History Main / WorldOfBadass

* From the same company as ''Halo'', we have ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}''. The basic premise is a solar-system spanning, five-way war between The Guardians, immortal [[PersonOfMassDestruction Persons of Mass Destruction]], The Fallen, GadgeteerGenius SpacePirates, The Hive, magic wielding, death worshiping, undead monsters, The Vex, {{Reality Warp|er}}ing, {{Hive Mind}}ed robots that covert entier ''planets'' into machines, and The Cabal, a militarized, heavily armed GalacticSuperpower with a penchant for {{Orbital Bombardment}}s and {{Earth Shattering Kaboom}}s. And that's not even counting the [[AIIsACrapshoot Rogue A.I.]] hiding somewhere in the wilderness, or the handful of Guardians who have made a FaceHeelTurn over the centuries.

* The main setting of ''Webcomic/{{Dogfight}}'' consists of [[PettingZooPeople anthropomorphic animal characters]] engaging in martial arts for the sake and meaning of justice. Pretty much most of the protagonists are martial artists with well choreographed fight scenes that take advantage of their animal anatomy and psychology.

In the World Of Badass, every character is a badass. Even the daintiest girly-girl will be a butt-kicking GirlyBruiser. Even the scrawniest of nerds will be a BadassBookworm. Far from [[BlackDudeDiesFirst dying first]] the black dude will be [[ScaryBlackMan the guy you least want to mess with]]. And you should [[ManlyGay probably just steer clear]] [[BadassGay of gays altogether]]. Even that [[TeamPet adorable dog]] might be [[KillerRabbit tough as nails]]. May or may not be RatedMForManly, after all badassery comes in many shapes, personalities and sizes.

** And even side-characters and civilian allies can step up to the plate without being bitten by a radioactive ''anything.'' J. Jonah Jameson may be a jerk but he won't back down from Doc Ock when his people are in danger. Mary Jane does ''not'' make a cooperative damsel in distress ([[AdaptationalWimp outside the movieverse.]]) The X-Men's scientist friend Moira [=McTaggert=] once pulled out a machine gun to battle a monstrosity calling itself Kierrok the Damned. ComicBook/LoisLane knows kung fu. The list goes on.

* ''FanFic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40K'' due to ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'''s over-the-top influences. It starts with Shinji and spreads throughout the cast from there.

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'': ''Everyone'' in this movie kicks ass. Not just the obvious Ethan Hunt, Ilsa Faust, and August Walker, but also Luther, [[BadassBookworm Benji]], The White Widow, Solomon Lane, and even Director Hunley get a fight scene or two. The only major characters who don't do any fighting are Erica Sloane (who never participates in field ops herself), [[spoiler: Julia, and her new husband.]]

* Creator/DavidEddings flirts with this trope from time to time.
* The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' can be this, DependingOnTheWriter. It certainly is when Creator/MattStover or Creator/TimothyZahn writes it.
* ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudiceAndZombies''. Even ''[[TheDitz Lydia]]'' is decapitating "unmentionables."

* The ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' series has badass characters in droves, ranging from {{Physical God}}s to {{Badass Normal}}s. Among the hundreds of named characters it would be easier to list who ''isn't'' a badass. Those would include... well... the Mhybe and Challice D'Arle. That's about it.

