History Main / BraveScot

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': * Some Moonshadow Elves like Rayla have the Xadian equivalent of a Scottish accent, and she consistently braves tremendous odds in spite of her fears and even at the expense of her wants, like defying her mentor to ensure that the Dragon Prince is returned hope by human hands. This receives some deconstruction in the second arc of the show, as [[spoiler:this same sense of selflessness compells Rayla to leave to hunt down Viren and Claudia and face danger alone, hurting the romantic bond she developed with Callum, and isolating herself from her friends for two years.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': *Some Moonshadow Elves like, the tritagonist, Rayla have the Xadian equivalent of a Scottish accent, and she consistently braves tremendous odds in spite of her fears and even at the expense of her wants, like defying her mentor to ensure that the Dragon Prince is returned hope by human hands. This receives some deconstruction in the second arc of the show, as [[spoiler: this same sense of selflessness compells Rayla to leave to hunt down Viren and Claudia alone, hurting the romantic bond she developed with Callum, and isolating herself from her friends for two years.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': *Some Moonshadow Elves like, the tritagonist, Rayla have the Xadian equivalent of a Scottish accent, and she consistently braves tremendous odds in spite of her fears and even at the express of her wants, like defying her mentor to ensure that the Dragon Prince is returned hope by human hands. This receives some deconstruction in the second arc of the show, as [[spoiler: this same sense of selflessness compells Rayla to leave to hunt down Viren and Claudia alone, hurting the romantic bond she developed with Callum, and isolating herself from her friends for two years.]]

* ''Literature/BattlefieldEarth'': Johnny Tyler recruits a band of genetically brave Scots: [[spoiler: brave enough to mine gold for a Machiavellian alien who is viciously insane, then willing to attempt to bring down a '''pan-galactic empire''' using souped-up machines guns and some ancient atomic weapons.]]

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' gives us [[BadassTeacher Ebenezar]] [[CoolOldGuy McCoy]], who looks like a Scottish farmer who moved to America some time ago. He is, in fact, a Scottish farmer who moved to America some time ago...if by "some time," one means "a few centuries." He's also [[spoiler: the Blackstaff, or licensed assassin of the White Council, and was responsible for Krakatoa, the New Madrid earthquake, and the Tunguska incident, as well as at least a dozen others]]. Attempt to hurt his friends, and he'll drop a satellite on your head with pinpoint precision. In addition, Ebenezar is a member of the Senior Council, making him one of the oldest and most powerful wizards in ''the world,'' and the patriarch of a very BadassFamily to boot.

* ''Series/RiseOfEmpiresOttoman'' has a Scottish engineer named John Grant turn up working with the Byzantines at the siege of Constantinople. Creator/CharlesDance's narration simply states that, historically, the Scots have turned up at many battles throughout history, even those so far enough from Scotland that it seems unrealistic. Grant was a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Grant real person]], although historians aren't 100% he was a Scotsman - he may have actually been German.

* The Highland Regiments were among the most effective units of the British Army (which on the whole ''was'' a bit crap compared to the Navy until the later Napoleonic Wars - which made sense since the Navy was the government's favoured child. As an island nation with no land borders whose wealth was built on trade, it made sense to better support the Navy). It is also true that a disproportionate number of Scots (and Irish, but let's not get into that) served in the civilian administration of the colonies--no task for the lily-livered.

* The [[UsefulNotes/NepaliWithNastyKnives Gurkhas]] adopted the Highlanders as BloodBrothers after a joint SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in the 1800s. It's worth noting that both Highlanders and Gurkhas bear at least some resemblance to your archetypal fantasy [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarves]].

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->''Enthroned from the peak of her own highland mountains,''\\
''The spirit of Scotia reigns fearless and free''\\
''Her green tartan waving o'er blue rock and fountain''\\
''And proudly she sings, looking over the sea,''\\
''"Here among my mountains wild, I have serenely smiled''\\
''When armies and empires against me were hurled.''\\
''Firm as my native rock, I have withstood the shock''\\
''Of England, of Denmark, of Rome and the world."''

** The Twelfth Doctor got a Scottish accent (as did Seven, but his was less noticeable). He even lampshades his new accent and declares that he can now complain about things by virtue of being a Scotsman. Incidentally, he also has "Attack eyebrows".

* Yarpen Zigrin from the ''Series/TheWitcher2019'' is one of the most Scottish redheaded (well, red-bearded, he is bald in the show) Dwarves in the media. He embodies all the characteristics associated with this trope with a good dose of CharacterExaggeration. [[BloodKnight He loves to fight more than anything]], [[HairTriggerTemper is short tempered and hard to reason with]], [[SerSwearsALot foul-mouthed]], [[SuddenShouting shouts almost every sentence he speaks]] and [[ViolentGlaswegian hates almost everyone without a reason.]] This being said, he is a capable leader to his band of Dwarves, a trusted friend and ally to Geralt and is an honorable man despite his love for gold.

* Yarpen Zigrin from the ''Series/TheWitcher2019'' is one of the most Scottish RedHeaded (well, red-bearded, he is bald in the show) Dwarves in the media. He embodies all the characteristics associated with this trope with a good dose of CharacterExaggeration. He loves to fight more than anything, is short tempered and hard to reason with, foul-mouthed, shouts almost every sentence he speaks and hates almost everyone without a reason. This being said, he is a capable leader to his band of Dwarves, a trusted friend and ally to Geralt and is an honorable man despite his love for gold.

* ''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'' is a textbook example despite being an Ogre, having a thick Scottish accent and being known for his strength and fearsome presence and generally enjoying peace but resorting to rowdiness and violence when the situation calls for it.

* Franchise/{{Shrek}} is a textbook example despite being an Ogre, having a thick Scottish accent and being known for his strength and fearsome presence and generally enjoying peace but resorting to rowdiness and violence when the situation calls for it.

* Scrooge [=McDuck=] of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' didn't make all that money sitting behind a desk; he did it by being ''[[CatchPhrase "tougher than the toughies and smarter than the smarties"]]''; and he made it square.

%%* The Kamikaze Scotsmen sketch in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.
* Merida of ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' also features in season 5 of ''Series/OnceUponATime'', where she's an even fiercer warrior due to her father dying and her brothers being taken prisoner, and has if anything an even thicker accent.

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[[caption-width-right:336:Better not [[Franchise/StarTrek beam these Scotties up]].]]

* In ''Film/CloudAtlas'', Mr. Meeks [[SpeaksInShoutOuts cries out]] in a pub, "Are there [[NoTrueScotsman no true Scotsmen]] in the house?" A tough redheaded Highlander responds: "Right, pal, we'll not let you down" and attacks the adversaries, knocking out someone's tooth, initiating general mayhem.

** As does his kinsman Duncan, though his only shows up in flashbacks.

* In ''Film/{{Lockout}}'', the two main villains are Scottish and personify different aspects of badassery. One brother is plotting, intelligent and in control, the other is psychotic, ax-crazy, and passionate.

* Some 19th-century compilations of Spartan sayings translated it in a phonetic rendition of a Scottish accent, to highlight that these were Real Men they were talking about.

* The White Howler tribe from ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', who were kin to the original inhabitants of Scotland, the Picts. Deconstructed in that their final battle saw them go up against the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification spiritual embodiment of corruption itself]] in pursuit of their duty... and [[FaceHeelTurn fall to its service]], becoming the corrupted Black Spiral Dancers.

** Scotland's depiction in ''Medieval II'' has a ton of really good pike units, including two different ones wearing full plate, one of their unique pike units is specifically stated to be Lowlanders and they do not look like they're from Film/{{Braveheart}}, and pike units tend to make up a good chunk of Scottish armies in the game. The idea of the entire Scottish faction in ''Medieval II'' being primitive barbarians straight out of Film/{{Braveheart}} is extremely exaggerated, as they do have access to a number of units who wear heavy armour (including three different unique infantry units who start out in partial or full plate), as well as access to gunpowder in the form of cannons (though the fact that they don't have handguns, arquebuisers or muskets is strange), and most Scottish armies will be based around pikes, shock infantry, and bows, with late game armies being very heavily armoured.

* The Scotsman from ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' is one of the few characters to ever fight Jack to a draw. Not only does he have the accent, but he also complements it with his bagpipes! The only thing that scares him is his wife because she's an even ''more'' ViolentGlaswegian than he is. Then in Season 5, you meet his ([[MassiveNumberedSiblings many]]) daughters who are all badass Scottish warriors.

* John Paul Jones, in American (and Russian) service against England.

