History Main / RogueSoldier

->'''Colonel Mustafa Mokrani''': "[The soldiers'] belonging are gone. Their rations as well."
->'''Catherine Durand''': "Where would they have gone?"
->'''Colonel Mokrani''': "Likely to their families."

A military soldier is someone from a military force who is highly trained and motivated to serve his/her country and defend it from its enemies. But what happens when the soldier decides to make use of their skills not to protect the country, but for ulterior motives? Going rogue makes them dangerous with the training they have from their time in military service, especially if they work with criminals/terrorists or if they strike on their own as HiredGuns like PrivateMilitaryContractors.

When TheCoup is about to start, you'll usually find these guys around. But if it's a MilitaryCoup, expect the rogue soldier to be very active in seizing control of said country from the (usually) elected leaders. They'll also be in charge of being in a position of EmergencyAuthority.

* ''Time Crisis 4'' involves the VSSE investigating the activities of the Biological Weapons Special Operations Unit aka the Hamlin Battalion. Its personnel worked alongside Wild Dog in terrorist activities in the Greater San Francisco Area. Lt. Col. Gregory Barrows went rogue and blames their activities on poor treatment of his subordinates as they were considered a black ops unit trained to use Terror Bites as a military weapon.

* ''Time Crisis 4'' involves the VSSE investigating the activities of the Biological Weapons Special Operations Unit aka the Hamlin Battalion. Its personnel worked alongside Wild Dog in terrorist activites in the Greater San Francisco Area. Lt. Col. Gregory Barrows went rogue and blames their activities on poor treatment of his subordinates as they were considered a black ops unit trained to use Terror Bites as a military weapon.

* In ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', one episode has Marine has gone rogue and betrayed a CIA mission to capture a pro-Hezbollah financier. However, as the NCIS team tracks him down it is revealed that he was framed and went rogue to find the real traitor and prove his innocence.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

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** In the Vegas games, RAINBOW opeator Gabe Nowak was the mastermind in the terrorist attacks in Las Vegas, albeit in cooperation with Mexican terrorist Irene Morales.

* ''Film/AugustWithoutEmperor'' has pro-militarist factions in the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Forces plot a coup in 198X, inspired by the success of the 1973 coup by the Chilean Army and from the failed coups in post-World War II Japan in 1963 (Sanmu Incident) and in 1970 (Mishima Incident). They're backed by an oligarch and ex-prime minister Kozo Ohata, who wants to put the Emperor back as the head of state and get rid of the post-war Constitution, seeing it as making Japan weak against pro-left factions and student groups. The plan, [[TitleDrop August Without Emperor]], would have to rely on persuading the JGSDF soldiers from various garrisons to go with the plan. However, the Cabinet Research Office (currently known as the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office) and the JGSDF Military Police were able to suppress most of the coup by using force to persuade various JGSDF formations to stand down, though a few others stood by Tokyo and did not join. One JGSDF formation was forcibly disarmed after they refused to stand down. Ex-JGSDF officer Akimasa Fujisaki was able to hijack the Sakura Shinkansen with active pro-miltiarist soldiers to assist.

* After Japan modernized, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) was known to be involved in revolts and attempted coups to support ultranationalist factions against civilian-led governments. After the surrender of Japan, parts of the IJA led by Major Kenji Hatanaka fought against the government in the Kyujo Incident. The Imperial Guard were deployed to stop the rogue soldiers from seizing the Imperial Palace.
** The Sanmu Incident, which was suppose to happen on December 12, 1961, was halted when police arrested 13 suspects, some of them being with the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) included Taku Mikami, who was known to be involved in the May 15 incident.

* After the 1973 MilitaryCoup in Chile by Augusto Pinochet, a good part of the Chilean military goes rogue over the establishment of the 1973 government. Most of them desert and flee from the country. Others who remained in the country were killed.

* The Tatmadaw has a history of being involved in coups ever since Myanmar won independence from the British. The recent involvement of Myanma troops in a coup was in February 2021 when they overthrew the Myanma civilian government.

** The manga ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamThePlotToAssassinateGihren'' involves Brigadier-General Henri Schlesser going against the Zabi faction after the events of the One Year War, leading the Capital Defense Division against parts of the Zeon military that are pro-Zabi by taking advantage of thei ObfuscatingStupidity status so as to lull them into a false sense of security.

When TheCoup is about to start, you'll usually find these guys around. But if it's a MilitaryCoup, expect the rogue soldier to be very active in seizing control of said country from the (usually) elected leaders.

* In ''VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory'', the Information Self-Defense Force or ISDF under JMSDF Admiral Toshiro Otomo goes rogue when Third Echelon discovered that they were TheManBehindTheMan on starting the Second Korean War and working with Douglas Shetland to use the Dvorak algorithm. Otomo wants the Emperor as the head of state and the post-war Constitutio abolished.

* After Japan modernized, the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) was known to be involved in revolts and attempted coups to support ultranationalist factions against civilian-led governments. After the surrender of Japan, parts of the IJA led by Major Kenji Hatanaka in the Kyujo Incident. The Imperial Guard were deployed to stop the rogue soldiers from seizing the Imperial Palace.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' NonSerialMovie "Private Eye in the Distant Sea" has the Intelligence Security Command (ISC) investigate a security breach in the JS Hotaka involving an unknown country. [[spoiler:Lt. Yousuke Sasaura of the JMSDF was a mole on behalf of an unnamed country trying to leak confidential information on Aegis destroyers.]] This is usually implied to be North Korea.

