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{{quote| ''"....so if you give a crap feel free to check back in next week to satisfy your insatiable desire to read about grown people punching each other in the mouth or beating each other about the head and neck in a most furious manner."'' }}
 
[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/ Badass Of the Week] (warning! [[NSFW]]!) is a website created by "Amazing Ben Thompson" in 2004, that exists primarily to [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|provide weekly profiles of many and sundry]] [[Badass|badasses.]] The various badasses covered range from fictional characters such as [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]], [[The Punisher|the Punisher]], and [[Final Fantasy VI|Kefka]] to [[Real Life]] badasses such as [[Cold Sniper|Simo Häyhä]], [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Saladin]], and [[Crocodile Hunter|Steve Irwin]], to the outright ''bizarre'', such as [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/beetle.html this huge-ass beetle], [[Land Down Under|Australia]], the [[Revolvers Are Just Better|S&W .500]] [[Hand Cannon|Magnum]], and the [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/aggrocrag.html AGGRO CRAG] (aka the '''AGGRESSIVE ROCK'''). The exact criteria for badassery vary, ranging from individual acts of ordinary heroism to face-melting acts of blind bravery and violence. Of course, being a face-crushing, scrotum stomping killing machine isn't required for inclusion, as the [[Manly Tears]]-inducing article on [[Hotel Rwanda|Paul]] [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/rusesabagina.html Rusesabagina] proves.
 
Part of the humor of the site comes from its [[Shown Their Work|surprising historical accuracy]] used in conjunction with references to various historical figures in [[Sophisticated As Hell|vulgar, irreverent language]]. An example of the former regarding the great Sikh hero [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/babadeepsingh.html Baba Deep Singh]:
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The site also includes a fan mail section and a series of random articles the site's writer decided to throw in, such as why [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/norsereligion.html you need to convert to Norse religion, and how to go about this.]
 
Also, Ben recently wrote a book [[Author Appeal|celebrating his love of scrotum crushing badasses]], called [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|BADASS: The Book]], and is recommended reading for anyone who just can't get enough of of those who [[Dare to Be Badass]]!
 
Also, BADASS: The Book now has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocYk1aBj3t4&feature=player_embedded BADASS: The Book: the Trailer.]
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** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/donalejo.html Don Alejo Garza Tamez]
* [[Eldritch Abomination]] - [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/kraken.html The Kraken]
* [[Everything's Worse Withwith Bears]] ([http://www.badassoftheweek.com/voytek.html Voytek the Soldier Bear]) - If you were a Nazi, you were pretty much fucked.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Princesses]] - At least, when [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pingyang.html she]'s a [[Lady of War]] who got there by raising a massive rebel army against an incompetent ruler and [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb-stomping]] both the army and the numerous other rebel groups trying for the throne.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Samurai]]
** Tomoe Gozen - [[Lady of War|Who, considering she was the only female samurai, is pretty damn impressive!]]
* [[Evil Overlord]]
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* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]]
* [[Hold the Line]]
** [http://badassoftheweek.com/21sikhs.html The 21 Sikhs], a single unit of [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|twenty-one Sikh soldiers]] holding a small fortress outpost on the Indian border against a force of invading tribesmen that numbered over ''twenty thousand''. They managed to hold for most of a day, while ounumbered 500:1 until the British could organize a counterattack. While all of them were wiped out, no one doubts the size or sturdiness of their balls, especially as every single one of them ''volunteered'' to stay and fight. When word of their actions reached the British Parliament, it received [[Manly Tears|a standing ovation from the entire British government.]]
* [[Holy Shit Quotient]]
* [[Humongous Mecha]]
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** [http://badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html Bishnu Shrestha]. This retired Gurkha (which should say everything you need to know about how badass he is) was returning home on a train when forty gangsters boarded it, robbed the people on board, and [[Attempted Rape|tried to rape a girl]]. Bishnu taught them the error of their ways in a storm of blood-spraying violence, killing three men and disabling eight more with just his kukri before the rest ran for the hills.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Wolf the Quarrelsome's article includes a 300 word paragraph analysing the meaning of the name.
* [[Never Mess Withwith Granny]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/musa.html Jennifer Musa]
* [[One-Man Army]]
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** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gurung.html Lachiman Gurung]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pun.html Dipprasad Pun]
* [[Over and Under Thethe Top]]: The site as a whole is full of loud hyperbole, which causes the solemn narrative of the [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/gordonandshughart.html last stand of Shugart and Gordon stand out even more].
* [[Papa Wolf]]:
** [http://badassoftheweek.com/wanyandie.html Tom Wanyandie] (an elderly Native American man who fought off a ''literal'' [[Mama Bear]] to protect his son)
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*** [[Memetic Mutation|''So Granby, how do you like him now'']]?
** Justinian II (ran on this)
* [[Samuel L. Jackson]]
** [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/winnfield.html Jules Winnfield]
* [[Samurai]]
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