20. Seu Jorge
City of God, 2002
It’s not easy being beautiful. Knockout Ned makes looks-impaired Rio crime lord Li’l Ze jealous, inspiring Ze to rape Ned’s girlfriend. The clean-living Ned promptly becomes a gangster and settles things the old-fashioned way: with lead.

Tough talk: "One condition: No killing of innocent people. I can’t accept that." 

118movie_badasses_19vinnieJones.jpg19. Vinnie Jones
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, 1998

A Brit soccer thug before getting into acting, Mr. Jones as Big Chris crushes
heads with doors while still making Little Chris mind his manners (parenting’s a full-time job).

Tough talk: "You use language like that again, son, you’ll wish you hadn’t!"

 18. Jack Palance
Arrowhead, 1953

Think Palance is a badass in City Slickers? Check him out in his prime as Toriano. He’s an Apache chief’s son who pretends to be assimilated, only to lead a bloody rebellion against the white man (Charlton Heston
is not amused).

Tough talk: "We must dance before we kill." 

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118movie_badasses_17ericBana.jpg17. Eric Bana
Chopper, 2000

Behold Bana in his native Australia. Chopper is a notorious real-life Aussie
convict who’s a complete psycho yet has impeccable manners (for example, he shoots a drug dealer, then drives him over to the ER).

Tough talk: "I’m just a bloody normal bloke. A normal bloke who likes a bit of torture."

16. Melvin Van Peebles
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, 1971

Few people change the movie biz. Melvin’s one of them. His flick about a sex machine who goes on the lam after giving two white cops a taste of their own medicine spawned blaxploitation.

Tough talk: "You bled my mama…you bled my papa…but you won’t bleed me."