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[[caption-width:250:"Pick up the sword. The fight '''must''' be fair."]]

->''"To defeat you in such a manner would be lacking in honor. I prefer to beat my opponents [[GoodOldWays the old-fashioned way]]... '''brutally'''!!"''
-->--'''Dinobot''', ''{{Transformers}}: Beast Wars''

->''"You ask a krogan if he'd rather find a cure for the [[DepopulationBomb genophage]], or [[HiredGuns fight for credits]], and [[BloodKnight he'll choose fighting -- every time.]] [[PlanetOfHats It's just who we are, Shepard.]] [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch I can't change that]]. No one can."''
-->--'''Urdnot Wrex''', ''MassEffect''

A specific subtrope of BloodKnight, the ProudWarriorRaceGuy seeks battle and bloodshed because his culture teaches that [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority doing so is the greatest source of personal honor and glory]]. This [[PlanetOfHats Proud Warrior Race]] will often be based on [[FantasyCounterpartCulture one of several real world cultures]] who are perceived to have acted this way, such as the Samurai, [[ThisIsSPARTA Spartans]], [[BarbarianTribe Vikings and Mongols.]] The ProudWarriorRaceGuy is almost always a hero. If evil, he will probably be the WorthyOpponent.

"Proud", in this case, meaning "Psychotically Violent". Critiques of this position will be met with: [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch "You do ]]''[[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch not ]]''[[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch understand"]]. May occasionally overlap with the AlwaysChaoticEvil race, though the two are usually differentiated by the Proud Warrior having a strict Code-of-Honor, while the Chaotic Evil race has no real rules and does cowardly or underhanded things. If the Code-of-Honor is too alien for humans to understand, or too xenophobic to allow cooperation, then the heroes will treat the two groups as the same.

While most commonly seen in science fiction programs in the guise of RubberForeheadAliens, the ProudWarriorRaceGuy is not limited to that genre. Consider Hawk in ''SpenserForHire'', B.A. in ''TheATeam'', and (arguably) Tonto in ''TheLoneRanger'' or Kato in ''TheGreenHornet''. This trope currently tends to be limited to SF because applying it to human races really skirts the bounds of current racial sensitivities. You don't see a lot of the NobleSavage anymore either, except as alien races, for the same reason.

Species that are essentially [[IntelligentGerbil talking animals]] based on predatory creatures, like the obligatory {{catgirl}}s in some SciFi anime, are also apt to be of this type.

Interestingly enough, the best-known characters of this type in recent TV history not completely covered in makeup and prosthetics ([[StarTrek Worf]], [[{{Andromeda}} Tyr]], and [[{{Stargate SG-1}} Teal'c]]) are all black; [[StargateAtlantis Ronon Dex]] is played by a half-Hawaiian actor wearing his hair in dreadlocks. Whether (and if so, [[UnfortunateImplications why]]) this is a key component of the ProudWarriorRaceGuy is an open question. (See also ScaryBlackMan.)

See also BloodKnight. See BarbarianHorde for when a bunch of them decide to get together and break stuff. See WarriorPoet for what happens when the ProudWarriorRaceGuy becomes more developed. Often is fond of being InHarmsWay. They often are of the mistaken belief that this means they have a BadassArmy, but often are proven wrong.

Writers using this trope often seem to think that the "warrior" is somehow superior to the "soldier", who obeys orders (sometimes illegal ones, unfortunately) and actually wins wars...as the samurai and Junkers can well attest. Compare ''and'' contrast HumansAreWarriors.
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* The Saiyans (Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, Goten, Trunks, and several others) from ''[[{{Dragonball}} Dragonball Z]]'', ''Dragonball GT'' and associated movies, though only Vegeta and the others raised in his culture really have the personality. The other Saiyans still tend to enjoy fighting and getting stronger, usually just for fun.
** It should be noted that Goku later comes to terms with the Saiyan pride, and accepts the fact that he is a Saiyan, indicating that despite past flaws, he too shares in this same Pride of Warrior Race, albeit not to the massive and violent extent that Vegeta and those raised under the Saiyan Race do.
* Done very well on the anime ''WolfsRain'', where the four main characters were all Proud Warrior Race Guys, but some of them had huge doubts about the whole thing -- and while some of them become [[WarriorPoet Warrior Poets]], they were very unusual ones.
* The Zentraedi race (divided into "Zentran" and "Meltran", or male and female, sides) from ''SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' are examples of this trope.
** Klein Klan of ''MacrossFrontier'' is a Worf of sorts for the Zentraedi in this most recent entry into the franchise; while she isn't a raging berserker most of the time (although after a certain event in the plot she gets rather terrifying), she is ''extremely'' proud of her heritage and generally doesn't miss a chance to remind people of Zentraedi superiority in combat and warfare whenever possible. Hilariously, she also suffers from some [[TheWorfEffect Worf Effect]] given how often she gets a hole blown in her power armor... and of course, to her profound and continued annoyance, when she's "micronized" down to human size, she's only about four and a half feet tall.
* Technically, the Pillar Men in Part Two of ''JojosBizarreAdventure'' are a proud warrior race of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], but in practice only Wham counts. (Santana is mindlessly destructive, ACDC is a {{Jerkass}} showoff, and Cars is power-mad.)
* The Ctarl-Ctarl, the race of cat-people from ''OutlawStar'', seem to qualify, but really only Aisha Clan-clan seems to care about conquest and honor, many other members of her race are just normal workin' folks.
* The Aswad in ''{{Mai-Otome}}''.
* Touka from ''{{Utawarerumono}}'' is a Proud Warrior Race erm... [[UnusualEars wing-eared]] girl.
* The Jovians from ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' [[spoiler:are actually just a bunch of normal humans who became Proud Warrior Colony Guys, basing their society off a martial interpretation of a SuperRobot show.]] Their [[WorthyOpponent named]] [[KnightTemplar mecha]] [[BoisterousBruiser pilots]] particularly exemplify this.
* In ''OnePiece'', the giants that come from the island of Elbaf are proud warriors in the tradition of the Vikings. The first two giants the crew meet, in fact, take this to the extreme by fighting for a century (a third their lifespan) over a quarrel they've both long forgotten purely because their honor is at stake. Also: Wiper and the other Shandian Warriors.
