Memorial Daily Entertainment

[sky_child]

It's Memorial Day over here in the US of A! Around this time, Hollywood loves to roll out some big-name blockbusters, usually of the action variety. A lot of us have characters who'd make great action heroes in these films, if they aren't already characters from these films.

So, on a scale of one to infinity, tell me: just how badass is your pup? Don't just say it, though: post examples! Videos, panel scans, book quotes, or even thread links if your character's taken a level in badass in the bar.

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[adiva_calandia]

Alas, I don't have Wizards at War with me here, so I can't pull up the book section where Nita takes out a squad of alien mercenaries trying to kill her by sniping them with a blaster and then blowing up the nuclear core of their tank. Or the scene a few chapters later where Carmela blows up the Lone Power's avatar with her laser curling iron and an innocent "Oops."

The soundtrack of Carmela Rodriguez's life is all the Who, all the time.

[kd7sov]

Nita ignored him and shut her eyes for a moment. What kind of energy are those things using? she thought.

The peridexis gave her the answer as if it were the manual itself, laying it out in graphics and the Speech with blinding speed. Nita scanned the diagram it showed her. It's fusion, she thought. And there are ways to damp that down. If you just mess with the magnetic bottle a little-

Nita shivered. Once upon a time, the Lone Power had done something similar to the Earth's Sun. And then she smiled just slightly. To turn Its own trick against It, but with just a little extra twist-

That fusion reaction right there, Nita said to the peridexis, let's snuff it.

There is a high probability that the smothered reaction will interact unfavorably with matter in the immediate vicinity.

Will our shield hold?

Yes.

Then let's start getting unfavorable!

Nita started speaking the words of the spell, feeling the power build. This wizardry felt less like a thrown weapon than a squeezing fist- like a gauntlet into which she'd thrust her own hand, pressing the power of the mobile weapon's tightly controlled fusion reaction into a smaller and smaller space. The reaction wasn't built to take such punishment. It started to strangle. Nita held the pressure, squeezed tighter, feeling the hot bright little light in her "hand" burning her, but nonetheless starting to go out, fading, failing-

The magnetic bottling around the little fusion fire inside the weapon, responding to the fusion's own loss of energy, lost its balance and stepped down to match it.

Nita smiled and quickly opened her hand.

Every Tawalf anywhere near the mobile weapon turned to stare at the slow, threatening glow of light beginning to burn through the weapon's metallic fabric. Suspecting what was coming, Nita hastily told the control structure's force field to go opaque itself. Almost the last glimpse she got was of Tawalf scattering in every possible direction. Then came the sudden blinding burst of repressed starfire as the magnetic bottle in the mobile weapon failed.

The force field was opaque to light, but not noise or vibration. From outside came a roar, and the floor under Nita and Sker'ret rocked: Things crashed and clattered all around them. After a few seconds the ruckus started to die down. Nita let the "gauntlet" of wizardry vanish, and let the control console's shield go transparent again.

Outside was a billowing cloud of smoke and dust, slowly dispersing. There were no Tawalf to be seen.

[muji]

http://youtu.be/Q_0xsLpvVIM

Done.

[sky_child]

...welp.

[sky_child]

Don't threaten to kill Link's BFF. It always ends BAD.

[gorgonfondness]

You never want to get on Mia's bad side.

Or Lucas's*.

Or Shinigami's.


*This video has annotations. I've got them disabled on my browser thingy so I don't know what they say.

[death_gone_mad]

I suspect Amascut is a badass, since she is a slayer MASTER (among other things), but she is (one of) the villain(s) of the story (albeit a very helpful one). Her moments of badass don't get highlighted. They just happen and then everyone else has an "oh hell no" reaction.

Such is the plight of villains.

[kd7sov]

Well, for Felix, first we've got his sword. (Which is even better in the sequel, but he doesn't show up there and the milliversion is AU anyway.) On his own, he can cast Odyssey.

I got basically nothing for Kain. Apart from the mountain-jumping, all his bits in the intro are part of every-character montages, and he doesn't have anything particularly spectacular in any of the cutscenes that I can recall at the moment.

