# Most Bad Ass Movie Character Ever... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323 "2003-06-03T06:39:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/21 "2003-06-03T14:05:54Z")
Ash? Who’s that? “Dying ain’t much of a living, boy.” - Isn’t that from _Unforgiven_? Humphrey Bogart, in pretty much everything he was in. ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/22 "2003-06-03T14:17:16Z")
How about Big Chris from **Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels**? The huge bald soccer player? Man, he was a badass. ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/23 "2003-06-03T14:23:50Z")
Bullet tooth Tony, from ‘Snatch’. Just for the 'shot six times… In one sitting." Story. Also from ‘Snatch’, the Pikey. Watch the man fight. Nuff said. Leon, from ‘The Professional’. Not only a badass, but in a movie that showed he was more than just that. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/24 "2003-06-03T14:45:00Z")
Shoot, I got beat to Ash. Yet no one has mentioned Samuel L. Jackson as Jules in Pulp Fiction. Ezikiel 25:17, anyone? Total badass. Eric Draven from the first Crow. He’ll come back from the dead for the express purpose of killing your ass. ---
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/25 "2003-06-03T14:46:37Z")
Oh, come on! Everybody knows the biggest, baddest bad-ass character in movie history was none other than the original Terminator, of whom was said the following: > [@](#): > > You can’t bargain with it, or plead with it. It doesn’t feel pity or remorse or fear, and it absolutely will not stop until you are dead! 'Nuff said! 😉 Barry ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/26 "2003-06-03T14:47:33Z")
The Terminator loses points for wussing out and being all protective in the last two movies. Real bad guys don’t wuss out. ---
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/27 "2003-06-03T14:51:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > \*\*The Terminator loses points for wussing out and being all protective in the last two movies. Real bad guys don’t wuss out. \*\* That’s precisely why I specified the **original** Terminator, doncha know. The second two movies starred different characters (albeit played by the same actor). Barry ---
**Author:** ![Cataclysm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Cataclysm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cataclysm)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/28 "2003-06-03T15:01:41Z")
I’m sorry, but unless someone explains exactly who Ash is, I’m going to keep assuming you mean that whinging kid from Pokemon. And boy what a badass he is! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/29 "2003-06-03T15:06:09Z")
Bruce the shark from JAWS ---
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/30 "2003-06-03T15:09:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cataclysm \* > \*\*I’m sorry, but unless someone explains exactly who Ash is, I’m going to keep assuming you mean that whinging kid from Pokemon. > > And boy what a badass he is! \*\* Sorry, I thought you were joking. Ash was the character played by Bruce Cambell in the three “Evil Dead” movies (including the third one that was called “Army of Darkness”). Not too bright, but full of wisecracks and able to defeat an army of the undead with a shotgun and a chainsaw attached to the stump of his arm. Barry ---
**Author:** ![godzillatemple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@godzillatemple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godzillatemple)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/31 "2003-06-03T15:11:59Z")
Sorry, that should be “[Campbell](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Campbell,+Bruce+(I))” and not “Cambell.” Just in case you want to look him up at [www.imdb.com](http://www.imdb.com) Barry ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/32 "2003-06-03T15:12:02Z")
I’ve got to go with Frank, Henry Fonda’s character in [_Once Upon a Time in the West_.](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0064116), simply because watching Henry Fonda play such an evil bastard is soooooo creepy! What amazing casting! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/33 "2003-06-03T15:13:50Z")
Fie on Ash. the Man With No Name was the original badass of badasses. And lest we forget: Darth Vader, at least in “Star Wars” and “The Empire Strikes Back,” and before he became a “Real World” contestant. ---
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/34 "2003-06-03T15:15:29Z")
I second the Pikey from Snatch, although I think being played by Brad Pitt takes away from his overal badasstivity. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/35 "2003-06-03T15:22:11Z")
Kayser Houze from Usual Suspects. When bad guys took his family hostage, he personally killed his entire family, just to make a point. Then he killed all the bad guys. Now, that’s badass. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/36 "2003-06-03T15:22:11Z")
Who’s the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks? (Shaft!) You’re damn right Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man? (Shaft!) Can ya dig it? Who’s the cat that won’t cop out when there’s danger all about (Shaft!) Right on You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother– (Shut your mouth) But I’m talkin’ about Shaft (Then we can dig it) He’s a complicated man but no one understands him but his woman (John Shaft) ---
**Author:** ![Hambone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/58f4c7/32.png) [@Hambone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hambone)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/37 "2003-06-03T16:24:25Z")
“dieing aint much of a living boy” is from The outlaw Jesse Wales. He’s getting my vote. now spit ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/38 "2003-06-03T16:25:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GMRyujin \* > **Yet no one has mentioned Samuel L. Jackson as Jules in Pulp Fiction. Ezikiel 25:17, anyone? Total badass.** Thank you! I was wondering who was going to break Jules out of the bag. Jules is also one of the more quotable badasses – not just for Ezekial 25:17: “… my wallet is the one that says 'Bad Mother Fucker” on it." “… We’re gonna be like three little Fonzies here. And what’s Fonzie like? … Cool, correctamundo …” “What does Marcellus Wallace look like? … Does he look like a bitch?” “I’m sorry … did I break your concentration?” ---
**Author:** ![Optihut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/edb3f5/32.png) [@Optihut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Optihut)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/39 "2003-06-03T16:34:01Z")
Another vote for Darth Vader. “Apology accepted, Captain Needa!” “The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am!” Man, those lines are still sending chills down my spine. Definitely my kind of hero :eek: ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323/40 "2003-06-03T16:51:39Z")
I am a RAVING Ash fanatic but… I am gonna have to chime in here and throw out a name. John McClaine I am sorry but this guy takes the cake. He is not going for big grandstanding or heroic jack-assery. He practically is just a tough ass bastard to kill and really really HATES bad guys. But think of it this way he has: -Jumped off a building wearing a fire hose to survive not being burned alive -Blown up by a ship -Got water cannoned out of a Resivoir outlet -Survived a subway car rollover -Ran across glass barefoot to escape bad guys -Killed 5 ex soldiers in close combat elevator gun fighting -Stood in his underwear wearing a sign in Harlem that could get you erased from existance All while greasing bad guys, saving countless others, and being able to crack a good joke at his predicament. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bad-ass-movie-character-ever/179323.md?page=3)