* [[BrokenBird Pai]] [[HotAmazon Thunder]] from ''Dangaioh'' initially refuses to team with NaiveEverygirl Mia Alice because she is not warrior-like. As it turns out, Pai is genetically predisposed to violence, [[spoiler: because she is really Barius, the daughter of pirate warlord The Banker. Once her father tries to force her kill one of her classmates and Mia bails her out, she accepts Mia's leadership]]
* ''{{Pokemon}}''. Many of the creatures themselves have an intelligence slightly beyond the law of the the wild, and several are stated to only follow the orders of trainers who have earned their respect.
* Interestingly inverted in ''PrincessMononoke''; although Ashitaka does come from a tribe of historical proud warrior race guys, by now they just want to be left alone, and he only fights when he has to (or when his curse makes him). It's actually San, who was RaisedByWolves, who's the berserker type.
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* Starfire from ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' is a Proud Warrior Race Girl, in the [[AdaptationDecay original comic version]] anyway. (In her [[RetCon "first meeting"]] with the Titans recalled in a later episode of the TV series, she was this way too, making her "later" GenkiGirl personality seem rather puzzling.)
* Prince Acroyear of the Acroyears, from Marvel's toy-licensed comic, ''{{Micronauts}}''. Worth noting because he's one of the earliest mass-market appearances of the ProudWarriorRaceGuy as a stock crew member on a SpaceOpera CoolShip. It's also worth noting that he's portrayed as dark-skinned, despite otherwise-alien features -- i.e., "played by an African-American". That's not just incidental, either: a major plot point has his albino brother driven to madness/evil/betrayal by his perceived inferiority.
* Wildstorm's Zealot is a pretty standard (female) example of this trope. Her entire race, the Kherubim, is equal parts ProudWarriorRace and NinetiesAntiHero.
* The Kree in the MarvelUniverse. To a certain degree the Skrulls have this too.
** And the Shi'ar. Nice variety in your aliens, Marvel. Then again, I suppose it makes some sense that the proud warrior races have already conquered most of the less aggressive aliens.
* Every other alien race in the DCU seems to be composed of warriors. The Khund, The Thanagarians and the Daxamites, for example.
* Wonder Woman is a Themysciarian warrior.
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* Fezzik from ''{{The Princess Bride}}''. In the film, he insists on fighting the Hero "as God intended; skill against skill alone. Sportsmanlike!" Westley replies, "You mean... I put down my sword, and you put down your rock, and we try to kill each other like civilized people?"
* Chewbacca in ''StarWars''. Consider how honorable it really is to pull the arms off your opponent when they beat you in a board game.
** However, we never see him pull off the arms of anyone for beating him in a board game. One suspects that is a threat which he would never really carry out. In all likelihood, Han was just messing with C-3PO.
*** You've obviously never played Lego Star Wars.
*** It's also one of the funniest thing in Lego Star Wars, actually. Regardless of who it's done to.
***If you want to get into the mess that is the Extended Universe, Chewbacca would probably sooner shoot himself than do this, since the Wookie's code of honor forbids fighting with bare claws.
**** "Claws" being the keyword, as they are retractable and used only for hunting. Punching and ripping arms off sockets does not require said utensils (Chewie punches a lot of baddies in the movies).
*** And seeing how Chewbacca treats C-3PO when he ''really does'' get dismembered in ''The Empire Strikes Back'', Chewie is more like a {{Gentle Giant}}.
** Ripping somebody's arms out when they're a robot (and thus easily repaired) isn't quire the same as doing so to a flesh-and-blood being who would die of blood loss and/or shock from it, either.
**And there's also the Mandalorians. When you think of it, the clone army is a proud warrior race by itself. Especially the ones that been trained by Jango himself.
* The title creatures in the ''{{Predator}}'' movies. Well, they're more like Proud ''Hunter'' Race Guys. But so damn proud of hunting that they even stalk ''{{Aliens}}'' as big game.
* The Mangalores in ''TheFifthElement''. They won't fight without their leader.
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* In TerryPratchett's ''{{Discworld}}'' novels, trolls ''appear'' to be a Proud Warrior Race, but are actually just durable enough that hitting each other with clubs isn't particularly harmful. When they become aware they can't do this to humans, they're usually {{Gentle Giant}}s.
** A subversion in a different angle is also explored first in the book ''The Wee Free Men'': the title refers to the Nac Mac Feegle, six-inch high kilt-wearing blue tattooed thieves, whose swords glow blue in the presence of lawyers. They have their own sort of honor and are powerful allies, if you can understand a word they say, and are properly ''fairies'' (they guard those really nasty thistle flowers, because ''they'' need fairies too!)
*** ''Pictsies!''
*** Also they actually use their Poetry and Music for WAR!
*** A good Gonagle (Feegle musician; named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall William McGonagall]], reportedly the single worst poet in all of human history) can make your ears explode after three bars of the mousepipes.
** TerryPratchett's non-Discworld novel, ''Strata'', gives us the paranoid but violent ''kung'', and alien race accurately described as "frightened of everything except immediate [[BerserkButton physical danger]]." Our representative of the race, Marco, can decapitate dragons mid-air, but otherwise lives in terror that Someone is out to get him. As another character put it, "These Northmen have a word, 'Berserker.' It was made for Marco."
* Very common in heroic fantasies, especially those derived from Tolkien and/or ''DungeonsAndDragons'', where non-human races tend to experience extreme {{Flanderization}}. A well-known (though mild) example is the dwarf Gimli from ''TheLordOfTheRings''.
** Speaking of Tolkien, how could you not bring up the [[strike:Land Vikings]] Rohirrim?
*** And also the Uruk-Hai. They're literally bred for warfare.
* In LarryNiven's ''KnownSpace'', the Kzinti are a race of giant warcats. But while the Kzinti are a warrior culture devoted to conquest, they find out the hard way that humanity is much, much better at it. (The Kzinti mainly conquer much more primitive races, and rarely fight each other, so "war" isn't really something they've had mcuh practice at.)
** In stories which occur during the wars with humans, the Kzinti are more like [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]]. They are far more brutal and have no problem with killing off people for any reason, while a ProudWarriorRaceGuy tends to be more noble and spares non combatants.
*** Of course, by the time of Beowulf Schaeffer and Louis Wu, Kzinti culture has been forced to mellow, after their most ruthless and aggressive members have been killed off by generations of war with humanity -- [[spoiler:which is why the aptly-named Puppeteers [[TheChessmaster nudged the two races into war in the first place]].]]
