Blood Knight / Live-Action Film

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• Aliens: All the Colonial Marine troopers qualify, except Gorman. Even the main female of the squad Jenette Vasquez was the most bloodthirsty of the lot, screaming the iconic "LET'S ROOOOOOCK!!!" before fighting the Xenomorphs. Hudson acted tough for the most part but revealed himself as a Lovable Coward towards the end of the movie. But still died like a blood knight screaming at the Xenomorphs (who were everywhere) to give him their best they've got as he killed dozens of them before being overwhelmed.
• Lt. Col. William Kilgore from Apocalypse Now is an adrenaline junky who loves combat and the smell of napalm just as much as hanging ten on a surfboard.
• Colonel Hessler, the panzer commander in the 1965 film Battle of the Bulge. For him, life is to be spent in the turret of a tank, fighting until death takes you.
• Battle Royale features a kid who voluntarily enters the battle royale purely for the enjoyment of it.
• Stephen the Irish, in Braveheart, who is more interested in killing Englishmen than winning wars or freedom.
• Deathwatch has Quinn, the fur wearing psychopath who's first focus shot is him with his newly found spiked trench club. He also marks one of the few times a revolver bayonet is seen in cinema. Also, he collects scalps, making the origins of his furs somewhat questionable. He also remarked that he killed a man whilst on holiday in Blackpool. The film is essentially a horror version of Journey's end, set in a WW1 trench.
• Elysium: Kruger and his squadmates Drakey and Crowe.
• Jean Vilain, the Big Bad of The Expendables 2. He becomes so overjoyed when he finally fights Barney Ross that he urges him to keep fighting — even throwing his guns away so he can fight Stallone with a knife alone.
• Forrest Gump: Lieutenant Dan was this as all of his ancestors died on the battlefield and he believed that it was the most glorious thing to do. So when Forrest saves his life, the Lieutenant is furious that Forrest denied him his “destiny” especially since he lost his legs in Vietnam as well. But after Forrest shows him the beauty and simple enjoyment of a peaceful life, Lieutenant Dan eventually turns his philosophy around and sincerely thanks Forrest for saving his life in Vietnam and goes off to find God for himself.
• Freddy vs. Jason: Freddy Krueger, aside from tormenting poor teenage girls, noticeably finds joy in fighting someone who can match his kill count and savagery. Jason on the other hand is so emotionless he doesn't care two ways about it as he stomps Freddy's ass in.
• Zantoro of Hell of the Living Dead, a member of an elite SWAT team that gets sent to take out zombies. He seems to enjoy killing, be it humans or zombies, armed or unarmed.
• The Kurgan from Highlander is an immortal barbarian from the steppes of ancient Russia who used his invincibility to engage in Forever War across centuries, fighting alongside the barbarians who sacked Rome, the Huns, the Vikings, the Mongols and the Cossacks, to name a few. He became The Dreaded among the other immortals because he would fight any immortal, anywhere, at any time - and always kill them. Worse, he was also a sadist and serial rapist who claimed many victims over the years, Heather MacLeod among them.
• Jack, of Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer, has long been possessed of sudden and unstoppable rages. By the end of the film, he's learned to channel them into killing monsters.
• James Bond:
  • 007 himself is most certainly this as a Mook Horror Show. Depending on the era, it merely ranges from a pleased and glib remark after besting a foe (Connery and Moore) to outright Psychotic Smirk after ensuring a bomber will be Hoist by His Own Petard (Craig). Played with at other times, as some films note Bond must really be a shell of a man for the amount of lives he’s taken, as his friend turned enemy Alec Trevelyan the Big Bad Goldeneye muses to 007 how many vodka martinis it’s taken to silence the screams of all the men he’s killed.
  • The Man with the Golden Gun: Francisco Scaramanga, the titular Man with the Golden Gun, loves a good challenge to the point that he has his Personal Mook Nick Nack hire assassins to kill him so he can keep his skills up.
  • Brad Whitaker, chief villain of The Living Daylights is somewhat of a slight subversion: he's obsessed with warfare and weaponry, his house practically a museum full of the stuff, is the leader of a mercenary company, and calls himself a "soldier". However, he flunked out of West Point for cheating, and in general is really only bumming around in Tangier.
  • Xenia Onatopp from GoldenEye is essentially a Distaff Counterpart to Bond in this regard with her Interplay of Sex and Violence, though she takes it to levels even 007 finds disturbing. Just see her orgasmic reaction to shooting a bunch of Russian civilians at the satellite station — which prompts a “What the hell is wrong with you?” look from Ourumov, her teammate.
• Vic Hoskins of Jurassic World believes that war is just the natural state of the world. He sees Owen's raptors as nothing more than a promising exploitable goldmine to be sold to the military. Averted as unlike, say, Muldoon or Roland from the previous films, he demonstrates no physical feats of badassitude throughout the movie, and the man who spent a good portion of the film vocally glorifying violence and struggle ends up meeting his end at the hands of Delta, but not before tearfully and pathetically begging the creature for his life.
• Gazelle from Kingsman: The Secret Service overtly enjoys carnage, whether by proxy or directly inflicting it.
