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Dangerous Deserter
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Many people take a dim view of abandoning a military post. Even works that disapprove of warfare on general principles won't approve if it took place "in the heat" of battle (thus leaving more loyal soldiers hanging). So those who say Screw This, I'm Outta Here to a legitimate group tend to be bad people. The problem is not just their dishonorable abandonment. The real problem is their now-desperate situation. Desertion is usually punishable by death, so these people have no more incentive to refrain from other capital offenses, like murder, and every reason to engage in them if they think you'll turn them in. They also tend to be armed. They tend to steal what they need from the surrounding countryside. And they can't just settle down, lest they be caught. They may try to pass themselves off as War Refugees, too. There are sympathetic deserters out there, usually having left a villain's army which they had no choice about joining in the first place (and the degree of sympathy that they can get often depends on how willingly they went to war) but this trope is not about those people. The Dangerous Deserter is hardened, desperate, and, well, dangerous. And many if not most of them were hardened enough Sociopathic Soldiers for their part in the war and only fled once the tide started turning against them. Most such deserters are rank-and-file soldiers or petty officers, and typically become bandits, thieves, or other thugs of limited scope after desertion. Occasionally, a higher-ranking officer may decided to go rogue as well, in which case they're likely to bring along a larger number of underlings and set themselves up as The Warlord over a likely-looking piece of land. Contrast Rebellious Rebel. Criminals who are determined to Never Go Back To Prison may have a similar level of dangerous desperation to them. Compare and contrast From Camouflage to Criminal, where regardless of the circumstances under which someone left the military, they use their military skills in a life of crime. |
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Revenge of the Virgins: Curt and Jones, a pair of army deserters, attempt to muscle their way into the expedition once they hear about the gold. | |
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Subverted in The Eyes of The Dragon where two deserters are in line for execution, despite having only deserted to help their families survive an unusually harsh winter, then returned to their posts. Queen Sasha manages to persuade her husband to pardon them, unknowingly earning the ire of court magician Flagg, who wanted the men executed for his own political reason. This incident leads Flagg to have her murdered, disguised as death by childbirth. Flagg also happens to be another incarnation of Stephen King's recurring villain Randall Flagg. | |
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Dragon Age One sidequest in Dragon Age: Origins involves tracking down a trio of deserters from a mercenary group known as the Blackstone Irregulars, who stole valuable materials from the mercenary company. In a twist, the mercenaries don't want to punish the deserters (though they don't care if you kill them), they just want their property returned. All three deserters attack the player immediately upon identifying who they represent, even if they're just trying to peacefully recover the supplies. Your party member Zevran was originally a mercenary sent to kill you, though he quickly offers to desert and join your cause instead when it's apparent he's not a match for your team. When the Crows send another member to finish his job and collect him, he may or may not rejoin them. If you've befriended him, he'll remain loyal to you and help you fight off the Crows; if not, then he'll happily desert your party as well and go back to the Crows, forcing you to kill him in self-defense (and maybe out of honor, depending on your Warden's feelings about the subject). A group of these appear early on in Dragon Age II, having deserted the Ferelden army and fled to Kirkwall. They attack one of the guard posts when the officer in charge agrees to contact one of Hawke's relatives inside the city, thinking that this means Hawke will be let inside ahead of them. You'll also fight several small bands of Tal-Vashoth, deserters from the Qunari army and way of life. Since Qunari only learn one skill or trade in their lifetime, those who have been training as soldiers since they were twelve have no way to make a living except as mercenaries and bandits, making them desperate and dangerous to almost anyone. Party member Anders deserted the Grey Wardens. His combination of Well-Intentioned Extremist attitude and Demonic Possession definitely qualify him as dangerous. The third entry in the series, Dragon Age: Inquisition, features the Freemen of the Dales, deserters from both sides of the Orlesian Civil War. Unfortunately, they see the Inquisition as yet another warmongering oppressor, and also end up colluding with the Venatori and Red Templars, who are two of the Inquisition's primary targeted enemy factions. The nature of the Tal-Vashoth is also deconstructed with Iron Bull if he goes Tal-Vashoth. If he does, he is unsure what he's more afraid of: becoming this trope, or discovering that he won't, and that all the Tal-Vashoth he hunted down as a member of the Ben-Hassrath were not this trope too. |
