Crossovers
- Ace Combat: The Equestrian War:
- Night Raven, a griffon soldier obsessed with fighting and killing ponies not because of hatred, but for fun. Interestingly, while Night Raven comes off as borderline Ax-Crazy for most of the fic, he shows a bit of honor when Fluttershy defeats him, managing to congratulate her on a "good kill" before he dies.
- The of the EAF. It's best shown in Chapter 6 of the sequel, Wings of Unity, where she makes quite a show of bombing the Exile artillery; complete with a Pre-Mortem One-Liner ("Here, catch!") and baring her teeth when she flies up to Tornado Swirl after making the kill. A few chapters later, Flare Star delivers a... rather thorough beating to an Exile mare named Pearl Eyes, reducing the confident rookie to pleading for her life.
- All For Luz: Sophia Humbolt loves a good fight often giving a Psychotic Smirk when fighting Luz, who she regards as a Worthy Opponent for being the strongest foe she's ever had to fight, which confuses the girl on how the woman can enjoy fighting and killing so much. Sophia complains to Jonah for intervening and backing her up, as she wanted to fight Luz one-on-one, even if she about to be killed by her target. The assassin would have considered it A Good Way to Die.
- Angels of the Storm
: Yamzarat Machtoro is an ancient Titan built by the ancestors of the Quarians to fight the Reapers. He was defeated then, but is woken up and wants revenge, and gleefully smashes his way from the beachhead in China to Beijing, taunting his allies about being too slow. - Chi and Chakra: Ryoko Saotome is a moe blood knight. Outside of a fight, she's an emotionally abused nervous wreck that will let people walk all over her. Fighting is the only time she really feels relaxed and happy. Unless someone she cares about is threatened. In which case you're looking at a berserker.
- Child of the Storm:
- There are varying degrees of this as one of Asgard's hats — as is noted, they generally try to pick righteous fights, but they're still picking fights. Thor is a particular, albeit toned down example. His son, Harry, is a Knight Errant version of this trope, and openly admits that he enjoys fighting more than he probably should. In the third book, this is very strongly implied to be a result of Malekith's interference, which had long-term consequences. Certainly, Asgardians from before that time frame are not quite so eager.
- Carol, like her great-grandfather, Steve, is also noted as enjoying a good fight.
- Children of an Elder God: Deconstructed. Due to her upbringing, Asuka is very aggressive, battle-hungry and eager to engage the enemy. However, her first fight was against an alien horror was so repulsive-looking she does not even want to go near it. When it bites her robot's hand off, though, she goes berserk and bludgeons it until it is a bloody pulp... which earns her a reprimand for being too aggressive.
- Dante's Night at Freddy's: Downplayed by Dante, who insists he would rather sleep than battle the animatronics of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but is shown to have a lot of fun fighting them anyway.
- A Dead World: It goes without saying that Alex loves some good wholesome slaughtering. In fact, when Cain reveals that war is pretty much inevitable, he actually looks forward to it. He's also actively excited about fighting a Deathclaw.
- The Dragon and the Butterfly: Isabela apparently missed her calling as a Viking, finding her first Dragon Raid to be exhilarating.
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: The default state of Horned Reapers, who get angry when they can't kill anything.
- Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls is a Bleach/My Little Pony: Equestria Girls crossover. There's many people that relish in battle:
- Sweet Cider, befitting of one bearing the title of Kenpachi.
- Hurricane also really enjoys fighting as Captain of the 11th Division, and admits he was at least partially prolonging his first fight against Sunset and the others simply because it had been a while since he fought opponents who could actually pose a challenge.
- Cheese Sandwich is one...or rather, his zanpakuto Hone Nashi (Boneless) is. Cheese pretty much admits that if a fight goes on too long and he holds back Hone Nashi will actually start fighting his control and aiming for dangerous strikes. Several times during the fight with Pinkie and Pinkamena he actually has to restrain it from fatally injuring the pair.
- Among the Espada, there's Torch. During his fight with Shining Armor, he is openly laughing at finally having a worthy foe to fight, enough for him to release his Resurreccion.
- Hokori is a personification of Sunset's blood knight tendencies, more interested in a good fight than anything else. Sunset must remind her to focus on their main goal even if she admits she would also like to cut loose and see how much stronger she had became. They agree to fight after making sure people are safe, though.