** They're also the likely inspiration for the [[WingCommander Kilrathi]].
***And for "likely" one can substitute "virtually certain." Feline aliens are common enough, and not unlikely to be Proud Warrior Races. However, Kzinti and Kilrathi are burly rather than lithe, which is rarer. They're also both bright orange and have markedly similar names. As a presumable tip of the hat, there's a planet in ''Privateer'' named "Niven."
** The Kdatlyno in the same setting are also strong candidates, with an element of [[WarriorPoet Warrior Poets]] as well.
* In the sci-fi trilogy ''The Damned'' by AlanDeanFoster, ''humanity'' is the proud warrior race. By virtue of being the only species in the galaxy that has evolved to be able to stomach fighting and killing other sentient beings, without fainting out of horror or revulsion, humanity is freakishly strong (capable of breaking other species' bones just by swatting their hands away), enormously resilient and completely batshit crazy. So much so, in fact, that the galactic community refuses to grant humanity citizenship for centuries after co-opting them to fight in a war against the ScaryDogmaticAliens.
** Foster used this much earlier in his novelization of ''TheLastStarfighter'': one of the reasons that the Star League has to go to such lengths as hiring an interstellar ConMan to recruit from planets so primitive they aren't even on the map is that the "civilized" races have put war behind them ages ago. Those few with a talent for violence - the Starfighters - are considered dangerously psychotic by most of their own people.
* The Dothraki from ''ASongOfIceAndFire'' are based on the "violent raider" image of Mongols while the ironborn are a viking-ish culture, but resemble more pirates than the historical vikings.
** The Wildlings also count, and really the Westrosi themselves have large aspects of this as well.
* Mandalorians from ''{{Star Wars}}'', particularly in the expanded universe. Species that first show up as enemies usually turn into Proud Warrior Races as time goes on and they're not at war with the New Republic.
** The whole idea of the Proud Warrior Race is deconstructed by the [[XWingSeries X-Wing novel]] ''Starfighters of Adumar''— sometimes fatally straight (the [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy low overall competence]] caused by the emphasis on dueling and killing for honor) and sometimes for laughs (as when one such duel interrupts a WillTheyOrWontThey moment). The Adumari are ''humans'', but humans can have [[PlanetOfHats hats]] too. Throughout the book Wedge finds the Adumari way of life repellent - the only way anyone can work their way out of poverty is by putting their lives on the line, royalty can't be parents to their children, and everyone's killing each other. Now and again he says something about it - "Are you fighting so that your family will be proud over your grave, or so they can be proud when you come home?" - and he really gets wound up over the issue. [[spoiler: Turns out that it's really only one nation that's so obsessed with honor in combat.]]
---> '''Wedge''': "Circular thinking. I'm honorable because I kill the enemy, and I kill the enemy for the honor. There's nothing there, Cheriss. Here's the truth: I kill the enemy so someone, somewhere - probably someone I've never met and never will meet - will be happy. [...] I told you how I lost my parents. Nothing I ever do can make up for that loss. But if I put myself in the way of people just as bad as the ones who killed my family, if I burn them down, then someone else they would have hurt gets to stay happy. That's the only honorable thing about my profession. It's not the killing. It's making the galaxy a little better."
** The Chiss are an interesting example: they manage to combine this with militant neutrality. The upshot is that every other power in the galaxy makes a pretty wide berth around Chiss space, turning it into Switzerland [[RecycledInSpace In Space!]]
* The Yuuzhan Vong, main villains of the NewJediOrder, are ''psychotic'' warrior race guys (especially the actual warrior caste). In fact, do die gloriously in battle is the fondest hope of most Vong warriors, because they believe that death is more important than life, and that is how their gods will judge them. Somewhat unusually, they are willing to lie and cheat to get what they want, though that is more to do with their code of honor not applying to 'infidels' (and members of the non-warrior castes are bound by much more lenient codes to begin with). Vong characters run the whole gamut from [[WorthyOpponent Worthy Opponents]] to [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]], though things are admittedly skewed towards the latter, especially early on.
* The armored bears in ''HisDarkMaterials''. Ahem, let me rephrase that: Polar Bears that build their armor from meteorite iron. As their king put it, "War is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe." This same trope is subverted in the third book of the trilogy, when we meet the Gallivespians, who are a fierce and vicious assassin-race who are born with poison spurs in their heels [[spoiler: and ride about on dragonflies, because they're all about ''six inches tall.'']]
* The Echani from StarWars: KnightsOfTheOldRepublic are similar to the Mandalorians except that they don't go around conquering bits of the Galaxy (naturally, both hold the other in contempt). They aren't bloodthirsty or imperial, but as [[spoiler:Brianna]]/Handmaiden will tell you, how fighting and honor permeate every aspect of their culture down to courtship rituals. In fact, they think that it's impossible to truly know a person until you've fought them, and that a life without conflict is a life of weakness--many become mercenaries or professional duelists to seek out such conflict. Politics is seen as a battlefield of words. Their methods of fighting eventually end up being used by the Emperor's elite guard.
* The Aiel from the ''WheelOfTime'', characterized as something between an {{Expy}} of ''{{Dune}}'''s Fremen and a FantasyCounterpartCulture of various Native American groups, have constantly warred against each other for centuries. The warriors live by ''ji'e'toh'', which [[YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord in the Old Tongue]] means "honor and duty"; as an example of this code, if a warrior holding a weapon is touched without being harmed, he owes a debt of honor and must be made an indentured servant for a year and a day. The only thing that can stop an Aiel? [[spoiler:Learning that 3,000 years ago their entire culture was pacifist]].
* Little Bear in ''The Indian in the Cupboard''...although, to be fair, he ''is'' an Iroquois warrior.
* Several characters in ''WarAndPeace'', mostly because joining the army and fighting for the fatherland is seen as one of the best ways to achieve fame and glory.
* In the novel ''AgentOfTheTerranEmpire'' the protagonist Imperial secret agent Dominic Flandry is kidnapped by a race of ProudWarriorRaceGuy. They sneer at him for being part of the "decadent" Empire. It takes him quite a bit of work but he winds up [[spoiler:corrupting them all into fighting a civil war over power. He points out that their whole system of honor wasn't really too embedded into the culture, otherwise he could have never convinced so many to abandon their principles when power was offered to them]].