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In Bleach, shinigami can't retire; the closest thing is being taken off active duty. Quitters are separated and watched by the 2nd division, and it's revealed that Urahara Kisuke was part of this. Mayuri Kurotsuchi was one of them. Although he didn't actually try to leave. They considered him potentially dangerous so they held him without charge. | |
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The Warlord (DC): Travis Morgan's Rival Turned Evil Dan Maddox deserted from the US Army (Morgan's actions had already caused him to be discharged from the Air Force) while serving in Vietnam and defected to the Soviets. | |
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Mount & Blade has these in spades. From a technical point of view, they are very similar to regular groups of bandits, but are often far more numerous and better equipped. They can be a Demonic Spiders style threat early in the game, but become less intimidating after the player levels up considerably and creates his party. | |
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Jean, the protagonist of Port of Shadows, is a deserter from the French army who is on the run for an unnamed crime. He is short-tempered and prone to violence, slapping gangster wannabe Lucien Legardier when the latter starts harassing him over his bond with Nelly, and brutally murdering Nelly's godfather, Zabel, after he admits to having killed Nelly's would-be boyfriend Maurice out of jealousy over Nelly's affection for him. | |
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In The Horse Soldiers, a pair of Confederate deserters bushwhack Marlowe's scouts after mistaken them for sheriff deputies. | |
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In Guild Wars: Prophecies, one of the final quests in the Northern Shiverpeaks is to track down a band of deserters to retrieve the supplies they've stolen. Alas, they're not all that dangerous if you actually play through the game to that point instead of getting run through like so many seem to. | |
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In Queen of Swords, Captain Grisham is an American deserter from from the War of 1812. However, the truly dangerous deserter is Krane, the man they tried to hang in Grisham's place. | |
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In Naruto, a ninja who deserts from his village is called a "missing ninja". And all of them are highly dangerous. The vast majority of the villains are missing ninja. Some simply become bandits or keep on working as mercenaries (just doing it freelance instead of having to answer to higher-ranking ninja), while some of the most powerful ones have much loftier goals. The main villains of the series, Akatsuki, are a gang of some of the most dangerous missing ninja from multiple villages who are out to Take Over the World. | |
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Modesty Blaise: In "Death Symbol", a squad of deserters from the Chinese Army takes over a small village and monastery in a remote valley in Tibet. Willie and Modesty have infiltrate the valley and battle the deserters to rescue the daughter of one of Willie's old friends who is being held prisoner. | |
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The third entry in the series, Dragon Age: Inquisition, features the Freemen of the Dales, deserters from both sides of the Orlesian Civil War. Unfortunately, they see the Inquisition as yet another warmongering oppressor, and also end up colluding with the Venatori and Red Templars, who are two of the Inquisition's primary targeted enemy factions. The nature of the Tal-Vashoth is also deconstructed with Iron Bull if he goes Tal-Vashoth. If he does, he is unsure what he's more afraid of: becoming this trope, or discovering that he won't, and that all the Tal-Vashoth he hunted down as a member of the Ben-Hassrath were not this trope too. | |
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Sharpe: An small army of these crops up, made up from soldiers of all sides including Sharpe's nemesis Obadaiah Hakeswill. | |
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In the Supernatural episode "All Hells Breaks Loose, Part Two", Jake Talley is reminded by the Yellow-Eyed demon that the Army will not take him back because he is AWOL. This helps to convince Jake to join the dark side. | |
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Discworld Monstrous Regiment: Borogravian deserters are an unseen, background threat- "They will not be nice people! They will be impolite!" The murder of a random elderly couple is also attributed to them. Interesting Times features a couple of deserters who are cowardly even by the standards of the trope, but are quite happy to cut Rincewind's head off if they're completely sure he can't fight back. Luckily (so to speak), the Lady intervenes. |
