How about Chesty Puller.
Five Navy Crosses.
One of the most decorated Marines to serve.
[B][U]General Piłsudski[/U][/B]
He stopped the Bolshevik army right on his doorstep and then kicked their asses. Not only that his radio team managed to block the russian radio for 4 hours by broadcasting the Bible in polish.The first time this had happened.
[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Piłsudski"]Source[/url]
You don't get more baadass than this ladies and gentlemen
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvLcozLwtE[/media]
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;16144246]Don't forget Arnold Schwarzenegger. Anyone who disagrees with me on this point can
[img]http://www.noncombatant.org/trove/arnold-shut-fuck-up.jpg[/img]
Yeah, I know he's not a badass in real life, at least not anymore, but he makes any film awesome, so that's gotta be worth something.[/QUOTE]
But he IS a badass in real life.
Anyone that goes from unknown bodybuilder, to becoming one of the most recognizable action heroes of cinema AND then go on to be fucking Governor of California.
Besides that, Arnold was one of the most effective real life trolls. He loved fucking with people and playing mindgames, from telling a fellow bodybuilding competitor that he should eat a truckload of salt before comp (this is a disaster since salt makes the body hold water and ruins definition, as such, the poor guy would've failed hard in the comp) to calling up a business executive and telling him he fucked his wife, just for shits and giggles, or simply, because Arnold was a badass.
Tank Man
"Tank Man" stops the advance of a column of tanks on June 5, 1989 in Beijing.
Tank Man, or the Unknown Rebel, is the nickname of an anonymous man who achieved fame and widespread international recognition as a heroic figure when he was videotaped and photographed during the protests at Beijing's Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. Several photographs were taken of the man, who stood in front of a column of Chinese Type 59 tanks. The man became synonymous with themes of freedom, rebellion and defiance.
Did we have Jeanne d'Arc yet?
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Ingres_coronation_charles_vii.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Alpha;16146134]Dr. Leonid Rogozov
Self surgury in antarctica after he contracted appendicitus. He is a true Soviet hero! :ussr:
[img]http://www.doctorross.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/rogozovappendectomy2.jpg[/img]
[url]http://www.doctorross.co.za/antarctica/self-operation-tracking-down-a-good-story[/url]
Please add this to the OP.[/QUOTE]
now he is one badass
Thích Quảng Đức
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Burningmonk.jpg[/img]
Badass name too.
[QUOTE=Derp_Alt;16141026]Lai Jiansheng
[img]http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2009/05/23/ba-china_suicide_0500182442.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Ahaha. I knew someone was going to post it. :v:
[QUOTE=Funcoot;16140408][b]This Thread[/b]
[u]Cab Driver Cuts Off Own Head[/u]
[url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090711/tuk-cab-driver-cuts-his-own-head-off-in-45dbed5.html]The Story[/url]
This traumatically happened in a suicide obviously (may he rest in [b]piece[/b]), but this man is badass!
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lol...
John Churchill anyone?
[QUOTE=Funcoot;16140408]
[u]10 Year Old Shoots Home Intruder In The Face[/u]
[url=http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=10741492&nav=menu57_2]The Story[/url]
This kid is definitely going to grow up to be a badass.
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More like grow up to be withdrawn and have severe problems from trauma.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;16150563]Ernesto Che Guevara.
'Nuff said. Anyone who cares about Latin culture at all will love and respect this man.[/QUOTE]
Because i want to support a communist who was a evil man.
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[QUOTE=gamefreekv2;16152864]Thích Quảng Đức
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Burningmonk.jpg[/img]
Badass name too.[/QUOTE]
Takes balls to protest like that.
[IMG]http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla1.jpg[/IMG]
Nikola Tesla.
Because that's his office, and that's him at work in his chair.
(The White is electricity if you didn't twig it).
[QUOTE=Aurain;16155026][IMG]http://www.badassoftheweek.com/tesla1.jpg[/IMG]
Nikola Tesla.
Because that's his office, and that's him at work in his chair.
(The White is electricity if you didn't twig it).[/QUOTE]
I second that.
Rad Heroman, Lance Corporal, US Marines Corps.
FUCK. I wish I had his name, he better kick some goddamn ass.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Nkos4cPb8[/media]
A true badass....
