History Main / MenOfSherwood

* Although the Website/SCPFoundation's Mobile Task Force agents can have a high death rate (and some [=MTFs=] are especially notorious for this), they still mostly come off on top despite often facing anomalies that even the Foundation doesn't fully understand - and the [=MTFs=] known for especially-high death rates don't have this distinction due to any lack of competence on their parts, but simply because these Task Forces' missions are inherently quite dangerous even by MTF standards. Even when they're outmatched by an anomaly, they usually still give at least as good as they get.

* Although the Website/SCPFoundation's Mobile Task Force agents can have a high death rate (and some [=MTFs=] are especially notorious for this), they still mostly come off on top despite often facing anomalies that even the Foundation doesn't fully understand. Even when they're outmatched by an anomaly, they usually still give at least as good as they get.

* ''Series/AvatarTheLastAirbender2024': The village kids Sokka has been training in the pilot aren't too impressive a sight, but do manage to use their weapons and training to delay the Fire Nation without suffering any casualties (although that probably would have changed if Aang hadn't given himself up).

->''The wall guards fired into the crowd[[note]] of zombies[[/note]] with their motley collection of weapons. Rifles scavenged from personal collections or motion picture armories ... one of them swung his rifle like a baseball bat and clubbed a thing figure off the platform. The guard turned and swung again. The blow was wild, but it caught his next target in the side of the head and tipped it back off the wall ... The guard closest to him, a rail-thin woman with gray-streaked hair, paused to reload her rifle. It was an old M1, and Freedom was impressed by how fast she loaded the magazine without pinching her thumb. She brought it back up just in time to shoot a chalk-skinned man in the face ... Another guard near the far end stopped to reload, but an [[NotUsingTheZWord ex]] crawled over the edge of the platform just as he pulled the magazine. He slammed the rifle stock into the zombie's face, right below the brim of its yellow hard hat, then smashes it again when the dead woman grabbed at his knee.''

* The [[SemperFi Marines]] in ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2'' easily take out a platoon of cyborg super-soldiers that the player character, Aya, has to struggle to get through, then proceed to clear out a monster and cyborg-infested underground base, with very few if any casualties. This is very much a change from [[VideoGame/ParasiteEve the first game in the series]], where the military was ''very'' much a RedShirtArmy.

* The Rangers in ''Series/BabylonFive''. At various times in the series, various other forces fill this role as well, ranging from B5's security troops and Starfury squadrons, to individual starships such as the ''Hyperion'' and ''Agamemmnon'', to [[TheAlliance the combined forces of the Army of Light]].

* If the NEST Team from the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' films are the resident BadassArmy, the conventional armed forces in the background are the Men of Sherwood. They take heavy casualties but ultimately are vital to defeating the Decepticons.

* ''Film/NextOfKin'': Numerous Gates uncles, cousins, and friends show up in the final act to help fight the mobsters. They help Truman take out a mob of thugs who outnumber him, and all survive the movie.

* ''Literature/RatsBatAndVats'': Van Klomp and his parachute troops (barely any of whom are named) are described as being well-trained but untested soldiers, and there is a lot of trepidation about how successful they'll be in their first battle. They prove to be highly effective troops who succeed at their mission without losing many, if any, people.

* ''Unmatched'', a board game based around the players staging CoolVsAwesome UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny-type match-ups between entities from folklore and pop-culture, features Robin Hood as one of the possible characters. Several playable characters come with assist characters (IE, {{Dracula}} has his sister brides, [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Sherlock has Watson]], [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy has Giles]], etc), so naturally Robin uses his Merry Men, and they're each as capable as he is at inflicting damage[[note]]and as Robin is a range-based attacker, they can cover a lot of ground for attacking, too[[/note]], moving around, etc, and there are several ability cards that utilise them effectively. Among which includes being able to replace any that fall with another, meaning you have an unlimited supply of highly effective assist characters. Suffice to say, Robin Hood can be quite a GameBreaker thanks to them.

