Badass TV Character Bracket – Sweet Sixteen
By: Corey | May 4, 2009 at 6:00 am

EDIT: Polls are now closed for this round.  Be sure to check out our Elite Eight matchups!

We’re proud to present to you our first ever bracket competition here on Awesomeopolis.com!

This bracket will be the first in a monthly series where we crown the best of the best of the best in everything.

May’s bracket attempts to figure out this question: “Who is the Most Badass TV Character?”

Thanks to everyone for voting in our seeding poll and our 16th place play-in!

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Here’s the bracket as it currently stands:

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After the jump, see the schedule rundown and vote in each matchup!

EDIT: Polls are now closed for this round.  Be sure to check out our Elite Eight matchups!

Here’s the schedule:

Seeding Poll (Selection of Top 16) – April 27 to April 30
Sweet Sixteen – May 4 to 9
Elite Eight – May 11 to 16
Final Four – May 18 to 23
Badass Championship – May 25 to 30

Voting for each round will end at 11:59pm EST of the final day.

After it’s all said and done, we’ll be sending a “Certificate of Awesome” to the actor that plays that character.

Update on May 07 6:39PM EST: REMINDER! Polls close at 11:59pm EST TONIGHT, May 07, so spread the word and get your votes in soon!

Update on May 07 8:50PM EST: After consulting with the Vice Presidential Action Rangers, the powers that be have decreed to keep the polls open until Saturday at 11:59pm EST.  Then, the polls will closed on Sunday (like Chik-Fil-A) so our winners can rest up for the Elite Eight.

And now, the matchups:

EDIT: Polls are now closed for this round.  Be sure to check out our Elite Eight matchups!


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Who is More Badass? Sweet Sixteen - Match 1

  • Dr. Gregory House - House (73%, 1,824 Votes)
  • Jack Donaghy - 30 Rock (27%, 670 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,493

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Who is More Badass? Sweet Sixteen - Match 2

  • Dr. Perry Cox - Scrubs (59%, 1,328 Votes)
  • Dwight Schrute - The Office (41%, 917 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,244

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Who is More Badass? Sweet Sixteen - Match 3

  • Col. Jack O'Neill - Stargate SG-1 (59%, 1,257 Votes)
  • The Doctor - Doctor Who (41%, 888 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,145

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Who is More Badass? Sweet Sixteen - Match 4

  • Angus MacGyver - MacGyver (68%, 1,567 Votes)
  • Jethro Gibbs - NCIS (32%, 748 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,315

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Who is More Badass? Sweet Sixteen - Match 5

  • Barney Stinson - How I Met Your Mother (51%, 1,207 Votes)
  • Cordell Walker - Walker Texas Ranger (49%, 1,140 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,347

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Who is More Badass? Sweet Sixteen - Match 6

  • Kara "Starbuck" Thrace - Battlestar Galactica (64%, 1,303 Votes)
  • Adm. Bill Adama - Battlestar Galactica (36%, 732 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,035

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Who is More Badass? Sweet Sixteen - Match 7

  • River Tam - Firefly (58%, 1,209 Votes)
  • Michael Westen - Burn Notice (42%, 864 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,073

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Who is More Badass? Sweet Sixteen - Match 8

  • Jack Bauer - 24 (58%, 1,355 Votes)
  • B.A. Baracas - A-Team (42%, 985 Votes)

Total Voters: 2,339

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EDIT: Polls are now closed for this round.  Be sure to check out our Elite Eight matchups!

26 Comments

  1. Posted May 4, 2009 at 9:36 am | Permalink

    Cox/Schrute? Adama/Starbuck????

    I don’t like these matchups.

  2. Amanda Smith
    Posted May 4, 2009 at 1:25 pm | Permalink

    Man, how did Sylar not make the Sweet Sixteen?

  3. Posted May 4, 2009 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    Sylar’s too emo. I can’t believe Leo McGarry and Andy Barker were left off the list.

  4. Bill
    Posted May 6, 2009 at 2:46 am | Permalink

    Doesnt anyone understand that you cant be a badass, just by being an idiot who sells paper and is kinda funny. How in the hell did Schrute make this list. RECOUNT!!!!

  5. Posted May 6, 2009 at 8:02 pm | Permalink

    I wouldn’t be as upset about Dwight cracking the top sixteen were not for the insult of Jack McCoy being left out. Clearly, there are some pregnant chads out there.

    Also, how is Barney Stinson currently beating Cordell Walker???

