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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 Ofof the Week]''''' (warning! [[NSFW]]!) is a website created by "Amazing Ben Thompson" in 2004, that exists primarily to [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|provide weekly profiles of many and sundry]] [[Badass|badasses.]] The various badasses covered range from fictional characters such as [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]], [[the Punisher]], and [[Final Fantasy VI|Kefka]] to [[Real Life]] badasses such as [[Cold Sniper|Simo Häyhä]], [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Saladin]], and [[Crocodile Hunter|Steve Irwin]], to the outright ''bizarre'', such as [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beetle.html this huge-ass beetle], [[Land Down Under|Australia]], the [[Revolvers Are Just Better|S&W .500]] [[Hand Cannon|Magnum]], and the [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/aggrocrag.html AGGRO CRAG] (aka the '''AGGRESSIVE ROCK'''). The exact criteria for badassery vary, ranging from individual acts of ordinary heroism to face-melting acts of blind bravery and violence. Of course, being a face-crushing, scrotum stomping killing machine isn't required for inclusion, as the [[Manly Tears]]-inducing article on [[Hotel Rwanda|Paul]] [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rusesabagina.html Rusesabagina] proves.
 
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]: