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Top 10 most badass movie characters (+5 honorable mentions)
So I made a top 15 list of in my opinion the most badass movie characters. I probably forgot some of them, because there was simply too many of them, but you can also post who are in your opinion most badass movie characters. So here we go
First Five who didn't make Top 10
15.Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) - Crank movies
Guy falls from a helicopter without parachute and lives, sounds ridiculous but not to Chev Chelios. He is the main character in both Crank movies. In first Crank he is poisoned and he must keep his adrenaline flowing in order to keep himself alive, which gets him into some ridiculously crazy situations. Plot in second movie more or less the same but even even more ridiculous.
''Does it look like I got cunt written on my head? Who do you think you are fucking with?"
"Just juice me"
14.King Leonidis (Gerard Butler) - 300
Leonidas is Spartan king who led his 300 men in a battle against great Persian army. IIn 480 B.C. at the pass of Thermopylae this Spartan king and his army gave their lives bravely for their country. Well in this movie adaption of Frank Miller's novel 300 Leonidas is portrayed by Gerard Butler in a very memorable performance, at least for me. His motivational speeches were truly great and intense in this movie. And it definitely takes some balls to stand up against that massive Persian army with only 300 men.
"The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed."
"Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty... For tonight, we dine in hell!"
13. Sanjuro Kuwabatake (Toshiro Mifune) - Yojimbo
Toshiro Mifune is probably the most well-known foreign badass. Kuwabatake’s badassness comes purely from selfishness coupled with skill. He doesn’t give a shit about anything and is strong enough to deal with it. You can take nothing from a man who refuses to acknowledge weakness. Gruff, quiet, and an artist with samurai steel, Sanjuro is the greatest samurai to hack flesh off on the silver screen.
"I'm not dying yet. I have to kill quite a few men first."
"I hate pathetic people. I'll have to kill you."
12.Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) - Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction is arguably Quentin Tarantino's best movie to date, and it's definitely one of my favorite movies of all time. But one character in particular amazed me, and that was cold hearted hitman Jules Winnfield marvelously played by Samuel L. Jackson. Simply watch clip bellow and you'll see why is he so badass.
"Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass. "
11.Ash (Bruce Campbell) - Evil Dead movies
Probably the goofiest character on this list, but when you see through what sorts of shit he's been trough and survived, you know that he is badass.
"You bastards, why are you torturing me like this? Why?" - Evil Dead
[Ash grabs a chainsaw] "That's right... who's laughing now... who's laughing *now*?" - Evil Dead 2
''Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures." - Army of Darkness
And now Top 10 Most badass movie characters
10.Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) - Alien movies
Most badass female character in movie history. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor of the alien attack on the mining ship Nostromo. Going from unwitting recipient to a monsters attack, to a vicious military scourge, to a prisoner, to an alien/human hybrid, Ellen Ripley kicks ass for 200 solid years. The very best of the best.
"Parker, what do you think? Your staff just follows you around and says "right". Just like a regular parrot."
"Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew, Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash and Captain Dallas, are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off." - Alien
9.Tony Montana (Al Pacino)
The Godfather movies are probably better overall movies, but they surely don't have character as badass as Tony Monatana is. “Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women”.
"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."
"What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way! "
8.Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) - Conan The Barbarian
When guy is asked - What do you think are the best things about life? And his answer goes something like this - “”To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women", you simply know that he is badass.
"I remember days like this when my father took me to the forest and we ate wild blueberries. More than 20 years ago. I was just a boy of four or five. The leaves were so dark and green then. The grass smelled sweet with the spring wind. Almost 20 years of pitiless cumber! No rest, no sleep like other men."
"Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you! " - video here
7.Snake Plissken (Kurt Russel) - Escape From New York, Escape From L.A.
First of all his name is Snake - it can't get more badass than that. Then there's the eye-patch - you thought that only pirates wearing eye-patch look badass, well Snake proves everyone wrong. Snake will kick you in the balls just to say hello…
“I got just one question. Which one of you assholes gets to die trying to stick me? ”
*Bob Hauk: "I'm not a fool, Plissken!"
Snake Plissken: "Call me "Snake."
Some girl : "You're a cop!"
Snake Plissken: "I'm an asshole..."
"I don't give a f*** about your war... or your president."
6.Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) - Dirty Harry
The man’s eyes alone are enough to make you crap yourself 3 times before he says his first grisly sounding words. “Go ahead punk. Make my day” is a line that delivered by anyone else would be instantly forgotten, but coming from Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood) himself, becomes a part of cultural lingo.
