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Sociopathic Soldier
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The grunt version of Insane Admiral (and sometimes Colonel Kilgore or General Ripper). Often people below the rank of Sergeant are all around assholes who plunder, rape, and massacre civilians, or brutally torture and murder the hero's comrades, making killing them less guilt-causing. These generally come in four flavors: The Jingo: This guy is swept up in Patriotic Fervor or similar and is doing it because they're convinced their cause gives them the right to be as brutal as they please (racism, fantastic or otherwise, might be involved, or they may have bought in to the rhetoric so much that they genuinely do not see the opposition as people). Particularly likely to target civilians, especially if he just lost a battle buddy, in the belief that supporting the obviously morally wrong enemy is cause enough to be punished. The Psychopath: The Ax-Crazy Psycho for Hire who joined up specifically to Rape, Pillage, and Burn and doesn't care whose banner they're doing it under. If he wasn't in the army, he'd be a Serial Killer or other sadistic criminal, or (more likely) an angry average Joe who'd eventually lash out violently once all that bitter hatred boiled over. The Unwilling Conscript: Your regular neighborhood boy who has been conscripted into the army, has absolutely no interest in war, hates it all, and has only his own personal survival at stake. Often terrorized and brutalized by his own officers and noncoms. Extremely likely to desert, sell their own side out and/or kill their would-be comrades. The Broken Soldier: He was a Nice Guy once upon a time, just trying to take care of his buddies and protect his home — but then he saw or experienced something that broke him inside, and now he just wants to end the war and go home. If there's a whole bunch of them, expect an Insane Admiral, Colonel Kilgore, or General Ripper in charge. Occasionally, the rest of the soldiers will be relatively sympathetic, but one of these will be the Token Evil Teammate, especially a Jingo who went too far or the Psycho. Contrast Officer and a Gentleman, Cultured Warrior, and The Soft-Hearted Warrior. Overlaps with Blood Knight, except a Blood Knight is likely to be more sociable and likes the action and excitement of the battle more than carnage or committing war crimes. Compare with the more mercenary Psycho for Hire, who might be a veteran who found out the carnage was enjoyable. Compare and contrast Shell-Shocked Veteran. After leaving the military, this type of character is especially likely to go From Camouflage to Criminal and turn to a life of crime, taking their wartime ruthlessness to use in the criminal underworld. Not to be confused with Psycho Soldier, where the 'psycho' refers to Psychic Powers. This is Truth in Television. Every war, ever, has examples of this show up on all sides. Some have more, some have less, but no side has none. However, listing examples invites flame wars, so No Real Life Examples, Please! |
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In Watchmen, the Comedian shoots a pregnant woman to death while serving in Vietnam without a hint of remorse. And it was his baby. The Comedian then immediately calls out Dr. Manhattan for not doing anything to stop him despite being all-powerful. From his perspective, Dr. Manhattan is a sociopathic soldier. This has spawned MANY fanfics where Dr. Manhattan teleported the baby to X. |
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The Titans of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam were a haven for characters like this. Then again, given that they're led by the likes of Jamitov Hymem, Bask Om, and Paptimus Scirocco, this shouldn't be surprising. Yazan Gable is probably the worst, being a Psycho for Hire who joined up solely for the chance to kill AEUG supporters. | |
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In Homefront the Korean soldiers spend the first few minutes at the beginning of the game brutalizing American citizens. A group of them shot a couple in front of their own child, and the Resistance sees that the Koreans are killing the prisoners and burying them in mass graves. | |
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Hooded Angels: The Confederate militia who raze Silver Creek, killing the men and children and raping the women, in the dying days of the Civil War. | |
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Noble Six in Wolves That Walk Alone is a Broken Soldier thanks to the Training from Hell he received to become a SPARTAN-III and the traumatic experiences he went through during the Human-Covenant War. If there's anything he can do to take down his target in the quickest way possible, he will use it, regardless of how ruthless it may be, but he will never harm any civilian under any circumstances. | |
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Every single soldier who appears in DMZ is depicted in almost uniform fashion as one of these. It gets fairly ridiculous and really fucking hamfisted after a while. Almost as if being a sociopath is a required trait in order for one to qualify as a soldier. | |
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How a lot of the opposing grunts are portrayed in SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs - but the few that you get the drop on in conversations casually talk about what their former base used to be, complaining about their Straw Feminist of a CO, or recruiting civilians onto their side with idealistic logic. | |
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Killzone Colonel Cobar from Killzone: Liberation. When he was still a private during the formation of the Helghast military, he shot his military instructor for stopping a training operation because another recruit was wounded. His ascension to colonel made it worse: mere days into the invasion of Vekta, he captured, tortured and dismembered three ISA council members in Sedah City. Rico from the same series takes it up a step further, and apparently is a good guy. His questionable tactics include wielding a heavy machine gun during a hostage situation and not settling for stealth when Helghast can be killed. It gets bad in Killzone 2 when Templar decides in some strange fashion that he is worthy of not only heading up Alpha but also getting the charge to capture Visari. Guess how it ends. In the manual for the first game, it's stated he was a Rhino Squad member, who were known for being unnecessarily violent. |
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In the movie version of Jack Reacher, the gunman, an ex-soldier, who guns down several people in a Parking Garage is described as being a sociopath who went out of his way to kill civilians in Afghanistan. | |
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Markus Jung, aka Siegfried, from Ãœber is a full-on Psychopath, with a few smatterings of the Jingo. He takes a lot of glee in slaughtering everything in his path with his new superpowers. Heck, in his backstory, he committed his first murder as a little boy! The Jingo stuff comes largely from him being a fully indoctrinated Nazi (his first victim from the aforementioned childhood murder was a Jew). Even his comrades Siegmund and Sieglinde are disgusted with him. | |
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Captain Edward Grey is a Broken Soldier who was broken by his experience in Akuze. Put through a Treadstone-style programme to be brought back to combat readiness, while he still wants to do the right thing, he's quick to opt for the callous, vicious kill-them-all option against slavers, xenophobic lynch mobs and other criminal scum. | |
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Sabres of Infinity Cazarosta, his hatred of the Antari, indifference to the horrors of war and his casual disregard of the rules of engagement amount to this. | |
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Beauty and the Beast (2017): Gaston is an ex-soldier, but the basic principle is the same. His happy thoughts about the war include such things as "blood, explosions, and countless widows," and the only reason he hunts animals is to have things he can kill, openly admitting in his Villain Song that he uses inhumane hunting methods in doing so. | |
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Clone: In this BBC series, Colonel Black (Mark Gatiss) is a solid Psychopath, there to enjoy all the torture and murder. Given the tone of the show, he gets a great deal of enjoyment. | |
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In Fort Massacre, Sgt. Vinson is driven by a fanatical hatred of the Apache and puts the lives of the men under his command in danger to fulfill his mission of personal vengeance. | |
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A victim in the Dexter: Early Cuts webisodes was a sniper during the Gulf War and used his position to kill innocents and cover up his murderous proclivities. | |
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The Simpsons implies that Homer Simpson, had he actually been on a battlefield, would have been of this trope. When he has to be an army recruiter, one of the things he is asking people in a failed attempt at recruiting them is whether they want to kill people. Also, in "You Kent Always Say What You Want," Homer compares his elation to getting his 100th ice cream cone as being similar to gaining his first kill had he been in a war. Mitigated when he was once recruited by the Marines, he isn't smart enough to even hold a rifle, the one they gave him only shoots bubbles. | |
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Sergeant Tony Meserve in Casualties of War. He kidnaps, rapes, and kills a young village girl and then tries to kill PFC Eriksson with a grenade in the latrine. | |
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Ewan McStarley, Vinnie Jones's character in The Condemned (2007)— a SAS operative who became a Condemned Contestant after setting fire to a Rwandan village, executing 17 men, raping 9 women, and torturing various others. | |
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Maggot from The Dirty Dozen is perhaps one of the better pre-Vietnam examples in film. He's a fundamentalist, misogynistic rapist and killer of women who turns on his own team when he can't control his urges during the mission. | |
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The Saga of Tanya the Evil: Tanya is an unusual example of an Unwilling Conscript playing the part of a Jingo, as she is a pacifist callously concerned only with her own self-preservation, and joined the military at a young age in hopes of improving her lot in life and working her way into a cushy desk job away from the front lines. Unfortunately, her combat acumen is so great that she constantly finds herself being sent to the frontlines and vents her rage and frustration on her enemies — making her come across as the Psychopath. | |
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Nora's Life: Atlas General Hayden White fits the Psychopath type all too well. He's an almost textbook example of The Sociopath and only cares about protecting his own ego and causing people pain For the Evulz. His soldiers note that he had been taking women from tribes he was supposed to be protecting and later raping and murdering them. Nora's mother was almost a victim of being raped by him and she was eventually killed during a Grimm attack that he let in to show the capability of the Atlas military. He is also seen shooting his own soldiers when they get in his way. When he is in Haven, RNJR and Qrow decide to expose him using Ruby as the bait to lure him into a hotel room to catch him in the act. When a Grimm attack breaks out halfway there, he decides to take Ruby in an alley and attempts to rape her there before even thinking to stop the monsters. | |
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The military in most of George Romero's Living Dead Series. Just because. And notably subverted in Romero's final film, Survival of the Dead - not only the soldiers are the main characters, they are the same characters who robbed the protagonists of Diary of the Dead. |
