Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Fortunately being a badass is not dependent anyone's belief. Belief only comes into play in diplomacy.
My favorite webcomic, Achewood, offers us this extended lesson on the nature of badassery and manliness. I'm not going to go posting eight relatively large images in-line in a thread that probably gets more page views than anything else on the site, but I'd like to present the sequence in its entirety.