History Main / Outlaw

** During the trial of King UsefulNotes/LouisXVI, the revolutionary Saint-Just declared the King "Hors la loi!" (Outside the Law). He pointed out that as a result of France becoming a republic, the earlier constitution declaring the King inviolable was invalid. Furthermore, the King himself had violated that same constitution during the Flight to Varennes[[note]]where he and the Queen had intended to unleash an army of French emigres and Austrians on the French people but were caught in the frontier town of Varennes, totally disillusioning the French people[[/note]]. As such, the National Convention can't possibly consider ''itself''(as representatives of the Revolution) and the King [[LogicBomb legitimate at the same time]]. The subsequent trial revealed new evidence of the King's guilt and the Convention agreed that the King had put himself outside all legal protections, paving the way for his execution.

SuperTrope to the {{Bandito}} and TheMostWanted.

* Victor Freeman of ''[[Manga/BlasterKnuckle]]'' is an outlaw in the Old West sense. His job is to kill demons that masquerade as humans by day and take their true forms at night to prey on and kill black people. Because these demons always [[ThisWasHisTrueForm revert to their former human forms upon death]], this gets Victor branded a murderer, and due to the fact that Victor is black, the racism of the setting and period (the postwar 19th century American South) means a lot of angry white people want to lynch him.

Several of Literature/{{the Icelandic sagas}} have outlaws as main or supporting characters, and some versions of RobinHood will have this be the explicit status of the Merry Men.

* The Church of Scientology used[[note]]Please [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement don't debate whether if it is still true today]].[[/note]] to have the doctrine of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) Fair Game]] against Suppresive Persons (SP) and Groups (SG), meaning they "may not be further protected by the codes and disciplines or the rights of a Scientologist" and could be "deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."

The term "outlaw" reaches back to at least Old Norse; it denotes a person who has been declared guilty of a crime ''in absentia'' and has chosen to escape for whatever reason, and is thus [[TheStateless placed outside the protection of the law]]. Members of the community were forbidden to aid or abet the outlaw in any way lest [[PunishedForSympathy they suffer the same punishment as the outlaw]], and as they were outside the protection of the law, they had no legal rights, meaning anyone could kill them with impunity. Thus, the outlaw could not live in the community, but was forced to flee to the wilderness or another country to try to survive until their sentence of outlawry expired or their relatives could somehow lift it. At the time, there were no established prisons or dedicated police, so long-term imprisonment was rare. In the medieval age, an outlaw was called a "wolfshead," meaning that he or she was equated to a wolf in the eyes of the law, and was to be hunted down like this as well.

** Bush rangers are mentioned in ''Discworld/TheLastContinent''. Rincewind, still getting to grips with the Ecksian language, thinks they're like forest rangers.

One of the stock WesternCharacters, a fugitive from justice into the wilderness.

The term "outlaw" reaches back to at least Old Norse; it denotes a person who has been declared guilty of a crime ''in absentia'' and has chosen to escape for whatever reason, and is thus [[TheStateless placed outside the protection of the law]]. Members of the community were forbidden to aid or abet the outlaw in any way lest [[PunishedForSympathy they suffer the same punishment as the outlaw]], and as they were outside the protection of the law, they had no legal rights, meaning anyone could kill them with impunity. Thus, the outlaw could not live in the community, but was forced to flee to the wilderness or another country to try to survive until their sentence of outlawry expired or their relatives could somehow lift it. At the time, there were no established prisons or dedicated police, so long-term imprisonment was rare. In the medieval age. An outlaw was called a "wolfshead," meaning that he or she was equated to a wolf in the eyes of the law, and was to be hunted down like this as well.

* ''HorizonZeroDawn'' has the Nora tribe do this as the most common punishment for lawbreakers. It is a lot less severe than most examples: There are various time periods per crime (Murder is set by ten years of being an outcast), and the warriors are not instructed to kill the outcasts. On the other hand, the outcasts are not allowed to be spoken to, nor are they allowed shelter nor free travel throughout the Sacred Lands. Aloy, the main character, is a born and raised an outcast from the start of the game.

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** King [[spoiler:Canute]] declares Ketil's family outlaws as punishment for their younger son Olmar killing a man in an illegal DuelToTheDeath. In truth, the kind contrived the event so he'd have an excuse to take their land.

The outlaw and the lawman weren't entirely separate, either; some outlaws eventually settled down and tried to go straight, and their gun skills made them useful as law enforcement in particularly violent communities.

* Terra-Man, a [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] foe of Franchise/{{Superman}}, combined the trappings of a Wild West outlaw with alien technology, since he was actually born in the appropriate time period.

* Aussie and Kiwi cinema also features outlaws as anti-hero protagonists. These include the bushrangers in ''Film/JesseJames, Film/CaptainThunderbolt, Film/TheOutlawMichaelHowe, Film/TheProposition, Film/MadDogMorgan, Film/VanDiemensLand, Film/WolfCreek, and the fugitive Maori protagonists of ''{{Film/Utu}}'' and ''{{Film/DeadLands}}''.

SuperTrope to the {{Bandito}}.

** King [[spoiler:Canute]] declares Ketil's family outlaws as punishment for their younger son Olmar killing a man in an illegal DuelToTheDeath (an event contrived to provide an excuse to take their land).

The term "outlaw" reaches back to at least Old Norse; it denotes a person who has been declared guilty of a crime ''in absentia'' and has chosen to escape for whatever reason, and is thus placed outside the protection of the law. Members of the community were forbidden to aid or abet the outlaw in any way lest [[PunishedForSympathy they suffer the same punishment as the outlaw]], and as they were outside the protection of the law, they had no legal rights, meaning anyone could kill them with impunity. Thus, the outlaw could not live in the community, but was forced to flee to the wilderness or another country to try to survive until their sentence of outlawry expired or their relatives could somehow lift it. At the time, there were no established prisons or dedicated police, so long-term imprisonment was rare. In the medieval age. An outlaw was called a "wolfshead," meaning that he or she was equated to a wolf in the eyes of the law, and was to be hunted down like this as well.

* In the second arc of ''Manga/VinlandSaga'', the "Guests" on Ketil's farm are all outlaws, and use nicknames because their real names could reveal their legal status.

* Irregulars from ''WebComic/TowerOfGod'' who broke the rules of the Tower by entering it on their own volition. But because they were capable of doing that, nobody feels [[TheDreaded an ounce]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast of urgency to]] [[OneManArmy pursue them.]]
* Cwynhild in the CattlePunk webcomic ''WebComic/CwynhildsLoom'' is on the run from the military.

The term "outlaw" reaches back to at least Old Norse; it denotes a person who has been declared guilty of a crime ''in absentia'' and has chosen to escape for whatever reason, and is thus placed outside the protection of the law. Members of the community were forbidden to aid or abet the outlaw in any way lest [[PunishedForSympathy they suffer the same punishment as the outlaw]], and as they were outside the protection of the law, they had no legal rights, meaning anyone could kill them with impunity. Thus, the outlaw could not live in the community, but was forced to flee to the wilderness or another country to try to survive until their sentence of outlawry expired or their relatives could somehow lift it. At the time, there were no established prisons or dedicated police, so long-term imprisonment was rare. In the medieval age, an outlaw was called a "wolfshead," meaning that he or she was equated to a wolf in the eyes of the law, and was to be hunted down like one.