Apparently, there’s no Korean equivalent (or I just haven’t found it yet) for the word “badass.” For now, I’m going with “that guy” because . . .
In Live Free or Die Hard, Bruce Willis and Justin Long have this conversation:
JOHN MCCLANE: You know what you get for being a hero? Nothin’. You get shot at. You get a little pat on the back, blah, blah, blah, attaboy. You get divorced. Your wife can’t remember your last name. Your kids don’t want to talk to you. You get to eat a lot of meals by yourself. Trust me, kid, nobody wants to be that guy.
MATT FARRELL: Then why you doing this?
JOHN MCCLANE: Because there’s no body else to do it right now, that’s why. Believe me, if there were somebody else to do it, I’d let them do it, but there’s not. So we’re doing it.
MATT FARRELL: Ah. That’s what makes you that guy.
And then at the end . . .
JOHN MCCLANE: Hey, thanks for saving my daughter’s life.
MATT FARRELL: [shrugs] What was I going to do?
JOHN MCCLANE: That’s what makes you “that guy.”
MATT FARRELL: [smiles] Yeah.