Badass Normal/Live-Action TV: Difference between revisions

** On ''[[Angel]]'', Gunn is the epitome of the Badass Normal in the first four seasons. He's the only one who's received no special training, isn't a centuries-old demon or magically empowered in some other way. He's been fighting vampires since he was fourteen and, in the fourth-season episode "Players," he took out six Asian warrior monk-types without getting hit once.

** Gunn and the street-gang members he used to lead fought vampires with more success and less casualties, ''using improvised melee weapons'', than the US government's secret black-ops demon-fighting organization was able to manage even using chemically-augmented super-soldiers and energy weapons. Admittedly, the government wasn't just hunting, but studying...

*** Until the series finale, when he suffered a mild case of {{spoiler|being stabbed to death.}}

*** And at that point he [[Badass Abnormal|wasn't really normal anymore]], as he had acquired enough skill with magic to create fireballs at will.

** Peter Petrelli in Season 3 when he {{spoiler|lost his powers}}. He still managed to {{spoiler|get into [[Pine Hearst]], and would have killed his [[Too Powerful to Live]] father.}}

* Many of the recurring non-supernatural characters in ''[[True Blood]]'', but particularly Jason Stackhouse (less so in Season 1); he {{spoiler|defeats [[Fantastic Racism|Steve Newlin]] with a paintball gun, chucks Bill out of his house when he starts getting uppity, and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|saves Tara]] from an insane [[Yandere]] vampire}}.

** Xena herself wanders in and out of this trope. It's ''possible'' that she doesn't apply at all, because it's implied but never confirmed that she's Ares' daughter. The standard assumption in-universe is that she's 100% mortal, and she can kick ass and take names with the best of them but it can verge on [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] at times.

* Iolaus from ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'', which shares a verse with Xena, qualifies too. The man hangs out with Hercules and regularly aids him in combat, and saves his ass more than a couple times.

** From "The Next Doctor" {{spoiler|Jackson Lake. An amnesiac Victorian gentleman who believes himself to be the Doctor and does very well, to the point of saving the real Doctor from Cybermen with a hastily improvised weapon at least twice.}}

** Davros. The man is a blind cripple with one working arm, but his [[Mad Scientist|enormous intellect]], [[Omnicidal Maniac|horrific cruelty]], and [[Determinator|sheer tenacity]] had the fandom calling him the Doctor's greatest enemy after ''his first appearance''.

*** In series six, there's Canton Everett Delaware III. If the [[Awesome McCoolname|name]] isn't enough, there's always the following: he tells off the ''President of the United States'' from the get-go, runs into the TARDIS without a second thought to keep on top of the Doctor, {{spoiler|pulls off lying to the FBI for three straight months while presumably keeping Rory, Amy, and River out of their cross-hairs, shoots down a Silent, tricks said Silent into dooming his race, works future technology to send the message of the Silent to the Doctor and Apollo 11 and to top it all off, ''comes out to President Nixon in the Oval Office''.}}

** Rory Williams. Think he's just a nurse? ''You're wrong.''

 

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