In truth, is it any wonder that Washington’s pick for cinema’s definitive “bad motherfucker” is the man who shot to superstardom while playing a character who owned a wallet emblazoned with said words? Indeed, Jules Winfield’s “Bad Motherfucker” wallet became so popular in the wake of Pulp Fiction that replicas sold like hotcakes, and the term became synonymous with Jackson from then on.
Source: Denzel Washington names cinema’s greatest “bad motherfucker”