Most notorious badass in history?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Another candidate: Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart.

-Fought in the Second Boer War and both World Wars.

-Was shot in face (losing his left eye), leg, stomach, groin, ankle, head, leg, hip, and ear.

-Tunneled out of an Italian POW camp.

-Survived two plane crashes.

-Tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them.

-Fought off a group of Red Army cavalry armed only with a revolver.

-Decorated for valour 23 times.

-Died peacefully in his sleep at the age of 83.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

Saitō Musashibō Benkei, an 11th century japanese warrior monk who single handed defended castle draw bridge against attempt by 500 soldiers to storm it.  After half of the assault party perished against him, the attacking army decided to take him out with rains of arrows.   But even though he was hit by many arrows and looked like a porcupine, he remained standing on the draw bridge barring entry.  

Eventually the assault party gathered the courage to slowly approach the bridge again, but Benkai remained standing without any reaction.    it turns out he is already dead, but remained standing possibly due to cataleptic rigidity.

[brewer]

[Thumpalumpacus]

[Anomalocaris]

Congenital analgesia does not make one a badass.     one actually has to be feared for the bad things he does to be a badass.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^Unverified legends about one also don't qualify one for badassery.

Boru

[Anomalocaris]

one is probably no mean bad ass to start with if unverified legend can grow about one’s badassery.      I highly doubt songs will ever be sung about my badassery even though i very much would like them to be.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

one is probably no mean bad ass to start with if unverified legend can grow about one’s badassery.

And here I thought we were talking about badasses in history, not folklore. Benkei's Horatius-at-the-bridge fable doesn't seem to qualify.

Boru

[FrustratedFool]

@BrianSoddingBoru4

What an interesting chap.
"Carton de Wiart is the subject of the 2022 song "The Unkillable Soldier" by Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton on their album The War to End all Wars.[91][92][93]"

"Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly, I had enjoyed the war."[4]"

"In male company he was "a delightful character and must hold the world record for bad language."[15]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart

[The Valkyrie]

Valks.


Dixie Normus is a distant second.

I can't accept the nomination.

Not until I've killed as many as Genghis Khan and Stalin, combined.