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Street Samurai

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Street Samurai	comment	The Street Samurai is the classic protagonist archetype in Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk, but also shows up on occasion when those genres are mixed with Dungeon Punk and Urban Fantasy. Hackers, warriors, and anti-authoritarian loners, these characters fight against the dystopian governments and Mega Corps that rule their worlds. They are down-on-their-luck souls that Walk the Earth because their own personal codes of honor make them refuse to sell out to authority. Typical goals for this sort of character are Information Wants to Be Free and bringing down the very society in which they live in order to make a better one. They are the tech-savvy mercenaries, bounty hunters, assassins, bodyguards, and general badasses of the urban jungle. They're far cooler than standard Mooks, often sporting a Badass Longcoat, Cool Shades, and other stylish gear. Edged weapons are common despite being strange for the era, and Katanas are recommended, but not mandatory. Street samurai by no means eschew firearms however, and are frequently expert gunslingers who use guns and swords together, but expect weird guns and Abnormal Ammo. In classic Cyberpunk, the samurai would often be heavily augmented with cybernetic parts, but this is no longer mandatory. Hacking, at least at a rudimentary level, or other similar tech skills (creating prosthetics, building custom weapons systems and vehicles, etc.) is required. Despite the name, these characters have a lot more in common with Rōnin and even more so with Ninja (see also Cyber Ninja) than they do with samurai, being essentially descendants of recognizable types drawn from hard-boiled private-eye literature and Film Noir. Compare Samurai Cowboy, Corporate Samurai, and Western Samurai. Note, that merely having the toys of a Street Samurai does not make you one if you don't have the personality and skill set. Not to be confused with the Steel Samurai.
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Street Samurai / int_1bd71620	comment	Fray starts out as a freelance cat burglar and saboteur in a cyberpunk future, but one who's fiercely protective of her local community. Then she learns she's also a Slayer.
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Street Samurai / int_23298bd5	comment	The Cyber Dragons Trilogy by C.T. Phipps: This is an entire profession. Called "Riders" in-universe, they are armed couriers that use their job as cover for other, illegal, work. They're officially licensed by the government to carry weapons and cybernetics but, in practice, are smugglers who also do a lot of other criminal activities. Many of them dabble in hacking, theft, mercenary work, and assassination. Having no other skills after being trained as a Yakuza assassin for a decade, Keiko "Kei" Springs ends up drifting into this line of work despite how obvious a target it makes her.
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Street Samurai / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes: Future Hiro has the jacket and katana in a Crapsack World and seems to be this type, as well as a Shout-Out to Hiro in Snow Crash.
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Street Samurai / int_2e9ef429	comment	Batman: Arkham Series: Batman as portrayed in the series, more so than other versions of the character. He wages a vigilante crusade against a corrupt society, is bound by a strict personal code of honor, and tends to use fighting techniques originating from medieval Japan against foes using modern weapons and tactics. Given this particular incarnation's constant use of advanced computer tech (his mask's detective mode, the disruptor, the remote hacking device) and the notably cyberpunk-influenced plots of the series (City's focus on government control and surveillance, Knight's focus on drone warfare, the prominent role the Bat-family's resident hacker Oracle has throughout the series), this version of Batman is actually one of the purest examples of the trope.
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Street Samurai / int_39e3b5ff	comment	Kill Bill: The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad is a group of assassins, some of whom use katanas. While The Bride is in a coma for several years and Bill is in semi-retirement raising their daughter, the group disbands and the members either retire or work solo, essentially becoming Rōnin.
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Street Samurai / int_49a0a477	comment	Snow Crash: Hiro Protagonist is a pizza deliveryman and freelance hacker, but his combat skills, talent for working high-tech espionage, and willingness to take on enemies far larger than himself to do what's right are what make him an example. Raven does work as a mercenary, but he's got his own agenda.
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Street Samurai / int_5477bc92	comment	Sprawl Trilogy: Molly Millions is the Trope Namer and Ur-Example. She's a "razorgirl" with cybernetically enhanced reflexes, lenses grafted over her eyes, and double-edged scalpel blades implanted under her fingernails.
