Interesting, a
top 10 bad-ass characters on TV list that I think is reasonable. And its reasonably up to date having Eliot Spencer from Leverage and Michael Westen from Burn Notice. Faith and Starbuck are gimmies for the chyx. Vic Mackey, Jack Bauer, Tony Soprano and from what I hear, Omar, also make a lot of sense. Spike and Sayid round out the list, and they are pretty bad-ass. It is amusing that they list Michael as #1, given he seems to prefer trickery and letting others doing his dirty work for him rather than taking out people himself. Not that he can't kick ass when he has to. But I suppose a real bad-ass can get stuff done without having to hurt a bunch of people.