Memetic Badass/Western Animation

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• Optimus Prime is sometimes known as Robo-Jesus, or Optimus Christ. He dies for your sins in every series.

"There's no more time for mistakes! The world needs a LEADER, Now!
"It's True! OPTIMUS PRIME LIVES! OUR LEADER IS BACK!
"Yes, Skylynx. AND THIS TIME, NO FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE CAN STOP ME!"

• • Possibly Lampshaded in Beast Wars when a holy scripture has Megatron as the Anti Christ. (Then again, this was a different Megatron the scripture was reffering to, but still....
  • And also from Beast Wars, we have Dinobot, who is the REAL Raptor Jesus.
  • The longest time he ever spent dead was three seasons. The shortest time he has spent dead was 75 seconds in Transformers Animated - and he died in the third episode.
• South Park has an In-Universe example with professional ice-skater Brian Boitano. He was originally used in the pre-pilot short Jesus Vs. Santa, and then gained true Badass status in The Movie.
  • In a case of life imitating art, Brian Boitano actually does skate to "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" on occasion.
    • And he got a cooking show called "What Would Brian Boitano Make". That song may have resurrected his career...
  • Do not. Screw. With. Jesus. At least not in Colorado.

(Jesus is talking to two Iraqis, with his hands up.) "Yea, look upon me and know me. My children, you should know something ... (pulls a knife out of his sleeve) ... I'm packing!"