Take a look
It's in a book
A reading rainboooowwwwww
[QUOTE=MachiniOs;16154774]Because i want to support a communist who was a evil man.
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Takes balls to protest like that.[/QUOTE]
It takes more than balls. I have balls. It takes testicles that could collapse into black holes.
[QUOTE=Ickylevel;16141204]Not everything ITT is badass.
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Bolt action rifle ? Don't be ridiculous . More like MG.
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I'm disturbed that vladimir putin wasn't mentioned.[/QUOTE]
He used an MG42 and when all the spare barrels overheated, he used a Kar98k while waiting for the MG barrels to cool down, rinsed and repeated until the Kar98k was unusable
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Also
Lewis Puller
and
Yakov Pavlov
[b]Theodore Roosevelt[/b]
He was giving a speech, he got shot, he continued for 2 fucking hours.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/80/TR-Xray.jpg[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0b/TR_Assissination_Bullet_Damage.jpg[/img]
His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
While Roosevelt was campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper named John Schrank shot him, but the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating both his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he wasn't coughing blood the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately. Instead, he delivered his scheduled speech with blood seeping into his shirt. He spoke for ninety minutes.
BADASS
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Already mentioned.
Miyamoto Musashi was definitely a badass. He was a Japanese swordsman in the 16th century. Musashi got his first kill at the age of 13, where he killed Arima Kigei, a highly trained and well armed samurai, with a stick and his bare hands. If you're still not convinced that he's a badass, then just read this:
Musashi's most well-known duel was in the seventeenth year of Keicho, 1612, when he was in Ogura in Bunzen province. His opponent was Sasaki Kojiro, a young man who had developed a strong fencing technique known as Tsubame-gaeshi, or "swallow counter", inspired by the motion of a swallow's tail in flight. Kojiro was retained by the lord of the province, Hosokawa Tadaoki. Musashi applied to Tadaoki for permission to fight Kojiro through the offices of one of the Hosokawa retainers who had been a pupil of Musashi's father, one Nagaoka Sato Okinaga. Permission was granted for the contest to be held at eight o'clock the next morning, and the place was to be an island some few miles from Ogura. That night Musashi left his lodging and moved to the house of Kobayashi Taro Zaemon. This inspired the rumor that awe of Kojiro's subtle technique had made Musashi run away afraid for his life. The next day at eight o'clock Musashi could not be woken until a prompter came from the officials assembled on the island. He got up, drank the water they brought to him to wash with, and went straight down to the shore. As Sato rowed across to the island Musashi fashioned a paper string to tie back the sleeves of his kimono, and cut a wooden sword from the spare oar. When he had done this he lay down to rest.
The boat neared the place of combat and Kojiro and the waiting officials were astounded to see the strange figure of Musashi, with his unkempt hair tied up in a towel, leap from the boat brandishing the long wooden oar and rush through the waves up the beach towards his enemy. Kojiro drew his long sword, a fine blade made by Nagamitsu of Bizen, and threw away his scabbard. "You have no more need of that" said Musashi as he rushed forward with his sword held to one side. Kojiro was provoked into making the first cut and Musashi dashed upward at his blade, [B]bringing the oar down on Kojiro's head[/B]. As Kojiro fell, his sword, which had cut the towel from Musashi's head, cut across the hem of his divided skirt. Musashi noted Kojiro's condition and bowed to the astounded officials before running back to his boat. Some sources have it that after he killed Kojiro Musashi threw down the oar and, nimbly leaping back several paces, drew both his swords and flourished them with a shout at his fallen enemy.
[I]He killed the bastard with a fuckin' oar![/I]
[B]It was about this time that Musashi stopped ever using real swords in duels. He was invincible, and from now on he devoted himself to the search for perfect understanding by way of Kendo.[/B]
For more info, read through the link provided below.
[url]http://www.samurai.com/5rings/transintro/life.html[/url]
I belong here :-)
[QUOTE=Case-Sensitive;16145451][url]http://www.bestgore.com/electrocution/high-voltage-electrocution-instant-death-video/[/url] this guy is a hero[/QUOTE]
Loved the sound it made.
Awesome fireworks too, and i belive his head caught on fire afterwards.
I say Blackbeard. He was shot 5 times and stabbed over 20 times and only collapsed because of a lack of blood. In that time he was still kicking ass. Then he was decapitated and his body was thrown overboard and then his body swam around the ship.