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Hüsker Dü's "You're a Soldier" matches the exuberance of its titular sociopathic soldier in music. | |
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My Adventures with Superman features a younger version of Deathstroke before he became a Psycho for Hire mercenary, and he's very much this trope. He was a ruthless Blood Knight that cared nothing for potential civilian casualties when attacking his opponents under Amanda Waller's orders, and was a sadist who frequently partook in Evil Gloating that he was one of "the good guys". | |
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Subverted with Trevor Phillips of Grand Theft Auto V, who despite completing his training as a helicopter pilot for an unspecified Air Force, failed the psychological evaluation which caused him to be grounded and discharged. | |
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Several Naruto villains, although given the nature of the setting comparing them to regular soldiers is iffy. Pre-Heel–Face Turn Gaara is a solid example though, as are all 7 Swordsmen of the Mist. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run: In Ringo Roadagain's backstory, he's antagonized by a nameless soldier who defected from the Union during the Civil War. This soldier proceeded to murder Ringo's mother and sisters, before attempting to rape Ringo, who was only 10 years old at the time. Axl RO was a soldier who fought during the Civil War, and was responsible for hundreds of deaths. However, in the present day, this trope gets subverted due to Axl feeling immense Survivor Guilt for all the deaths he caused and wanting to atone for his sins, which ended up manifesting as his Stand, Civil War. |
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Borderlands 3: Played for Laughs. Maliwan's ground troops are ridiculously sociopathic, gleefully killing everyone in their path for the crime of not using Maliwan products. The commander of the assault on Athenas shamelessly admits he's got an inferiority complex and is burning down the planet to impress his big brother, said big brother proudly says he taught his little brother everything he knows about murdering, and a random private reads aloud a little girl's diary about her horrible life as if it's a hilarious story. | |
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Mythos Effect: Julek, from the Turian Hierarchy, used to be a regular soldier sent to fight against the New Earth Federation... Except that the NEF specializes in Lovecraftian Superpowers and stalking their victims like horror monsters. Julek underwent a days-long Trauma Conga Line running in sheer terror for his life with little to no food, until in desperation he almost drowned in a river trying to get away from some predatory native wildlife. The Hierarchy finds him, puts him in a hospital... And the moment he wakes up they tell him that the rest of his unit is dead and that he should be back for duty as soon as possible. That was the last straw for Julek's sanity, as the only way he could interpret the whole situation was as a giant cosmic joke, and the realization has him Laughing Mad. Now he's known as the epitome of Dissonant Serenity, casually challenging others to shoot him, making bets with his squad over how long the "new meat" gets eaten, wiping the rotting entrails of his dead allies on his armor, and more. And in his words? He's never been happier. | |
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Suicida, leader of the Gang Green in Marshal Law. Like most "superheroes" in the setting, including Law himself, he and his fellow gang members are disaffected veterans of the catastrophic South American war known as "the Zone". He was trained to kill in the most brutal fashion imaginable and resents the idea that his violent nature can somehow be turned on and off like a faucet. He wears a necklace of human ears and just wants to hurt everything he sees. Law doesn't like Suicida but doesn't blame him for his feelings or his behavior, since very few Zone veterans are doing much better. | |
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In the Highlander episode "Brothers in Arms", Andrew Cord is a Broken Soldier. During the American Civil War, he joined the Union Army's 54th Massachusetts Regiment note a famous regiment composed of black enlisted soldiers with white officers; sadly, despite a magnificent combat record they still had to deal with prejudice and mistreatment from their own high command, died in action and revived as an Immortal. He continued as a soldier fighting for causes he believed in, but when fighting never seemed to do any good, he slid from idealism to cynicism and finally sociopathy. Flashbacks reveal that when Joe Dawson served in Vietnam (and had both legs blown off by a land mine), Cord was Dawson's platoon sergeant. When another Marine in the platoon raped a Vietnamese girl and she threatened to report it, Cord killed her without hesitation. By the time Duncan meets him in the present day, he's a corrupt mercenary and arms dealer who thinks nothing of selling defective guns to revolutionaries and demanding payment even after the guns have proven useless in battle. | |
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Half-Life features this trope in the series: The HECU Marines are definitely the Jingo type in the original Half-Life. While, to be fair, they ARE under orders to silence everyone, some seem to take an unnecessary glee in their task. It helps that they blame the Black Mesa team for intentionally causing the Resonance Cascade, despite several of them being terrified of the invading aliens and trying to figure a way to stop the Cascade.note Somewhat averted in Opposing Force - the game sets up events so it's extremely hard to get any surviving military member to meet a scientist (and if he does, said scientist is dead), but for the most part, they're more concerned with getting out and saving each other. Of course, it's more nuanced than that - while there are sociopathic soldiers, there also are soldiers that genuinely dislike what they have been ordered to do. The Black Ops, however, are universally proud to be the Psychopath type, taking glee in violently torturing not just Black Mesa staff, but also surviving HECU Marines left behind after the latter failed their mission. An early team-based puzzle in Opposing Force showcases this, with Corporal Shephard running into a HECU Engineer that was savagely beaten by the Black Ops for information, and then left for dead trapped inside a garage, requiring you to guide a Medic to heal him up so he can bust open a locked door for you to advance.note As if that wasn't bad enough, they also tortured Otis. The Combine Overwatch Soldiers continue this trope in Half-Life 2, but this time as Unwilling Conscripts. Heavily brainwashed and surgically altered, they're treated as tools rather than living beings, even being stored unconscious on racks when not in use. Combine Soldiers speak with a rough monotone voice, and only do so to relay relevant tactical information to fellow Soldiers. In the field, they show little-to-no emotion when killing dissidents or reporting squad casualties. The only time any emotion is hinted at is when they're being threatened with off-world reassignment. If it weren't for the fact that Civil Protection is more of the Combine's police force than part of the Overwatch military itself, they would've counted as this trope thanks to their pure sadism.note And unlike Overwatch Soldiers, who at least have the excuse of generally being taken into service by force and then brainwashed, Civil Protection is entirely voluntary and involves no brainwashing. |
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Mobile Suit Gundam 00 features the A-LAWS who are more or less a collective Expy of the Titans from Zeta; among their number is another of Yazan's expies, Ali Al-Saachez, a Psycho for Hire and Card-Carrying Villain who freely admits that he loves warfare, and wouldn't know what to do with himself if an actual world peace was established. He later graduates to Colonel Kilgore after being given an officer's rank by Big Bad Ribbons Allmark, whom he becomes The Dragon to. | |
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In Alpha Protocol the Veteran Combat Initiative exclusively recruits from the dishonorably discharged and "borderline types" who have difficulty returning to civilian life. | |
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Floch Forter in Attack on Titan. He starts as an naive yet cowardly soldier, but after becoming the Sole Survivor of the suicide charge against the Beast Titan he develops a bitter, ruthless and psychotic personality. He pours gasoline into residential buildings, praises Eren's rampage (whick kills multiple civilians and children), gleefully talks about slaughtering the rest of humanity, advocates murdering Child Soldiers in cold blood, gleefully executes foreigners, poisons his own superiors with Titan spinal fluid, and overall becomes A Nazi by Any Other Name. | |
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Florence from Freefall mentions that the first Uplifted Animal project was with chimpanzees. We later learn that it was an intentional attempt to make sociopathic super-soldiers, which went horribly right because the chimps could not be controlled and would turn on their allies when there were no enemies left to kill. Doctor John Bowman, Florence's creator, is the only surviving uplifted chimpanzee, who left the military with the help of a veterans' association to study neurology. | |
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The unnamed Colonel in War for the Planet of the Apes. Apart from enslaving a race of sentient beings, crucifying some of them, and depriving them of food and water, he kills his own son and some of his men... and his men's families, to prevent the spread of a non-lethal virus. His sociopathy is probably motivated by his obsession with the survival of the human race. | |
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Emile-A239 is another Spartan-III example whose life is defined by the pleasure he takes killing Covenant. His superiors specifically mention that it's best for everyone that he be fielded solely against Covenant targets; his brutality is ill-suited against human Insurrectionists who could very well garner sympathy from the public if his methods were showcased. | |
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Bomber from Whateley Universe is a sophomore in the Grunts, i.e. the Whateley Academy JROTC club. He's also a psychopath. | |
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Mentioned in Discworld's Night Watch, where Sergeant Carcer is described as "the sort that joins up for the looting... the kind you have to end up hanging as an example to the men". | |
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"Warborn" by the The Black Dahlia Murder most certainly qualifies with its psychopathic Blood Knight of a Villain Protagonist. | |
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The Drowned Cities: Most of the soldier boys talk like Jingos, act like Conscripts who have been fed slogans from a bygone era without any context, and are all afflicted with shell shock in one way or another. Sergeant Ocho is a deeply screwed up and angry Broken Soldier, hiding his PTSD behind a wall of bitterness. His commanding officer, Lieutenant Sayle in particular takes this to Psycho for Hire levels, being a cold-blooded sadist and icy Psycho who joined the UPF so he could inflict Cold-Blooded Torture on civvies and enemy troopers. One of Ocho's men, Soa, is also a Psycho, of the Ax-Crazy Mood-Swinger variety. He has pretensions of being a Jingo but doesn't even really understand what the words mean. |
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In Metal Gear Solid V, Venom and Kaz are both Broken Soldiers, having once been somewhat more idealistic and flexible, but also have given up their morals after both having virtually all of their men murdered in front of them and getting mutilated. | |