* The ''{{Drizzt}}'' novels were originally supposed to be about a ProudWarriorRaceGuy, Wulfgar son of Beornegar of the Tribe of Elk (one of the barely-Viking-ish warrior tribes of the northern region of Faerun), captured in battle and made an indentured servant by a dwarf king. He eventually went out the way all {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s want to -- defending friends and family from a great menace, and succeeding. Of course, [[BackFromTheDead he didn't stay dead for more than three books]] -- but that was over six years of world time.
** Drizzt himself is basically a ProudWarriorRaceGuy, having grown up for around 30 years in an underground city full of vicious assassins who are trained from birth in the most efficient, vicious ways of killing living things. His homeland is, in essence, a gigantic, sadistic special forces unit (his race possess remarkable prowess in the areas of stealth and unit tactics, while at the same time possessing a huge superiority complex over all other living creatures including each other and having a vicious sadistic streak, making them more Arrogant Warrior Race Guys). It sounds like he's even more noble and sacrifice-loving than any Proud Warrior Race Guy ever, but he possesses a remarkable survival instinct and is portrayed as too BadAss to actually die, even when he tries self-sacrifice. [[spoiler: He does die once, in a duel to the death against his archenemy, but only for one page, not counting the year between the end of the book he dies in and the very first page of the next.]]
*** More like Arrogant Assassin Race Guys, which is quite different. The drow are an example of why AlwaysChaoticEvil doesn't make for good proud warrior races - they have no concept of honour, often even no interest in a good fight, just getting ahead at everyone else's expense at minimum cost. The way Drizzt demonstrates he's (to a small extent) learnt to think like a drow during his training is when he challenges his last remaining opponent in a free-for-all between students to an open, honourable single combat, which he knows he can win - only to have the other step in a trap he has set up, by which Drizzt proves he wouldn't do anything so stupid as to issue an honourable challenge anymore.
*To some extent, the centaurs, and to an even greater extent, the giants in ''HarryPotter''.
* Okonkwo, from ''Things Fall Apart'', is a proud warrior race guy. Anything that doesn't involve beating someone up is womanly. This also makes this trope one of the oldest ones in the book.
** Deconstructed in that he lives out his life in fear being weak and fearful, and [[spoiler: his fear of seeming week leads him to quickly give in to society's demand that he kill his adopted son, and eventually to kill himself rather than live with the Europeans.]]
* The Haruchai in ''The {{Chronicles of Thomas Covenant}}'' fit this trope to a T, what with the practice of sending their 500 best warriors to aid the Lords of the Land, replacing any who fall in battle as soon as his body is returned to his family. They also dislike the use of any weapons or magic--in the later books, [[spoiler:they decide to prevent anyone else from using Earthpower, [[KnightTemplar as such power in the hands of mortals leads only to destruction]] in their eyes.]]
** And take a headlong plunge into LawfulStupid.
* The Batu of Zadaa from ''ThePendragonAdventure''. They live on a hot planet with scarce water, and hostile creatures all about. Becoming a warrior is a necessity.
* The Scylvendi from the ''SecondApocalypse'' take this trope to a scary extreme. They call themselves "the People of War" or sometimes just "the People." To them, war is both the method and object of worship. Cnaiur, the main Scylvendi character, scoffs at the concept of a Holy War. To him, ''all'' war is holy.
* The Icecarls of ''TheSeventhTower''. Brought up under a warrior tradition, all their great epics and stories seem to be about people dying heroic deaths on the Ice. Tal, the protagonist, at one point thinks to himself, upon finding a skeleton in a cave, that it couldn't be an Icecarl skeleton, because it is unarmed.
* Minotaurs in the {{Dragonlance}} books.
* The Canim (wolf-people) and the Marat (barbarians) of ''CodexAlera'' fit quite well.
** The Alerans themselves have a very strong martial tradition, as do the Icemen, though both of those cultures are more complex than ''just'' proud warriors. Really the only race in these books that doesn't count in any way is [[HordeOfAlienLocusts the Vord]], on account of being, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin alien locusts]].
* The Clans of ''WarriorCats'' all act like this: to fight in battle to protect one's Clan is the highest honor one can achieve. They look down on housecats (whom they refer to derisively as "kittypets") because (most) housecats are cowardly and unable to fight well. They do, however, pride themselves on honor, codified in their "Warrior Code", which [[ThouShaltNotKill forbids killing]] (even in battle, unless their enemy is willing to kill them), and tells them to help another Clan if it is in danger.
*The Holnists from AfterTheEnd novel,''The Postman,'' by David Brin are a sort of deconstruction. Descended from the followers of a CrazySurvivalist who fancied himself an Ubermensch, the Holnists are excellent fighters and seem to have some sort of code of honor. However, the book primarily focuses on their innocent victims whose lives have been made living hells. The Holnists conquer huge swathes of territory, rape the local women and then induct them into their harems, castrate all the men who are too peaceable to have the kind of "warrior spirit" the Holnists value, and kill the men who do have a "warrior spirit" if they refuse to be inducted into Holnist society. Brin seems to be arguing that a real Proud Warrior Race Guy wouldn't be a WarriorPoet, he'd be a CompleteMonster JerkJock.
*The [[OurOrcsAreDifferent urgals]] of the InheritanceCycle could possibly count. They're entire society and social standings are [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority based on feats of combat]], and they're certainly quite proud. They're frequently in conflict with the other races due to their violent tendencies.
* The Tsurani and Valheru of the RiftwarSaga count.
* EdgarRiceBurroughs has several. The Green Martians of JohnCarterOfMars are perhaps particularly notable.
-->''There are other and natural causes tending toward a diminution of population, but nothing contributes so greatly to this end as the fact that no male or female Martian is ever voluntarily without a weapon of destruction.'
** The Red Martians and Black Martians are the same way, as are the Orovar White Martians. The Therns and Lotharians (other White Martian races) are notable aversions, however. Not coincidentally, neither race is particularly respectable (the Therns in particular are close to AlwaysChaoticEvil).
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* Worf from ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', as well as just about every Klingon ever to appear on the series (exception made for Worf's son Alexander).
