Top 10 Badass Characters of all time

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[punches him in the face, grabs him and points his gun right at his throat] I never said anything about the FBI. She's my partner, ese. And if anything happens to her, I will find you and I will kill you. I won't think twice. Come here, look in my eyes. [pushes barrel of the gun into his mouth and cocks it] Look at my face. If anything happens to her, I will kill you. This is between you and me, and nobody sees, nobody knows.

Machete

-John Mclane is pretty badass
-idk if u guys count this, but how about Pablo Escobar in Blow?-small role, but one hell of a badass
-Denzel in Training Day..forgot his characters name
-Jules Winnfield

Mad Max.

Mickey Rourke in Sin City.

I agree, Machete is a badass

Also:

Jet Li: Unleashed
Leonidas: 300
"V": V for Vendetta
Morpheus: Matrix
Denzel Washington: Man on Fire
William Wallace: Braveheart
Captain Spaulding: The Devil's Rejects
Otis Driftwood: The Devil's Rejects

There are more badasses than just comic book heros.

K, I'll give it my best.
1. Darth Vader (How can none of you guys have him on your list, c'mon!)
2. Kevin Spacey in Seven
3. Gunnery Sgt. Hartman (Full Metal Jacket)
4. Mr. Pink (Reservoir Dogs)
5. Christopher Walken (Suicide Kings)
6. Jack Nicholson (the Shining)
7. Michael Corleone (Godfather series)
8. Al Paccino (Scarface)
9. The Joker (Jack Nicholson, and hopefully Heath Ledger too)
10. Terminator 1

Well, I guess this is more of a top 10 villain list instead of badass, but each of these guys was a badass in their own regard.

#1-Predator
#2-T-1000
#3-T-800
#4-Kingpin (Comics)
#5-Frank Castle (Comics)
#6-Snake Pliskin
#7-Marcellus Wallace
#8-Simon Gruber
#9-Hans Gruber
#10-Mace Windu

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...uh the post is up there...

Snake Plisskin and John McClane definitely need to find their way onto your list, but... you've forgotten the #1 all-time badass:

Jack Burton! Nobody beats ol' Jack - "It's all in the reflexes."

You know what Jack Burton always says at a time like this...

Some of these you might think WTF, but these are the ones i have grown to adore over the years.

1. Simon Phoenix (Demolition Man)
2. T-1000 (Terminator 2)
3. Vic Deakins (Broken Arrow)
4. Simon Gruber (Die Hard With A Vengeance)
5. Mr Smith (Nick Of Time)
6. Cirrus The Virus (Con Air)
7. Warren 'Red' Barr (Breakdown)
8. Andrew Scott (Universal Soldier)
9. Gregor (Ronin)
10. Tommy DeVito (Goodfellas)

Jack Burton was too much of a joke to be considered genuinely badass like everyone else mentioned thus far.

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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

How about Henry Fonda as Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West?

Morton: Tell me, was it necessary that you kill all of them? I only told you to scare them.

Frank: People scare better when they're dyin'

Cold

No actor listed twice (sorry Clint), and not in any particular order...

John Wayne (He surpasses all characters)

The Man With No Name (So badass people thought he was a ghost!)

Arnold Schwarzenegger (from Predator if you had to choose one)

Rambo

Mad Max (Slight edge over Riggs)

JJ McClane (Die Hard)

Bruce Lee (Enter The Dragon)

Jet Li (Fists Of Legend)

Stevan Segal (Above The Law - laugh at him now, but he had the most brutal fighting scenes at one time)

Robert DeNiros character in Ronin (Yeah I could see that guy killing Riggs if he was assigned too)

Honorable mention goes to ...

Leon The Professional (Jean Reno. Ok he was billy badass, but ...
-SPOILER- he did die so I gave Ronin the nod)