As for Fluttershy... let's start with the fact that Discord is specifically unable to bring out her dark side without cheating. Faced with the prospect of Discord winning, she is able to outfly Rainbow Dash, who is less heavily loaded. Indeed, when Equestria is on the line, she can do some amazing things. And you may have huge teeth and sharp scales and snore smoke and breathe fire, or you may be able to turn ponies into stone, but whatever you are, you do not. Hurt. Fluttershy's. Friends.

Also she is simply adorable. That's an awesomeness, right?

[boston_bruiser]

Weeeell...

...Voodoo's really really really goddamn high up on the scale.

This vid takes care of most of his badass moments in canon (it leaves out the part where he fights with a dislocated shoulder for over 12 hours, as well as the part where Mother and Rabbit stumble upon a hut with five dead guys in it and Voodoo's tomahawk lodged in one guy's neck - Noodle Incident galore).

And then there's the Pitt, in which Ellen and Voodoo get their badass on in spades.

And then there's Mongolia, in which Voodoo beats the shit out of one very unlucky Overwatch Elite. And also covers Gordon Freeman as he makes a move to kill the Gene Worm.

And then there's Death from Above, in which Arkady and Voodoo single-handedly sabotage an Enclave substation in preparation for a BoS assault.

All in all, pretty goddamn badass.


John...will have his moments in millicanon, but here, have this video in its stead. Warning for minor sidemission spoilers.

[1nv1nc1ble]

This. That's Mark, about 60 issues down the line, with his father, and another Viltrumite, punching through a planet. The planet doesn't survive the encounter.

[sardonicynic]

Ben Wade doesn't need a gun to kill; in a pinch, he can make do with a dinner fork.

Kate Warner isn't overtly badass — not in the traditional sense. But the lady's got wherewithal in spades. After being interrogated and tortured by known terrorists, she volunteers to go identify one of them during a prayer service at a nearby mosque.

Ned Stark: As Lord of Winterfell and Warden of the North, he metes out Northern justice. ("The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword," as Ned says.) In hand-to-hand combat, he's only beaten when the other party cheats. And he has no love for political games — he takes his matters straight to Queen Cersei, consequences be damned. (Uh, this should go without saying, but: warnings for graphic violence in those first two links, and major spoilers for the first season of Game of Thrones.)

Raylan Givens doesn't put much stock in games, either.

[minkhollow]

Sam and Cata are both badasses by trade. Sam in particular once killed a man by throwing a longsword at him. Did I mention his other arm was in really bad shape and the only thing keeping him from falling into the Darkgate at the time?
Yeah.

Claudia is not action-hero badass, but she brings the hacker-fu. --BAH, Youtube doesn't have her grand entrance to the show; it's tough to outdo hacking a top-secret government warehouse and kidnapping its senior agent.

Apollo is a god. XD

Imp is probably the furthest thing from a badass I have.

Regulus is not a badass in physical-confrontation terms, and he does not subscribe to Bella's slash-and-burn(-and-torture) style of duelling. But he's reeeeeeeeeally good at charms. You probably don't want to cross him.

Red will be more confident in her badassery when she knows how to handle the wolf a little better; unless and until she can remember what happens and control it enough that she won't eat anyone else she cares about, she doesn't want to use it as a weapon. (She does in canon, though it's implied that some time after where she is in-bar.)
Ruby is a lot more bark than bite. So to speak.

And even though I have yet to app her: Rebecca St. Clair is a badass whether she's an active Warehouse agent or 80 years old and schooling everyone else (after 50 years out of the job, mind you).

[bjornwilde]

Damn all my image links are at work but what immediately comes to mind; 616 Ben Grimm decking Galactus and knocking him out, Ult. Ben knocking our a kaijū monster with a few punches, Julie knocking out a telepath with the force of her conviction, Thalia has her stand on Half-blood Hill or her return in the second Titan War, and Batwoman coming back to kill the guy who stabbed her in the heart...right after stabbing her in the heart (I think I am remembering this right. I'm sick so please forgive me).

[withherhands]

Thankfully, YouTube has already done this for me.