** And by extension, the Worf equivalent in ''StarWreck'', Dwarf, and his race, the Plingons.
** ''StarTrekEnterprise'' actually [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] and [[{{Reconstruction}} reconstructed]] all in the same episode. "Judgement" had Captain Archer being tried for crimes against the Klingon Empire in an homage/copy of ''Star Trek VI''. What set the episode apart is a lengthy discussion Archer had with his counsellor about the nature of honor and glory among Klingons. His counsellor explained that the society originally encouraged honorable positions such as doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc. But that the culture eventually shifted towards a glory filled warrior base. "Kill something, whether it be strong or weak, it didn't matter, then we go to the bar and gloat about our conquest." [[spoiler: Eventually the counsellor was given a short prison time along with Archers' life sentence for speaking out. Archer was rescued, but the counsellor stayed to endure his prison sentence so he could peacefully try to change the culture.]] In the end, it isn't that being a warrior is bad, it's when being a warrior becomes everything that trouble occurs.
** Subverted in ''StarTrekVoyager'' with Klingon-human hybrid B'Elanna Torres, who thinks Klingon culture is over-rated and blames it for everything that went wrong in her life. She does however become more accepting of her heritage over the course of the series.
** The importance of honor in Klingon culture changed over time. Klingons in StarTrekTheOriginalSeries and in the associated movies, who are mostly filling the role of designated Federation antagonist, aren't hesitant about winning in dishonorably sneaky ways (the Organian peace caused direct warfare to be less of an option, in any case).
* Tyr Anasazi from ''{{Andromeda}}'', many other Nietzschean prides cross over into AlwaysChaoticEvil territory, but it's not universal, some even count as {{WarriorPoet}}s.
* Teal'c from ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''. It should be noted that, apart from being a WarriorPoet, Teal'c is actually extremely kind, loyal and friendly. His tough side really only comes out when he's with enemies.
** He even becomes ironically aware of this role as the series progresses, such as a tenth-season episode that ends with [=SG-1=] enjoying a poker game:
--->A true warrior... knows when to fold 'em.
* Ronon and Teyla from ''[[StargateAtlantis Stargate: Atlantis]]''
* D'Argo from ''{{Farscape}}'' (who also parodies this trope in a Season four episode by remarking, "You know, I've never put this into words... but I ''love'' shooting stuff. And I'm very good at it.")
** Now be fair: The powers behind ''Farscape'' encouraged Anthony Simcoe (D'Argo) to subvert this archetype at every opportunity, ''even excluding'' the various [=whacky/gay=] D'Argos from the various mind-screw episodes. D'Argo was basically an inexperienced teenage father when he was imprisoned. He consciously struggles with his own violent impulses, only ever really wanted to just earn his honor in battle and then settle down, become a farmer and grow wine. He had a sense of humor and grew to appreciate human culture, while becoming cynical of certain aspects of his own culture. He also was elected [[TheCaptain Captain of his ship]] by the last season, which acknowledged how he had outgrown his immaturity.
** Further subverts the archetype in one of the episodes in which the crew lands on earth. A police officer discovers them on Halloween however Noranti saves the day by drugging him with a powder which causes him to imagine D'Argo taking of his 'mask' to reveal the obligatory large African American (or Australian in this case). This troper must sadly admit to being slightly confused when as to who the random white guy was when watching a video of an interview with Anthony Simcoe.
*** Aeryn Sun, when not denying her Peacekeeper past, is one of these. In addition, Rygel has occasionally claimed to be a warrior king, and even Crichton will comment on human's combat prowess.
*** [[CrazyAwesome Humans]] [[ThisIsSparta are]] [[ScreamingWarrior superior!]]
* The Sontarans and Ice Warriors in ''DoctorWho''. And the Draconians. And the Sycorax, sort of. Man, there are a lot of these.
** When your hero is a TechnicalPacifist, who else would his enemies be?
** Also an allied Proud Warrior Race ''Girl'' in Leela, who combined this trope nicely with HotAmazon.
** Most of these examples are also notable for being the LEAST powerful enemies the doctor faces. They are almost always outmatched by ordinary human soldiers when it comes down to a straight-up fight, especially in the renewed series.
* Subverted in ''{{Angel}}''. Lorne's race are a proud warrior race. Lorne is a lounge singer/psychic who wants nothing to do with them or their culture.
* The Warrior Caste of the Minbari on ''{{Babylon 5}}'' had this attitude, to some degree, especially the more fanatical ones who refused to accept the seemingly nonsensical surrender to an almost-wiped-out Earth. Of course, the war itself was somewhat nonsensical, but that was the Religious Caste's fault.
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* The Barbarian in {{Ayreon}}'s ''Into the Electric Castle'' fits this trope perfectly. He constantly brags about the battles he's fought and [[spoiler: dies when his pride drives him to go through the Sparkly Door of Death.]]
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* The Vorox, a race of large, primitive, aggressive, six-limbed furry aliens from the ''FadingSuns'' [[TabletopGames roleplaying game]]. To make them appear extra-special cool with cream on top, the authors even gave them their own special alien martial arts style.
* Another [[TabletopGames roleplaying game]] example: The Falar and the Tulgar from the ''SpacemasterPrivateers'' universe. Both races are anthropomorphic animals: The Falar are large humanoid felines... ah hell, let's be frank, they're damn ''[[CatGirl catpeople]]'' (with subraces looking like tigers, lions and other large cats); they are aggressive, competitive, psychotically arrogant "proud warriors" who look down on anyone they consider weak (or pacifist). The Tulgar are humanoid lupines that look like upright walking wolves, somewhat taller than humans; their culture revolves around the concept of honor and loyalty to the family; their knights fear dishonor above all and follow a chivalric code. And yes, they dress vaguely Asian. Can you say "samurai"?
* Minotaurs in ''MagicTheGathering'', especially the character Tahngarth.
* The Clans of ''{{BattleTech}}'' are extremely socialist and honor-driven societies divided cleanly into five castes - with the warriors taking the top rank.
** they fight to see who gets to fight (trial by conbat)
* Given the nature of the ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' setting, the description sort of applies to most races that are still around to be described, but it applies best to the Orks, whose entire culture, biology, nature and philosophy is built for "Waaaagh" fare.
** There's also the [[SpaceMarine Space Marines]] and the Sisters of Battle, who are both raised-from-childhood fanatical warriors, as well as many Imperial Guard regiments. The Catachan Deathworld Veterans, for example, come from a planet where simply ''living to adulthood'' is an accomplishment, and the Cadian Shock Troops begin live fire exercises before being taught to read and write.