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Elden Ring: The Highwaymen are former Godrick Foot Soldiers who deserted his cause and turned to banditry. They attack strangers on sight, though they're not much of a threat to all but the most beginner Tarnished, given that they're very minor enemies from the weakest faction in the game. | |
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In the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, these are often the cause of the Shin-Ra Corporation's worst problems. Genesis took nearly half of SOLDIER with him when he defected and waged war on the company, Angeal left a mess behind, Zack wiped out an entire battalion of troops but for three men, and Sephiroth burned a trail across the Planet and through the company's ranks, to say the least. And those were the elites. What Cloud, a humble trooper-turned-terrorist, accomplished through the course of the game (through intent and ignorance both) led to the loss of the company's place as the de-facto world government. | |
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In The Man from Colorado, Jericho Howard and Mutton McGguire desert a few days before they were due to be discharged, and turn to banditry. | |
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Several of the hired guns in Knights of the Old Republic, especially the sequel, were deserters from one side or the other (sometimes more than one). Most are just Punch Clock Villains, but some, especially those who were former Sith, could be downright sadistic. Among the examples from the second game is Atton Rand, although he does a pretty good job of hiding it for most of the game (and can be redeemed by the Exile's influence). |
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In an issue of the Infinity, Inc. comic, a Doctor Midnight (a black woman) is captured and almost raped by a group of time-tossed deserters from the Confederate Army (it is made clear that they were already deserters before they got lost in time). | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: After clearing out the bandits from Primm, you can encounter NCR deserters at the casino, attempting to start a protection racket and attacking you if try to turn them in. They're survivors from a outpost that was overrun by Caesar's Legion, and think the NCR will be defeated by them soon. | |
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In Fable III deserters from Logan's army take the place of the previous game's bandits. | |
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One sidequest in Dragon Age: Origins involves tracking down a trio of deserters from a mercenary group known as the Blackstone Irregulars, who stole valuable materials from the mercenary company. In a twist, the mercenaries don't want to punish the deserters (though they don't care if you kill them), they just want their property returned. All three deserters attack the player immediately upon identifying who they represent, even if they're just trying to peacefully recover the supplies. Your party member Zevran was originally a mercenary sent to kill you, though he quickly offers to desert and join your cause instead when it's apparent he's not a match for your team. When the Crows send another member to finish his job and collect him, he may or may not rejoin them. If you've befriended him, he'll remain loyal to you and help you fight off the Crows; if not, then he'll happily desert your party as well and go back to the Crows, forcing you to kill him in self-defense (and maybe out of honor, depending on your Warden's feelings about the subject). |
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The Stormlight Archive: In the first demonstration of a Lightweaver's true power, Shallan Davar transforms a band of deserters back into loyal soldiers. Some even die rescuing a civilian convoy from bandits. | |
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Vow of Nudity: When Spectra discovers her professor has been harboring an imperial deserter under her classroom, the professor cites this stereotype as the reason she doesn't confide what she's doing to the university. Spectra herself has to grapple with her own fears about this once she finds out, only overcoming it by deciding she won't perpetuate the cycle of distrust she'd experienced all-too-often herself due to her changeling heritage. | |
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Fallout 4: The raiders occupying the massive boat graveyard Libertalia are actually former Minutemen who set up shop there after the organization collapsed. Originally they had intended to carry on their mission, but pretty quickly degenerated into raiding and extortion to survive. | |
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The Iron Teeth web serial has a lot of these. Deserters that have turned to banditry are quite common in the North. | |
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Subverted in Avatar: The Last Airbender with Jeong Jeong in the aptly titled episode "The Deserter". Though an incredibly skilled and powerful Firebender, Jeong Jeong deserted the Fire Nation military after seeing the horrors of the Fire Nation's war for world domination, and in particular, his former student Zhao's lust for power. | |