* ''The Crest of Zabutur'' brings us the world of Mencu, populated with creatures called Serenghe. Given that [[EveryoneIsASuper all of them]] possess some form of elemental manipulation abilities, you'll be hard-pressed to find even a civilian who cannot hold her ground in combat.
* ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'': Almost every character is a badass. Aside from the title character, his wife is a retired hooker who is somehow able to kill half a dozen assassins with a meat cleaver and a cauldron of stew, his wife's best friend is a spymaster of spymasters, the seeming DamselInDistress can kill men with her bare hands, and convince her former captors to pledge loyalty to her; ''her'' husband is one of the two greatest warriors in India. And on and on.
* From [[Creator/JimButcher the creator]] of the above-mentioned ''Dresden Files'' is ''Literature/CodexAlera''. The humans are descendants of a Roman legion who '''all''' have ElementalPowers. (The [[TheCallPutMeOnHold one exception]] is [[BadassNormal way, way more awesome than most of them could ever hope to be]]) They share the place with Neanderthal-elves that [[BondCreatures bond with]] giant ground sloths and terror birds, telepathic yetis, 8-foot-tall centuries-old {{wolfm|an}}en with BloodMagic, and [[strike:[[VideoGame/StarCraft the Zerg]]]] the Vord, a HordeOfAlienLocusts led by a {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le [[LightningBruiser juggernaut]] of a HiveQueen. Other denizens include nature spirits that start to resemble {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and sea monsters that are about forty feet long as ''infants'' and tend to eat anything that comes close. Even the ''accountants'' can kick your ass.
* Creator/JamesHSchmitz's ''Literature/FederationOfTheHub'': its society is purposely being manipulated in order to raise the vitality of the human race. Since the Hub's main exports are {{Magnificent Bastard}}s, it works.
* Many {{Cyberpunk}} novels e.g. Creator/WilliamGibson's ''Literature/{{Neuromancer}}'', Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/SnowCrash'', ''Literature/TheDiamondAge'' are like this. In a more or less {{Crapsack|World}} anarchy dominated by {{MegaCorp}}s where life is cheap some badass-y would be recommended for better survival rate.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''. If you intend to mess with someone here, make sure they're not harmless old men, witches, wizards, dwarves, trolls, Mrs. Cake, demons, gods, gnomes, D'regs, hairdressers, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Mrs. Cake]], werewolves, vampires, pictsies, heroes, [[RuleOfThree Mrs. Cake]], assassins, monks, Sir Samuel Vimes, Death, Susan Sto Helit, Lord Vetinari, the Luggage, or last, but not least, the Librarian ([[RunningGag and Mrs. Cake]]). It's a wonder that anyone else is left in the place.
** Ankh-Morpork has The Shades, which is such a dangerous neighborhood that in ''Discworld/NightWatch'', the revolutionaries don't even bother building barricades on the Shades side, because not even the ''freaking army'' will go in there.
--->'''Vimes''': "You know what they call a horse in the Shades, Fred?"
--->'''Fred''': "Yeah, Sarge. Lunch."
** An entire ''town'' called Bad Ass appears in ''Discworld/WyrdSisters''. Unsurprisingly it is the home town and base of Granny Weatherwax. Visitors to Lancre have been warned. Apparently a donkey once stopped midstream and refused to go either forwards or backwards. But that's their story.
** Possibly a ShoutOut to Shea and Wilson's ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy, in which the Texan town of Bad Ass is a throwback to earlier ornery Confederate ways and has a robust attitude to all those northern carpetbagging liberal sissy notions such as desegregation. Bad Ass is an embarrassment to the rest of the USA, which uncomfortably realises that badass is how the rest of the world sees the ''whole'' of America.
* World Of Badass is a literal description of what happens to the setting of ''Men''. There are only eleven people left on the planet, all men, and they are all '''incredibly damned awesome.'''
* In order to be a Literature/TimeScout, you have to be a badass. Hell, just to associate with a time scout will probably require you to be a badass. The only people who aren't badasses are tourists. They're just kind of annoying.
* ''Literature/WarriorCats''. Yes, nearly every single one of the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters 700-some characters]] is trained to fight and can hold their own in a battle. (Except the kittypets, but some of them are pretty basass too.)
* World Of Badass is an excellent description of [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Barsoom]] where the {{Mad Scientist}}s carry swords; the Damsels In Distress are likely to slip a dagger between your ribs and little old men can give the best swordsman on two planets a fight to remember.
* ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' is a {{justified|Trope}} example. Nearly all of the survivors have stories of badass survival, from which one can infer that non-badasses could not survive the ZombieApocalypse.
* Anything ever written by Creator/JohnRingo. Whether the protagonist is a grisly military veteran, an average joe or a teenage girl, they're never helpless or overwhelmed, always aware of their surroundings, and pack copious amounts of grit, determination, firepower and, most importantly, GenreSavvy.
* Called out, and somewhat subverted at the start of Creator/NealStephenson's ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'':
--> ... self-replicating organisms came into existence on this planet and immediately began trying to get rid of each other, either by spamming their environments with rough copies of themselves, or by more direct means which hardly need to be belabored. Most of them failed,... Like every other creature on the face of the earth, [Godfrey Waterhouse IV] was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo -- which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.\\
As nightmarishly lethal, memetically programmed death-machines went, [his parents] were the nicest you could ever hope to meet....
* With the frequent intermingling of gods of various pantheons and mortals in Creator/RickRiordan's ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' and [[TheVerse the universe]] it shares with his [[Literature/TheKaneChronicles other]] [[Literature/MagnusChaseAndTheGodsOfAsgard works]] you would be very hard pressed to find anyone who can say they aren't at least some form of badass. The main characters (usually demigods or magicians with various awesome powers) regularly fight and slay some of mythology's greatest monsters, and aren't afraid to tell the gods themselves where they can [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu stick it]] when their jerkassery and petty bickering gets too much. Even some [[BadassNormal completely normal]] humans without these abilities can claim to have done something crazy [[CrazyAwesome and/or]] awesome: such as a teenage girl throwing a plastic hairbrush at the ruler of the Titans, a [[PapaWolf dad]] strafing a mob of monsters in a Sopwith Camel after his daughter was kidnapped, or the title character's parents fighting monsters with a sword and a shotgun they ''literally just found'' not a few moments ago.

* ''Literature/TheTraitorSonCycle'': vast majority of the characters belong to one army or another, and in this world, human armies have to contend with the Wild creatures, who all have either sharp teeth, sharp claws, advantage of mass and height, awesome magic abilities or all of this at once. Even the civillians are more likely than not to be sorcerers of serious power, and the dragons are just short of PhysicalGod - and they still get killed by the {{Badass Normal}}s.
* ''Literature/TheWitchlands'' sometimes feel like they're populated solely by either {{Badass Normal}}s or witches. Granted, there are civillians mentioned from time to time, but if a character gets a name, they're a badass - no exceptions.

* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion: Middle Earth's First Age is full of Elven Lords and Human Heroes. Just to name a few:

** Glorfindel: slew another Balrog by plumetting to both their end. Just. Wouldn't. Stay. Dead

* In Creator/HarryHarrison's ''Literature/{{Deathworld}}'' series, the planet Pyrrus is a literal world of badasses. Even small children have to learn to be incredibly strong, quick-witted, and deadly to [[EverythingTryingtoKillYou survive for very long on Pyrrus]].

* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'': Basically any character that ''isn't'' a badass is just there for decoration. Virtually every character of note kills somebody. The result is an AnyoneCanDie situation, since the entire show pretty much amounts to a bunch of badasses all trying to kill each other. ''Spartacus'' is notable not just for the sheer number of badass characters, but also for their variety. Relevant types include ActionGirl (Mira and Saxa), BadassGay (Barca, Auctus, Agron, and Nasir), BaldOfAwesome (Doctore, although Rhaskos and Gnaeus, despite their ignoble moments, are also pretty badass), CoolOldGuy (Lucius), DarkActionGirl (Naevia, of all people), DreadlockWarrior (Barca), GeniusBruiser (Spartacus), HandicappedBadass (Ashur), HeartbrokenBadass (most of them), OneManArmy (Caesar), PregnantBadass (Lucretia and Illithyia), ScaryBlackMan (Doctore), and SilkHidingSteel (Sura and Aurelia).
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': Being the first fully-fleshed out live action version of Franchise/TheDCU, Smallville quite naturally evolved into a ''massive'' example of this trope. First of all, it's centered around the future Franchise/{{Superman}}, young Clark Kent, along with BadassNormal characters like ComicBook/LexLuthor, ComicBook/LoisLane, and Jonathan Kent. And then we get other superheroes like ComicBook/GreenArrow and the rest of the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, along with many of DC's supervillains. Put it this way, almost every main or recurring character (and even most of the one-shot characters) either ''are'' badass already, or ''become'' badass with CharacterDevelopment.