** There's also the Eldar of Biel-Tan, whose Craftworld is mainly run not by farseers, but by exarchs and autarchs. Anyone who thinks the Eldar hat is being clairvoyant, manipulative bastards has never met the Swordwind.
** While they may lack in honor, Dark Eldar are certainly extremely proud and definitely a warrior species. Every single one of them is a fighter - they have slave labor to take care of all non-combat activities; except torture, which they do personally.
** No mention of the Tau fire caste?
* For that matter, darn near everything in ''{{Warhammer}}'', from the [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame fairly standard-issue Dwarves]] ([[FantasyGunControl except with GUNS]]), [[KnightInShiningArmor Brettonian Knights]], hilariously feral [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs]], the men of the Hordes of Chaos, the single-minded [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs Saurus warriors]] of the [[LizardFolk Lizardmen]]...
** And let's not forget the various types of [[OurElvesAreBetter elves]], from the High Elves and their single-minded Swordmasters, White Lions and Pheonix Guard (not to mention the fact ALL elves forms part of a really quite deadly citizen levy) to the [[TheFairFolk Wood Elves]] and their bloodthirsty wild hunt. Of course those are the two ''nice'' elven factions. Dark Elves happily mix this with AxeCrazy and a single-minded worship of their god of war.
* In ''DungeonsAndDragons'', [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame most dwarven cultures]] are portrayed as strongly militaristic and belligerent, but still honorable and friendly to their allies. Hobgoblins, on the other hand, run closer to the "psychotically violent" end of the scale as a culture of grim, rigidly regimented raiders; other "[[AlwaysChaoticEvil savage]] [[UnfortunateImplications humanoids]]" like orcs, gnolls, and bugbears also have cultures based around violence (they ''are'' there for players to slaughter en masse, after all), but lack the hobgoblins' formal militarism. 4th Edition has the dragonborn, a new race of mercenaries and warriors who value honor and loyalty.
** The Tuigan tribal nation in ''D&D'''s ''ForgottenRealms'' setting were a FantasyCounterpartCulture to the real-world medieval Mongols, and as such had a militant society revolving around mounted combat. This changed when their emperor, Yamun Khahan, died; the survivors of the horde either integrated into the local agrarian populace or went back to the steppes, where Yamun's son started encouraging them to settle down in towns and sponsored peaceful contact with their neighbors.
** The elves of the Valaes Tairn in {{Eberron}} are essentially what happens when [[StarTrek Klingons]], [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Mongols]], and [[VietnamWar the Vietcong]] are given a scimitar and let rip. The literal worst insult in their culture is accusing someone of disgracing the blood of his ancestors - and if you say this to one, ''he will gleefully cut you in half''.
** There are also the Ysgardian natives, who love fighting and tends to challenge everyone to a duel to the death... Forgetting that non-natives don't get back up at the end of the day. Oops.
* Werewolves in ''TheWorldOfDarkness''. Both games present Glory and Honor as symbols of rank in werewolf society, and the Garou of ''Werewolf: the Apocalypse'' are explicitly defined as "the warriors of [[GaiasVengeance Gaia]]." The Get of Fenris (from ''Apocalypse'') and the Blood Talons (from ''Forsaken'') are probably the purest embodiment of this trope, though.
** Another Old World of Darkness example: the [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]] of ''ChangelingTheDreaming''. One book says that the various kiths of changelings are born from dreams of mankind; trolls are born from dreams of honor. They're some of the greatest warriors in changeling society, and their very nature holds oaths as vitally important.
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* [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs]] in the {{Warcraft}} Universe, starting from ''Warcraft III''.
** Tauren, from the same setting, are a race of ''Proud, [[MagicalNativeAmerican Wise]] Hunter Gatherer Guys''.
** The Vrykul, being essentially nine foot tall vikings, are also an example. They are more on the "Psychotic Klingons" side of the spectrum, altho they are extremely honor-bound.
** Trolls are a much more ruthless and usually xenophobic flavor of ProudWarriorRaceGuy. Only the Darkspear and Zandalar treat other races with anything besides general contempt.
* Orcs from ''FinalFantasyXI'' are also like this, although more of the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil "Psychotically Violent"]] variety.
**The Elvaan, also from ''FinalFantasyXI'' fit this trope, being all about chivalry and such.
* The Orcs from the ElderScrolls setting.
* ''FinalFantasyTactics Advance'''s and A2's bangaa fit this. They're more of a regular kind of citizen in ''FinalFantasyXII'' though.
** They don't really fit. They're irascible and easily irritated, and will pick a fight easily, but they don't have any code of honor nor any idea that fighting is ''good''. They just find it ''fun''. However, in the Tactics Advance games, you can arguably apply this trope to absolutely everybody in the entire world, since it seems that everyone joins a clan and beats up on each other.
** The bird-like Garif of ''FinalFantasyXII'''s Ivalice do fit the [[IncrediblyLamePun bill]]. Their entire society (apart from the "worshipping the mysterious [[GreenRocks crystals]]" thing) wholly revolves around battle, and great honor is given to brave war-chiefs. This doesn't keep them from being wise, patient, and generally benevolent to honorable visitors.
* Kimari and the other Ronso in ''FinalFantasyX'' and are even more so in ''FinalFantasyX2''.
* Arceans in GalacticCivilizations
* Bringing us to the Kilrathi, from Origin/EA's ''WingCommander'' series of video games.
* Kratos from ''GodOfWar'', who loves doing things "For the glory of Sparta!" His wife denies this, stating: "Sparta? You did this for yourself."
** In fact, most depictions of Sparta (most recently ''[[ThreeHundred 300]]'') tend to have them (at least their ruling class, the Spartiates) as a city-state of proud warrior guys. Ancient Sparta itself may have been a real-life version of the trope, along with many other warrior cultures of history.
* One of the few things established about Samus Aran from ''{{Metroid}}'' is that she's a Proud Warrior Race Girl - raised by the Chozo, her constant pursuit of battle is in memory of their warrior tradition... it's a pity most of the ''actual'' Chozo abandoned this for scientific and philosophical pursuits, or [[{{Precursors}} the Chozo might still be around.]]
* The Protoss in ''{{StarCraft}}'', especially Fenix. Only the Dark Templar seem more down to earth.