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Andrew Scott from Universal Soldier. He was a Sergeant in The Vietnam War, where he goes renegade as he starts butchering civilians and kills his own squad when they try to stop him. He cuts off the ears of his victims and wears them in a necklace. He orders Private Luc Deveraux to kill the two remaining 'traitors', two Vietnamese children, doing the job himself when Deveraux refuses. Both are reborn years later as memory-wiped Super Soldiers. As soon as Scott regains his memories he kills his controllers and goes on a blood-filled vendetta across the States to punish Deveraux for disobeying his illegal orders back in Vietnam, graphically killing anyone who gets in his way. In the end he takes Deveraux's elderly parents and his love interest hostage and awards all of them the death penalty. Despite claims earlier in the film that he thinks he's still fighting the insurgents in Vietnam, Scott later plainly admits that he's fully aware of where he is and what he's doing, and his only motive is revenge for Deveraux refusing to partake in his atrocities. | |
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Throughout Star Wars: Republic Commando, your squad worries (with good reason) that Sev is starting to cross the line from Boisterous Bruiser into this trope: | |
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In The Naked and the Dead, Sergeant Croft is a Psychopath. General Cummings also qualifies, but he's more a General Ripper, given his rank. | |
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Dilandau Albatou and his Dragon Slayers from The Vision of Escaflowne combine this with Tyke-Bomb, Teens Are Monsters, and—in Dilandau's case—Pyromania and a side of hypocrisy. Dilandau gets to burn and kill whoever he wants to, but god forbid anyone so much as touch Dilandau. He's pretty much a Psycho for Hire who only works for one employer. | |
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Pretty much all of the Sith Troopers in Knights of the Old Republic, but the students at the Sith Academy on Korriban particularly stand out in that they basically spend their time showcasing their sociopathy in the hopes of being noticed by their superiors. Mandalorians also count, including Canderous in your party. The Republic Trooper Player Character him/herself can be one if Dark Side options are taken in the MMO spin-off Star Wars: The Old Republic. |
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The chapters depicting the past of Twilight himself in Spy X Family heavily imply that they ended up becoming the Broken Soldier variant. They used to be a typical child before war broke out, but the horror of his hometown being bombed and losing their home, friends, and mother during a later air raid, completely crushed their spirit. They chose to join the army underage, made it to the rank of sergeant, and left 'a mountain of corpses' in their wake as their form of revenge against the opposing nation. When they meet the recent army-deserter Franky, they were ready to murder the deserter, despite them being unarmed and begging to be spared. Fortunately, after the deserter's uncomfortably true words and a mission gone bad, Twilight chooses to never fight again without having all the information obtainable, turning them more into the Anti-Hero they are known for. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "A Quality of Mercy", a new replacement is very eager to kill some enemies (Japanese soldiers, in this case), to the disgust of his shell shocked veterans (well, they have been fighting longer than he had). This being The Twilight Zone, he gets his comeuppance when he somehow becomes a Japanese soldier and is forced to obey an Evil Counterpart who repeats his own bloodthirsty words back at him. All Just a Dream, maybe, but he gets the message. | |
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Pale-faced shocktrooper Jane Turner from Valkyria Chronicles, who specifically joined up with Squad 7 to, as she puts it, "put holes in Imps." Yeah, she's a little creepy. | |
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Resident Evil: U.B.C.S. Sergeant Nicholai Ginovaef of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, an ex-soldier turned mercenary is this trope to a "T", plotting to murder all of his colleagues so that he can receive their pay. He's also a Badass Normal who somehow manages to survive the game, making your life a living hell the entire time. U.S.S. team leader HUNK, alias "Mr. Death", of Resident Evil 2 is a totally cold-blooded version, who willingly leaves his teammates to die in furtherance of his mission, and doesn't care at all about the civilians his team guns down. He earned said alias because of a reputation for being the Sole Survivor of a number of missions. Despite apparently being intended as an insult, HUNK sees it as a point of pride and seems to think that this makes him immortal or invincible. Generally speaking, the Umbrella Security Service (U.S.S.) and Umbrella Bioweapon Countermeasures Service (U.B.C.S.) seem to attract a lot of these guys. Given the nature of the work and the fact that most of them are Former Regime Personnel or professional mercenaries, this is unsurprising. The entire business is headed up by Colonel Kilgore Sergei Vladimir. Jack Krauser from Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. Originally career military with side gigs as a mercenary, Krauser was driven over the edge after suffering a Career-Ending Injury to his left arm. He faked his own death, joining Wesker's organization in pursuit of greater power through Umbrella's viruses. His former partner, Leon, is shocked at Krauser's transformation into a deranged, war-paint wearing Blood Knight. |
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Artificial humans in Copperhead straddle types 2 and 3. As engineered soldiers they are genetically predisposed to enjoy violence; as rational human beings, they're completely aware they're being manipulated to the ends of whoever made them and resentful of their position. | |
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Metal Gear is constantly in conversation with this trope. Solid Snake is somewhere between a Broken Soldier and a Psychopath. He demonstrably has a strong moral code compared to even the other heroic characters in the game, but at various times (especially in the first Metal Gear Solid) characters call him out for enjoying the killing, which he all but acknowledges. (This ties into the fact that the player is, of course, killing people as Snake for their personal entertainment.) In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, if the player chooses to have Snake kill too many people in one go, Snake has a flashback to Liquid accusing him of enjoying all the killing and vomits. He constantly attempts to quit battle due to his PTSD, but is also constantly drawn back into it again, and says it's the only time he feels truly alive. Liquid Snake is a Broken Soldier, an absolute screwup for similar reasons to Snake, having been raised to believe he was worthless, becoming a horrifyingly effective warlord while still a child and leading a failed coup, then, in adulthood, getting captured and tortured for years as a POW, which apparently caused the last of his sanity to desert him. Liquid is far more emotional than Solid Snake and appears to do awful things out of bitterness and rage to begin with. After his death he seems to become a lot more cheerful, and thereafter openly delights in the chaos and misery he causes. Metal Gear Solid: Mantis is a Psychopath, having absorbed the mind of a serial killer, and choosing to join Liquid "to kill as many people as I could". Sniper Wolf is an Unwilling Conscript turned Psychopath. She is clearly as damaged as she is because of the trauma she underwent as a victim of ethnic cleansing, and turned killer at first only to protect herself, but the fact that she 'falls in love with people before she kills them' puts her somewhat in the serial killer section on the diagram. She tells Snake that her reason for joining Liquid was "to take my revenge on the world". The BB Corps in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots are Unwilling Conscripts turned Psychopaths, having all started out as helpless victims of war but being deliberately manipulated into becoming ruthless, sadistic cyborg monsters who live to kill. Metal Gear: Ghost Babel: Pyro Bison informs Snake of the number of people he killed, telling him that he's this. (The absolute lowest number of kills he can accuse Snake of is two, due to there being no alternative for Slasher Hawk and Marionette Owl.) Marionette Owl is definitely an example of the Psychopath type - a former serial killer who was recruited into the military in a Boxed Crook situation. His motivation for cornering Snake appears to be to take some of Snake's prettier bones to give to his bunraku puppets. In Metal Gear Solid V, Venom and Kaz are both Broken Soldiers, having once been somewhat more idealistic and flexible, but also have given up their morals after both having virtually all of their men murdered in front of them and getting mutilated. Raiden in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is another Unwilling Conscript gone Psychopath. A deeply traumatised child soldier known as 'Jack the Ripper', he'd successfully managed to restrict most of the trauma until being purposefully baited into regressing to his Ripper persona, which turns out to be a huge mistake on the part of the villains, who now have to deal with a terrifyingly powerful Cyber Ninja who really, really likes killing. Sundowner and Mistral are Psychopath sadistic soldiers. Mistral is a Blood Knight who enjoys the act of killing while Sundowner loves war itself and is enthusiastic about the immoral ways Desperado Enforcement will spark future conflicts. |
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An almost uniform trait of Caesar's Legion in Fallout: New Vegas. Rape, pillaging, enslaving, and burning are standard procedure. Legionares despise weakness and will kill anyone who doesn't serve the Legion - soldiers, civilians, women, children, old people. What we call war crimes, they call tactical maneuvers. Their top field commander slaughters his own troops to keep them in line. Even Caesar himself, who is regarded as a godly figure by his troops and is trying to build a better world, is sadly aware that his Legion has yet to become more than just a horde. | |
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The protagonist of The Procession To Calvary is a soldier desperate to kill more people despite the newfound peace. | |
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Most of the grunts in Schlock Mercenary fit this fairly well, minus the rape. When hiring new recruits, Captain Tagon even commends his senior officer Thurl for "hiring those [violent sociopaths] right up." To further the trope, most of the ones who get promoted beyond Sgt. happen to be a bit more rational in their thinking, with the notable exception of now-Lieutenant Shore Pibald. The (Tausenigann) Ob'enn even more so. In fact, their entire culture is like this. And they're not the only ones, the robots in Book Three are this, and possibly the Tohdfraug (though Petey's press-ganging scheme redeemed them quite a bit). Also, Kowalski from the UNS, who claims his conscience is vestigial and is in charge of the vilest wetwork the UNS has to do. |
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Red Dwarf: Kill Crazy: | |
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The "Kanonen-Song" from The Threepenny Opera has a refrain about soldiers turning people into beefsteak tartare. Specifically, people with darker or lighter skin than the British Army. They're equal opportunity racists. |
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Déjà Vu (2006): Carroll is a subversion—he aced every single test to enter the U.S. Army, except the psychological profiling, and thus was not allowed to enter. Still, his combination of skills and honest belief that blowing up a ferry with 300 people (that he also believes were fated to die—they were on the ferry, after all) in the middle of Mardi Gras is a necessary sacrifice so America goes into a tougher stance on terrorism makes him a perfect example of the 'jingoistic' type of soldier. | |