* The Roman Empire conquered most of Europe but halted their advance at the present-day border of England and Scotland. Their reason was the same as the Vikings -- the locals put up a wicked fight and caused enough of a headache for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall one of the mightiest empires on Earth that the Romans basically threw up a big wall and said, "Screw it."]]

** He has a counterpart [[NamesTheSame with the same callsign]] in ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries'', where he sounds suspiciously like Creator/SeanConnery as voiced by the highly entertaining George Ledoux.

* ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm'': As per canon, [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Ebenezar McCoy]] is a BraveScot, BadassTeacher, and CoolOldGuy.

* Practically every Scottish character in ''LetsPlay/AScotsmanInEgypt'', from every named member of the Canmore family right down to unnamed {{Mook}}s. The Scots basically curbstomp every opponent they go up against, [[spoiler:even ''the Mongols''.]] The biggest qualifier has to be Angus the Mauler, an AxCrazy BloodKnight DrillSergeantNasty who at one point kills a Russian general (in a story where MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong no less) by ''[[ManBitesMan ripping his throat out with his teeth]]''.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} by Alex Fergus Selkirk, the protagonist of the VideoGame/{{Subnautica}} fic ''Fanfic/AuroraFalls''. Selkirk was born on a Mars colony to Scottish parents, and he reacts with realistic concern and dread to the planet's [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou wildlife]].
* Duncan [=McSmurf=] of ''FanFic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', who is a CaptainErsatz of Gutsy (see below in Film).
* In ''FanFic/EpicUnicornHistoryTheBeardsOfHarmony'', there is Applebeard. He lived on a farm in the north, he's a redhead, has a stereotypically Scottish accent and he bravely fights alongside his friends.

* Franchise/{{Shrek}} is a textbook example despite being an Ogre, having a thick Scottish accent and being known for his strength and fearsome presence and generally enjoying peace but resorting to rowdiness and violence when the situation calls for it.

* ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' has William Wallace.

* The Kamikaze Scotsmen sketch in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Crimestrikers}}'', Arcana starts as the DraconicHumanoid equivalent of a ViolentGlaswegian but gradually evolves into this trope thanks to CharacterDevelopment.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII'' has the first protagonist be Morgan Black, a Scottish knight and member of the Knights of St. John. He proves himself to be a brave and cunning warrior and skilled tactician, fighting the [[AncientConspiracy Circle of Ossus]], with his descendants continuing the fight.

* {{Subverted|Trope}} by Alex Fergus Selkirk, the protagonist of the VideoGame/{{Subnautica}} fic ''Fanfic/AuroraFalls''. Selkirk was born on a Mars colony to Scottish parents, and he reacts with realistic concern and dread with the planet's [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou wildlife]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' is set in Scotland, so naturally, everyone has the accent and they're natural accents, as all the major voice actors were Scots or Scottish descent. The story splits focus between the importance of warriors and diplomats.

* The Hong Kong action film ''Film/YesMadam'' features two ass-kicking female leads, one which is Cynthia Rothrock's Inspector Carrie Morris sent by Scotland Yard to assist the Hong Kong police.

* The Nac Mac Feegle from ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' are little blue folk (also called "The Wee Free Men" and "[[{{Pun}} Pictsies]]") written with a very thick Scottish FunetikAksent who were kicked out of Fairyland because they bravely stood up to a tyrannical elf queen (their version) or because they were constantly drunk and disorderly (everyone else's). They're usually seen rampaging through farmland, stealing whiskey, milk and livestock (a few of them working together can [[PintsizePowerhouse lift a cow]]), but they're very helpful to Tiffany in her own fight against the elf queen.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' gives us [[BadassTeacher Ebenezar]] [[CoolOldGuy McCoy]], who looks like a Scottish farmer who moved to America some time ago. He is, in fact, a Scottish farmer who moved to America some time ago...if by "some time," one means "a few centuries." He's also [[spoiler: the Blackstaff, or licensed assassin of the White Council, and was responsible for Krakatoa, the New Madrid earthquake, and the Tunguska incident, as well as at least a dozen others]]. Attempt to hurt his friends, and he'll drop a satellite on your head with pin-point precision. In addition, Ebenezar is a member of the Senior Council, making him one of the oldest and most powerful wizards in ''the world,'' and the patriarch of a very BadassFamily to boot.

