The most Badass person in history.

[Ruedyn]

So after looking at the greatest men in history, I was simply wondering who the Escapists favorite badasses are.

My vote goes for Mad Jack Churchill. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill]

Also, I'm sure this has already been a thread, but I do not care. That much. Every time you mention it my soul will break more

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

As a fan of military history, Simo Hayha [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4] stands out as one of the most badass individual soldiers of the 20th century. 505 confirmed sniper kills in less than 100 days? That's badassery.

 

[DugMachine]

Already 2 straight off a Cracked list haha. But they are two badasses to be sure.

Obligatory Teddy Roosevelt. He hunted large African game, gave speeches with a bullet in his chest and had a moustache a walrus would be jealous of.

Oh and he didn't afraid of anything

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Well, there was Louis Cyr, the strongest man ever. Lifted 500 pounds with three fingers, and fought off an entire mob of drunken Irishmen by throwing them off the bridge into the Rideau Canal.

 

[bdcjacko]

The correct answer is Jesus H. Christ.

 

[Ruedyn]

The correct answer is Jesus H. Christ.

I'll only take it if it's his real name.

No googling :|

 

[excalipoor]

Bruce Lee [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee] is the obvious answer. Pound for pound, likely one of the strongest men ever.

I'm also partial to Risto Ryti [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risto_Ryti], the fifth President of Finland. He's not a badass in any traditional sense of the word though. What he did was, he basically cheated aid against the Soviet Union out of Germany. In 1944, Ryti made a "personal" agreement with the German foreign minister, Ribbentrop, to continue fighting the Soviets in exchange for supplies (which Finland was running low on at this point) from Germany.

The Finnish front now bolstered by Germany, the Red Army soon decided that the war just wasn't worth the trouble, and peace talks were ready to begin again. That's when Ryti resigned as President and declared that his agreement with Ribbentrop was completely informal, and with him alone, not Finland.

The plan wasn't his alone, but he's the one who ended up taking the fall for it. Pressured by the Soviet Union, he was tried as responsible for the Continuation war and sentenced to ten years. He never served the full sentence, as he was hospitalized in 1949 and paroled some time after. He died in 1956 at the age of 67, due to his failing health.

It's just so deliciously devious.

 

[Tortilla the Hun]

Capt. William E. Fairbairn has my vote.

Quite an interesting career if you ask me, militarily and...well, I guess that was really his only career.

 

[CMDDarkblade]

U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt, to paraphrase a contemporary of his, "Death had to take Teddy Roosevelt while he slept, because if he had been awake there would have been a fight".

 

[Ljs1121]

I quite like Andrew Jackson (Outstanding racism aside, that is).

He was a pretty good officer in the military and remains the only president under whom the national debt was completely paid off. A potential assassin misfired two pistols at him in a row at point-blank range[footnote]Both guns were proven to be in working order and had no reason to misfire. Bullets themselves feared Jackson[/footnote][footnote]Also legend has it that he beat the guy who tried to shoot him with his cane. I don't know about anyone else but if someone tried to shoot me I'd probably be balled up in a corner crying for the next hour[/footnote], he didn't even blink when he was shot an inch from his heart in a duel[footnote]He shortly proceeded to win said duel[/footnote] and when asked about regrets of his presidency, he said he only had two: that he was "unable to shoot Henry Clay or to hang John C. Calhoun".

Also, it was said that he had so many bullets inside him that he rattled like a bag of marbles when he walked. That sounds like a pretty cool reputation to me.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Alexander.

If Philip had had anyone else as a son, he would have been called "the Great". As it is, he's "Alexander's father".

He conquered places no Greek had ever heard of. He once took an arrow in the lung, and got back up and rode around in front of his army to show how uninjured he was. He once got clipped in the head by a catapult stone, and had blurred vision for months. Once attacking an enemy fortress, he was cut off on the enemy walls, and his forces broke their siege ladders in their rush to save him. With nowhere else to go, he went forwards, and his army burst in and slaughtered everyone in fear that he'd been hurt. He conquered the island fortress of Tyre by turning it into the peninsula fortress of Tyre.

