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13->'''Trombley:''' Sergeant, I didn't get to shoot.\
14'''Ray:''' That fucking sucks, Trombley. Did your recruiting officer tell you you could just shoot anyone?\
15'''Trombley:''' Fuckin' A he did.
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19The grunt version of InsaneAdmiral (and sometimes ColonelKilgore or GeneralRipper). Often people below the rank of Sergeant are all around [[JerkAss assholes]] who [[RapePillageAndBurn plunder, rape]], and massacre civilians, or brutally torture and murder the hero's comrades, making [[AssholeVictim killing them less guilt-causing.]]
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21These generally come in four flavors:
22# '''The Jingo:''' This guy is swept up in PatrioticFervor [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters or]] [[MyCountryRightOrWrong similar]] and is doing it because they're [[KnightTemplar convinced their cause gives them the right to be as brutal as they please]] (racism, {{fantastic|Racism}} or otherwise, might be involved, or they may have bought in to the rhetoric so much that they genuinely do not see the opposition as people). Particularly likely to target civilians, especially if he just lost a battle buddy, in the belief that supporting the [[SarcasmMode obviously]] morally wrong enemy is cause enough to be punished.
23# '''The Psychopath:''' The AxCrazy PsychoForHire who joined up ''specifically'' to RapePillageAndBurn and doesn't care whose banner they're doing it under. If he wasn't in the army, he'd be a SerialKiller or other sadistic criminal, or (more likely) an angry average Joe who'd eventually [[GoingPostal lash out violently]] once all that bitter hatred boiled over.
24# '''The Unwilling Conscript:''' Your regular neighborhood boy who has been [[SlaveMook conscripted into the army]], has absolutely no interest in war, hates it all, and has only his own personal survival at stake. Often terrorized and brutalized by his own officers and noncoms. [[DangerousDeserter Extremely likely to desert]], [[{{Turncoat}} sell their own side out]] and/or [[UnfriendlyFire kill their would-be comrades]].
25# '''The Broken Soldier:''' He was a NiceGuy once upon a time, just trying to take care of his buddies and protect his home — but then [[DespairEventHorizon he saw or experienced something that broke him inside]], and now he just wants to [[WellIntentionedExtremist end the war and go home]].
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27If [[ArmiesAreEvil there's a whole bunch of them]], expect an InsaneAdmiral, ColonelKilgore, or GeneralRipper in charge. Occasionally, the rest of the soldiers will be relatively sympathetic, but one of these will be the TokenEvilTeammate, especially a Jingo who went too far or the Psycho.
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29Contrast OfficerAndAGentleman, CulturedWarrior, and TheSoftHeartedWarrior. Overlaps with BloodKnight, except a Blood Knight is likely to be more sociable and likes the ''action'' and excitement of the battle more than carnage or committing war crimes. Compare with the more [[HiredGuns mercenary]] PsychoForHire, who might be a veteran who found out the carnage was enjoyable. Compare and contrast ShellShockedVeteran. After leaving the military, this type of character is especially likely to go FromCamouflageToCriminal and turn to a life of crime, taking their wartime ruthlessness to use in the criminal underworld. Not to be confused with ''VideoGame/PsychoSoldier'', where the 'psycho' refers to PsychicPowers.
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31This is TruthInTelevision. Every war, ever, has examples of this show up on ''all'' sides. Some have more, some have less, but ''no side has none''. However, listing examples invites flame wars, so '''No Real Life Examples, Please!'''
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39* Floch Forter in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. He starts as an naive yet cowardly soldier, but after [[spoiler:becoming the SoleSurvivor of the suicide charge against the Beast Titan]] he develops a bitter, ruthless and psychotic personality. He pours gasoline into residential buildings, praises Eren's rampage (whick kills multiple civilians and children), gleefully talks about slaughtering the rest of humanity, advocates murdering ChildSoldiers in cold blood, gleefully executes foreigners, poisons his own superiors with [[spoiler:Titan spinal fluid]], and overall becomes ANaziByAnyOtherName.
40* The Black Dog Knights from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' are an army of the worst rapists, murderers, and thieves that Midland has to offer. They're led by [[PsychoForHire Wyald]], a real piece of work of an Apostle who enjoys doing horrible things to people for his own enjoyment.
41* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'':
42** In his backstory, the leader of the Special Forces unit Grey Fox killed a gang of these (led by a ColonelKilgore type) to protect Vietnamese civilians.
43** Roberta professes that she was the Jingo while she served in the FARC, killing without remorse to protect the ideals of the Revolution.
44* Along similar lines to Kimblee, Sir [[BloodKnight Luciano Bradley]] of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' is a PsychoForHire type who actually comments that he loves the military as it allows him to kill lots of people and get rewarded for doing so. Bradley even states he doesn't even care about the rewards, he just loves that being in the military lets him take what he believes people value the most: their lives. He's also one of [[TheEmpire Britannia's]] [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Knights of the Round]], and takes full advantage of his status to cause as much carnage as he possibly can on the battlefield, caring nothing for the misery he causes.
45** And at least a good chunk of the Britannian troops qualify as this, too. If a few simple words from your superior is enough to get you to gun down unarmed civilians without a sweat, there might be something wrong with you.
46* ''Manga/DogSoldier'' has Col. Harry, Hiba's former commanding officer.
47* They [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming don't get any more sociopathic]] than [[MadBomber Solf]] [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming J.]] [[BloodKnight Kimblee]] from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. He's essentially LackOfEmpathy in a uniform (and later, a hat and [[BadassInANiceSuit suit]]). He sees killing as part of his job... and Kimblee loves a job well done. His counterpart in [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the 2003 anime version]] [[CharacterExaggeration exaggerates]] this to the point where he's less this trope and more of a ForTheEvulz PsychoForHire.
48** During the Ishval flashbacks we see that many of the Amestrian soldiers, including [[ColonelBadass Roy Mustang]], [[FriendlySniper Riza Hawkeye]], [[DotingParent Maes Hughes]], [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Basque Grand]] and even ''[[GentleGiant Major Armstrong]]'' acted like this during the genocide, running the full range of Types 1, 2, 3, and 4. Unlike Kimblee, they're all haunted by their actions and deeply regret them. In the first anime, [[SerialKiller Barry the Chopper]] argues that [[HumansAreBastards people really do want to kill each other]], but won't do it without permission from the government; hence why people join the army in the first place. Manga!Kimblee makes a similar speech, in which he questions the motivations of Roy and his friends, suggesting that if they were only willing to kill a few people, but not thousands, they shouldn't have joined the army in the first place.
49---> "Look your victims in the eye. And never, forget them. They certainly won't forget you."
50** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 2003 anime version]], we also have [[SmugSnake Lt. Colonel Frank Archer]], a textbook sociopath and Jingo who joined the army for the prestige, and out of his belief that WarIsGlorious. He manipulates the emotions of those forced to work with him, turns anime!Kimblee (a MisanthropeSupreme PsychoForHire and MadBomber) loose on Liore, and willingly hunts down anyone the government tells him is a threat. He is later promoted to a command rank, where his raging paranoia ensures his evolution into a GeneralRipper.
51** There's also RetiredBadass Giolio Comanche, who seems to have enjoyed his time at the front a little too much going off the SlasherSmile he displays when Order #3066 is issued.
52* Zaied of ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' is the hero's EvilCounterpart and a grown-up {{Child Soldier|s}} turned [[HiredGuns mercenary]]. He's also a near [[EmptyShell emotionless]] [[LackOfEmpathy sociopath]] who thinks that [[NotAGame winning is all that matters in war]] and willingly [[{{Turncoat}} betrays his comrades]] in order to be on the winning side, later trying to kill his former friend [[TheHero Sousuke]] on the BigBad's orders. He never once looks back, bats an eye, or seems to think that he might have done anything wrong.
53* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
54** The Titans of ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' were a haven for characters like this. Then again, given that they're led by the likes of [[BigBad Jamitov Hymem]], [[GeneralRipper Bask Om]], and [[ManipulativeBastard Paptimus Scirocco]], this shouldn't be surprising. [[BloodKnight Yazan]] [[MemeticMolester Gable]] is probably the worst, being a PsychoForHire who joined up solely for the chance to kill AEUG supporters.
55** Yazan received an {{expy}} in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ'''s Rakan Dahkaran, a ruthless Axis-Zeon AcePilot who ignores the rules of war and aims to kill as many of the enemy as possible, regardless of whether they are actually combatants. One iconic scene has him impassively firing on hospital ships and refugee craft as they attempt to flee from a ColonyDrop; he wants to make sure that no one escapes the blast radius.
56** Alex and Mueller are two of Lucrezia Noin's former trainees who go this route in [[MonsterOfTheWeek their sole episode]] of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''. They both take great joy in sadistically murdering their opponents and laughing over the wreckage. If they weren't members of the army, they'd be [[PsychoForHire Psychos For Hire]].
57** Many, many examples in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'', from ZAFT troops executing surrendered Earth Forces personnel despite their enemies surrendering, to [[FantasticRacism Blue Cosmos]] lunatics who gleefully launch [[NukeEm nuclear weapons]] at ZAFT's home bases in the Plants. The [[{{Tykebomb}} Bio-CPU's]] are particularly vicious about it, although [[BrainwashedAndCrazy that's not]] [[PsychoSerum entirely their fault]]. The ZAFT veterans who try to ColonyDrop Earth at the start of ''SEED Destiny'' are an especially good example, as is Yzak Joule before his CharacterDevelopment sets in.
58*** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'''s spinoff, ''Stargazer'', three sociopathic soldiers serve as [[VillainProtagonist the villainous protagonists]]. They are the [[LackOfEmpathy emotionally damaged]] [[TheStoic Sven Cal Bayan]] (who was left this way after TrainingFromHell and believes he's JustFollowingOrders), the sadistic [[DarkActionGirl Mudie Holcroft]], and the hyper-aggressive [[ScaryBlackMan Shams Couza]]. Acting as a strike team for Blue Cosmos, the three of them see a lot of action; [[spoiler:only Sven makes it out alive.]]
59** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' features the A-LAWS who are more or less a collective {{Expy}} of the Titans from ''Zeta''; among their number is another of Yazan's expies, Ali Al-Saachez, a PsychoForHire and CardCarryingVillain who freely admits that he loves warfare, and [[EvilIsNotPacifist wouldn't know what to do with himself if an actual world peace was established]]. He later graduates to ColonelKilgore after being given an officer's rank by BigBad Ribbons Allmark, whom he becomes TheDragon to.
60** Desil Galette of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE'' takes the worst qualities of both Yazan and Ali and combines them into a single, nasty [[EnfantTerrible child-sized]] package, treating war as a game and his victims as toys. The timeskip has not improved him, and the disconcerting enthusiasm he shows whenever's he's turned loose on his enemies is if anything more disturbing on a thirty-three-year-old.
61* Given that Millenium, the antagonist organization of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', was made up entirely of volunteers from the Waffen-SS, it can be assumed that its soldiers were this ''before'' being made into vampires. Afterwards, they became obsessed with waging war for the sake of it.
62* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'':
63** In [[AffablyEvil Ringo Roadagain]]'s backstory, he's antagonized by a nameless soldier who defected from the Union during the Civil War. This soldier proceeded to murder Ringo's mother and sisters, before attempting to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]] Ringo, who was only [[PaedoHunt 10 years old]] at the time.
64** Axl RO was a soldier who fought during the Civil War, and was responsible for hundreds of deaths. However, in the present day, this trope gets {{subverted|trope}} due to Axl feeling immense SurvivorGuilt for all the deaths he caused and wanting to [[TheAtoner atone]] for his sins, which ended up manifesting as his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], Civil War.
65* ''Manga/KagerouNostalgia'': The vast majority of the soldiers in [[EvilOverlord General Kiyotaka Kuroda's]] employ fit into this category. Given that they're sent into battle alongside demons, with orders to butcher and kidnap as many civilians as possible, this is more or less a part of the job description.
