When I was in Paris at the WC, be it TH, FHF or TBH, man you don't want one of their smashes on your body, I can assure you that. But Jonathan is right, TBH's world record was outside competition. TH and FHF was on a tournament. TH's performance is a much viewed video on youtube. Watch it, and put on the sound ! There's also a video on the tube where Lee Young Dae smashes a watermelon with a shuttle. Watch it, put the sound to 11 !
I watch a bunch of other players too, but only gave my top 5 players. Some not that highly ranked players are fun watching because of their fighting spirit: like Nguyen Tien Minh, Sho Sasaki, and others. All the (single and mx) Danes I like watching, and a few MD Danes. The British Rajiv Ouseph play's so smooth, he almost glides over the court. The Dutch Dicky Palyama is fun watching too. But also hero's like Hendrawan (boy was he some tough opponent), Rasmussen, Jonassen, and so on. Too much to cover here, and I want to leave room for the rest to reply.
@[dw]: to my knowledge, TH never won a SuperSeries event (a pitty though). But you're right, no doubt he'll have a barn somewhere stacked with his trofees.

Cheers ED

My army-

-Lin Dan.

Of course he's got excellent power and agility, and all of the physical characteristics of a great badminton player.  The thing that sets him apart for me is that every game I've watched him play, injured or not, he 'knew' he would win that game.  Hop on youtube and watch him playing LCW.  As great a shuttler as LCW is, I can see in his eyes that he is unsure when they play each other. 

-The King

A true badminton gentleman, Cool as a cucumber, and a vert like a kangaroo.  (Thanks for contributing the jumpsmash btw)

-LCW

For his fitness and determination to be #1

Actually I'll add a couple women to my 'Army' so it's not a complete sausage party.  LOL

-Wang Yihan for here overall skill and tirelessness.  And a nasty cut cross drop. 

-Pi Hongyan  for her ability to float across the court. 

My army:

First: Peter Gade, because I like his playingstyle and because his performance at his age.

Second: Lee Chong Wei, because of his fitnesslevel and his number 1 status.

Third: Kenichi Tago, because of his performance at the All England.

Fourth: Lars Paaske, because of his short serve and midcourt play.

and last: Viktor Axelsen, because he's only 16 and plays extremely well.

Lukas

No,

It's a young Danish player. He won recently the SOTX Cypres International and played against Jan Jorgensen in the Denmark Super Series.