Yeah thats the problem is that nobody is cool like they used to be
They only recent badasses I know are from manga or comics, or things like that, mostly characters that have been like that for long-running times.
Even those are sometimes subpar, too, especially with the western comics swapping out writers all the time.
Still...even with recent manga, I'm hard-pressed to find a consistent badass that's as awesome as say, Kenshiro, or Joseph Joestar.