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Jack Krauser from Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles. Originally career military with side gigs as a mercenary, Krauser was driven over the edge after suffering a Career-Ending Injury to his left arm. He faked his own death, joining Wesker's organization in pursuit of greater power through Umbrella's viruses. His former partner, Leon, is shocked at Krauser's transformation into a deranged, war-paint wearing Blood Knight. | |
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Dog Soldier has Col. Harry, Hiba's former commanding officer. | |
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Sergeant Bothari of the Vorkosigan Saga is a more complex version of this. He is a sadistic sociopath but has enough conscience to realise that random killing is wrong. So he uses military regulations to tell him when it is OK to kill. His commanding officers learn to think very carefully before taking off his leash. | |
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The BB Corps in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots are Unwilling Conscripts turned Psychopaths, having all started out as helpless victims of war but being deliberately manipulated into becoming ruthless, sadistic cyborg monsters who live to kill. | |
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We later learn in the miniseries The Punisher: Born, which chronicles Frank Castle's final tour in Vietnam, that Castle's Marine outpost of Valley Forge was rife with these. The vast majority of the Marines are depicted as either clear-cut psychopaths, amoral conscripts, or jingoistic sociopaths — half of whom are implied to be addicted to heroin — with a commanding officer who is alcoholic, broken and knows full well that the war is a lost cause. With the young narrator of the story Stevie Goodwin explicitly stated to be an unwilling conscript who wanted nothing to do with the war and whose only desire is to return home safely, but at the same time realizes that sticking with Frank Castle and his platoon is his best bet at getting home in one piece, as Castle is the only competent higher-ranking Marine in the whole outpost. | |
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Desil Galette of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE takes the worst qualities of both Yazan and Ali and combines them into a single, nasty child-sized package, treating war as a game and his victims as toys. The timeskip has not improved him, and the disconcerting enthusiasm he shows whenever's he's turned loose on his enemies is if anything more disturbing on a thirty-three-year-old. | |
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Wrath of Man: Two members of Jackson's crew show different forms of this. Brad has failed to adapt to civilian life and is itching for a new "mission" to end his boredom, with no care about who gets hurt. Jan seems generally unstable and has poor impulse control, leading him to kill Jackson and Bullet to steal the money from their final heist. Bullet only reveals this at the end when he guns down Fortico guards he personally trained with no apparent emotion. | |
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Apparently, the various grunts in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, especially the Ultranationalists, who purposefully are bombing whole villages. And from Call of Duty: World at War, Sgt. Reznov. He really likes killing Nazis. And also from WaW, the soldiers from the Call of Duty: Zombies mode. They're quite involved in their zombie killing. |
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The Human Liberation Front in The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum is composed of every type save for Unwilling Conscripts. There's the Jingoes, who think they can do anything they want to invading ponies, PHL or not, because of their very association with the Advancing Wall of Doom that's destroying their world. The Psychopaths are continually alluded to, and a lot of them happen to be broken by the traumas that set them on the road to being in the HLF. One such example is Victor Kraber, who left the group after a Heel Realization and has since then been The Atoner (though he's still got an itchy trigger finger when it comes to the enemy forces). Many of the heroic characters are of the Broken type themselves. Marcus is a Shell-Shocked Veteran who is so utterly broken by the horrible things he's seen and had to do throughout the Conversion War, it's a miracle he's as level-headed as he is. Stephan meanwhile does have it together a bit better than most but he too has many of his own problems. TCB!Trixie also carries quite a lot of baggage herself in due part to her fears of Becoming the Mask with regards to the alternate personalities she uses in her spy work becoming fully realized and becoming as ruthless as the people she fights against. |
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In Sin City, Marv briefly mentions fighting in a war. It's possible that this could be one of the reasons for his mental state. Also oddly averted with Wallace. Given Sin City's penchant for violent heroes, Wallace is a former Navy SEAL, yet is one of the nicest characters in the series. |
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Frank Horrigan from Fallout 2. He's easily one of the most psychotic and ruthless characters in the game, and possibly the entire series. He was bad enough in the Pre-War United States and became much worse after F.E.V. exposure turned him into a Super Mutant and the Enclave made him their top enforcer, outfitting him with the finest life support, Powered Armor, and firepower. | |
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X-Men Film Series William Stryker. Although a superior officer. Victor Creed in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, considering his attempted rape of a local during Vietnam, as well as the implied killing of civilians while firing from a helicopter during the same war. Probably caused by having spent the last hundred years as an unkillable soldier giving him a taste for brutality. |
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Black Lagoon: In his backstory, the leader of the Special Forces unit Grey Fox killed a gang of these (led by a Colonel Kilgore type) to protect Vietnamese civilians. Roberta professes that she was the Jingo while she served in the FARC, killing without remorse to protect the ideals of the Revolution. |
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Smallville: Rick Flag is a sociopathic ex-soldier turned Western Terrorist. He's got a thing for Cold-Blooded Torture, bombings, and misplaced Patriotic Fervor, giving an amazing impression of a Right-Wing Militia Fanatic. He's also got a Complexity Addiction - he uses a missile to try and kill one person. Think about that for a minute. Lieutenant Trotter is also an example. Disciple of General Ripper Slade Wilson, she willingly engages in kidnapping, brainwashing, and human experimentation in the supposed interests of protecting the US from metahumans. A Knight Templar whom even Flag believes needs stopping. Her devotion to both Slade and her belief that metahumans need to be stopped gets to a point where she arrests and interrogates three completely normal people, including subtly implying that if they don't answer her questions, they'll never be seen or heard from again. Keep in mind that the only evidence she has against these three is being on Oliver Queen's payroll (Emil), writing a lot of stories about a superhero (Lois), and being Oliver's ex-girlfriend and current business partner (Tess). She badgers them about where the vigilantes are, despite the fact that she has no good reason to think any of them know anything. While she is never flat-out violent towards those three in particular during the interrogations, her orders to move Tess and Emil to a "secure location" heavily sounds like they were either going to be executed or moved to a location where she could use less conversational techniques. |
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The Black Dog Knights from Berserk are an army of the worst rapists, murderers, and thieves that Midland has to offer. They're led by Wyald, a real piece of work of an Apostle who enjoys doing horrible things to people for his own enjoyment. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender. Deconstructed when Katara goes after the soldier who killed her mother, expecting a Psycho for Hire. What she gets is a cowardly old man, whom she angrily describes as "just empty. There's nothing inside you." The implication is that fear got him to act like a Conscript; outside of combat he's not much of a threat—just don't sneak up on him. Another implication could have been that either that: the soldier was a Might Makes Right kind of guy, so he wimps out at the sight of more powerful figures (For example: his mother, and Katara). Or that he is a foil who shows that this (being a wimpy, cowardly, "Well Done, Son" Guy) is what Katara would have been like if her mother was still alive. Yet another interpretation, is that he was a monster, but had some kind of crippling mother issues aside and that years of retirement living under his mother had ground him down to the point that he wasn't worth killing. Or that he became that way as a result of the things he had done on the battlefield, becoming a Shell-Shocked Veteran. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Reese from the episode "The Siege of AR-558" is this. He is shown to be wearing a necklace of ketracel-white tubes (a type drug the enemy needs to survive) picked from killed Jem'Hadar and often sharpening a knife also taken from a dead enemy. He is also used to show the cruelty of war in that he survives while Nice Guy Kellin dies. | |
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Blackwatch from [PROTOTYPE]. The regular Marines in Manhattan view them with disgust, rightfully so; several Web of Intrigue memories show them murdering civilians for the hell of it. And laughing. | |
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Nintendo Wars: The Beast from Advance Wars: Days of Ruin might not seem like one, but Caulder addresses him as "Sergeant" at one point before noting that he no longer considers himself military. The implication is that the Beast was always the hateful, kill-crazy man he became After the End, and the only difference is that he no longer has the chain of command to hold him back. | |
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Outlander: Captain Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall is an equal opportunity rapist and torture who uses his authority to sadistically torture the population of the Scottish Highlands. He particularly enjoys creating scarpia ultimatums in which his victims have to decide between being raped and tortured themselves or having their loved one raped and tortured. And he doesn't care if his victims are men, women, or children. | |
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The Spartan-III Program in Halo is partly designed to produce this. The recruits were chosen exclusively from orphaned children of Covenant attacks on Outer Colonies, most of which were 4-6 years old, and were raised and trained on the sole promise that they'd one day be able to avenge their families by killing every Covenant warrior. The result was several companies of peerless fighters fully willing to participate in suicide attacks to take out entire Covenant worlds. Headhunters Roland and Jonah exemplify the attitude, taking absolute glee in mowing down and mutilating Covenant soldiers while fueled by the memory of their glassed homeworlds. Emile-A239 is another Spartan-III example whose life is defined by the pleasure he takes killing Covenant. His superiors specifically mention that it's best for everyone that he be fielded solely against Covenant targets; his brutality is ill-suited against human Insurrectionists who could very well garner sympathy from the public if his methods were showcased. |
