The main character is never the biggest badass.

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Escapefromwhatever

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Well, since you seem to be talking about anime, I'm going to throw Spike Spiegel out there as the biggest badass in Cowboy Bebop. Followed immediately by Ein, of course.
 

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Lolth17 said:
I'm gonna say Shepard is the biggest badass in Mass Effect. You can argue Wrex, Legion, Saren, etc, but the entire universe respects/fears/wants to have sex with the Shep. Can't get more badass than that.
Legion is bad ass, like super bad ass, as ass of bad as you can get.
But Shepard is pretty cool, but not a bad ass
 

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I was going to mention War from Darksiders but that game isn't really the pinnacle of character design, and he does spend a lot of time trying to be Kratos anyway.
 

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Your character inf allout 3 can be the biggest bad ass. I mean i nuked megaton and slaughtered every town that didnt have quests 4 me 4 gods sake.
 

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Stranger 517 said:
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It's always been my personal belief that the biggest badass in anything is never the main character. He/she may be a main character, but never the main character. To run down examples off the top of my head --

Rurouni Kenshin - Hajime Saito,

Dragon Ball Z - Heavily debatable, but for being consistently badass, gonna have to go with Vegeta,

Yu-Gi-Oh! - Seto Kaiba,

Poke'mon - Lance,

and Full Metal Alchemist - Again heavily debatable, but I'm going with Pride/Fuhrer King Bradley --

just to name a few.

Now I've been trying to think of exceptions for this rule, but I'm drawing a blank. How about you guy/gals?

Also I understand this is all opinion based, so please no flaming.
You gave examples of quite possibly the least most badass shows/characters ever.

Splinter Cell, Sam fisher is a beast.

GTA IV. Niko Belic is quite possibly the most badass guy..ever.

Assassins Creed, Altiar.

Gears of War, Marcus.

God of War
Prototype
Oblivion and Fallout (both of which you are pretty badass)
Halo
Why I agree with most of your points, I just want to point out that Altiar is not a badass, just an ass.
Assassins Creed 2
And omg yess splinter cell, even in conviction he still owns the bad assery market.
 

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...Any Bioware character..ANY OF THEM..

The best example of a character who is not Badass until sometime later?

Naruto and Kenchi.

Naruto is well know for being a little wuss...from his fans and outside of his fanbase...Until last year when he went balls out and kick Nagato Ass.

The next example?

Kenchi is so weak for the entire series...then, after confronting the show's big bad...he decided to get crazy awesome.


I only wish for two things:

A video of Naruto going Sage mode.
And more Keichi...Sniff to good to last...Thank god for the Manga.
 

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seydaman said:
Lolth17 said:
I'm gonna say Shepard is the biggest badass in Mass Effect. You can argue Wrex, Legion, Saren, etc, but the entire universe respects/fears/wants to have sex with the Shep. Can't get more badass than that.
Legion is bad ass, like super bad ass, as ass of bad as you can get.
But Shepard is pretty cool, but not a bad ass
If you play him the way I do, he is :)
 

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Aura Guardian said:
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Rurouni Kenshin...
Nuff said.
Kenshin? Really? Put him up against Saito Hajime in terms of pure, unadulterated badass, and Kenshin loses. And even Aoshi Shinomori has him beat. Sano, maybe; but that would be pushing it.

And as far as "Badass Main Characters" goes, Sam Fisher, Solid Snake, Travis Touchdown (I'm only half joking), Dante from DMC, Kyle Katarn. That's all I can come up with off the top of my head though.

Oh! Anything Bruce Willis or Russel Crowe does if we're including movies.

Also, Space Marines in general.

Lastly, Kirby.
 

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seydaman said:
Lolth17 said:
I'm gonna say Shepard is the biggest badass in Mass Effect. You can argue Wrex, Legion, Saren, etc, but the entire universe respects/fears/wants to have sex with the Shep. Can't get more badass than that.
Legion is bad ass, like super bad ass, as ass of bad as you can get.
But Shepard is pretty cool, but not a bad ass
Legion is the vanguard of a race of super-machines that are hell bent on eradicating all life in the galaxy. He's probably already killed billions of living organisms and, had he not been cast as the villain and required to die, would have gone on with the happy slaughter. Not to mention his voice was just out and out scary.
 

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Xeros said:
and Full Metal Alchemist - Again heavily debatable, but I'm going with Pride/Fuhrer King Bradley --
And I'm going to go with Colonel Mustang because...
He kills Pride.
So your point holds true there, but only if we judge by how badarse the character is, because Edward is the most powerful.
But thats just in Fullmetal, you're wrong if we look at Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate, Saints Row 2, Doctor Who, 24, Firefly, Angel or Splinter Cell, to name a few.
 

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D Bones said:
lee1287 said:
gears of war 2. Marcus?
I was thinking that too. But Augustus Cole is pretty bad ass. So was Tai, before....well, you know.
That's a good point. Tai was badass before...damn you Locust bastards! Why did you have to break his spirit like that?! I hope you all die!

Back to the topic, I'd have to say that Nathan Hale is the biggest badass in the Resistance series because he takes down the entire Chimera network in Britain and manages to deliver a nuke to the main Chimeran fleet over the Gulf of Mexico. Too bad he turned at the end of Reistance 2.
 

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Ghost in a Shell: THE MAJOR, Aramaki... hell, the entirety of that team.
 

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A velociraptor said:
seydaman said:
Lolth17 said:
I'm gonna say Shepard is the biggest badass in Mass Effect. You can argue Wrex, Legion, Saren, etc, but the entire universe respects/fears/wants to have sex with the Shep. Can't get more badass than that.
Legion is bad ass, like super bad ass, as ass of bad as you can get.
But Shepard is pretty cool, but not a bad ass
Legion is the vanguard of a race of super-machines that are hell bent on eradicating all life in the galaxy. He's probably already killed billions of living organisms and, had he not been cast as the villain and required to die, would have gone on with the happy slaughter. Not to mention his voice was just out and out scary.
Um...wut
Legion was never portrayed as a villain and never required to die
I think you didn't play Mass Effect 2....