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' involves FOXHOUND going rogue when they are Shadow Moses and Solid Snake gets called in to resolve the situatio before they use hijacked Metal Gear Rex.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' has surviving Task Force 141 soldiers painted as rogue commandos thanks to the actions of General Shepard.

** In Rogue Spear, RAINBOW is deployed to Russia to secretly cut off the Astasanov Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility from outside contact, which is being used by mafiya boss Maxim Kutkin as a hideout with Russian Army officer Viktor Rudenko. Kutkin also forces unemployed scientists to create nuclear weapons for his use.
** In the Vegas games, RAINBOW opeator Gabe Nowak was the mastermind in the terrorist attacks in Las Vegas, albeit in cooperation with Irenel Morales.

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** In VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn, it is possible for [[spoiler:Jill and Zihark to join the Laguz Alliance/Ike's army, the latter expresses his disgust that the Daein still didn't learn anything about Laguz discrimination.]]
** Silas in VideoGame/FireEmblemFates was a young knight of Nohr who joined the army in order to get a chance of seeing his best friend, [[PlayerCharacter Corrin]], again. In Birthright and Revelation, you fought him in battle but upon defeat, he swore loyalty towards you over his country.

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* Near the end of ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'', Staff Sergeant Henry "Black" Blackburn and Private First Class David Montes go rogue after they were detained by the CIA for what happened in the Middle East conerning the PLR.

Compare with DangerousDeserter, where the key difference is that the Rogue Soldier is still officially part of the military. Also compare with RogueAgent, where it's a member of a country's government agency that's doing the betrayal or shady activity.

* The Los Zetas were founded by ex-commandos from the Mexican Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (GAFE). They're feared by Mexican and international law enforcement/intelligence agencies as they use their special forces experience to kill their rivals and anyone who gets in their way.

* The Los Zetas were founded by ex-commandos from the Mexican Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (GAFE). They're feared by Mexican and international law enforcement/intelligence agencies as they use their special forcese experience to kill their rivals and anyone who gets in their way.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E12TheWounded The Wounded]], Captain Benjamin Maxwell goes off on his own to attack Cardassian ships and outposts - believes that they are arming for war. He's confronted by both Picard and Chief Miles O'Brien about his violation of a peace treaty and Starfleet regulations. The episode ends with Miles talking Capt. Maxwell down. [[spoiler:TheExtremistWasRight - Picard concedes that Maxwell ''was'' right, the Cardissaians were arming for war, but keeping the peace was more important.]]
* The episode "Strike Force"[[note]]"Military Strikes" in [=MI5=]-branded DVD releases[[/note]] in ''Series/{{Spooks}}'' has [=MI5=] investigating Major Samuel Curtis, who's suspected of trying to get parts of the British Army to start a mutiny to highlight problems within the military in order to improve on them. He's later proven to be a security threat when the rogue soldiers under his command hijack a truck carrying nuclear waste and detain police officers accompanying it. Harry is later forced to order anti-terrorist snipers to shoot the major, which forced the other rogue soldiers to surrender.

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* The ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' ShortStory "The Smallest Detail" has Cain's aide Ferik Jurgen tangle with a corrupt quartermaster who tries to kill him to cover up the smuggling ring he thinks Jurgen has uncovered. Jurgen had in fact deduced that the quartermaster was on the take (his books were ''too'' perfect), but it was so much to be expected that it didn't even occur to Jurgen to report it.
* The titular antagonists of ''Literature/TheDayOfTheJackal'' works for the OAS, French veterans embittered at De Gaulle "selling out" Algeria.
* In the first book of ''Op-Center'' (by Tom Clancy), terrorist attacks are conducted in South Korea by rogue South Korean soldiers to keep the status quo of having two separate Koreas while making [[FalseFlagOperation false flag attacks]] to blame Pyongyang.
* The ending of ''Literature/MobileSuitGundamHathawaysFlash'' suggest that Colonel Kenneth Sleg would [[spoiler:be the leader in a newly reorganized Mafty after Hathaway Noa was executed]].

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* In the 3rd season of ''Series/TheUnit'', the team had to go dark briefly after they were ordered to be confined to their quarters from the last episode of Season 2.

* In ''Series/{{NCIS}}, one episode has Marine has gone rogue and betrayed a CIA mission to capture a pro-Hezbollah financier. However, as the NCIS team tracks him down it is revealed that he was framed and went rogue to find the real traitor and prove his innocence.

* The episode " "Strike Force"[[note]]"Military Strikes" in [=MI5=]-branded DVD releases[[/note]] in ''Series/{{Spooks}}'' has [=MI5=] investigating Major Samuel Curtis, who's suspected of trying to get parts of the British Army to start a mutiny to highlight problems within the military in order to improve on them. He's later proven to be a security threat when the rogue soldiers under his command hijack a truck carrying nuclear waste and detain police officers accompanying it. Harry is later forced to order anti-terrorist snipers to shoot the major, which forced the other rogue soldiers to surrender.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode {{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E12TheWounded}}, Captain Benjamin Maxwell goes off on his own to attack Cardassian ships and outposts - believes that they are arming for war. He's confronted by both Picard and Chief Miles O'Brien about his violation of a peace treaty and Starfleet regulations. The episode ends with Miles talking Capt. Maxwell down. [[spoiler:TheExtremistWasRight - Picard concedes that Maxwell ''was'' right, the Cardissaians were arming for war, but keeping the peace was more important.]]

->'''Colonel Mustafa Mokrani''': "[The soldier's] belonging are gone. Their rations as well."