SSJwrestler

They had a thread for the most badass character (hero or villian) in video games in Tilted Gaming, so I thought I'd start a thread for the most badass anime characters.

My top 5: (no particular order)

Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)- little fast dude, with sword and glowing eyes of doom

Vash the Stampede (Trigun)- super smart plant dude, with BIG gun

Gene Starwind (Outlaw Star)- all-around cool guy bad-ass fighter

Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)- fluid like water, cool demeanor, kicker of asses

Legato (Trigun)- made a guy rip his own heart out, dimented, freaky, hard core bad ass


**list is subject to change as I increase my anime library and encounter new badasses

Mr.Deflok

I haven't watched enough Anime Series to fairly annoint a single someone as bad ass but the main character from Blood was pretty bad ass, as was Jubei from Ninja Scroll. Also, Motoko Kusanagi is incredible in all her incarnations, as is Batau (only in the films though).

Stare At The Sun

Dunpeal- Vampire Hunter D/Bloodlust. Simply a badass.

Alucard- Hellsing Another badass Vampire.

hilbert25

Gatsu from Beserk
Vicious from Cowboy Bebop
The Pirate King from FLCL (well only because of his taste in guitars)

Bim

Nicolas D. Wolfwood - Trigun
Yusuke Urameshi - Yu Yu Hakusho
Hiei - Yu Yu Hakusho
Vash - Trigun
Ein - Cowboy Bebop

I don't watch many animes.

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Mr.Deflok

Thanks for reminding me, one of my girlfriends keeps telling me how much of a bad ass Alucard is, and how sexy he is... that's why I hate him

tropple

Spike Seigal - Cowboy BeBop
Najica Hiiragi - Najica Blitz Tactics
Maya Jingu - Burn Up Excess
Rally Vincent - Gunsmith Cats

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SSJwrestler

AHH! How could I forget the Hellsing organization's pet monstrousity? Alucard far exceeds at least someone on my list....but who?

Revised Top 5: (again subject to change)

Kenshin (Rurouni Kenshin)

Vash the Stampede (Trigun)

Spike Speigel (Cowboy Bebop)

Legato (Trigun)

Alucard (Hellsing)- for crying out loud he's the Prince of Fucking Darkness!

Lasereth

Spike Spiegel - Cowboy Bebop
Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta, etc. - DBZ (it may be an amateur anime, but there's no getting around the fucking awesome fight scenes)
Kakashi-Sensei - Naruto
Sasuke - Naruto

-Lasereth

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SSJwrestler

definatley can't count out Goku, the most raging badass of them all, especially in SS4.

BuddyHawks

This guy

followed by this guy

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Amarth

I can't believe you almost forgot Alucard your shmuck. Also, Legato is not a badass. He's a tool. Good call on Ein Starman Deluxe. Well, there are so many, so I'm going to try to pick ones not listed above. (Spike is there like 800 times, which he deserves to be, but I'ma go for diversity.)

Ban Mido - Getbackers - Evil eye? Most badass power ever!

Jackal - Getbackers - He has knives in his fucking body and he uses them to kill for fun. Now that's badass.

Vegeta - Dragon Ball Z - I know DBZ characters aren't typically badass, but Vegeta just is. He kills his own teammate for one thing, but more importantly, he's the only Z-Fighter who will kill the peons that are trying to kill him, even when they pose him no threat. Plus, he ate those mantis people which was just cool.

The Rock Dude - Ninja Scroll - He spilt more blood than anyone except maybe Alucard. Plus, he punched Jube through a frickin' rock.

(Was gonna put Vicious here, but he's already there.)

The Butler - Hellsing - Damn. Wires in the gloves. Slicey Dicey. Old man kickin some ass. That's badass.

Shizukana

I second the votes for Spike from Cowboy Bebop and Vash from Trigun.

The rock dude in Ninja Scroll was nice, but Jubei was so much nicer - "You can't be hard everywhere! /fling"

Oh, the old man was badass too.

I still love DBZ - but mainly because it's so fun and easy to watch, and kinda fun to make fun of. We love to imitate the announcer... and make lots of references to the fact that each episode is maybe 2-3 minutes of DBZ time.

"On the next episode of DRAGON BALL Zeeeeeeeeeee! Goku powers up some more!"
Krillin: "I don't know Goku! He's pretty strong!"
Vegeta: "It's IMPOSSIBLE!!!! Kakarat cannot possibly defeat me!"

That pretty much sums up 90% of the episodes.

Okay, maybe not. But it's fun to make fun of it sometimes.

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HK726

1.) Sarutobi (3rd Hokage)-Naruto
2.) Itachi Uchiha-Naruto
3.) Toguro-Yu Yu Hakusho
4.) Spike-Cowboy Bebop
5.) Seshomaru-InuYasha

K-Wise

Most a my faves are from DBZ/GT and Yu Yu

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Janemba
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Brolly
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Majin Buu (of course)
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Toguro
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Hiei (of course)
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Definitely Dunpiel
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I guess his name is Grove...he's incredible
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Aisha
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Ryoko
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Zero Gundam and the Epion
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Priest
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And of course the obvious ones...Goku, Gohan, all the Z fighters, Kenshin, Inuyasha, Vash etc. I'm forgetting some I know it....thing is I keep forgetting which actual anime MOVIES I've seen and not just shows....hmm oh well.