66* Several ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' villains, although given the nature of the setting comparing them to regular soldiers is iffy. Pre-HeelFaceTurn Gaara is a solid example though, as are all 7 Swordsmen of the Mist.
67* ''Literature/TheSagaOfTanyaTheEvil'': Tanya is an unusual example of an Unwilling Conscript playing the part of a Jingo, as she is a pacifist callously concerned only with her own self-preservation, and joined the military at a young age in hopes of improving her lot in life and working her way into a cushy desk job away from the front lines. Unfortunately, her combat acumen is so great that she constantly finds herself being sent to the frontlines and vents her rage and frustration on her enemies -- making her come across as the Psychopath.
68* The chapters depicting the past of [[spoiler:Twilight himself]] in ''Manga/SpyXFamily'' heavily imply that they ended up becoming the Broken Soldier variant. They used to be a typical child before war broke out, but the horror of [[WarComesHome his hometown being bombed]] and losing their home, friends, and mother during a later air raid, completely crushed their spirit. They chose to join the army underage, made it to the rank of sergeant, and left 'a mountain of corpses' in their wake as their form of revenge against the opposing nation. When they meet the recent army-deserter [[spoiler:Franky]], they were ready to murder the deserter, despite them being unarmed and begging to be spared. Fortunately, after the deserter's [[ContagiousCassandraTruth uncomfortably true words]] and a mission gone bad, [[spoiler:Twilight]] chooses to never fight again without having all the information obtainable, turning them more into the AntiHero they are known for.
69* Kuroi from ''Manga/ThouShaltNotDie'' is a clear sociopath. The only person he cares about is [[MoralityPet Mashiro]]; anybody else is expendable, and he will not lift a finger to save them unless [[MoralityChain Mashiro]] orders him to. He will also kill anyone he sees as a threat to Mashiro or his relationship with her at the drop of the hat.
70* Dilandau Albatou and his Dragon Slayers from ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' combine this with {{Tykebomb}}, TeensAreMonsters, and--in Dilandau's case--{{Pyromania|c}} and a side of [[MoralMyopia hypocrisy]]. Dilandau gets to burn and kill whoever he wants to, but god forbid [[MinorInjuryOverreaction anyone so much as touch Dilandau]]. He's pretty much a PsychoForHire who only works for one employer.
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74* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story "The Ugly American" deals with one. He was initially just a patriotic man who was sent to prison for murdering a protester of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. The government decided to make him a SuperSoldier by amplifying his patriotism and his combat skills but went ''way'' too far and went after ''anyone'' that he thought wasn't "American" in his eyes. He escapes and Batman deals with him, but when the government kills the soldier, he calls them out and vows to reveal everything.
75* ''ComicBook/CaptainAtom'' and ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' villain Major Force was already serving a life sentence in a military prison, before being used as a test subject for a Super Soldier experiment. The end result? Turning a remorseless psychotic murderer into a PersonOfMassDestruction.
76* Artificial humans in ''ComicBook/{{Copperhead}}'' straddle types 2 and 3. As engineered soldiers they are genetically predisposed to enjoy violence; as rational human beings, they're completely aware they're being manipulated to the ends of whoever made them and resentful of their position.
77* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': Nuke is a product of an attempt at making another ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. He's a SuperSoldier with heightened reflexes, drug-fuelled rage, and hardened plastic under his skin. He's also totally off his rocker, thinks he's still fighting UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, will slaughter anyone he thinks is threatening "our boys", has his gun keeps a count of his kills, and needs a steady intake of drugs just to function. He's hired by ComicBook/TheKingpin to attack Hell's Kitchen to draw out Daredevil in ''ComicBook/BornAgain''.
78* ''Every single soldier'' who appears in ''ComicBook/{{DMZ}}'' is depicted in almost uniform fashion as one of these. It gets fairly ridiculous and ''really'' [[{{Anvilicious}} fucking hamfisted]] after a while. Almost as if being a sociopath is a required trait in order for one to qualify as a soldier.
79* Suicida, leader of the Gang Green in ''ComicBook/MarshalLaw''. Like most "superheroes" in the setting, including Law himself, he and his fellow gang members are disaffected veterans of the catastrophic South American war known as "the Zone". He was trained to kill in the most brutal fashion imaginable and resents the idea that his violent nature can somehow be turned on and off like a faucet. He wears a necklace of human ears and just wants to hurt everything he sees. Law doesn't like Suicida but doesn't blame him for his feelings or his behavior, since ''very'' few Zone veterans are doing much better.
80* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' is usually interpreted as this to the point where he cannot even smile at the deeds he does (mentioned when he kills Bushwhacker.) He has essentially taken his war to the streets showing no [[Film/TheTerminator pity, remorse or fear]] against gangsters, psychos, killers, rapists, criminals or HiredGuns. Some suggest it was his experience in Vietnam that made him this way, making a DealWithTheDevil, all works show it was losing his family that made him nuts. Whatever the case he is a combination of the Jingo and the Broken Soldier, to the point where he regrets not having someone to kill, or even having a wife and kids in the first place (though this can be interpreted as if he didn't they wouldn't have been in the park, they wouldn't have been killed and that he wouldn't have turned into the sociopath he is today.)
81** We later learn in the miniseries ''ComicBook/ThePunisherBorn'', which chronicles Frank Castle's final tour in Vietnam, that Castle's Marine outpost of Valley Forge was ''rife'' with these. The vast majority of the Marines are depicted as either clear-cut psychopaths, amoral conscripts, or jingoistic sociopaths -- half of whom are implied to be addicted to heroin -- with a commanding officer who is alcoholic, broken and knows full well that the war is a lost cause. With the young narrator of the story Stevie Goodwin explicitly stated to be an unwilling conscript who wanted nothing to do with the war and whose only desire is to return home safely, but at the same time realizes that sticking with Frank Castle and his platoon is his best bet at getting home in one piece, as Castle is the only competent higher-ranking Marine in the whole outpost.
82* In ''ComicBook/{{Route 666}}'', Berkely went to war just to sate his bloodthirst - when the war ended, he became a serial killer instead. He wanted to team up with Cassie just so he could kill with a fairly clean conscience again.
83* ''comicBook/ShootingWar'' had one of these who was also TheFundamentalist.
84* In ''ComicBook/SinCity'', Marv briefly mentions fighting in a war. It's possible that this could be one of the reasons for his mental state.
85** Also oddly averted with Wallace. Given Sin City's penchant for violent heroes, Wallace is a former Navy SEAL, yet is one of the nicest characters in the series.
86* Deconstructed in the ''ComicBook/TwoFistedTales'' short story "Kill!", set in the Korean War. On the American side, we have Abner, who continuously sharpens his knife and can't wait to gut some Chinese, while in the Chinese camp we meet Li, who obsessively polishes his submachine gun and compares it to a beautiful woman. [[spoiler:In the end, they meet in the field, mortally wound each other and both die unceremoniously]].
87* Markus Jung, aka Siegfried, from ''ComicBook/{{Uber}}'' is a full-on Psychopath, with a few smatterings of the Jingo. He takes [[PsychopathicManchild a lot of glee]] in slaughtering everything in his path with his new superpowers. Heck, in his backstory, he committed his first murder as a [[EnfanteTerrible little boy]]! The Jingo stuff comes largely from him being a fully indoctrinated [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] (his first victim from the aforementioned childhood murder was a Jew). Even his comrades [[NobleDemon Siegmund]] and [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty Sieglinde]] are [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusted with him]].
88* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', the Comedian [[KickTheDog shoots a pregnant woman to death]] while serving in Vietnam [[LackOfEmpathy without a hint of remorse]]. And it was his baby.
89** The Comedian then immediately calls out Dr. Manhattan for not doing anything to stop him despite being [[PhysicalGod all-powerful]]. From his perspective, ''Dr. Manhattan'' is a sociopathic soldier. This has spawned MANY fanfics where Dr. Manhattan teleported the baby to X.
90* This is ''Franchise/WonderWoman'''s oft enemy Ares' natural state. Wondy generally faces off against him when he goes OmnicidalManiac or tries overtly influencing humanity, but generally, he believes WarIsHell and revels in it and joins armed conflict as either an overeager unregistered conscript or by possessing soldiers who are present. To make matters worse his presence is enough to influence others to behave more in this line.
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94* Marcus Black was a former Atlas soldier in ''Fanfic/TheBlackHearts''. He was a Psychopath who only joined to kill people and sate his bloodlust.
95* The Red Room in ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' have two shining examples, in the AxCrazy Agent Yelena Belova and the psychotic Arkady Rossovich a.k.a. Omega Red, who apparently 'got off' on killing children. The former will kill at the drop of a hat, just because someone's annoyed her, while the latter kills/drains the life out of people because it's fun. Both are the Psycho, though Belova pretends that she's the Jingo.
96* The Human Liberation Front in ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'' is composed of every type save for Unwilling Conscripts. There's the Jingoes, who think they can do anything they want to invading ponies, PHL or not, because of their very association with the AdvancingWallOfDoom that's destroying their world. The Psychopaths are continually alluded to, and a lot of them happen [[DrivenToMadness to be broken by the traumas]] that set them on the road to being in the HLF. One such example is Victor Kraber, who left the group after a HeelRealization and has since then been TheAtoner (though he's still got an [[AxCrazy itchy]] [[BloodKnight trigger finger]] when it comes to the enemy forces).
97** Many of the heroic characters are of the Broken type themselves. Marcus is a ShellShockedVeteran who is so utterly broken by the horrible things he's seen and had to do throughout the Conversion War, it's a miracle he's as level-headed as he is. Stephan meanwhile [[OnlySaneMan does have it together a bit better than most]] but he too has many of his own problems. TCB!Trixie also carries quite a lot of baggage herself in due part to her fears of BecomingTheMask with regards to the alternate personalities she uses in her spy work becoming fully realized and becoming [[HeWhoFightsMonsters as ruthless as the people she fights against]].
98* Sergeant Shining Armor from ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/90939/shell-shock Shell Shock]]'' is a terrifying example of one of these. He doesn't care. He doesn't relent. He doesn't apologize. He just wants blood. He doesn't care who bleeds.
99* ''Fanfic/MassEffectHumanRevolution'':
100** Captain Edward Grey is a Broken Soldier who was broken by his experience in Akuze. Put through a [[Franchise/TheBourneSeries Treadstone]]-style programme to be brought back to combat readiness, while he still wants to do the right thing, he's quick to opt for the callous, vicious kill-them-all option against slavers, xenophobic lynch mobs and other criminal scum.
101** This is the justification given in chapter 38 for why Blacklight black ops troops are so easy to defeat, at least for elite superhuman warriors like Adam, Hannibal, and Johann - The Alliance Intelligence Agency selects for the jingoistic ultranationalists willing to cross any line to protect humanity's interests, and as it turns out being a talented combatant and being one willing to get his hands dirty are categories that rarely overlap. Some Psychopaths are also among their ranks, only in it for the opportunities to hurt people.
102* ''Fanfic/MythosEffect'': Julek, from the Turian Hierarchy, used to be a regular soldier sent to fight against the New Earth Federation... Except that the NEF specializes in {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s and stalking their victims like horror monsters. Julek underwent a days-long TraumaCongaLine running in sheer terror for his life with little to no food, until in desperation he almost drowned in a river trying to get away from some predatory native wildlife. The Hierarchy finds him, puts him in a hospital... And the moment he wakes up they tell him that the rest of his unit is dead and that he should be back for duty as soon as possible. That was the last straw for Julek's sanity, as the only way he could interpret the whole situation was as a giant cosmic joke, and the realization has him LaughingMad. Now he's known as the epitome of DissonantSerenity, casually challenging others to shoot him, making bets with his squad over how long the "new meat" gets eaten, wiping the rotting entrails of his dead allies on his armor, and more. And in his words? He's never been ''happier''.
