Took a Level in Badass/Western Animation: Difference between revisions

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* In the recent ''[[Dora the Explorer]]'' [[Christmas Special]] Swiper the fox had this little exchange with his [[Future Me Scares Me|future self]].

'''Future Swiper:''' [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|THAT]] doesn't work anymore! ''(steals his [[Time Travel]] cape)'' }}

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':

** Also from the movie, future!Wade is a [[Gentle Giant]] [[Badass]] commando.

** And so on for ''everyone'' else. Especially Drakken, who took many levels in both movies and the [[Grand Finale]], the latter of which is a permanent one.

* In the Disney short ''"Lambert The Sheepish Lion"'', Lambert is a lion that is always hiding behind his sheep mommy when the other sheep tease him. [[Berserk Button|Up until a wolf tried to eat his mom]].

* In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'', the episode "[[Mad Love]]" shows the character Harley Quinn taking a level of badass on multiple people. She utilizes a thrown away plan by The Joker positively, stabs Batman [[In the Back]] (of the neck), and has Batman out to the point where he later admits to Joker, "You know, she came closer to killing me than you ever have. Puddin'." Of course her [[Moment of Awesome|CMOA]] vanishes when she gets knocked out a five story building.

* The main six (the most notable being T.J. and Gus) and Miss Grotke in ''[[Recess: School's Out]]''

* [[Futurama]]:

* Plankton from [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] by season 7 and onwards. In seasons 1-3 he was very effective villain, but in seasons 4-6 he suffered [[Villain Decay]], but starting with season 7 he returns to his threatening and menacing self, particulary in episodes "Frozen-Face Off", "Spongebob's Last Stand" and "One Coarse Meal". In "Frozen-Face Off", he {{spoiler|[[Xanatos Gambit|he organized entire race as a distraction so he could steal Krabby Patty formula without trouble and interference]] and in order to throw off the suspicion, he placed his [[Actually a Doombot|robot doppelganger]] to participate in the race and it took all the main characters to stop his plans.}}. In "Spongebob's Last Stand" he built a super highway, which directly led to Chum Bucket, and it drove away all jellyfish from their fields and took over entire town and almost all of Bikini Bottom's population supported him. It was so evil that Mr. Krabs was going to give the secret formula ''willingly''. Both episodes were more dramatic and serious than most other episodes in the series. Even in "One Coarse Meal", the episode where Mr. Krabs [[Moral Event Horizon]] by driving Plankton to suicide, Plankton was very effective villain. To clarify: he drops a powerful explosive the size of a TV remote on the Krusty Krab's roof; he is said to build a transmutator (a machine with the power to make an element in nature into another element, like iron into gold, fire into air, etc.); and a robotic bomb-shaped object that is actually a disguised, robotic, telescopic claw that can crush a sea creature. And at the end of the episodes, Plankton {{spoiler|used mime to scare Mr. Krabs, who is afraid of mimes, and judging by Krabs' reaction, his phobia of mimes is bigger than Plankton's phobia of whales, since Mr. Krabs was completely irrational, while Plankton managed to stay rational and not go crazy like Krabs did }}. This unintentionnaly foreshadows that Plankton will become much more monstrous and effective and this will lead into the events of the movie, which is the [[Grand Finale]] of the series.

* Don't expect the [[Contested Sequel|show's]] [[Fan Dumb|haters]] to admit it, but [[Ben 10|Ben Tennyson]] ''did'' took some level in badass in [[Ben 10: Alien Force]]; in the original show, he was a 10 years old immature kid with a very limited control on his powers, who would easily make himself look ridiculous or ending up in distress when the Omnitrix stopped working. In Alien Force, he has grown up into a responsible leader, has much better control over the Omnitrix, and is a competent fighter even without the Omnitrix, as well as much skilled to use the aliens. As an annoying side effect however, it resulted in some of his allies and enemies, especially [[Redemption Demotion|Kevin 11]] and [[Arch Enemy|Vilgax]], to suffer [[Villain Decay]]. Presumably because of fans' reaction, Ben then [[Took a Level In Dumbass]] in season 3 due to a fail attempt to make him more like his original series' self.