Fuck yeah.
[B]MEGATHREAD[/B]
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right - vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's just in the movies. And he doesn't drink human blood, though Edward and his family are unique among vampires in that lifestyle choice. To Edward, Bella is that thing he has waited 90 years for - a soul mate. But the closer they get, the more Edward must struggle to resist the primal pull of her scent, which could send him into an uncontrollable frenzy. Somehow or other, they will have to manage their unmanageable love. But when unexpected visitors come to town and realize that there is a human among them Edward must fight to save Bella? A modern, visual, and visceral Romeo and Juliet story of the ultimate forbidden love affair - between vampire and mortal. Written by Summit entertainment
Isabella Swan moves to gloomy Forks to live with her father. As she starts her junior year in high school she becomes fascinated by Edward Cullen who holds a dark secret which is only known by his family. Edward falls in love with Bella as well but knows the further they progress in their relationship the more he is putting Bella and those close to her at risk. Edward warns Bella that she should leave him but she refuses to listen and to understand why he is saying this. Bella learns his secret. He is a vampire, however she is not afraid of his blood-thirsty needs and the fact he could kill her at any moment. Bella is afraid of losing him, the love of her life. The thrill begins when a new vampire finds it a challenge to hunt Bella down for her irresistible blood. The game is on and James will not stop until she is killed. Written by courtney
Bella Swan is a clumsy, kind hearted teenager with a knack for getting into trouble. Edward Cullen is an intelligent, good looking vampire who is trying to hide his secret. Against all odds, the two fall in love but will a pack of blood thirsty trackers and the disapproval of their family and friends separate them? Written by LadyN1
Bella Swan was not expecting anything out of the ordinary to happen when she moved to live with her Dad in Forks, Washington. But this where her life truly begins. There she meets Edward Cullen, a mysterious and captivating student at her new high school. Bella soon discovers that Edward is hiding a secret, after he impossibly saves her life from a van with his super-human strength and speed. She is determined to unravel his secret, but the truth is more terrifying than she realized. Edward is a vampire. Any normal person would just keep away from him, but Edward and Bella have fallen passionately and unconditionally in love with each other. And so begins their forbidden relationship between a human and a vampire. But the young lovers soon discover that their troubles are only just about to begin. Written by Mel from the Untied Kingdom.
Twilight megathread
Twilight is a 2008 United States romantic-fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke and based on the novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. The protagonists of the film are Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, who are respectively played by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, respectively. The premise focuses on a teenage girl and a vampire who fall in love.
The project was in development for approximately three years at Paramount Pictures before it was put into pre-production by Summit Entertainment. The novel was adapted for the screen by Melissa Rosenberg in late 2007, shortly before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. The film was primarily shot in Washington and Oregon in early 2008. Twilight was released in theaters on November 21, 2008,[4] and grossed US$35.7 million on its opening day.[5] As of May 30, 2009, the film has grossed US$382,133,300 in worldwide box office[3] and $148,771,132 in North American DVD sales.[6] The soundtrack was released on November 4, 2008.[7]
Seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan moves to Forks, a small town near Washington state's rugged coast, to live with her father, Charlie, after her mother remarries to a minor league baseball player. She is quickly befriended by many students at her new high school, but she is intrigued by the mysterious and aloof Cullen siblings. Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in biology class on her first day of school; he appears to be disgusted by her, much to Bella's confusion. A few days later, Bella is nearly struck by a van in the school parking lot. Edward inexplicably moves from some feet away and stops the vehicle with his hand. He later refuses to explain this act to Bella and warns her against befriending him.
After much research, Bella eventually discovers that Edward is a vampire, though he only consumes animal blood. The pair fall in love and Edward introduces Bella to his vampire family, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie. Soon after, three nomadic vampires—James, Victoria, and Laurent—arrive. James, a tracker vampire, is intrigued by Edward's protectiveness over a human and wants to hunt Bella for sport. Edward and his family risk their lives to protect her, but James tracks Bella to Phoenix where she is hiding and lures her into a trap by claiming he is holding her mother hostage. James attacks Bella and bites her wrist, but Edward, along with the other Cullen family members, arrives before he can kill her. James is destroyed, and Edward sucks James's venom from Bella's wrist, preventing her from becoming a vampire. A severely injured Bella is taken to a hospital. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their school prom. While there, Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses. The film ends with Victoria secretly watching the pair dancing, plotting revenge for her lover James' murder.