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Street Samurai / int_5cb3196f	comment	The Diamond Age has a Decoy Protagonist, Bud, who behaves a bit like one of these. He's mostly just a street hoodlum who spends his money on bionic weapons. He's messily executed in short order.
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Street Samurai / int_6f788b04	comment	E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy: You can choose to play this way if you decide to utilize Sword and Gun style and augment yourself with cybernetics.
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Street Samurai / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2 decides to go a bit more cyberpunk, especially on Omega. This is where you can find Archangel, a mysterious vigilante and capable hacker (who is really your old buddy Garrus).
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Street Samurai / int_8194db74	comment	You Can Be a Cyborg When You're Older by Richard Roberts: Called Darksiders. They serve as mercenaries and hackers for the corporations, performing corporate espionage as well as sabotage. It is a very popular and romanticized job by teenagers who dream of using it to escape poverty. Being as she's only fourteen years old, Ms. Understanding the AI is less than pleased at Vanity Rose wanting to become one.
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Street Samurai / int_945c894f	comment	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai: The main character is a gangster hitman who lives by the code of Bushido and has a number of anachronistic habits, such as communicating by messenger pigeon. RZA has a cameo as another one of these.
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Street Samurai / int_95226eb6	comment	Cyberpunk has the Solo class, which operate similarly to the Shadowrun counterpart below, but differ in that these characters do not hold a personal sense of moral code and are more ruthless in their pragmatism to get things done.
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Street Samurai / int_9bf9aa38	comment	The Upgrade by Wesley Cross: Criminals routinely find themselves working for corporations in a mercenary capacity in order to intimidate rivals or sabotage their enemies.
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Street Samurai / int_a660fd96	comment	Avengers: Endgame: Clint Barton (aka Hawkeye) goes rogue after his family's disappearance as Ronin, terrorizing Yakuza and other criminals who survived the Snap while innocent people vanished. He even gets a Cool Sword to boot.
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Street Samurai / int_a949e666	comment	Elysium: The main villain is Kruger, a cyborg for hire who carries a katana.
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Street Samurai / int_b126b2d9	comment	Aqua Regia: Daniel, the protagonist, has a little fun with the archetype — he works as a mercenary, and has the weapon of choice, but just in the first chapter, which ends up broken and with him fatally injured. Also, he quickly ascends to Corporate Samurai.
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Street Samurai / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun: This trope describes the archetypical Shadowrunner, i.e. the Player Character. The title 'Street Samurai' is used in-game for one of the classic runner archetypes, specifically the independent fighting guy who augments his abilities with lots of cyberware, though not so much to the point where they end up killing themselves or worse. Fighters who augment themselves with magic, who augment themselves with corporate backing, or who rely on pure skill rather than augmentation do not legitimately fit this definition.
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Street Samurai / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: In the Crapsack World of the stories, the Judges of future Japan dress and act like high-tech Samurai warriors.
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Street Samurai / int_d1dd2388	comment	Le SamouraÃ¯: Jef Costello. Besides the title, it gets points for having the protagonist wear a Badass Longcoat. It was an inspiration to John Woo (hence the gun-slinging and Cool Shades elements).
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Street Samurai / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts has a number of these and the Corporate versions in the High-tech cities of Japan. Many of whom clash, ideologically or physically, with their traditional counterparts in the anti-technological countries elsewhere.
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Street Samurai / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077: V is this, and is referred to as "Samurai" by Johnny Silverhand on at least one occasion. V is shown in a jacket with "Samurai written on the collar in all promotional material as well... which amusingly turns out to be in-universe merch for Johnny's band.
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Street Samurai / int_f3ae2950	comment	Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance: Raiden has evolved into this archetype by the time that the game's story rolls around. The Big Bad of his story is a corrupt United States senator that has plans to devolve the entire world into anarchy. Raiden himself exemplifies old-school warrior codes, even taking on giant robots not with guns or missiles, but with an Absurdly Sharp Blade.
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Street Samurai / int_f4a728d6	comment	Afro Samurai: The eponymous protagonist is a black samurai with considerable skills in the Cyberpunk dystopian future.
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