- Fate of the Clans:
- Cú Chulainn loves beating the crap out of enemies. According to him, Celts are a warrior people that enjoy a good fight. But he says that, even among them, he's an extreme case. The only reason he's in the Grail War is to fight instead of getting a wish granted.
- Mordred's right up there with Cú Chulainn. Like him, fighting a Worthy Opponent is enjoyable to her.
- Friendship Is Showtime: Phoenix, as with his canon self. This one actually gives a reason why he's a Blood Knight; he feels there's a void in himself he needs to fight to fill. In this canon, he's responsible for the events of "Dragonshy", solely to get Haru to fight him. After winning the first fight easily, he even refuses to fight Haru again until provoked significantly. After being beaten by Flame Dragon Style, he becomes obsessed with fighting Haru.
- The Gunslinger Hero: Flintlock:
- Katsuki. His love of a fight over caring if he particularly wins is showcased particularly in the Battle Trials, and the second event of the Sports Festival, the former being a two versus one fight against Izumi, and the latter being a team-based brawl against a group of robots that are themed entirely around different Star Wars enemies from the Galactic Empire. He even calls being slammed through several floors by the boss robot awesome. He also references Khorne from Warhammer 40,000 a lot.
- Valla, Demon Hunter in Heroes of the Desk is a downplayed version at first (as established in Diablo III, hatred must be tempered by discipline). However, after she defeats brainwashing solely through The Power of Hate, the "discipline" goes out the window and leads her to fully embrace this trope.
- A Hero's Wrath: It is revealed that Nejire possesses a natural affinity to Lust Mantra — specifically possessing a lust for battle — which not only makes her more powerful when a real fight is happening, but is makes her much more of a sadist to her opponents.
- I'm Nobody: Wrex, who is more than eager for a good challenge, almost gets himself killed because of his attitude because he kept trying to fight Lexaeus when the others made it clear he would not survive the attempt. The only reason he did survive was because Yen Sid's blessings kicked in.
- Last Child of Krypton: Asuka really likes fighting, not only because she is a good fighter but also because piloting a giant robot and fighting Eldritch Abominations makes her feel she is not worthless. When she got into her Eva to sortie for the first time she was really eager because she had been waiting for that moment since she was three.
- Mercy: Mercy Graves both enjoys fighting to an incredible degree (she frequently takes advantage of the fact Gringotts goblins negotiate with violence) but violence in general, having once bet Harry she could break all 126 bones in a person's appendicular skeleton without killing them. After beating one goblin with another goblin, Mercy is delighted that the second goblin stabbed her in the stomach and visibly disappointed that they don't have time for her to "negotiate" with more of them.
- My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic: Harkin, to the point where he actually betrays Sombra over his feud with Lightning Dawn.
- The Night Unfurls:
- The Good Hunter is a Downplayed variant. There are several instances where he hopes for a greater challenge from his foes. Occasionally, he has thoughts of bloodlust, such as any time he eats a Beast Blood Pellet, or whenever he faces an enemy tougher than most, not to mention that the Old Blood that flows within him has an intoxicating effect. Nevertheless, Kyril neither relishes in bloodshed, nor actively seeks out people or things to kill for the sake of it, having a preference for peace and quiet. On the other hand, the entire populace see him as the most bloodthirsty knight in Eostia, believing that this trope is one of his primary traits.
- Played straight for Sanakan and Hugh, considering the enthusiasm they have shown in many combat scenes which involve them. This is especially so for Sanakan. On top of being a Screaming Warrior, she gets bored easily during periods of inaction, wishing that her enemies show up automatically for her to jump straight into action.
- Portalborn: The Dragonborn loves battle, needs it. Fire for her is symbolical, an icon of her hunger of power, in accordance with having the blood of a dovah. Disturbingly, she loves the taste of elven blood. Especially when eating tasty, detestable Thalmor in her Werewolf form. But when she rages, however.... The difference is that she fights better when she's actually enjoying herself, rather when she gets truly pissed, she's unable to battle to the best of her ability. Her entire personality provides quite the contrast with the meek and nervous Doug Rattmann.
- Remnant Inferis: DOOM:
- The Doom Slayer is the biggest example in the story. It's made clear from the sheer glee he radiates when fighting the Slaves of Doom that he really loves what he does.
