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* In ''Film/RamboIV'', after a group of missionaries disappears in the Burmese jungle, the pastor of their church hires Rambo and a squad of mercenaries to rescue them.
* In ''Film/RamboIV'', after a group of missionaries disappears in the Burmese jungle, the pastor of their church hires Rambo and a squad of mercenaries to rescue them.
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* ''Film/UnderFire'': Oates is a mercenary whom Russell, a photojournalist, runs into in Chad (at the beginning of the film), and then later shows up in Nicaragua during the civil war, which is when most of the movie is set, fighting on behalf of the government. At the end of the film, when the civil war is over, he says goodbye to Russell by saying, "See you in Thailand."
* ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'': Despite being a nominal ResearchInc, the Life Foundation employs hit squads with armored vehicles and high-tech {{Attack Drone}}s, who somehow get away with a high-damage ChaseScene through the streets of San Francisco.
%%* ''Film/TheProfessionals'': Rico and Dolworth.
* In ''Film/RamboIV'', after a group of missionaries disappears in the Burmese jungle, the pastor of their church hires Rambo and a squad of mercenaries to rescue them.
* ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'': Despite being a nominal ResearchInc, the Life Foundation employs hit squads with armored vehicles and high-tech {{Attack Drone}}s, who somehow get away with a high-damage ChaseScene through the streets of San Francisco.
%%* ''Film/TheProfessionals'': Rico and Dolworth.
* In ''Film/RamboIV'', after a group of missionaries disappears in the Burmese jungle, the pastor of their church hires Rambo and a squad of mercenaries to rescue them.
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* ''Film/UnderFire'': Oates is a mercenary whom Russell, a photojournalist, runs into in Chad (at the beginning of the film), and then later shows up in Nicaragua during the civil war, which is when most of the movie is set, fighting on behalf of the government. At the end of the film, when the civil war is over, he says goodbye to Russell by saying, "See you in Thailand."
* ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'': Despite being a nominal ResearchInc, the Life Foundation employs hit squads with armored vehicles and high-tech {{Attack Drone}}s, who somehow get away with a high-damage ChaseScene through the streets of San Francisco.
* ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'': Despite being a nominal ResearchInc, the Life Foundation employs hit squads with armored vehicles and high-tech {{Attack Drone}}s, who somehow get away with a high-damage ChaseScene through the streets of San Francisco.
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* ''Film/TheWildGeese'' (1978) depicts the recruitment of a mercenary force to free an imprisoned African leader, only for the force to be abandoned when their sponsors strike a deal with the current rulers of the country.
* ''Film/WolfWarriorII'' is set in an African country suffering a civil war. The brutal rebels have hired the Dyson Corporation, who are described as the most expensive mercenaries in Europe. Towards the end of the film, the mercenary leader shoots the rebel leader after spotting an opportunity to take over the country himself. Remember children, EvilIsNotAToy! On the flip side, the hero Leng Feng is also a private security contractor. After getting dishonorably discharged from the People's Liberation Army, he is now working as an onboard guard for ships off the coast of Africa. He also picks up two other fellow Chinese contractors as allies, the OldSoldier He Jianguo and the HotBlooded young Zhuo Yifan, who are both serving as guards for a local Chinese-funded oil refinery.
* ''Film/WolfWarriorII'' is set in an African country suffering a civil war. The brutal rebels have hired the Dyson Corporation, who are described as the most expensive mercenaries in Europe. Towards the end of the film, the mercenary leader shoots the rebel leader after spotting an opportunity to take over the country himself. Remember children, EvilIsNotAToy! On the flip side, the hero Leng Feng is also a private security contractor. After getting dishonorably discharged from the People's Liberation Army, he is now working as an onboard guard for ships off the coast of Africa. He also picks up two other fellow Chinese contractors as allies, the OldSoldier He Jianguo and the HotBlooded young Zhuo Yifan, who are both serving as guards for a local Chinese-funded oil refinery.
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* ''Film/TheWildGeese'' (1978) depicts the recruitment of a mercenary force to free an imprisoned African leader, only for the force to be abandoned when their sponsors strike a deal with the current rulers of the country.