"I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking "did he fire six shots or only five?" Now to tell you the truth I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow you head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself a question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk? "
5.John McClane (Bruce Willis) - Die Hard series
He is terrorists biggest fear, and he is one tough son of a bitch, off course that is John McClane, hardass NYPD detective. He is guy that never looks for trouble, trouble walks right up to him. He also gives hope to middle-aged men everywhere who someday wish to save the world from terrorism.
"Yippie-Kai-Yay, Motherfucker!"
"Motherfuckin' motherfucker! "
"C'mon baby, come ta' papa, I'll kiss ya' fuckin' dalmatian. "
4.Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
and of course
(the Predator pulls off his mask) "You're one... *ugly* motherfucker!"
"Dillon. You son of a bitch."
"You set us up. It was bullshit, all of it."
3.Mad Max (Mel Gibson) - Mad Max, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max doesn’t say much, but he gets the job done, he just lets his incredibly badass driving do the talking.
"I'm scared. It's that rat circus out there, I'm beginning to enjoy it. Look, any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I've got this bronze badge that says that I'm one of the good guys."
"Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. You want to get out of here? You talk to me."
“The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It’d take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you’re lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go.”
2.John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) - Rambo series
This guy is one man army, and he is truly an icon of action movies. And you better watch out when Rambo goes crazy, because when he goes crazy it would be best not to mess with him, even if you've got a ton of armed dudes with you, because he will pimp-slap the shit out of you.
"Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about!"
"We were in this bar in Saigon and this kid comes up, this kid carrying a shoe-shine box. And he says "Shine, please, shine!" I said no. He kept askin', yeah, and Joey said "Yeah." And I went to get a couple of beers, and the box was wired, and he opened up the box, fucking blew his body all over the place. And he's laying there, he's fucking screaming. There's pieces of him all over me, just... (Takes off his bandolier) like this, and I'm tryin' to pull him off, you know, my friend that's all over me! I've got blood and everything and I'm tryin' to hold him together! I'm puttin'... the guy's fuckin' insides keep coming out! And nobody would help! Nobody would help! He's saying, sayin' "I wanna go home! I wanna go home!" He keeps calling my name! "I wanna go home, Johnny! I wanna drive my Chevy!" I said "Why? I can't find your fuckin' legs! I can't find your legs!"
1.The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) - The Terminator, T2
I remember watching first two Terminator movies when I was a little kid, and even at that young age I knew that Terminator is absolutely badass. When you are virtually indestructible machine, that produces some of the most memorable one-liners like this - "Hasta la vista, baby", "Stay here, I'll be back", [Raises Grenade-Launcher] "Let me try mine" and so on, you really deserve to be at number one spot.
Cleaning Man at Flophouse: "Hey, buddy. You got a dead cat in there, or what?"
The Terminator: "Fuck you, asshole."
* "Stay here, I'll be back."
"Hasta la vista, baby."
"I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do."
First Five who didn't make Top 10
15.Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) - Crank movies
Guy falls from a helicopter without parachute and lives, sounds ridiculous but not to Chev Chelios. He is the main character in both Crank movies. In first Crank he is poisoned and he must keep his adrenaline flowing in order to keep himself alive, which gets him into some ridiculously crazy situations. Plot in second movie more or less the same but even even more ridiculous.
''Does it look like I got cunt written on my head? Who do you think you are fucking with?"
"Just juice me"
14.King Leonidis (Gerard Butler) - 300
Leonidas is Spartan king who led his 300 men in a battle against great Persian army. IIn 480 B.C. at the pass of Thermopylae this Spartan king and his army gave their lives bravely for their country. Well in this movie adaption of Frank Miller's novel 300 Leonidas is portrayed by Gerard Butler in a very memorable performance, at least for me. His motivational speeches were truly great and intense in this movie. And it definitely takes some balls to stand up against that massive Persian army with only 300 men.
"The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and before this battle was over, even a god-king can bleed."
"Spartans! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty... For tonight, we dine in hell!"
13. Sanjuro Kuwabatake (Toshiro Mifune) - Yojimbo
Toshiro Mifune is probably the most well-known foreign badass. Kuwabatake’s badassness comes purely from selfishness coupled with skill. He doesn’t give a shit about anything and is strong enough to deal with it. You can take nothing from a man who refuses to acknowledge weakness. Gruff, quiet, and an artist with samurai steel, Sanjuro is the greatest samurai to hack flesh off on the silver screen.
"I'm not dying yet. I have to kill quite a few men first."
"I hate pathetic people. I'll have to kill you."
