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{{quote|'''Harry''': You've sort of made up for it tonight. Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcrux. Saving my life.
'''Ron''': That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was.
'''Harry''': Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was. I've been trying to tell you that for years.|''[[
You hear tales about the character. Every achievement, every victory. You get assured time and time again that every story you've heard is true. You come to the conclusion only someone of a divine level of badassery could have done these things.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime]] ==
* Jacuzzi Splot from ''[[Baccano!]]''. He's the leader of a gang of bootleggers, destroyed 18 Russo Family speakeasies in a single night, survived the Pussyfoot Train incident including fighting unarmed with a single, tiny bomb against someone with a flamethrower, stood up to [[Ax Crazy|Ladd Russo]], willingly almost fought [[Showy Invincible Hero|Claire]], sacrificed himself to protect someone from being harmed, and has a sword tattoo on his face. He's also a timid shrinking violet who cries all the time, not the least bit physically intimidating, has no special skills, and one of the nicest characters in entire cast.
** He ''is'' shown robbing a mob-run store, shooting with his tommy-gun left and right - all while bawling his eyes out.
* Comedically applied in ''[[Cromartie High School]]'' when the guys were trying to decide who was the most badass. (They don't just duke it out- they ''never'' just duke it out.) One of the guys had a reputation based entirely on guys being too scared of him to try him out. (Their 'jury' was out as to whether that was impressive or not by the time the plot moved on).
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== [[Literature]] ==
* For a lot of the series, ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' views himself as one of these. The event that made him famous happened when he was a baby and when in ''Order of the Phoenix'' he gets asked to teach a defense against the dark arts club, he argues that all his other achievements have been either through luck or from getting a lot of help.
* Rincewind is the worst wizard the [[Discworld]] has ever known. His hat is the only thing about him that says "wizzard," and ''that's'' misspelled. With no magic talent to speak of and a survival instinct heightened by his being [[Genre Savvy]], his usual response to a situation is to run like hell, and he's gotten ''very'' good at running over the years. He's also [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|thrown down]] with [[Eldritch Abomination|eldritch horrors,]] challenged a [[Enfant Terrible|childlike demigod]] with nothing but [[Improbable Weapon User|a half-brick in a sock,]] and saved the entire Discworld. ''Several times.'' Arguably, he's gotten being the [[Right Man in the Wrong Place]] down to a ''science.''
* ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' claims that all his achievements were down to luck or the result of him trying to save his own skin ([[Humble Hero|if you're willing to take his word for it, of course]]).
** Make no mistake though, the fact that he's a genuine badass is indisputable. He's fit, very well trained in marksmanship and swordplay, and knows the ins and outs of manipulating people to a T. In the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe, however, this is basically the [[Crapsack World|bare minimum of what is required]]. The debate is over his attitude (modest hero or lucky coward) and how much more of a badass he may be.
* While he ''is'' an honest to gods badass, Harry Dresden from ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' is transformed into the literal [[The Dreaded|Dreaded]] for those only reading his rap sheet without knowing the details.
** And don't think he doesn't know it, too. In Turn Coat, he is {{spoiler|ordered to be arrested, and is outnumbered by five hardened wardens as well as three members of the Senior Council, i.e. the strongest wizards in the world}}. When they approach extremely carefully, he realizes:
{{quote|They were dealing with [[Famed in Story|something far more dangerous than me]], [[Hurting Hero|Harry Dresden]], who's battered old Volkswagon was currently in the city impound. They were dealing with the [[The Dark Side|potential dark lord nightmare warlock]] they'd been busy fearing [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|since I turned sixteen]]. They were dealing with the wizard who had faced the [[Evil Sorcerer|Heirs of Kemmler]] riding a [[Crazy Awesome|zombie dinosaur]], and emerged victorious from a fight that had flattened [[Magic Knight|Morgan]] and [[Full-Contact Magic|Captain Luccio]] before they had even reached it. They were dealing with the man who had [[Refuge in Audacity|dropped a challenge to the entire Senior Council]], and who had then actually showed, apparently willing to fight - on the shores of an [[Supervillain Lair|entirely too creepy island]] in the middle of a freshwater sea.}}
* Much like the Dresden example above, Kvothe in the ''[[The Name of the Wind]]'' is badass and does some very impressive things but the legends are even more insane. By the second book, however, he's living up to the legends in truth.
== [[Live Action Television]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'': We have a villainous example with Jack Spicer. In the span of three seasons he has built countless robotic armies, a time machine, a Shen Gong Wu detector, a shapeshifter, highly impressive AI, is responsible for the release of Wuya thus causing the Wu to start revealing themselves and in a future without Omi he would be ruler of the whole world. Not bad for a guy who lives with his parents and loses his pants everyother episode.
* In an episode of ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'', an ordinary, bumbling crook manages to frustrate Batman's attempts to catch him by being a bumbler. Then, during the tussle, Batman supposedly falls to his death. Within hours, the word's gotten out that he's [[
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