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** 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...
** Xander Harris is an example as well. He faced down Angelus while Buffy was in the hospital and faced down a zombie with a bomb. By Season 7 he's also able to go toe-to-toe with vampires, demons, and all sorts of nasty beasties, and even acquired a badass eyepatch. He's a seven-year war veteran of battles against everything from vampires to GODS, and he's made it out alive. That's more action than a lot of Slayers see.
** Halfway into the second season (exhibiting signs as early as the Season 1 episode "The Ring") [[Rescued
*** 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.
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** 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: Warrior Princess]]'' has Autolycus and Gabrielle. Autolycus is the King of Thieves and Gabs [[Took a Level
** 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.
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** 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''.
** A lot of the one or two episode based companions serve as this in comparison to the more seasoned TARDIS travelers.
*** 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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** Most every ranger has some badassitude without their powers, showing them fight the [[Mook|mooks]] of the season is supposed to help the transition to the [[Super Sentai]] costume footage.
** [[Power Rangers RPM|Dr. K]] took down the current [[The Dragon|dragon]] by [[Musical Assassin|playing the violin]]. '''Twice'''.
** Honourable mentions go to [[The Ace|Takaoka Eiji]] from ''[[Go Go Sentai Boukenger]]''. Before he becomes [[Sixth Ranger|BoukenSilver]], he is so badass that in his human form he can beat up two Ashu demons, whom the five other Boukengers together, in their Ranger form, were unable to defeat.
** Also, Diana from ''[[Metal Heroes ]]'' famously never failed to OTK a foe with her [[Ass Kicks You| "Diana Hip Press"]] even when not morphed.
* Kung Lao, Siro, and Taja, the protagonists of ''[[Mortal Kombat]]: Conquest'', are all ordinary human beings who regularly face off against supernatural opponents who can shoot ice, throw fire, teleport, devour souls, re-animate the dead, etc. Not only do they stand toe to toe against these enemies but they usually win. In one episode Tsang Tsung, Kung Lao's primary rival, destroys an entire military encampment with his powers because he was just that pissed. Had he thought of doing that when he faced Kung Lao in ''Mortal Kombat'', Earth Realm would have been doomed before the series even began.
** When Quan Chi and Kung Lao first fought, Quan Chi attempted to use his sorcery but was immediately stopped by Raiden in the name of "a fair fight."
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** She also nearly took out an FBI agent while handcuffed. Booth took him out while injured.
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