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*** Jubilee can dropkick two men [[Groin Attack|in the balls]] at once. After blowing their guns up just by thinking about it.
*** Rachel Summers fought Galactus. It was a ''draw''.
*** Gambit. Any and everything about Gambit. But to be more specific, he takes out a whole Sentinel single-handedly. With a piece of chewing gum.
* ''[[The Punisher]]''.
* And again with Spartans, most of the Spartans in ''[[300]]''. In fact, the narration makes a point of mentioning how badass they are. Repeatedly. It's not a [[Take Our Word for It]], though; the narrator himself is one of the warriors.
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* Marv (pictured above) from ''[[Sin City]]'' is a walking personification of the concept. He is a [[Made of Diamond|near invulnerable]] man who at various points in the story shrugs off multiple gunshot wounds (including one to the head), being hit by a speeding car three times ''in succession'', taking a blow to the head from a sledgehammer, massive blood loss, all while mowing down countless fully armed enemies using only his fists and whatever he can find. Even {{spoiler|taking a jolt via electric chair only prompts him to tell his executioners}}, "Is that the best you can do you pansies?"
** ''Sin City'' is ''rife'' with badasses. Dwight McCarthy, John Hartigan, Wallace, or deadly little Miho. Or Kevin and Manute for that matter.
*** Even among other Sin City badasses, Marv is considered a badass' badass
*** Every major male and most female characters ever written by Frank Miller.
**** He made Robin cool, by turning him into her, and making her kick ass.
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***** But he also wears tight colorful uniform and shouts cheesy one liners. And he's a sidekick.
****** And then the original one ended up in the Cowl. Badass certified.
* [[Don Rosa|Don Rosa's]] ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'' is infamous for the bad-assedness young Scrooge pulls off. In "The Raider of Copper Hill", he fights off a small army of claim jumpers bare-handed. In "Terror of the Transvaal", after getting double-crossed and left in the African savanna by a young [[The Rival|Flintheart Glomgold]], he's so mad he cows several angry wild animals on his way back to civilization. And in "King of the Klondike", Scrooge goes into an [[Unstoppable Rage]] after unscrupulous businessman Soapy Slick kidnaps him, chains him up, tries to steal his claim, and to top off the [[Kick the Dog]] list, makes fun of Scrooge's late mother.
* Midnighter of ''[[The Authority]]''. Add [[Captain America (comics)]]'s origin to [[Batman]]'s skill and throw in Punisher's attitude, then square the result.
** What's even more impressive is that, crazy as his fighting skills are, he doesn't even have to hit you to destroy you. At one point, he [[Talking Your Way Out|analyzed and demolished a super-soldier's psyche]], forcing him to question his life and leave the fight a broken man.
* Various characters in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', especially the Saint of Killers. The special sidestory "The Good Old Boys" parodies the idea with a character who's all tough talk but no actual worth.
** Herr Starr is Preacher's penultimate badass, even though he is a villain. He's a normal human who nevertheless rises from nothing to being one of the world's top assassins and secret agents, rises to the top of a world-controlling secret society to subvert their plans to save the world all by himself, doesn't back down even in the face of an unkillable Angel of Death (the Saint) and a preacher who has the voice of God within him, and keeps going even after suffering many painful and humiliating injuries. His most impressive feat is when he's captured by a [[Cannibal Clan]] who eats one his legs, manages to escape after killing them all, and ''jumps on one leg through a desert'' to get to safety.
** How did Jesse Custer himself get left off? Does he ever lose a fight? He beats Cassidy, a vampire who's invulnerable, using his word of God only to make sure that Cassidy will attempt to fight him. [[Badass Normal]] indeed.
* Parodied by Ruben Bolling; The Impossible Squad! All members are clench-jawed hard smokin' macho sergeants and almost all of them solve things with explosives.
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** Manji earned his reputation for killing a hundred men ''before'' his infestation. If anything, the parasites made him ''less'' of a threat, since he couldn't be bothered to fight as hard as he used to.
