History Main / ProudWarriorRaceguy

A specific subtrope of BloodKnight, the Proud Warrior Race Guy seeks battle and bloodshed because his culture teaches that [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership doing so is the greatest source of personal honor]] and {{glory|Seeker}}. This [[PlanetOfHats Proud Warrior Race]] will often be based on a very glorified view of [[FantasyCounterpartCulture one of several real world cultures]] who are perceived to have acted this way, such as the [[HordesFromTheEast Mongols]], {{Samurai}}, [[Film/ThreeHundred Spartans]], [[HornyVikings Vikings]] or [[TheSavageIndian American Indians]]. The Proud Warrior Race Guy is often depicted as either a hero or a protagonist's ally, but only because the protagonists just happen to not be on his rape and pillage lists. For now. If evil, he will probably be the WorthyOpponent.

* This is a common attitude in Wings of Fire, especially among the [=IceWings=] in Pyrrhia and the Poison faction of the [=LeafWings=] in Pantala. The [=IceWings=] believe their tribe to be superior to any others, and start training their dragonets to be soldiers much earlier than other tribes, putting great emphasis on fighting for their queen and fellow [=IceWings=]. The most prominent example of this is Winter, though his character development dampens this a lot. Sundew is the best [=LeafWing=] example, although her tribe is more warlike as revenge for when the [=HiveWings=] attempted genocide on them than in a purely cultural way.

* The Yato Clan from ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' are knows everywhere in the universe for being the strongest warrior race.

A specific subtrope of BloodKnight, the Proud Warrior Race Guy seeks battle and bloodshed because his culture teaches that [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority doing so is the greatest source of personal honor]] and {{glory|Seeker}}. This [[PlanetOfHats Proud Warrior Race]] will often be based on a very glorified view of [[FantasyCounterpartCulture one of several real world cultures]] who are perceived to have acted this way, such as the [[HordesFromTheEast Mongols]], {{Samurai}}, [[Film/ThreeHundred Spartans]], [[HornyVikings Vikings]] or [[TheSavageIndian American Indians]]. The Proud Warrior Race Guy is often depicted as either a hero or a protagonist's ally, but only because the protagonists just happen to not be on his rape and pillage lists. For now. If evil, he will probably be the WorthyOpponent.

* The Azatoth in ''Webcomic/{{Terra}}'' have a heavily militaristic culture believing in AsskickingEqualsAuthority, though the exact angle of the trope varies heavily by individual. Main cast member Agrippa Varus focuses on the "Proud", with a strong sense of personal honor and no tolerance for attacking civilians. Apparent BigBad Solus Kalar is an [[FantasticRacism Azatoth-supremacist]] WellIntentionedExtremist advocating the use of biological warfare against humanity. His underling Catella Myrha is pretty much just a [[BloodKnight fight-happy bitch]].

See also BloodKnight and BarbarianTribe. See WarriorPoet for what happens when the Proud Warrior Race Guy becomes more developed. Often is fond of being InHarmsWay, and is a GlorySeeker wanting to be FamedInStory. They often are of the belief that this means they have a BadassArmy, but often are [[TheWorfEffect proven wrong]]. May be from a MartyrdomCulture and worship a WarGod. Frequently crossed with or has strong elements of the NobleSavage. Being a culture singularly focused on the warrior way, anyone performing non-warrior roles frequently suffer from KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect. If they manage to conquer another nation, can become members of a ForeignRulingClass.

** Darn near everything, from the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame fairly standard-issue Dwarves]] ([[FantasyGunControl except with GUNS]]), [[KnightInShiningArmor Brettonian Knights]], hilariously feral [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs]], the men of the Hordes of Chaos, the single-minded [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Saurus warriors]] of the [[LizardFolk Lizardmen]]...

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* From Wrestling/EddieGuerrero's "Latino Heat" theme:
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* Wrestling/HaniaTheHowlingHuntress is [[BadassNative Blackfoot-Cherokee]]. At times on her Twitter and Instagram she has expressed pride in her heritage and has spoken out against UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus and UsefulNotes/ThanksgivingDay.
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One variant to this might be a Proud ''[[ClassicalHunter Hunter]]'' Race Guy, such as the Franchise/{{Predator}}, clad in bones and skulls with a head mounted on a spear. Just replace the aforementioned 'battle and bloodshed' with 'worthy prey and trophies,' and replace the large scale wars and battlefields with extended hunts in the jungle or swamp. These types tend to be TheStoic, since hunting requires one to be quiet when stalking prey. Individuals of this variant might be the HunterTrapper, ScarilyCompetentTracker, TheBeastmaster, or StealthExpert when compared to other versions of this trope, but will generally speak and behave extremely similarly. Species that are essentially [[IntelligentGerbil aliens/creatures based on predatory animals]], such as the CatFolk or LizardFolk often found in many ScienceFiction and Fantasy works, are apt to be of this type because of the connotation between them and their predatory animal inspiration. This variant is also one of the few ways to play the EgomaniacHunter trope straight while also allowing it to be a heroic figure.

Another variation on this is the Proud ''{{Soldier|VsWarrior}}'' Race Guy — a more low-key version, more like a military society rather than a warrior culture. With more focus on drilling and discipline than just strength at arms. These guys have a tendency to be more technologically advanced and more focused on expansion than conquest — they do not see the harm in [[CombatPragmatist dishonorable tactics]], but they are [[NecessarilyEvil pragmatic, not ruthless]]. The Proud Soldier Race Guy isn't likely to cause any more harm than absolutely necessary to get what he wants. Often ruled by TheEmperor.

Also compare ProudScholarRace and ProudMerchantRace for different [[PlanetOfHats kinds of hats]] a species can wear.

* ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'' has Liones, a country in which vigilantes might burn down the house of [[SinsOfTheFather a "traitor"'s family]] and TheGoodKing was overthrown just because he ordered its people to demilitarize. Every native of Liones shown is either a Holy Knight or closely related to one.

** The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] of Saim-hann and Biel-tan. The Eldar of Saim-Hann are proud, boisterous barbarians who live in tribal clans, ride jetbikes and settle their differences with duels. The Eldar of Biel-tan are mostly disciplined and merciless Aspect Warriors, and their craftworld is run not by seers but autarchs and exarchs. The two craft worlds seek to reassert the Eldar as the masters of the galaxy and travel around attacking the upstarts squatting on their planets. Even Eldar in civilian occupations often take to battle as Guardians, and unlike most citizen militia who are fielded out of desperation, the vast majority of Guardians have experience from a warrior path and can hold their own against the trained armies of other races. Anyone who believes that Eldar are all clairvoyant pussies who manipulate other races into doing all the hard work for them should tell that to the Swordwind.

* [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Centaurs]] were a combination of this and MrViceGuy.
* Often invoked in [[MeaningfulName Onomastics]] which are a kind of micro-folklore. The Royal Navy once commissioned the Tribal class destroyers named after various tribes which had a reputation for this. Several athletic teams also.

* The Jägermonsters from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', who are an army of humans mutated into [[SuperSoldier supersoldiers]] by the Heterodyne family, and loyal first and foremost ''to'' the Heterodyne family. In addition to their long lives, prodigious strength, and [[VampireVords accent-inducing fangs,]] they appear to have built a religion... around hats. If a Jaeger is wearing a hat, especially a NiceHat, it had better be one he (or she) won in combat.

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', while many civilians do exist, a large amount of youths become ninja. There doesn't seem to be a specific age-limit on being a ninja. Some clans such as the Aburame seem to make it obligatory for their members to become ninja. Most people become ninjas between eleven and thirteen, but {{Child Prodigy}}'s like Kakashi can become genin at as young as five. During the Warring Clan's era, the average life expectancy of ninjas was 30 due to the large amount of {{Child Soldier|s}} ninjas getting killed.

* ComicBook/{{Starfire}} from ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' is a Proud Warrior Race Girl, in the original comic version anyway. She was sweet to most peeople, but could easily become violent. In her [[RetCon "first meeting"]] with the Titans recalled in a later episode of the [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans TV series]], she was this way too, making her "later" GenkiGirl personality seem rather puzzling. Her BloodKnight behavior does appear sometimes. WordOfGod is that Starfire in the cartoon was designed like a ForeignExchangeStudent.

* Prince Acroyear of the Acroyears, from Marvel's toy-licensed comic, ''ComicBook/{{Micronauts}}''. Worth noting because he is one of the earliest mass-market appearances of the Proud Warrior Race Guy as a stock crew member on a SpaceOpera CoolShip. It is also worth noting that he is portrayed as dark-skinned, despite otherwise-alien features -- i.e., "played by an African-American". That is not just incidental, either: a major plot point has his albino brother Shaitan driven to madness,evil, and betrayal by his perceived inferiority.