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Band of Brothers is rather ambiguous with this trope, but Speirs exhibits traits of a psychopathic killer more than once during the series. His men both fear him and tell stories of his brutality. Historians agree the real man was a brutal soldier but not a sadist. Unlike many examples of this trope, he cares deeply about the men under his command. | |
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Mass Effect: Depending on how you play the game, Commander Shepard can be one of these, especially with the Ruthless background in Mass Effect. Deconstructed by the third game, where continuing to play this character type means you have to deliberately stab several allied characters in the back, most particularly Mordin Solus. | |
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The Things They Carried has Azar, who, at one point, blows up a squad member's puppy and mocks everyone. At one point, when he's scared shitless, he claims his Jerkassery is a defense against fear, but he's probably lying again to save his ass. | |
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In I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, Vace is a cruel soldier who takes pleasure out of slaughtering innocent animals, beating up anyone who disagrees with his views, and intimidating Anemone into obeying his every whim. This comes to a head when he and Rex get into a major fight for their opposing views of the colony, with Rex outright calling him sociopathic because he believes that deep down, Vace only cares about fighting because "it makes [his] dick hard". | |
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Many, many examples in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, from ZAFT troops executing surrendered Earth Forces personnel despite their enemies surrendering, to Blue Cosmos lunatics who gleefully launch nuclear weapons at ZAFT's home bases in the Plants. The Bio-CPU's are particularly vicious about it, although that's not entirely their fault. The ZAFT veterans who try to Colony Drop Earth at the start of SEED Destiny are an especially good example, as is Yzak Joule before his Character Development sets in. In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny's spinoff, Stargazer, three sociopathic soldiers serve as the villainous protagonists. They are the emotionally damaged Sven Cal Bayan (who was left this way after Training from Hell and believes he's Just Following Orders), the sadistic Mudie Holcroft, and the hyper-aggressive Shams Couza. Acting as a strike team for Blue Cosmos, the three of them see a lot of action; only Sven makes it out alive. |
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The Batman story "The Ugly American" deals with one. He was initially just a patriotic man who was sent to prison for murdering a protester of The Vietnam War. The government decided to make him a Super-Soldier by amplifying his patriotism and his combat skills but went way too far and went after anyone that he thought wasn't "American" in his eyes. He escapes and Batman deals with him, but when the government kills the soldier, he calls them out and vows to reveal everything. | |
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GoldenEye: Rogue Agent: Agent Jack Hunter, also known as Goldeneye. He's unique in that he's sadistic and careless—he wastes time hurting his enemies. MI-6 has no use for him, but SPECTRE, on the other hand... | |
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Frieda's brother Richard in Frieda. A former German soldier, he had been captured and allowed to volunteer for the Polish Army. However, he is still an unrepentant Nazi, who believes that Germans will band together and forge a new Reich. However, having been fighting his entire adult life, he has no interest in or use for peace, and delivers an angry rant to Frieda about how he wants to see the war continue forever. | |
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In the 2003 anime version, we also have Lt. Colonel Frank Archer, a textbook sociopath and Jingo who joined the army for the prestige, and out of his belief that War Is Glorious. He manipulates the emotions of those forced to work with him, turns anime!Kimblee (a Misanthrope Supreme Psycho for Hire and Mad Bomber) loose on Liore, and willingly hunts down anyone the government tells him is a threat. He is later promoted to a command rank, where his raging paranoia ensures his evolution into a General Ripper. | |
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The above scene is from Michael Herr's book Dispatches which describes his experiences as a war correspondent in Vietnam. Herr was a co-screenwriter for Full Metal Jacket and was nominated for an Academy Award for his work. | |
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Almost the entire Japanese Army in City of Life and Death. It's a movie about the Rape of Nanking, so that goes without saying. | |
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Gundam: The Titans of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam were a haven for characters like this. Then again, given that they're led by the likes of Jamitov Hymem, Bask Om, and Paptimus Scirocco, this shouldn't be surprising. Yazan Gable is probably the worst, being a Psycho for Hire who joined up solely for the chance to kill AEUG supporters. Yazan received an expy in Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ's Rakan Dahkaran, a ruthless Axis-Zeon Ace Pilot who ignores the rules of war and aims to kill as many of the enemy as possible, regardless of whether they are actually combatants. One iconic scene has him impassively firing on hospital ships and refugee craft as they attempt to flee from a Colony Drop; he wants to make sure that no one escapes the blast radius. Alex and Mueller are two of Lucrezia Noin's former trainees who go this route in their sole episode of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. They both take great joy in sadistically murdering their opponents and laughing over the wreckage. If they weren't members of the army, they'd be Psychos For Hire. Many, many examples in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, from ZAFT troops executing surrendered Earth Forces personnel despite their enemies surrendering, to Blue Cosmos lunatics who gleefully launch nuclear weapons at ZAFT's home bases in the Plants. The Bio-CPU's are particularly vicious about it, although that's not entirely their fault. The ZAFT veterans who try to Colony Drop Earth at the start of SEED Destiny are an especially good example, as is Yzak Joule before his Character Development sets in. In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny's spinoff, Stargazer, three sociopathic soldiers serve as the villainous protagonists. They are the emotionally damaged Sven Cal Bayan (who was left this way after Training from Hell and believes he's Just Following Orders), the sadistic Mudie Holcroft, and the hyper-aggressive Shams Couza. Acting as a strike team for Blue Cosmos, the three of them see a lot of action; only Sven makes it out alive. Mobile Suit Gundam 00 features the A-LAWS who are more or less a collective Expy of the Titans from Zeta; among their number is another of Yazan's expies, Ali Al-Saachez, a Psycho for Hire and Card-Carrying Villain who freely admits that he loves warfare, and wouldn't know what to do with himself if an actual world peace was established. He later graduates to Colonel Kilgore after being given an officer's rank by Big Bad Ribbons Allmark, whom he becomes The Dragon to. Desil Galette of Mobile Suit Gundam AGE takes the worst qualities of both Yazan and Ali and combines them into a single, nasty child-sized package, treating war as a game and his victims as toys. The timeskip has not improved him, and the disconcerting enthusiasm he shows whenever's he's turned loose on his enemies is if anything more disturbing on a thirty-three-year-old. |
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The Scarlet Chorus in Tyranny is made up of these. Recruits to the Chorus either join willingly because they are Psychopaths who want to kill and rape things, or are Unwilling Conscripts dragged into the Chorus and mentally brutalized. Those who are conscripted and somehow end up surviving for long enough to thrive inevitably 'evolve' into Psychopaths, as continued life in the Chorus eats away your former identity and leaves you a sociopathic Social Darwinist. By contrast their rival army, The Disfavoured, are almost entirely made up of Jingos. They are very much The Proud Elite and proud of their homeland in the Northern Empire, and look down on anyone who's not Disfavoured. While those who surrender early escape by 'merely' being enslaved, those who provide enough resistance for the Disfavoured to take them seriously (or prove unworthy foes by rebelling or breaking earlier terms of surrender) tend to end up being mass crucified by the roadside as a warning to the rest. |
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Lost: Soldier turned mercenary Martin Keamy appears to have always been sadistic and borderline psycho, but the Island really brings out his sociopathy, resulting in him murdering people left and right for spurious reasons and endangering the lives of his ship's entire crew. | |
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NCIS: Has had a few of these by its nature, but Jonas Cobb (the Port-To-Port Killer) and Jonathan "Casey Stratton" Cole, both utterly broken Black Ops types, got season-spanning story arcs. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3: While the game taking place in a Forever War means that there are plenty of Child Soldiers from Keves and Agnus who are demented, none of them are as depraved as The Dreaded Agnian soldier Blackblaze Dirk, later known as Consul D. Back when he was Agnian, Dirk took sadistic pleasure in murdering his victims, equipping himself with a pair of self-made claws that allowed him to lop people's heads off. It also didn't matter that Keves was his enemy, as there were plenty of soldiers from Agnus working alongside him who he lopped off the heads of completely on purpose. The only reason why he stopped being a normal Agnian and became part of Moebius is because such power meant that not only would he live forever through the Flame Clocks, but he would be able to slaughter more people than he ever could as an Agnian. Before he's defeated, it's revealed that he has an entire collection of severed heads from the people he killed, both as Dirk and as D. | |
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Mass Effect: Human Revolution: Captain Edward Grey is a Broken Soldier who was broken by his experience in Akuze. Put through a Treadstone-style programme to be brought back to combat readiness, while he still wants to do the right thing, he's quick to opt for the callous, vicious kill-them-all option against slavers, xenophobic lynch mobs and other criminal scum. This is the justification given in chapter 38 for why Blacklight black ops troops are so easy to defeat, at least for elite superhuman warriors like Adam, Hannibal, and Johann - The Alliance Intelligence Agency selects for the jingoistic ultranationalists willing to cross any line to protect humanity's interests, and as it turns out being a talented combatant and being one willing to get his hands dirty are categories that rarely overlap. Some Psychopaths are also among their ranks, only in it for the opportunities to hurt people. |
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Captain Hezekiah Holt in Mohawk, who promotes himself to Colonel after Colonel Hawkes is killed; forces his civilian interpreter to take up arms; tortures prisoners for information; murders civilians, including priests; stabs a prisoner of war in the back; and forces his men to accompany him on mission of personal vengeance rather than taking them to safety. | |
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A French Village: Janvier, the Milice leader, gleefully orders the whole family of a resistance fighter murdered, referring to this as great fun. | |