103* In ''Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns'', the Crimson Lance are staffed almost exclusively with Psychopaths, with the rest kept in line by them. This is easier than it sounds, as HumanityIsInsane in this setting. In fact, being moral and upstanding is considered a detriment in the Lance, as they're essentially the heavily-armed thugs of an amoral MegaCorp, and early on Roland is put in a situation where he and his squad have to make a decision [[SadisticChoice between killing unarmed civilians or being executed on the spot]] in order to [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten prove their loyalty.]]
104* ''Fanfic/NorasLife'': Atlas General Hayden White fits the Psychopath type all too well. He's an almost textbook example of TheSociopath and only cares about protecting his own ego and [[{{Sadist}} causing people pain]] ForTheEvulz. His soldiers note that he had been taking women from tribes he was supposed to be protecting and later [[SerialRapist raping]] and [[SerialKiller murdering]] them. Nora's mother was [[AttemptedRape almost a victim of being raped by him]] and she was eventually killed during a Grimm attack that he let in to show the capability of the Atlas military. He is also seen [[BadBoss shooting his own soldiers when they get in his way]]. [[spoiler:When he is in Haven, RNJR and Qrow decide to expose him using Ruby as the bait to lure him into a hotel room to catch him in the act. When a Grimm attack breaks out halfway there, he decides to take Ruby in an alley and [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape her]] there before even thinking to stop the monsters.]]
105* Noble Six in ''Fanfic/WolvesThatWalkAlone'' is a Broken Soldier thanks to the TrainingFromHell he received to become a SPARTAN-III and the traumatic experiences he went through during the Human-Covenant War. If there's anything he can do to take down his target in the quickest way possible, he will use it, regardless of how ruthless it may be, but he will ''never'' harm any civilian under any circumstances.
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109* General Mandible from ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'': He's a high-ranking general of the soldiers in the colony, but soon reveals himself a genocidal madman willing to exterminate any ant who doesn't live up to his personal standards. Case in point, he deliberately sends thousands of soldiers loyal to the queen to their deaths in a suicidal attack on the termites, so that he can then wipe out the rest of the colony unopposed, and start his own colony that consists of nothing but his loyal soldiers.
110* Commander Lyle T. Rourke from ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': He initially appears as a very reliable and praiseworthy commander able to lead his men through perils, but as the film progresses, he turns out to be a highly manipulative, ruthless and sadistic mercenary to steal the Heart of Atlantis and make money off of it, not even caring that the Atlanteans will die without it. When his crew turn against him and join Milo's side, he abandons them to die with the Atlaneans. All in all, Rourke is an evil madman with no regard for anyone but himself. Worse, he clearly enjoys causing suffering--like fatally injuring the elderly king in the gut and punching Milo and smashing his grandfather's photo--and never shows the slightest bit of remorse for his heinous deeds despite knowing he was endangering thousands of innocent lives.
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114* The soldiers in ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''. Besides the OnlySaneMan, the CO wants nubile women to try and keep the rest of his soldiers under control. Think about that for a minute.
115* All the PrivateMilitaryContractors in ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', particularly Wainfleet[[note]]who was likely inspired by the character from ''Film/FullMetalJacket''[[/note]], as well as all the pilots other than Trudy, with them all being led by a ColonelKilgore.
116* ''Film/BeautyAndTheBeast2017'': Gaston is an ex-soldier, but the basic principle is the same. His [[NightmareFetishist happy thoughts]] about the war include such things as "blood, explosions, and countless widows," and the only reason he hunts animals is to have things he can kill, openly admitting in his VillainSong that he uses inhumane hunting methods in doing so.
117* Sergeant Tony Meserve in ''Film/CasualtiesOfWar''. He kidnaps, rapes, and kills a young village girl and then tries to kill PFC Eriksson with a grenade in the latrine.
118* Almost the entire Japanese Army in ''Film/CityOfLifeAndDeath''. It's a movie about the Rape of Nanking, so that goes without saying.
119* Ewan [=McStarley=], Vinnie Jones's character in ''Film/TheCondemned2007''-- a SAS operative who became a CondemnedContestant after setting fire to a Rwandan village, executing 17 men, raping 9 women, and torturing various others.
120* ''Film/Conspiracy2001'': Deconstructed. SS Major Rudolf Lange is the closest you could get to this, as he's leading one of a number of huge death squads through the occupied Soviet Union shooting unarmed civilians en masse and encouraging racist locals to kill Jews in mobs. However, [[ShellShockedVeteran he and his men are becoming increasingly disturbed]] by the sheer level of inhumanity they're supposed to inhabit. Heydrich introduces the gas chambers to make the murders easier to carry out for the perpetrators.
121* ''Film/DejaVu2006'': Carroll is a subversion--he aced every single test to enter the U.S. Army, except the psychological profiling, and thus was not allowed to enter. Still, his combination of skills and honest belief that blowing up a ferry with 300 people (that he also believes were fated to die--they ''were'' on the ferry, after all) in the middle of Mardi Gras is a necessary sacrifice so America goes into a tougher stance on terrorism makes him a perfect example of the 'jingoistic' type of soldier.
122* Maggot from ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'' is perhaps one of the better pre-Vietnam examples in film. He's a fundamentalist, misogynistic rapist and killer of women who turns on his own team when he can't control his urges during the mission.
123* In the ''Film/{{Doom}}'' movie, Sarge shows himself to be this, at one point [[spoiler: killing the rookie member of his team for refusing his order to kill a room full of unarmed civilians]]. Small wonder, then, that he [[spoiler: mutates into the protagonist's final adversary after becoming infected]].
124* Leone revisits the trope in ''Film/DuckYouSucker'' (aka ''Film/AFistfulOfDynamite'') in the form of the Mexican soldiers serving under [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Colonel Gunther Reza]]. The Mexican army as conceived by Leone seems intent on imprisoning or killing every single person they meet, and their look is modelled on that of the fascist stormtroopers and German soldiers that Leone saw in Italy when he was a child. Reza himself is a terrifying Psychopath and ImplacableMan to boot despite [[SilentAntagonist never saying a word]].
125* In ''Film/FortMassacre'', Sgt. Vinson is driven by a fanatical hatred of the Apache and puts the lives of the men under his command in danger to fulfill his mission of personal vengeance.
126* Frieda's brother Richard in ''Film/{{Frieda}}''. A former German soldier, he had been captured and allowed to volunteer for the Polish Army. However, he is still [[ThoseWackyNazis an unrepentant Nazi]], who believes that Germans will band together and forge a new Reich. However, having been fighting his entire adult life, he has no interest in or use for peace, and delivers an angry rant to Frieda about how he wants to see the war continue forever.
127* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' has a scene with a particularly sociopathic door gunner on a helicopter. He's had 157 confirmed kills -- all implied to be civilians -- plus 50 water buffalo.
128-->'''Private Joker:''' Any women or children?\
129'''Door Gunner:''' Sometimes.\
130'''Private Joker:''' How can you shoot women and children?\
131'''Door Gunner:''' [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Easy,]] you just don't [[LeadTheTarget lead 'em]] so much! ''[laughs]'' [[WarIsHell Ain't war hell?]] ''[laughs some more]''
132** The above scene is from Michael Herr's book ''Dispatches'' which describes his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam. Herr was a co-screenwriter for ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work.
133** Animal Mother (an example of the Psycho for Hire variant) and Crazy Earl ([[TalkingToTheDead who's "befriended" a dead North Vietnamese]]) also qualify. Interestingly, he's a rare sympathetic example of the Psycho variation of this trope. Despite being a flamboyant BloodKnight, he focuses his bloodlust exclusively on enemy combatants (at least, during his screentime) and enjoys a genuine camraderie with his squadmates.
134* PBS documentary ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7cZuhqSzzc Genocide: Worse Than War]]'' seems to go more in depth about the first kind.
135* In Creator/SergioLeone's ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Bad]], Angel Eyes, does a magnificent impression of one of these, infiltrating [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar Union]] lines as a sergeant. He tortures prisoners for information and generally runs his prison camp as though it were Auschwitz (despite the protestations of his Lieutenant). His [[TheDragon right-hand man]] and TortureTechnician [[DumbMuscle Wallace]] is a straight example, being a Union soldier, and a total thug.
136** However, it is averted by the Union soldiers Tuco and Blondie encounter later on, who are led by a likable, humorous fellow who happens to be AFatherToHisMen, [[spoiler:making his sudden death during the ensuing battle a surprisingly tear-jerking moment for a bit character]], and there's also a younger lieutenant who seems to be an ordinary man caught up in a war he does not understand.
137* In ''Film/HollowMan2'', the direct-to-video sequel of ''Film/HollowMan'', the antagonist Michael Griffin was one of these even before being injected with the invisibility serum. His commanding officer kept him from being charged for war crimes committed in Iraq so he could be part of the project. Since the real purpose of the project was to create a perfect assassin to kill off the project head's political enemies, a test subject with little to no morality was just what the project needed. When Griffin becomes even crazier due to the lethal side effects of the serum which only a special chemical booster can alleviate, his former commanding officer learns the hard way that giving a murderous sociopath invisibility powers and a reason to hate you can backfire.
138* ''Film/HoodedAngels'': The Confederate militia who raze Silver Creek, killing the men and children and raping the women, in the dying days of the Civil War.
139* In the movie version of ''Film/JackReacher'', the gunman, an ex-soldier, who guns down several people in a ParkingGarage is described as being a sociopath who went out of his way to kill civilians in Afghanistan.
140-->'''Jack Reacher:''' There's four kinds of people who join the military. There's the people for whom it's a family tradition. There's the people who do it out of patriotism. There's the people who simply want a job. And then there's the last kind; the kind who enlist because its a legal opportunity to take a human life.
141* ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia'' grows closer and closer to this trope as the movie goes on, finally culminating in [[spoiler: the massacre at Tafas.]]
142* The military in most of George Romero's ''Film/LivingDeadSeries''. [[WriterOnBoard Just because.]]
143** And notably subverted in Romero's final film, ''Film/SurvivalOfTheDead'' - not only the soldiers are the main characters, [[PerspectiveFlip they are the same characters]] who robbed the protagonists of ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead''.
144* In the backstory of ''Film/MissFisherAndTheCryptOfTears'' (later seen in flashback), Captain Templeton snapped and murdered everyone in the village while his partners were robbing the tomb.
145* Captain Hezekiah Holt in ''Film/{{Mohawk}}'', who promotes himself to Colonel after Colonel Hawkes is killed; forces his civilian interpreter to take up arms; tortures prisoners for information; murders civilians, including priests; stabs a prisoner of war in the back; and forces his men to accompany him on mission of personal vengeance rather than taking them to safety.
146* A lot of the soldiers in ''Film/{{Platoon}}'' show some evidence of this, but the undoubtedly and unashamedly sociopathic are Barnes and Bunny, who seem to only really feel satisfied with themselves when engaged in some form of gratuitous violence, killing, rape, destruction, etc.
147** Barnes, at least, is trying to win the war but isn't going to do it with, as he sees it, one hand tied behind his back. For Barnes, the end justifies the means. Bunny is purely there for the killing; end and means are one.
148* ''Film/PoliceAcademy'': Tackleberry is the police version of one of these, albeit a softened for comedy version. He lives for the chance to pull his gun. He brings his own weapons with him to the Academy, runs through the shooting gallery in a visibly excited state blasting all the silhouettes including the civilian ones, and he has a mini mental breakdown at the end when there was a gunfight and "he missed it".
149* Paul Lazzaro in ''Film/SlaughterhouseFive''. This is clearly defined when he recounts the story of killing a dog by putting some clock parts into a steak that he gives to the dog that bit him. Any time someone makes him angry, he threatens that person with violence, then [[spoiler: in the end of the movie, he kills Billy Pilgrim, just as he said he would.]]
150* In Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'', the Headless Horseman was one of these in life. While the other Hessians were mercenaries, he went to fight in America for the [[BloodKnight love of killing]], and loss of life, head, and will hasn't abated that love.
