How about Curtis Jackson? He was shot nine times at point blank with a 9mm, and survived...
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Worlds biggest badarses
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Here's a multitalented "badarse", with enough killing to his credit, and who certainly was shot more times than 50 Cent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jünger
Iirc he counted 24 seperate punctures after WWI; the first one was a rifle bullet to his butt on the Elsass front in 1914, he also lost a pinky to a hand granade, got both legs shot through, a couple of chest wounds (and carried around shrapnel in his head to his death — which occurred in 1998, at the ripe age of 103.
Damn fine novelist too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jünger
Iirc he counted 24 seperate punctures after WWI; the first one was a rifle bullet to his butt on the Elsass front in 1914, he also lost a pinky to a hand granade, got both legs shot through, a couple of chest wounds (and carried around shrapnel in his head to his death — which occurred in 1998, at the ripe age of 103.
Damn fine novelist too.
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I've really wanted to read one of that guy's novels for some time now.
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Mmmmm... There was some mafioso guy that was shot sixteen times on several occasions, but was finally killed in a shooting.
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Perhaps being shot could suggest that you normally shot people.
Well, he died so...
I know 50 Cent was also stabbed so badly it collapsed his lung once as well, this being after he was shot, and despite this he had the balls to keep rapping, and go on feuding with other people like The Game....@Plotinus It certainly seems a better measure than the number of others you shot... I mean by yalls defenition Seng hui (Whatever the VT shooters name was I can't spell it) would be a mega-badarse. I disagree killing people doesn't make you tough, surviving other people trying to kill you is what makes you tough.
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I guess that would make general de Gaulle a mega-badarse.
In the late 50's and 60's he's recorded as the man in history with the most attempts on his life, 31 or 32, depending on how you count. That's not including those just planned, only the ones actually carried out.
He was also condemned to deat in his absence by the Vichy during WWII. And survived WWI, wounded three times in August 1914 before being taken captive unconscious. His commanding officer who knew him flatly refused to believe he'd been taken prisoner: "De Gaulle? He'd rather let them kill him!" He spent the rest of the war carrying out som 50 or so attempts at jailbreak.
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Memory is short on the internet we all know.
Occasional but always top-quality poster Kafka2 assembled a whole set of "Hellraisers" who seem to fit the bill.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=92304
It's in the Articles list on the History forum even.
This was good. Especially Mytton. My kind of guy
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Castro is somewhere in the neighborhood of 300.I guess that would make general de Gaulle a mega-badarse.
In the late 50's and 60's he's recorded as the man in history with the most attempts on his life, 31 or 32, depending on how you count. That's not including those just planned, only the ones actually carried out.
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Subotai. The greatest Mongol whose name does not end in "Khan".
A good example was what he did during the Mongol invasion of Europe, at the battle of Mohi against the Kingdom of Hungary. At the end of the battle, Subotai had the Hungarians completely surrounded. Every general dreams of one day having an enemy force completely surrounded, so he can come in and destroy it. What does Subotai, having accomplished this Holy Grail of pitched battle, do?
He intentionally creates a hole in his circle, allowing the Hungarians to escape through it. Except that the hole lead directly to a swamp, where the Hungarian soldiers were bogged down and ambushed by another Mongol force.
In other words, having done what he needed to do to win the battle, Subotai gave away his great advantage in order to make sure that his enemy died in a more humiliating fashion. What's more badass than that?
A good example was what he did during the Mongol invasion of Europe, at the battle of Mohi against the Kingdom of Hungary. At the end of the battle, Subotai had the Hungarians completely surrounded. Every general dreams of one day having an enemy force completely surrounded, so he can come in and destroy it. What does Subotai, having accomplished this Holy Grail of pitched battle, do?
He intentionally creates a hole in his circle, allowing the Hungarians to escape through it. Except that the hole lead directly to a swamp, where the Hungarian soldiers were bogged down and ambushed by another Mongol force.
In other words, having done what he needed to do to win the battle, Subotai gave away his great advantage in order to make sure that his enemy died in a more humiliating fashion. What's more badass than that?
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Well, he died so...
Humunkuloid mongoloid whose pain receptors couldn't stimulate a response from his brain more like.
I prefer actual musicians, not gangsters who put a few words together to a beat and sell only as they look cool.
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Lauri Törni aka Larry Allan Thorne. Finnish soldier to fight in three armies: Finnish, Waffen SS and US Army.
