Most Bad Ass Movie Character Ever...

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I had a discussion about this with some friends today. At first I was tempted to say someone like Indiana Jones or Ash, but then someone else came to mind.

Andy DuFresne.

He may not strike you as a bad ass ™ at first, but when you get down do it, he really was. The stunt with Hadley the guard on the roof, fighting off rapists, spending 2 months in solitary confinement for calling Warden Norton “obtuse,” and of course, what I think of as the greatest prison escape in cinematic history top off my list for Mr. DuFresne’s induction into the Bad Ass Hall of Fame.

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Yet he did it all with nary a “Gimme some sugar, baby” or “Groovy.” Ash is clearly superior to Andy.

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One post and somebody beats to me to Ash?

Crap.

goes to sulk

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John Russell from Hombre.

“Hey. I got a question. How are you planning to get back down that hill?” while holding a rifle on an unarmed man.

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Blade

And that’s the bottom line

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From your first (or second?) post, I can tell that you are a man (woman?) of refined character.

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Clint Eastwood’s repeated incarnations of “The Man With No Name” in the Leone westerns and his self-directed 70’s westerns.

Choice lines (some paraphrased from memory)

“My percentage goes down, my aim gets worse”

“Dying ain’t much of a living, boy.”

“Hell with them boys. Buzzards got to eat just like the worms.”

And, in “A Fistful Of Dollars”, when he’s asked if he likes or doesn’t like the idea of “peace”:

“Kind of hard for a man to like something he doesn’t know anything about.”

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Snake Plissken (or in fact any character played by Kurt Russell in any John Carpenter Film, besides Elvis: The Movie)

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Don’t forget the Duke! John Wayne rules.

And Wolverine was pretty cool, too. HUgh Jackman did a great job.

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“I ain’t got time to bleed!”

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I’ll second Andy Dufresne. I should watch that film again.
“Obtuse” - gotta love it.

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I came into this thread thinking of that particular film, but another character in it: Richard Boone’s looming, vicious bad guy (and incidentally, the unarmed man mentioned above). Probably not so incidentally, Boone’s character also shows (at the start of the film) that he has no qualms about shooting an unarmed man (a soldier whose stagecoach ticket Boone wants); I’m sure the parallels of being perpetrator and victim of the same injustice are deliberate.

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John Preston in Equilibrium.

Definitly a contender. “No. Not without incident.”

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Witout a doubt, that would be Pootie Tang

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Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity. Doesn’t get any badder. “It’s you and me, straight down the line.”

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I’ll second John Preston. And raise you Rowdy Rowdy Piper from They Live. Any man who can issue the phrase: “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I’m all out of bubblegum” with a straight face gets points in my book.

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Duke Togo a.k.a. Golgo 13

World’s top assassin. Master of hand-to-hand combat. Irresistable to women. Completely devoid of human sentiment.

Most famous quote: “…”

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He’s a ri-dee-do on the tippy tai. Wah dah tah.

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Mr. White - Reservoir Dogs.

Tough guy. Thinking guy. Righteous dude.

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Lee Marvin as Walker in Point Blank
now thats hardcore.
cant go wrong with old school, like R Lee Ermey in full metal jacket as well.
“Did your parents have any children that lived!!?” etc etc
heh.

i also second jesse ventura in predator. hes a goddamn sexual tyrannosaur.