* ''Film/WolfWarriorII'' is set in an African country suffering a civil war. The brutal rebels have hired the Dyson Corporation, who are described as the most expensive mercenaries in Europe. Towards the end of the film, the mercenary leader shoots the rebel leader after spotting an opportunity to take over the country himself. Remember children, EvilIsNotAToy! On the flip side, the hero Leng Feng is also a private security contractor. After getting dishonorably discharged from the People's Liberation Army, he is now working as an onboard guard for ships off the coast of Africa. He also picks up two other fellow Chinese contractors as allies, the OldSoldier He Jianguo and the HotBlooded young Zhuo Yifan, who are both serving as guards for a local Chinese-funded oil refinery.country.
* ''Film/WolfWarriorII'' is set in an African country suffering a civil war. The brutal rebels have hired the Dyson Corporation, who are described as the most expensive mercenaries in Europe. Towards the end of the film, the mercenary leader shoots the rebel leader after spotting an opportunity to take over the country himself. Remember children, EvilIsNotAToy! On the flip side, the hero Leng Feng is also a private security contractor. After getting dishonorably discharged from the People's Liberation Army, he is now working as an onboard guard for ships off the coast of Africa. He also picks up two other fellow Chinese contractors as allies, the OldSoldier He Jianguo and the HotBlooded young Zhuo Yifan, who are both serving as guards for a local Chinese-funded oil refinery.
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* In ''Film/AmericanSniper'', a couple of PMC's show up during Kyle's various tours of duty in Iraq. In a rare twist, they are presented in a heroic light for once. Aiding the American forces in firefights against the insurgents.
* In ''Film/TheATeam'', the bad guys (at first) are from the Blackforest PMC, a thinly disguised {{expy}} of the RealLife Blackwater.
* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': All the human soldiers and pilots, even though they seem to represent the US military, are actually ''ex''-soldiers and [[SemperFi Marines]] now working for the [[MegaCorp RDA corporation]] mining Pandora. It is notable that almost all of them are mentioned to have dishonorable discharges from the US military and took the job due to their lower standards in terms of what is acceptable, [[AllThereInTheManual though this fact is not mentioned in the movie proper]].
* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', [[Comicbook/LexLuthor Lex's]] [[{{Mooks}} henchmen]] are a group of [=PMCs=] led by [[TheDragon Anatoli Knyazev]].
* ''Film/BillionDollarBrain'' has the protagonist Film/HarryPalmer recruited into the private intelligence version, which a fervent anti-Communist Texan billionaire is using to commit sabotage in Latvia. In a subversion, it only consists of a few criminals who are embezzling his money.
* ''Film/BloodDiamond'' has Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio playing a former [[strike:Zimbabwean]] Rhodesian merc-turned-diamond smuggler, who works for a private contract army that has jumbo jets and MI-24 Hind gunships — a thinly-disguised {{expy}} of Executive Outcomes,
%%* ''Film/District9'': The MNU troops fall hard into the evil end of the spectrum.
* ''Film/TheDogsOfWar'' (1981), though the film removes much of the political points made by Forsyth about the links between big business and war.
* ''Film/TheExpendables'' are about a group of mercenaries who take any job they can get. It's a handy excuse for putting together some of the most legendary action heroes together and making everyone a badass. There are even some nods towards the way they operate, as they find out their most recent "employer" is actually the CIA looking to pass off some DirtyBusiness onto their shoulders.
* ''Film/FiftyFifty1992'': Jake Wyer and Sam French are both these. Of course, they both come to believe in the cause they are fighting for.
* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', the Ravagers, led by Yondu Udunta, act in this capacity when Ronan the Accuser attacks Xandar, defending the planet while the Nova Corp engage Ronan's ship in orbit. After being shot down, one of Ronan's Sakaarans tries to get Yondu to order his men to turn on the Nova Corp. Yondu responds by using his TrickArrow to kill said Sakaaran and all his comrades. After the battle, Yondu demands the orb containing the Power Stone, and departs.
* In ''Film/{{Hardcase}}'', Simon's revolutionaries are hiring foreign mercenaries, which make the ''Federales'' very suspicious of any gringos in the area. Booker Llewellyn is an American artilleryman working for Simon who acts as MrExposition for Jack when he joins Simon's forces.
