History Main / ArmsDealer

** Justin Hammer from ''Film/IronMan2'' is another Corporate Lobbyist who desperately wants to fill the hole Stark left and become the world's top arms dealer, but ultimately lacks the competence to do so.
** Ulysses Klaue from ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' is a mercenary and smuggler who's heavily involved in the black market arms trade as an International Arms Merchant

** Tony Stark is one of these in ''Film/IronMan1'' before he sees US forces get attacked with his own weapons and has a change of heart. Even after that, his weapons keep turning up in enemy hands. [[spoiler:Turns out [[EvilChancellor Obie]] has been going around behind his back.]]
** Justin Hammer from ''Film/IronMan2'' ''wants'' to take Stark's place as the world's top arms dealer, but ultimately lacks the competence to do so.
** Ulysses Klaue from ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' and ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' is a mercenary and smuggler who's heavily involved in the black market arms trade.
** Adrian Toomes in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' is a former salvage company owner who is driven out of business after Stark Industries and the US government set up the Department of Damage Control. In order to help provide for his employees and his family, he becomes an arms dealer who specializes in manufacturing powerful weapons by combining modern and [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum alien]] technology he and his men managed to recover from the Avengers' various battles, starting with New York City following the [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Chitauri invasion]].
* Jeebs in ''Film/MenInBlack''. He's definitely the slimy sort, handing illegal weapons to alien criminals.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Donquixote Doflamingo runs such a business, shipping not just conventional arms, but also Devil Fruits, particularly, the production and trade of artificially made Devil Fruits known as "Smiles". He does so under the alias "Joker" to avoid getting pinched by the World Government, since he technically works for them and pirates who agree to work as Privateers for the Government have restrictions placed on them that dictate what they can and can't do. Destroying the factory that produces the artificial Devil Fruits becomes one of the main goals of the Dressrosa Arc as part of the Alliance between Luffy and Law to take down Kaido.

* ''Film/BabyDriver'': TheButcher, a Southern Gentleman wearing a white suit, selling merchendise taken from Atlanta Police Department arsenal. Unfortunately, [[PsychoTeamMate Bats]] mistakes him and his men for undercover cops, when in reality they are {{Dirty Cop}}s who have a working relationship with Doc.

* '''Corporate Lobbyist''': These people are well-off businessmen who conduct arms sales with governments on behalf of a large weapons company. Attempt to appear more respectable than the other types. Might do [[CorruptCorporateExecutive some other stuff]] on the side. Often appear at a legal ArmsFair.
* '''Minister For Defence Export''': Actual government ministers who hawk their country's products to other weaker countries or try to broker trades for military equipment.
* '''International Arms Merchant''': A globe-trotting, freelance gunrunner, who is basically a corporate lobbyist without the corporation and far more unscrupulous. Frequently sell to terrorist groups and large criminal organizations, and tend to pop up as minor villains or information sources in spy movies.

* '''Gangland Gun Runner''': The gangland arms dealer, selling stolen, smuggled, or "officially destroyed" weapons with the serial numbers filed off. Expect to meet the dealer and his [[HuskyRusskie 350 pound ex-Spetnaz Russian bodyguard]] in a [[DownInTheDumps scrapyard]] in an [[AbandonedArea abandoned factory]].

* '''Corporate Lobbyist''' who discuss weapon sales with governments and are out to make a large profit for themselves. Attempt to appear more respectable than the other types. Might do [[CorruptCorporateExecutive some other stuff]] on the side. Often appear at a legal ArmsFair.
* '''Minister For Defence Export''': Actual government ministers, who hawk their country's products to other weaker countries.
* '''International Arms Merchant''': Globe-trotting freelance gunrunner, basically a corporate lobbyist without the corporation and far more unscrupulous. Frequently sell to terrorist groups and large criminal organizations, and tend to pop up as minor villains or information sources in spy movies.

These characters are generally depicted as slimy merchants of death, making money from brutal wars and providing the means to prolong the conflict. They may be inclined to start a WarForFunAndProfit, hoping to make money from selling weapons. Should there be no conflict at all, they may even take one step further and [[MonsterProtectionRacket start one themselves]]. Sometimes, a potential customer may [[BallisticDiscount kill them and take their weapons]].

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/ThePoeerpuffGirls'' story "Everything Must Go" (DC issue #44). Mojo Jojo holds a yard sale of all his arsenal of weapons where he financially cleans up, but the weapons' new owners cause a catastrophe simply because they don't know how to use them properly.

* Blight Industries from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' company run by Amity's parents that produced [[{{Magitek}} abomination based tech]] for home security (although Alador freely admits that they specialize in weaponry). [[spoiler:They end up getting contracted by the empror to produce an army of MechaMooks to aid in his plans, with his right hand man obliquely telling them that they'll end up in a lot of trouble if they try to sell it to anyone else.]]

* The {{Elseworld}} miniseries ''JSA: The Liberty Files'', featuring ComicBook/{{Batman}} and the ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica, involves the Joker as an arms dealer selling weapons to the Nazis.
* ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'', like other iterations of the modern ''Franchise/GIJoe'' franchise, introduced Destro early on as Cobra's main weapons supplier. However, Cobra Commander had [[LongGame long-term plans]] for Cobra to enter the market themselves, selling to various third-world regimes to help foment further instability.
* In ''ComicBook/IronMan'', Tony Stark was originally an arms dealer, but eventually decided to downplay his company's role in that market. After that, Justin Hammer and Obidiah Stane appeared as unambiguously villainous versions.
%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive Lord Blackpool in ''ComicBook/LadyMechanika''.
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' has a few examples. In chronological order, we have:

* They tend to show up rather often in ''ComicBook/TexWiller'', usually as gun shop owners in some town of the Far West but sometimes as Gangland Gun Runners who sell to hostile Indians, often to try and cause insurrections so they or their associates will be able to take over their lands once the army has stomped them. The latter kind is usually seen as despicable (even by their customers, who in at least one occasion got pissed off enough to torture them to death), especially after two of them and their gang, in retaliation for Tex foiling their plan to cause a Navajo insurrection, tried to murder him with a ''smallpox epidemics'' that killed, among others, his wife (the RoaringRampageOfRevenge was epic, and the end was pure NightmareFuel).