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{{quote|''"....so if you give a crap feel free to check back in next week to satisfy your insatiable desire to read about grown people punching each other in the mouth or beating each other about the head and neck in a most furious manner."'' }}
'''''[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ Badass
Part of the humor of the site comes from its [[Shown Their Work|surprising historical accuracy]] used in conjunction with references to various historical figures in [[Sophisticated As Hell|vulgar, irreverent language]]. An example of the former regarding the great Sikh hero [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babadeepsingh.html Baba Deep Singh]:
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* [[Ace Pilot]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shinohara.html Hiromichi Shinohara]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130718140451/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rudel.html Hans-Ulrich Rudel] - the most decorated [[World War II]] pilot, and who flew ''2,500'' combat missions - more than any other pilot in ''history.''
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20121005051534/http://badassoftheweek.com/joefoss.html Joe Foss]
* [[Author Appeal]] ([[Badass|Badasses]]!)
* [[Action Girl]]: <s>Nearly</s> any female profiled will definitely count.
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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mccool.html Finn McCool]
** Finn McCool's best friend [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022231519/http://badassoftheweek.com/cuchulainn.html Cuchulainn]--translated, his name is "The Hound of Culann."
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/quarrelsome.html Wolf the Quarrelsome]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ataturk.html Mustafa Kemal Ataturk] - whose name quite literally translates into "Mustafa the Perfect, Father of the Turks." Yes, this guy was so badass that he was literally dubbed ''"perfect"'' by his instructors.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130815003424/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hardberger.html Max Hardberger]. The name alone qualifies him as awesome, but that fact that this guy's job is to essentially serve as a maritime repo man whose specialty is in stealing ships ''back'' from pirates, it just pushes it to a whole new level.
* [[Badass]]: [[Captain Obvious|No shit, Sherlock.]]
* [[Badass Abnormal]]
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* [[Badass Beard]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/frederickbarbarossa.html Fredrick Barbarossa]
** The aforementioned [https://web.archive.org/web/20130815003424/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hardberger.html Max Hardberger].
* [[Badass Bookworm]]:
** George Orwell
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** Aeschylus
** Sir Richard Francis Burton
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130902030212/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/curie.html Marie Curie]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130627172236/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/davinci.html Leonardo Da Vinci] -This man was able to kill people with a sniper rifle......''before they were even invented yet!''
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131207132218/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla.html Nikola Tesla]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/aldrin.html Buzz Aldrin] - If strapping a rocket to your ass and braving deep space isn't an act of sheer balls, then epically jacking some asshole in the face after he calls you a liar and threatens your daughter should count.
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/mccoy.html Jack McCoy]
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* [[Badass Normal]]:
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/diomedes.html Diomedes]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130715101235/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/solo.html Han Solo],
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130624073322/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/punisher.html The Punisher]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/odysseus.html Odysseus]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beowulf.html Beowulf]
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** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/cooper.html Ryan Cooper]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/york.html Sergeant Alvin York]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130726231758/http://badassoftheweek.com/aki-ra.html Aki Ra] - Uses little more than a pipe wrench and balls the size of small planets to disarm absurdly lethal anti personnel landmines.
* [[Badass Spaniard]] - El Cid
* [[BFG]] [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/bfg9000.html The BFG-9000] [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Boldly Coming]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130727130044/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shepard.html Commander Shepard]
{{quote|This is the first thing that pops up when you run a Google Image Search for "space babes", but, honestly, this weird alien space eyeball tentacle-monster also happens to be a good visual representation of Commander Shepherd's military career – drifting around in outer space groping a hot babe with his appendages while random dudes shoot him in the face with rockets at close range without doing any noticeable damage.}}
* [[Bow Ties Are Cool]]: [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rusesabagina.html Paul Rusesabagina] isn't afraid to rock the bowtie.
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* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]
* [[Cold Sniper]]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130630145224/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html Simo Häyhä] - Called [[
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zaitsev.html Vasily Zaitsev] - [[Crazy Awesome|This man set up a sniper school in the middle of Stalingrad while the Germans were still invading]], [[Badass Teacher|taught his students how to kill tons of soldiers]], [[One-Man Army|while notching over 200 kills himself!]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pavlichenko.html Lyudmila Pavilchenko]
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* [[Dare to Be Badass]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/autry.html Wesley Autry]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130726123354/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kauser.html Rukhsana Kauser], who managed to gun down ''the most wanted terrorist in India'' when he started beating on her father and tried to rape her.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130702154834/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/youde.html Yang Youde], a rural Chinese farmer whose response to a [[Mega Corp]]'s attempt to steal his land was to ''build homemade artillery'' and blast the company's gang of club-wielding enforcers in a battle straight out of the wildest tower defense games.
