History Website / BadassOfTheWeek

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/punisher.html The Punisher.]]
** Vlad the Impaler.
** Sauron, whose name is Elvish for "The Abomination".

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rabbit.html The Killer Rabbit]].

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/perseus.html Perseus]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/elcid.html El Cid Campeador (Spanish for "the Lord Champion")]]
** Peter Francisco, "The Samson of the West"
** Harald Hardrada, "The Devastator of Bulgaria"
** Horatio Nelson, "Britannia's God of War"

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/roland.html Roland]] propped himself up against a rock as he was dying so that he would face his enemies standing even in death.

-->''A couple days after he was locked up, the Philistine leaders decided to throw a huge banquet to celebrate their victory over this guy who had been their hated enemy for over twenty years. The entire nobility, along with about three thousand other Philistines got together at the Temple of the god Dagon to get wasted and offer up sacrifices. Once the party really got hopping and everyone started to get a little tipsy, they decided to bring Samson in so that everyone could yell mean things and throw tomatoes at him. So the guards fetched him from prison so he could serve the entertainment of the heathen jackass Philistines.//

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* RuleOfCool: Articles tend to be based on the coolest accounts of the profilee's life, rather than the most reliable.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stmichael.html The Archangel St. Michael]] defeated {[Satan}} in single combat

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackson.html Andrew Jackson]] - AndrewJackson, the man who [[MadeOfIron survived more duels and bullets than should be realistically possible]], and [[BadAss still kept kicking ass!]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=506519628414 Yakov (Jacob) Pavlov]] – The BotW website says it best: "One man. One building. One million Nazis." Led the defense of a key building in the Battle of Stalingrad for two months until the Nazis were annihilated by a fresh Soviet army.

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=206886827770 King Abdullah II]] – Current ruler of Jordan and career military leader. During a visit to Washington, the King found out that ISIS had brutally executed a captured Jordanian pilot. He immediately launched into Creator/ClintEastwood's revenge speech from ''Film/Unforgiven'', and launched an ongoing series of revenge attacks on ISIS. He reportedly flew the lead aircraft on the first mission (which Jordan has officially denied).

* BerserkButton: Ruksana Kauser

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/roosevelt.html Theodore Roosovelt]] - This wasn't a man, he was a walking Chuck Norris meme!

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pingyang.html Princess Pingyang]].

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/macgyver.html Angus Macguyver]]

* ActionGirl: Too many to list. Any female profiled will definitely count. [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi Here's a list of just the queens,]] [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi and here's an incomplete list of all women featured]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Too many authority figures are profiled to list; [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi here's an incomplete list from the site itself]]. [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi And another one.]] [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi And a third]]. [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi And a fourth]].

* VillainProtagonist: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi Many articles]] [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi have one.]]

* ActionGirl: Too many to list. Any female profiled will definitely count.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/brownell.html Katie Brownell]]
** Irina Sebrova - So much so that she broke down in tears after her plane got shot down one night, for the sole reason that for the rest of the night..... ''she couldn't kill anymore Nazis!''
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/hervor.html Hervor]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/sandes.html Flora Sandes]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kauser.html Rukhsana Kauser]] - Made even better by the fact that she had never touched a rifle in her life and actually expected to die.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=146197221310 Anna Yegorova]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=954349115161 Sarah Connor]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=341874424230 Commander Shepard.]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=27450552861 Nancy Wake]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kimcampbell.html Kim Campbell]], who piloted a blasted-to-hell [[CoolPlane A-10]] out of an Iraqi firezone using ''manual controls'' (aka pull-strings) and landed it in one piece using a manual landing that ''no one'' had ever successfully pulled off.
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/joanofarc.html Joan of Arc]], possibly the TropeCodifier

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking
** [[http://http://www.badassoftheweek.com/jackson.html Andrew Jackson]]
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=455814220561 Zeus]]

** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/blackbeard.html Blackbeard]] [[Rasputiniansurvived being shot five times and stabbed twenty times unfazed right before he was finally decapitated. Some legends state that he still didn't die even then.

* NeverMessWithGranny
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/musa.html Jennifer Musa]]

** [[TropeNamer Manfred von Richthofen]]

* EldritchAbomination - [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kraken.html The Kraken]]

* PirateGirl

* HistoricalHeroUpgrade

* {{Hell}}: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/australia.html Australia]]

** Harald Hadrada - [[MeaningfulName his surname means "hardass"]]

* {{Megalodon}}:
** [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=891929112476 Megalodon]].