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In The Gatling Gun, Pvt. Sneed and his co-conspirator desert from the US Cavalry and steal a Gatling gun, planning to sell it to the Apache renegades in exchange for a small fortune in Zuni gold. | |
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Interesting Times features a couple of deserters who are cowardly even by the standards of the trope, but are quite happy to cut Rincewind's head off if they're completely sure he can't fight back. Luckily (so to speak), the Lady intervenes. | |
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Monstrous Regiment: Borogravian deserters are an unseen, background threat- "They will not be nice people! They will be impolite!" The murder of a random elderly couple is also attributed to them. | |
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In Guns of the Dawn, most able-bodied men are away fighting in the war, and a gang of men who theoretically should be fighting in the war see an opportunity to prey on undefended lands well behind the front lines. Wealthier households such as the protagonist's are prime targets, especially when they contain people like the protagonist's sister, who's unwise enough to be lured a supposed romantic rendezvous by a hostage-seeking bandit. | |
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Fallout: Fallout: New Vegas: After clearing out the bandits from Primm, you can encounter NCR deserters at the casino, attempting to start a protection racket and attacking you if try to turn them in. They're survivors from a outpost that was overrun by Caesar's Legion, and think the NCR will be defeated by them soon. Fallout 4: The raiders occupying the massive boat graveyard Libertalia are actually former Minutemen who set up shop there after the organization collapsed. Originally they had intended to carry on their mission, but pretty quickly degenerated into raiding and extortion to survive. |
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At the end of the first season of Transformers: Prime, Starscream tires of his treatment in the Decepticons and attempts to join the Autobots; when that doesn't work out, he declares himself neutral, making him an enemy to both sides. Megatron only lets him back in at the end of season two under the rationale that it's better to have him as an asset than an obstacle. Airachnid was implied to be this when she first appeared; later she gets drafted back into the Decepticon army. After killing Breakdown and finding a nest of insecticons she can control, she's back to being this again. At the end of season 3, Predaking becomes this as well. |
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A recurring mission in Curious Expedition involves a military officer tasking you with finding a subordinate who deserted and stayed in whatever land your explorer is about to visit. Said deserter is usually a Colonel Kurtz Copy lording over the natives who you must fight against. | |
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In The Green-Eyed Sniper, Sekhmet is a wanted war criminal and a deserter. Here she claims to Blitz that being fed up with a never-ending war was the main reason she went AWOL, although she also confesses to Shanti that she lied about a lot of the circumstances she recounted later. | |
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In Animorphs David can be considered one of these. Granted, the team is a civilian guerrilla force and not a legitimate military unit, but they're still Earth's only defense against the Yeerks. | |
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BattleTech: Much of the Dark Caste AKA Bandit Caste of the Clans is made up of these. Not an actual caste in Clan society, it's simply the name they give to criminals. Warriors who feel that they no longer have a place may find their way there after falling victim to a rival's political machinations, injury, or simply because they've gotten old without finding a promotion or honorable death. The Clans have no tolerance for such people, so they fight extra hard because it's always win or die for them. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: The first book opens with the execution of one of these; see the page quote. There's no sign that the deserter was actually dangerous; it's just that he signed on to fight wildlings and found himself face-to-face with the Fair Folk instead. A headsman's ax probably seemed like the lesser risk. Mance Rayder may well be the most dangerous deserter in the history of the Night's Watch; he abandoned his post and came back at the head of a conquering army. Averted and totally deconstructed with Septon Meribald, who deserted out of sheer exhaustion and heartache and only wants to live a life of peace. However, he does warn that deserters are dangerous, and the traveler must fear them ("but he should pity them as well") in his "broken men" speech. A rare example who is desperate, dangerous, willing to commit crimes to stay on the run yet sympathetic is Sandor "the Hound" Clegane who deserted from the Kingsguard when a weapon triggering his major phobia is used in the battle of the Blackwater. |