** This might be because most of the Protoss characters encountered and played in the game are members of the Protoss' warrior-caste (The Templar), {{StarCraft}} being a war game. Members of the civilian/artisan/scientist/laborer caste (The Khalai) justifiably don't make much of an appearance.
* ''MassEffect'' has the disciplined turians and the thuggish krogans, the latter of which are brilliantly [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]: the krogan are so violent and vicious that when afflicted with a DepopulationBomb that is killing off their entire species by making them unable to breed, they can't even organize themselves to develop a cure; instead, the majority of them simply hire themselves out as mercenaries and spread out across the galaxy.
** Humanity in the setting has an advantage simply by not being this, and [[HumansAreWarriors fighting in a more detached and strategic way]]. For example, the human military is not big enough to have a major presense everywhere, and so relies on highly mobile fleets that can get to a trouble zone quickly. The result is that at the end of the game only the humans can get reinforcements to an unexpected battle in time to make a difference and save the day.
* ''StarControl 2'' gives us a total of three species of ProudWarriorRaceGuy: the thuggish Thraddash, the vaguely Scottish Yehat and the vaguely Japanese Shofixti. The Thraddash find their warrior race culture so important they'll nuke themselves back to the stone age when they reach a certain level of technological advancement.
* The Trophies from ''SuperSmashBros'' are an entire species of ProudWarriorRaceGuy since all they do is fight, or watch people fighting. The trophies consider not being able to fight like being dead.
* The Sangheili/Elites from ''{{Halo}}'' play up the "Proud" aspects of this trope. The book "Cole Protocol" plays this up to near WallBanger extremes. Think of imperial Japan on crack. Mind you, the viewpoint character is the equivalent of a shogun, so the ruling classes may just be Allways Chaotic JerkAss.
** Also the Jiralhanae/Brutes, for the "psycho klingon" side of this trope. Think the Turian/Krogan side presented in the MassEffect entry.
**How proud are the Elites you say? Many of them die because they ran out of ammo and refused to use a human weapon, even if it was better than what they had...[[HonorBeforeReason so instead, they just rushed the human front.]]
* The [[MultiArmedAndDangerous four-armed]] Shokan race of ''MortalKombat'', particularly Sheeva from [=MK3=].
* The Minmatar from ''{{EVEOnline}}'', particularly the Brutor Tribe.
* In ''Huxley'', the "Alteraver".
* The Tarka in ''SwordOfTheStars'' are both a stellar example and a shining subversion of this trope: They are warlike and view war as a method for gaining status and glory, but they are also a race of [[TheCombatPragmatist pragmatics]] with a very practical outlook who consider fighting 'honorably' and 'fair', and the concept of the HeroicSacrifice, to be very odd at best. [[AllThereInTheManual In one of the universe's backstories]], a human gains a Tarka's respect after he challenges her to a fist-fight and wins by leading her into an ambush by all his friends, who pelt her with sling stones -- by thinking outside the box, he proved himself a warrior in her eyes.
* The Spartan Federation in ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'', as its name implies. Ostensibly, its ideological emphasis on military power is just being CrazyPrepared, but what is shown of its culture in the {{novelization}}s and [[EncyclopediaExposita in-game quotations]] also qualifies this faction as a Proud Warrior Race.
* The Helghast from the ''Killzone'' series seem to have evolved into this by the second main game. Their capital city of Pyrrhus is largely a run-down dump, except for the military academies and the Imperial Palace; the characters even [[LampshadeHanging comment on this.]] Also, there's one instance of EnemyChatter where it's made plainly clear that the soldiers of the Helghast hold their civilians in a high degree of contempt.
* The Minotaur Firewalkers from ''PuzzleQuestChallengeOfTheWarlords''. Though all Minotaurs seem to be born fighters, only the Firewalkers (basically Warrior Priests) care about the other stuff like honor.
* Okku the bear "god" in NeverwinterNights2 Mask of The Betrayer. One conversation reveals he is following you due to a debt owned to a previous [[spoiler:Spirit Eater]]. Another conversation with carrion eating spirits (and his combat taunt "eater of carrion") shows he finds such behavoir disgraceful.
* ''{{Albion}}'' has the Kenget Kamulos, an underground-living people that are one branch of the descendants of Celtic humans who mysteriously migrated to another planet long ago. Bordering on [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always]] [[LawfulEvil Lawful]] [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Evil]], they live in a society entirely dedicated to their god of war, Kamulos, and go on about how warriors are superior to everyone else (especially to women and nonhumans) and, in an interesting twist, how those warriors who need weapons are inferior to those who don't (wizards).
* The Agorians in ''[[RatchetAndClank Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time]]'' are an overexaggeration of this trope.
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* The Antreyki from ''TriquetraCats'', anthropomorphic Proud Warrior Race which demands all members at a certain age enlist in the military.
* The Jägermonsters from ''GirlGenius'', who are an army of humans mutated into [[SuperSoldier supersoldiers]] by the Heterodyne family, and loyal first and foremost ''to'' the Heterodyne family. In addition to their long lives, prodigious strength, and [[VampireVords accent-inducing fangs,]] they appear to have built a religion... around hats.
* The Basitins from ''TwoKinds''. Their military prowess is rather nullified by their paranoia, xenophobia and extreme prudishness, all of which keep their population small, isolated, and begging to be wiped out.
* Felucca from ''{{Earthsong}}''.
* The Galapagos from ''{{Terinu}}'', being deliberately genetically engineered to be even more aggressive than humans by their creator. The lead Galapados, General Gisko, subverts this trope slightly, being shown to be a loving and gentle husband at home who frets over his wife's pregnancy.
* Subverted in ''Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger!'' Groonch proudly embraces his supposed warrior race heritage, but he was raised with very little knowledge of his species. The protagonist (of a different species) informs him that only a handful of extinct tribes fit the bill.
* Erogenians in ''TheChallengesofZona''.
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* Dinobot, in ''[[{{Transformers}} Beast Wars]]'', despite the fact that he's the only member of his race who acts that way. Nobody ever mentioned this on the show, though... Presumably, they knew better than to say so within earshot of Dinobot.
** Some of the other Predacons do have shades of this as well, but in a more BloodKnight sort of way. Also, some incarnations of the original Dinobots, when they're not portrayed as either knuckle-dragging bufoons or completely animalistic.