- Yang also thrives off fighting. Her Corrax entry in her introductory chapter makes it clear that the thrill of a good fight is her main driving force.Corrax Entry 6:21: She will join your crusade without question, for she lives only for the conflict your journey will surely bring.
- Ruby plays this trope for drama. As the story continues, she grows more and more ecstatic about fighting and killing as many powerful demons as possible, but she's also losing her sanity in the process as she slowly becomes more like the Slayer, which is something he wanted to avoid.
- Hanna aka "Action Girl" in The Secret Return of Alex Mack. She's been genetically engineered to be stronger and faster and tougher than a human, but to have no fear response at all. Then she was raised away from civilisation by a former government agent who was basically training her as a revenge weapon. Her favourite pastime is finding people who can present her with a difficult fight, such as Bane.
- Shadows over Meridian:
- Frost is bloodthirsty and loves the thrill of battle, as is evident at Cavigor. In fact, Jade has to order him to use the Razor Khan she gifts him with prior to the battle only if absolutely necessary, as she recognizes this about him and doesn't want him to go too far.
- Jade herself finds that now being a full Shadowkhan following her Split-Personality Merge with the Queen gives her an Oni's bloodlust in battle, as during the battle at Snowpoint she gets so caught up in it that she starts going after the rebel soldiers in a vicious fury that only fades once the fighting is over.
- Tyrian becomes this when it comes to fighting in Jade's name, due to his religious obsession with her.
- A Shadow of the Titans has Gadjo, who loves nothing better than a good fight (except pie). His partner Machete qualifies as well.
- The Silver Raven: As Nero grows older, he starts to realize how much fun it is to fight and kick the asses of the random demons he encounters in the wilderness of the Boiling Isles.
- Comic Book SNAFU: Played for Laughs when Gajeel and Lancer both choose to fight each other just for the hell of it and lose interest in anything else, much to Akiza's confusion.
- Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton:
- Asuka's battle lust is an important part of her character. Although she changes a lot after becoming Supergirl, she still enjoys fighting (and her new powers allow her taking on giant aliens with her bare fists).
- Superwomen of Eva: A constant plot point in the stories in which she's a villain is that she is such a hard-core version of this (as well as being a Glory Hound) that she thinks the Superwomen's attempts to help win the war are instead "stealing" her victories and the recognition she'd get and thus ends up going to bloody war with them.
- Temporal Anomaly: As part of her personal Character Development, Four has learned to openly accept this aspect of herself without shame, channeling this characteristic into a more positive and constructive outlets than the Fantastic Racism that led her to commit outright genocide on the elves. This is shown the most during the fight with the Flower; while the rest of her sisters are practically desperate to survive against the Botanical Abomination and its seemingly unending army, Four can be seen sporting an Grin of Audacity the entire time, clearly having the time of her life.
- Thousand Shinji: In this story, Asuka is a berserker of Khorne, God of War, Anger, and Blood. She is a consummate warrior, fighting is her life, and she can barely control her battle lust and eventually becomes the Goddess of War.
- Trade Winds: Desmond Miles kills a lot of people in this story with his Assassin fighting abilities, and without remorse when they're slavers or attacking the ship he's on. Rumors abound among his shipmates in the East India company and the Royal Navy that he's a demon, or made a pact with the devil. The gossipers among his comrades even acknowledge this when he says he's a little bored with all the lack of fighting on the Allegiance, a dragon-transport bound for China, and they respond, only somewhat joking, that the devil craves blood.
- Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse: After first eating her Devil Fruit, Nabiki becomes what can only be described as "blood drunk", slaughtering the various mutant animals threatening her crewmates until she is absolutely plastered in gore. Lilith notes that this is a common thing for Carnivorous Zoans when they transform for the first time, and Nabiki dedicates herself to controlling herself better in subsequent fights.
- The Weaver Option: Lelith Hesperax is constantly searching any opponent who can give her a good fight, something which is difficult to find when you are the single most dangerous mortal in the galaxy. Her reaction hearing about Taylor's invasion of Commorragh was excitment that she might finally have one.
- A World of Bloody Evolution: About the only thing that Yang likes about the Warhammer 40,000 universe is the challenge her opponents provide. Her response to seeing four traitor marines is to grin and then challenge them all to a fight.
