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* [[Colonel Badass|Colonel]] Shikishima from ''[[Akira]]''. While [[Adaptation Distillation|perhaps more impressive overall in the manga]], {{spoiler|surviving not one but two [[The End of the World as We Know It|apocalypses]]}}, the film's image of him facing down a rapidly mutating [[Big Bad|Tetsuo]] with nothing but a .45 Automatic and a grunted "Come on!" exemplifies the trope.
** Kaneda himself is another example. Anyone who can face down a superpowered psychic psychopath with nothing but a laser rifle without getting splattered definitely qualifies.
* In a school inhabited by super-powered [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]], Haruka Suzushiro from ''[[
** The most exemplary moment of Haruka's Badass Normal tendencies is during the Searrs invasion where she uses her brute strength to take out a pair of fully armed soldiers... and also kicking one of their ''tanks'' and somehow not breaking her foot. Wow.
* While several of the characters in ''[[Baccano!]]!'' are immortal beings that have drank the elixir of life, many of the most amazing fights and other feats are performed by completely normal humans such as Claire Stanfield, Chane Laforet, Jacuzzi Splot, and Ladd Russo.
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