* Anything Creator/JossWhedon has ever done. (Except ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog''). You had to be badass to survive any of his worlds besides for that. One's infested with [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer vampires, demons, useless Powers That Be, Hellgods and everything else]], [[Series/{{Firefly}} one is much like the Old West… with lasers, spaceships, compressed air instead of gunpowder and space zombies]].
* ''[[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''.
* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'', especially in later seasons where the fights lasted longer.
* ''Series/StargateSG1''. Even the resident nerds are {{badass|Bookworm}}. And then there's Bra'tac -- [[OldSoldier 130+ and still kicking arse]].
* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''. Almost every character in this show, be they princess, middle-aged mother, or barmaid, seems to be a rather good fighter. (Salmoneus may be an exception.) This rule seems to also apply (perhaps to a lesser degree) to the spinoff ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''.
* Everyone in ''Series/{{Lost}}'' gets their badass moment.
* ''Series/TwentyFour''. Put it this way: Kim Bauer has fought off psychotic kidnappers, smashed her abusive employer in the face with a crowbar, broken out of police custody by setting fire to the transport van ''while she's in it'', fought off seasoned, bloodthirsty war criminals with a hot coffee pot, and more. In any other series? She'd be a bona fide ActionGirl. In this one? She's a DamselScrappy. That's right -- these are the accomplishments of the LEAST badass person in the main cast. And then there's Behrooz Araz, a doe-eyed teenager, who enacts some seriously badass [[ImprobableWeaponUser Shovel Fu]] on Day 4.

* The Doctor of ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a habit of making his companions badass. Over the course of series 6 alone, Amy Pond goes from a flirtatious FieryRedhead to a full on ActionGirl, while her husband has broken the badass scale because he has [[TookALevelInBadass taken so many levels.]] And that's not taking into account the other 40-odd years of continuity. Let's face it, the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}} is as much a World Of Badass as it is a WorldOfHam. Considering that the Whoniverse is full of [[TheMaster god-like psychopaths]], {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s, Time-Traveling mutant [[UpToEleven Super]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Nazis]] in flying {{mini|Mecha}}tanks, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and other baddies like flesh-eating shadows, there's no wonder it's this trope. The ''least'' badass character would be a tin dog, and even he wields a built in gun.

* The cast of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' is comprised of a Badass Wizard (Merlin), a BadassNormal (Arthur), a PrettyPrincessPowerhouse (Morgana), a [[DamselOutOfDistress Badass Damsel]] (Guinevere), a CoolOldGuy (Gaius), a [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Badass King]] (Uther), a HeartbrokenBadass (Lancelot), and a BadassCrew (the Knights of the Round Table). Oh, and a giant fire-breathing dragon.
* ''Series/{{Nikita}}''. Seriously. TheChick is an ex-SexSlave turned sniping, shotgun-wielding CombatPragmatist ActionGirl. TheSmartGuy can call on {{Attack Drone}}s and isn't shabby in melee either.
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' revolves entirely around a [[EveryoneIsBi bisexual]] [[FiveManBand team of alien hunters]]: immortal Captain Jack, [[BewareTheNiceOnes outwardly mild archivist Ianto]], [[ActionGirl police-trained Gwen]], [[DamselOutOfDistress shy and tech-savvy Tosh]], and [[TheLancer field-capable doctor Owen]]. Translation? Any one of them can and will kick the ass of anyone who gets in their way or hurts their team, probably in a variety of ways.
* The [[Series/StargateAtlantis Pegasus Galaxy]] is not a safe place to live. After millennia of the Wraith treating the entire galaxy like a [=McDonald=]'s drive-through, even noncombatants have to be badass to survive. Any given day in Atlantis could turn up something new and horrible to kill you, but every single person on Atlantis knows the risks and keeps fighting the good fight, regardless.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. Justified, in that it's set post zombie apocalypse, and therefore everyone who's not badass is dead. Special mention must go to Michonne, Daryl Dixon, and Tyreese. Daryl beats a zombie to death despite having an arrow through his side, ''pulls the arrow out'' to shoot another zombie with, climbs out of a ravine and walks all the way back to home base despite his injuries, then gets mistaken for a zombie due to his blood-soaked state and ''shot in the head'' and still has enough left to throw off a one-liner before finally passing out. It's InTheBlood, apparently, since his older brother killed multiple zombies and escaped Atlanta immediately after [[LifeOrLimbDecision cutting off his own hand]]. Then there's Tyreese who can melee a swarm of zombies by himself with just a household hammer!!!...and survives!!, Then there's the bad ass action chick Michonne who wields a damn katana, and uses it ''very'' well.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'''s significant characters include a BadassBookworm hero who can build {{doomsday device}}s, one pregnant badass who guns down enemies in hard labor and another pregnant badass who heads up an armada, a villain who's TooKinkyToTorture, a priest who used to be an [[HitmanWithAHeart assassin]], a CuteBruiser with a fondness for {{groin attack}}s, and a combination BadassBureaucrat BadassGay who survives three {{bad boss}}es. Even a [[TheScrappy scrappy]] in this [[TheVerse verse]] will be able to melt metal with her screams or mystically survive molecular dispersement.
* In the {{Toku}}satsu ''Series/{{GARO}}'', the Makai, a hidden civilization of demon hunters, is clearly this. Be it Priest or Knight or any other entity that hails from or connected to it, you're pretty much going to be powerful and badass.

