- I Against I, Me Against You (My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic & Red vs. Blue): The third act introduces Whitewater, a company of Equestrian mercenaries hired to perform a hit on the main characters.
- The Newest Challenger (Naruto & Street Fighter):
- Karin has them protecting her personal property, as does her family, the latter in large numbers. Sadly for them, they're pure Redshirt Army.
- Naruto is essentially a one-man PMC, taking jobs for whoever decides to pay him, and it helps even more that he can make a massive clone army to help out.
- Origins: Aria hires the Blood Pack to burn a significant portion of the Omega space station since Kill It with Fire is the best way to deal with Flood. It's noted that the Blood Pack are the most destructive of the big three and don't care if civilians haven't evacuated yet.
- Roanapur Connection (Black Lagoon & Code Geass): What the Golden Company are shown to be in Eye of the Storm, though they seem to run the mill of taking on security guard or low profile work for the most part since the Russia-EU war ended. Which Nathan and Ganabati seek to change. But they also are implied to have a vast history like the White Company
did in real life in fighting in many conflicts across European History, along other numerous RL merc groups if Ganabati’s pov is anything to go by. They are heavily hinted to be Plausible Deniability for the EU to operate in places they don't or can't be seen to have a hand in.
- The Lion of Ivalice: The Glabados Church has shades of this, as they hire out their Templar Knights to secular armies for additional training and experience.
- Fallout: Equestria (Fallout & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): Nearly all griffons are mercenaries in the Wasteland, and most of them are under contract with Red Eye. However, Littlepip does get on the good side of Gawd and her mercenaries early on. It's to the point that when Stable 2 is attacked, Gawd sends her own children to help before Littlepip even has a chance to ask. They do expect to be paid after, but griffons are normally infamous for never doing anything without negotiating a contract first, so the fact that they have faith that Littlepip will compensate them fairly is a huge sign of trust.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): After Mariko gets out the distress call from the isolated abandoned Monarch outpost begging for rescue, several groups of armed mercenaries presumed to be hired by corporations and such come to the outpost first, looking for Kaiju biological samples that their employers can profit from. Mariko and the other survivors let the Monstrous Humanoids now roaming the base have them.
- Civilization V: Peace Walker: The MSF civilization's core game mechanic is that they earn money and approval from city-states when guarding their borders, with the trade-off that insurgents will periodically spawn and cause trouble.
- After researching the right technology and picking the proper civic, the MSF ends up hiring some German Landsknechts to help fill out their forces.
- When things are at their worst during the second round, a gunrunner named Drebin shows up to provide MSF with a state-of-the-art combat unit.
- Ocelot's "Outer Heaven" faction consists of PMC bases constructed by PMC Incorporators earned from combat instead of Great Generals.
- Truth and Consequences: After Ladybug tricks Paris into believing Chat has turned traitor, Mayor Bourgeois hires American mercenaries to keep the peace. They quickly prove to be little more than mindless thugs.
- Equestria Divided: House Whitegold doesn't have an army like the other factions; rather, most of its forces are composed of mercenaries of various species — chiefly ponies, griffons, diamond dogs, and zebras.
- Welcome To The Brothel: The main characters are almost all mercenaries fighting a bloody civil war.
- Pokédex: In the past, before firearms were invented or Pokémon taming became widespread, Gallades would often seek out human wars to fight in for pride and glory, taking payments in Rare Candies and vitamins when the fighting was done and leaving for the next conflict.
- Linked in Life and Love: By the time of the story, Raven Branwen has reformated her Bandit Clan into Branwen Private Defense, a respected mercenary company that she describes as "huntsmen on a budget;" if there's a job that would normally require one huntsman, she sends five of her people and they get the job done. Furthermore, the BPD essentially acts as the police force and army for the entire country of Mistral, patrolling roads and hunting down monsters. The Huntsmen and Huntresses would normally do all that, but for some reason, Headmaster Lionheart has gotten paranoid and withdrawn them all to the capital, then hired the BPD to do the job instead.
- Sonic X: Dark Chaos:
- The Metarex are depicted as an extremely powerful version of this, funded and controlled by both their Seedrian cyborg leaders and the mysterious "M" who happens to actually be Maledict.
- Tsali also founded his own private military company, although it's been almost completely destroyed by the start of the story (he's the only member of it left).
- Another Way: At first glance, Marquis appears to be running a Protection Racket, but as it turns out, he's actually operating it as a legitimate security business. Danny Hebert is rather taken aback when he's interrupted in the middle of being mugged by the Empire 88; a group of men approach in Marquis uniform, offering to handle it for a hundred dollars, and when he takes the deal, they do just that, producing batons and putting the muggers down in short order.Mercia: This protection, by the way, sir, lasts for twenty-four hours. Forty dollars start-up, ten dollars per day or part thereof, half price for women and children. One hundred dollars all told.
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- In An Entry with a Bang!, several down-on-their-luck merc groups like the Buron Cavalry are dragooned into joining Vorax's expedition to Clancy-Earth and are Heel Face Turned. At one point, Buron Cav head Major Staedele gets into a disagreement with Blackwater's CEO after noting how C-Earther PMCs are not up to snuff for the full-scale independent open warfare demanded of BattleTech merc groups.
- Forever Knight is a series of fanfic round-robins in which factions focused around the different characters have a free-for-all, the Mercs are a notable presence. They will take jobs from anyone in any faction; payment is negotiable and extremely variable, but they are fond of chocolate.
- Forward features a mercenary firm called "Skyhawk Intervention" which directs a number of other mercenary companies across the 'Verse. One of the stories features a mercenary group called Talon Company who are the main villains for that "episode".
- Harbinger: Armacham markets the Replicas as a voice-controlled PMC force, and is developing Fettel's Replicas to be controlled by a psychic commander. They also maintain their own PMC forces separate from the Replicas.
- Harry Potter and the Not-Fatal-At-All Cultural Exchange Program: Ettore is the founder of Rosetta Stone, a bunch of wands-for-hire.
- Mercenaries Of Fortune: Ghost Force 969 is a PMC organization that, because they are the only military force in the world that can deal with the threat of the Shadows, they are effectively a N.G.O. Superpower.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfics:
- Racer and the Geek: A very significant part revolves around the lives of mercenaries by focusing on one individual. The story takes a very nuanced approach to the trope.
- Naruto: Soldiers of Fortune: Ninjas working for villages are replaced with mercenaries that work for private military contractors. Still no guns though.
- The Night Unfurls: It is safe to infer that many of these exist in Eostia, given how the remastered version notes that mercenary work is a booming business. Though, the only prominent one in the story is the Black Dogs, the most famous mercenary group in Eostia. With Vault as the leader, the Black Dogs have had a close partnership with the Seven Shields during the war against Olga's forces. They then decide to go rogue and start another conflict to create a Sex Empire after taking over the Black Fortress.
- Nymeria's War: A majority of Efran Sand's forces consists of sellswords, who are Only in It for the Money. Dalia and her Wild Suns, as well as Tryden and his Company of the Rose, are also this in their work for the Kingdom of Brimstone.
- Of Blood and Steel: Henrietta is the daughter of a CEO of one such group, and as such gets ostracized by he schoolmates who have family in the army, especially in her JROTC program. She says she's used to it, though.
- Pokémon fanfics:
- The Life of the Legendaries depicts Silph Co. as owning Kanto's navy, army, and air force.
- Red Fire, Red Planet: Brokosh is a Lethean mercenary who used to work for a group called Hanson's Harriers, although he's currently in the Klingon Defense Force.
- The Return: Willard International Consulting are PMC in theory, although in practice they come across more as an N.G.O. Superpower.