151* Andrew Scott from ''Film/UniversalSoldier''. He was a Sergeant in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, where he goes renegade as he starts butchering civilians and kills his own squad when they try to stop him. He cuts off the ears of his victims and [[CreepySouvenir wears them in a necklace]]. He orders Private Luc Deveraux to kill the two remaining 'traitors', two Vietnamese children, [[WouldHurtAChild doing the job himself]] when Deveraux refuses. Both are reborn years later as memory-wiped {{Super Soldier}}s. As soon as Scott regains his memories he kills his controllers and goes on a blood-filled vendetta across the States to punish Deveraux for disobeying his illegal orders back in Vietnam, graphically killing anyone who gets in his way. In the end he takes Deveraux's elderly parents and his love interest hostage and awards all of them the death penalty. Despite claims earlier in the film that he thinks he's still fighting the insurgents in Vietnam, Scott later plainly admits that he's fully aware of where he is and what he's doing, and his only motive is revenge for Deveraux refusing to partake in his atrocities.
152* The unnamed Colonel in ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes''. Apart from enslaving a race of sentient beings, crucifying some of them, and depriving them of food and water, he kills his own son and some of his men... and his men's families, to prevent the spread of a non-lethal virus. His sociopathy is probably motivated by his obsession with the survival of the human race.
153* ''Film/WhenTrumpetsFade'': Manning is a textbook example of the unwilling conscript. He doesn't want any part in the war, but he keeps being promoted due to the high attrition rate of the battle. His brutality extends mostly to the NewMeat he's been assigned to lead, but he's not really a coward, proving himself pretty damn capable under fire.
154* ''Film/WrathOfMan'': Two members of Jackson's crew show different forms of this. Brad has failed to adapt to civilian life and is itching for a new "mission" to end his boredom, with no care about who gets hurt. Jan seems generally unstable and has poor impulse control, leading him to [[spoiler: kill Jackson and Bullet to steal the money from their final heist]]. [[spoiler:Bullet]] only reveals this at the end when he guns down [[spoiler: Fortico guards he personally trained]] with no apparent emotion.
155* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
156** William Stryker. Although a superior officer.
157** Victor Creed in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', considering his attempted rape of a local during Vietnam, as well as the implied killing of civilians while firing from a helicopter during the same war. Probably caused by having spent the last hundred years as an unkillable soldier giving him a taste for brutality.
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161* This is how most of the civilians view soldiers, even regulars but especially the more common mercenaries, at the start of ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo''. Fairly often they're right and even when they're wrong the armies still have to "scavenge" like crazy to keep from starving.
162* Taylor in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' is [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] even by [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerk]] standards. TortureTechnician, ManipulativeBastard, and JerkAss extraordinaire, she just plain enjoys hurting people.
163** And on the side of the good guys, there's TokenEvilTeammate and BloodKnight Rachel. Unlike Taylor, she's not a sadist, she just likes fighting a bit too much and spends three years slowly JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope.
164** Alloran is a Broken Soldier. He used to be a normal young Andalite, even a prankster- until the Yeerks rose up and slaughtered his comrades. This embittered him to the point of becoming a GeneralRipper, unleashing the quantum virus on the Hork-Bajir homeworld and even after his subsequent disgrace is seen executing hostages and trying to force Elfangor to kill thousands of helpless Yeerks. He is so far gone, that even when everything goes to hell, instead of helping secure the [[TimeMachine Time Matrix]] he spends his days in hiding, morphing, and demorphing, watching the Yeerk transport for the chance to finish his slaughter. Ironically he seems broken of this ''again'' after decades of slavery as Visser Three's host.
165** Aloth, another Andalite, is revealed to have been convicted of selling organs on the battlefield, a war crime, and is generally cold and ruthless (apart from humorless jokes), even for an assassin.
166** Carger from the Hork-Bajir Chronicles, one of the first Yeerks to promote himself to sub-visser is said to be so ruthless and brutal that even a young Esplin (later [[GeneralRipper Visser]] [[InsaneAdmiral Three]]) remarks on it. Possibly subverted as he runs away when ambushed and is never seen again.
167* Redmond Barry a.k.a. ''Film/BarryLyndon'' became one of these while fighting in the Seven Years War. It's implied that Barry's hellish treatment in the [[TheSpartanWay Prussian army]] contributed to him being this way and enthusiastically joining in "foraging" (read RapePillageAndBurn). There's a kind of disturbing scene where in a surprisingly gentle tone he describes a foppish and inexperienced opponent whose skull he bashed in with his musket and whose corpse he looted.
168* In the ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' novel ''Ideal War'', WideEyedIdealist Paul Masters is sent to investigate the planet Gibson and discovers the "small conflict" there is actually a planet-wide rebellion featuring all four kinds of this trope on both sides. Not much of a surprise, given that the book is an {{Anvilicious}} metaphor for the Vietnam War.
169* In the backstory of Creator/RichardKMorgan's ''Literature/BlackMan'', several nations attempted to genetically and socially engineer Sociopathic {{Super Soldier}}s. The projects collectively [[GoneHorriblyRight Went Horribly Right]], creating the protagonist (initially an Unwilling Conscript shading into a Broken Soldier) and several of the antagonists (Types II and III).
170* Marshal Karen Skyre from ''Literature/DinosaurFrontier'' does not need much an excuse to torture or kill. She enjoys playing games with her victims and being cruel to anything in her way. In the opening chapter, she runs over a fleeing deserter with her truck and later opens fire with a fully automatic machine gun into a crowd of people which included children.
171* ''Literature/TheDrownedCities'':
172** Most of the [[ChildSoldiers soldier boys]] talk like Jingos, act like Conscripts who have been fed slogans from a bygone era without any context, and are all afflicted with shell shock in one way or another.
173** Sergeant Ocho is a deeply screwed up and angry Broken Soldier, hiding his PTSD behind a wall of bitterness.
174** His commanding officer, [[ColonelKilgore Lieutenant Sayle]] in particular takes this to PsychoForHire levels, being a cold-blooded sadist and icy Psycho who joined the UPF so he could inflict ColdBloodedTorture on civvies and enemy troopers.
175** One of Ocho's men, Soa, is also a Psycho, of the AxCrazy MoodSwinger variety. He has pretensions of being a Jingo but doesn't even really understand what the words mean.
176* Troopers Lijah Cuu and Murtan Feygor in the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novels, though the latter tends to be held in check by [[ColonelBadass Colonel-Commissar Gaunt]].
177* In Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/TheGreatWar'' trilogy, one of the [[SympatheticPOV PoV]] characters is Gordon [=McSweeny=], a charming Corporal who, being staunchly Protestant, believes himself to the instrument of God's wrath upon the Confederates, and turned down a command post multiple times. This is because he enjoys personally killing them. ''With his FLAMETHROWER.'' He's only slightly nicer to the men under his command; one time not mourning one's death, because he was Greek Orthodox and therefore a heretic, even if he was a nice guy.
178** Lieutenant Boris Lavochkin, in ''Settling Accounts'' is even nuttier, burning and slaughtering his way across the Confederacy. You don't feel particularly bad for his victims (they are after all ANaziByAnyOtherName), but he's still very much this trope, as his sergeant, [[SympatheticPOV Chester Martin]] repeatedly lampshades. On the other side, there are the [[StateSec Freedom Party Guards]] who to say the least, aren't very nice. What do you expect from SS expies?
179* Anaster, the First Child of the [[ILoveTheDead Dead Seed]], from the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' is a crowning example. Introduced in the third book, ''Literature/MemoriesOfIce'', he's an EmptyShell of a DeathSeeker who commits atrocities in the hopes of forcing someone to kill him and leads an army of cannibals on a rampage across the continent, butchering everything in his path seemingly for the sake of it.
180* In ''Literature/TheNakedAndTheDead'', Sergeant Croft is a Psychopath. General Cummings also qualifies, but he's more a GeneralRipper, given his rank.
181* Mentioned in Literature/{{Discworld}}'s ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'', where ''Sergeant'' Carcer is described as "the sort that joins up for the looting... the kind you have to end up hanging as an example to the men".
182* In Creator/DavidDrake's ''Literature/RedLiners'', an entire company (much depleted by war) has been driven "past the red line". They're all so damaged by war that they're a danger to themselves and everyone they come in contact with. The proposed solution to this is ... extreme.
183* In Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/RedStormRising'', KGB soldiers tend to be portrayed this way, as specifically distinguished from Red Army troops. This is apparent in a scene during the Iceland occupation where [[LittleHeroBigWar Lt. Edwards]] comes upon a farmhouse whose occupants have been raped and murdered by KGB troops. He rescues the sole surviving daughter in BigDamnHeroes fashion and then proceeds to mete out summary justice to the rapists.
184* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': TokenEvilTeammate Tybalt leads an entire company of these in ''Defender of the Crown''. Most of them are Jingos and Broken Soldiers (when asked why they are torturing captives, two of them explain that they witnessed their loved ones being slaughtered by the enemy and now it's payback time), but more than a few are outright Psychopaths.
185* Hakeswill in ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}''. Senior officers love him (except the ones with real integrity and/or insight into what he actually is) because he defers to them completely and whips soldiers into terrified obedience. Everyone who knows what he's really like loathes him.
186** Brigadier Guy Loup is an example from the French side. When the Riflemen capture two of his men responsible for a particularly brutal massacre of a Spanish village, Sharpe has them executed on the spot. He has no shortage of volunteers for the firing squad.
187* In ''The Short-Timers'', a Vietnam War-era novel by Gustav Hasford, Animal Mother is ''the'' sociopathic Marine, although by the end almost all members of the Lusthog Squad display signs of this to a lesser degree. In TheFilmOfTheBook, ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', this is somewhat overshadowed by the character of the "door-gunner" who sets altogether new levels of sociopathy.
188* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', most knights and men-at-arms conform to this trope, particularly those assigned to raid and despoil peasant villages for information and supplies. One character gives a sympathetic monologue that any man conscripted into war can become this way if he survives long enough.
189** [[AxeCrazy Gregor Clegane]] is a Psychopath. He only fights under Tywin for a chance to hurt people, and when he's not soldiering he's murdering and raping people for his own amusement. He seems to have been this before he became a soldier; as a child, he burnt his brother's face when they tried playing with a toy he didn't want anyway and is rumored to have murdered his father and sister. The men under him, such as the jolly but cruel rapist Chiswyck, the FauxAffablyEvil Raff "the Sweetling", and TortureTechnician "The Tickler" also count. Averted slightly by Shitmouth, a foul-mouthed fellow who treats the prisoners slightly more kindly, giving them extra food if they ask.
190** The Brave Companions, better and more accurately known as the Bloody Mummers, are an entire group of these. They’re sellswords but they take jobs to fight in war not for the pay, but for the opportunity to rape, murder, torture, and pillage to their hearts’ content.
191* ''[[Literature/SpaceForce2018 Space Force]]'' by Jeremy Robinson: Hale believes all of the Russian Ops soldiers are conscienceless killers they don't help their case by gunning down the unarmed Canadian soldiers attempting to talk with them. Averted by Ivan who is a pleasant individual despite his odd qualities.
192* In the ''Literature/TakeshiKovacs Series'', also written by Morgan[[note]]and close enough to ''Thirteen'' that many speculate they take place later in the same universe[[/note]], the UN Protectorate's Envoys recruit borderline psychopaths with just the right mix of inhibition and sense of duty. Most end up resorting to crime after they muster out, the titular character usually works as a detective, bodyguard, or mercenary. According to Kovacs, they prefer to recruit from more conventional militaries as they cultivate that mindset. Though it's not entirely clear where along the scale he falls given how often he mentions his pre-recruitment adolescence as a gangbanger.
193* ''Literature/TheThingsTheyCarried'' has Azar, who, at one point, [[KickTheDog blows up a squad member's puppy]] and mocks everyone. At one point, when he's scared shitless, he claims his {{Jerkass}}ery is a defense against fear, but he's probably lying again to save his ass.