Filming and post-production
Principal photography took 44 days,[36] after more than a week of rehearsals,[37] and completed on May 2, 2008.[38] Similar to her directorial debut thirteen, Hardwicke opted for an extensive use of hand-held cinematography to make the film "feel real".[10][39] Meyer visited the production set three times, and was consulted on different aspects of the story;[40] she also has a brief cameo in the film.[41] Cast members who portrayed vampires avoided sunlight to make their skin pale, though makeup was also applied for that effect, and wore contact lenses: "We did the golden color because the Cullens have those golden eyes. And then, when we're hungry, we have to pop the black ones in," Facinelli explained.[10] They also participated in rehearsals with a dance choreographer and observed the physicality of different panthera to make their bodily movements more graceful.[10][30][42]
Scenes were filmed primarily in Portland, Oregon.[12] Stunt work was done mainly by the cast.[43] The fight sequence between Gigandet and Pattinson's characters in a ballet studio, which was filmed during the first week of production, involved a substantial amount of wire work due to the fact that the vampires in the story have superhuman strength and speed.[42] Gigandet incorporated some mixed martial arts fighting moves in this sequence, which also involved chicken and honey as substitutes for flesh.[44] Bella, the protagonist, is unconscious during these events, and since the novel is told from her point of view, such action sequences are illustrative and unique to the film.[27] Pattinson noted that maintaining one's center of gravity is difficult when doing wire work "because you have to really fight against it as well as letting it do what it needs to do."[27] Lefèvre found the experience disorienting since forward motion is out of one's control in such work.[27]
Instead of shooting at Forks High School itself, scenes taking place at the school were filmed at Kalama High School[45] and Madison High School.[46] Other scenes were also filmed in St. Helens, Oregon,[47] and Hardwicke conducted some reshooting in Pasadena, California, in August.[36][48] The studio intended to create a series of at least three films based on Meyer's books,[8] and Summit had optioned New Moon by October 2008.[49] Twilight was originally scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on December 12, 2008, but its release date was changed to November 21 after Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was rescheduled for an opening in July 2009.[4] Two teaser trailers, as well as some additional scenes, were released for the film, as well as a final trailer which was released on October 9.[50][51] A 15-minute excerpt of Twilight was presented during the International Rome Film Festival in Italy.[52] The film received a rating of PG-13 from the Motion Picture Association of America for "some violence and a scene of sensuality".[53] It is rated 12A in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Comparison with the book
The filmmakers behind Twilight worked to create a film that was as faithful to the book as they thought possible when converting the story to another medium, with producer Greg Mooradian saying, "It's very important to distinguish that we're making a separate piece of art that obviously is going to remain very, very faithful to the book.... But at the same time, we have a separate responsibility to make the best movie you can make."[60] In order to ensure a faithful adaptation, author Stephenie Meyer was kept very involved in the production process, having been invited to visit the set during filming and even asked to give notes on the script and on a rough cut of the film.[61] Of this process, Meyer said, "It was a really pleasant exchange [between me and the filmmakers] from the beginning, which I think is not very typical. They were really interested in my ideas,"[62] and, "...they kept me in the loop and with the script, they let me see it and said, 'What are your thoughts?'... They let me have input on it and I think they took 90 percent of what I said and just incorporated it right in to the script."[61] Meyer fought for one line in particular, one of the most well-known from the book about "the lion and the lamb", to be kept verbatim in the movie: "I actually think the way Melissa [Rosenberg] wrote it sounded better for the movie...but the problem is that line is actually tattooed on peoples' bodies... But I said, 'You know, if you take that one and change it, that's a potential backlash situation.'"[61] Meyer was even invited to create a written list of things that could not be changed for the film, such as giving the vampires fangs or killing characters who don't die in the book, that the studio agreed to follow.[61][62] The consensus among critics is that the filmmakers succeeded in making a film that is very faithful to its source material,[63][64] with one reviewer stating that, with a few exceptions, "Twilight the movie is unerringly faithful to the source without being hamstrung by it."[65]
They could have filmed [the script developed when the project was at Paramount] and not called it Twilight because it had nothing to do with the book... When Summit [Entertainment] came into the picture, they were so open to letting us make rules for them, like "Okay, Bella cannot be a track star. Bella cannot have a gun or night vision goggles. And, no jet skis...."
