Memetic Badass/Film
- Samuel L. Jackson and any character played by him. Mace Windu getting killed by the Sith proved that Star Wars was pure fantasy, because nobody could kill Samuel L. Jackson in any realistic situation.
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- DOES DARTH SIDIOUS LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
- Spoony actually specifically made this very point when he reviewed Episode III, saying that Samuel L. Jackson was just not believable as this restrained, more human character since...well, he's Samuel L. Fucking Jackson, and you keep expecting him at any moment to whip out his light saber, randomly slash someone, and say, "Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration??"
- According to Word of God, Mace Windu is the strongest Jedi alive at that point, even more powerful then either Yoda or Sidious. So his memetic badassery has some canon to it.
- Yoda. Greater than Mace Windu he is. Greater Jedi than all others combined, times Mace Windu squared, he is. Muppet he is. Puts all the Sith to shame he does. Boo-yah.
- DOES DARTH SIDIOUS LOOK LIKE A BITCH?
- Star Wars:
- Boba Fett went out like a punk on screen, taken out by a blind man and a pole. But he looked so gosh-damn mysterious in his cool body armour that fans assumed that he must in all essences be the Galaxy Far, Far Away's version of Batman. And so, in the Expanded Universe, that is indeed what he became. As of now, he is in his seventies and recovering from a terminal illness, but still manages to beat the stuffing out of anyone who gets in his way. Parodied heavily in Robot Chicken's Star Wars specials, in which he's more of a Small Name, Big Ego.
- Wedge Antilles has gotten the same treatment, although he does have a little more screen time and dialogue than Boba.
- The Expanded Universe has propelled his Ace Pilot status to mythic levels, not that the movies didn't make it clear he was damn good.
- Only one person survived both Death Star runs. He had no mystical "Force" on his side. It was Wedge Antilles, who would later dismiss things by saying "It's not like we're destroying a Death Star".
- Wedge has two Death Stars painted on the side of his X-Wing, and every TIE Fighter there actually represents an entire squadron.
- Bruce Campbell and his boomstick.
- He's the most famous B-Movie actor around. He's fought and killed just about everything you can think of; aliens, mercenaries, bandits, Napoleon's army, an evil army of the dead, and bad stop-motion effects.
- He even defeats Spider-Man!
- And in the comics based on Army of Darkness, he's fought with and/or against Herbert West, Darkman, Xena, Marvel Zombies, the President, and Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees at the same time... twice!
- To a lesser extent, Willow Hood, better known as The Ice Cream Guy. For a character whose sole appearance is running away with an ice cream maker in the background, he has quite a vocal fanbase.
- The version of Van Helsing of the self-titled movie -- at least in Tycho's book.
- Captain Nascimento from the Brazilian movie Tropa de Elite (a.k.a. The Elite Squad). When Bruce Banner gets mad, he becomes The Hulk. When Hulk gets mad, he becomes Capt. Nascimento.
- All of this may be true, but nobody fucks with the Jesus.
- Tony Stark can build anything - in a cave! With a box of scraps!
- Achilles. "Who would win? Achilles or ...?" (Leonidas/Maximus/Superman/Chuck Norris...) Experts have even pronounced him "Str8 gangsta", of all things. Beowulf fans debate at length: "Achilles is kinda cheating with the heel thing..." And the answer is: Achilles. He had a body part named after him, making this trope Older Than Feudalism. Unfortunately this makes him still vulnerable to roundhouse-kicks.
- Leonidas has not been mentioned as of yet. How can this be? THIS! IS! AN OUTRAGE!
- What would happen if Leonidas fought Achilles or Chuck Norris? According to YouTube, neither man would lose. An explosion of pure awesomeness would occur and everyone else would die happy.
- The Bank Manager in the opening scene of The Dark Knight didn't grab a shotgun and start blowing away the Joker's gang away while screaming threats because he was a secret mafioso; he did it because William Fichtner is just that badass!