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Taylor in Animorphs is sociopathic even by Yeerk standards. Torture Technician, Manipulative Bastard, and Jerkass extraordinaire, she just plain enjoys hurting people. And on the side of the good guys, there's Token Evil Teammate and Blood Knight Rachel. Unlike Taylor, she's not a sadist, she just likes fighting a bit too much and spends three years slowly Jumping Off the Slippery Slope. Alloran is a Broken Soldier. He used to be a normal young Andalite, even a prankster- until the Yeerks rose up and slaughtered his comrades. This embittered him to the point of becoming a General Ripper, unleashing the quantum virus on the Hork-Bajir homeworld and even after his subsequent disgrace is seen executing hostages and trying to force Elfangor to kill thousands of helpless Yeerks. He is so far gone, that even when everything goes to hell, instead of helping secure the Time Matrix he spends his days in hiding, morphing, and demorphing, watching the Yeerk transport for the chance to finish his slaughter. Ironically he seems broken of this again after decades of slavery as Visser Three's host. Aloth, another Andalite, is revealed to have been convicted of selling organs on the battlefield, a war crime, and is generally cold and ruthless (apart from humorless jokes), even for an assassin. Carger from the Hork-Bajir Chronicles, one of the first Yeerks to promote himself to sub-visser is said to be so ruthless and brutal that even a young Esplin (later Visser Three) remarks on it. Possibly subverted as he runs away when ambushed and is never seen again. |
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Unsurprisingly common in BattleTech. For the most part, they're Jingos and Psychopaths- any unit with a Fanatical devotion rating is guaranteed to have plenty of Jingos, for example. Unwilling Conscripts are much rarer because Battlemechs, Aerospace Fighters, and even Battle Armor are far too expensive to waste on conscripts, so infantry units are generally the only places they can be found. A lot of Broken Soldiers got created by the Word of Blake Jihad when people who'd joined the Word of Blake suddenly found out that the Word had picked a fight with every other faction in existence and was busy committing war crimes like they had quotas to meet. The knowledge that everyone else was coming for them and they could expect no mercy drove a lot of Blakists who weren't already fanatical (see The Jingo) over the Despair Event Horizon and turned them into Broken Soldiers. | |
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And notably subverted in Romero's final film, Survival of the Dead - not only the soldiers are the main characters, they are the same characters who robbed the protagonists of Diary of the Dead. | |
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Police Academy: Tackleberry is the police version of one of these, albeit a softened for comedy version. He lives for the chance to pull his gun. He brings his own weapons with him to the Academy, runs through the shooting gallery in a visibly excited state blasting all the silhouettes including the civilian ones, and he has a mini mental breakdown at the end when there was a gunfight and "he missed it". | |
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Kagerou-Nostalgia: The vast majority of the soldiers in General Kiyotaka Kuroda's employ fit into this category. Given that they're sent into battle alongside demons, with orders to butcher and kidnap as many civilians as possible, this is more or less a part of the job description. | |
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This is Wonder Woman's oft enemy Ares' natural state. Wondy generally faces off against him when he goes Omnicidal Maniac or tries overtly influencing humanity, but generally, he believes War Is Hell and revels in it and joins armed conflict as either an overeager unregistered conscript or by possessing soldiers who are present. To make matters worse his presence is enough to influence others to behave more in this line. | |
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Command & Conquer: Most of the in-game unit audio will either have them take a dispassionate attitude towards engaging the enemy or display Patriotic Fervor. However, there are a few that just come across as psychopaths who are in it for the killing, such as the Soviet Desolator units, Yuri's Cold Sniper Dark Action Girl Virus, and half the GLA army. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Cryo Legionnaires are recruited from the Peacekeepers on a physical basis but also need to fit a psychological profile Futuretech claims is necessary for the job. Going by the Soviet campaign, said mindset is that of someone who would deliberately jetpack onto utterly helpless victims to shatter them and then laugh about it. And then there's the ice puns... Similarly, Harbinger pilots are said to be a tad too enthusiastic about their jobs, and are arrogant even for air force pilots. Desolators are Maddened Into Misanthropy, being terminally-ill patients outfitted with crude cybernetics that allow them to breathe the fumes of their hideous flesh-melting chemical weapons (and only the fumes, they choke on fresh air) that violate more than 70 laws of warfare. With a life expectancy of about a year (when said cybernetics break down), there's no surprise that they're a little bitter. |
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Space Force by Jeremy Robinson: Hale believes all of the Russian Ops soldiers are conscienceless killers they don't help their case by gunning down the unarmed Canadian soldiers attempting to talk with them. Averted by Ivan who is a pleasant individual despite his odd qualities. | |
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Metal Gear: Ghost Babel: Pyro Bison informs Snake of the number of people he killed, telling him that he's this. (The absolute lowest number of kills he can accuse Snake of is two, due to there being no alternative for Slasher Hawk and Marionette Owl.) Marionette Owl is definitely an example of the Psychopath type - a former serial killer who was recruited into the military in a Boxed Crook situation. His motivation for cornering Snake appears to be to take some of Snake's prettier bones to give to his bunraku puppets. |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, most knights and men-at-arms conform to this trope, particularly those assigned to raid and despoil peasant villages for information and supplies. One character gives a sympathetic monologue that any man conscripted into war can become this way if he survives long enough. Gregor Clegane is a Psychopath. He only fights under Tywin for a chance to hurt people, and when he's not soldiering he's murdering and raping people for his own amusement. He seems to have been this before he became a soldier; as a child, he burnt his brother's face when they tried playing with a toy he didn't want anyway and is rumored to have murdered his father and sister. The men under him, such as the jolly but cruel rapist Chiswyck, the Faux Affably Evil Raff "the Sweetling", and Torture Technician "The Tickler" also count. Averted slightly by Shitmouth, a foul-mouthed fellow who treats the prisoners slightly more kindly, giving them extra food if they ask. The Brave Companions, better and more accurately known as the Bloody Mummers, are an entire group of these. They’re sellswords but they take jobs to fight in war not for the pay, but for the opportunity to rape, murder, torture, and pillage to their hearts’ content. |
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IT-HE Software's walkthrough for Deus Ex makes the protagonist into one of these, with "nothing short of a full-blown psychosis". | |
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Troopers Lijah Cuu and Murtan Feygor in the Gaunt's Ghosts novels, though the latter tends to be held in check by Colonel-Commissar Gaunt. | |
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The soldiers in 28 Days Later. Besides the Only Sane Man, the CO wants nubile women to try and keep the rest of his soldiers under control. Think about that for a minute. | |
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Metal Gear Solid: Mantis is a Psychopath, having absorbed the mind of a serial killer, and choosing to join Liquid "to kill as many people as I could". Sniper Wolf is an Unwilling Conscript turned Psychopath. She is clearly as damaged as she is because of the trauma she underwent as a victim of ethnic cleansing, and turned killer at first only to protect herself, but the fact that she 'falls in love with people before she kills them' puts her somewhat in the serial killer section on the diagram. She tells Snake that her reason for joining Liquid was "to take my revenge on the world". |
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In Mega Man X4, Frost Walrus of the Repliforce's Arctic unit qualifies as this. Frost Walrus was a short-tempered, rowdy Reploid whose destructive behavior got him marked for disposal as a Maverick. However, he was saved when General gave him a chance to join the Repliforce, a military organization of Reploids. Walrus would continue his violent ways, and felt that rampaging through enemies was a military man's duty. When the Great Repliforce War started, Walrus was impressed as it was a perfect excuse for him to riot as much as he liked. Walrus was stationed at Repliforce's base in a snowy region and put in charge of guarding their secret weapon under construction. The Hunters eventually found out about the secret project, and dispatched members of their elite team to stop Walrus. Walrus refused to surrender or stop his actions in the coup d'etat, and the Hunters were forced to destroy him in battle for his Maverick actions, his luck finally running out. He is even worse in the manga. After butchering an entire squadron of Maverick Hunters who were out to stop his rampaging, he kept their corpses encased in ice chambers as port as a trophy collection of his victims. When the Colonel of the Repliforce repimanded him for such misconduct, in a temper tantrum he released several Maverick Hunter prisoners and told them to run for their lives, only to viciously hunt them down for sport and kill each of them with his ice powers, save one, who was saved by X and ex-Maverick Blizzard Buffalo, the latter being reformed in the manga as a hunter. After Walrus viciously injured X into unconsciousness, Buffalo went to fight Walrus alone, who brutually murdered him by impaling Buffalo with a Frost Tower attack. Repliforce leader General had enough of Walrus's evil deeds and brutally shot him down during his second encounter with X as a punishment for his previous misconduct and to save X's life. |
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Marcus Black was a former Atlas soldier in The Black Hearts. He was a Psychopath who only joined to kill people and sate his bloodlust. | |
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Most of the cast of Gone with the Blastwave cross this trope with Armed Farces and Comedic Sociopathy. They're by and large a bunch of apathetic, incompetent, manic-depressive bunglers, but they're still soldiers. They run the gamut of the scale — most are Unwilling Conscripts, Broken Soldiers, or a combination of the two, but a few are in the Psychopath category. There aren't many Jingos in the cast, mostly because almost no one seems to care who they're fighting for or against. | |
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When Trumpets Fade: Manning is a textbook example of the unwilling conscript. He doesn't want any part in the war, but he keeps being promoted due to the high attrition rate of the battle. His brutality extends mostly to the New Meat he's been assigned to lead, but he's not really a coward, proving himself pretty damn capable under fire. | |
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Kuroi from Thou Shalt Not Die is a clear sociopath. The only person he cares about is Mashiro; anybody else is expendable, and he will not lift a finger to save them unless Mashiro orders him to. He will also kill anyone he sees as a threat to Mashiro or his relationship with her at the drop of the hat. | |