- In Did I Make the Most of Loving You?, Adama notes that this is Cain’s main weakness, as she is so eager for blood that she will pounce at the slightest hint of it, allowing Adama to provoke her into a trap during war games by faking that Galactica is weaker than it actually is.
- Alabaster Orchestra: Bambietta Basterbine is this much like in canon, but begins to avert it (to an extent) after the point of divergence.
- To Prey Upon the Dead: Besides Kenpachi, both Dead Eye/Ichigo and Unohana are massive blood knights. Unohana even stops Ichigo from killing Kenpachi specifically because she doesn't want Yamamoto to kill Ichigo before she can fight him.
- Before Plantagenet has Foulques, a nuanced Blood Knight. He's a capable leader and shrewd tactician as well as a front-line fighter, and he's not so impetuous as to rush headlong into a battle he cannot live. Nevertheless, he practically lives for war, and he holds a certain contempt for those of his peers he views as too "soft" — including his own son Geoffrey.
- A Force of Four: Power Girl likes fighting a bit too much. She's happy to have the chance to let herself loose when she fights three Kryptonian criminals instead of pulling her punches.And Kara had to admit that, despite the pain of his blows and kicks, despite the knowledge of what he intended to do to her if he beat her, despite the knowledge of his superior strength and the peril the world and her friends were facing...
...she kind of enjoyed this fight. - In Hellsister Trilogy, Supergirl likes fighting more than she is willing to admit to herself.Darkseid was bleeding from his nose and mouth. She couldn’t be certain, but she believed he had cracked ribs in the bargain. She was getting through to him, and, Rao help her, she was enjoying it.
- A Dragon in Shining Armour: OuRyuumon can usually be heard laughing while fighting and really likes getting in close with his swords. It's one of the reasons that despite being a high-ranking member of their order, he isn't inducted into the Royal Knights proper. On the villains' side, Dorbickmon enjoys fighting for the adrenaline rush and even became a mercenary to indulge this particular vice.
- Us and Them: Sephiroth, despite managing not to go insane in this regard, still gets fired up by battle like nothing else. Well, probably second to sex with his wife.
- A Brighter Dark turns the originally gentle and all-loving Corrin into one of these at the start, but a series of traumatic events shocks her out of this mindset and she becomes a Knight in Sour Armor instead.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- Though San is not an Omnicidal Maniac nor as malicious as the rest of Ghidorah was, Vivienne observes via their Two Beings, One Body Sibling Telepathy that he seems to genuinely enjoy fighting.
- Vivienne likewise blurts to Godzilla's face that the latter seems to enjoy a fight, at which point Godzilla tells her of the difference between controlled combat and insane bloodlust.
- Some Semblance of Meaning: Several of the Careers (Amber, Achilles, Brigid) are shown to kill merely for the enjoyment of it. In fact, when they go for several days without encountering another tribute, they even attack an innocent fawn. This is what causes Obsidian to leave the pack.
- We Must Be Killers:
- Most of the District 2 Victors (especially Devon, Misha, Lyme, Odin, and Enobaria) enjoy fighting each other for fun now and then, but Callista surpasses them in that regard. She is one of the most approachable and good-humored members of the Victors Village in District 2, but is also one who enjoys killing and only stopped after the Games because of a promise to her mentor. In the A District Upside Down: The War Fix Fic, she keeps a Kill Tally during the final battle and is initially exhilarated, then guilty about killing people when she understands the cause they are fighting for, and then half-seriously annoyed with herself for moralizing during her first opportunity to commit "unlimited murder" in decades.
- During the Christmas season, whenever any two of the District 2 Victors get caught under mistletoe, rather than kiss, they are obligated to have a brawl, and most of them view this as a nice bit of fun.
- Becoming a True Invader has Daj, whose first instinct in any situation is to start shooting things.
- For the Glory of Irk: Rising Tallest Xia is a warrior first and foremost, relishing any chance for combat. Which actually limits her abilities as a leader, as she's too aggressive to think things through or look for alternative options to violence.
- Infinity: Amaterasu. However, she seems to have different kinds of Blood Knight personalities, varying between a cold, serious murder machine and openly admitting she's finding the battle a turn-on. Which she uses seems to depend on some combination of how angry she is... and how sexually attracted she is to her opponent. Yikes. As of Chapter 25, it seems her switching her Barrier Jacket into its Final Drive Mode is an indicator of when she's switched over.