194-->'''Azar:''' Christ, I'm just a ''boy''.
195* Dale in ''Literature/TheThinRedLine'' is a pre-Vietnam example -- a rather slow-witted yet ambitious soldier who seems to take pleasure in doing horrible things to the enemy.
196** Another sergeant in the unit (in an internal monologue) reveals that he is nearly psychopathic, showing that he sees the enemy, civilians, and his own men as merely things he hasn't killed yet. The end of his chapter is the sentence "I HATE EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT IN ME."
197* Corporal Lehto in Väinö Linna's ''Literature/TheUnknownSoldier''. He is a complete sociopath, bully, and ruthless to both enemy and his own squad. His end is tragic: [[spoiler:he walks into an ambush in night fight, gets shot and wounded on his spine, gets paralyzed and shoots himself because he considers himself now as cripple and bottom of the pecking order. He doesn't give himself any more mercy or respect than to anyone else, and sees suicide as the only logical conclusion.]]
198* Sergeant Bothari of the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' is a more complex version of this. He is a sadistic sociopath but has enough conscience to realise that random killing is wrong. So he uses military regulations to tell him when it is OK to kill. His commanding officers learn to think very carefully before taking off his leash.
199* Most of the [[{{Mutant}} once-men]] in Creator/TerryBrooks's ''Literature/TheWordAndTheVoid'' and ''Literature/TheGenesisOfShannara'' are like this.
200* Andrea from ''Literature/TheZone'' series of WorldWarIII novels by James Rouch. A stunningly beautiful East German woman with a MysteriousPast and a passionate hatred of communists. She bonds with various soldiers (though never sexually) long enough to absorb their specialist skills, then callously severs the connection to move on to the next teacher. Warning: Keep away from prisoners.
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204* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' is rather ambiguous with this trope, but Speirs exhibits traits of a psychopathic killer more than once during the series. His men both fear him and tell stories of his brutality. Historians agree the real man was a brutal soldier but not a sadist.
205* ''Series/{{Clone}}'': In this BBC series, Colonel Black (Mark Gatiss) is a solid Psychopath, there to enjoy all the torture and murder. [[DeadBabyComedy Given the tone of the show]], he gets a great deal of enjoyment.
206* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
207** The Sontarans are an entire race of {{Super Soldier}}s who behave this way towards their enemies. The one exception is Strax, the CombatMedic that the Doctor recruits in "A Good Man Goes To War", who he'd previously spared and forced to become a CombatMedic, [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment on the grounds that caring for the sick and the weak is a Sontaran's idea of hell]], who nevertheless comes to become a good and gruffly caring medic in his own right. This demonstrates that their sociopathy is learned, rather than ingrained. Most [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Daleks]] fall under this trope as well thanks to their genetic modifications by Davros, committing genocide at the drop of a hat.
208** The War Doctor became a Broken Soldier, being the one to ultimately succumb to despair and end the Time War by destroying both Daleks and Time Lords... or so it appeared. All of the post-revival Doctors have elements of this as a result, with Danny Pink - a former soldier - contemptuously referring to the 12th Doctor as 'an officer', specifically an officer version of this trope.
209** The soldiers who pursue Rouvray and D'Argenson in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E8TheReignOfTerror The Reign of Terror]]", are little more than murderous thugs.
210* ''Series/AFrenchVillage'': Janvier, the Milice leader, gleefully orders the whole family of a resistance fighter murdered, referring to this as great fun.
211* ''Series/GenerationKill'': Lance Corporal Harold Trombley is explicitly stated to be a Psychopath as the quote at the top of the page indicates. Also a subversion as while his fellow Marines are disgusted by him shooting [[WouldHurtAChild children during an assault]], they are also impressed by the accuracy that it required and eventually jokingly nickname him ''Whopper Jr''[[note]]The nickname being derived from "Baby Killer" -> "BK" -> "Burger King" -> "Whopper Jr"[[/note]].
212-->"He's a psycho, but at least he's [[SociopathicHero our psycho.]]"
213* In the ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' episode "Brothers in Arms", Andrew Cord is a Broken Soldier. During the American Civil War, he joined the Union Army's 54th Massachusetts Regiment [[note]]a famous regiment composed of black enlisted soldiers with white officers; sadly, despite a magnificent combat record they still had to deal with prejudice and mistreatment from their own high command[[/note]], died in action and revived as an Immortal. He continued as a soldier fighting for causes he believed in, but when [[DespairEventHorizon fighting never seemed to do any good]], he [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil slid from idealism to cynicism and finally sociopathy]]. Flashbacks reveal that when Joe Dawson served in Vietnam (and had both legs blown off by a land mine), Cord was Dawson's platoon sergeant. When another Marine in the platoon raped a Vietnamese girl and she threatened to report it, Cord killed her without hesitation. By the time Duncan meets him in the present day, he's a corrupt mercenary and arms dealer who thinks nothing of selling defective guns to revolutionaries and demanding payment even after the guns have proven useless in battle.
214* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Roscoe Martin, the paraplegic Vietnam veteran in "King of the Fleas" and "The Martin Baker Fan Club", is the broken soldier type who while getting himself in trouble manages to manipulate people around him (including Harm).
215* ''Series/{{Justified}}'' gives us Colton Rhodes, a Broken Soldier type whose heroin addiction and inability to cope with his Iraq and Afghan war trauma drives him into becoming a ProfessionalKiller.
216* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Soldier turned mercenary Martin Keamy appears to have always been sadistic and borderline psycho, but the Island ''really'' brings out his sociopathy, resulting in him murdering people left and right for spurious reasons and endangering the lives of his ship's ''entire crew''.
217* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': Has had a few of these by its nature, but Jonas Cobb (the [[SerialKiller Port-To-Port Killer]]) and [[PsychoForHire Jonathan "Casey Stratton" Cole]], both utterly broken Black Ops types, got season-spanning story arcs.
218* ''Series/{{Outlander}}'': Captain Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall is an [[DepravedBisexual equal opportunity]] rapist and torture who uses his authority to sadistically torture the population of the Scottish Highlands. He particularly enjoys creating [[ScarpiaUltimatum scarpia ultimatums]] in which his victims have to decide between being raped and tortured themselves or having their loved one raped and tortured. And he doesn't care if his victims are men, women, or children.
219* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Detective Carter's backstory has her serving as an Army interrogator in Iraq. She managed to talk a detainee into giving up the location of an insurgent supply cache in exchange for protecting him and his family from said insurgents. Then the soldiers Carter was working with killed him offscreen after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he led them to the cache]].
220* ''Series/RedDwarf'': Kill Crazy:
221-->"Let's go KILL SOMETHING!"
222* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': Just about everyone in the militia is this in one form or another. Miles (before he deserted), Monroe, and many others are apparently The Jingoist. Miles, after he deserted, became The Broken Soldier ("[[Recap/RevolutionS1E1Pilot Pilot]]"). Jeremy Baker, from the way he said he thought they were making a better world, is The Jingoist ("[[Recap/RevolutionS1E17TheLongestDay The Longest Day]]"). Strausser is certainly The Psychopath ("[[Recap/RevolutionS1E2ChainedHeat Chained Heat]]", "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E4ThePlagueDogs The Plague Dogs]]", "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E6SexAndDrugs Sex and Drugs]]", "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E8TiesThatBind Ties That Bind]]", "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E9Kashmir Kashmir]]", and "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E10NobodysFaultButMine Nobody's Fault But Mine]]"). Jim Hudson is The Unwilling Conscript ("[[Recap/RevolutionS1E12Ghosts Ghosts]]", "[[Recap/RevolutionS1E18Clue Clue]]"). Major Tom Neville seems to be The Broken Soldier because he started as nice, but he changed for the worse after he had to make an AssholeVictim out of his neighbour Rob ("[[Recap/RevolutionS1E5SoulTrain Soul Train]]").
223* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
224** [[SmugSnake Rick Flag]] is a sociopathic ex-soldier turned {{Western Terrorist|s}}. He's got a thing for ColdBloodedTorture, bombings, and misplaced PatrioticFervor, giving an amazing impression of a RightWingMilitiaFanatic.
225*** He's also got a ComplexityAddiction - he uses a missile to try and kill ''one person''. Think about that for a minute.
226** Lieutenant Trotter is also an example. Disciple of GeneralRipper Slade Wilson, she willingly engages in kidnapping, brainwashing, and human experimentation in the supposed interests of protecting the US from metahumans. A KnightTemplar whom even Flag believes needs stopping.
227*** Her devotion to both Slade and her belief that metahumans need to be stopped gets to a point where she arrests and interrogates three ''completely normal people'', including subtly implying that if they don't answer her questions, they'll never be seen or heard from again. Keep in mind that the only evidence she has against these three is being on Oliver Queen's payroll (Emil), writing a lot of stories about a superhero (Lois), and being Oliver's ex-girlfriend and current business partner (Tess). She badgers them about where the vigilantes are, despite the fact that ''she has no good reason to think any of them know anything''. While she is never flat-out violent towards those three in particular during the interrogations, her orders to move Tess and Emil to a "secure location" ''heavily'' sounds like they were either going to be executed or moved to a location where she could use [[ColdBloodedTorture less conversational techniques]].
228* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Reese from the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS07E08TheSiegeOfAR558 The Siege of AR-558]]" is this. He is shown to be wearing a necklace of ketracel-white tubes (a type drug the enemy needs to survive) picked from killed Jem'Hadar and often sharpening a knife also taken from a dead enemy. He is also used to show the [[WarIsHell cruelty of war]] in that he survives while NiceGuy Kellin dies.
229* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Maquis crewman Lon Suder kills another crewmember just for looking at him the wrong way. He is Betazoid but tellingly has no empathic or telepathic abilities like others of his race.
230* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E15AQualityOfMercy A Quality of Mercy]]", a new replacement is ''very'' eager to kill some enemies (Japanese soldiers, in this case), to the disgust of his {{shell shocked veteran}}s (well, they ''have'' been fighting longer than he had). This being ''The Twilight Zone'', he gets his comeuppance when he somehow becomes a Japanese soldier and is forced to obey an EvilCounterpart who repeats [[NotSoDifferentRemark his own bloodthirsty words]] back at him. AllJustADream, maybe, but he gets the message.
231%% * ''Series/UnsereMuetterUnsereVaeter'': Friedhelm is a Broken Soldier. -- ZeroContextExample, "x is a(n) y" is not enough of a description to anyone who isn't already familiar with the work
232* ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'': Venus tells the about a fellow soldier in Vietnam named Weird Larry who would go out a night to "hunt" and would shoot anything. He describes him like a Broken Soldier, whereas Venus had become unable to shoot. On their way home, he jumped out of the helicopter. This led to Venus deserting after arriving in the States with only 3 weeks left until discharge.
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236* Angelus Apatrida's "First World of Terror" has a protagonist who is a raging jingo who acts like he thinks that he's fighting for a good cause but really knows that he's a BloodKnight asshole who just wants an excuse to shoot at things and kill people. The chorus is the front that he puts on to contrast the verses, where he betrays his true mentality.
237-->''I will give my life for this flag''\
238''Fight for freedom till my last breath''\
239''As if dust in strong wind I disappear''\
240''Remember to be proud of me.''
241* "Warborn" by the Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder most certainly qualifies with its psychopathic BloodKnight of a VillainProtagonist.
242-->''This is my demented playground\
243The horizon is howling ablaze\
244A skeletal village illuminates the sky\
245As fire destroys their grains\
246With glee I rape and torture\
247My pleasure is inflicting pain\
248With a vigor unholy I'll fight to my doom\
249Till I've vanquished the Christian's gods ways''
250* The VillainProtagonist of Music/DavidBowie's [[BlackComedy darkly humorous]] "Running Gun Blues", a track from ''Music/TheManWhoSoldTheWorld'', is a psychopath who won't let a cease-fire get in the way of a perfectly good killing spree.