* ''Film/TheHurtLocker'': The protagonists run across a unit of British [=PMCs=] who've captured two Iraq insurgents for the bounty. Like the rest of the movie, they seem to exist for the sole purpose of being ridiculous so that Creator/JeremyRenner can look more badass.
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'', oddly enough. Both Colonel Bagley and Algren are American military post-Civil War, though Algren may be separated as his job at the beginning of the film is shilling guns for Winchester in San Francisco. But both take on contracts to sail to Japan to train their new professional military as part of Japan's phasing out of the Samurai caste system. This is actually TruthInTelevision, as up until just before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, it was common for officers from a neutral country to serve as observers in other country's wars, where they would do just that, observing how other countries fought and glean new techniques and doctrines from what they saw[[labelnote:trivia]]As it happens, the American Civil War is one of the most studied conflicts in history, and not just by the historians. Fairly large contingents of Prussian, Russian, and even Swedish observers were seeded in almost all major battles throughout the war.[[/labelnote]], and others actually allowed their soldiers to sign on to fight in other wars to gain valuable combat experience, so long as it did not conflict with their own nation's interests and alliances.
%%* ''Film/LordOfWar'', so many, from South America and Little Odessa to Africa and Asia.
* ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'': In the 2004 remake, the [[DirtyCommunists Communist]] [[TheConspiracy conspiracy]] of the original book and 1962 movie was updated for the post-Cold War times by making the villains a MegaCorp named Manchurian Global instead, which also happens to be a PMC, or at least have a PMC division. [[spoiler:Part of the reason they wanted the eponymous Manchurian Candidate to be their sleeper agent in the White House was so they could get him to send their troops into the Middle East, among other reasons.]]
* ''Film/MercForce'': The eponymous characters are a band of mercenaries roaming space looking for jobs.
* ''Film/NationalTreasure2BookOfSecrets'': The BigBad is the head of a PMC, justifying why his {{Mook}}s are always armed and following all his orders.
* ''Film/{{Outpost}}'' has the eponymous installation investigated by a group of mercenaries firmly on the anti-hero sign of things. Their resumes are a Royal Marine (the commander), a US Marine (his second), a former IRA guerilla who joined the Paras, a UN Peacekeeper, a Foreign Legionnaire, a Russian Alpha Group soldier, and a Yugoslavian man whose unit is never named.
* ''Film/{{Predator}}'''s main characters are a heavily armed mercenary band, but they are far from unscrupulous. Main character Dutch outright states that they specialize in hostage and rescue operations, outright refusing to take contracts that only involve killing. [[spoiler:When it comes out that they were tricked and there were no hostages at the outpost they were sent to attack, they are ''extremely'' unhappy with their employer.]]
* ''Film/{{Predators}}'': Our main character Royce is a former American special forces soldier turned mercenary due to his BloodKnight views. He starts the film totally selfish and ruthless but evolves over the course of the story.
* ''Film/Rogue2020'': Within the grasslands of East Africa, a mercenary named Samantha "Sam" O'Hara is leading an operation with a team of multinational mercenaries on a rescue mission to retrieve Asilia Wilson, the teenage daughter of a governor who was abducted for ransom purposes alongside her two schoolmates Chloe and Tessa by Zalaam, the leader of a terrorist cell affiliated with al-Shabaab.
* ''Film/SASRiseOfTheBlackSwan''. The Black Swans are a family-owned PMC company headquartered in London. They are literal PsychosForHire as the father and his two adult children are high-functioning psychopaths, making them handy for doing dirty work for the British government and corporations until one of their atrocities is recorded on someone's mobile phone and an Interpol red notice is issued for crimes against humanity, setting off the plot.
* ''Film/UnderFire'': Oates is a mercenary whom Russell, a photojournalist, runs into in Chad (at the beginning of the film), and then later shows up in Nicaragua during the civil war, which is when most of the movie is set, fighting on behalf of the government. At the end of the film, when the civil war is over, he says goodbye to Russell by saying, "See you in Thailand."
* ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'': Despite being a nominal ResearchInc, the Life Foundation employs hit squads with armored vehicles and high-tech {{Attack Drone}}s, who somehow get away with a high-damage ChaseScene through the streets of San Francisco.
%%* ''Film/TheProfessionals'': Rico and Dolworth.
