Badass Biker: Difference between revisions

 

{{examples}}

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'': Tsuna and Yamamoto in Choice. Airbikes in the [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|anime....]]

* Rei in ''[[éX-Driver]]'', complete with the vagabond lifestyle - she's an elite troubleshooter, not tied to any one base.

 

* Wolverine from ''[[X-Men]]'' is the most famous comic-book example.

** Cyclops is also something of a petrolhead. In the movies, after his original bike burned with his campervan, Wolverine stole one from Cyclops.

* Sometimes, Nightwing from [[Batman]] would cruise the streets on one of these. Jason Todd, The Red Hood would also count as he rides a Harley. Of course, he is the Red Hood, er, "Red Helmet". Finally, you have Huntress and Catwoman, both of whom frequently use them.

* Ben Reilly, [[Spider-Man]]'s clone, while he was [[Walking the Earth]] and dealing with [[Cloning Blues|his angst]].

* [[Black Canary]] frequently travels on a bike.

 

== Films -- Animation ==

* Arcee from ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' is actually three badass bikes, connected by a group mind.

* Aped in ''[[The Monster Squad]]'' with Rudy, a tough middle-schooler who wears a leather jacket, smokes, drinks, defends the downtrodden, and likes to pose on his bicycle.

* [[Big Bad]] Raven and the Bombers in ''[[Streets of Fire]]''.

* Parodied in ''[[Yes-Man]]'' when Carl gets on a Ducati that is too powerful for him to handle.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'': How much more badass do you get than screaming green maniacs on ramshackle scrap-metal motorbikes laden with giant machine guns? Oh yeah, that would be the [[Super Soldier]]s on giant armoured bikes the size of cars. Or the ''evil'' Super Soldiers on ''hell motorbikes'' covered in blades and skulls... or maybe the space-elf knights on flying bikes with laser lances... or the evil space elves that can fly their bladed flying death bikes with enough skill to ''cut specific arteries''.

** The Orks have legendary bikerboy Wazdakka Gutsmek, who never, ever gets off his bike except to tinker with it, and never sleeps thanks to a special brew the [[Deadly Doctor|Mad Doks]] make for him. His goal is to create a network of warp gates and such so that he and his army can ride from one end of the galaxy to another. He has a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]] hand and equipped his bike with [[More Dakka|cannons that can stop a tank in its tracks]]. He once killed a [[Humongous Mecha|Warlord Titan]] by driving off a cliff, punching through its [[Deflector Shields|void shields]], crash-landing in the thing's ''head'', and slaughtering the crew. [[Infernal Retaliation|While on fire]].

** This is the [[White Scars]] Space Marines' entire schtick. They're pretty much Mongols on armoured bikes with machine guns.

** About the only people without badass bikes are the Tau (who go with [[A Mech by Any Other Name|battlesuits for their badassery]]), the Tyranids (who are a [[Horde of Alien Locusts]]), and the Imperial Guard (who actually get badass ''riders''...seriously, they have a ''horse-mounted cavalry'' unit).

== Real Life ==

* [[Real Life]] bikers can get a bad rep, especially in areas where gangs are well-known, but there are a lot of stories of how they are actually quite nice, though they often use the image to protect their own.

** There are also the [[wikipedia:Patriot Guard Riders|Patriot Guard Riders]], veteran bikers who attend funerals of U.S. Army soldiers and shield the family from the <s>evil cultists</s> protesters of the [[Religion of Evil|Westboro]] [[Holier Than Thou|Baptist]] [[Belief Makes You Stupid|Church]].

** Adelasian locals (Adelaide, South Australia) will know all about the Santa Bikers run. Every year all the bikies in the city buy presents for disadvantaged kids and drive down the main roads on their bikes (most decked in santa gear because that's part of the fun) to deliver them. I'm told other countries have similar runs.