* King Mob of [[The Invisibles]] turned himself into his hero, [[Jerry Cornelius]], becoming not only a successful writer and accomplished magician but a master assassin capable of killing people in every conceivable way including ''inside his mind''.
* [[Nextwave]] counts too. Even the [[Butt Monkey]] managed to make the lord of a hellish dimension wish he was dead... Using the contents of a restroom. Starting at the toilet, and finishing with the toilet brush.
* [[Y: The Last Man|Agent 355]]. She once won a fight with both arms broken, by ripping her opponent's throat out [[Man Bites Man|with her teeth]].
* [[Deadpool]], feebs! He's fought Wolverine to a standstill, and in one issue escaped from being crushed by a giant stuffed teddy bear by ''snapping both wrists and ankles'' while talking the whole time...even though talking was what was making the bear fall. He also fought the [[Incredible Hulk]] and managed to steal his blood. Also, in one of the Marvel Alternate Universes, he was commissioned to kill all mutants. At the end of the story, there were four left, and they were hiding from him in Japan. FOUR. I could go on forever on this one.
** Deadpool himself [[Talkative Loon|would indeed go on forever with it]].
** [[Cable]], too.
* DC Comics' ''[[Frankenstein's Monster|Frankenstein]]'' eradicated two supernatural creature infestations, dismantled a slave ring on Mars, killed a humanoid living ''universe'' and destroyed an invasion fleet from a ''billion years'' in the future. All of this in a limited ''four-issue'' [[Seven Soldiers|series]].
** In the [[Alternate Timeline]] of ''[[Flashpoint (comics)|Flashpoint]]'', he killed [[Adolf Hitler]] and ended [[World War II]]. For anyone else, that would be enough to put them here. For Frankenstein, it's business as usual.
* Did anyone read the [[Justice League of America|JLA]] issue where, on one of the first pages, there is a full page splash of Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner, ''before'' he [[Took a Level In Badass]], standing on top of a massive pile of prison escapees, in a ''super-prison,'' or at least maximum security, considering that all of the inmates were villains ''he and his team put there,'' with his uniform torn, his body beaten blood and blue, and yelling out the words (paraphrased) ''"Who the HELL stole my power ring?!"'' (That was a run-on and a half...) In other words, Kyle Rayner, an ''artist,'' took on a prison-full of people with a grudge against him, ''bare-handed and without his powers.'' I say that makes him pretty [[Badass]].
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** In a fight with him, X-Man, one of the most powerful mutants in the Universe, accidentally jumped in a zone between time. Ares just jumped after him and beat him so hard that some African tribe saw it in visions.
** Was spotted [[Dr. Strangelove|surfing in air on a dropped bomb]] and (at a different time) a flying airplane.
* [[Captain America (comics)]]. He's the leader of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] - in other words? He's a mortal who commands gods. Can you do that?
** No, but [[Nick Fury|Nick motherf'n Fury]] can. And [[Memetic Mutation|his god has a hammer.]]
*** Well, if we think about it, most [[Badass Normal]] guys who lead super-powered teams count, like Hawkeye in [[West Coast Avengers]] and [[Thunderbolts]], just to think on another example.
* [[Little Miss Badass|Hit Girl]] from [[Kick-Ass]] is perhaps [[Overly Narrow Superlative|THE most badass little girl ever]] to grace comic books. There's also her father, [[Heroic Sociopath|Big Daddy]], who's just as badass as she is.
** Only in the movie. In the comic he's a wimp who lets Hit Girl do most of the work, while standing back and just looking [[Badass]].
** Who trained her then? He may have been holding an [[Idiot Ball]] or two in story, but comic book Big Daddy had to have been a Badass at some point.
* Snake-Eyes from the [[G.I. Joe]] comics. Not so much on the TV series until ''[[G.I. Joe: Sigma 6]]''.
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