* In ''Film/RamboIV'', after a group of missionaries disappears in the Burmese jungle, the pastor of their church hires Rambo and a squad of mercenaries to rescue them.
%%* ''Film/{{Shooter}}'': The {{Mooks}}.
* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004). The Flying Legion, clearly inspired by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_tigers Flying Tigers]].
* In ''Film/{{Sleepy Hollow|1999}}'', the Headless Horseman is the vengeful ghost of one of the Hessian mercenaries hired by Great Britain during the American Revolution.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars'' we have the Trade Defense Force, the military arm of the Trade Federation created originally to defend ships from the Trade Federation and its member companies from pirate attacks. By the time of the Prequels, however, most of their manpower has been replaced with droids and the Trade Federation is using it to force "customers" into giving up their worlds to them.
** Other megacorporations, such as the [=InterGalactic=] Banking Clan, the Techno Union, the Corporate Alliance, and others have their own "security divisions" of battle droids, similar to the Trade Defense Force but more specialized. Their combined forces become the military of the Confederacy of Independent System, with their officers, such as Grievous, becoming the Separatist military leaders.
* ''Film/TripleThreat2019'': The antagonist, Collins, leads a team of professional mercenaries. Payu and Long Fei used to be mercenaries before defecting.
%%* ''Film/WarInc''
* ''Film/{{Water|1985}}'': An island in the West Indies that strikes a deposit of pure mineral water. Annoyed at the competition, the French hire a group of mercenaries to blow it up. After blowing up the well and nearly throttling the island's governor to death, the mercenary commander then leaves the governor [[MyCard his card]], saying: "If you are in need of an army, just call."
-->'''French agent:''' This is a dangerous mission, and some of you will die. But remember, in a world gone mad, you will die for a principle that you all hold close to your heart. Money!\\
'''Mercenaries:''' Viva franc! Viva deutschmark! Viva dollar! Viva [[SwissBankAccount numbered bank account in Switzerland]]!
* ''Film/TheWildGeese'' (1978) depicts the recruitment of a mercenary force to free an imprisoned African leader, only for the force to be abandoned when their sponsors strike a deal with the current rulers of the country.
* ''Film/WolfWarriorII'' is set in an African country suffering a civil war. The brutal rebels have hired the Dyson Corporation, who are described as the most expensive mercenaries in Europe. Towards the end of the film, the mercenary leader shoots the rebel leader after spotting an opportunity to take over the country himself. Remember children, EvilIsNotAToy! On the flip side, the hero Leng Feng is also a private security contractor. After getting dishonorably discharged from the People's Liberation Army, he is now working as an onboard guard for ships off the coast of Africa. He also picks up two other fellow Chinese contractors as allies, the OldSoldier He Jianguo and the HotBlooded young Zhuo Yifan, who are both serving as guards for a local Chinese-funded oil refinery.
* In ''Film/TheATeam'', the bad guys (at first) are from the Blackforest PMC, a thinly disguised {{expy}} of the RealLife Blackwater.
* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': All the human soldiers and pilots, even though they seem to represent the US military, are actually ''ex''-soldiers and [[SemperFi Marines]] now working for the [[MegaCorp RDA corporation]] mining Pandora. It is notable that almost all of them are mentioned to have dishonorable discharges from the US military and took the job due to their lower standards in terms of what is acceptable, [[AllThereInTheManual though this fact is not mentioned in the movie proper]].
* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', [[Comicbook/LexLuthor Lex's]] [[{{Mooks}} henchmen]] are a group of [=PMCs=] led by [[TheDragon Anatoli Knyazev]].
* ''Film/BillionDollarBrain'' has the protagonist Film/HarryPalmer recruited into the private intelligence version, which a fervent anti-Communist Texan billionaire is using to commit sabotage in Latvia. In a subversion, it only consists of a few criminals who are embezzling his money.
* ''Film/BloodDiamond'' has Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio playing a former [[strike:Zimbabwean]] Rhodesian merc-turned-diamond smuggler, who works for a private contract army that has jumbo jets and MI-24 Hind gunships — a thinly-disguised {{expy}} of Executive Outcomes,
%%* ''Film/District9'': The MNU troops fall hard into the evil end of the spectrum.
* ''Film/TheDogsOfWar'' (1981), though the film removes much of the political points made by Forsyth about the links between big business and war.