—Twilight author Stephenie Meyer[18]
However, as is most often the case with book-to-film adaptations, differences exist between the movie and original source material. Certain scenes from the book were cut from the film, such as a biology room scene where Bella's class does blood typing. Hardwicke explains, "Well [the book is] almost 500 pages — you do have to do the sweetened condensed milk version of that.... We already have two scenes in biology: the first time they're in there and then the second time when they connect. For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over. So that's not in there."[66] The settings of certain conversations in the book were also changed to make the scenes more "visually dynamic" on-screen, such as Bella revealing that she knows Edward is a vampire in a meadow in the film, as opposed to in Edward's car in the novel.[66] A biology field trip scene is added to the movie, in order to condense the moments of Bella's frustration at trying to explain how Edward saved her from being crushed by a van.[60] One of the largest changes was the introduction of the villainous vampires much earlier in the film than they appear in the book, with Rosenberg explaining that, "you don't really see James and the other villains until to the last quarter of the book, which really won't work for a movie. You need that ominous tension right off the bat. We needed to see them and that impending danger from the start. And so I had to create back story for them, what they were up to, to flesh them out a bit as characters."[23] Rosenberg also combined some of the human high school students, with Lauren Mallory and Jessica Stanley becoming the character of Jessica in the movie, and a "compilation of a couple of different human characters" becoming Eric Yorkie.[24] About these variances from the book, Mooradian stated, "I think we did a really judicious job of distilling [the book]. Our greatest critic, Stephenie Meyer, loves the screenplay, and that tells me that we made all the right choices in terms of what to keep and what to lose. Invariably, you're going to lose bits and pieces that certain members of the audience are going to desperately want to see, but there's just a reality that we're not making 'Twilight: The Book' the movie."[60]
As of April 23, 2009, the film has made $191,465,414 in the United States and Canada, and a further $188,447,533 in international territories for a total of $379,912,947 worldwide.[3]
Critical reception
Based on 187 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes as of February 14, 2009, the film has received an overall "Rotten" rating of 49%, with a weighted average score of 5.5/10.[70] In describing the critical consensus, it stated: "Having lost much of its bite transitioning to the big screen, Twilight will please its devoted fans, but do little for the uninitiated."[70] By comparison, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, calculated an average score of 56 from the 37 reviews it collected, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[71] New York Press critic Armond White called the film "a genuine pop classic",[72] and praised Hardwicke for turning "Meyer's book series into a Brontë-esque vision."[73] Roger Ebert gave the film two-and-a-half stars out of four and wrote, "I saw it at a sneak preview. Last time I saw a movie in that same theater, the audience welcomed it as an opportunity to catch up on gossip, texting, and laughing at private jokes. This time the audience was rapt with attention".[74] In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, "Twilight is unabashedly a romance. All the story's inherent silliness aside, it is intent on conveying the magic of meeting that one special person you've been waiting for. Maybe it is possible to be 13 and female for a few hours after all".[75] USA Today gave the film two out of four stars and Claudia Puig wrote, "Meyer is said to have been involved in the production of Twilight, but her novel was substantially more absorbing than the unintentionally funny and quickly forgettable film".[76] Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B" rating and Owen Gleiberman praised Hardwicke's direction: "She has reconjured Meyer's novel as a cloudburst mood piece filled with stormy skies, rippling hormones, and understated visual effects".[77]
I thought thart Twilight wasnt too bad and that everyone should stop bitching about how its no good
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Because I'm a commie:
Vladimir Lenin:
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And the Bond villain himself Vladimir Putin:
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Wow, those pictures are bigger than I thought.
[QUOTE=Poltergeist Three;16142235]Klaus "Badass" Störtebeker!
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Störtebeker[/url]
Only he is badass enough to stand up and walk several meters after having lost his head.
I know this is a legend, but I like to think there is something true about it. Even if it's not true he still qualifies as a badass because he was a pirate. Just read his biography, that dude is meeean.[/QUOTE]
Why hasn't he been added to the OP yet? >:(
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