* ''Series/{{Pizza}}'': Australia is a dangerous place to run a pizza place.

* ''Roleplay/InfiniteJustice'': Being a crossover between ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Comics/MarvelComics, and Comics/DCComics will do this to a world.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''. If your character can't be described as an utter badass, you are doing it wrong. You know that you are living in a World Of Badass when the ''fairies'' are soul-eating {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and are some of the ''weakest'' beings in the setting.

* In any given FightingGame all the characters can kick your ass. [[JokeCharacter Nearly]] every {{play|erCharacter}}able [[PromotedToPlayable character]] in an ActionGame is going to be able to fight his or her way through countless {{Mooks}} to reach his/her goals. Even the JokeCharacter might be badass [[LethalJokeCharacter in the hands of the right player]].
* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. Granted, most of the perspective is from the military of both humans and the Covenant. ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'' puts this UpToEleven with ''everyone'' getting a chance to show how badass they are - even the Unggoy.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, bare minimum, requires EVERYONE be an ActionSurvivor, and if you want to enjoy a healthy lifespan in a post apocalyptic world where quite often [[EverythingTryingToKillYou everything tries to kill you]], being some sort of badass is about the only way to enjoy most of your natural lifespan.
* From the same company as ''Halo'', we have ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}''. The basic premise is a solar-system spanning, five-way war between The Guardians, immortal [[PersonOfMassDestruction Persons of Mass Destruction]], The Fallen, GadgeteerGenius SpacePirates, The Hive, magic wielding, death worshiping, undead monsters, The Vex, [[RealityWarper Reality Warping]], [[HiveMind Hive Minded]] robots that covert entier ''planets'' into machines, and The Cabal, a militarized, heavily armed GalacticSuperpower with a penchant for [[OrbitalBombardment Orbital Bombardments]] and [[EarthShatteringKaboom Earth Shattering Kabooms]]. And that's not even counting the [[AIIsACrapshoot Rogue A.I.]] hiding somewhere in the wilderness, or the handful of Guardians who have made a FaceHeelTurn over the centuries.
* ''Franchise/MetalGear'', where everyone is a hard-boiled double agent who may or may not have supernatural abilities. A world where a woman gives birth to one of the most famous Chessmasters in video game history via a messy C-section ''and then immediately leads the charge at Normandy on D-Day''. A world where a hapless rookie sent on a suicide mission with no gear at all ends up becoming ''the'' greatest ProfessionalKiller in the world. A world where a mute female sniper who respirates through her skin and a legendary PMC commander suffering from old wounds and bad hallucinations can annihilate an entire Soviet tank division. A world where katana-wielding cyborgs get into fistfights with hulking, nanomachine-implanted, all-American senators. A world where Earth's biggest badasses are nothing more than extremely well-trained men and women with charisma, willpower and [[PunchPackingPistol a silenced pistol]] facing some of the most dangerous things the world has to offer, and they ''always'' coming out on top.
* Every ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' game and their spinoffs either ultimately turn into this over the course of the game or already are from the get go. In fact, ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', and ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' pretty much have this as a survival prerequisite.
** ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' recently took this UpToEleven. In other ''SMT'' games, if you didn't have demons, demon power, or could otherwise fight them in some way, you were screwed. In this game, though, not only is demon summoning ability available to pretty much everyone worldwide as long as you have a cellphone (which IRL and ingame are easy to get and very widespread) and a free downloadable app, even that isn't necessary in one level where ''unarmed, non demon summoning civilians'' are fighting demons and demon summoners and doing pretty well.
*** Not to mention the fact that the first game had an in-game justification[=/=]HandWave on why normal unarmed humans could hope to stand up to demons in a fight and not be killed in a single hit from them: no such thing exists in the second game, implying that everyone's [[BadassNormal just that strong normally]].
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', a tradition continued in its SpiritualSuccessor, ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''.

* ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'', where a little girl can with a little experience and luck destroy an entire army by herself.
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', where everyone with a name has some degree of badass in some completely insane way in them. Might as well call it a [[CrazyAwesome World of Crazy Awesome]].
* Overlaps with EverybodyWasKungFuFighting in ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire''.
* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' (Yes, even Boss and his Borot get to be badass). Likewise, the ''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier''. It's more like several interconnected worlds, who are [[{{Ninja}} all]] [[HumongousMecha badass]] [[DeathWorld in]] [[TheEmpire a]] [[CattlePunk unique]] [[{{Magitek}} way.]]
* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', also know as "Epic [[RatedMForManly Manly]] badassery: The Video Game Series". Its HGame parody, ''VideoGame/SengokuRance'', basically is the same formula, just with a different gameplay engine and tons of estrogen due to massive amounts of GenderFlip (though none of the women are less badass as a result).
* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' is a world of badasses, fueled by the epic awesome of HeavyMetal.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', with a select few, is filled with these and is also a world of camp. The game ''is'' the SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' and the [[JustForPun tit]]ular protagonist is very much a [[DistaffCounterpart female Dante]]. [[note]]And now you know why fans [[FanPreferredCouple have a habit of]] [[CrossoverShip pairing them up]].[[/note]]
* As the page image shows, ''VideoGame/SeriousSam''.
* Australia in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is a Country of Badass: the men fight everything they can get their hands on, the women have epic moustaches, and the girl scouts have been known to wrestle bears. The whole world still counts as [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Abraham Lincoln]] [[CrazyAwesome was the first]] [[KillItWithFire BLU pyro,]] [[DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent and George Washington was a spy.]] Also, [[BadassBookworm Shake]][[Creator/WilliamShakespeare spear]][[RocketJump icles]]. And [[JustForPun Kicasso]]. Oh yeah, and even a humble [[http://www.teamfortress.com/doommates/#f=4 taxi driver]] can make a powerful, Lovecraftian wizard back down.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mabinogi}}'': Even aside from the [[PlayerCharacter PCs]], you see a lot of memory sequences (and actual fight scenes) of NPC army characters being extremely badass.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', more so than the first game. Fewer cowering screaming people, bigger dragons, and nobody flinches from battling the guy that according to the tales killed a High Dragon with a rusty spoon. Given what kind of place [[EldritchLocation Kirkwall]] is, most of the population HadToBeSharp.
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', we get Tuchanka, the homeworld of the krogan, who are the resident {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} of the series. All krogan are unstoppable juggernauts fueled by rage and copious amounts of headbutting. The krogan had nuked themselves back to the Stone Ages because modern technology had made life too easy, so this overlaps with {{CrapsackWorld}}. All krogan encountered in the game are warriors, whether they be soldiers or mercenaries, and their weapons of choice are their skulls.
** For extra fun, consider the physiology of the Krogan- This was a race that had to be hostile-genetically-engineered so that only one-tenth of a percent of their children survived, and they have wide-set eyes, a prey-type evolution.
* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' is set in Gensokyo, a realm that has become the nexus of Japan's magic and badass. When a character that can freeze their opponent solid in an instant and another that can shatter boulders with their fists are mocked by fans and other characters for being ''too weak'', then this trope is inevitable.
** Subverted with the Moon, which houses an advanced nation of god-like individuals known as the [[UltraTerrestrials Lunarians]]; on one hand, they're stated to have fought off the whole might of the above crashing down at them in the distant past, yet by their present state, they've soundly been fought to a stalemate and minor defeat by both [[MugglesDoItBetter humans sending soldiers on the moon with 70s era technology]] as well as the [[RedShirt same fairies]] that are often considered weaklings in Gensokyo proper. It remains to be seen whether or not their planned invasion of Gensokyo will end in failure.
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' is a game where major characters who can't fight are extremely rare.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' oh very much so! Ashley from ''Resident Evil 4'' even has one or two moments and she is a DamselScrappy.

* ''VideoGame/ArcTheLad'' is a world where even a pathetic coward in the Seyran army's drum corps can become a fearsome OneManArmy MagicKnight. The ''real'' heavy hitters on every side are outright [[PersonOfMassDestruction Persons of Mass Destruction]]. And it takes thousands of years and entire ''civilizations'' composed of these people to defeat the BigBad.
* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}'': When the [[DeathWorld entire setting of the game]] is a [[ApocalypseHow Class 0 apocalypse]] filled with eyeless rabid dogs, monkey-like mutated soldiers, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Cthulu-mouthed abominations]], [[InterfaceScrew psychically]] [[MindRape augmented monsters]], and [[ApocalypseHow periodic class 3b emissions]], it's pretty hard not to be anything but a BadassNormal. Oh, and did we mention that there are also localized physical anomalies, ranging from [[KillItWithFire scorching jets of flame]] to [[AlienGeometries space-time portals]]?
* ''VideoGame/StarCraft''. Especially in ''[=StarCraft II=]''. The medics wear power armor.
* '''''VideoGame/FrontMission'''''. Everyone knows how to pilot an asskicking [[AMechByAnyOtherName wanzer]]. ''Everyone''.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', Pretty much ''any'' named character who's done something relevant is likely to be a badass -- such as Illidan, Malfurion, Tyrande, Jaina, Thrall, Arthas, Uther, Varian, Fandral, Archimonde, Kil'jaeden, Medivh, Maeiv...
* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' is MADE of this trope. From a rampaging demigod whose strength seemingly has no limit and who gets stronger the angrier he gets, a deity that becomes bigger than the Earth itself, to another one who has a sword that can extend all the way from Earth to the ''fucking moon'', and pierce right THROUGH IT! And that's just the three characters revealed in the ''demo''.

* ''VideoGame/UrbanRivals'': When 22 factions are vying for control of the city, even the weakest combatants have to be BadassNormal.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'': The main character is a BadassBookworm who [[spoiler:shrugs a plot-induced coma off in only 30 minutes of gameplay, while it took [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]] half a disc]], his mentor singlehandedly ends a war against giant killer death robots and shouts haikus in battle, the puffball "mascot"-looking character can tank tons of damage, equip heavy armor, and hits 9999 HP before any other character; said puffball's race charges into battle against aforementioned evil killer death robots alongside humans and not-elves, the medic is the only character with a semi-reliable instant kill move, the effeminate-looking not-elf prince is described as "looks like a sissy, but he's got guts", a minor comic relief character survives having a troop transport dropped on him and is nigh-fearless even when faced with one of the tougher baddies in the game, and did we mention they're all fighting giant evil killer death robots that eat people? [[spoiler:And the main character kills, then becomes a god.]] Not to mention that both continents that the game takes place on are what remains of two warrior gods who fought each other to a standstill, making the term "world of badass" almost literal.
* ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns''. Even the seemingly harmless bartender robot can (and will) kick your ass.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' is probably a ''universe'' of Badass. (Multiverse, really, but technicalities.)
* ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'' took this trope a bit further; it's not just one world anymore. There exist ''six worlds of badasses'' and all of them include a lot of badass people both heroes and villains (Earth, Phantom World, Hell, Alternate Earth, VideoGame/EndlessFrontier, and the different star systems in the future).

