Your Favourite Historical Badass

[LorChan]

Has nobody said it yet? Joan of Arc!

She's not my favorite because she's a woman, she's my favorite because she is the only person I've heard of making even a half-assed escape attempt when captured by the enemy, and that was jumping out of a 70 foot tower and trying not to break her leg when she landed.
Also, the English actually had to double check to make sure she was dead. After they burned her to death. Then they tossed the ashes into the river. She was great.

 

[TheLastCylon]

Ya just can't argue with results. Plus I always feel he gets a undeserved bad reputation. Fucking propaganda.
Plus awesome moustache and his charisma was awesome! [sup]No cookie for reference.[/sup]

How exactly does Hitler not deserve his bad reputation?


OT: George Patton. Everything that comes out of his mouth is hilarious.

 

[Slythernite]

Giles Corey. Asked for more weight as they crushed him in the Salem Witch Trials.

 

[Deathkingo]

The most powerful lumberjack known to man.


Abraham Lincoln.

 

[Basiritz]

Miyamato Musashi, dude killed a grown man when he was 13. And later in life started using a wooden sword cause killing people with a real one was too easy. He spent his life fighting in combat... and then managed to die of old age.

 

[damselgaming]

Mulan.

I don't care if she wasn't real!

Based on a real person, but the real one was actually a rebel against the government at the time (can't remeber which dynasty).


I'd chose Boudica. I know she screwed some stuff up badly and lost because of it, but she was still badass.

What a choice! Up until the age of 10 my everyone called me Bou (boo), after her. There was a reason, I can't remember why, I think I was just a rebel. I should really ask my parents about that.

 

[Imat]

Napoleon for the French (And yes, I consider him French), Churchill for the Brits, Julius for the Italians (Sry Italy, I just haven't seen the same caliber out of you since the Empire), Hitler for the Germans (Though there are plenty to choose from), Stalin for the Russians (Again, plenty of candidates), Jackson for us Americans, and, in a show of how much respect I have for this relatively small island nation, King Richard the Lion Hearted. These men will forever hold that special place in my heart reserved for the greatest of the great.

 

[Joey245]

Theodore Roosevelt. Just...you can't argue with that.

 

[APLovecraft]

Reinhart Heydrich

 

[bmart008]

King Leonidas of Sparta obviously.

 

[bmart008]

Rasputin... I mean, seriously, the shit this guy went through, being stabbed and mutilated, being poisoned and beaten and shot and the reason he died was because he could get to surface in time to breath.

If you go to the erotica museum in St.Petersburg Russia they have his penis on display. No joke, that thing was freaking disgusting man!

But obviously, given the opportunity to see it, I had to, mathematically.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Yes, he was a real person.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

Ganghis Khan

Bloody well Ninja'd.


But it's got to be Genghis.

Unifying the entire of Mongolia, then conquering the entire known world, then conquering most of the unknown world as well. Not bad for one man in one lifetime.

I agree, and the dude died while haveing sex. I mean how else would you want to go?

 

[zyoto12]

Either Rommel, Jack the Ripper, Saladin, or Napoleon.

 

[BatOtaku13]

Abraham Lincoln. Great president and humanitarian; besides, nobody will ever be able to top sheer pimpness of that hat.

 

[MONSTERheart]

It's a toss up between John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald.

Both have bitchin' names and changed the flow of American history for the better.