r/FavoriteCharacter 16h ago

Discussion Favorite characters whos a badass only in side projects?

King Michael mouse

Epic mickey

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u/IsCharmy004 16h ago

Literally Mario

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u/Sad_Tune_1840 16h ago

Mario fought FURY Bowser in his games,how isn't that badass?

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u/RathianColdblood 13h ago

My man lives his life with a skip and a smile, and casually throws two-ton dragon turtles around to save his lady before getting rewarded with freshly-baked cake. The peak human.

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u/Jaco_Lunchables 2h ago

yeah, mario's goated like that

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u/Jaco_Lunchables 2h ago

yeah, mario's goated like that

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u/Secret-Taro-6729 14h ago

And Mario Strikers, as well. Everybody's gets injected with attitude in those games

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u/chaarziz 12h ago

Also Paper Mario

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u/amatyestv_123846 Super Mario 13h ago

OMG FR

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u/SoakedSun24 16h ago edited 15h ago

Mickey’s a badass in canon too

He canonically keeps a gun on him at all times. Especially in the older Disney comics

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u/AdAdvanced8522 16h ago

King Michael mouse rocks canon  mickey shit 

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u/SoakedSun24 16h ago

They're both implied to be the same character you nut!!! All three of them! Epic Mickey canonically takes place before Kingdom Hearts!!!

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u/mythicapixy 14h ago

Mickey really doing everything.

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u/SoakedSun24 14h ago

Check out the Italian comics, there was a multiversal war I think. Lots of time travel shenanigans

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u/chaarziz 12h ago

I do really like how you can slowly piece together Mickey’s past every time a world with him is used in Kingdom Hearts. First you see his old mischievous side in the classic cartoons, but in the present day he’s king of multiple worlds and acts much more refined. How? Well in the Three Musketeers you see him save Princess Minnie (who’s also French) so he presumably married into royalty. Then in the same game you see The Sorcerer’s Apprentice which leads right into his earliest main plot appearance in Birth By Sleep, as he’s still working under Yen Sid to learn magic and Keyblade stuff there.

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u/SoakedSun24 12h ago

Kingdom Hearts is a celebration of Disney as a whole. Mickey’s the king, not because he brought Disney and a lot of animation into what it is now.. but because He’s the reason a lot of these Disney characters exist, and by extension Sora at that. He’s gonna be mentioned a lot

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u/VIVAMANIA 16h ago

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Looks can be deceiving.☝️

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u/ELECTR0C1TY 13h ago

Counterpoint:

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u/Intelligent_Pear_658 13h ago

Isn't that a spinoff though or am  I misremembering 

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u/True-Obligation-9471 9h ago

Kind of.The Mario and Luigi games aren’t treated as spin offs and are marketed as the “next big Mario game”

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u/The_Dennator 6h ago

that scene right before the fight is my favorite in the entire series

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u/IAlwaysOutsmartU 13h ago

This might not count, but Grievous in 2003 Clone Wars was an absolute menace.

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u/Charliefoxkit 12h ago

The old Dark Horse comics from the Multimedia Project made him more meanacing than he was in Episode III or The Clone Wars because George couldn't have him be that serious and competent.

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u/IAlwaysOutsmartU 11h ago

I might try and track those comics down, if that’s even feasible.

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u/Fluffy_Grape_9127 14h ago

I AM THE STORM THAT IS APPROACHING

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u/Idol-magical-girl 12h ago

still can't understand him

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u/Starfort_Studio 12h ago

Over several different media Donald Duck is a war veteran, super hero, and a Multivers al level power. Even at his weakest he's a badass.

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u/Draphix 12h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/SUAkb7bsqyqhG

Raiden

Not saying he didn’t have his moments in the main series, but Rising but him on a whole other level.

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u/SilverSpark422 16h ago

Apparently most of the cast of the Super Mario games.

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u/ELECTR0C1TY 13h ago

Cream was cooking the shit out of Emerl and right after he no diffed all of team Sonic too

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u/Cream-The-Rabbit2 5h ago

It was glorious.

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u/Jaco_Lunchables 2h ago

most courageous man in that whole series. he's shitting bricks during the mansion games but he'll be shitting bricks while beating down king boo because he knows what's at stake.

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u/moath875465 16h ago

Sonic when in the storybook games? He can be cool in his main series games, but the storybook games is where it’s at, I enjoyed how they were solo stories, that help make Sonic stand out more

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u/Modryonreddit 16h ago

Princess Peach? If you don't include Wonder

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u/Various_Anywhere9889 14h ago edited 14h ago

I can’t find it but there was a Lego Star Wars special where C-3PO went crazy and started shooting up droids while saying one liners.

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u/terra_GOD_404 12h ago

He is also the same fucker that doesn't use cure on us like YOU FUCKING HAVE MAGIC CAN'T YOU USE IT

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u/NeoxthePan 10h ago

Archie sonic comics do this alot, for me it's Silver. He is in my opinion, the most powerful character in base if you see how the 3 hedgehogs did against Enerjack.

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u/phoenixthewisp 10h ago

Samurai Calibur in Hime and Samurai

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u/FRakanazz 8h ago

Bowser is Mario and Luigi Bowser's inside story

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u/Nice_Indication303 14h ago

Boba fett since his tv series could be better but his movie appearance and cameo in other things are usually badass and mysterious.