251-->''It seems the peacefuls stopped the war\
252Left generals squashed and stifled\
253But I'll slip out again tonight\
254Cause they haven't taken back my rifle\
255For I promote oblivion\
256And I'll plug a few civilians''
257* From the third verse of Music/JohnDenver's ''Stonehaven Sunset'':
258-->Stonehaven sunset, the city's on fire. The soldiers just [[SlasherSmile smile]] and say, "[[PsychoForHire this gun's for hire]]". Give into the beast, boy, give into the thrill, [[HumansAreBastards it's just human nature]], to hunt and to kill...
259* Music/HuskerDu's "You're a Soldier" matches the exuberance of its titular sociopathic soldier in music.
260-->''Patrolling the world with your little boy face''\
261''And a grown-up gun that shoots''\
262''You've got a fresh-scrubbed teenage outlook on terror''\
263''And a khaki attitude.''
264* ''The End of the Thirty Years War'' by Jacek Kaczmarski epitomizes this trope in an extremely graphic way.
265* One of the numerous dysfunctional soldiers mentioned in Music/TomLehrer's song "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier", on ''Music/AnEveningWastedWithTomLehrer'', is Pete. He stabbed a cop in seventh grade and joined the Army because they'd give him better weapons than he could get on the street. He's described as "real RA material". Although given his platoon is lead by a Georgian ex-con, he probably is.
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269* Elite Agent Rotor in ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG''. When he's not mercilessly blowing his enemies to kingdom come, we see him threatening to execute his own men and torturing prisoners.
270** Ronald E. Army is a somewhat darkly comedic version that combines this with DrillSergeantNasty. Of course, nobody really takes him seriously and, considering [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 his inspiration]] is clearly insane.
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274* Unsurprisingly common in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''. For the most part, they're Jingos and Psychopaths- any unit with a Fanatical devotion rating is guaranteed to have plenty of Jingos, for example. Unwilling Conscripts are much rarer because Battlemechs, Aerospace Fighters, and even Battle Armor are far too expensive to waste on conscripts, so infantry units are generally the only places they can be found. A lot of Broken Soldiers got created by the Word of Blake Jihad when people who'd joined the Word of Blake suddenly found out that the Word had picked a fight with every other faction in existence and was busy committing war crimes like they had quotas to meet. The knowledge that everyone else was coming for them and they could expect no mercy drove a lot of Blakists who weren't already fanatical (see The Jingo) over the DespairEventHorizon and turned them into Broken Soldiers.
275* The indie RPG ''[[http://bullypulpitgames.com/games/carolina-death-crawl/ Carolina Death Crawl]]'' focuses on a band of Union soldiers attempting to make their way out from Confederate lines while haunted by the evils they have committed in war. The game's prologue begins by detailing the characters' sociopathic prior actions, such as robbery, abuse of civilians, slavering, child murder and committing terrible war crimes on orders, and proceeds with them drawing cards from suits called "KILL", "DISGRACE" and "DESTROY" depending on their evil actions taken place in-game. Dead characters return as ghosts and punish survivors for their crimes until only one person gets out alive.
276* The sample group, "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bad Company]]" from the ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'' sourcebook ''Dogs Of War'', are a bunch of {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}s deployed to Afghanistan, led by [[ColonelKilgore Colonel Kane]]. Having had his heart cut out by a Taliban sorcerer, Kane has thrown the rulebook away in the interest of tracking down the sorcerer... and, incidentally, killing every Afghani who gets in his way. Several other examples are given (especially that one Chechen resistance group), but Bad Company are the standouts. If you're playing a military setting and don't alter your [[KarmaMeter Morality]] accordingly, it's very easy for any Soldier character to fall into this.
277** In fact, in an attempt to avert this for military [=PC=]s, the book recommends introducing an alternative Morality system with a focus on "Triggers" - instead of veering towards sociopathy, those who fail degeneration rolls [[ShellShockedVeteran start to pick up tics not unlike those associated with PTSD]]. The exception being war crimes: Even using the alternative system, ''purposefully'' committing an act that violates the UsefulNotes/TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar causes a normal morality check.
278* Pretty much every [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Ork]], Dark Eldar, and follower of Chaos (especially Slaanesh worshipers) in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''. The rest are either [[KnightTemplar Knights Templar]], ScaryDogmaticAliens, the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]], or [[RedshirtArmy the]] Imperial Guard. And those who qualify among the Guard are usually borderline examples of TrainingFromHell ([[DeathWorld Catachan Jungle Fighters]]) or ShellShockedVeteran ([[PuttingOnTheReich Death Korps of Krieg]]).
279** The requirements for a Space Marine involve "a near-psychotic killing instinct". Granted, this ''is'' [[WorldHalfEmpty 40K]], so it's not like it's uncommon.
280** Even worse is that to the Orks, it's not even sociopathy, it's ''fun'', war being to them a combination of jihad, mass migration, and pub crawl.
281** The Thunder Warriors, the first SuperSoldier army the Emperor created to take control of Terra, were by and large so AxCrazy that they made the ''Space Marines'' look like models of civility and grace by comparison. The Thunder Warriors were so unstable and unsuited for anything but warfare that the Emperor had them all purged after they had outlived their usefulness.
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285* The "Kanonen-Song" from ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'' has a refrain about soldiers turning people into beefsteak tartare.
286** Specifically, people with darker ''or'' lighter skin than the British Army. They're equal opportunity racists.
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290* In ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Veteran Combat Initiative]] exclusively recruits from the dishonorably discharged and "borderline types" who have difficulty returning to civilian life.
291* ''VideoGame/Borderlands3'': PlayedForLaughs. Maliwan's ground troops are ''ridiculously'' sociopathic, gleefully killing everyone in their path for the crime of [[OneNationUnderCopyright not using Maliwan products]]. The commander of the assault on Athenas shamelessly admits he's got an inferiority complex and is burning down the planet to impress his big brother, said big brother proudly says he taught his little brother everything he knows about murdering, and a random private reads aloud a little girl's diary about her horrible life as if it's a hilarious story.
292-->'''Private Beans:''' Hey guys, stop burning down people's homes for a second and listen to this!
293* Apparently, the various grunts in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare'', especially the Ultranationalists, who purposefully are bombing whole villages.
294** And from ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'', Sgt. Reznov. He ''really'' likes killing Nazis. And also from ''[=WaW=]'', the soldiers from the ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies'' mode. They're quite involved in their zombie killing.
295* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'': Most of the in-game unit audio will either have them take a dispassionate attitude towards engaging the enemy or display PatrioticFervor. However, there are a few that just come across as psychopaths who are in it ''for'' the killing, such as the Soviet Desolator units, Yuri's ColdSniper DarkActionGirl Virus, and half the GLA army.
296** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'':
297*** Cryo Legionnaires are recruited from the Peacekeepers on a physical basis but also need to fit a psychological profile Futuretech claims is necessary for the job. Going by the Soviet campaign, said mindset is that of someone who would deliberately jetpack onto utterly helpless victims to shatter them and then laugh about it. And then there's the ice puns...
298*** Similarly, Harbinger pilots are said to be a tad too enthusiastic about their jobs, and are arrogant ''even for air force pilots''.
299*** Desolators are MaddenedIntoMisanthropy, being terminally-ill patients outfitted with crude cybernetics that allow them to breathe the fumes of their hideous flesh-melting chemical weapons (and ''only'' the fumes, they choke on fresh air) that violate more than 70 laws of warfare. With a life expectancy of about a year (when said cybernetics break down), there's no surprise that they're a little bitter.
300---->They look too happy!
301* Cliff Hudson from ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' is [[ShellShockedVeteran Broken Soldier]], being a psychopath in the game due to having [[TragicVillain a Vietnam flashback triggered by hearing his daughter getting ripped to shreds by zombies]]. He comes back to his senses after Frank West defeats him.
302* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', the Kremel mercenaries participated and rejoiced in the mutilation, mass burning and rapes of civilians in a war of colonial racism (they "kill almost exclusively black people", as the player character can put it). In the game, they launch a pointless assault on dockworkers after the political control they were dispatched to achieve was already given up for reasons far beyond their control or responsibility. The characters, while monsters, are at least somewhat sympathetic due to the fact that they were used in a war amongst huge powers that had nothing to do with them. All of them are traumatised by what they were forced through, and all have developed alcoholism as a result. Korty, in particular, ringleads the assault due to impotent rage over failing to handle the political situation, and grief over the murder of his brother.
303* ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}'' has Hyde, of the psychopath variety. He joined the military as an alternative to jail time and was promptly assigned to the Chemtroopers, soldiers equipped with flesh and armor melting chemical weapons. While there, he refused to wear the filter mask so he could look into the eyes of the people he killed.
304* Frank Horrigan from ''VideoGame/Fallout2''. He's easily one of the most psychotic and ruthless characters in the game, and possibly the entire series. He was bad enough in the Pre-War United States and became much worse after F.E.V. exposure turned him into a Super Mutant and the Enclave made him their top enforcer, outfitting him with the finest life support, PoweredArmor, and firepower.
305* An almost uniform trait of Caesar's Legion in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''. Rape, pillaging, enslaving, and burning are standard procedure. Legionares despise weakness and will kill anyone who doesn't serve the Legion - soldiers, civilians, women, children, old people. What we call war crimes, they call tactical maneuvers. Their top field commander slaughters his own troops to keep them in line. Even Caesar himself, who is regarded as a godly figure by his troops and is trying to build a better world, is sadly aware that his Legion has yet to become more than just a horde.
306* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' gives us Henry:
307-->'''Avatar:''' Those deaths were necessary. We had to kill our foes or be killed ourselves. But killing the enemy isn't the same as sacrificing innocents for victory.\
308'''Henry:''' Seems like an arbitrary line to me.
309* ''VideoGame/GoldenEyeRogueAgent'': Agent Jack Hunter, also known as Goldeneye. He's unique in that he's sadistic and careless--he wastes time hurting his enemies. MI-6 has no use for him, but SPECTRE, on the other hand...
310* Niko Bellic from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' says he was surrounded by people like this in the Serbian wars but he himself is not one (although a lot of the blood he shed went beyond what was required in the line of duty, [[ShellShockedVeteran which disturbs him]]).
311* Subverted with Trevor Phillips of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', who despite completing his training as a helicopter pilot for an unspecified Air Force, failed the psychological evaluation which caused him to be grounded and discharged.
312* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' features this trope in the series:
313** The [[ArmiesAreEvil HECU Marines]] are definitely the Jingo type in the original ''[[VideoGame/HalfLife1 Half-Life]]''. While, to be fair, they ARE under orders to silence everyone, some seem to take an unnecessary glee in their task. It helps that they blame [[MisBlamed the Black Mesa team]] for intentionally causing the Resonance Cascade, despite several of them being terrified of the [[AlienInvasion invading aliens]] and trying to figure a way to stop the Cascade.[[note]]Somewhat averted in ''Opposing Force'' - the game sets up events so it's extremely hard to get any surviving military member to meet a scientist (and if he does, said scientist is dead), but for the most part, they're more concerned with getting out and saving each other.[[/note]] Of course, it's more nuanced than that - while there ''are'' sociopathic soldiers, there also are soldiers that genuinely dislike what they have been ordered to do.
314--->'''Evil Soldier:''' I killed twelve dumbass scientists and not one of 'em fought back. This sucks.\
315'''Good Soldier:''' I didn't sign on for this shit... Monsters? Sure. But civilians? Who ordered this operation anyway?
