This Poll has been closed due to Bitching of nerds and forum fights.

BTW Max Payne won due to the most votes ( even I am surprised, I expected Rambo )o_0

None of these even remotly compare to the Emperor of Crowbars.

Can't beat the man with the bow and arrow.

My vote goes to: Bruce Lee.

Chuck Norris, but i voted the Terminator.

Obligatory Spelling Flame: It's Lara Croft and Master Chief. Should have checked wikipedia.

I place my vote for The Lady from Cooke's 'Black Company' series.

wares HK47???

thanks for not adding Freeman, being able to relate to a character(Via nerdiness) doesn't make you badass.

Frank West/ Chuck Norris should be there though(oh well not a big deal though).

jack carver is rambo with short hair and a hawian shirt, at least it was like that in the first game, and sorry for bad grammar

Without the Freeman, it looks like we just have to go with Jack Carver and his massive, Evolution Serum-filled, balls of steel. But I admire your ability not to give in to the rampant hordes of people proclaiming Gordon to be Crowbar Jesus.

Serious Sam! But I voted the Chief.

since dsf Revan, Kane from the red alert series, Mr. 47, the Duke and Malkavians as a whole aren't an option, i opt for Max Payne, crazy people who reload via acrobatics always kick ass.

My vote goes to Atticus Finch.

no one on that list is particularly hoss IMO. though i admit to not knowing who jack carver is offhand. my money goes to the "other" catagory and since this seems to not be limited to video game characters i say guts from berserk easily. however i kinda get tired of voting for the same guy over and over so i'll say within the realm of video games either the prince or connan, it's hard to beat a guy who can german suplex you so hard your head pops.

Who the hell is Laura Craft?

What, no Gaz?

Ok. Fine. Since theres no love for COD4s best character, Ill go with Max Payne.

Also... no Roy Keane? I do believe the poll says biggest Bad Ass EVER.

Freeman deserves to be on the list. He might not deserve to win, but he deserves a place there. Maybe coming in second behind a true badass. Freeman doesnt have a cannon personality, and cant really be judged in such a format anyway.

Master Chef does have a strange, resonating badassness. I have no idea why, since the halo franchise isnt that great, and I like the Arbiter better anyway (easier to relate to. isnt defined by his abilities, since super strength and toughness in normal for his race). But somehow...He's just that badass. And thats why I voted for him

John Galt:
...people proclaiming Gordon to be Crowbar Jesus.

You saying he isn't? (Raises eyebrow)

Hey Joe:
My vote goes to Atticus Finch.

Second. That man is king.

Sad that Freeman isn't on there, but oh well.

It surprised me that Nomad (guy from Crysis) isn't on there. Yes I know many people disliked that game because their computers could barely run it, or the story was unoriginial etc. But I felt way more bad ass playing him than many of these others especially Master Chief. Must have been the fact that he could pick up, then throw koreans a good 10-20 feet with one hand.

Lo Pan.

Big trouble was an understatement.

Xena: Warrior Princess! She's a Lesbian! And she killed 40,000 ppl.

Ok, who forgot Kratos? He who kills gods for a living, escapes Hell (twice), headbutts minotaurs as a hobby, and generally slaughters anyone who happens to be somewhere in the general vicinity of where he happens to wander (unless offering assistance, and sometimes even then...) deserves to be on the list. Gordon Freeman may be the most badass scientist ever, Alice the most badass girl ever, and Master Chief the most over-hyped pseudo-badass ever, but Kratos is superior to all.

To argue this, you must find an act of badassness, and give proof of its existence, superior to a showing by Kratos. Such as when he crucifies Zeus to his own throne. Or the entire fight with the Colossus. Or killing Ares. Or, well you get the idea.

To those who support Chuck Norris, he's an Icon, on par with a god. Kratos kills gods.

PS: One other to be added to the list: Wander, from Shadow of the Colossus. Dunno anyone else who can win against such overwhelming odds.