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/woods.html Ron Woods]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023082341/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/akaiwa.html Hideaki Akaiwa], when faced with a tsunami that flooded his town, chose to don a suit of SCUBA gear and swim through the black, nighttime, debris-strewn waters to rescue his wife, and then went ''back in'' to save his mother, and now works as a one-man search-and-rescue unit, combing the disaster zone for others in need of help.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130627172433/http://badassoftheweek.com/omari.html Anthony Omari] - When machete-wielding thieves broke into the Kenyan orphanage he ran, he ran them off by chucking a hammer into their faces. When they came back the next night for payback, he dished out even more hammer-related injuries, while taking a severe wound to the face. Not that it stopped him from kicking their asses.
* [[Death World]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/australia.html Australia]
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** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/leomajor.html Leo Major] - [[One-Man Army|This man killed an entire town worth of soldiers in ONE Night!]]
*** And, his take on how he did: ''I fought the war with only one eye, and I did pretty good!''
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130609152449/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/zizka.html Jan Zizka]. Notable that he ''kept leading'' his armies ''after'' the eyepatch became redundant, on account of becoming completely blind.
* [[Four-Star Badass]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/viriathus.html Viriathus]
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** The Surena
** Alaric The Bold - Who, despite being a Visigoth barbarian, was also a very clever [[Magnificent Bastard]])
** Khalid Bin Walid - Whom the Prophet Muhammmad dubbed "[[
** Charles Martel (His Latin surname was [[Drop the Hammer|"Martellus"]])
** William The Conquerer
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** Vlad The Impaler
** Peter The Great
** Horatio Nelson (Called [[
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/saladin.html Saladin]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/washington.html George Washington]
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** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/macgyver.html Angus Macguyver]
* [[Handicapped Badass]]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130531160310/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/baldwin.html Baldwin IV of Jerusalem]
* [[Hell]]: [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/australia.html Australia]
* [[Heroic Dog]]: [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sgtstubby.html Sergeant Stubby The War Dog]
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]
** Jonathan Netanyahu
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130827215413/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gordonandshughart.html Gary Gordan and Randall Shughart].
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] (The article on the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse]] is extra-funny now that [[Darksiders]], a game where you play the Horseman of War is out. The description for him is amazingly fitting).
** [[Mass Effect 2|Commander Shepard]] is portrayed in game as being in Badass Weekly. The site responded upon finding out about this by playing through the trilogy then writing Shepard up to be one of the biggest badasses on the whole site.
* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]]
* [[Hold the Line]]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131206234641/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/21sikhs.html The 21 Sikhs], a single unit of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|twenty-one Sikh soldiers]] holding a small fortress outpost on the Indian border against a force of invading tribesmen that numbered over ''twenty thousand''. They managed to hold for most of a day, while ounumbered 500:1 until the British could organize a counterattack. While all of them were wiped out, no one doubts the size or sturdiness of their balls, especially as every single one of them ''volunteered'' to stay and fight. When word of their actions reached the British Parliament, it received [[Manly Tears|a standing ovation from the entire British government.]]
* [[Holy Shit Quotient]]
* [[Humongous Mecha]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/optimusprime.html Optimus Prime]
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130816060641/http://badassoftheweek.com/homedefense.html entire article on home defense] pretty much hits every single permutation of improvised weaponry.
* [[Jerkass]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/alcibiades.html Alcibiades]
* [[Killer Rabbit]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20121005051509/http://badassoftheweek.com/rabbit.html No prizes for guessing.]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger.html The Honey Badger]
*** On the subject of the African Honey Badger: ''But the Honey Badger doesn't give a crap – he comes across a [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|puff adder]] that is eating a rat, and his first instinct is [[Refuge in Audacity|to run up, grab the rat out of the snake's mouth, carry it a few feet away, and then eat the rat right in front of the snake]] just to show the adder that he's a bitch. After eating the stolen meal, the Badger than decides, "[[Big Eater|Screw it, now I'm going to eat this damn snake too]]". This really takes being an asshole to another level, [[Arson, Murder, and Admiration|which is something I can appreciate]]. The adder and the Ratel fight, and the Honey Badger kills the viper, but not before being bitten in the face and pumped full of enough venom to kill a creature three times its size. [[Beyond the Impossible|The Badger succumbs to the poison, falls unconscious, but then – amazingly – somehow comes back to life and continues devouring the already-half-eaten snake]].''
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** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pingyang.html Princess Pingyang]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shepard.html Shepard.]
* [[Large Ham]]: The entire entry for '''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130514144258/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/aggrocrag.html THE AGGRO CRAG.]'''
* [[Memetic Badass]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wayne.html John Wayne]
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** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/heyerdahl.html Thor Heyerdahl]
* [[Mugging the Monster]]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130627005257/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html Bishnu Shrestha]. This retired Gurkha (which should say everything you need to know about how badass he is) was returning home on a train when forty gangsters boarded it, robbed the people on board, and [[Attempted Rape|tried to rape a girl]]. Bishnu taught them the error of their ways in a storm of blood-spraying violence, killing three men and disabling eight more with just his kukri before the rest ran for the hills.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Wolf the Quarrelsome's article includes a 300 word paragraph analysing the meaning of the name.