316** The [[DoomTroops Black Ops]], however, are universally proud to be the Psychopath type, taking glee in [[ColdBloodedTorture violently torturing]] not just Black Mesa staff, but ''also'' [[InterserviceRivalry surviving HECU Marines]] [[YouHaveFailedMe left behind after the latter failed their mission]]. An early team-based puzzle in ''Opposing Force'' showcases this, with [[TheHero Corporal Shephard]] running into a [[MrFixIt HECU Engineer]] that was savagely beaten by the Black Ops for information, and then left for dead trapped inside a garage, requiring you to guide a [[TheMedic Medic]] to heal him up so he can bust open a locked door for you to advance.[[note]][[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking As if that wasn't bad enough]], they [[MoralEventHorizon also]] [[KillTheCutie tortured]] [[FatComicRelief Otis]].[[/note]]
317** The [[TheEmpire Combine]] [[GasMaskMooks Overwatch Soldiers]] continue this trope in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', but this time as Unwilling Conscripts. [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Heavily brainwashed]] and [[OrganicTechnology surgically altered]], they're [[LossOfIdentity treated as tools]] rather than living beings, even being stored unconscious on racks when not in use. Combine Soldiers speak with a rough monotone voice, and [[BeigeProse only do so]] to relay relevant tactical information to fellow Soldiers. In the field, they show [[TheStoic little-to-no emotion]] when killing dissidents or reporting squad casualties. [[NotSoStoic The only time]] any emotion is hinted at is when they're being [[FateWorseThanDeath threatened with]] [[ReassignedToAntarctica off-world reassignment]].
318** If it weren't for the fact that [[PoliceBrutality Civil Protection]] is more of the Combine's police force than part of the Overwatch military itself, they would've counted as this trope thanks to their pure sadism.[[note]]And unlike Overwatch Soldiers, who at least have the excuse of generally being [[UnwillingRoboticisation taken into service by force and then brainwashed]], [[HumansAreBastards Civil Protection is entirely voluntary]] [[LesCollaborateurs and involves no brainwashing]].[[/note]]
319* The Spartan-III Program in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' is partly designed to produce this. The recruits were chosen exclusively from orphaned children of Covenant attacks on Outer Colonies, most of which were 4-6 years old, and were raised and trained on the sole promise that they'd one day be able to avenge their families by killing every Covenant warrior. The result was several companies of peerless fighters fully willing to participate in [[LaserGuidedTykebomb suicide attacks to take out entire Covenant worlds]]. Headhunters [[Literature/HaloEvolutions Roland and Jonah]] exemplify the attitude, taking absolute glee in mowing down and mutilating Covenant soldiers while fueled by the memory of their glassed homeworlds.
320** [[VideoGame/HaloReach Emile-A239]] is another Spartan-III example whose life is defined by the pleasure he takes killing Covenant. His superiors specifically mention that it's best for everyone that he be fielded solely against Covenant targets; his brutality is ill-suited against human Insurrectionists who could very well garner sympathy from the public if his methods were showcased.
321* In ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'' the Korean soldiers spend the first few minutes at the beginning of the game brutalizing American citizens. A group of them shot a couple in front of their own child, and the Resistance sees that the Koreans are killing the prisoners and burying them in mass graves.
322* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', Vace is a cruel soldier who takes pleasure out of slaughtering innocent animals, beating up anyone who disagrees with his views, and intimidating Anemone into obeying his every whim. [[spoiler:This comes to a head when he and Rex get into a major fight for their opposing views of the colony, with Rex outright calling him sociopathic because he believes that deep down, Vace only cares about fighting because "it makes [his] ''dick'' hard".]]
323* ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}''
324** Colonel Cobar from ''Killzone: Liberation''. When he was still a private during the formation of the Helghast military, he shot his military instructor for stopping a training operation because another recruit was wounded. His ascension to colonel made it worse: mere days into the invasion of Vekta, he captured, tortured and dismembered three ISA council members in Sedah City.
325** Rico from the same series takes it up a step further, [[DesignatedHero and apparently is a good guy]]. His questionable tactics include wielding a heavy machine gun during a hostage situation and not settling for stealth when Helghast can be killed. It gets bad in ''Killzone 2'' when Templar decides in some strange fashion that he is worthy of not only heading up Alpha but also getting the charge to capture Visari. [[spoiler:Guess how it ends.]] In the manual for the first game, it's stated he was a Rhino Squad member, who were known for being unnecessarily violent.
326* Pretty much all of the Sith Troopers in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'', but the students at the Sith Academy on Korriban particularly stand out in that they basically spend their time showcasing their sociopathy in the hopes of being noticed by their superiors. [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorians]] also count, including Canderous in your party.
327** The [[DesignatedHero Republic]] Trooper PlayerCharacter him/herself can be one if Dark Side options are taken in the MMO spin-off ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''.
328* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': Depending on how you play the game, Commander Shepard can be one of these, especially with the Ruthless background in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''. Deconstructed by the third game, where continuing to play this character type means [[spoiler:you have to deliberately stab several allied characters in the back, most particularly Mordin Solus.]]
329* Vile from the ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series fits this trope to a T. Because of an irreparable short-circuit in his brain, he absolutely LOVES destroying Mavericks, and even moreso causing as much collateral damage as he can while retiring Mavericks, which was partially the reason why he ended up being branded a Maverick himself later on (the other being his rebellious attitude towards his superiors).
330* In ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'', Frost Walrus of the Repliforce's Arctic unit qualifies as this. Frost Walrus was a short-tempered, rowdy Reploid whose destructive behavior got him marked for disposal as a Maverick. However, he was saved when General gave him a chance to join the Repliforce, a military organization of Reploids. Walrus would continue his violent ways, and felt that rampaging through enemies was a military man's duty. When the Great Repliforce War started, Walrus was impressed as it was a perfect excuse for him to riot as much as he liked. Walrus was stationed at Repliforce's base in a snowy region and put in charge of guarding their secret weapon under construction. The Hunters eventually found out about the secret project, and dispatched members of their elite team to stop Walrus. Walrus refused to surrender or stop his actions in the coup d'etat, and the Hunters were forced to destroy him in battle for his Maverick actions, his luck finally running out.
331** He is even worse in the manga. After butchering an entire squadron of Maverick Hunters who were out to stop his rampaging, he kept their corpses encased in ice chambers as port as a trophy collection of his victims. When the Colonel of the Repliforce repimanded him for such misconduct, in a temper tantrum he released several Maverick Hunter prisoners and told them to run for their lives, only to viciously hunt them down for sport and kill each of them with his ice powers, save one, who was saved by X and ex-Maverick Blizzard Buffalo, the latter being reformed in the manga as a hunter. After Walrus viciously injured X into unconsciousness, Buffalo went to fight Walrus alone, who brutually murdered him by impaling Buffalo with a Frost Tower attack. Repliforce leader General had enough of Walrus's evil deeds and brutally shot him down during his second encounter with X as a punishment for his previous misconduct and to save X's life.
332* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' (2010 version): Voodoo is a very self-restrained version. He doesn't kill anyone he shouldn't, but he ''does'' give it serious consideration on more than one occasion. His teammates make sure to [[VitriolicBestBuds tease him for this.]]
333* The eponymous player characters in ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}}'' have the option of doing this. Then again, there are massive penalties for killing civilians.
334* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' is constantly in conversation with this trope.
335** Solid Snake is somewhere between a Broken Soldier and a Psychopath. He demonstrably has a strong moral code compared to even the other heroic characters in the game, but at various times (especially in the first ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'') characters call him out for enjoying the killing, which he all but acknowledges. (This ties into the fact that [[YouBastard the player is, of course, killing people as Snake for their personal entertainment]].) In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'', if the player chooses to have Snake kill too many people in one go, Snake has a flashback to Liquid accusing him of enjoying all the killing and [[HeelRealization vomits]]. He constantly attempts to quit battle due to his PTSD, but is also constantly drawn back into it again, and says it's the only time he feels truly alive.
336** Liquid Snake is a Broken Soldier, an absolute screwup for similar reasons to Snake, having been raised to believe he was worthless, becoming a horrifyingly effective warlord while still a child and leading a failed coup, then, in adulthood, getting captured and tortured for years as a POW, which apparently caused the last of his sanity to desert him. Liquid is far more emotional than Solid Snake and appears to do awful things out of bitterness and rage to begin with. After his [[CameBackWrong death]] he seems to become a lot more cheerful, and thereafter openly delights in the chaos and misery he causes.
337** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'':
338*** Mantis is a Psychopath, having absorbed the mind of a serial killer, and choosing to join Liquid "to kill as many people as I could".
339*** Sniper Wolf is an Unwilling Conscript turned Psychopath. She is clearly as damaged as she is because of the trauma she underwent as a victim of ethnic cleansing, and turned killer at first only to protect herself, but the fact that she 'falls in love with people before she kills them' puts her somewhat in the serial killer section on the diagram. She tells Snake that her reason for joining Liquid was "to take my revenge on the world".
340** The BB Corps in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' are Unwilling Conscripts turned Psychopaths, having all started out as helpless victims of war but being deliberately manipulated into becoming ruthless, sadistic cyborg monsters who live to kill.
341** ''VideoGame/MetalGearGhostBabel'':
342*** Pyro Bison informs Snake of the number of people he killed, telling him that he's this. (The absolute lowest number of kills he can accuse Snake of is two, due to there being no alternative for Slasher Hawk and Marionette Owl.)
343*** Marionette Owl is definitely an example of the Psychopath type - a former serial killer who was recruited into the military in a BoxedCrook situation. His motivation for cornering Snake appears to be to take some of Snake's prettier bones to give to his bunraku puppets.
344** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'', Venom and Kaz are both Broken Soldiers, having once been somewhat more idealistic and flexible, but also have given up their morals after both having virtually all of their men murdered in front of them and getting mutilated.
345** Raiden in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' is another Unwilling Conscript gone Psychopath. A deeply traumatised child soldier known as 'Jack the Ripper', he'd successfully managed to restrict most of the trauma until being purposefully baited into regressing to his Ripper persona, which turns out to be a huge mistake on the part of the villains, who now have to deal with a terrifyingly powerful CyberNinja who really, really likes killing.
346*** Sundowner and Mistral are Psychopath sadistic soldiers. Mistral is a BloodKnight who enjoys the act of killing while Sundowner loves war itself and is enthusiastic about the immoral ways Desperado Enforcement will spark future conflicts.
347* ''VideoGame/NintendoWars'': The Beast from ''Advance Wars: Days of Ruin'' might not seem like one, but Caulder addresses him as "Sergeant" at one point before noting that he no longer considers himself military. The implication is that the Beast was ''always'' the hateful, kill-crazy man he became AfterTheEnd, and the only difference is that he no longer has the chain of command to hold him back.
348* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/TheProcessionToCalvary'' is a soldier desperate to kill more people despite the newfound peace.
349* Blackwatch from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}''. The regular Marines in Manhattan view them with disgust, rightfully so; several Web of Intrigue memories show them murdering civilians for the hell of it. And ''laughing''.
350* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
351** U.B.C.S. [[SergeantRock Sergeant]] [[FormerRegimePersonnel Nicholai Ginovaef]] of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'', an ex-soldier turned [[HiredGuns mercenary]] is this trope to a "T", plotting to murder all of his colleagues so that he can receive their pay. He's also a BadassNormal who somehow manages to survive the game, making your life a living hell the entire time.
352** U.S.S. team leader [[NoNameGiven HUNK]], alias "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mr. Death]]", of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' is a totally cold-blooded version, who willingly leaves his teammates to die in furtherance of his mission, and doesn't care at all about the civilians his team guns down. He earned said alias because of a reputation for being the SoleSurvivor of a number of missions. Despite apparently being intended as an insult, [[InsultBackfire HUNK sees it as a point of pride]] and seems to think that this makes him immortal or invincible.
353** Generally speaking, the Umbrella Security Service (U.S.S.) and Umbrella Bioweapon Countermeasures Service (U.B.C.S.) seem to attract a lot of these guys. Given the nature of the work and the fact that most of them are FormerRegimePersonnel or professional [[HiredGuns mercenaries]], this is unsurprising. The entire business is headed up by ColonelKilgore Sergei Vladimir.