Those on the list aren't even on the same plane of badassery as Kratos. The original poster most likely just wanted it to be close and therefore didn't include the likes of Kratos or Ryu Hayabusa

Master Chief is the Boba Fett of videogamedom. He doesn't do anything particularly noteworthy, but he has a neat set of armor so people just agree he's badass nevertheless. Personally, I've always wondered who died more pathetically; Jango (standing still firing your impotent little blasters, while a man saunters up and cuts your head off) or Boba (getting thrown into a pit by a blind guy)

gordon doesn't belong on this list for the same reason so many people like him, he's not a bad ass, he's an average joe and therefore inelligeble.

as for a particular incident, connan may not fight any gods but he ruins more shit than kratos ever could. and makes it with multiple women throughout the story, kratos only makes it with 2, therefore connan wins on the booty principle. oh and connan actually fights most of his bosses without any simon says type stuff. i say most because a few of them have it but in general he's just beating ass with no special weapons, just what he's pulled out of corpses here and there. kratos has no german suplex therfore loses. oh and connan's counters are so very cruel.

MAX PAYNE! DEAREST OF ALL MY FRIENDS!

Nick "Havoc" Parker, along with the first tiberium war-era GDI Commando he personifies!
"That was left-handed." says it all!

But really, without any kind of guideline as to how to quantify badassness it's a very iffy deal. It's more the product and world around the caracters that give license to their cold, silent awesomeness or punchy clever one-liners.

Still, I'd also like to mention Locke D'Averam from the game Revenant, he was highly badass and well profficient in how to spew phrases made out of pure awesome. My hat off to the one who mentioned 47, too.

Where's Chuck Norris? Where's HUNK? Where's Albert Wesker? Where's Solid Snake? Or better yet, Naked Snake?

I'm gonna have to say Naked Snake is the ultimate badass.

goodpoltergeist:
Where's Chuck Norris? Where's HUNK? Where's Albert Wesker? Where's Solid Snake? Or better yet, Naked Snake?

I'm gonna have to say Naked Snake is the ultimate badass.

Thank you. To this list of "missing ultimate badasses" add Gordon Freeman (no matter what a whole bunch of people say, he sure as hell is more of a badass than that wimpy useless cardboard-armored idiot Master Chief.)

...And seriously? Fucking Alice?! Alice is the most annoying Mary Sue in freaking existance. If she died ten minutes into the second Resident Evil movie, the movies would be better off. In the first she was okay, but then she developed into true supreme Mary Sue status and the entire movie series REALLY went into a shitspin.

My vote is for "This list sucks and whoever made it should have their badass sensor recalibrated by several roundhouse kicks to the head". Or "other" (Neither of which is an option, even if at least one of them should be. Guess which.).

And of course, not adding a popular and viable choice to your poll because you don't like it is sort of like me making this poll, only with ONLY "Gordon Freeman" as an option. It's asinine, quite childish, and removes the entire point of having any sort of poll at all, ergo this thread's existance is sort of useless.

Okay, how about we all shut the HELL up and agree I got bored and there are only a limited number of spaces to put peoples name in.

Who the Hell is HK47?

Property of cobra is feeling salty today.

I voted Kratos. After you kick God's ass, I think that pretty much qualifies you as the top of the heap.

I mean, really, if we locked Max Payne and Kratos in a room together, who do we really think is coming out alive?

Wheres Bennet from Commando? Sure, i dont think hes been in a game, but hes badass. He makes you age by being in the same room! "..You're getting old John.. you're getting old!"
But sigh, so many missing. Im sure the dude from Body Harvest deserves a mention, you gotta be badass to take on hordes of aliens!

This poll is about as useful as US Pres polls for the Dems that go "Clinton or Obama?" and 'accidentally' leave out Gravel.

With out Gordon Freeman, this poll loses. Did you not include him because you know he is that bad ass he would win? ;)

In Jack Bauers absence I vote Max Payne. That and who else could kill that many people with a stupid grin on thier face.

Motherfucking Max Payne. Thanks to his poem reader voice, his leather jacket, his dual berettas... Oh, god... I turned myself on... <3

The biggest bad-(word) is the guys that actually plan on doing something absoloutly atrocious, and planned on completing it, like the villains in James Bond. Or Lucifer.