* ''Film/TheExpendables'' are about a group of mercenaries who take any job they can get. It's a handy excuse for putting together some of the most legendary action heroes together and making everyone a badass. There are even some nods towards the way they operate, as they find out their most recent "employer" is actually the CIA looking to pass off some DirtyBusiness onto their shoulders.
* ''Film/FiftyFifty1992'': Jake Wyer and Sam French are both these. Of course, they both come to believe in the cause they are fighting for.
* In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', the Ravagers, led by Yondu Udunta, act in this capacity when Ronan the Accuser attacks Xandar, defending the planet while the Nova Corp engage Ronan's ship in orbit. After being shot down, one of Ronan's Sakaarans tries to get Yondu to order his men to turn on the Nova Corp. Yondu responds by using his TrickArrow to kill said Sakaaran and all his comrades. After the battle, Yondu demands the orb containing the Power Stone, and departs.
* In ''Film/{{Hardcase}}'', Simon's revolutionaries are hiring foreign mercenaries, which make the ''Federales'' very suspicious of any gringos in the area. Booker Llewellyn is an American artilleryman working for Simon who acts as MrExposition for Jack when he joins Simon's forces.
* ''Film/TheHurtLocker'': The protagonists run across a unit of British [=PMCs=] who've captured two Iraq insurgents for the bounty. Like the rest of the movie, they seem to exist for the sole purpose of being ridiculous so that Creator/JeremyRenner can look more badass.
* ''Film/TheLastSamurai'', oddly enough. Both Colonel Bagley and Algren are American military post-Civil War, though Algren may be separated as his job at the beginning of the film is shilling guns for Winchester in San Francisco. But both take on contracts to sail to Japan to train their new professional military as part of Japan's phasing out of the Samurai caste system. This is actually TruthInTelevision, as up until just before UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, it was common for officers from a neutral country to serve as observers in other country's wars, where they would do just that, observing how other countries fought and glean new techniques and doctrines from what they saw[[labelnote:trivia]]As it happens, the American Civil War is one of the most studied conflicts in history, and not just by the historians. Fairly large contingents of Prussian, Russian, and even Swedish observers were seeded in almost all major battles throughout the war.[[/labelnote]], and others actually allowed their soldiers to sign on to fight in other wars to gain valuable combat experience, so long as it did not conflict with their own nation's interests and alliances.
%%* ''Film/LordOfWar'', so many, from South America and Little Odessa to Africa and Asia.
* ''Literature/TheManchurianCandidate'': In the 2004 remake, the [[DirtyCommunists Communist]] [[TheConspiracy conspiracy]] of the original book and 1962 movie was updated for the post-Cold War times by making the villains a MegaCorp named Manchurian Global instead, which also happens to be a PMC, or at least have a PMC division. [[spoiler:Part of the reason they wanted the eponymous Manchurian Candidate to be their sleeper agent in the White House was so they could get him to send their troops into the Middle East, among other reasons.]]
* ''Film/MercForce'': The eponymous characters are a band of mercenaries roaming space looking for jobs.
* ''Film/NationalTreasure2BookOfSecrets'': The BigBad is the head of a PMC, justifying why his {{Mook}}s are always armed and following all his orders.
* ''Film/{{Outpost}}'' has the eponymous installation investigated by a group of mercenaries firmly on the anti-hero sign of things. Their resumes are a Royal Marine (the commander), a US Marine (his second), a former IRA guerilla who joined the Paras, a UN Peacekeeper, a Foreign Legionnaire, a Russian Alpha Group soldier, and a Yugoslavian man whose unit is never named.
* ''Film/{{Predator}}'''s main characters are a heavily armed mercenary band, but they are far from unscrupulous. Main character Dutch outright states that they specialize in hostage and rescue operations, outright refusing to take contracts that only involve killing. [[spoiler:When it comes out that they were tricked and there were no hostages at the outpost they were sent to attack, they are ''extremely'' unhappy with their employer.]]
* ''Film/{{Predators}}'': Our main character Royce is a former American special forces soldier turned mercenary due to his BloodKnight views. He starts the film totally selfish and ruthless but evolves over the course of the story.
