Badass moments
This collection is about protagonists (or any chacterers) showing their intelligence that is underused or poorly seen in the cannon, so they can be even stronger. Show your strength and shine! The famous BAMF/Badass/Superpower tag.
(Open, Moderated)
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Underestimate at Your Own Risk by secret_sanctuary for hexenogenesis
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics), Nightwing (Comics)
10 Dec 2025
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Three times villains underestimate Nightwing, and the one time they don't.
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I'd kill anyone who tries to hurt you by Nameless_Hanna
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Aug 2022
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"If I remember correctly, you play the guitar. Trash excuse for music." The bully said casually, feigning thinking. "Would be a shame if you couldn't use your fingers anymore. Am I right, Freak?"
"Nice rings you've got there," He ground his foot on Eddie's fingers, making Eddie gasp in pain.Eddie is attacked by bullies, Steve comforts him and makes sure to avenge him afterwards.
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Gen Asagiri is a gentle soul, but everyone has their breaking point. When Senku is shot, something freezes and shatters within him. He will not be kind. He will do everything he can, the very best he can manage, to ensure not one more person he cares about is hurt.
Gen's POV in the beginning, swaps to Xeno's POV for the final battle and aftermath.
There was a book quote, Gen wasn't sure where he'd first heard it. There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man. Well, the Kingdom of Science had no shortage of gentle men. Beneath his masks, deep down where his true self hid beneath the layers of acting required to be so deep undercover, Gen Asagiri was also very, very angry.
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Keep Your Heart Close (But your Stalker Closer) by fuiiiiiiiiiiii, Fuiminn
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Spider-Man - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Avengers (Comics), Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe
14 Jun 2026
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Peter Parker ended up in Gotham with the cliché "Everyone Forgets You" trope, then found his way to the Metropolis and become a Daily Planet intern, and somehow still find his way to Gotham and photographs the vigilantes around to post it online.
No one told Peter that the fucking Bats are camera shy.
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"No one can outdo the doer." Tim Drake, probably.
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In All His Overwhelming Tenacity by repugnantecreaturaputrida
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
23 Jun 2026
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The vivid clarity of the world around himself, draped in a dark cloak of night that his enhanced eyes saw through as if it were but a thin sheet; the crisp autumn air tickling the inside of his nostrils with such saturation that it almost felt like he could taste the coming winter on the tip of his tongue. The breeze that came from this altitude tickled his bare skin, and despite its ineffectual chill against his strengthened flesh, goosebumps climbed up his neck from the tactile sensitivity he bore against its breath.
Everything felt so real, realer and fresher than it'd ever been. If that made sense, which it probably didn’t.
His senses then were just so alive that he didn’t think he could recall a time he’d ever been so… aware, of everything.
Toji fucking Fushiguro. Who would've guessed. In the middle of Shibuya too, like, really?
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- Part 1 of All His Overwhelming Tenacity
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Names by Chronicly Ill Girl (lilithzebra)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, White Collar (TV 2009)
08 Aug 2022
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Talia confronts Dick at the white collar office, the agents are not prepared for the confrontation between Neal and this lady
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- Part 8 of Chron’s WC/DC
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Everybody Hates the Winchesters by Devilishdetails
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV), Supernatural
28 Feb 2017
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The Winchesters find a vampire nest a few miles from a little town called Beacon Hills. Things get a little crazy.
Set post season 7 of Supernatural and season 3 of Teen Wolf (but who really cares about canon anyway).
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When Marinette’s life shatters around her for no other reason than the blood running through her veins, she has no choice but to run, leaving behind everything and everyone she knows.
She end up in Gotham, hoping to find there the help she desperately needs. She never planned for the family she didn’t even know she had.
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Mind Over Matter by BabyStepsAreStillSteps for Summer_Meadows
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Apr 2023
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Nowhere in their brilliant plan did they ever think Vecna would get tired of waiting for Max to turn off her music… fortunately, they always were better at winging it than following a well thought out strategy.
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Vicious Mockery (never won a fight) by BatBratsAndTheirCrossovers
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Nov 2024
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Steve has never won a fight. He’s had his ass kicked left, right, and center. Hell, Johnathan has kicked his ass. Steve can bat a monster, but when it comes to people? Steve Harrington has never really won a fight.
But that’s because he’s getting put in the wrong kinds of fights. They think he’s a hammer, when really, anyone who grew up BFFs with Carol becomes a scalpel.
(Dustin gapes like a fish. “Holy shit, dude…” Steve would chide language if he thought it would do anything. “You just performed real life Vicious Mockery. I think that guy took psychic damage!”)
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Or: someone thinks he’s tough shit and is messing with Steve’s kids. Cue the Boss Battle Music. Mama Steve rips the guy to shreds, as he should.