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GUN: The renegade army led by Sergeant Hollister are former Confederate soldiers turned raiders and pirates, operating out of an old U.S Army fort, and wear parts of their old uniforms mixed with facepaint and tattoos. | |
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In Day of the Evil Gun, Warfield and Forbes enter a deserted Mormon settlement, where they encounter a detachment of U.S. Cavalry led by "Captain" Jefferson Addis. However, all is not what it seems. It turns out that Addis, who is actually a corporal, and the rest killed the real captain so that they could trade two wagons full of weapons and ammunition to the Apaches in return for an army payroll the latter recently captured. | |
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Andersonville: Ira Claffey encounters three "bummers" from the fringes of Sherman's march while he is trying to travel to Richmond. It turns out that fall 1864 is a bad time to be on the roads in Georgia. Ira thinks he's going to get shot but the bummers are content with stealing his wallet. | |
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The Water Phoenix King's first act is all about the consequences of fleeing troops of a dead god's empire, who usually turn to banditry and conquest as their ideology and paychecks go down the drain. The protagonist ends up killing captains who were once better than she is but are now worse than she'll ever be. | |
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In Lady Mechanika: The Tablet of Destinies #4, Mechanika and Winifred are captured by a deserter from the British army who now leads a gang of slavers. | |
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Game of Thrones: The two men with Osha who attack Bran in "A Golden Crown" wear the black of the Night's Watch. The Hound provides a rare sympathetic example after his pyrophobia gets the better of him in "Blackwater". However, the Lannisters regard him as dangerous, especially after news of his slaughter of Polliver and his goons reaches the Small Council, after which Lord Tywin puts a sufficiently large bounty on him to tempt any idiot to take a shot at the Hound. Karl and his fellow mutineers fully display their sadism and depravity in "Oathkeeper" and "First of His Name". |
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind has an Imperial Legion quest which tasks you with hunting down such a deserter who is still Still Wearing the Old Colors and is now in the employ of a witch as her bodyguard. | |
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Pumpkin Scissors starts with a confrontation with a tank unit that deserted after the war ends and formed a bandit group terrorizing a small village. Later on, there are several other former soldiers who became bandits in order to survive. It's clear the military high command knows about and tracks a number of these units, and chooses not to go after them. Most likely because it doesn't want to admit that they or their equipment were ever any part of the military, so they can't be hunted as deserters or allowed to talk as prisoners. It's not even certain all of them did technically desert; as insane as the idea of decomissioning special forces, letting them keep weapons of mass destruction, and turning them loose within your own borders is, it's actually within the bounds of this military's thinking processes. | |
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At the end of Disco Elysium, one of these turns out to be the perpetrator of the crime you've been investigating the entire game. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Space Marines and other heretics from the Imperium are a strong case of this. Knowing there can be no peaceful reintegration into the Imperium and the strong corruptive forces of Chaos have their hooks in them for life, Chaos Marines have no compunction about stooping to vile acts of murder, betrayal, slavery and so on to increase their own power and pave the road to Daemon Princehood. | |
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Hachi from Onibaba, who narrowly escapes death as a soldier only to become a desperate bandit with nothing to lose and no honest way to make a living—despite the fact that he might be the closest thing we have to a hero in the film. | |
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Valdez is Coming: This is how the Tanner paints the man he has killed at the start of the film: claiming he killed his commanding officer before deserting. After he is killed, Valdez finds the man's discharge papers on him; proving that Tanner was—at the very least—mistaken. | |
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The Unknown Soldier completely averts this. While some of the officer characters are bitter about the deserters, the narrator only has sympathy for the fear and the sufferings of the soldiers. The most reasonable officer explains that those who become deserters simply were taken to the limit of what a human could be expected to withstand... and then over it. They wouldn't have been of use in battle anyway, so let them go. One of the central characters tries to become a deserter but is lost from his companions and returns back to his platoon with nothing but a joke for an excuse for his absence. The others don't hold it against him. | |