12.Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) - Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction is arguably Quentin Tarantino's best movie to date, and it's definitely one of my favorite movies of all time. But one character in particular amazed me, and that was cold hearted hitman Jules Winnfield marvelously played by Samuel L. Jackson. Simply watch clip bellow and you'll see why is he so badass.
"Normally, both your asses would be dead as fucking fried chicken, but you happen to pull this shit while I'm in a transitional period so I don't wanna kill you, I wanna help you. But I can't give you this case, it don't belong to me. Besides, I've already been through too much shit this morning over this case to hand it over to your dumb ass. "
11.Ash (Bruce Campbell) - Evil Dead movies
Probably the goofiest character on this list, but when you see through what sorts of shit he's been trough and survived, you know that he is badass.
"You bastards, why are you torturing me like this? Why?" - Evil Dead
[Ash grabs a chainsaw] "That's right... who's laughing now... who's laughing *now*?" - Evil Dead 2
''Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures." - Army of Darkness
And now Top 10 Most badass movie characters
10.Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) - Alien movies
Most badass female character in movie history. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), the sole survivor of the alien attack on the mining ship Nostromo. Going from unwitting recipient to a monsters attack, to a vicious military scourge, to a prisoner, to an alien/human hybrid, Ellen Ripley kicks ass for 200 solid years. The very best of the best.
"Parker, what do you think? Your staff just follows you around and says "right". Just like a regular parrot."
"Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew, Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash and Captain Dallas, are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off." - Alien
9.Tony Montana (Al Pacino)
The Godfather movies are probably better overall movies, but they surely don't have character as badass as Tony Monatana is. “Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women”.
"I always tell the truth. Even when I lie."
"What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way! "
8.Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) - Conan The Barbarian
When guy is asked - What do you think are the best things about life? And his answer goes something like this - “”To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you and to hear the lamentations of their women", you simply know that he is badass.
"I remember days like this when my father took me to the forest and we ate wild blueberries. More than 20 years ago. I was just a boy of four or five. The leaves were so dark and green then. The grass smelled sweet with the spring wind. Almost 20 years of pitiless cumber! No rest, no sleep like other men."
"Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you! " - video here
7.Snake Plissken (Kurt Russel) - Escape From New York, Escape From L.A.
First of all his name is Snake - it can't get more badass than that. Then there's the eye-patch - you thought that only pirates wearing eye-patch look badass, well Snake proves everyone wrong. Snake will kick you in the balls just to say hello…
“I got just one question. Which one of you assholes gets to die trying to stick me? ”
*Bob Hauk: "I'm not a fool, Plissken!"
Snake Plissken: "Call me "Snake."
Some girl : "You're a cop!"
Snake Plissken: "I'm an asshole..."
"I don't give a f*** about your war... or your president."
6.Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) - Dirty Harry
The man’s eyes alone are enough to make you crap yourself 3 times before he says his first grisly sounding words. “Go ahead punk. Make my day” is a line that delivered by anyone else would be instantly forgotten, but coming from Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood) himself, becomes a part of cultural lingo.
"I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking "did he fire six shots or only five?" Now to tell you the truth I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow you head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself a question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk? "
5.John McClane (Bruce Willis) - Die Hard series
He is terrorists biggest fear, and he is one tough son of a bitch, off course that is John McClane, hardass NYPD detective. He is guy that never looks for trouble, trouble walks right up to him. He also gives hope to middle-aged men everywhere who someday wish to save the world from terrorism.
"Yippie-Kai-Yay, Motherfucker!"
"Motherfuckin' motherfucker! "
"C'mon baby, come ta' papa, I'll kiss ya' fuckin' dalmatian. "
4.Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
and of course
(the Predator pulls off his mask) "You're one... *ugly* motherfucker!"
"Dillon. You son of a bitch."
"You set us up. It was bullshit, all of it."
3.Mad Max (Mel Gibson) - Mad Max, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Mad Max doesn’t say much, but he gets the job done, he just lets his incredibly badass driving do the talking.
"I'm scared. It's that rat circus out there, I'm beginning to enjoy it. Look, any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I've got this bronze badge that says that I'm one of the good guys."
"Two days ago, I saw a vehicle that would haul that tanker. You want to get out of here? You talk to me."
“The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It’d take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you’re lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go.”
2.John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) - Rambo series
This guy is one man army, and he is truly an icon of action movies. And you better watch out when Rambo goes crazy, because when he goes crazy it would be best not to mess with him, even if you've got a ton of armed dudes with you, because he will pimp-slap the shit out of you.
"Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me, I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn't let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me? Who are they? Unless they've been me and been there and know what the hell they're yelling about!"