* Some 19th century compilations of Spartan sayings translated it in a phonetic rendition of a Scottish accent, to highlight that these were Real Men they were talking about.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Crimestrikers}}'', Arcana starts as the DraconicHumanoid equivalent of a ViolentGlaswegian, but gradually evolves into this trope thanks to CharacterDevelopment.

* The Battle Fortress in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2: Yuri's Revenge'' is an AwesomePersonnelCarrier which can ''crush other vehicles'', has a Scottish driver.

* In the video game entries of ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', we have ''two'' of them. Skeligans, who are a mixture of Vikings and Scots (some elements of their clothing, their accents, and their names being Scottish) and the Dwarves with their stereotypically dwarven accents. Subverted with the latter since not all Dwarves are actually all that stereotypical beyond their speech patterns.

* In the English dub of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', the citizens of Mor Ardain have Scottish accents but Mòrag, Niall and Hugo exemplify this the most, having somewhat refined Edinburgh accents and being noble authorities/rulers, as well as powerful warriors in Mòrag's and Hugo's cases.

-->'''Scrooge:''' Where am I? Who am I? And why am I talking in this funny accent??

-->'''Scrooge:''' Like my great-grandfather used to say, give me twelve highlanders and a bagpiper, and I'll give you a rebellion!
* Hudson and Macbeth are the two most notable examples from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' and both of them are old school valiant warriors. Interesting to note, even though most of the main cast Gargoyles themselves come from Scotland, only Hudson has a Scottish accent, even though all human characters from Scotland do (WordOfGod states it's because he had the most interaction with humans).
* The Scotsman from ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' is one of the few characters to ever fight Jack to a draw. Not only does he have the accent, but he also complements it with his bagpipes! The only thing that scares him is his wife, because she's an even ''more'' ViolentGlaswegian than he is. Then in Season 5, you meet his ([[MassiveNumberedSiblings many]]) daughters who are all badass Scottish warriors.

* Donald and Douglas both from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', especially taking their backstory into account. To summarise, Donald was purchased by the NWR to be their new goods engine. However, that would have come with a terrible price: Douglas was to be left behind for the scrapheap. Neither would let this happen, however, and they rushed over to Sodor together, so they would both be safe, which is what eventually ends up happening.

* The battle tactic known as the "Highland Charge" is nothing more than a loosely coordinated full-frontal assault towards the enemy, wielding really big swords and axes. Everyone yelling as loud as possible is highly encouraged during this. This managed to win quite a number of battles in various English civil wars in the 1600s and 1700s (against gunpowder equipped opponents.) It should be noted that they often would have a fair number of men with muskets or pistols, who would fire when within range, then drop them and charge with their melee weapons. The tactic was primarily used before the invention of the ring bayonet, meaning that attaching a bayonet would prevent you from firing your musket, so their opponents usually got one volley off, then had to try and attach their bayonets in a very short amount of time, while also having to deal with the fact that several hundred very angry highlanders are currently charging you, will arrive any second, and have proper melee weapons and [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe targes]][[note]]One clever tactic the Highlanders used to counter bayonets was to swing their targe to knock their enemy's bayonet aside[[/note]].

* [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-21924422 This news story]]. Find a poisonous spider in your fridge? No problem! You're Scottish! Man-up and catch that thing yourself!

* "The King's in UsefulNotes/{{London}} and it's a long way to Loch Aye" (lake in the center of Campbell territory); Campbell saying meaning the King can make any law he likes, but on Campbell land nobody, not even the King, tells a Campbell what to do.

* In the English dub of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', the citizens of Mor Ardain have Scottish accents but Mòrag, Niall and Hugo exemplify this the most, having somewhat refined Edinburgh accents and being noble authorities/rulers.

* ''VideoGame/MechCommander 2'' gives us Mechwarrior Claymore, who, when the rest of his unit was shot down and destroyed, proceeded to jump out of the falling wreckage of the DropShip that had been carrying him, landed safely, then calmly hung out in enemy territory, unnoticed, until your unit links up with him to attack the airbase that shot him down. No mean feat. The real shock is that he did all this while sitting in an ''Atlas,'' meaning that not only was he piloting quite possibly the most visible HumongousMecha in the entire area (while managing to escape the notice of numerous enemies in the area, all designed around superior sensor capabilities), he jumped out of an imminent crash in a 'Mech that had no jumpjets, and therefore ''no ability to slow its fall''.