15 Most Bad-Ass Teams In Movie History

6. The Inglourious Basterds

The Fellowship Of The Ring
Universal Pictures/Weinstein Company

Cinema history is littered with countless 'men on a mission' movies set during World War II, but none of them are anywhere near as demented as Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds. Rewriting the history books like only he can, the writer/director crafts a genre-bending adventure that is violent, darkly funny and exhilarating in equal measure.

The titular Basterds are a squad of Jewish-American soldiers (and one German) operating behind enemy lines, acquiring almost-mythical status amongst the opposition thanks to their penchant for scalping, brutalizing and branding those that get in their way. Make no mistake; despite their normal appearance, the Basterds are not to be f***ed with.

With a plot set in motion to eliminate the majority of the Nazi hierarchy during the screening of a propaganda movie, history is rewritten as two of the Basterds machine gun Adolf Hitler and company to death, with only the nefarious Colonel Hans Landa surviving, although he gets a swastika carved into his forehead for his troubles. 

Although the only Basterds that makes it are leader Lieutenant Aldo Raine and Utivich, the small unit were so bad-ass that they completely changed the outcome of the entire war in one fell swoop.

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