The main character is never the biggest badass.

[Fox242]

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.

As an XBox 360 owner, Resistance is a series I'm very jealous of. I played bits and pieces of the first game's campaign and had a blast. You still don't hear much about it, I feel like it doesn't get the exclusive respect it deserves. It sounds like you enjoyed the second game's campaign, is it good? I have a good friend with a PS3, I talked him into getting the first one, I can try to talk him into getting 2, lol.

The sigle player campaign is pretty damn awesome. It jumps around the continental U.S. and Iceland quite a bit and there some interesting bosses. It's definitely a worthy sequel. You really should talk your friend into getting 2 because it is a great experience.

 

[DominoSmith]

Johnny Gat is one of the most baad-assed people in existance. 'nuff said.

 

[FightThePower]

Samus Aran comes to mind.

 

[primitivescrewhead]

Alien series - Ripley is the badass

 

[dark707]

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, has no one thought of this yet.

ALEX MERCER, HE CAN DESTROY A CITY WITH SPIKES

 

[Johnny Cain]

Prototype: Alex Mercer is far from the most 'badass' character in the game. He does however win the award for biggest jackass. Remorselessly mowing down civilians left and right who are just trying to go about their daily grind to keep themselves sane as the world descends into hell around them.

 

[Leatherface515]

Serious Sam
Johnny Gat
Gordon Freeman

 

[XJ-0461]

Counter examples:
Batman
Wolverine (solo series at least)
John McClane
Mario
Ratchet
Ghost Rider
Wonder Woman (don't look at me like that)
The Doctor

 

[Neonsilver]

In the anime md geist, the main character is the biggest badass.

 

[Lavi]

Hellsing- Alucard

This thread has been won, thank you, good day.

Pfft, you know Integra is wearing the pants there eh?

 

[NoblePhilistineFox]

Mario! In the Mario Games! Very bad ass.

what about bowser, hes way cooler than some fat plumber who uses performance inhancing mushrooms.
or geno, nuff said.

 

[GiantSpiderGoat]

Berserk - Gutts (gatsu)

any Samuel l Jackson movie

 

[AgDr_ODST]

in keeping with the idea of the OP that the main character isn't the biggest badass. I've devised my own small list:
Halo- Sgt. Johnson
Half Life 2- d0g
Gears of War- Cole
GTA: San Andreas- Woozie
Batman- Bane
WoW- Leroy Jenkins
Now breaking away from the list:
Kratos, Commander Shepard, Sam Fisher, Altair&Ezio, Alex Mercer, Max Payne, Lynch, John Marston.

 

[AlphaOmega]

Kamina, Gurren Lagann

 

[TriggerHappyAngel]

Lyn in Fire Emblem :]

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

gears of war 2. Marcus?

cole is way more badass

THAT'S BLASPHEMY!

I'm going to warn you only once. It is not in your best interest to stop the cole train.

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

Cowboy Bebop, Spike Spiegel.

 

[hopeneverdies]

Spoiler: Roy, the main character

and

Spoiler: Rutger, a minor character

I pick badasses for avatars. Guess which one made it.

 

[Palademon]

Search Bar Approved (as far as I could find)

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,

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

EDIT: Syphon Filter - Anton Girdeux

Mega Man - Proto Man

Kirby - Meta Knight

Zelda - Sheik

Batman - Deadshot

Spider Man - Venom (or Carnage)
--

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.

EDIT: OP has been edited so all the examples aren't nothing but anime. That was a tad narrow-mined of me. I'd also like to add that this rule has been extensively shot down, but new responses are still welcome.

I think about half the ones you just mentioned I would argue that the main character IS the most badass

 

[Chiefmon]

Hellsing- Alucard

This thread has been won, thank you, good day.

Don't forget Walter!

Are you ACTUALLY going to argue that Walter is a bigger badass than Alucard?