#40 is still probably my favourite (with number #170 close behind, points for style), and #53 still frigging GETS ME SO BAD, with #138 as a close second. And #200 should probably only half count, as it's Renee's kill too. ;)

Also, I think there are a few more in Season 7, but the only alternative was a video with The Season That Must Not Be Named in it.

[vivien]

Ingress and Buffy killed a demon in the bathroom once. That was pretty badass.

[jjprobert]

Erik Selvig: Erm, about 10. Asking for Thor's release. Using fake ID. Then going drinking after being told to keep him away from the bars. But mostly, he's a brains.

Jack West: For context, this is basically the second chapter of the first book. The two men have just delivered a second child, by caesarean, are surrounded by lava, and their escape rope has just gone up in flames.

Holding the baby, West spins to face the main entrance.

Fifteen metres of inch deep lava blocks the way.

And then there's the curtain of falling lava blocking the doorway itself.

But then he sees it, cut into the left side of the stone doorframe: a small round hole maybe a handspan wide, veiled by the same waterfall of superheated lava.

West says, "How thick are your soles?"

"Thick enough for a few seconds," Wizard replies. "But there's no way to switch off that lavafall."

"Yes, there is," West nods over at the small hole. "See that hole. There's a stone dial inside it, hidden behind that curtain of lava. A cease mechanism that switches off the lavafall."

"But, Jack, anyone who reaches in there will lose their--"

Wizard sees that West isn't listening. The younger man is just staring intently at the wall-hole.

West bites his lip, thinking the unthinkable.

And I'm going to cut the passage there, because.

[againsttherules]

My scale is one going to infinity.

Jack sits at about 1/200 on such (possibly a bit higher)

[ladyoflorien]

Oh lawdy, lawdy. Badassery on a scale from one to ten, with examples... assuming I can find them.

• Leela - eyeeyecaptain - 9. This chick has a black belt in Arcturian Kung-fu, and has engaged in an epic battle with James T. bloody Kirk. 'Nuff said.
  
• Porthos - srspirate - 7. Pirate. Musketeer. Master swordsman. The fact that he hasn't fallen on his own sword while totally sloshed is at least a 5. And then there's my favorite scene ever. Yep.
  
• Grace Augustine - donthidemycigs - 6. She's a foul-mouthed, bad-tempered, arrogant, self-serving scientist who scoffs at physical force, but dear god can she cut you down with a word or two. Not finding any of her tirades on youtube, however.
  
• Renee Walker - whathastobedone - 10. Ahaha. This woman hits Jack Bauer not once, but twice, and lives to tell the tale. Her whole season 7 arc is one badass scene after another. Storming into a senate hearing like she owns the place? Check. Disarming a bad guy twice her size with her bare hands? Check. Sniping villains from a moving vehicle? Check. Renee Walker is a badass.
  
• Ray Carling - flickedmethevs - in the 70s, about a 5. Ray has heart, but it's hidden under layers and layers of regular assery (not of the 'bad' variety). In the 80s, a 9. He becomes a bona fide hero, and does a hell of a lot of learning and sacrificing. The only thing on youtube I've found is a fanvid; while not exactly screaming 'badass', it does have a few of his best scenes.
  
• Lily Bell - maidenofthewest - 10. I don't even have words for how badass Lily is, so have another fanvid/my favorite scene from season 1 (spoilers up through episode 7).
  
• Zoë Washburne - someonetocarryyou - 12 1/2. Zoë's the mother of all badasses. There's no way to pick just one scene, but since War Stories is such a good example of how much ass she kicks, I'll give you a clip from that.
  
• Regina Mills - happilyneverafter - 8. Regina isn't the strongest magic practicer in the Enchanted Forest, but the lady has some seriously scary skills. +10 Charisma on top of it all, and the ability to deliver one heck of a villain's speech.
  

[withherhands]

Rewatching those clips just make me all "FUCK RENEE IS AWESOME AND I LOVE HER, SEASON 8 WHAT SEASON 8, FUCK YOU HOWARD GORDON."

[camwyn]

Well, lessee.

