Badasses and Sidekicks

A couple of lists:

• Silly Badasses:
  

  Ash (Evil Dead Trilogy)

  Reason:
  If you’ve seen the Evil Dead Trilogy, then you know why he’s on the list. If you haven’t, then what the fuck is wrong with you? Stop surfing the internet and go buy the three greatest films ever put on celluloid.

  Ash starts out as a regular guy in the first Evil Dead flick: he’s got a girlfriend, he’s living a normal life, and he’s content. That is, until the evil spirits that dwell in the woods begin to possess his friends and turn them against him. Eventually he has to grow some balls and chop up the people he cares about with an axe.

  By the second flick, he begins to go crazy as the evil house refuses to let him leave and brainwashes him into thinking that the house is talking to him. He goes apeshit and starts dancing and laughing before he cuts his possessed hand off and replaces it with a chainsaw.

  And by the time Army of Darkness is over, Ash has spewed out more corny one-liners than every other person on this list combined, he’s defeated an entire army of skeletons, and he’s gotten the shit kicked out of him at nearly every turn because he was too goddamn stupid to remember three magic words. In many ways, Ash is the ultimate silly badass: you root for him when he’s at his strongest, and you laugh at him when he’s at his weakest.

  Quote: “Groovy.”

• 13 sidekicks who are cooler than their heroes:
  

  Hobbes, Calvin & Hobbes

  Yes, 6-year-old Calvin had the better imagination, and his best friend Hobbes, the stuffed tiger who was only alive when nobody else was looking, didn’t have the drive or the creative chaos to sustain a strip by himself. But he was the one with the brains, the experience, the knowledge, the conscience, and the ability to foresee the outcome of the wacky stunts they planned. And yet he still generally went along with them anyway, trusting that the fun would outweigh the pain. How cool is that? Besides, as he would no doubt be the first to explain, tigers are just plain cooler than people.

[Silly Badasses list via #!/usr/bin/girl]