All before he was 34. He was basically playing on god mode, until he died suddenly from illness and drink.

 

[FalloutJack]

Bruce Lee [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_lee] is the obvious answer. Pound for pound, likely one of the strongest men ever.

There's no maybe about that. The one and only joke about Chuck Norris that I like is that he and Bruce challenged each other with a fight, and the loser had to wear a stupid cowboy hat. Heh heh heh heh... You know how THAT went down.

Bruce Lee was a man of strength, and also of wisdom. The world is greatly diminished without him.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Alexander.

If Philip had had anyone else as a son, he would have been called "the Great". As it is, he's "Alexander's father".

Nah, Philip would still be known as 'Cyclops'! =P

As a fan of military history, Simo Hayha [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4] stands out as one of the most badass individual soldiers of the 20th century. 505 confirmed sniper kills in less than 100 days? That's badassery.

Y'know, I think he'd be more impressed by the 100+ guys he killed with his submachinegun than the snipe kills...

OT: Ehm...

Horatio Nelson, got his arm blown off, got his eye blown out, shrapnel sheared part of his scalp down so he ended up fighting half a battle with a 3in flap of skin over his good eye, patented the 'Nelson bridge for capturing enemy ships' (which was another ship, his vessel, the 74-gun Captain was so trashed, he broadsided a Spanish 1st rater, boarded and captured her, before boarding and capturing the ship the other side which had been tangled up by the rigging). And get this, he was only 5'4".

Erich Hartmann, best fighter ace in history, 352 recorded kills and only one of two pilots to have 300+ kills (ever), the other one being Gerhard Barkhorn... with 301. -_-

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

I'm gonna go with the hypothetical unknown person/neanderthall who made the first step in creating the bond between Man and Dog. Don't know who, don't know how, but someone had to have done something involving the wolf, one of the most successful predators in the wild and set the stage for turning them into the original companion animal. And I'm fairly sure that they would have been one hell of a badass for that act alone.

 

[Ingjald]

As Simo Häyhä, Bruce Lee and Teddy Roosevelt have all been mentioned, I'm gonna go with Audie Murphy. Saw his best friend get killed, so 5'5" 110 lbs Audie decided to go ballistic on them, murdered a german machine gun nest by himself and turned their gun around on their own. And thats just one example of the brass pair on this guy.

 

[Eddie the head]

I quite like Andrew Jackson (Outstanding racism aside, that is).

He was a pretty good officer in the military and remains the only president under whom the national debt was completely paid off. A potential assassin misfired two pistols at him in a row at point-blank range[footnote]Both guns were proven to be in working order and had no reason to misfire. Bullets themselves feared Jackson

Also, it was said that he had so many bullets inside him that he rattled like a bag of marbles when he walked. That sounds like a pretty cool reputation to me.

Yeah he was like my relative by adoption or something. Like his adopted kid I am blood related to so yeah, Old Hickory interesting fellow. Kind of a bad ass. But I got to agree with the OP Jack Churchill takes the cake. Sword, D-Day, Grenades, Bagpipes, just walked out. Yeah.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Joseph Stalin

Highest killcount in history!

(thats a joke dont lynch me)

I think Mao was higher, though I'm not sure.

I'm gonna go with the hypothetical unknown person/neanderthall who made the first step in creating the bond between Man and Dog. Don't know who, don't know how, but someone had to have done something involving the wolf, one of the most successful predators in the wild and set the stage for turning them into the original companion animal. And I'm fairly sure that they would have been one hell of a badass for that act alone.

Good pick...though IIRC, some people think it might have been a jackal.

 

[Starik20X6]

Ian Flemming has to be up there, considering he based James Bond's life on his own experiences as an intelligence officer during WWII.