No Mario?

Solid Snake, Kratos???????

Auron FFX, This list is a Fail....

Yeah he takes the Peter Pan "fairy with knife beats pirate king with sword" move and cranks it up a notch.  He does kill the God of Evil with nothing but a sword and courage.

He's also not fighting people with guns.

Link?...i mean LINK?! WTF? how the hell Link is a badass? maybe my vision of badass is wierd, but shouldn't badass be you know...BAD ASS?

no Caleb from Blood or Riddick makes it epic fail(considering the time of this list). well as long as they didn't put any gayish character from Final Fantasy series makes it at least not-wrong-and-weird-enough list.

He fights giant dragons and sea monsters and all kinds of crazy shit that can shoot fireballs at him and eat him whole and whatever else.  I think he could shake off some bullet wounds like everybody else does.

But Mario takes Bullet Bills to the dome all the time.  It just makes him shrink, so he eats more mushrooms.  Fucker's unstoppable.

We really need to define "badass" though. I think Kirby could eat anybody in that top 10 list, and the Prince from Katamari could easily roll all 10 of them into a giant ball made out of shit, and that would become a new planet.

Duke should be number one. No question about it.

Where the Hell is COLE TRAIN!!!! he should be at like #2.

1. Marcus Fenix
2. Cole Train
3. Master Chief
4. Sgt. Johnson
5.Solid Snake

There's a need to make your favorite character high on the list. Being bad ass makes the character "cool". And if your favorite character is cool, it somehow "transfers" to you (you're cool because you like cool characters).

It has nothing to do if the character is *really* bad ass. What's bad ass, anyway?

These lists just show our individual biases. Nothing more. So the guy's number 1 is Master Chief. So he likes Halo. That's just about it. Someone who likes God of War will put Kratos in number 1. No prob. Zelda fan? Link on number 1. Again no problem.

It's just a list. A list of someone else's opinion. We can make 'em ourselves. Let's friggin' stop labeling other opinions as failures simply because they don't match ours.