** In the third game, it's ''encouraged'' through perks like McGyver and [[CombatPragmatist Scrapper]], the former adding half of one's science skill and the other adding the ''entirety'' of one's scavenging skill to their combat ability. It really says something when while the other 4 skills you can have rarely can exceed 20, you can get your combat skill on most survivors up to ''30'', which is three-times the maximum of what your natural skill can be.
* The eponymous province of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' is this by way of GrimUpNorth. It doesn't matter if it's the tiniest, most peaceable village or a bustling metropolis; if it gets attacked by dragons or vampires, ''everyone'', from soldiers to town guards to merchants to housewives, will ready a weapon or a spell and throw down. [[TooDumbToLive Whether they're any]] ''[[TooDumbToLive good]]'' [[TooDumbToLive at it is something else.]]
** On a cultural level, the entire planet of Nirn. Every race still around has carved out their own territory by force (or survives by decentralized/nomadic tribes too tough for their "hosts" to kick out, like the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orsimer]]; and Tamriel's history is full of warring [[BadassArmy armies]], [[SlaveLiberation vengeance]] on a [[GenocideBackfire massive scale]], and invasions by [[HornyVikings Atmorans]], [[EliteArmy Akiviri]], and [[ArabianNightsDays Redguards]]. {{Steampunk}}-happy Dwemer (who are absolutely not [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame the same]]) regularly spit in the face of [[BigBadEnsemble Daedra]] while pursuing their own [[AGodAmI divinity]]...or, rather, they ''[[EvilIsNotAToy did]]''. From [[OurDragonsAreDifferent immortal, divine tyrants]] to [[ANaziByAnyOtherName supremacist empires]], some new form of evil threatens the world just about every week--and gets beaten down by everyone from [[AnAdventurerIsYou wondering heroes]] to [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething demigod Emperors]]. If you think you can survive on Nirn without being badass on a national scale...well, you can ask the [[WasOnceAMan Falmer]] or [[ToServeMan Men of Akivir]] how that goes.

* Every player character in ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' and ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber'' is a badass. Even the designated NonActionGuy[=/=]ActionSurvivor can single-handedly NonLethalKO his way through a building full of TheMafiya.
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'', very much so. Nearly any character with a name has some ability to fight and pull of some insane fancy attack that defies the laws of physics. And since demons solve nearly everything through fighting, Netherworlds quickly turn into this because of how their inhabitants keep trying to assert their dominance.
* ''VideoGame/MordheimCityOfTheDamned'' is so much this, true to the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} source]] [[TabletopGame/{{Mordheim}} material]]. You have [[AmazonBrigade all-female]] [[DropTheHammer hammer-wielding]] [[WarriorMonk holy warriors]] [[ReligionIsMagic with supernatural powers]], conniving {{Ninja}} RatMen from a brutal empire under the earth, [[BodyHorror psychotic mutants]] and [[ReligionOfEvil deranged cultists]] who worship some ancient ''[[EldritchAbomination thing]]'' in a pit in the centre of the city, and a [[RagtagBunchofMisfits ragtag bunch of]] [[BadassNormal ordinary sellswords with nothing but discipline, gunpowder and sharpened steel]], all duking it out in a ruined city overrun by mutants, maniacs [[OurDemonsAreDifferent and worse]]. It truly is hell on earth, you need to be a badass just to survive a day, [[NintendoHard and even then not everyone is going to make it]].
* Being a CrapsaccharineWorld in need of heroes, ''{{VideoGame/Overwatch}}'' is filled with various forms of badass in its playable roster, ranging from the British ActionGirl to a cowboy to a vigilante SuperSoldier to the HuskyRusskie powerlifter to a CyberNinja to the GamerChick turned MiniMecha pilot to a [[ReligiousRobot robotic Buddhist monk]] to [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a super-intelligent gorilla from the moon]], and more.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' series is this by default: With human life on Earth destroyed following the Apocalypse, the only remaining beings are superhumans fighting among themselves in the ruined remains, meaning you have to be a badass to survive. The main protagonists are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who belong to an ancient {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} that they [[OneManArmy singlehandedly destroyed]] in order to [[DefectorFromDecadence protect all of creation]]. By themselves, they are phenomenally powerful warriors that can make short work of anything that crosses their path. Together? They are a force capable of rivaling Heaven and Hell. Angels and demons themselves are fairly badass, with the former using advanced futuristic technology while the latter employs {{eldritch abomination}}s alongside the legions of Hell (although they are fairly easily cut down by the protagonists). Outside of Earth, other forms of life exist and all of them are comparatively superior to humanity in one way or another. Really you could count the number of non-combatants in one hand and some would still have traits that makes them awesome such as the Makers (giants with the reputation of builders and smiths, but still have super strength and can go toe-to-toe against a Horseman in a single duel).
* The entire world, including the primary setting of Seoul, became this in ''VideoGame/AgentsOfMayhem'' after an in-universe event known as "Devil's Night". Even the movie stars, fashion models, and football players became badass real quickly, if they weren't already!
* ''VideoGame/BlazblueCrossTagBattle'' takes several of Franchise/BlazBlue's biggest badasses, the [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Investigation Team]], the cast of VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth, and [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Team RWBY]], and tosses them all together in a gigantic clash of worlds.
* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'': During the ActionPrologue, rural characters seems to respond to an Imperial invasion remarkably well, every house seems to have a rifle in it, and then the protagonist's sister drives out an old tank that was hiding in the barn. The following scenes quickly explain Gallia has a policy of universal conscription, weapons handling and crisis response are taught in high school, and Isara mentions she had done a tank engineering elective and had been maintained the Edelweiss on her own time.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': An army of fascist clones on one side, a MegaCorp on the other, and caught between them are all the little people who have to survive in a post-apocalyptic, transhumanist wasteland where half the animals are actually robots that violently defend their territory. Then there are the Tenno, the player characters, who work with all of them at once in order to play the big sides against each other and keep the innocents safe.