* [[Never Mess with Granny]]
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** Henry Lincoln Johnson
** Peter Franciso (and was called this trope by name by [[Four-Star Badass]] George Washington)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731232103/http://badassoftheweek.com/samson.html Samson]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/murphy.html Audie Murphy]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/greengold.html Zvika Greengold]
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** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/daly.html Sergeant Dan Daly]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/funk.html Leonard A. Funk]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130916004033/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/captaindavis.html Captain Johnathan R. Davis]: One prospector, two revolvers, one bigass bowie knife, and the most awesome mutton chops ''ever'', versus eleven heavily-armed bandits. Guess who wins.
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hayha.html Simo Häyhä] So much so that the Soviets actually ordered artillery bombardments just for the express purpose to try and kill him. They failed.
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gurung.html Lachiman Gurung]
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* [[Over and Under the Top]]: The site as a whole is full of loud hyperbole, which causes the solemn narrative of the [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gordonandshughart.html last stand of Shugart and Gordon stand out even more].
* [[Papa Wolf]]:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927120040/http://badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html Tom Wanyandie] (an elderly Native American man who fought off a ''literal'' [[Mama Bear]] to protect his son)
* [[Pirate]]:
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/edwardlow.html Edward Low]
** Blackbeard
** Again, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022231519/http://badassoftheweek.com/cuchulainn.html Cuchulainn.]
* [[Pirate Girl]]
** Anne Bonny
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** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rasputin.html Grigoriy Rasputin, the Trope Namer]
* '''[[Rated "M" for Manly]]'''
* [[Red Baron]] [[Trope Namer|Manfred von Richthofen]]▼
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/litvyak.html Lydia Litvyak, the "White Rose of Stalingrad"] ▼
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tlahuicole.html Tlahuicole]
* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130816042803/http://badassoftheweek.com/500magnum.html The Smith & Wesson .500 Magnum]
* [[Refuge in Audacity]] (Many of the [[Badass]] events depicted are more or less made of this)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140303051338/http://badassoftheweek.com/hondatadakatsu.html Honda Tadakatsu] won a battle where he was outnumbered 60-1 by openly attacking the enemy army. The opposing general was so impressed at Tadakatsu's balls that he acknowledged his badassery by withdrawing and conceding without any blood being spilled.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/heemeyer.html Marvin Heemeyer] - Who did it with the [[Tank Goodness|KILLDOZER!]]
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** Elizabeth Bathory
* [[Shout-Out]]: Got one in [[Mass Effect 2]]--a character mentions the publication "Badass Weekly".
* [[So Bad It's Good]]: Pretty much everything regarding [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516032535/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/starshiptroopers.html Starship Troopers].
* [[Sobriquet]]
▲** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/litvyak.html Lydia Litvyak, the "White Rose of Stalingrad"]
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/quarrelsome.html Wolf the Quarrelsome]
* [[Tank Goodness]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20140105054505/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/panther.html The Panther Tank]
* [[Testosterone Poisoning]]: A website so manly it'll make hair grow on your chest, even if you're a woman.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20101124024548/http://gestaltmash.com/2010/07/thanos-badass-of-the-week/ Thanos]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kratos.html Kratos]- [[Meaningful Name|"Power", as described by the Greeks.]]
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]] (for true [[Badass|Badasses]])
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* [[Tranquil Fury]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kuhnhausen.html Susan Kuhnhausen]
* [[Unperson]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130315013941/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/damnatio.html Damnatio Memoriae]
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: "killing him and six of his friends" means that the event killed 7 people (6+1=7), however the event only killed 6 people. http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=4116936037
* [[X Meets Y]]: Appropriately, to describe [[Wolverine]][[X-Men|erine]]:
{{quote|''Basically, Wolverine is what you would get if you combined a hockey enforcer, a rabid animal, and a wood chipper.''}}
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]:
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131005093445/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stamfordbridge.html The Viking At Stamford Bridge]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/benkei.html Saito Musashibo Benkei] - [[Hold the Line|This man was told to defend his lord's castle]], [[Determinator|and he died standing up and refused to fall to the ground even after death and more arrows wounds than anyone could possibly withstand]]. Whether, this is [[Crazy Awesome|insane or not]], one thing is clear: [[My Master, Right or Wrong|he followed his orders until death, just like he was supposed to.]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pajota.html Juan Pajota] - Philippine guerrilla leader during [[WW 2]]. As Cpt. Robert Prince of 6th Ranger Battalion, US Army put it: "The Guerrillas were our flanking protection at the Cabu River, which was no more than a mile from the camp... there was a sizable force of Japanese, but Pajota and his men just killed everything in sight that came up that river and across the bridge. They were the ones that kept this thing from being a tough deal for us."
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