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** Aeschylus

** Sir Richard Francis Burton

** [http://badassoftheweek.com/curie.html Marie Curie]

** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130902030212/http://www.badassoftheweek.com/curie.html Marie Curie]

** [http://badassoftheweek.com/davinci.html Leonardo Da Vinci] -This man was able to kill people with a sniper rifle......''before they were even invented yet!''

** [http://badassoftheweek.com/tesla.html Nikola Tesla]

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* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]]

* [[Hold the Line]]

** [http://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.]]

** [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]]

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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]]:

** [http://badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html Tom Wanyandie] (an elderly Native American man who fought off a ''literal'' [[Mama Bear]] to protect his son)

** [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]