  6. Posted May 7, 2009 at 8:44 am | Permalink

    How can you possibly have this and not include Vic from “The Shield”??????

  7. canada3dayer
    Posted May 7, 2009 at 11:41 am | Permalink

    how the hell did Ziva David from NCIS NOT make this list?

  8. Schwami
    Posted May 7, 2009 at 7:18 pm | Permalink

    Of course, only on your website would Chuck Norris be losing to NPH. I’ll admit, “How I Met Your Mother” is a great show, but I really don’t think Walker VS Barney should be that close!

  9. quizquest
    Posted May 7, 2009 at 7:23 pm | Permalink

    #7, EXACTLY. Ziva beats Gibbs, hands-down, even though I like Gibbs a lot.

  10. Chris WIlliams
    Posted May 7, 2009 at 9:25 pm | Permalink

    The Doctor is easily the most badass Character ever created.

  11. Posted May 7, 2009 at 10:17 pm | Permalink

    Look. I love Stargate: SG1. But the Doctor is easily one of the best characters on any show. EVER. Especially this Doctor! I’m shocked!!

  12. Jon
    Posted May 8, 2009 at 12:03 am | Permalink

    So the contest should really come down to only two characters and one of them isn’t on the bracket and should be. That character is Brock Sampson. He should be going up against The Doctor, and you know what, I don’t know who would win I really don’t. So um yeah you really need to redo the entire bracket in my opinion.

  13. delois
    Posted May 8, 2009 at 8:11 am | Permalink

    Vic Mackey is the poster boy for badasses. He should have been on this.

  14. Posted May 8, 2009 at 8:46 am | Permalink

    I think it’s worth mentioning that the nomination process and polling to decide who made the Sweet 16 was done before this blog had, you know, readers. Anyone who wants to have a say in who goes into future Badass Brackets, stay tuned…I think Most Badass Movie Villain is next after this one.

  15. Jim S.
    Posted May 8, 2009 at 8:56 am | Permalink

    Gibbs is getting beat, but Gibbs does not care for honors, just honor.

  16. Galley
    Posted May 8, 2009 at 10:37 am | Permalink

    River Tam would slay them all, and (look damn good doing it)!

  17. rosetti
    Posted May 8, 2009 at 11:49 am | Permalink

    O’Neill vs MacGayver… this where funny

  18. Posted May 8, 2009 at 3:16 pm | Permalink

    Go, Col. O’neill, gooo! :D

    And Jack Bauer too… <3

  19. Lamascsi
    Posted May 8, 2009 at 6:55 pm | Permalink

    Missing Eric Cartman
    and my heart is torn watching the Doctor vs O’Neill round

  20. JCT
    Posted May 9, 2009 at 1:34 am | Permalink

    I’d have preferred to match The Doctor with Torchwood’s Captain Jack. Perhaps for your next competition – the two Gene Hunts (Philip Glenister vs. Harvey Keitel).

  21. Solmyr
    Posted May 9, 2009 at 5:26 am | Permalink

    The Doctor is by far the most badass caracther ever! (”He’s sending the Cyberman to hell!”) I love SG-1, but O’Neill is way too pedestrian compared to a Time Lord. I’m also fairly shocked, that after seeing BSG 4×13 The Oath, in which Adama and Tigh defeated the marines, who were escorting them to the brig, Starbuck has more votes! Go Doctor, go Adama!

  22. Brian
    Posted May 9, 2009 at 5:41 pm | Permalink

    How are Mal Reynolds and Jayne Cobb not on the list?

  23. Jim
    Posted May 11, 2009 at 2:08 am | Permalink

    No offense, but I don’t think Jack Bauer would want to be left in a locked room with B.A. Baracus. And Doogie Howser beating Chuck Norris…puhlease. Do you people know what a bad ass is?

  24. Dick
    Posted May 11, 2009 at 10:25 am | Permalink

    Adama vs. Starbuck??? Actually, it should be Laura “Put that thing out the nearest airlock!” Roslin vs. Starbuck, and the schoolteacher with ice water in the veins should win that mathchup easily ;)

  25. Mary
    Posted May 11, 2009 at 1:15 pm | Permalink

    Where’s John Crichton? Has everyone forgotten Farscape?!

  26. Ladida
    Posted May 22, 2009 at 7:19 pm | Permalink

    How is SONNY CROCKETT not on this list? Or JAMES ROCKFORD?
    Weak, weak…

    MacGyver and O’Neil all the way!

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