, it is a useless thing to do as he'll just come back to life next music video. | |
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Ashly and Anthony's dad from Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? is the ultimate badass. Look at any of their videos on Youtube for confirmation, particularly Lips. | |
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