I just realized that FSN is just full of GAR and manly characters. I previously nominated Lancer and Archer, but I should be struck down if I did not nominate these two.
Kotomine Kirei and Emiya Kiritsugu from Fate/Stay Night and more importantly, Fate/Zero.
Kotomine is a priest who is empty except when he witnesses the suffering of others. He will go to any point to unleash all of the World's Evil upon the world just so he can watch the chaos. Not to mention he fought a Servant by himself and won and was once a hunter of Dead Apostles with the Church.
Kiritsugu was a magus killer for the Association and used magical guns. He also blew up stuff. He killed rouge mages as an ally of justice and knew all sorts of bad assed methods.
And for non Type-Moon stuff, I was surprised this guy wasn't nominated last year. Yes, he's utterly gorgeous, but Vampire Hunter D is rather bad assed and GAR in his own right.
And . . . for an unsung character in Berserk, the much beloved Judeo.
And, for more Archer and Lancer joy,
Creek Drank the Cradle wrote...
Also, props to the nominator of F/SN's Lancer, hopefully he gets more recognition this year. Also good job with the Fate/Zero nominations.
Lancer won his true GARness position in UBW for me when he
saves Rin from getting raped by Shinji, punches him, defies Kotomine, is ordered to stab himself in the heart with Gae Bolg THEN kills Kotomine and stabs Shinji in the shoulder. Oh, THEN he proceeds to burn the whole castle down. Also, his and Archer's rematch was the best fight in FSN.
So yes, Lancer is as deserving as much love as the Father of GAR himself. (I love both characters so . . .) They're both bad assed, they're just DIFFERENT types of bad assed.
And Lancer was a pimp.