An ardent anticommunist, who fought in Finnish army in the Winter War in 1939-40. During the following short peace Törni volunteered to Finnish battalion of SS-Wiking division, but came back soon as there were no officer vacances for him as he couldn't speak German very well. The Continuation War started and Törni fought as a leader of a "long range patrol/guerilla company" which acted e.g. behind enemy lines. In Finnish army Törni was promoted to captain and received the highest military medal, the Mannerheim Cross 1st class.
Peace between Finland and Soviet Union was met in 1944 and the Finns had to turn against it's former allies the Germans. Törni had different plans, early 1945 he went back to Germany in a U-boat to be trained in sabotage- and resistance methods against the Russians if they were to occupy Finland.
However Germany was loosing the war, and during the final days of the war Törni became leader of a mixed German unit while it was surrounded by the Soviets. Törni led his unit through the Soviet lines and surrendered to American troops. He tried to enlist in British Army but was refused and prisoned instead. He escaped from a POW camp to Finland, where he was arrested again as a war criminal. This was an especially dark period in Finland as it had to accuse it's best soldiers with war criminal charges to meet the demands of the peace treaty.
After a period in prison and several escape attempts Törni received amnesty in 1948. However he was discharged from the Finnish army (because of Soviet pressure) so he left to Sweden, from there to Venezuela and finally to New York. In 1953 enlisted in US army and was a 35 years old recruit. He became a special forces soldier and was promoted to captain by 1962.
He took two tours in Vietnam. In his first tour he was assigned to Chau Lang, but soon built a new base in Tinh Bien. Robin Moore was also there, and based one of characters in his book 'Green Beret', Sven Kornie, on Törni. Later John Wayne based his character on Kornie in his Green Beret the movie, so you can say John Wayne has played Törni.
In 1965 Törni took part in operation Shining Brass, which tried to locate the Ho Chi Minh trail. During this operation Törni was shot down in a CH-34 Kingbee helicopter. He was posthumously promoted to a major. It took almost 40 years to find him, as in 2003 Törni's remains were located, identified and buried in Arlington.
An ardent anticommunist, who fought in Finnish army in the Winter War in 1939-40. During the following short peace Törni volunteered to Finnish battalion of SS-Wiking division, but came back soon as there were no officer vacances for him as he couldn't speak German very well. The Continuation War started and Törni fought as a leader of a "long range patrol/guerilla company" which acted e.g. behind enemy lines. In Finnish army Törni was promoted to captain and received the highest military medal, the Mannerheim Cross 1st class.
Peace between Finland and Soviet Union was met in 1944 and the Finns had to turn against it's former allies the Germans. Törni had different plans, early 1945 he went back to Germany in a U-boat to be trained in sabotage- and resistance methods against the Russians if they were to occupy Finland.
However Germany was loosing the war, and during the final days of the war Törni became leader of a mixed German unit while it was surrounded by the Soviets. Törni led his unit through the Soviet lines and surrendered to American troops. He tried to enlist in British Army but was refused and prisoned instead. He escaped from a POW camp to Finland, where he was arrested again as a war criminal. This was an especially dark period in Finland as it had to accuse it's best soldiers with war criminal charges to meet the demands of the peace treaty.
After a period in prison and several escape attempts Törni received amnesty in 1948. However he was discharged from the Finnish army (because of Soviet pressure) so he left to Sweden, from there to Venezuela and finally to New York. In 1953 enlisted in US army and was a 35 years old recruit. He became a special forces soldier and was promoted to captain by 1962.
He took two tours in Vietnam. In his first tour he was assigned to Chau Lang, but soon built a new base in Tinh Bien. Robin Moore was also there, and based one of characters in his book 'Green Beret', Sven Kornie, on Törni. Later John Wayne based his character on Kornie in his Green Beret the movie, so you can say John Wayne has played Törni.
In 1965 Törni took part in operation Shining Brass, which tried to locate the Ho Chi Minh trail. During this operation Törni was shot down in a CH-34 Kingbee helicopter. He was posthumously promoted to a major. It took almost 40 years to find him, as in 2003 Törni's remains were located, identified and buried in Arlington.
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Zvika "Zvi" Greengold-
Held off an entire syrian armored division on the golan heights during the Yom Kippur war. A tank commander who formed a task force nicknamed Zvika force, at times the task force was just his tank, who fought off the syrians for 30 hours streight changing tanks half a dozen times as each were knocked out despite being injured and burned. His single tank appeared to the syrian as an entire unit.
Held off an entire syrian armored division on the golan heights during the Yom Kippur war. A tank commander who formed a task force nicknamed Zvika force, at times the task force was just his tank, who fought off the syrians for 30 hours streight changing tanks half a dozen times as each were knocked out despite being injured and burned. His single tank appeared to the syrian as an entire unit.
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