* In ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai'', there are very few characters who can't fight, and many who takes it to a ridiculous degree. The anime even opens with a war game which includes the entire school. The same event is also in one of the routes.

** And then there's the White Council of Wizards. They range from pretty dangerous under the right circumstances all the way up to PersonOfMassDestruction/OneManArmy. Oh, and pretty much every one of them is both a CombatPragmatist and a {{Determinator}}.

* ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'', a world where humans are more likely to be fighting along side of their Pokémon instead of just hanging back.

* [[CrapsackWorld Filled of crap though it may be]], ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' is this. Four out of five people in this world need to be just a little bit badass at one point in their life in order to survive it, and this includes [[CoolOldGuy old]] [[NeverMessWithGranny people]], [[BadassAdorable little kids]], and princesses (if only for one moment). If they still don't qualify as true badasses, then they're usually big time [[ActionSurvivor action survivors]]. And even under the most [[BreakTheCutie horrific circumstances]], people don't just stop being badass: [[TookALevelInBadass they merely shift from one state of badass-ness to another.]] For instance, Casca starts out as an ActionGirl, then had a brief period of [[spoiler: being a PregnantBadass]] which horrifically ended with the Eclipse and her [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going insane as a result of it]]... only to having glimpses of her former self when she becomes a [[spoiler: BadassDamsel]].

* The world of ''Manga/DragonBall'' where everyone is a super powered martial artist, and even the comic relief {{Muggle}} Mr. Satan/Hercule is a BadassNormal who can kick any non-powered human's ass (and a zombie horde....with his bare hand...as an old man who hasn't fought in at least a decade....yeah , that's Dragon ball for you).

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* ''FanFic/HarmonysWarriors'', a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic, is an overall positive example of this, as most of the major characters are an {{Main/Expy}} of various characters and heroes from the ''Francise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''.

** On a cultural level, the entire planet of Nirn. Every race still around has carved out their own territory by force (or survives by decentralized/nomadic tribes too tough for their "hosts" to kick out, like the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orsimer]]; and Tamriel's history is full of warring [[BadassArmy armies]], [[SlaveRevolt vengeance]] on a [[GenocideBackfire massive scale]], and invasions by [[HornyVikings Atmorans]], [[EliteArmy Akiviri]], and [[ArabianNightsDays Redguards]]. {{Steampunk}}-happy Dwemer (who are absolutely not [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame the same]]) regularly spit in the face of [[BigBadEnsemble Daedra]] while pursuing their own [[AGodAmI divinity]]...or, rather, they ''[[EvilIsNotAToy did]]''. From [[OurDragonsAreDifferent immortal, divine tyrants]] to [[ANaziByAnyOtherName supremacist empires]], some new form of evil threatens the world just about every week--and gets beaten down by everyone from [[AnAdventurerIsYou wondering heroes]] to [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething demigod Emperors]]. If you think you can survive on Nirn without being badass on a national scale...well, you can ask the [[WasOnceAMan Falmer]] or [[ToServeMan Men of Akivir]] how that goes.

* [[CrapsackWorld Filled of crap though it may be]], ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' is this. Four out of five people in this world need to be just a little bit badass at one point in their life in order to survive it, and this includes [[BadassGrandpa old people]], [[BadassAdorable little kids]], and princesses (if only for one moment). If they still don't qualify as true badasses, then they're usually big time [[ActionSurvivor action survivors]]. And even under the most [[BreakTheCutie horrific circumstances]], people don't just stop being badass: [[TookALevelInBadass they merely shift from one state of badass-ness to another.]] For instance, Casca starts out as an ActionGirl, then had a brief period of [[spoiler: being a PregnantBadass]] which horrifically ended with the Eclipse and her [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going insane as a result of it]]... only to having glimpses of her former self when she becomes a [[spoiler: BadassDamsel]].

* ''Series/StargateSG1''. Even the resident nerds are {{badass|Bookworm}}. And then there's Bra'tac -- [[BadassGrandpa 130+ and still kicking arse]].

* The cast of ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'' is comprised of a Badass Wizard (Merlin), a BadassNormal (Arthur), a PrettyPrincessPowerhouse (Morgana), a [[DamselOutOfDistress Badass Damsel]] (Guinevere), a BadassGrandpa (Gaius), a [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Badass King]] (Uther), a HeartbrokenBadass (Lancelot), and a BadassCrew (the Knights of the Round Table). Oh, and a giant fire-breathing dragon.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' is set in a pseudo-medieval/stone age/bronze age DeathWorld populated with dinosaur-like and dragon-like creatures that make TyrannosaurusRex look like a pussy, and nearly all of them are MadeOfIron and possess ElementalPowers. The eponymous human "monster hunters" are all BadassNormal {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s (keep in mind that GenderIsNoObject [[ActionGirl is in full effect here]]) armed with traps, gadgets and some really, ''really'' big weapons. Chefs cook some ''[[FoodPorn amazing]]'' meals to keep the hunters fed and full, the smiths make weapons and armour from monster scales and claws as well as iron and steel, the fishermen and traders all have {{Cool Boat}}s and brave dangerous monster-infested waters to do their jobs, the [[BadassGrandpa elders]] who live in the hunting zones do so unarmed and alone, you can just go on and on.

In the World Of Badass, every character is a badass. Even the daintiest girly-girl will be a butt-kicking GirlyBruiser. Even the scrawniest of nerds will be a BadassBookworm. Far from [[BlackDudeDiesFirst dying first]] the black dude will be [[ScaryBlackMan the guy you least want to mess with]]. And you should [[ManlyGay probably just steer clear]] [[BadassGay of gays altogether]]. Even that [[TeamPet adorable dog]] might be [[BadassAdorable tough as nails]]. May or may not be RatedMForManly, after all badassery comes in many shapes, personalities and sizes.