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Horatio Hornblower: Bunting in "The Examination for Lieutenant": When the ship is put on half rations, he becomes desperate and afraid that they will starve. He starts mutinous talk and steals food, which earns him severe flogging. He decides to desert, but he's caught, but Midshipman Hornblower gives him a chance to prove himself worthy. However, Bunting knows it still means a court-martial and very probably a death sentence, so he tries to escape whenever he can. He's the only one who tries to mutiny and desert, so he's not that dangerous to the crew. Hornblower is forced to shoot him later, and considers it a great failure that he couldn't save the man. In "Retribution", Randall and several men decide to desert in "Mutiny" when the situation on the ship becomes difficult: a crazy Captain, a weak 1st Lieutenant, and possible charges of mutiny for the whole crew. When Gunner Hobbs finds out they're deserting and stealing guns, he's offered to go with them, but his Undying Loyalty doesn't allow him to leave his captain. Randall clonks him unconscious, not caring whether it kills him or not, and they hurt or kill several Red Shirts on their way to sea. The deserters are later discovered dead, killed by the slave rebel army who thought they were their former Spanish masters. |
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JAG: In the season nine episode "Shifting Sands" a Navy petty officer believed to be lost since the first Gulf War is found in Iraq, married to a Bedouin sheikh. It turns out that she's provided intelligence to Saddam's regime through the years. | |
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Lucifer's Hammer: The former U.S. Army unit led by Sergeant Hooker. They murder their commanding officer and deserted when the comet hit; later, they turn to cannibalism due to a lack of food and form the beginnings of the New Brotherhood Army. | |
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Rebel Inc. has several variations on this trope: A random event taking place after the National Soldiers first engages the Insurgents in combat, and said combat goes poorly, involves high desertion rates among them. You can either spend additional funds for better training and bonus pay (which stops desertions altogether, and actually increases their strength from the better training provided), threaten to make desertion an act of Treason (which always gives recruitment bonuses to the Insurgents, as deserters have nowhere else to go), or just have Coalition personnel replace the losses from desertion (which requires to have Coalition troops ready), reducing the efficiency of Coalition troops, but not causing any trouble beyond that. Thus, deserters are only dangerous if you give them no other option. Then there is the Warlord, a ruthless and controversial militia leader. Periodically, his troops will complain about the military discipline required of them. They can either be given a pay bonus, be allowed to shake down civilians for "contraband" (generating corruption, and potentially turning the population hostile), or be let go... In which case they will join the Insurgents. |
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In Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, Shirin's village was wiped out by three deserters from the British Army who sought to obtain the treasure of the crypt for themselves. | |
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Live A Live has O. Dio from the Wild West chapter, the brutal leader of the Crazy Bunch outlaw gang oppressing Success Town. He is supposedly the only survivor of the 7th Cavalry Regiment and deserted the Federal Army after the massacre, stealing a Gatling gun along the way. Technically true in that he is the only survivor and left the army... but as a horse, possessed by the angry, vengeful spirits of the massacred 7th Cavalry, remade in the image of a man. | |
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In Final Fantasy Tactics, Ramza runs into a group of deserters on his way somewhere else. They have no interest in fighting; he has no interest in getting in their way. That is, until one of them points out that Ramza is on wanted posters all over the continent, and if they kill him and turn him in, they'll not only be forgiven for their desertion, but probably given medals and dismissed from the army. Ramza tries to talk them out of it, but is forced to kill them. | |
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Deadlands: South o' the Border notes that deserters from the French Foreign Legion are considered especially dangerous, as the Legion does not tolerate desertion and will actively hunt them down and drag them back for a trial and execution. As a result, they know they are under a death sentence and have nothing to lose. | |
