Is there anyone in history more deserving of the title of 'absolute madman', than Oda Nobunaga?
From a military standpoint?
Hernan Cortez and Pizarro both come to mind. I'm sure there are others.
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>>507573
>Missing El Mano Loco of El Mano Locos, Aguirre
>Nicknamed El Loco ('the Madman'), he styled himself '"Wrath of God, Prince of Freedom, King of Tierra Firme"
Jack Churchill.
>>507648
>This man actually survived fighting through WW2
How is that even fucking possible?
>>507541
What about Zhang Xun?
>>507541
Howdy, Japanese servants! Check it out, I'm made of gold!
>>507662
He actually fought and survived in Palestine during the establishment of Israel as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadassah_medical_convoy_massacre
He was the first guy on the scene here.
>>507541
why did Mitsuhide kill him?
>>507669
Yes, gold is a very valuable commodity, therefore you are right and I must follow my Japanese instincts and bow before you.
P.S. I had no intentions of independence anyways.
>>507541
>absolute madman
in terms of what?
George Lucas is quite the good candidate for the title.
A lot of the stuff Hannibal pulled off was pretty insane. Well executed, but insane.
Pretty much all the Conquistadors were nuts.
Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot...
Sparticus. Especially when he decided to turn back south after defying all odds.
>>507573
Seconding
Ataturk?
>>507541
>>507648
>Jack Churchill was second in command of No. 3 Commando in Operation Archery, a raid on the German garrison at Vågsoy, Norway, on 27 December 1941.[15] As the ramps fell on the first landing craft, Churchill leapt forward from his position playing "March of the Cameron Men"[16] on his bagpipes, before throwing a grenade and running into battle in the bay. For his actions at Dunkirk and Vågsoy, Churchill received the Military Cross and Bar.
caligula
>>507541
Pol Pot.
>>507541
>William Walker
>1850's America
>Conquers part of Sonora with less than 50 men
>creates the Republic of Baja California from taken Mexican land
>Mexico retakes land
>acquitted of all charges by USA
>with a band of a few hundred mercenaries he conquers Honduras
>re institutes slavers
>makes himself president
>it takes a coalition of central American nations to stop him
>The Absolute Madman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_%28filibuster%29
Publius Clodius Pulcher.
>born to nobility
>be populare because rebellious hipster contrarian
>want to bang Caesar's wife
>attend Bona Dea rites in drag to get near her
>Caesar ends up divorcing her, no small madman himself
>get charged with incest
>get caught lying on alibi
>Caesar's rich mate bribes the jury
>can't get elected, decide to go for Tribune of the Plebs to fuck Cicero over
>one problem: not a pleb
>no problem: become adopted son of pleb half my age
>force Cicero into exile
>invent the restraining order to nick all Cicero's shit
>invent the dole
>bring something like due process into law
>do some thuggery, a little light arson
>mad bants with Milo on the Via Appia
>Milo can't handle said bants
>wounded with javelin
>hacked to death by gladiatori
>mfw
>>507541
>Implying anyone could top the pinnacle of absolute madness that was Ungern-Sternberg
Timothy Dexter.
>>509583
Seconding.
Say what you will about Cracked.com, but by all accounts Andrew Jackson was indeed a bona fide off-his-rocker motherfucker, of the first and highest order.
Also, Aaron Burr was a goddamn madman in his own right, if we want to talk about duelists.
>>509740
He was the sanest man in the 20th century. Everyone else was mad.
>>509740
>just wanted to do right by the old gods and score some sweet Asian princess poon
Any 4channer would do the same thing, senpai.
lets talk about nuts
>>507665
This
>Zhang Xun said before the fall, "We are out of strength, and can no longer defend the fortress. Although we have failed the emperor in life, we hope to keep killing enemies after death."
>Yin Ziqi asked,"I heard that every time you fight, you open your eyelids until they rip, and you bite your teeth until they crack. Why do you do that?" Zhang Xun answered, "I want to eat you traitors alive. The damages to my eyes and teeth are nothing." Yin Ziqi used a dagger to hold open Zhang Xun's mouth, and to his surprise, all but three of Zhang Xun's teeth were indeed cracked. Zhang Xun finally said, "I die for my emperor, so I will die in peace."
and then there was the whole cannibalism thing.
>>507541
if by mad, you mean angry, than he is a pretty good candidate.
I swear that guy was perpetually fueled by pure rage and hatred for the monasteries
Yo
>>509799
>score some sweet Asian princess poon
I forgot about that part of his story.
>mfw one Prussian psychopath's case of yellow fever destroyed central Asia forever
>>509740
This.
>I told Ungern to reform the Great Khanate, and he actually did it, the absolute madman!
>>507541
Napoleon Bonaparte
>hey guys, let's fuck shit up through Italy
>he actually does it
>hey guys, let's fuck up the pope
>he actually does it
>hey guys, let's invade Egypt
>he actually does it
>hey guys, I'm gonna be empruh
>he actually does it
>hey guys, you know that conveniently placed ship over on the shore of Elba? Let's take it and hitch back to France
>he actually does it
>>507573
Cortez wasn't too bad, in comparison Pedro De Alvarado was much worse
Good 'ol Vlad Tepes
>>507541
Hong Xiuquan
>>510177
>gets exiled
>manages to escape
>king finds out, shits a brick and sends an entire regiment to catch him
>convinces them to join him
A B S O L U T E
>>509689
this is my greatest dream. To hire an army of mercenaries and carve myself a piece of land in the middle of Africa, fighting constant wars until CIA sends their best men to kill me.
Mao
That Korean lad that did some shit with boats.
>>509767
>Say what you will about Cracked.com
if they talked about him now, it would be how racist/homophobic/sexist/problematic he was
>>512008
He did nothing wrong.
>>507541
Madmen are often just people who think so radically from the norm that we can only see them as insane. I personally like to think of him as more the "necessary demon." Sure he was brutal and what not, but lets be honest, when it comes to the unification of Japan and the "unifiers" of Japan, he's a big name.
Also.
>Japan demonizes this guy
>Makes memorials/statues to him
Seriously make up your fucking mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Tatham-Warter
>Digby led a bayonet charge against them wearing a bowler hat. He later disabled a German armoured car with his umbrella, incapacitating the driver by shoving the umbrella through the car's observational slit.[1]
Fucking bongs, I swear to god
>>515407
It's the Grail in the well water.
>>515407
>Digby then noticed the Padre pinned down by enemy fire while trying to cross the street to get to injured soldiers. Digby got to him and said "Don't worry about the bullets, I've got an umbrella". He then escorted the padre across the street under his umbrella. When he returned to the front line, one of his fellow officers said about his umbrella that "that thing won't do you any good", to which Digby replied "Oh my goodness Pat, but what if it rains?"
I always wonder - is the deal with guys like this just that for every one of them you hear about, there's ~99 who got their fool asses kilt? Possibly along with a whole bunch of others?
