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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
Joined: Jan 27 2008
Location: Southern Ontario
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My vote goes to Mowgli from The Jungle Book, before Disney got to him and put an inexplicable pantlet on him. In reality, he never wore a thread in his life, but that didn't stop him from slaying Shere Khan in a fierce battle...probably before he got 'em. Now that's badass. So, who are your picks?
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APLETHORAOFPINATAS
Joined: Jun 10 2008
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I vote totally goes for Ahab. Dude loses his leg to a giant white whale, he becomes obsessed with hunting that thing down and goes after it for years and years. Guy finds it, pursues it in a little tiny boat with a HAND THROWN HARPOON and then goes down with the whale and they die. Thats pretty bad ass.
"All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it." -Moby Dick
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 In a way, each of us has an El Guapo to face. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous man who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be *the actual* El Guapo! |
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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MacBeth's pretty hardcore. I'm a big fan of Dr. Jekyll too, because I'm obsessed with Jack the Ripper and there's so similarities there. And since 'The Heroin Diaries' will no doubt be a classic in the future, Nikki Sixx is the ultimate in badassery.
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
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Roger from Lord of the Flies was pretty cool.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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idk who came out first, mowgli or tarzan, but tarzan was pretty fucking bad ass.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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| idk who came out first, mowgli or tarzan |
They revealed themselves as Ape Man Life Partners about three years ago.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
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Odysseus. Travelling the seas for ten years to get home to your family is pretty admirable. Blinding a giant cyclops, fighting against sea monsters, defying a god and descending into the Underworld along the way is badass.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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The Ancient Mariner for whom the Rime is written...killed a big fucking bird, just cuz he could, then his whole fucking crew died and he had to just hang out...and he made it.
Plus Maiden wrote a song about him.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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| Tyop wrote: |
| Odysseus. Travelling the seas for ten years to get home to your family is pretty admirable. Blinding a giant cyclops, fighting against sea monsters, defying a god and descending into the Underworld along the way is badass. |
Seconded.
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S. McCracken
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Title: Enforcer
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Massachusetts
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You just ruined Moby Dick for me! I was gonna read that!
Randall Flagg FTW.
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ReeperTheSeeker
Joined: Aug 26 2007
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APLETHORAOFPINATAS
Joined: Jun 10 2008
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yea Randall Flagg is pretty badass. Dude, at the end of Titanic the boat sinks!!!!
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In a way, each of us has an El Guapo to face. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous man who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be *the actual* El Guapo! |
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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The Old Man from The Puppet Masters.
Or am I the only Sci-Fi nerd who loved that old fuck.
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anorexorcist
Title: Polar Bear
Joined: May 21 2008
Location: The Cock and Plucket
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Oedipus Rex, Havn't read the book, but my teacher talks a lot about him and he sounds pretty badass, abandoned by his parents raised by wolves or some shit and still ends up fulfilling his destiny of killing his father and marrying his mother...the latter isn't as badass but still.
His name alone sounds super badass.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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Oedipus Rex, Havn't read the book, but my teacher talks a lot about him and he sounds pretty badass, abandoned by his parents raised by wolves or some shit and still ends up fulfilling his destiny of killing his father and marrying his mother...the latter isn't as badass but still.
His name alone sounds super badass. |
yeah, he's alright.
reminds me of this comic strip i once read a long time ago. it was a one-panel strip and it had two guys near the foreground dressed in ancient greek garb and some lady in the background dressed greek-like too. and the caption at the bottom said
"let it go Oedipus, she's old enough to be your mom"
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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The Judeo-Christian God, as depicted in the Old Testament. He was a crazy genocidal motherfucker with a general contempt for humanity. There were maybe a dozen people he actually liked, such as Job and Noah, and he treated them like shit too.
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Valdronius
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Title: SydLexia COO
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The bible is filled with badasses. Like Samson. Dude (really) loved him some hookers, and was still one of God's favorites. Beat an army to death with a jawbone he ripped out of a dead animal, was tortured and had his eyes gouged out, and went out with bang by collapsing an entire temple on himself and his captors. And he really loved hookers.
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| A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd. |
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ged1928
Title: A new hope
Joined: Apr 24 2008
Location: Portsmouth, NH
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Don't forget Edmond Dantes, aka The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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Robert E. Howard's original Conan. He was the ultimate badass that would have beat the donkey piss out of Arnold's water downed movie version.
Also worthy contenders:
Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter of Mars
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MOGHARR
Title: The Original CandyWafer
Joined: Apr 05 2007
Location: Under Jolly Roger
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Roland from the Dark Tower. He has guns.
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland
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Santiago. You know, "The Old Man and the Sea"?
Dude fights for days to kill a fish, and when he comes back to port, he gets attacked by sharks. He fight them off with pieces of wood in a small boat. And wins.
Except the sharks ate the fish that he worked so hard to get. Oh well, c'est la vie.
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You should totally check out the IRC channel.
While you're at it, go check out my band, Her Majesty's Heroines.
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Walrus
Title: Sidekick
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| Santiago. You know, "The Old Man and the Sea"? |
Yeah, ah... no. He spent half his time talking about Joe DiMaggio and the other half of it actually trying to haul in a marlin. Last time I checked, they are not criteria for being badass. If you want a Hemingway character who was a million times more badass than Santiago, enter Pedro Romero, the bullfighter in The Sun Also Rises. Granted, he's not the most badass character in most of American literature, but he's still better than the old man. I mean, come on, the kid kills a couple of bulls and snags the woman that everybody's after. And then he has enough sense to ditch the bitch after he finds out what a slut she is (pretty much).
Then again, technically, Pedro Romero was a real bullfighter, so this kind of screws up my point. Oh, whatever.
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Kojjiro!
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Walrus
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In light of this thread having 666 views (or had), here's my dub for Most Badass Classical Literature Character: Mephistopheles. Because nothing is more badass than the devil (or devil-like creature, at the very least) himself. 
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