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* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': Michael Carpenter, Knight of the Cross. Known as "The Fist of God" to his ''friends''. We don't know what his enemies call him.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': Michael Carpenter, Knight of the Cross. Known as "The Fist of God" to his ''friends''. We don't know what his enemies call him.
* [[Badass Preacher|Father Callahan]] of ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series and ''[['Salem's Lot]]''.
* [[Badass Preacher|Father Callahan]] of ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series and ''[['Salem's Lot]]''.
* [[Badass Spaniard|Don Blas Vivar]] in ''[[Sharpe|Sharpe's Rifles]]''. With just five hundred men -- only one third of them actual soldiers -- he attacks a city held by 2,000 French soldiers, and wins. Why? So he can pray in the cathedral there.
* [[Badass Spaniard|Don Blas Vivar]] in ''[[Sharpe|Sharpe's Rifles]]''. With just five hundred men—only one third of them actual soldiers—he attacks a city held by 2,000 French soldiers, and wins. Why? So he can pray in the cathedral there.
* Gordon McSweeny in Harry Turtledove's ''[[Timeline-191]]'' storyline (specifically the Great War series) is the most fierce soldier on either side during the Great War, willingly leads any raid that he is ordered to make, and won the Medal of Honor at least once, possibly twice. He is also a fanatical Christian, constantly scolds his men for the slightest of offences (once putting himself on report for failing to clean his mess kit, then chewing out his CO for ignoring the complaint) and prefers to use a flamethrower to "give [the Confederates and Mormons] a nice foretaste of hell before they get there."
* Gordon McSweeny in Harry Turtledove's ''[[Timeline-191]]'' storyline (specifically the Great War series) is the most fierce soldier on either side during the Great War, willingly leads any raid that he is ordered to make, and won the Medal of Honor at least once, possibly twice. He is also a fanatical Christian, constantly scolds his men for the slightest of offences (once putting himself on report for failing to clean his mess kit, then chewing out his CO for ignoring the complaint) and prefers to use a flamethrower to "give [the Confederates and Mormons] a nice foretaste of hell before they get there."


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