Badass Gay: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime ==

* While Leeron from ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' may be incredibly [[Camp Gay]] and not a direct fighter, he is still the main mechanic for the show's [[Humongous Mecha]] and one of the first to embrace Kamina's [[Beyond the Impossible]] philosophy.

* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]] Nuriko'''s swoons over [[The Emperor|Hotohori]] (and later on, [[Bi the Way|Miaka]]) and is a [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]...but has super strength and kicks some major ass. {{spoiler|Right up to the end.}}

* The transsexual demon Arachne from ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]''.

* ''[[Air Gear]]'' has Yasuyoshi Sano, otherwise known as "Aeon Clock" who fights on par with King-level Storm Riders despite not having any form of Regalia.

 

== Film ==

* In the parody film ''Stripperland'', the badass Tallahassee parodied character, Frisco, is revealed to be gay.

* "Gay" Perry in ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'' is a very tough [[Private Detective]]. In one scene, it turns out he's hidden a gun in his crotch, because if he's frisked by a man who knows he's gay it's the best hiding spot. When Perry uses it, Harry experiences a moment of confusion about whether there was a gun in there or it was "a gay thing".

* Though his sexual orientation is never spelled out for the audience, Wez from ''[[Mad Max|The Road Warrior]]'' is a terrifying mohawked berserker driven to murderous fury by the death of his younger, prettier companion, whom his boss, [[Evil Overlord|Lord Humongous]], explicity calls his "loved one." Of course the whole [[Mad Max]] series has a faint transgressive undercurrent, so it could just be part of the overall insanity.

 

== Literature ==

* In Homer's "The Illiad", Achilles's desire to enter battle with Hector is ignited when Hector accidentally kills Achilles's male lover (thinking him to be Achilles). Note that the ancient Greek culture didn't divide people into heterosexual and homosexual but instead into active/dominant and receiving/submissive. One can assume that Achilles was the active/dominant in the relationship.

* In [http://www.adlibris.com/se/product.aspx?isbn=9163330075 Prinsessan Kristalla], the titular Princess Crystallia and her girlfriend have several badass moments, like when they save the dragon from all the [[Knight Templar]] "[[Windmill Crusader|heroes]]".

{{quote| '''Sam''': Larry hates it when I come home bloody.}}

* In season five of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Willow has arguably grown past the slayer herself in badassery, powered by her relationship with Tara. (The sixth season is a completely different story, which is one of the main reasons why so many hate the sixth season.)

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Day of the Moon", Canton Everett Delaware III is shown to be a badass government agent who helps the Doctor defeat the Silence after getting kicked out of the FBI for "wanting to get married" in 1969. Right at the end of the arc, Nixon asks him if the person he wants to marry is black, because he would be willing to push to overturn that law. "Yes," says Delaware, "''he'' is."

** Bonus points that neither the lovers themselves, their friends nor even their enemies even notice that Jadzia and Lenara are of the same gender, in spite of both of them being very feminine. They are, instead, persecuted because the symbiants whose memories they each carry were already married in previous hosts. "Reassociation", as it is known, with a past host's spouse is strictly forbidden and highly taboo in their culture. As a result the episode is full of [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] conversations as the two first try to deny their feelings for each other (until Jadzia saves the day and wins the girl) then try to hide it from Lenara's well-meaning but judgmental brother in order to avoid persecution and exile (which would be an eventual death sentence for their symbiants).

{{quote| '''Oka:''' "Don't underestimate fags or else you'll pay for it!"}}

* ''[[Noah's Arc]]'': Wade, specifically after {{spoiler|Noah is gay bashed. Wade goes out and gets revenge}}.

* [[The Wire]]'s Omar Little.

* On [[The Good Wife]], Kalinda Sharma, who smashes car windows and beats mean with baseball bats and saves the day once an episode. More badass bisexual, though; she doesn't seem to subscribe to labels much.

* The ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series gives us the entire Asari race. All omnisexual, all biotics, all prepared to fling you across the room telekinetically if you piss them off.

** Worthy of mention: [[Adorkable|Liara]], [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|barely a hundred years old]] but already a more powerful biotic than most Matriarchs. If you [[Berserk Button|mess with Shepard]], [[Disproportionate Retribution|you will die. Your friends will die. Your allies will die. Everything you ever built will be torn down. And nobody will ever remember your name]]. Also, if you don't pay her back she will flay you alive. With her mind.

** And of course, [[Player Character|FemShep]] romancing [[Discount Lesbians|Liara]], [[Bi the Way|Kelly]] or [[Gay Option|Samantha]] qualifies as well.

** Also, as of [[Mass Effect 3]], a [[Player Character|Male Shepard]] romancing Steve Cortez or Kaidan.

* All of the canonically non-heterosexual characters in [[Metal Gear]] (Big Boss, Ocelot, Volgin, Raikov, Scott Dolph and Vamp) qualify to some degree. Big Boss is the most indisputably badass, although his bisexuality is never explicit [[Word of Gay|in game]] and is a [[Bi the Way|very minor facet of his character.]]

** Veronica is a lesbian, and she's quite comfortable in power armor and tends to punch things so hard they explode.

** Christine, all but stated to be Veronica's ex-girlfriend in the ''Dead Money'' expansion, is no [[Shrinking Violet]] either.

** Thanks to the support system of later games, [[Shipping Goggles|if viewed the right way]] anybody could be this. However, standouts from Gay males would include [[Sexy Priest|Lucius]] and [[Badass Longcoat|Raven]], [[Defector From Decadence|Lagault]] and Ike. Almost nobody thinks Soren is straight so (he is at least, ''very'' [[Single-Target Sexuality|Ikesexual]].

* Venom from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' has been confirmed gay and is very capable of kicking ass.

 

== Webcomics ==

** There's also Dirk, aka the Alpha counterpart of {{spoiler|Bro Strider}}. Both sides of this trope are probably best encapsulated in the autoresponder's description of how he would confess to Jake:

{{quote| '''TT:''' If it's me going through with this, hypothetically, <br />

'''TG:''' uuh <br />

'''TT:''' What I'm saying is, it's going to be a scene, and bystanders need to brace themselves. }}

** Then there's Nanase, who is a [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-04-15 crazy-good fighter], and is described by Sarah as [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-30 "beastly strong"] after [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-10-19 beating male!Susan in an armwrestle] with ''zero effort'' (and look how hard Susan was trying!). [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-09-06 After burning out her magic], she ''complains'' that now she's "all the way down" to bench-pressing '''''160 pounds''''' (apparently with magic enhancing her strength she could bench-press '''''200''''').

** Also Ellen, who [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-10-22 fearlessly] tries to take on a [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-10-09 goo monster] single-handedly, inherited martial arts skills from her [[Opposite Sex Clone]], and [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-01-08 doesn't take crap from anyone].

** And [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-09-18 Catalina]. Anyone who would [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-10-31 shout at a giant boar] and would also contemplate [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-11-03 throwing a shoe at it] is automatically badass.

 

 

 

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== Real Life ==