• The Last Sentinel: Colonel Norton and his sapient gatling gun extol fighting, longing to die a glorious death. The latter wants nothing more than to simply gun down however many enemy soldiers that it's possible for him, before killing a last few by triggering a bomb..
• The Lord of the Rings has a surprisingly amount of Blood Knights. While the series encourages peace it doesn't shy away from idea of taking pleasures in the destruction of thy enemy.
  • Aragon the Ranger/The Good King likes to be civil, albeit cautious but against his foes, Aragon can't hide his satisfaction. Smiling when faced with Uruk Hai on Amon Hen, and is completely okay with the idea dying in battle so long as it's going out in a blaze of glory with his friends. As Aragon says when before chasing after the Uruk Hai that captured Merry and Pippin: "Let's hunt some orc".
  • Gimli the fearless, badass Dwarf, with shades of Violent Glaswegian in his personality. Eager to avenge his race's ancestral grudge against Orcs, and in so doing racks up the largest single body count in all three movies. Oh, and played by professional Large Ham John Rhys-Davies.
  • Legolas while not as apparent in the books loves a good battle too, despite his almost entirely peaceful race. Legolas smirks while dodging the blows of the cave troll, keeps a kill count with Gimli over how many orcs they've slaughtered in the big battles and casually kills a building-sized elephant without breaking a sweat.
• In Mad Max: Fury Road, Immortan Joe's band of Warboys believe in a perverse form of Viking honor and crave a glorious death in battle. Since almost all of them are dying slow, premature deaths from radiation poisoning and other illnesses related to the Crapsack World they live in, Big Bad Joe uses this Brainwashed and Crazy cult of personality to give them some semblance of meaning in life. This is best demonstrated by Nux's genuine happiness at the idea of dying on the Fury Road. They even have a dual Madness Mantra of "I live, I die, I live again!" or "Witness me!" before they sacrifice themselves.
• In The Man from Colorado, four years of bloody conflict have transformed Col. Owen Devereaux into this. His is driven by an urge to kill, but only those who he is allowed to kill. As an officer, this is enemy combatants. His Establishing Character Moment is him ignoring a white flag being waved by the Confederates and allowing his artillery to open fire on then. When he becomes a judge, he becomes a Hanging Judge, sentencing any criminal who comes before him to death.
• The Mask of Zorro: Alejandro is this before and after taking up the mantle of Zorro, even when not revenge driven. He just loves fighting and Swordplay as a result of watching former Zorro as a boy. De La Vega the former Zorro is of the same mold but has cooled his swashbuckling ways in his old age and even holds the younger and more reckless Zorro back.
• MonsterVerse: Several of the Kaiju clearly enjoy themselves when fighting to the death: King Ghidorah's right head (Ni) is described by the Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) as the head that's constantly itching for a fight, Godzilla shows ambiguous signs of smiling when he's brawling with other monsters (not so ambiguous in Godzilla vs. Kong), and Mechagodzilla once it's possessed by Ghidorah's subconsciousness looks like it's enjoying literally and figuratively throwing Godzilla around much more than it needs to. This isn't just limited to the Kaiju: Lieutenant Colonel Packard in Kong: Skull Island is a Colonel Kilgore who is well and truly at home in a hellish war zone away from civilization.
• In the Predator films, the Predators apparently travel around the galaxy to go big-game hunting purely for the sport of it. The only humans they'll attack are armed and dangerous, and they refuse to attack helpless people, presumably because there's no sport in it. When they find a Worthy Opponent, they even indulge in Cherry Tapping to make it more competitive. Various supplemental materials expand on the species' culture.
• Mad Dog on in The Raid loves fistfighting. Twice he disarms himself and allows his enemies a fair chance to defeat him in unarmed combat.
• The Hessian (who was beheaded and became the Headless Horseman) in Sleepy Hollow (1999) came to fight as a mercenary in America "for love of carnage".
• While a Jedi Knight from Star Wars is supposed to be a Martial Pacifist, Anakin Skywalker is a notable exception. Unfortunately, his anger and aggression contribute to his fall to the Dark Side. On the flipside, the Sith Lord Maul relishes the opportunity to fight and kill others, especially Jedi.
• Taps has David Shawn, who is quickly established as the most aggressive, "gung ho", and outwardly militant of the rebelious cadets. At the end of the film, he opens fire on the National Guard troops surrounding the academy just as the other cadets are lining up to surrrender, resulting in several pointless deaths.
• Triple Threat (2019): Mercenary leader Collins is a bloodthirsty, yet highly competent combatant
• TRON: Sark's Establishing Character Moment is de-rezzing a hapless conscript on the Game Grid, and thanking Master Control when his boss called him "brutal and needlessly sadistic," and all but salivating over the possibility of engaging in combat against military Programs.
• Tallahassee from Zombieland loves him some zombie-killin'. Give him a few guns and a couple of blunt weapons and he'll be off having fun for hours. And probably cackling maniacally while he's doing it, too. He's also a Death Seeker after losing his only son to zombies, and his only goal in life is to kill as many zombies as he can before he dies.

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