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In the Takeshi Kovacs Series, also written by Morgannote and close enough to Thirteen that many speculate they take place later in the same universe, the UN Protectorate's Envoys recruit borderline psychopaths with just the right mix of inhibition and sense of duty. Most end up resorting to crime after they muster out, the titular character usually works as a detective, bodyguard, or mercenary. According to Kovacs, they prefer to recruit from more conventional militaries as they cultivate that mindset. Though it's not entirely clear where along the scale he falls given how often he mentions his pre-recruitment adolescence as a gangbanger. | |
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In the Doom movie, Sarge shows himself to be this, at one point killing the rookie member of his team for refusing his order to kill a room full of unarmed civilians. Small wonder, then, that he mutates into the protagonist's final adversary after becoming infected. | |
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In No Gods, Only Guns, the Crimson Lance are staffed almost exclusively with Psychopaths, with the rest kept in line by them. This is easier than it sounds, as Humanity Is Insane in this setting. In fact, being moral and upstanding is considered a detriment in the Lance, as they're essentially the heavily-armed thugs of an amoral MegaCorp, and early on Roland is put in a situation where he and his squad have to make a decision between killing unarmed civilians or being executed on the spot in order to prove their loyalty. | |
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The Reynard Cycle: Token Evil Teammate Tybalt leads an entire company of these in Defender of the Crown. Most of them are Jingos and Broken Soldiers (when asked why they are torturing captives, two of them explain that they witnessed their loved ones being slaughtered by the enemy and now it's payback time), but more than a few are outright Psychopaths. | |
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In Disco Elysium, the Kremel mercenaries participated and rejoiced in the mutilation, mass burning and rapes of civilians in a war of colonial racism (they "kill almost exclusively black people", as the player character can put it). In the game, they launch a pointless assault on dockworkers after the political control they were dispatched to achieve was already given up for reasons far beyond their control or responsibility. The characters, while monsters, are at least somewhat sympathetic due to the fact that they were used in a war amongst huge powers that had nothing to do with them. All of them are traumatised by what they were forced through, and all have developed alcoholism as a result. Korty, in particular, ringleads the assault due to impotent rage over failing to handle the political situation, and grief over the murder of his brother. | |
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Lawrence of Arabia grows closer and closer to this trope as the movie goes on, finally culminating in the massacre at Tafas. | |
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Unsounded: The Aldish soldier Riker is an eager rapist who is excited about the opportunity to kill and rape children and loot a shrine. The Aldish government's way of waging war encourages their soldiers to act immorally as they conscript children, order their soldiers to systematically rape civilians and have a culture that emphasizes and celebrates machismo. | |
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Team Fortress 2: With all nine playable characters being agents of a Private Military Contractor, this trope was bound to happen. The Soldier is a classic Jingo taken to comical levels. According to his backstory, he tried to join the army to kill Nazis and was turned down, so he bought a ticket to Poland and embarked on a "Nazi killing spree" that lasted until 1949... In other words, four whole years after the Nazis had surrendered. Given his tenuous grasp on reality, one can only wonder how many of those "Nazis" were actually innocents. This has only gotten worse with time, thanks to Soldier drinking heavily polluted water instead of the bottled water that the mercenaries were supplied. By the later periods of the story, he's almost completely out of touch with reality and prone to bizarre hallucinations, and dangerous to anyone around him, even attacking his own teammates at times. Lampshaded with the Sniper, who prides himself as a professional assassin, and takes offense to being called a crazed gunman by his parents. Despite his self-proclaimed professionalism however, he is more than happy to throw jars of his own urine at his enemies. The Engineer likewise usually maintains an outward appearance of professionalism. However, he was apparently willing to saw off his own right hand just to replace it with a prosthetic for its combat utility. The Medic is unashamedly gleeful to experiment on friend and foe alike. Despite his scientific advancements having revolutionary potential in medicine, he prefers to use them to help his team massacre the enemy and satisfy his own morbid curiosity. The Pyro takes this furthest — even the other mercenaries, including their own teammates, regard them as being wildly sociopathic. Just about the only intelligible sound they can make is a maniacal laugh as they burn everyone around them to death. Their Meet The Pyro video revealed them to be far beyond mere sociopathy and actually completely divorced from reality altogether. The mercs in general just really, really enjoy the work they do, and it just so happens that work involves a lot of killing in cruel and unusual ways. In the game itself, several voicelines show they're aware it's all just a game where Death Is Cheap, so taking killing so lightly is understandable. In the lore... Not so much. |
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The Punisher is usually interpreted as this to the point where he cannot even smile at the deeds he does (mentioned when he kills Bushwhacker.) He has essentially taken his war to the streets showing no pity, remorse or fear against gangsters, psychos, killers, rapists, criminals or Hired Guns. Some suggest it was his experience in Vietnam that made him this way, making a Deal with the Devil, all works show it was losing his family that made him nuts. Whatever the case he is a combination of the Jingo and the Broken Soldier, to the point where he regrets not having someone to kill, or even having a wife and kids in the first place (though this can be interpreted as if he didn't they wouldn't have been in the park, they wouldn't have been killed and that he wouldn't have turned into the sociopath he is today.) We later learn in the miniseries The Punisher: Born, which chronicles Frank Castle's final tour in Vietnam, that Castle's Marine outpost of Valley Forge was rife with these. The vast majority of the Marines are depicted as either clear-cut psychopaths, amoral conscripts, or jingoistic sociopaths — half of whom are implied to be addicted to heroin — with a commanding officer who is alcoholic, broken and knows full well that the war is a lost cause. With the young narrator of the story Stevie Goodwin explicitly stated to be an unwilling conscript who wanted nothing to do with the war and whose only desire is to return home safely, but at the same time realizes that sticking with Frank Castle and his platoon is his best bet at getting home in one piece, as Castle is the only competent higher-ranking Marine in the whole outpost. |
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Doctor Who: The Sontarans are an entire race of Super Soldiers who behave this way towards their enemies. The one exception is Strax, the Combat Medic that the Doctor recruits in "A Good Man Goes To War", who he'd previously spared and forced to become a Combat Medic, on the grounds that caring for the sick and the weak is a Sontaran's idea of hell, who nevertheless comes to become a good and gruffly caring medic in his own right. This demonstrates that their sociopathy is learned, rather than ingrained. Most Daleks fall under this trope as well thanks to their genetic modifications by Davros, committing genocide at the drop of a hat. The War Doctor became a Broken Soldier, being the one to ultimately succumb to despair and end the Time War by destroying both Daleks and Time Lords... or so it appeared. All of the post-revival Doctors have elements of this as a result, with Danny Pink - a former soldier - contemptuously referring to the 12th Doctor as 'an officer', specifically an officer version of this trope. The soldiers who pursue Rouvray and D'Argenson in "The Reign of Terror", are little more than murderous thugs. |
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The Red Room in Child of the Storm have two shining examples, in the Ax-Crazy Agent Yelena Belova and the psychotic Arkady Rossovich a.k.a. Omega Red, who apparently 'got off' on killing children. The former will kill at the drop of a hat, just because someone's annoyed her, while the latter kills/drains the life out of people because it's fun. Both are the Psycho, though Belova pretends that she's the Jingo. | |
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Corporal Lehto in Väinö Linna's The Unknown Soldier. He is a complete sociopath, bully, and ruthless to both enemy and his own squad. His end is tragic: he walks into an ambush in night fight, gets shot and wounded on his spine, gets paralyzed and shoots himself because he considers himself now as cripple and bottom of the pecking order. He doesn't give himself any more mercy or respect than to anyone else, and sees suicide as the only logical conclusion. | |
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Person of Interest: Detective Carter's backstory has her serving as an Army interrogator in Iraq. She managed to talk a detainee into giving up the location of an insurgent supply cache in exchange for protecting him and his family from said insurgents. Then the soldiers Carter was working with killed him offscreen after he led them to the cache. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny's spinoff, Stargazer, three sociopathic soldiers serve as the villainous protagonists. They are the emotionally damaged Sven Cal Bayan (who was left this way after Training from Hell and believes he's Just Following Orders), the sadistic Mudie Holcroft, and the hyper-aggressive Shams Couza. Acting as a strike team for Blue Cosmos, the three of them see a lot of action; only Sven makes it out alive. | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Cryo Legionnaires are recruited from the Peacekeepers on a physical basis but also need to fit a psychological profile Futuretech claims is necessary for the job. Going by the Soviet campaign, said mindset is that of someone who would deliberately jetpack onto utterly helpless victims to shatter them and then laugh about it. And then there's the ice puns... Similarly, Harbinger pilots are said to be a tad too enthusiastic about their jobs, and are arrogant even for air force pilots. Desolators are Maddened Into Misanthropy, being terminally-ill patients outfitted with crude cybernetics that allow them to breathe the fumes of their hideous flesh-melting chemical weapons (and only the fumes, they choke on fresh air) that violate more than 70 laws of warfare. With a life expectancy of about a year (when said cybernetics break down), there's no surprise that they're a little bitter. |
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Evolve has Hyde, of the psychopath variety. He joined the military as an alternative to jail time and was promptly assigned to the Chemtroopers, soldiers equipped with flesh and armor melting chemical weapons. While there, he refused to wear the filter mask so he could look into the eyes of the people he killed. | |
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JAG: Roscoe Martin, the paraplegic Vietnam veteran in "King of the Fleas" and "The Martin Baker Fan Club", is the broken soldier type who while getting himself in trouble manages to manipulate people around him (including Harm). | |
