Badge 1: Lights the gym on fire. Invents the move Soak 4 generations in advance.
Badge 2: They heard about that shit and just decided to give him the fucking badge. Ash wasn't having any of that shit, so cue a giant vacuum cleaner destroying roughly a quarter of the gym.
Badge 3: Blew up the fucking gym.
Badge 4: Straight-up commited arson.
Badge 5: The gym was already rigged to blow up, using several Voltorb. Ash left peacefully, knowing full well what fate awaited it.
Badge 6: Fucking blew up the gym leader with a bomb.
Badge 7: Entire gym destroyed, using a volcano.
Badge 8: Blown up.
Despite destroying every gym he visited so that nobody else could get a badge after him, Gary still got ten.
You suck, Ash.