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles''. During the ActionPrologue, rural characters seems to respond to an Imperial invasion remarkably well, every house seems to have a rifle in it, and then the protagonist's sister drives out an old tank that was hiding in the barn. The following scenes quickly explain Gallia has a policy of universal conscription, weapons handling and crisis response are taught in high school, and Isara mentions she had done a tank engineering elective and had been maintained the Edelweiss on her own time.

* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': EVERYONE is badass and CrazyAwesome. They take on an immortal HumanoidAbomination that can MindRape and mentally snap nearly anyone. [[KillEmAll But then again...]] Ones that deserve mention are [[Blog/SeekingTruth Zeke Strahm,]] [[Blog/WhiteElephants Robert,]] [[Blog/AReallyBadJoke Maduin,]] and AmalgamationSage.

* The whole point of ''WebOriginal/BadassOfTheWeek''. Being a badass is kind of a requirement for being featured.

* ''VideoGame/BlazblueCrossTagBattle'' takes several of franchise/{{Blazblue}}'s biggest badasses, the [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Investigation Team]], the cast of VideoGame/UnderNightInBirth, and [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Team RWBY]], and tosses them all together in a gigantic clash of worlds.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': If you've managed to get into the Medium and you're not badass already, you will be soon enough. In a more literal CrapsackWorld example, Alternia. Even surviving past ''infant-hood'' in [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Troll]] society requires a certain degree of badassness, since [[BizarreAlienBiology wigglers]] are put through a series of harrowing trials immediately after they hatch. It says a lot that ''a thirteen year old blind girl'' from Alternia is one of the most badass characters in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' (how do you think she survived being effectively orphaned and blind for all those years?), and that even the wimpiest among the trolls has strong psychic abilities that [[TheBeastmaster allow him to tame and raise a virtual army of monsters.]] Although he usually uses them to play card games. Speaking of which, effectively everything on Alternia can be fatal. LARPing is extremely dangerous, every sport is a BloodSport, those card games involve hatching actual, extremely dangerous {{Mons}}, and so on. No wonder those twelve kids beat Sburb in less than a month.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', another of [=MontyOum=]'s creations, takes place in a world filled with supernatural monsters, magic, robots, ninjas, beast-men, witches, and [[BadassAdorable adorable asskicking angels]] with insanely awesome {{mix and match weapon}}s. The resident ButtMonkey easily decapitates 10 foot tall demon bears. Even the [[PreciousPuppy corgi]] is capable of beating {{MiniMecha}}s.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has a truly fascinating example. The galaxy is just filled with {{Mooks}} for Tagon's Toughs to savage, and {{Worthy Opponent}}s to return the favor. But the Toughs themselves have a ''contagious'' case of Badass. They pick up a (ir)reverend (because he was the sole applicant) and a doctor (based on her cup size). The reverend is soon skewering enemy eyeballs with a fencing foil. The doctor ends up leading troops into curbstomps and delivering speeches "Like Patton with boobs". They grab a bunch of loser thugs off from a WretchedHive on a ScavengerWorld. The one with no arms can float like a butterfly(with gravitic assists) and sting like a bee (as in wrestle entire gangs with her tongue). They grab a WrenchWench off a UNS battleplate that wants to get rid of her. She slaughters mobs singlehandedly (with PoweredArmor and PostVictoryCollapse). Join The Toughs. Be Badass.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': If you've managed to get into the Medium and you're not badass already, you will be soon enough. In a more literal CrapsackWorld example, Alternia. Even surviving past ''infant-hood'' in [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Troll]] society requires a certain degree of badassness, since [[BizarreAlienBiology wigglers]] are put through a series of harrowing trials immediately after they hatch. It says a lot that ''a thirteen year old blind girl'' from Alternia is one of the most badass characters in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', and that even the wimpiest among the trolls has strong psychic abilities that [[TheBeastmaster allow him to tame and raise a virtual army of monsters.]]

* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' a MegaCrossover [[FusionFic fuses several badass settings]] (''Literature/HarryPotter'', ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', ''Creator/MarvelComics'' and ''Creator/DCComics'', with hints of other fandoms and has a considerable number of characters [[TookALevelInBadass step up]] and [[AdaptationalBadass outdo their canon counterparts for badassery]]. Since it's a CrapSaccharineWorld in the fine Marvel tradition and most of the main cast are Avengers or close to them, they kind of have to be, particularly since Harry, the main character, is considerably more of a WeirdnessMagnet than in canon.

** A grand majority of the characters in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' have flashy superpowers or kick butt in different ways. Almost inevitable for a film based of Marvel comics.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' falls under this trope by virtue of being a universe of CrazyAwesome and WorldOfHam. We're talking about a show that's about a BadassAdorable [[BadassArmy Army]] of kids going against equally badass ([[BewareTheSillyOnes if more than equally silly]]) villians, led by a HumanoidAbomination bent on harming and oppressing the world's children.

* ''Franchise/MetalGear'', where everyone is a hard-boiled double agent who may or may not have supernatural abilities. A world where a woman gives birth to one of the most famous Chessmasters in video game history via a messy C-section ''and then immediately leads the charge at Normandy on D-Day''. A world where a hapless rookie sent on a suicide mission with no gear at all ends up becoming ''the'' greatest ProfessionalKiller in the world. A world where a mute female sniper who respirates through her skin and a legendary PMC commander suffering from old wounds and bad hallucinations can annihilate an entire Soviet tank division. A world where katana-wielding cyborgs get into fistfights with hulking, nyanomachine-implanted, all-American senators. A world where Earth's biggest badasses are nothing more than extremely well-trained men and women with charisma, willpower and [[PunchPackingPistol a silenced pistol]] face some of the most dangerous things the world has to offer, and they ''always'' come out on top.