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Daredevil: Nuke is a product of an attempt at making another Captain America. He's a Super-Soldier with heightened reflexes, drug-fuelled rage, and hardened plastic under his skin. He's also totally off his rocker, thinks he's still fighting The Vietnam War, will slaughter anyone he thinks is threatening "our boys", has his gun keeps a count of his kills, and needs a steady intake of drugs just to function. He's hired by The Kingpin to attack Hell's Kitchen to draw out Daredevil in Born Again. | |
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In the backstory of Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (later seen in flashback), Captain Templeton snapped and murdered everyone in the village while his partners were robbing the tomb. | |
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Hakeswill in Sharpe. Senior officers love him (except the ones with real integrity and/or insight into what he actually is) because he defers to them completely and whips soldiers into terrified obedience. Everyone who knows what he's really like loathes him. Brigadier Guy Loup is an example from the French side. When the Riflemen capture two of his men responsible for a particularly brutal massacre of a Spanish village, Sharpe has them executed on the spot. He has no shortage of volunteers for the firing squad. |
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The guy in this Karate Bears "distinguishes" himself on the battlefield by mangling and eating an enemy | |
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Commander Lyle T. Rourke from Atlantis: The Lost Empire: He initially appears as a very reliable and praiseworthy commander able to lead his men through perils, but as the film progresses, he turns out to be a highly manipulative, ruthless and sadistic mercenary to steal the Heart of Atlantis and make money off of it, not even caring that the Atlanteans will die without it. When his crew turn against him and join Milo's side, he abandons them to die with the Atlaneans. All in all, Rourke is an evil madman with no regard for anyone but himself. Worse, he clearly enjoys causing suffering—like fatally injuring the elderly king in the gut and punching Milo and smashing his grandfather's photo—and never shows the slightest bit of remorse for his heinous deeds despite knowing he was endangering thousands of innocent lives. | |
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Vile from the Mega Man X series fits this trope to a T. Because of an irreparable short-circuit in his brain, he absolutely LOVES destroying Mavericks, and even moreso causing as much collateral damage as he can while retiring Mavericks, which was partially the reason why he ended up being branded a Maverick himself later on (the other being his rebellious attitude towards his superiors). | |
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The eponymous player characters in Mercenaries have the option of doing this. Then again, there are massive penalties for killing civilians. | |
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Redmond Barry a.k.a. Barry Lyndon became one of these while fighting in the Seven Years War. It's implied that Barry's hellish treatment in the Prussian army contributed to him being this way and enthusiastically joining in "foraging" (read Rape, Pillage, and Burn). There's a kind of disturbing scene where in a surprisingly gentle tone he describes a foppish and inexperienced opponent whose skull he bashed in with his musket and whose corpse he looted. | |
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Niko Bellic from Grand Theft Auto IV says he was surrounded by people like this in the Serbian wars but he himself is not one (although a lot of the blood he shed went beyond what was required in the line of duty, which disturbs him). | |
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In Our Little Adventure, most of the soldiers of the Souballo Empire are portrayed as the first flavor. | |
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Elite Agent Rotor in Dino Attack RPG. When he's not mercilessly blowing his enemies to kingdom come, we see him threatening to execute his own men and torturing prisoners. Ronald E. Army is a somewhat darkly comedic version that combines this with Drill Sergeant Nasty. Of course, nobody really takes him seriously and, considering his inspiration is clearly insane. |
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Conspiracy (2001): Deconstructed. SS Major Rudolf Lange is the closest you could get to this, as he's leading one of a number of huge death squads through the occupied Soviet Union shooting unarmed civilians en masse and encouraging racist locals to kill Jews in mobs. However, he and his men are becoming increasingly disturbed by the sheer level of inhumanity they're supposed to inhabit. Heydrich introduces the gas chambers to make the murders easier to carry out for the perpetrators. | |
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Fire Emblem: Awakening gives us Henry: | |
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Captain Martin Walker from Spec Ops: The Line is a Broken Soldier. After the White Phosphorus incident that happens early on in the game, Walker goes from being a sensible soldier to slowly cracking under the pressure and becoming a raving madman with a hero complex. How quickly he does so depends on the player in some instances. | |
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General Mandible from Antz: He's a high-ranking general of the soldiers in the colony, but soon reveals himself a genocidal madman willing to exterminate any ant who doesn't live up to his personal standards. Case in point, he deliberately sends thousands of soldiers loyal to the queen to their deaths in a suicidal attack on the termites, so that he can then wipe out the rest of the colony unopposed, and start his own colony that consists of nothing but his loyal soldiers. | |
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And from Call of Duty: World at War, Sgt. Reznov. He really likes killing Nazis. And also from WaW, the soldiers from the Call of Duty: Zombies mode. They're quite involved in their zombie killing. | |
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A lot of the soldiers in Platoon show some evidence of this, but the undoubtedly and unashamedly sociopathic are Barnes and Bunny, who seem to only really feel satisfied with themselves when engaged in some form of gratuitous violence, killing, rape, destruction, etc. Barnes, at least, is trying to win the war but isn't going to do it with, as he sees it, one hand tied behind his back. For Barnes, the end justifies the means. Bunny is purely there for the killing; end and means are one. |
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Star Trek: Voyager: Maquis crewman Lon Suder kills another crewmember just for looking at him the wrong way. He is Betazoid but tellingly has no empathic or telepathic abilities like others of his race. | |
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Cliff Hudson from Dead Rising is Broken Soldier, being a psychopath in the game due to having a Vietnam flashback triggered by hearing his daughter getting ripped to shreds by zombies. He comes back to his senses after Frank West defeats him. | |
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In Route 666, Berkely went to war just to sate his bloodthirst - when the war ended, he became a serial killer instead. He wanted to team up with Cassie just so he could kill with a fairly clean conscience again. | |
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Raiden in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is another Unwilling Conscript gone Psychopath. A deeply traumatised child soldier known as 'Jack the Ripper', he'd successfully managed to restrict most of the trauma until being purposefully baited into regressing to his Ripper persona, which turns out to be a huge mistake on the part of the villains, who now have to deal with a terrifyingly powerful Cyber Ninja who really, really likes killing. Sundowner and Mistral are Psychopath sadistic soldiers. Mistral is a Blood Knight who enjoys the act of killing while Sundowner loves war itself and is enthusiastic about the immoral ways Desperado Enforcement will spark future conflicts. |
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This is how most of the civilians view soldiers, even regulars but especially the more common mercenaries, at the start of 1632. Fairly often they're right and even when they're wrong the armies still have to "scavenge" like crazy to keep from starving. | |
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Victor Creed in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, considering his attempted rape of a local during Vietnam, as well as the implied killing of civilians while firing from a helicopter during the same war. Probably caused by having spent the last hundred years as an unkillable soldier giving him a taste for brutality. | |
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Given that Millenium, the antagonist organization of Hellsing, was made up entirely of volunteers from the Waffen-SS, it can be assumed that its soldiers were this before being made into vampires. Afterwards, they became obsessed with waging war for the sake of it. | |
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Justified gives us Colton Rhodes, a Broken Soldier type whose heroin addiction and inability to cope with his Iraq and Afghan war trauma drives him into becoming a Professional Killer. | |
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In the Transformers mythos, it's harder to list a Decepticon or Predacon who doesn't fit this trope than one who does. Though, seeing as the faction was founded by a sadistic madmachine and his like-minded followers, it's not hard to see why. Even the occasional Autobot or Maximal fits, though they are usually only tolerated if they are especially effective. Even then, they're kept on a short leash. | |
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Zaied of Full Metal Panic! is the hero's Evil Counterpart and a grown-up Child Soldier turned mercenary. He's also a near emotionless sociopath who thinks that winning is all that matters in war and willingly betrays his comrades in order to be on the winning side, later trying to kill his former friend Sousuke on the Big Bad's orders. He never once looks back, bats an eye, or seems to think that he might have done anything wrong. | |
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Revolution: Just about everyone in the militia is this in one form or another. Miles (before he deserted), Monroe, and many others are apparently The Jingoist. Miles, after he deserted, became The Broken Soldier ("Pilot"). Jeremy Baker, from the way he said he thought they were making a better world, is The Jingoist ("The Longest Day"). Strausser is certainly The Psychopath ("Chained Heat", "The Plague Dogs", "Sex and Drugs", "Ties That Bind", "Kashmir", and "Nobody's Fault But Mine"). Jim Hudson is The Unwilling Conscript ("Ghosts", "Clue"). Major Tom Neville seems to be The Broken Soldier because he started as nice, but he changed for the worse after he had to make an Asshole Victim out of his neighbour Rob ("Soul Train"). | |
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Medal of Honor (2010 version): Voodoo is a very self-restrained version. He doesn't kill anyone he shouldn't, but he does give it serious consideration on more than one occasion. His teammates make sure to tease him for this. | |
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WKRP in Cincinnati: Venus tells the about a fellow soldier in Vietnam named Weird Larry who would go out a night to "hunt" and would shoot anything. He describes him like a Broken Soldier, whereas Venus had become unable to shoot. On their way home, he jumped out of the helicopter. This led to Venus deserting after arriving in the States with only 3 weeks left until discharge. | |
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Captain Atom and Green Lantern villain Major Force was already serving a life sentence in a military prison, before being used as a test subject for a Super Soldier experiment. The end result? Turning a remorseless psychotic murderer into a Person of Mass Destruction. | |
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