- Swords and Shields has Yuuno start to become one while developing a relationship with Signum.
- The teenage Victor von Doom is portrayed as this when he's introduced in Sixes and Sevens. It's understandable, though, since all of his family and friends have been killed by Nazis. Victor spends many chapters champing at the bit fight the fascists in Latveria and get revenge. Though it's somewhat tempered in the end by his time with the Invaders, he still elects to stay and aid the Latverian resistance.
- Mass Effect: Interregnum: Garrus Vakarian. For all that he tries to be good and honorable, he loves the parts where he gets to knock heads, because of how simple it is in comparison to justice and leadership.
- Of Sheep and Battle Chicken: Shepard is the Butcher of Torfan, and her primary purpose for living is hunting down and killing anyone she defines as a criminal or slaver so that no one has to live through what she did.
- Uplifted: Otto Skorzeny and Jack Churchill. Churchill once famously lamented the end of World War II, and Skorzeny was his counterpart on the German side.
- Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race: Punk seems to be this, and Bass definitely is. In episode 11 he comments that he loves the sounds of war, and the only thing better is silence before victory. Duo is a heroic example, as he comments that he serves no purpose other than to fight the greatest of evils.
- The Omega Chronicles has a few examples of this, but the biggest one of them all? Omega himself! Every time he thinks a fight's gonna happen, you can bet your ass he'll be there to enjoy it. Hell, tell him a massive fight will happen and he'll get paid if he does a job for you, and you've got yourself one God of Destruction working for you.
- Failure to Explode deconstructs this mentality through Katsuki and the Pro Hero system as a whole:
- The Point of Divergence that alters everything is the 'Star Heart incident': Europol requested aid dealing with one of their supervillains. Many of the Pro Heroes involved were more interested in defeating Star Heart themselves and gaining the glory of taking her down. Their Skewed Priorities led to many civilian casualties, along with nearly killing the hero Europol had sent to apprehend the criminal.
- As a result, U.A. adds an extra requirement to their Entrance Exam: applicants must earn at least one Rescue Point during the Hero Exam. Katsuki's carelessness not only means that he fails to earn even a single one, several students actually earn points by protecting other participants from him.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Actually, I'm Dead: Luna is a little too excited during her fight with monster!Trixie and later is more concerned with celebrating her victory, than seeking medical attention for her broken wing: among other things."Somepony, fetch Us a cider with which to celebrate Our victory!" Luna wiped her bloody chin upon her fetlock, sparing it a glance. "And perhaps a medic."
- In All The Way Back, the returned Princess Luna is very eager to find chances to serve Equestria as its Princess of War — in part because it makes the lonely Fish out of Temporal Water feel useful again and in part because she simply enjoys battle.
- In Diaries of a Madman, Luna is very fond of battle, which doesn't gel well with the fact that she's not entirely sane to begin with.
- A Diplomatic Visit: Per canon and as the sequel Diplomat at Large demonstrates, the yaks. They like smashing things. A lot. They also love a good battle, and when Twilight informs them of the war they sat out (due to the Call being screened), are furious to find out that they missed one.
- Harmony Theory: Charisma has a cutie mark in killing, which basically means she was literally born as this trope. Her mark constantly telling her to kill anypony she find and the best ways to do it. Throw in special forces training and a grudge against society for her lot in life, and you get one of the most feared and dangerous ponies in the Bad Future the story takes place in.
- The Immortal Game:
- General Esteem, whose main purpose in life is warfare—hell, it's his Cutie Mark. He's so in love with war that he's disgusted by Celestia's peaceful regime, to the point that he willingly releases Titan, knowing that the latter shares his beliefs, and will enable him to fight and kill as many ponies as is needed to enforce Titan's rule of Equestria.
- Nihilus also counts, as does Sir Unimpressive for a heroic example.
- It's revealed later in a flashback sequence that Twilight's ancestor, Astor Coruscare was this. She was a powerful yet extremely ruthless commander of Celestia's army in the past. She happily slaughters an army just to make Celestia proud of her. Hell, her blade was named Sangrophile—blood lover.