* ''Film/Rogue2020'': Within the grasslands of East Africa, a mercenary named Samantha "Sam" O'Hara is leading an operation with a team of multinational mercenaries on a rescue mission to retrieve Asilia Wilson, the teenage daughter of a governor who was abducted for ransom purposes alongside her two schoolmates Chloe and Tessa by Zalaam, the leader of a terrorist cell affiliated with al-Shabaab.
* ''Film/SASRiseOfTheBlackSwan''. The Black Swans are a family-owned PMC company headquartered in London. They are literal PsychosForHire as the father and his two adult children are high-functioning psychopaths, making them handy for doing dirty work for the British government and corporations until one of their atrocities is recorded on someone's mobile phone and an Interpol red notice is issued for crimes against humanity, setting off the plot.
* ''Film/UnderFire'': Oates is a mercenary whom Russell, a photojournalist, runs into in Chad (at the beginning of the film), and then later shows up in Nicaragua during the civil war, which is when most of the movie is set, fighting on behalf of the government. At the end of the film, when the civil war is over, he says goodbye to Russell by saying, "See you in Thailand."
* ''Film/{{Venom|2018}}'': Despite being a nominal ResearchInc, the Life Foundation employs hit squads with armored vehicles and high-tech {{Attack Drone}}s, who somehow get away with a high-damage ChaseScene through the streets of San Francisco.
%%* ''Film/TheProfessionals'': Rico and Dolworth.
* In ''Film/RamboIV'', after a group of missionaries disappears in the Burmese jungle, the pastor of their church hires Rambo and a squad of mercenaries to rescue them.
%%* ''Film/{{Shooter}}'': The {{Mooks}}.
* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004). The Flying Legion, clearly inspired by the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_tigers Flying Tigers]].
* In ''Film/{{Sleepy Hollow|1999}}'', the Headless Horseman is the vengeful ghost of one of the Hessian mercenaries hired by Great Britain during the American Revolution.
* In ''Franchise/StarWars'' we have the Trade Defense Force, the military arm of the Trade Federation created originally to defend ships from the Trade Federation and its member companies from pirate attacks. By the time of the Prequels, however, most of their manpower has been replaced with droids and the Trade Federation is using it to force "customers" into giving up their worlds to them.
** Other megacorporations, such as the [=InterGalactic=] Banking Clan, the Techno Union, the Corporate Alliance, and others have their own "security divisions" of battle droids, similar to the Trade Defense Force but more specialized. Their combined forces become the military of the Confederacy of Independent System, with their officers, such as Grievous, becoming the Separatist military leaders.
* ''Film/TripleThreat2019'': The antagonist, Collins, leads a team of professional mercenaries. Payu and Long Fei used to be mercenaries before defecting.
%%* ''Film/WarInc''
* ''Film/{{Water|1985}}'': An island in the West Indies that strikes a deposit of pure mineral water. Annoyed at the competition, the French hire a group of mercenaries to blow it up. After blowing up the well and nearly throttling the island's governor to death, the mercenary commander then leaves the governor [[MyCard his card]], saying: "If you are in need of an army, just call."
-->'''French agent:''' This is a dangerous mission, and some of you will die. But remember, in a world gone mad, you will die for a principle that you all hold close to your heart. Money!\\
'''Mercenaries:''' Viva franc! Viva deutschmark! Viva dollar! Viva [[SwissBankAccount numbered bank account in Switzerland]]!
* ''Film/TheWildGeese'' (1978) depicts the recruitment of a mercenary force to free an imprisoned African leader, only for the force to be abandoned when their sponsors strike a deal with the current rulers of the country.
* ''Film/WolfWarriorII'' is set in an African country suffering a civil war. The brutal rebels have hired the Dyson Corporation, who are described as the most expensive mercenaries in Europe. Towards the end of the film, the mercenary leader shoots the rebel leader after spotting an opportunity to take over the country himself. Remember children, EvilIsNotAToy! On the flip side, the hero Leng Feng is also a private security contractor. After getting dishonorably discharged from the People's Liberation Army, he is now working as an onboard guard for ships off the coast of Africa. He also picks up two other fellow Chinese contractors as allies, the OldSoldier He Jianguo and the HotBlooded young Zhuo Yifan, who are both serving as guards for a local Chinese-funded oil refinery.
