In Tribute to Understated Badassery

[WalkingDeadMike]

Shaun (of the Dead)

 

[PWN3R]

Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises

"Tell them you have seen stars on my chest."
Such a boss at the end.

Y: The Last Man - Yorick Brown is, to me, the pinnacle of badassery.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

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[Blitzkrieg Bop]

"You have to answer for Santino, Carlo."

 

[Superman 1265]

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[WalkingDeadMike]

Mike and Walter White from Breaking Bad, though Mike definitely fits the criteria better.

 

[Kane52630]

Once more into the fray,
Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
Live and die on this day,
Live and die on this day.

--John Ottway (Liam Neeson)

 

[SuperMike335!!]

One of my favorite Michael Corleone moments is not one of the more talked about scenes but I think fits perfectly into this thread. In the beginning of The Godfather II when Connie shows up with her new fiance asking for money, Michael tells her how and why to break up with him (while he's sitting right there). In an act of defiance, Connie reaches over and holds her boyfriends hand. Michael calmly responds "if you don't listen to me and marry this man...you'll disappoint me."

The way that line is delivered with so much authority is just chilling. You automatically know this is not a man you want to disappoint.

One of my favorite moments too.

Thing is a lot of this subtle badassery mentioned on this thread is really just Alpha social behavior.

The behavior of leadership.

 

[Erzengel]

I'm partial to Michael telling Fredo never to go against the family again.

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

My cat is an understated badass. He's cool. His name is Rajon Rondo and he's not afraid of anyone. He's a fighter. Takes on dogs, tries to go for humans' ankles, and he's quite smart about finding where I hide his food.

He just showed up at my door one night, came inside, and I fed him. He was kind of a brat at the time, but I trained him to use litter and got him to stop being so wild. He scratched me all up but now he's very obedient. Follows me around, says "meow" at me to greet me when I come home.

About six weeks after finding him we found a microchip on him. Called the owner, turned out it was the winner of last Year's college home run derby. He came by and saw how docile and obedient I had trained the cat to be and told me he wanted me to keep it.

The cats original name was Dexter.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I'm partial to Michael telling Fredo never to go against the family again.

Michael is full of understated Badassery.

"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer"

 

[Optimus_Prime_]

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Caesar yelling NO at Rise of the Planet of the Apes was awesome.