3. John Matrix (Commando)
Why hes an Ultimate Badass: A nearly invincible behemoth played to perfection by Arnold, theres nothing more in the world John Matrix would like to do than hang in the woods with his daughter eating ice-cream, hauling massive tree trunks up the mountainside and making cut off jean shorts not look sissy. An exiled South American dictator has other plans though and foolishly attempts to blackmail Matrix into assassinating his political rival by kidnapping Matrixs daughter. Matrix isnt one to take it lying down. What ensues is one of the most badass rampages ever committed to celluloid. Matrix dangles thugs over cliffs using one arm, rips a padlocked chain apart like a twist tie, and, in one of the best action sequence of all time, destroys an armys worth of goons in a climatic assault on the villains compound. After mowing-down nearly a hundred soldiers and getting shot in the arm, Matrix still has enough gas in the tank to skewer the nefarious Bennett with a steam-pipe and bust the immortal line: Let off some steam, Bennett. Yep, thats badass.