** Starscream is this in spades for "Transformers Armada" as well as in Energon and Cybertron.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'':
** In Marvel's early Generation 1 comics, Megatron considered himself to be one of these, as seen by his distaste for killing an easy foe like [[TheMedic Ratchet]]. In a later issue, he demonstrates joy at getting to kill Ratchet after the latter had learned some of the way of the warrior. Much later, in the UK story "The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire", he actually refers to the Decepticons as a 'proud warrior race'.
** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'' has turned Thundercracker into a Proud Warrior Race Guy, one who is not very satisfied with the current state of Decepticon affairs [[spoiler:and ends up joining the Autobots.]]

** Their new codex turns the Necrons into this. They have a strict and complex code of martial honour, and some of the Necron overlords are {{Noble Demon}}s and {{Worthy Opponent}}s. It's just this code of honour rarely applies to their opponents...

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' has Starfire and her fellow Tamaraneans, though as mentioned above, the TV version of Starfire herself is a GenkiGirl. Of course, [[WhatAnIdiot bad guys who have underestimated her]] [[OhCrap have found out that]] [[LetsGetDangerous she hasn't forgotten where she came from]]. When she gets to fully cut loose, it's a thing of beauty.

* Knuckles and the other Echidnas in ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'' are portrayed as this. They were a tribe of warriors who created the [[AmplifierArtifact Master Emerald]] to use as a weapon while preventing the Chaos Emeralds from falling into the wrong hands, leading to the conflict with the Owls. [[DumbMuscle Knuckles]] himself brags about being "trained in all forms of combat" and mocks Sonic for being UnskilledButStrong.

** Averted yet again in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' by the Saiyans of Universe 6, who share very little of the warrior culture embraced by their Universe 7 counterparts.

** Catachan Jungle Fighters ''look'' like this, [[SubvertedTrope but they're not really]]. Yes, they're tough bastards (one popular nickname in-universeis "Baby Ogryns" due to their muscles), essentially being {{Film/Rambo}} and [[{{Film/Predator}} Dutch]] by way of Film/TheDeerHunter, but have little in the way of a "culture" due to the fact that they spend literally every waking moment fighting against [[DeathWorld their own planet, which is trying to kill them]]. [[MilitaryMaverick They do, however, very much resent outside authority,]] and had the "Oops, sorry sir!" rule by which any {{commissar}} attached to them had a chance of suffering an "unfortunate accident" before the battle even started.

* ''Franchise/Ben10'' series: The [[MultiArmedAndDangerous four-armed]] alien race known as the Tetramands, with the twist on this trope being that [[MoreDeadlyThanTheMale their women are the strongest warriors of all]][[note]]keep in the mind that most males have SuperStrength yet the women are still stronger[[/note]]. ''Everything'' in their culture is solved by fighting.

* ''{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'':
** Dinobot, despite the fact that he's the only member of his race who acts that way. Nobody ever mentioned this on the show, though... Presumably, they knew better than to say so within earshot of Dinobot.
** Some of the other Predacons do have shades of this as well, but in a more BloodKnight sort of way. Also, some incarnations of [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 the original Dinobots]], when they're not portrayed as either knuckle-dragging bufoons or completely animalistic.
** Don't forget that most of the Predacons we are part of [[BigBad Megatron's]] crew, and only Dinobot (soldier) and Megatron (general) are true Pred military types. Other than that, we only see Ravage and the Tripredacus council.
** This is technically an anime, but in any case, Starscream was this in spades for "Transformers Armada" as well as in Energon and Cybertron.
** In ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'', the denizes of Jungle Planet are like this. Their leader, Scourge, even owes a little of his design to Dinobot.

*** Interestingly despite being the usual candidates, the Orcs of ''Eberron'' are actually an {{Aver|tedTrope}}sion, being peaceful and reclusive humanoids with a {{druid}}ic religion.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has Starfire and her fellow Tamaraneans, though as mentioned above, the TV version of Starfire herself is a GenkiGirl. Of course, [[WhatAnIdiot bad guys who have underestimated her]] [[OhCrap have found out that]] [[LetsGetDangerous she hasn't forgotten where she came from]]. When she gets to fully cut loose, it's a thing of beauty.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode "Win, Lose and Kaboom", features an Orc-like race called Gorlocks. Jimmy and one of them fall in love with each other.

* The Khunds are functionally the Franchise/TheDCU's Klingons though they debuted three years before ''Franchise/StarTrek'' began.