In Ray's original movie canon, the badass moment would almost certainly have to be the part that goes, "Nice working with you, Dr. Venkman," right before the streams get crossed. Addressing Gozer as a representative of the city, county, and state of New York is not so much 'badass' as 'cojones of solid steel', by action movie standards. I'm not sayin' it's not laudable, I'm just sayin' it's two different kinds of thing. Ray specializes more in the 'solid steel' category rather than traditional badassery. (Although one day I'm going to get around to writing the fic where Unicron finally locates his universe...)

Gordon... well, now. Canonically, Gordon never touched a weapon before coming to Black Mesa, except for a butane-powered tennis ball cannon he built when he was six. And then his canon has him basically slaughtering everything in his path in a valiant effort to not die, up through and including the giant three armed alien fetus creature the size of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. I think, though, that the most action-hero badass moment of his original canon was when he decided to go to Xen despite the fact that there was no clear way of getting back: here. In Half-Life 2, I have a certain fondness for the antlion-assisted assault on Nova Prospekt. I don't really have any links to Episode 1 badassery because I forgot to tag those, but in episode 2, navigating the antlion warren without killing the HUMONGOUS MONSTER GIANT ANTLION OF GLOWY DOOM, I think, does the trick.

In Adrian Shephard's canon, I'd have to point to the final boss fight with the Gene Worm; we're talking about one man taking on a three-story-tall monster with the ability to teleport reinforcements in, all by his lonesome. Because every single other Marine who came with him to Black Mesa is either gone or dead. This is it. As far as Millicanonical badassery goes, I'mma go with the first time he goes up against another Gene Worm...

For Varric, I'm going to nominate a moment that he and the other Dragon Age pups haven't reached yet in Millicanon. It involves a Templar who uses his position to commit serious abuses on mages demanding to know who's confronting him. Varric points to Hawke and announces, "She's the Divine, come all the way from Orlais to inform you what a jackass you are." (The Divine being the in-universe equivalent of the Pope, and therefore a Templar's commander-in-chief.) And then hefts his crossbow and opens fire pretty much the instant the party gets the opportunity.

For Mordin... well, once again he hasn't reached the moment in his Millicanon, and I don't want to spoil it for when he does. But those who have played Mass Effect 3 will know what I mean when I say the biggest badass moment involves the line, "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong."

Belar is a god. His big badass moment is probably when he and Aldur see the incoming ocean created by Torak ripping the world's crust open, and Belar calmly holds up one hand and informs the ocean, "Stay." And it does. (That may have been Aldur, as I haven't got Belgarath The Sorcerer in front of me. If it was, then Belar's badass moment came an instant later, when he instead held up one hand and said, "Rise up," and raised the edge of an entire continent all the way from north to south in order to keep the ocean from overwhelming what was left of humankind on that side of Torak's rift.)

Arcade Gannon is not really what one would term a badass, although he can handle himself respectably with a plasma pistol. He's just not.

BLU Medic.... is reasonably badass on the battlefield pretty much every day; the moments blur together. I'm not entirely sure the man understands what fear is at this point. He's not really a direct-combat focus kind of guy, though.

Fawkes, who I will be dropping from Milliways at the end of the month, is one hell of a badass once you let him out of his prison cell in Vault 87. Check it out here- sorry about the voiceover, it's a Let's Play type thing rather than just game footage. Dude's got two hundred years of pent-up rage and revenge urge fueling him, and not much more than a hammer to dispense it with. And dispense it he does. In Millicanon, his badassery moment is probably when he and Teresa of the Faint Smile destroy the source of all Capital Wasteland supermutants.

As for Ellen, boston_bruiser covered a bunch of that. I'd also like to nominate Mobile Base Crawler, Adams Air Force Base, and Who Dares, Wins, in which Ellen and Fawkes are the spearhead of the Brotherhood forces storming the Enclave's last surviving base and in which Ellen calls down an orbital strike; and Project Impurity, somewhat earlier, in which she deals with the man responsible for her father's death.

No, I don't have actual ratings for any of them. My apologies.