• Avatar
  • Toph, who is not blind, but merely incapable of seeing anyone less awesome than she is, and Iroh, who was not pulling himself up while training in prison, he was pushing the Fire Nation down.
  • Wang Fire. Don't you even dare suggest that he is the bearded alter ego of Sokka. The giant drill used to attack Ba Sing Se was originally built as a 1/8th scale model of Wang Fire's Wang. Which is acknowledged in a mini-comic about Sokka infiltrating the Fire Nation military using that name. It ended with him pretending to be killed while taking out a waterbender and earthbender, and being remembered as a hero. The Avatar has to deal with one firebender. Private Wang Fire has to deal with the rest.
  • Sokka often has fans exaggerate his intelligence from "competent strategist and inventor" to "rivals Ozymandias." Since he took out a fleet of war balloons with just two other fighters and invented both dirigibles and submersibles, he could be a realistic Ozymandias — capable of repeated moments of inventive and strategic genius, but still only human. Einstein didn't discover relativity every day. Considering Leonardo Da Vinci only theorized this kind of thing, whereas Sokka not only came up with the concept but designed functional units, and, in the case of the submersables, put the design into practice for the first time the week they would be used for an invasion, calling him an engineering genius may be understating it. Okay, he started out as a "competent strategist and inventor", but after he Took a Level In Badass he became the Steampunk Ozymandias.
  • The Mechanist designed and built the first war balloon; Sokka merely helped him with a design flaw, and Fire Nation engineers turned it from that into the massive airships we see in season 3. As for the submersible, Sokka merely came up with the idea. It was the Machinist who made it work.
  • From a single screenshot from "The Invasion", featuring Katara with an oddly disquieting look on her face where she seems to be staring directly at the camera, there has arisen "Creepy Katara". Apparently, it is impossible to look at her for very long without being creeped out. And she is everywhere. (Not surprisingly, she's also about two turns from Memetic Molester.)
• KORRA, without fail. Everyone is Korrasexual because she's just that awesome. And you've gotta deal with it.
  • Lin Beifong, much like her mother Toph Beifong, has achieved this due to stealing the show in every fight scene she's in.
  • KYOSHI. Ironically enough, she has only appeared in the opening of the show so far (though we did see her badassery in the last series), but it is universal fanon that she is constantly advising Korra to bathe in the blood and tears of her enemies.
  • Amon. Even before the series start he was considered a badass by the fans. The fact that he became a Magnificent Bastard in record time and resisted the effects of bloodbending have only fueled this further.
• Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy: Eddy's brother was thought to be this. In The Movie, we found out what he really was!
• Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. Because no one fights like Gaston, and no one hunts like Gaston, etc. Lampshaded in House of Mouse where they have a Running Gag of him butting in on other characters' conversations to say "No one [does what you're talking about] like Gaston!" (Actually, that episode might have been the inspiration for Gaston's meme.) In one episode, in which Clarabelle is gathering gossip, Gaston begrudgingly concedes that he has, indeed, seen others hunt like Gaston. There's also the Gaston Reads meme on dA. And at least one Take That as well. No one can get eaten like Gaston!
• Dr. Robotnik and his Pingas (it's OVER NINE THOUSAAAND!).
• Jenny Jones from Batman the Brave And The Bold, a girl that once callously told Red Tornado he had no feelings. This was escalated by /co/ from being a complete brat to a Creepy Child that says horrible and nihilistic personal insults to a Nigh Invulnerable Ultimate Evil which survived, among other things, being raped by Pedobear, being shot at by Kung Fu Jesus, a blast by Darkseid's Omega Sanction (which missed her because she was too small of a target), the Falcon Punch, The Power of Love, and assault by the Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, having her lines of death cut, the efforts of the Green Lantern core, and a Chaos Dunk. This is because she is the daughter of the Anti-Spiral. Somewhat subverted in that, while she has Complete Immortality, she never really does anything to anyone except make very cruel insults while smiling.
  • And Batman is one in-universe. In "Journey To The Center Of The Bat!", when The Atom suggests they leave through Batman's tearducts, Aquaman responds, "But surely, Batman never cries!"
    • Speaking of which, Brave and the Bold has given Aquaman AQUAMAN back his status as this.
• The Question from Justice League Unlimited may be a certified crackpot, but he knows everything. His detective skills make Batman look like a trainee. He has even stared down the Man of Steel and told him that he's dead wrong without a second's hesitation. Let that sink in for a moment.
• Code Lyoko: Franz Hopper never takes his glasses off, because if he did, the world would split in half.
• CHARLES FREAKING OFDENSEN. You thought the "F" stood for "Foster", didn't you?
• Pharaoh Man from the Mega Man cartoon. While most Robot Masters immediately cower after Megaman steals their special power, Pharaoh Man just punched him in the face, much to the delight of the fans.
• In one of the last episodes of Duck Dodgers The narrator for documentary on Megadeth says that the band founder, Dave Mustaine was "Genetically engineered in a lab and raised by wolverines."
• Donald Duck, and his Uncle, Scrooge McDuck, according to some websites. Namely /co/ of 4chan.
• David Xanatos planned not only the Gambit, but This Very Wiki and is behind Trope Co. And Candle Jack breaks off tropers´ comments mentioning him because he´s really Puck.
• Billy from Adventure Time is an in-universe example who crept into real life thanks to his absurdly memetic song. "Who's the greatest warrior ever, a hero of renown? Who slayed an evil ocean? Who cast the Lich King down? Billy! And that time the evil Fire Count captured a damsel fair, who saved her with such bravery that she offered him her hair? Billy! Also... He fought a beeeeeaaaaarrrr! Billy!"
• The Venture Brothers. Brock Sampson. BROCK SAMPSON. A short list:Survived at least 50 poison darts and woke up with a minion still in his death grip, survived in space without a space suit, slept with thousands of women(Okay this parts a bit exaggerated, but not by much, only three people have fought him and lived over the course of the show, killed the dog reincarnation of Hitler, along with at least 200+ plus people(and that's just on screen), served in the military and two separate super-spy, lead a group of rag-tag henchman to take on an army of advance super-villlan helicopters, and to top it all off his greatest disire isn't peace or any of that crap:He fights cowboys riding on T-Rexes, Ninjas, and scubamen on motor cycles with Polar Bears in the sidecar. Brock Sampson is Badass personified. When removing a bullet from him, super-villan Phantom Limb also found three more bullets, a blowgun dart, two shark's teeth, a tip of a bayonet, a twisted paperclip, and a meager handful of buckshot.
• Freakazoid: Sgt. Mike Cosgrove can get anyone to retreat by saying "Hey, you! Cut it out!" He's even put down the Warner Brothers and sister Dot!
• While not as popular as Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic still counts, believe it or not. Throughout the episode "Dragonshy", her fear of giant dragons get in the way of her friends' pursuit against said dragon. When that dragon actually hurts them, the timid character "ponies up" and gives it a stern talking to(which makes it burst into tears), before calming down and convincing it to leave.
  • She does it again in "Stare Master", where Fluttershy manages a Death Glare that lets her outstare a cockatrice.
    • Due to her "shouts", there are those that consider Fluttershy the Dovahkiin.
  • Pinkie Pie: Reality Warper Fourth Wall Observer Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Also helps that Real Men Wear Pink.
  • Don't forget about Rainbow Dash!
    • Rainbow Dash vs Starscream? Dash wins by curbstomp!
  • But NONE stand up to Tom Dan!!
  • There's also a bit of this attached to Big Macintosh (who's also a Memetic Sex God), and the tortoise Tank, who simply walks into Mordor.
  • Angel is the manliest bunny in all of fiction!
  • In-universe example in the form of Iron Will, a tough-guy motivational speaker who constantly refers to himself in the third person and even borrows phrases from a Real Life Memetic Badass.
  • The royal princesses of all ponies tend to get this treatment by their fans. Yes, making day and night happen on schedule is vitally important to all of Equestria and a good indicator that they're no pushovers by any reasonable standard. But the fandom really likes to take the Physical God concept and run away with the 'god' part of it. (Whether Celestia's recent defeat by the decidedly-below-Discord-level Queen Chrysalis the only time so far that we've actually seen her fight on screen will have any impact on this remains to be seen.)
• Both Bender and Zoidberg may count, as one of them is Jesus. And that's why they call him Bender the Magnificent.
• "Looting and polluting are not the way!" says Captain Planet
• Constance the badger from the animated series of Redwall.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Patrick Star. He'll take any problem, and push it somewhere else!
• Recess: Miss Grotke.
• Shane Gooseman in Galaxy Rangers fanfic has a tendency of getting his badass status turned up to 11. Example: An invading armada self-destructing in their rush to turn around when they find out he is in a bad mood.
• American Dad featured an episode in which Stan tried to teach Steve to stand up for himself by acting like (more of) a tremendous jackass. He was trying to teach Steve to "get the oranges up the stairs" through hard work, but Steve decided it would be easier to pay Stan's old bully, Stelio Kontos, to kick the everloving crap out of him. It was made meme-tastic due to the catchy chant of, Stelio! Stelio Kontos!. Watch it here.

Stan: They're up the stairs! For the love of God, you got the oranges up the stairs!

• BUT THE WIZARD IS UNDETERRED!!!