"We were in this bar in Saigon and this kid comes up, this kid carrying a shoe-shine box. And he says "Shine, please, shine!" I said no. He kept askin', yeah, and Joey said "Yeah." And I went to get a couple of beers, and the box was wired, and he opened up the box, fucking blew his body all over the place. And he's laying there, he's fucking screaming. There's pieces of him all over me, just... (Takes off his bandolier) like this, and I'm tryin' to pull him off, you know, my friend that's all over me! I've got blood and everything and I'm tryin' to hold him together! I'm puttin'... the guy's fuckin' insides keep coming out! And nobody would help! Nobody would help! He's saying, sayin' "I wanna go home! I wanna go home!" He keeps calling my name! "I wanna go home, Johnny! I wanna drive my Chevy!" I said "Why? I can't find your fuckin' legs! I can't find your legs!"
1.The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) - The Terminator, T2
I remember watching first two Terminator movies when I was a little kid, and even at that young age I knew that Terminator is absolutely badass. When you are virtually indestructible machine, that produces some of the most memorable one-liners like this - "Hasta la vista, baby", "Stay here, I'll be back", [Raises Grenade-Launcher] "Let me try mine" and so on, you really deserve to be at number one spot.
Cleaning Man at Flophouse: "Hey, buddy. You got a dead cat in there, or what?"
The Terminator: "Fuck you, asshole."
* "Stay here, I'll be back."
"Hasta la vista, baby."
"I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do."
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Comment by Rolland on May 17, 2009 at 10:39pm - Also, Ellen Ripley rules.
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Comment by Rolland on May 17, 2009 at 10:21pm
- I love how ahnold reloads his shotgun on the bike!
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Comment by BK DBL R on May 17, 2009 at 1:14pm - How about Denzel in Training Day??? and the guy from "no country for old men?......
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Comment by phurdrick on May 17, 2009 at 12:28am -
Here's the first 7 plus mins. of the movie "Fresh".....check it out.
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Comment by phurdrick on May 17, 2009 at 12:16am
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I must add Sean Nelson to this list. When I first seen this movie it blown me away, emotionally. The shit he went through just to get him and his sister out of the hood will simply put you in tears at the end. But at the sametime placing fear in your heart for every dangerous step "Fresh" takes or people he gets killed to get a little closer to a better life for the ones he loves.
Boaz Yakin's astounding debut feature looks at the violent world of the projects through the eyes of a 12-year-old drug runner. Sean Nelson delivers a quiet but intense performance as Michael--street name Fresh--a cynical but introspective kid grown up fast and hard on the killing streets of the projects. Samuel L. Jackson costars as Fresh's estranged father, a speed chess hustler in the city park whose dispassionate philosophy--the chess board as life--becomes the film's central metaphor, as Fresh plots a brilliant, coldly brutal plan to save himself and his junkie sister from his world of drug dealers and street violence. Yakin's assured direction delivers a vividly realized world in bold, crisp images and an austere but poetic style that captures the dispassionate point of view of a heart-hardened adolescent street survivor. The excellent score by former Police-man Stewart Copeland, his most haunting since Rumblefish, mixes smooth symphonic sounds with bluesy guitars and syncopated percussion, giving the soundtrack the same sad intimacy as Yakin's visuals. The world of Fresh is alive with danger that threatens to extinguish all the wonder and joy of childhood--the film's most devastating moment observes Fresh helplessly trying to stop the bleeding of a schoolmate, a girl he has a crush on, caught by a stray bullet from a senseless playground murder. As Fresh loses his innocence playing street thugs and drug dealers like pieces on a chess board, he becomes the greatest victim of them all.
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Comment by BK DBL R on May 16, 2009 at 10:33pm
- One word "SHAFT"...dude even had a song that said he was a bad mofo, of course you had to shut your mouth while talking about it....lol, also all 5 deadly Venoms
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Comment by larry on May 16, 2009 at 12:54am - great list'''' but what about uma thurman as beatrice kiddo in kill bill??? keanu reeves as neo in the matrix'' lina hamilton's sarah connor in terminator?? and wesley snipes as blade??????? and not to mention hugh jackman as bad-ass rage infested wolverine'' and even milla jajovich's alice from resident evil'' they deserve to be included as well.. long live te bad-ass boys and babes of cinema...
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Comment by Jack Green on May 15, 2009 at 11:05pm - Uhhhhh. RORSCHACH?
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Comment by Charlton Normalman on May 15, 2009 at 4:22pm - Hey where's Liam Neeson as Bryan Mills from TAKEN? And I think Chev Chelios needs a higher spot- but YES Terminator is so bad-ass.
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Comment by Spawn200039 on May 15, 2009 at 1:56pm - What no Batman?
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