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This is where the [[Badass Crew]] is taken to the next logical step and turned into an entire army. The Badass Army is made of 100% badasses and there is absolutely nothing that can stop them short of [[Zerg Rush|overwhelming numbers]] or an even better Badass Army. There is not a single soldier who can not hold his own in a fight. They are extremely likely to be all, or mostly, [[Super Soldier|super soldiers]] and have a high likelihood to have been raised in [[The Spartan Way]]. They will not use [[Hollywood Tactics]] like amateurs.

 

 

Often squared off against the [[Redshirt Army]] to demonstrate exactly how hard they rock.

[[Semper Fi]] is similar, but they are NOT an army, regardless of the infantry, tanks, artillery, and attack helicopters that they use.

 

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* In ''[[Kamen Rider Decade|All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker]]'', we get to see...well the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOuCusC3qs epic line up speaks for itself.] It gets even more epic when they decide the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Shadowmoon}} doesn't just deserve one Rider Kick but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbGFfoY-WKM all of them!]

* ''[[The Last Samurai]]'' has the samurai rebels who take on modern westernized weapons and gatling guns with swords and bows, giving quite a good accounting of themselves.

 

 

** The Crown Legion, the personal elite guard of the First Lord, also very much counts as one.

* ''[[The Wheel of Time (Literature)|The Wheel of Time]]''

** The Fists of Heaven are a rapid-strike airborne infantry force that is used to attack targets thousands of miles away from friendly territory. Soldiers are transported in boxes that are delivered by the dragon-like ''To'raken''.

** The Aiel, a large culture of wasteland warriors who are each worth a dozen or more standard soldiers.

** Who should guard that fort which is the key to the entire region? One of the nearly god on earth wizards? No you send in the [[Black Company]]. Who should be your guards at the last battle the [[Elite Mooks]]? No, the Black company. Who do you call when you need to take out an [[Eldritch Abomination]]? And who did you need to take out the avatar of death itself? The Black company.

* The Grantsville Militia in ''[[1632]]'' which not only had [[More Dakka]] but could defy Croats with schoolboys with [[Batter Up|baseball bats]].

* [[Prince Roger]]. Granted, the Bronze Barbarians are more [[Badass Crew]] (even though they are a military unit), but the Mardukans, once they get their hands on plasma cannons...

* John Maddox Roberts' [[Alternate History]] ''Hannibal's Children'' has the Roman Republic exiled north of the Alps. One hundred years later -- one hundred years of constantly fighting and ''assimilating'' the Germans -- it ''comes back''. These new Romans don't swagger or bully; they're too badass for that. In one battle, an "inexperienced" Roman army under a "second-rate" general faces a veteran mercenary force twice their size and led by Carthage's best general. The Romans are wiped out -- but the Carthaginian army is ''wrecked'', with two-thirds of its troops ''killed outright'', and most of the rest badly battered.

 

== Live Action TV ==

** Daleks.

** Classic Cybermen.

** UNIT, when they know what they're doing and have the equipment to shut the Doctor up. ([[Duct Tape for Everything|Duct Tape?]])

* The [[Andromeda|Nietzschean's]] are another subversion where they wished they were these.

** They are. It's just that Andromeda's crew is even [[Badass Crew|more badass.]]

** Individually, all the Nietzscheans are seriously badass, but they also have [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]] for anyone they don't consider kin, which made it impossibnle for them to form a stable government with only them in it.

* When push comes to shove, every single [[Stargate SG 1|SG Team]] will take off their [[Redshirt Army|red shirts]] and pull out all the stops just to rescue their own. SG Teams only tend to be redshirts when on joint missions with SG-1, or when subject to [[The Worf Effect]] offscreen. When they're on their own, they're almost always this trope.

* The Klingons from ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' wish they were these, but [[Honor Before Reason]] hurts their strategy and tactics, and their equipment isn't the best, likely because a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] society doesn't exactly reward being an engineer.

** Subverted in ''Boy Scoutz in 'n the Hood'', where the arcade's badass army turns out to be just the Squeaky Voiced Teen, who politely asks Bart and Milhouse to leave.

** Inverted in the show's every depiction of the military.

 

 

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