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* ''[[WITCH (Animation)|WITCH]]'': Caleb never has any more powers than your basic fit young man, yet he somehow is just as effective in a fight as the main girls who, kinda, ''control the essence of the five elements!'' By the end of the second series, even Will's ''pet dormouse'' has more powers than him, and he still manages to hold his own in a fight. If that isn't badass, nothing is.
** Hell, Caleb is sometimes ''more'' effective than all of the main girls put together. ''That's'' [[Badass]].
** In the first season, Will more or less is a Badass Normal, as [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|her powers hold no use in battle]], [[Adaptation Decay|unlike in the comic]]. So the writers have to improvise, giving her what nonmagical actions she needs to fight the bad guys. ''However'', in the second season, once she gains the power of Quintessence, she no longer fits this trope.
* Robin from ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'', though it frequently escalates into the [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] level. Slade is a villainous [[Badass Normal]], except in the fourth season where an intergalactic demon [[Back From the Dead|resurrects him]] and grants him fire powers, removing the "normal" - until his powers are removed again, and he returns to [[Badass Normal]] status by ''killing a flaming-axe-wielding guardian of the underworld'' with nothing but tactics and martial arts.
** [[Combat Pragmatist|And explosives.]]
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