- Legionnaire features the Equestrian Legion, an entire Legion of Hell of blood knights.
- Pony POV Series has Strife, the Anthropomorphic Personification of Natural Selection. When called to exterminate a race, she prefers to fight them head-on, even though she could simply wipe them out from a distance with her magic. She also says every race deserves the chance to fight for its survival.
- Akatsuki Kitten: Phoenix Corporation Overhaul: Agent Diamond is halfway between this and completely Ax-Crazy. The main point is that a person's death doesn't mean quite the same thing to her as it does to everyone else, but she loves the sight of blood spilling. She is, however, more likely to enjoy a fight than she is to simply kill weaklings for sport.
- In A Father's Wrath, Lu Xiaong who refers to himself as a Warrior instead of a ninja is this as even though he sides with The Jashinists He makes his intentions known that he plans on challenging the Leader soon enough. When Kakashi calls him out on using his strength to fight for them he laughs him off and claims he doesn't fight for good or evil he just fights.
- A Growing Affection makes this a trait of Pain's Ashura Path. She can sense the combat skills of other ninjas as animal motifs, and see most of the ninjas around her as ants. When she senses a badger and a falcon (Gaara and Neji) together, she seeks them out hoping they will give her a good fight. She even tells them the Deva Path has left the Rain village because she doesn't think either of them alone will be a match for her.
- Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox: Tenten is always ready to fight, and in fact, she'll willingly engage in bar brawls and street fights in an effort to make herself stronger.
- True Potential: Anko has this, as befitting someone working in Torture & Interrogation. However, she also manages to combine it with Genki Girl, which greatly unnerves her students.
- Advice and Trust: Asuka had trained to pilot a Humongous Mecha and fight alien monsters since she was a four-year-old child and found her mother's corpse hanging from a ceiling. Fighting it is her whole life and she genuinely likes it. Her self image is so tied to being a Pilot that, when Gendo fired her and Shinji, she very nearly collapsed right away.
- The Child of Love: In chapter 3 Asuka had just woken up from a nightmare and was sick, weakened and bedridden. Then she heard there was a battle she was not taking part in. She rose right away and went to get in her giant robot and fight. Subverted after the Angel War since for that point she is already sick of fighting and killing and she wants to live peacefully.
- A Crown of Stars: Since she was a four-year-old child Asuka has been trained to fight. She is a warrior, a soldier and a Humongous Mecha Ace Pilot. She loves fighting. It is her life.
- Doing It Right This Time:
- Although Asuka is trying to change her behaviour, she is still eager to fight the enemy as a way to stand out.
- Rei, too. After returning to the past she has decided that resorting to extreme violence to deal with the enemy is a perfectly acceptable therapy. When she sorties for the first time, she decides against using weapons because bludgeoning the giant alien with her robot's bare fists would feel more satisfying.
- Evangelion 303: Asuka and Mari are jet fighter elite pilots that really enjoying flying their warplanes and fighting. Especially Mari. She sings as she battles.
- HERZ: Although Asuka has not been an active pilot since her giant robot got torn apart, she still is a soldier and enjoys fighting.
- Higher Learning: Subverted. Asuka was one per canon. She trained during one decade and loved fighting. However, she fought enemies were too powerful to her or against which her skills were useless. After fighting Arael and getting Mind Raped, she broke down but she bounced back when the MP Evas struck.
- In Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide, when new Angels appear, Asuka is really eager to fight them and go berserker on their collective butts.
- Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88): Asuka lives for fighting... and Shinji is trying to show to her that she has more reasons to live. Likewise, her battle lust has almost gotten her into trouble several times (such as when she rushed Israfel and almost got bludgeoned when it unexpectedly split into two halves).
- The One I Love Is...: During several conversations, Asuka tells Shinji she likes fighting why she is good at it and people notices when she fights. So she worked hard to become the best because she thought that nobody would care about her otherwise.
- This Bites!:
- Weapons, especially those empowered by a Zoan Devil Fruit, enjoy fighting because that was the reason they were created. The reason Mr. 4 asks Cross to take in the dog-gun Lassoo is because he and Miss Merry Christmas are planning to retire after breaking out of prison, and he knows Lassoo will be more satisfied fighting for a pirate than living a peaceful life.