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DownwardSpiral

Ok. . . Let's see what I can come up with here.

D - Vampire Hunter D

Alucard - Hellsing

Kenshin - Rurouni Kenshin

Vegeta - DBZ

Brolly - DBZ

Deathscythe - Gundam Wing (not really a 'character', but damn cool.)

And, his name currently slips my mind, but the butler from Hellsing was a complete and total badass.

Until we meet again. . .

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Bateau- Ghost in the Shell 1&2 (GO SEE 2 NOW!!!)
Akira- Akira; Unequaled power and perfect storyline
Naruto- Naruto
Jubei- Ninja Scroll
Yoko Kanno- Cowboy Bebop; I am of the opinnion that the very popular and stylistic Cowboy Bebop series and movie are made great by the perfect music written by prodegy Yoko Kanno. I know Spike is the popular pick here, but I feel that the futuristic funk and synth jazz makes this series singularly original.

Lasereth

I have a new one due to me watching about 20 episodes of Naruto this weekend:

Rock Lee from Naruto.

-Lasereth

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Private Public

My vote is Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop

K-Wise

Just about all of the DarkStalkers



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Redjake

Sasuke - Naruto

Rock Lee - Naruto

Spike - Cowboy Bebop

Goku, Vegeta - Dragonball Z

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Da Munk

Motoko Kusanagi
Batou
Spike Spiegel
Kenshin
Mugen (Samurai Champloo)
Jin (same)

sadistikdreams

Jet Black - Cowboy Bebop
Faye Valentine - Cowboy Bebop
Haruhaha Haruko - FLCL
Lord Kanti - FLCL

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deepinjello

His name is D people, not dunpeal, just D. (as far as I know)

Some of my current favs which havent been mentioned yet:

Hyugo from Samuari 7

Maki from Airmaster

Big props to the guy who mentioned Ban and Jackal, two of my favorite characters.

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Dustallica

The only possible number one(for me anyways) is Gatts from Berserk.

Following him:

Karou from Ai Yori Aoshi (to resist all those girls that want him....he must be a badass).

All joking aside:
Alucard from Hellsing
Walter(the butler) from Hellsing
Mamoru Takamura from Hajime No Ippo

There are plenty more, but i cant possibly fit them all into one message board service

KellyC

In terms of destructive power, it's Goku from DBZ all the way.
In terms of attitude, it's Vegeta from DBZ and Gaara from Naruto, what with their "I'm going to kill you" look and anti-social behavior...

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Sasuke, Kakashi - Naruto
Every major character from DBZ
Spike Siegel, Vicious - Cowboy Bebop
Dunpeal - Vampire Hunter D
Heero Yuy, Zechs Merquise(sp), Trowa Barton, Treize Khushrenada, Chang Wufei - Gundam Wing
Caneda, Tetsuo - Akira
Yusuke Urameshi, Kazana Kuwabara, Hiei, Kurama - Yu Yu Hakusho
InuYasha, Sesshomaru, Naruku, Kikyo - InuYasha

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CHollman82

"Alucard- Hellsing Another badass Vampire"

There ya go, thats my vote too

Seer666

Kirika Yumura from Noir. School Girl of Death.

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Draconis

I think this one may have been overlooked.
Akito Tenkawa - Nadesico

Also, there's a few other cool ones.
Lain
Shinji (honestly, he becomes God) - from eva
Alex Rou - Last Exile

That's all for now

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melee2000

i would have to say Kazuma from Scryed for male and Saya from Blood: The Last Vampire for female

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bundy

the name is DORAEMON people.

nothing/noone is badder.


no, seriously, biggest baddass would probably be D the Dunpiel or Saya from Blood.

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SSJwrestler

touche' Draconis....tocuhe'....Shinji is quite the bad-ass. I mean, come on, smiting people on a global scale...jeez, need I say more?

skier

Tagura from hajime no ippo
he's a fucking badass/pervert

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akito

SO TRUE!! Particularly from the Nadesico movie, he's such a badass.

My selections for "most badass anime character" include:

Spike Spiegel - Cowboy Bebop
Akito Tenkawa - Martian Successor Nadesico: The Prince of Darkness
Lucy - Elfen Lied
Vicious - Cowboy Bebop

Telluride

Spike Spiegel, Jet Black, Mad Pierrot and Vicious, from Cowboy Bebop.

Vash the Stampede, from Trigun.

Jubei and Mujuro (the blind ninja of the Devils of Kimon), from Ninja Scroll.

Kusanagi and Bateau, from Ghost In The Shell.

Aeon Flux and Trevor Goodchild, from Aeon Flux.

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MiSo

can't think of much right now but one comes to mind.


Kurono (Gantz)

boom29

I agree. Plus, his voice just makes him that much more psychotic.

Suave

Optimus Prime

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Seer666

Can I get an Amen?!

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