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"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO YOU'RE STEALING FROM?! YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE * DEAD* !!" |
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- By the way, that thing the Joker put in his mouth that turned out not to do anything? It was actually a frag grenade, and the Joker meant to kill him, but it chose not to explode for fear of Fichtner's inevitable wrath. Even grenades know better than to mess with someone who takes a gun into space. Don't forget that we are talking about a guy who will tear a fucking wall down to get to you if you try to hide from him.
- Fledgling example: Captain Christopher Pike of Star Trek.
- Don't forget Captain Robau. The shields on the Kelvin don't keep enemy phasers out. They keep Captain Robau in.
- As of the recent Sherlock Holmes film, Watson (colloquially known as John Motherfucking Watson) has reached this level, due to his general ability to kick ass, take names, and save Holmes' butt about fifteen times.
- Bonecrusher hates this page and everyone on it. The only reason he hasn't ground the servers to dust and killed everyone who's ever edited the page is because it provides a handy list of people he needs to kill, and Bonecrusher hates to be unprepared.
- They don't call Godzilla king of all monsters for nothing. In a Final Wars, he managed to curb stomp nearly all of the major past monsters (and Zilla) ONE. AFTER. ANOTHER.
- Lampshaded in Braveheart:
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- Snake Plissken wasn't born; he Escaped From The Womb. I heard he was dead.
- Sgt. Donny Donowitz doesn't bash Nazis' skulls in with his baseball bat; the skulls cave themselves in rather than be hit by him.
- There are things that go bump in the night. And we are the ones that bump back.
- Quaritch is not on Pandora. Pandora is under Quaritch.
- Colonel Miles Quaritch THE HERO OF OUR IMPERIUM. We will nevar forget his heroism.
- FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN! FEGELEIN!
- In-universe, Pai Mei is so badass that legends about his badassery are over a thousand years old.
- The Expendables is a rare example where the film itself has achieved Memetic Badass status. This is based mainly on the fact that it's a throwback action movie directed by Sylvester Stallone and starring almost every living action movie actor available. The trailer alone, apparently, will put hair on your chest and give you a third testicle, if you're a dude. If you're a girl, you'll walk out of the theater pregnant.
- Aragorn, King of Gondor.
- Excuse me, but who here has the audacity to leap into the middle of a mob of angry berserkers with nothing but an oversized knife and an attitude from Hell?
- And who not only fought, but wounded Shelob? The world's most badass gardener, Samwise MOTHERFUCKING Gamgee. Then he killed a bunch of orcs singlehandedly.
- And let it be known Eowyn is no motherfucking man but she did cave the Witch-King's head for all you pansy motherfuckers.
- It took three arrows thicker than his finger and bigger than his leg to take Boromir down. And the only reason he died at that point was because he was played by Sean Bean.
- Bill the Butcher will teach you to speak English with his fucking knife.
- Anyone played by Daniel Day-Lewis in general.
- As far as The Cinema Snob is concerned? PIERRE KIRBY.
- HELLO! My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die.
- Optimus Prime would like you to give him your face!
- Thor with throw a hammer through your mouth and have it go out the back of your head. End of argument.
- Dirty Harry.
- You really don't want to make his day.
- Ask yourself punk, "Do I feel lucky" Huh? Well do ya?
- Burt Gummer. Doin' what he can with what he's got
- Sharktopus. A giant, genetically-altered Shark/Octopus with swords on the the tips of his tentacles. That is all.
- How do I begin to explain Regina George?
- Lori Campbell decapitated Freddy Krueger with Jason Voorhees' fucking machete!
- Agent Phil Coulson, of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The short "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Thor's Hammer" shows that it is entirely justified.
- Even more than Coulson, Darcy Lewis (originally from Thor). Thor and Avengers fan fiction takes her and cranks her Up to Eleven and beyond, in both snarkery and badassitude. And Crossovers just make her better.