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* The unnamed students of ''Series/CobraKai'' (and Miyagi-do, as of the second season) got their moment to shine in "No Mercy." During the school-wide brawl, they were all shown to be adept fighters, with ''none of them'' going down in a CurbStompBattle or OneHitKO. While they generally lose to higher-level opponents, even an unnamed {{mook|s}} or RedShirt can put up a solid one-on-one battle against a named secondary character.
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* ''Film/RaceToWitchMountain'': The sheriff of Stony Creek [[note]] In a RemakeCameo of the actor who played Tony in the original movies[[/note]] and his deputies just seem like small-town {{Spear Carrier}}s and diner customers. But when the MenInBlack show up looking for Jack, Seth, and Sara pull out their guns, the local cops neither blindly follow them nor cower before them. The sheriff stares them down without flinching while his deputies jerk out their own guns to cover the agents, with one deputy pulling out two guns and covering two agents at once.

** The unarmed Scotland Yard officers manage to trap and contain the werewolf for a while and [[spoiler:later kill him after getting guns.]]

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* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', Sir Kyril Sutherland's company counts as this, along with several named supporting characters. They include Bergen, Indriga, Alaric, Lucius, Roland, and many more. Compared to the [[BadassCrew Hunters]], these men and women neither stand out in any way, nor go through some sort of major [[CharacterDevelopment character arc]]. Nevertheless, their competence and discipline prove to be vital for ending any battle as swift as possible. Every soldier has went through a [[TrainingFromHell rigorous training regiment]], have both studied and applied various strategies and tactics, and are fully equipped with everything they need (i.e., adequate food, weapons, etc.) in order to fulfil their role and survive. No wonder they do their job well.
* ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'':

* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': In "Message in a Bottle", the citizens of Kandor don't join the heroes in fighting Imperiex right away, and initially get battered around easily once they do. Then they are exposed to the light of a yellow sun, get the same powers of Superman, and play a big part in dishing out a CurbStompBattle to the villains.

* ''Film/{{Matewan}}'': In the climax, the miners, including lots of extras, nearly wipe out the (mostly) experienced Baldwin-Felts strikebreaker, mainly due to having better cover and being ready for a potential fight. They win very decisively, but, as a CurbStompCushion, four miners are killed or wounded due, three due to shooting without taking proper cover, and [[spoiler: union organizer Joe and the mayor are also fatally shot in the crossfire]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Meet the (Green Shirt!) {{Trope Namer}}s.]]

** ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'': The Cogs are a rare villainous example of villainous interchangeable soldiers who avoid being a RedShirtArmy at least some of the time. They chase all of the established villains out of the galaxy without help from their superiors (although TheDreaded reputation of their group as whole helps), do better against the Rangers in combat than any other {{Mook}}s in the franchise (although that might be a case of being DamnedByFaintPraise), and sometimes successfully accomplish missions (like stealing a computer disc) without the supervision of a MonsterOfTheWeek. They also tend to retreat at the end of battles they lose instead of being killed, unlike most {{Mook}}s.

* ''Series/ThePunisher'': All of the OneShotCharacter cops who are defending a jail Punisher is locked up in during a ''Film/RioBravo''-esque episode end up surviving.

* Surprisingly few ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} agents in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse are {{Red Shirt}}s.
* The ComicBook/GreenLantern Corps has many well-developed, long-appearing minor members.
* ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} in Franchise/TheDCU has some long-lived government special troops.

* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', Sir Kyril Sutherland's company counts as this, along with several named supporting characters. They include Bergen, Indriga, Alaric, Lucius, Roland, and many more. Compared to the [[BadassCrew hunters]], these men and women neither stand out in any way, nor go through some sort of major [[CharacterDevelopment character arc]]. Nevertheless, their competence and discipline prove to be vital for ending any battle as swift as possible. Every soldier has went through a [[TrainingFromHell rigorous training regiment]], have both studied and applied various strategies and tactics, and are fully equipped with everything they need (i.e. adequate food, weapons, etc.) in order to fulfil their role and survive. [[JustifiedTrope No wonder they do their job well]].