[gavin62truck]

Tommy Gavin's speech to the new class of probies -- first scene of the first episode of the first season

Jump between buildings -- not the jump that Tommy told Emma about, but I couldn't find a clip of that one

Devil -- major spoiler in this clip for s3, but Tommy won't let a girl die (the expressions from his crewmembers are priceless)

Clean-up -- a child is discovered burned up at the scene of a car accident, and Tommy's the only one who can handle it (nothing graphic, but still difficult to watch)

Smoke -- in which all the boys of 62 Truck are badasses and I wanna squish them all together, especially Lou & the puppy

[luvs_yogurt]

Tommy goes TOWARD THE FIRE for a living. Therefore, automatically badass in every way.

[ihavemyflaws]

Possibly not the best quality, but this is what I've managed to find.

From the miniseries, Kara saves Lee by ramming her Viper into his.

And in the next episode she tells Lee how to do his job.

Kara plays substitute CAG.

In season one's finale, Kara gets into a fight with a Six.

Kara and Helo get into a Caprican standoff with the resistance.

This is one of the many times Kara kills Leoben. It's badass, sure, but she's also pretty broken.

In season four, Kara swoops in to save Lee's ass again. Minus the Vipers this time.

[ceitfianna]

I tend to play quiet badasses, not the ones in front but the ones you want at your back.

Will's badass but not as much as Robin and mainly in books, but I do love him. I don't have any good examples.

Jane's willing to face the very hardest choices that she doesn't want to make because they're right. Clip that always gets me.

Sameth is a quiet badass who makes a sword using the power of his own magic that kills the final enemy. I mean he forges a sword on the battlefield using the just the Charter.

Charles, hee, I do adore Charles and he's best when he gets people to be their own great selves. Favorite fanvid of Charles will make a man out of you.

William stops Ben Wade from escaping on his own and almost saves his father when Wade's gang is about to kill him. Last scene of the movie. Warning for violence and the lovely painful end of this movie.

Demeter made winter because her daughter was kidnapped and she once turned Ramon Salazar into a tree.

Moist isn't terribly badass just so clever that he cuts himself.

Tumnus doesn't tell the White Witch about Lucy.

The Pirate King is glorious and says badass is a silly title.

[bbq_platypus]

Jim gets in a few badass moments - more than you'd expect in a comedy. Even the villains can't help but give him a round of applause

McCabe actually kinda sucks for most of the movie, but he is able to manage to take the three men sent to kill him down with him, mostly through knowledge of the town's layout and some shrew underhanded tactics.

Borgel's awesome, but not really in a badass sort of way.

If I listed every example of Leela being a badass, I'd be here all day. Her saving the Doctor by killing the fuck out of this assassin (at about 4:40 in this link) will do for a start. Regrettably, I couldn't find an isolated clip of "Die, Bent-Face!"

Blockbuster films are usually only as good as their villains. A villain of Kane's caliber would definitely be up to the job, a fact he establishes pretty early on in canon. His first introduction to the player, when he kills a member of the development staff attempting to act his traitorous second-in-command, Seth, establishes his badassery pretty much immediately. But he would grow awesomer (and hammier) still. (Awesomer is a word, right?) In Tiberian Sun, after returning from his apparent death in front of a legion of his followers (having been BLASTED BY AN ORBITAL DEATH RAY decades before), he decides to call up GDI's orbital central of operations for the sole purpose of trolling Darth Vader General Solomon. Then, in C&C 3, he comes back from the dead again and starts another war with GDI in order to provoke Lando Calrissian GDI Director Boyle to fire an ion cannon at Temple Prime, thus triggering a massive liquid tiberium explosion and attracting the attention of alien invaders.

I've convinced myself that C&C 4 was just a horrible dream I had. As far as I'm concerned, no such game exists.

[aberration]

Elle, well… in canon she kills some big bulky dude and electrocutes West and Sylar, which I think we can always consider a good thing. I guess "badass" is more toward her deciding to go after a big scary serial killer with no back up, but I guess mentally I usually slip that closer to "doesn't think things through."

Granted, after that I've had her travel the world to regain her memories and, um, hack Sylar into pieces and blow up the pieces. But there you go.