354** Jack Krauser from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' and ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles''. Originally career military with side gigs as a mercenary, Krauser was driven over the edge after suffering a CareerEndingInjury to his left arm. He faked his own death, joining [[BigBad Wesker]]'s organization in pursuit of greater power through Umbrella's viruses. His former partner, Leon, is shocked at Krauser's transformation into a deranged, war-paint wearing BloodKnight.
355* ''VideoGame/SabresOfInfinity'' Cazarosta, his hatred of the Antari, indifference to the horrors of war and his casual disregard of the rules of engagement amount to this.
356* In the Xbox/[=PS2=] game ''VideoGame/{{Shellshock}}'', there are numerous times where your squad massacres civilians even if you don't take part in it. In the second mission, you go to search a village for weapons and a single Vietcong. Or, after you round up everyone in the village, you can start shooting and the others will join in and gun down all the villagers, accomplishing the same objective. Later on, you also kill wounded amputees in a Vietcong hospital. Plus, one of your squadmates ([[MeaningfulName whose name is literally "Psycho"]]) constantly kills [=POWs=] in cutscenes and helps the South Vietnamese commissar torture people.
357* How a lot of the opposing grunts are portrayed in ''[[VideoGame/SOCOMUSNavySeals SOCOM US Navy Seals]]'' - but the few that you get the drop on in conversations casually talk about what their former base used to be, complaining about their StrawFeminist of a CO, or recruiting civilians onto their side with idealistic logic.
358* Pale-faced shocktrooper Jane Turner from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'', who specifically joined up with Squad 7 to, as she puts it, "put holes in [[TheEmpire Imps]]." Yeah, she's a little creepy.
359* [[spoiler:Captain Martin Walker]] from ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' is a Broken Soldier. [[spoiler:After the White Phosphorus incident that happens early on in the game, Walker goes from being a sensible soldier to slowly cracking under the pressure and becoming a raving madman with a hero complex. How quickly he does so depends on the player in some instances.]]
360* Throughout ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'', your squad worries (with good reason) that Sev is starting to cross the line from BoisterousBruiser into this trope:
361-->'''Sev''': (''in a wistful, euphoric tone'') Nothing better than a jungle hunt. Hiding in a bush, putting a plasma bolt through a hostile's cranium... ''makes me feel alive''...
362* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': With all nine playable characters being agents of a PrivateMilitaryContractor, this trope was bound to happen.
363** The Soldier is a classic Jingo taken to comical levels. According to his backstory, he tried to join the army to kill Nazis and was turned down, so he bought a ticket to Poland and embarked on a "Nazi killing spree" that lasted until 1949... In other words, four whole years ''after'' the Nazis had surrendered. Given his tenuous grasp on reality, one can only wonder how many of those "Nazis" were actually innocents. This has only gotten worse with time, thanks to Soldier drinking heavily polluted water instead of the bottled water that the mercenaries were supplied. By the later periods of the story, he's almost completely out of touch with reality and prone to bizarre hallucinations, and dangerous to anyone around him, even attacking his own teammates at times.
364** Lampshaded with the Sniper, who prides himself as a professional assassin, and takes offense to being called a crazed gunman by his parents. Despite his self-proclaimed professionalism however, he is more than happy to throw jars of his own urine at his enemies.
365--->'''Sniper:''' I'm not a ''"crazed gunman"'', Dad, I'm an assassin! Well, the difference being, one is a ''job'' and the other's '''''mental sickness'''''!
366** The Engineer likewise usually maintains an outward appearance of professionalism. However, he was apparently willing to saw off his own right hand just to replace it with a prosthetic for its combat utility.
367** The Medic is unashamedly gleeful to experiment on friend and foe alike. Despite his scientific advancements having revolutionary potential in medicine, he prefers to use them to help his team massacre the enemy and satisfy his own morbid curiosity.
368** The {{Pyro|maniac}} takes this furthest -- [[EveryoneHasStandards even the other mercenaries]], including their own teammates, regard [[AmbiguousGender them]] as being wildly sociopathic. Just about the only intelligible sound they can make is a maniacal laugh as they burn everyone around them to death. Their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I Meet The Pyro]] video revealed them to be ''far'' beyond mere sociopathy and actually [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness completely divorced from reality altogether]].
369--->'''Heavy:''' I fear no man... but that ''thing''... it scares me.\
370'''Scout:''' I ain't talking to you about that freak, alright? He... He's not here, is he? How do I get this fricking thing off ?! ''[[CameraAbuse [knocks down camera]]]''\
371'''Spy:''' One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask... what dreams of chronic and sustained cruelty?\
372'''Pyro's Mind:''' ''[[[spoiler:a colorful SugarBowl land while Loving Spoonful's "[[https://youtu.be/mDYNuD4CwlI Do You Believe In Magic]]" plays in the background]]]''
373** The mercs in general just really, ''really'' enjoy the work they do, and it just so happens that work involves a lot of killing in cruel and unusual ways. In the game itself, several voicelines show [[MediumAwareness they're aware]] it's all just a game where DeathIsCheap, so taking killing so lightly is understandable. In the lore... Not so much.
374* The Scarlet Chorus in ''VideoGame/{{Tyranny}}'' [[ArmyOfThievesAndWhores is made up of these]]. Recruits to the Chorus either join willingly because they are Psychopaths who ''want'' to kill and rape things, or are Unwilling Conscripts dragged into the Chorus and mentally brutalized. Those who are conscripted and [[HadToBeSharp somehow end up surviving for long enough to thrive]] inevitably 'evolve' into Psychopaths, as continued life in the Chorus eats away your former identity and leaves you a sociopathic SocialDarwinist.
375** By contrast their rival army, [[EliteMooks The Disfavoured]], are almost entirely made up of Jingos. They are very much TheProudElite and [[FantasticRacism proud of their homeland in the Northern Empire]], and look down on anyone who's not Disfavoured. While those who surrender early escape by 'merely' being enslaved, those who provide enough resistance for the Disfavoured to take them seriously (or prove unworthy foes by rebelling or breaking earlier terms of surrender) tend to end up being mass crucified by the roadside as a warning to the rest.
376* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'': While the game taking place in a ForeverWar means that there are plenty of {{Child Soldier}}s from Keves and Agnus who are demented, none of them are as depraved as TheDreaded Agnian soldier Blackblaze Dirk, later known as Consul D. Back when he was Agnian, Dirk took sadistic pleasure in murdering his victims, equipping himself with a pair of self-made claws that allowed him to lop people's heads off. It also didn't matter that Keves was his enemy, as there were plenty of soldiers from Agnus working alongside him who he lopped off the heads of completely on purpose. The only reason why he stopped being a normal Agnian and became part of Moebius is because such power meant that not only would he live forever through the Flame Clocks, but he would be able to slaughter more people than he ever could as an Agnian. Before he's defeated, it's revealed that he has an entire collection of severed heads from the people he killed, both as Dirk and as D.
377--> '''Consul D''': Well, huh? Doesn't it make you tingle? As long as I am Moebius, I can enjoy this superlative feeling forever and ever! I'll bury the world in my sweet collectables!
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381* [[{{Expy}} Lieutenants]] [[Franchise/StreetFighter Charles and Bravado]], from ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints''.
382* A victim in the ''Series/{{Dexter}}: Early Cuts'' webisodes was a sniper during the Gulf War and used his position to kill innocents and cover up his murderous proclivities.
383%%* Locus and [[spoiler:Felix]], from ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''.
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387* Florence from ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' mentions that the first UpliftedAnimal project was with chimpanzees. We later learn that it was an intentional attempt to make sociopathic super-soldiers, which went [[GoneHorriblyRight horribly right]] because the chimps could not be controlled and would turn on their allies when there were no enemies left to kill. [[spoiler: [[MadScientist Doctor John Bowman]], Florence's creator, is the only surviving uplifted chimpanzee, who left the military with the help of a veterans' association to study neurology.]]
388* Most of the cast of ''Webcomic/GoneWithTheBlastwave'' cross this trope with ArmedFarces and ComedicSociopathy. They're by and large a bunch of apathetic, incompetent, manic-depressive bunglers, but they're still soldiers. They run the gamut of the scale -- most are Unwilling Conscripts, Broken Soldiers, or a combination of the two, but a few are in the Psychopath category. There aren't many Jingos in the cast, mostly because almost no one seems to care who they're fighting for or against.
389* The guy in this ''Webcomic/KarateBears'' "distinguishes" himself on the battlefield by [[http://www.karatebears.com/2011/12/distinguished-soldier.html mangling and eating an enemy]]
390* In ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', most of the soldiers of the Souballo Empire are portrayed as the first flavor.
391* Most of the grunts in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' fit this fairly well, minus the rape. When hiring new recruits, Captain Tagon even commends his senior officer Thurl for "hiring those [violent sociopaths] right up." To further the trope, most of the ones who get promoted beyond Sgt. happen to be a bit more rational in their thinking, with the notable exception of now-Lieutenant [[CloudCuckooLander Shore]] [[BunnyEarsLawyer Pibald]].
392** The (Tausenigann) Ob'enn even more so. In fact, their entire culture is like this. And they're not the only ones, the robots in Book Three are this, and possibly the Tohdfraug (though Petey's press-ganging scheme redeemed them quite a bit). Also, Kowalski from the UNS, who claims his conscience is vestigial and is in charge of the vilest wetwork the UNS has to do.
393* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': The Aldish soldier Riker is an eager rapist who is excited about the opportunity to kill and rape children and loot a shrine. The Aldish government's way of waging war encourages their soldiers to act immorally as they conscript children, order their soldiers to systematically rape civilians and have a culture that emphasizes and celebrates machismo.
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397* Website/ItHeSoftware's [[http://it-he.org/deus.htm walkthrough]] for ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' makes the protagonist into one of these, with "nothing short of a full-blown psychosis".
398* Bomber from Literature/WhateleyUniverse is a sophomore in the Grunts, i.e. the [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]] JROTC club. He's also a psychopath.
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402* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''.
403** Deconstructed when Katara goes after the soldier who killed her mother, expecting a PsychoForHire. What she gets is a [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] old man, whom she angrily describes as "just empty. There's nothing inside you." The implication is that fear got him to act like a Conscript; outside of combat he's not much of a threat--just don't sneak up on him.
404** Another implication could have been that either that: the soldier was a MightMakesRight kind of guy, so he wimps out at the sight of more powerful figures (For example: his mother, and Katara). Or that he is a foil who shows that this (being a wimpy, cowardly, WellDoneSonGuy) is what Katara would have been like if her mother was still alive.
405** Yet another interpretation, is that he ''was'' a monster, but had some kind of crippling mother issues aside and that years of retirement living under his mother had ground him down to the point that he wasn't worth killing. Or that he became that way as a result of the [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone things he had done on the battlefield]], becoming a ShellShockedVeteran.
406* ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'' features a [[AgeLift younger]] version of Characters/{{Deathstroke}} before he became a PsychoForHire mercenary, and he's very much this trope. He was a ruthless BloodKnight that cared nothing for potential civilian casualties when attacking his opponents under [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Amanda Waller]]'s orders, and was a {{sadist}} who frequently partook in EvilGloating that he was [[TokenEvilTeammate one of "the good guys"]].
407* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' implies that Homer Simpson, had he actually been on a battlefield, would have been of this trope. When he has to be an army recruiter, one of the things he is asking people in a failed attempt at recruiting them is whether they want to kill people. Also, in "You Kent Always Say What You Want," Homer compares his elation to getting his 100th ice cream cone as being similar to gaining his first kill had he been in a war. Mitigated when he was once recruited by the Marines, he isn't smart enough to even hold a rifle, the one they gave him only shoots bubbles.
408* In the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' mythos, it's harder to list a Decepticon or Predacon who ''[[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch doesn't]]'' fit this trope than one who does. Though, seeing as the faction was founded by a sadistic madmachine and his like-minded followers, it's not hard to see why. Even the occasional Autobot or Maximal fits, though they are usually only [[TokenEvilTeammate tolerated]] if they are especially effective. Even then, they're kept on a short leash.
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