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Ben Snow: In "Snow in Yucatan", Ben travels to Mexico in search of Wade Chancer, a deserter from the Rough Riders who is setting himself as a warlord with dreams of overthrowing the Mexican government. | |
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A group of these appear early on in Dragon Age II, having deserted the Ferelden army and fled to Kirkwall. They attack one of the guard posts when the officer in charge agrees to contact one of Hawke's relatives inside the city, thinking that this means Hawke will be let inside ahead of them. You'll also fight several small bands of Tal-Vashoth, deserters from the Qunari army and way of life. Since Qunari only learn one skill or trade in their lifetime, those who have been training as soldiers since they were twelve have no way to make a living except as mercenaries and bandits, making them desperate and dangerous to almost anyone. Party member Anders deserted the Grey Wardens. His combination of Well-Intentioned Extremist attitude and Demonic Possession definitely qualify him as dangerous. |
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In Day of the Outlaw, Captain John Bruhn used to be a captain in the US Army who led a massacre of Mormons in in Utah. He now leads a ruthless band of outlaws; several of which used to soldier under his command. | |
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Rogue Trooper will help out his former comrades in the Southern Army when it suits him, but good luck trying to arrest him for desertion. | |
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Tobias Kelp becomes one in For The Emperor. In fact, a considerable amount of tension in that story comes from the worry that, with five people on death row doing a suicide mission with the protagonist, someone will do this, because they would have to kill the main character to have any chance of getting away with it. Unfortunately for Kelp, he decides to make his move within range of a melta. After Cain orders Jurgen to kill him, the narration notes his last expression was Oh, Crap!. The book also gives a major Red Herring in that the most obviously treasonous of the death row prisoners — the psychotic Cold Sniper who openly suggested killing Cain and splitting — never does it, even when given the prime opportunity to do so. |
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Whiskey Foxtrot from Battleborn is one. A lore challenge of his reveals that he had deserted his post in the UPR. The report states that he should be considered ARMED and DANGEROUS and ANGRY. For this, he was given a bounty of 589,000,000.00 credits. Considering that he joined Reyna and the Rogues who despite their desire for freedom tend to sometimes engage in questionable acts such as space piracy, the caution is warranted. | |
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The Deserter: After deserting, title character Viktor Kaleb becomes a One-Man Army waging war against the Apache. Because he is so effective, General Miles has him dragged back and offers him a pardon if he leads a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits on an off-the-books mission into Mexico to wipe out an Apache stronghold. | |
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In The Shadow of Chikara, Posey, Rafe and Dancer are a trio of deserters from the Confederate army living as mountain men and bushwhackers: robbing, raping and murdering travellers. | |
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Averted in WKRP in Cincinnati (episode "Who Is Gordon Sims"): we learn that Venus Flytrap was hiding his real name because he deserted the Army. Only days before he was scheduled for honorable discharge. Carlson convinces him to turn himself in, and under the circumstances, the Army lets him off with a few days of KP. | |
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In the original Starship Troopers book, the government makes no effort to catch people who desert from Basic Training. Since the military forces are all volunteers, they figure there's no point, although some people decide they can't live with the guilt and eventually turn themselves in. If they do, they're just given 50 lashes and turned loose (with no prospect of citizenship, but no worse off than if they never enlisted at all). Nevertheless, one is caught and hanged because he raped and murdered a little girl, because the Mobile Infantry takes care of their own. Additionally, if someone signs up for government service and has a change of heart, they can fail to show up on their departure day with no penalty, save being disqualified from government service. Also, in both book and film, a volunteer can choose to drop out at any time, file the appropriate paperwork and be back in civvies the next morning, no questions asked. On the other hand, "desertion in the face of the enemy" is a capital offense, as it is in many military forces today.note Arguably, the difference is you're leaving your squadmates "in the lurch", where they could have fought alongside someone that wants to be there. If you just walk off base, no-one's actually shooting at you. |
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