* Hawkgirl from ''JusticeLeague''. As we see in the ChristmasEpisode, her idea of celebration involves starting a BarFight. Wonder Woman and Aquaman are borderline cases.
** Basically, Wonder Woman and Aquaman are ''royalty'' from Proud Warrior Races, while Hawkgirl is a ''warrior'' from a Proud Warrior Race.
* The [[ThemeNaming appropriately named]] Warmonga and Warhawk of the Lorwardians (Get it?) in ''KimPossible''.
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* A case of TruthInTelevision, as the British Empire (and others) had the designation 'Martial Race' to describe just these sorts of peoples. The most familiar result of this concept are the Gurkhas in the service of the British Army. Of course, the truth of the classification is itself up for debate, so it might be a case of Possible Truth In Generalisation, which lacks an article.
** That said, it's hard to deny the appropriateness of this trope for, say, the Gurkhas, and the Rajputs in general.
** On the other hand, the Nation of Shopkeepers did decide to put itself at the top of this list (like all the others)... You could question this logic.
***Yes, but could the ''French, Spaniards, Dutch, Germans, Italians, Argentines, etc'' question that logic?
* The RealLife Vikings believed that only warriors went to the mead-hall of Valhalla (and got to fight again every day, just for fun). Those who died of other causes went to cold, barren, cheerless Hel, or just disappeared, depending on the how good people they were and which modern theory you subscribe to.
** There was a loophole to that. If you happened to be dying in bed for whatever reason, you had the option of taking your dagger and hacking the 'victory' rune into your own torso. They figured that if you were badass enough for that, you deserved a place in Valhalla. (Makes sense - can you blame a Viking for not dying in battle, if he's so good that he always wins?)
*** You could blame the Viking in question on account of not having been chosen by a Valkyrie, since their whole schtick was to choose the warriors for Valhalla, and would therefor rearrange the battle so that they could collect their warrior while in top form. Doing such things as chaning the trajectories of the arrows. Of course if you are bad ass enough to even avoid a death tailored by demi-goddesses...
** Don't forget the honored dead had a 50/50 chance of going to Fólkvangr (Freya's realm) instead of Valhalla. Some interpretations make the divide whether you were what we call here a BloodKnight (Valhalla) or if you were defending your home and loved ones (Fólkvangr). Other versions make Fólkvangr open to anyone who died "nobly."
* The Anglo-Saxons. After effectivly curbstomping the Britions, they settled into centuries of fighting anyone they could find, usually each other with wars between kingdoms occuring practically every year. Not only that, but they were obsessed with honour to the point where a warrior surviving a battle where his lord was killed was considered dishonorable in the extreme, and they were of the opinion that losing a battle wasn't shameful so long as the losing army fought with courage and didn't surrender, even when it was glaringly obvious at the start that they were going to lose. They fought the above mentioned Vikings for centuries and ultimatly won. Not particuarly suprisingly, the original Anglo-Saxon religion was basically the same as that of the Vikings, not that the eventual conversion to Christianity made a blind bit of difference.
* The Mamluks. Originally a warrior slave caste in the Egyptian Sultanate, they were intensively trained to be the perfect soldiers, and were taught the furusiyya, a code of courage, generosity and battlefield (particularly cavalry) tactics. They were repeatedly sent to battle against the Crusaders, and are considered a major reason why most of the Crusades failed. They eventually took over Egypt, ruling for hundreds of years, even beating the Mongols, of all opponents, in 1260. When the Ottoman Turks took over Egypt, it was because they were using their own version of Mamluks, the Janissaries. It took Napoleon (with modern military training, a large conscript army, modern muskets, and Ottoman decadence) to finally beat them outright.
** Speaking of, the Jannissaries were Christian children converted to Islam and became the Sultan's personal guard. [[{{BFG}} And they packed heat]].
*For that matter most cultures have some aspect of this. Maybe HUMANS are a Proud Warrior Race.
** TruthInTelevision. Consider the ''point'' of storytelling: to take some aspect of human life and examine it at length. We wouldn't be writing about Proud Warrior Races if it weren't pertinent to us somehow. Having said that, to be a Proud Warrior Race, honor-from-beating-up-enemies would have to be ''central'' to human culture, and, it isn't, so we as a species don't count.
*** How dare you? [[IResembleThatRemark I'm gonna kick your ass!]]
** Nah, we're [[HumansAreWarriors too well-organized to be a]] ProudWarriorRace.
*SPARTANS!
** Oh yes. If you weren't a Spartan warrior, it meant you were one of their slaves. And if you won every war you fought in and died in bed, you didn't even get a headstone.
* Maori. 'Nuff said.
* The Romans and the Prussians, though known for far more than their fighting prowess, nevertheless held military values in high regard.
* The Celts. They were so nasty they scared the bejesus out of the Romans and actually managed to sack the city at one point. Reputedly, the Romans had to literally teach them (the hard way, natch) the concept of "peace" -- as in, ''not'' just until they'd recovered from the last fight.
** One tribe of Gauls did, The Celts one major cultural failing was their inability to unify which is why in the long run the Romans ate their lunch.
* The Mongols traditionally learn to ride a horse as early as they can ''walk'', and even today are known for their archery. Is it any wonder that these guys conquered so much of Asia?
** And kick Eastern Europe's ass.
** Hell, the Mongols were so terrifying the Christian world was convinced they were a punishment inflicted on them by Satan. Apparently Genghis Khan decided to confirm said idea.
** Also, at the time, fighting with mounted archers was ''simply unfair''. If you had the best mounted archers, you had total control in the field, which means the only thing that can stop you is a fortress. In other words, you can move. They can't. In modern times, the only ways to fight a roaring horde of millions of horse archers would be a horde of choppers.
*** In truth, the effectiveness of mounted archers are debatable. What made the mongol horde deadly at the operational level was their horses; they were even smaller than contemporary European horses and could survive off grazing, which European horses (bread for heavy cavalry tactics and stamina) could not do. On the field, much of their work was done by feigned retreats (their horses were slower than Europe's) and hand cavalry action. Their conquests in much of Asia were handled by coming in -during- someone elses war and simply mopping up, or attacking weak and defenseless kingdoms.
*** [[NukeEm Or bombs.]]
*** I dunno, somehow I doubt archery would work very well against [[TankGoodness tanks]].
* Honor is important in American urban gang culture. This may be an answer to the "open question" in the introduction to this article.
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