As for mine that I will TOTALLY BE PLAYING SOON:

Manny is sort of… like, the best way I can describe it is the ultimate Slytherin hero. His heart's usually (eventually) in the right place, and he's really when it comes down to it a romantic with good intentions – but he's also extremely sneaky and competitive, and does all sorts of sometimes kind of mean or low things to achieve his goals. He's not solely self-interested, as he does put himself on the line a lot for others – but if he can do that while also not putting himself on the line that much, well, he'll take that option.

Leslie is that blonde pain in the ass whose face gets all scrunchy when she's angry and started her own Scouting club when girls were kept out of the existing one and gets hilariously drunk. And also basically organizes everything the Parks Department actually does and bothers the hell out of people so all those things keep happening. And makes some pretty wicked gifts for her friends. And also has hilarious sugar highs.

In conclusion: badass.

[luvs_yogurt]

Did someone say BAD ASS?? Because I think I've got a super spy that qualifies.



If the first video isn't enough to convince you...

Check this BAMF.


He makes kicking ass look good.


ETA: Further Badassery & not so bad ass, but the best Michael fanvid ever

[notinthebook]

Let's you and me get together and kick some ass.

[notinthebook]

So, this is Emma's introduction to the show: bringing in a bailjumper.

Here she is problem-solving. With a chainsaw.

And just to show she's just as awesome as her kickass dad: HERE BE SPOILERS.

[gavin62truck]

I was watching that part in the pilot and Tommy's voice immediately said, "Holy shit, that was hot."

[the_fairest]

As youtube is having issue with giving me the clips of Marian's awesomeness, we will start with Snow. Who I would tell you is like an 8, except that Snow White is a straight-up BAMF. And the more clips I find the more, I have to make her a 9/10.


Before she learns to be badass even, as a soft sweet princess, in the middle of the woods, with her first killer, she does this to/with The Hunstman. Then she moves into the forest, with the help of a girl who's a wolf, and becomes the girl in the icon.

Her first run-in with Prince Charming -- She totally steals his purse, hits his pretty jaw with a rock, and steals one of his horses (twice) // Which leads to the rest of that episode, with sassing him even while hanging in a net from a tree, kicking his ass into a river, blackmail and taking out trolls together

Snow is the creepiest when she threatens you while weilding a dwarf axe and reminding you they can cut diamonds, and thus you should consider the mess they might make of your skin. Except. Five. Million. Times. Creepier. He didn't actually need his knee, his consciousness, his clothes or weapons anyway.

Snow White storms a castle, with a lot of people, and kicks a lot of butt while coming to rescue Prince James from his father.

When she prepares to meet The Evil Queen she has to get rid of all the weapons on her. Apparently there are a metric ton of those on her, that we'd never even gotten to fully see. While talking about fairness, selflessness and love the whole time.

She really loves swords. Enough that she pulls her own soon-to-be-husbands's sword from his belt, to use as defence against her Stepmother The Evil Queen, while in the middle of her own wedding.






Even as Mary Margaret, who is the most meekest person to meek on the planet that is Storybrooke Maine, she has "No idea where they came from!" moments like this one. Where she's kicks someone out a window for touching her daughterbestfriendroommate in the bad-wrong-trying-kill-her ways.

[afullmargin]

Snow is awesome. The storming of the caste makes me giggle with glee.

(And stealing Charming's purse. *giggle*)

[filemyclaim]

Clementine frequently lets perps get away if they outrun her, and cannot do chin-ups to save her life. But she can also knock a guy out with one punch to the jaw, and is a decent shot so it's a mixed bag.

Dixie is more of a thinker than a fighter; she uses guile and wit and is an escape artist. But she's mean with a vase.

Juliet O'Hara is a freaking badass. Look at my awesome badass go!



Pinkie Pie's: Power is transforming fear and hatred with laughter. But you do not want to make her angry by breaking a promise you made her. And you shouldn't reject her.

(No cupcake jokes KTHK) (Don't google that)

[afullmargin]

Juliet is BAMF like whoa! I love her.