Badass Creed/Live-Action TV
Examples of Badass Creeds in Live-Action TV include:
Doctor Who
- Doctor Who: From both the novels during the hiatus era and "Girl in the Fireplace".
Doctor: "Even monsters have nightmares." |
- The whole of John Pertwee's "Who is the Doctor" spoken word single counts as an extended Badass Creed for the Doctor.
- The entire speech at Stonehenge.[context?]
- Colonel Mace's speech just before UNIT counterattacks (and wipes the floor with) the Sontarans.
- The Dalek creed, from Terry Nation fluff:
- The overhead announcement on a ship of Sontaran troops: "Battlestations... Rejoice."
- Torchwood provides: "Torchwood. Above the Government, beyond the Police."
Star Trek
- Any Klingon, any time, anywhere: "Today is a good day to die."
- Also, not really a creed,[please verify] but -- when a Klingon dies in battle, other Klingons roar at the heavens to warn the dead that a true Klingon warrior is coming.
- The Jem'Haddar battle cry is pretty Badass:
"I am First [name of Jem'Hadar First], and I am dead. As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember: Victory is Life!" |
- And then Miles O'Brien turns to his men and says:
I am Chief Miles Edward O'Brien. I am very much alive and I intend to stay that way. |
- While not designed to intimidate as such, the opening narration detailing the mission of the Enterprise (and Starfleet in general) is pretty Badass:
- The Cardassian Resistance only needs two words:
For Cardassia! |
- The Borg's introductory speech, while not exactly Badass in the traditional sense, is intimidating just in its sheer matter-of-factness, delivered in a Creepy Monotone Voice of the Legion:
"We are the Borg. You Will Be Assimilated; Resistance Is Futile. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us." |
- And now they've kicked it up a notch in the Expanded Universe
"We are the Borg. You will be annihilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness have become irrelevant. Resistance is futile...but welcome." |
- And then you have this version.... (What?)
"We are the Canadian Borg. Resistance would be impolite. Please wait to be assimilated. Pour l'assimilation en francais, veuillez appuyer sur deux." |
Other Works
- Babylon 5 brings us The Ranger Oath:
"We are Rangers. |
- In the Spinoff Legend of the Rangers, one ranger starship captain amends the above creed to end, "We Live for the one, we die for the one...but we don't die stupidly."
- Also, let's not the PSI Corps and their motto: "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father."
- In the Spinoff Legend of the Rangers, one ranger starship captain amends the above creed to end, "We Live for the one, we die for the one...but we don't die stupidly."
- Firefly: Possibly the motto of the Serenity Valley soldiers: "When you can't run, you walk. When you can't walk, you crawl. And when you can't do that, you find someone to carry you."
- "I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar."
- "I aim to misbehave." (Only said once, but it was memorable.)
- And the theme song: "Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me."
- How about; "To Hell with this, I'm gonna live!"
- Battlestar Galactica: "What do we do now, Captain?" Starbuck: "Same thing we always do: fight 'em till we can't."
- "What do you hear?" "Nothing but the rain" (The sound of the debris of enemy craft hitting the hull)
- Let's not forget Commander Adama's favorite "We've got to roll the hard six."
- "So say we all!"
- Jaffa rebels: "I die free."
- Shel kek nem ron!
- When they show up for the first time, the Ori battleships are quick to announce their intentions: "And those who are prideful and refuse to bow down shall be laid low and made unto dust."
- The Brunnen-G battle hymn in Lexx probably qualifies:
Yo Way Yo |
- The titular Kamen Rider Stronger proves just how badass he is every time he shows up on screen with his creed.
"The heavens call! |
- Parodied on Hey Dude! Mr. Ernst tries to psych Jake up for a fight by telling him to remember the Ernst family motto. "We like math?" Mr. Ernst then tells him it's: "An Ernst never backs down!" To which Jake tells him he's never heard of that one before.
- "The rich and powerful take what they want. We steal it back for you. Sometimes bad guys make the best good guys. We provide...Leverage."
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