- Likewise, Lassoo is able to convince Funkfreed to join the Strawhats because Cross is a front-line fighter, meaning Funkfreed will see more action in a single fight than he had the entire time he served a cowardly weakling like Spandam.
- After learning of Luffy's Determinator status from hearing his fight with Foxy on the SBS, both Jabra and Lucci plot to have a one-on-one fight with him during the Enies Lobby arc.
- In Persona 4 SILVER BLUE, Labrys admits a few times to herself that she enjoys hunting and fighting shadows, and that it feels like second nature to her, probably because that’s literally what she was made for. It also helps that it’s not like fighting humans or actual sapient beings, so she doesn’t have to feel bad for slaughtering them either.
- Morphic: All eight protagonists have some aspect of this as a product of their unusual heritage. It's most pronounced with Mia, a half-insect with bladed limbs, but even the resident Nice Guy eventually discovers an impulse to set things on fire.
- PokéBattles: Green Valkyrie in Red Version.
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Defenders of Warmth: Edge/Cecil, who at first just seeks out worthy opponents to challenge to battle, even killing some of them, hoping to grow stronger. He even attempts to wake up the extremely powerful legendary pokemon who balance the world just so he can fight them. Discovers the reason for this attitude when he remembers he failed to save Alexa on their last night as humans.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines: Ash's Charmander is one, partly due to his desire to regain his evolved form. It is also mentioned that Pokémon with the ability Guts are this, even those who Trace it.
- More Than Human has two blood knights: Butch and Buttercup. This personality trait is actually a major plot point that connects the two together and allows them to bond.
- The Darker and Edgier parody film Power/Rangers's version of Zack from the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers is this; he had volunteered to join the Machine Empire because he liked fighting so much.
- With Strings Attached: The combat-addicted skahs wizards and warriors of Baravada. Unfortunately, they were so good at what they did that they wiped out all opposition and haven't had anything to fight except each other for at least ten years. They're so bored and have so little to do that when, in a brilliant Batman Gambit, Ringo spreads the word that there are monsters in the distant Ghost City of Ehndris, practically the entire skahs population of Ta'akan drops everything to try to get down there and see if it's true.
- Not this time, Fate: He tries not to let it show, but Jaune absolutely loves a good fight. After living for many centuries in a hopeless variation of "Groundhog Day" Loop, he became bored with most things life has to offer, including food and sex, but the sensation given by a challenging battle is something he still comes to enjoy.
- Ruby and Nora: Nora. To the point where fighting helps her get over being rejected by her Love Interest.
- Peace Forged in Fire: Played for Laughs when Captain Koren, the CO of the Klingon flagship, arrives to discover that she's missed the battle entirely.Koren: Tal’Shiar scum! This is Koren, daughter of Grilka, Captain of the glorious IKS bortaS’qu! You will—what the... What do you MEAN we missed out on a glorious battle? ARGH!!!!!! I haven’t seen any action since Qo’noS! Why does it ALWAYS take an impending apocalypse for me to get to kill things???
Brokosh:note [facepalm] Koren, you damn fool, get back in formation.
- Tarkin's Fist: Played with. Ashla Ti explicitly subscribes to the more militant teachings of the Jedi, and is more a warrior than a scholar or a diplomat. As such, she is more comfortable with a lightsaber in hand than she would be as a teacher. Her apprentice Tenel Hja, a young woman with a more scholarly attitude, helps to round out the New Jedi Order.
- Distortions (Symphogear) has Timoty Darmawan of the Four Horsemen. He admits to Hibiki that the main reason that he joined the Horsemen was just to have a challenging opponent to fight.
- Tron: Endgame Scenario: Mercury. The Mercury series of Programs were explicitly designed as guards, spies, and enforcers for the Math Assistant AIs. Mercury Six (the one seen in the game) relishes a good fight on or off the lightcycle arena.
- Quicken: Supervillains Hookwolf and his comrades, Cricket and Stormtiger live for fighting. In his first appearance, Hookwolf laments that he doesn't live in an age where fighting prowess and warrior spirit are valued and admired.
- Weaver Nine: Jack Slash, as in canon. He gleefully cuts a bloody swath through the criminal underworld. He is, however, a little more rational than most members of this trope, and reacts to the approach of Leviathan appropriately (though he does decide to fight, in the end).
