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* About every sentient being from the ''[[Warhammer
** But not least Inquisitor Eisenhorn Who while being "questioned" not only bites off his interrogators lip off WITH HIS TEETH he also manages to make sexual innuendos about his female siblings. He then proceeds to kill him, his employers, three uber beasts, and a chaos space marine. in just the first of three books too!
*** The Cadian Kasrkin deserve a special mention. Basically, these are lightly augmented humans, not wearing power armour or equipped with very powerful weapons, but they, unlike most Imperial citizens, aren't intimated by an Inquisitor, aren't afraid of full on body tackling a ticked off Daemon and fight it even if they know it's going to kill them.
** Although [[Warhammer
*** To elaborate, Pius was basically your standard Imperial Guard [[Red Shirt]] and Horus is a [[Super Soldier]]/Demigod with a Claw as big as Pius himself! And what does he say? "You gotta get through me first!".. OK it didn't end well for him but by the Emperor if that didn't say he had big balls.
* The original, fantasy ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' has its fair share, as well. The ''Army Book'' for each faction featured a supposedly, but not always, [[Badass]] quote on the back cover. The Skaven, of all armies, actually gained the most [[Badass]] of them all with just two words. '''Kill, kill!'''
** Every lord or hero in Warhammer is pretty badass, but special mention has to go to those non-Special Character heroes tooled up to take down a Bloodthirster. And Elven commanders on dragons.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090302172747/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=128949 Radha, Heir to Keld] from ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''. "Run home, cur. I've already taken your master's head. Don't make me thrash you with it."
** Sadly somewhat undercut by her actual ''card'' representation, though. That said, badasses of all persuasions aren't hard to come by in the Magic multiverse.
** What about the unglued card ''Bad Ass''?
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', there is actually a badassery stat - Conviction. The example given in the 2nd edition core book states that someone with Conviction 5 (maximum possible for most people) would be capable of enduring a century of horrible torment, and unflinchingly inflict the same upon others.
** Not exactly. It's more accurate to say that Conviction measures how much of a [[Knight Templar]] you are. The true measure of badassery is binary: Do you have a Motivation? If yes, you are a badass. If no, you're an extra.
*** Even this is somewhat misleading, as extras do have Motivations. Such motivations are typically "Live a long and happy life", or "Raise my children in peace". Sufficiently badass Motivations, however, are the mark of those with great Destiny ratings, and therefor can only be held by genuine badasses.
** There's a simpler rule of thumb. Are you Exalted, or likely to Exalt some day? If yes, congratulations! You are a badass!
* In ''[[
* [[Scion]], which is [[Exalted]]'s spiritual cousin, also seems to be of the mind that the players should be laughably Badass. By the end of Hero (low level), player characters can hit enemies with cars. By the end of Demigod (Mid leve), they can hit them with houses. By the end of God, it is permitted in system for a character to hit an enemy with a mountain.
* While most PCs in [[Dungeons
** The most badass PC I've ever been graced to be the DM of, managed to kill the ruler of ''[[The Empire]]'' with a single arrow. To make that even more badass, he did it from a mile away. Through ''A foot of steel''. On a natural 12.
*** The most badass PC I've ever played with created a move called "the Falcon Punch", which does 30d6+65 damage. And he's level 12. Admittedly, it required playing Bard, and multiclassing to Rogue, Ranger, and Warlock. However, another PC by the same guy has his at-will as his most powerful attack.
*** I ran a Were-tiger Monk a wile back. At one point she was the tank for the group. Why was she the tank? She was '''''pregnant'''''.
*** This troper played a Dread Necromancer once that was captured by a group of malcontent demigods and defeated them with a never ending stream of self-destructing zombie chickens, in less than a minute.
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh Card Game|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' TCG, there's Neo the Magic Swordsman. His description says that he "not only practices sorcery, but is a sword and martial arts master." Can you say "badass"?
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