History Main / ProudWarriorRaceGuy

* Given the nature of the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' setting, the description sort of applies to most races that are still around to be described, but it applies best to the Orks, whose entire culture, biology, nature and philosophy is built for "Waaaagh" fare.

* The Sontarans and Ice Warriors in ''Series/DoctorWho''. And the Draconians. And the Sycorax, sort of. Man, there are a lot of these.
** When your hero is a TechnicalPacifist, who else would his enemies be?
** Also an allied Proud Warrior Race ''Girl'' in Leela, who combined this trope nicely with AmazonianBeauty.
** Most of these examples are also notable for being the LEAST powerful enemies the Doctor faces. They are almost always outmatched by ordinary human soldiers when it comes down to a straight-up fight, especially in the renewed series.
** Given the general distaste for violence and warfare, ''Series/DoctorWho'' tends to be much less nuanced and tolerant in its approach to these than most current shows. [=PWRs=] in ''Who'', almost without exception, are arrogant, brutal thugs whose "warrior codes of honour" say nothing about not unprovokedly attacking the peaceful and outclassed. (The Ice Warriors are occasionally decent.)
** The Sontarans view everything as part of the war effect and thus take everything with military seriousness:

** King Yrcanos (played by BrianBlessed!) in the story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E2Mindwarp Mindwarp]]" is a more positive example of a Proud Warrior Race Guy than the ones listed above; he is slightly ludicrous in his constant blustering but mostly on the side of right.
*** That was only because the story in question had a major case of CrapsackWorld and EvilVersusEvil: in many more optimistic ''Doctor Who'' stories Yrcanos would have been a bloodthirsty villain by comparison to nicer characters.

* The Furyans from ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'' are described by director David Twohy as a "warrior race," though we never really meet any in true Proud Warrior Race mode. The two we do meet are a traitor hiding his heritage and a convicted murderer who doesn't fight honorably. And in the extended cut, the spirit of one who only provides exposition to the aforementioned murderer about their people's history and his destiny in it.

* Prince Acroyear of the Acroyears, from Marvel's toy-licensed comic, ''{{Micronauts}}''. Worth noting because he's one of the earliest mass-market appearances of the Proud Warrior Race Guy as a stock crew member on a SpaceOpera CoolShip. It's also worth noting that he's portrayed as dark-skinned, despite otherwise-alien features -- i.e., "played by an African-American". That's not just incidental, either: a major plot point has his albino brother driven to madness/evil/betrayal by his perceived inferiority.

* Most traditional ''{{Gargoyles}}'' are like this, with [[TheHero Goliath]] being the most notable, showing himself to be both a powerful warrior and a deeply honorable individual. For a more antagonistic example, the Vikings from the first two episodes are a thoroughly unpleasant bunch lead by vicious BloodKnight Hakon.

* In LarryNiven's ''KnownSpace'', the Kzinti are a race of giant warcats. But while the Kzinti are a warrior culture devoted to conquest, they find out the hard way that humanity is much, much better at it. (The Kzinti mainly conquer much more primitive races, and rarely fight each other, so "war" isn't really something they've had much practice at.)
** In the novel ''Destiny's Forge'', a much larger amount of cultural background is presented, including the datum that 75% of Kzinti males die in duels before reaching adulthood; [[spoiler:the plot of the novel revolves around ''skalazaal'', which is an extremely formalized war between two Prides or Great Prides -- no weapons may be used that are not muscle-powered, for example, preventing the use of lasers, guided missiles, or explosives -- by Staatz Pride against Rrit Pride;]]. In a private conversation between the Patriarch and a human emissary, the Patriarch, explaining why he cannot simply ''order'' the cessation of hostility against humanity, states that conquest is ''necessary'' to the Patriarchy as an outlet for Heroes to get themselves killed and focus their hostilities outward, rather than turning inward against other Prides or the Patriarchy itself.
** In stories which occur during the wars with humans, the Kzinti are more like [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]]. They are far more brutal and have no problem with killing off people for any reason, while a Proud Warrior Race Guy tends to be more noble and spares non combatants.
*** Of course, by the time of Beowulf Schaeffer and Louis Wu, Kzinti culture has been forced to mellow, after their most ruthless and aggressive members have been killed off by generations of war with humanity -- [[spoiler:which is why the aptly-named Puppeteers [[TheChessmaster nudged the two races into war in the first place]].]]
** They're also the inspiration for the [[VideoGame/WingCommander Kilrathi]].

*** Duras and Chancellor Gowron go to great lengths to prove that the Klingons are as dishonorable and sneaky as ever. The concept of an honorable warrior is a cultural ideal, not a universal cultural truth. Our main source of information on Klingon society, Worf - an orphan, raised in a radically different culture from his own, and an officer in a generally Lawful Good military - idealizes and glorifies his original culture. Time and again, we see that Worf is a paragon of Klingon virtue. Nearly every other powerful Klingon fails to live up to that standard of honor, with the notable exceptions of Martok and Worf's brother Kurn.[[spoiler: Kurn's time as a powerful Klingon is short-lived, after Gowron expels him from the High Council and essentially blacklists him. However, even afterwards, he continues to attempt to live honorably, refusing to commit suicide because of its accompanying dishonor.]]

** TheBelgariad has several, actually- the aforementioned Arends have the KnightInShiningArmor with HonorBeforeReason as their cultural ideal (and as such, are great people to have by you in a fight, but generally shouldn't be trusted with anything requiring intelligence or subtlety); the Chereks are seagoing BoisterousBruisers with a strong Viking influence; the Algars are a nomadic horse-based people justly famous for their cavalry; and the Murgos, who were descended from the warrior / aristocratic caste of the original Angaraks, are an arrogant and warlike people who consider themselves to be the MasterRace.

** Deconstructed in that he lives out his life in fear being weak and fearful, and [[spoiler: his fear of seeming week leads him to quickly give in to society's demand that he kill his adopted son, and eventually to kill himself rather than live with the Europeans.]]

* Little Bear in ''Literature/TheIndianInTheCupboard''...although, to be fair, he ''is'' an Iroquois warrior.

** The armored bears in ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials''. Ahem, let's rephrase that: Polar Bears that build their armor from meteorite iron. As their king put it, "War is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe." This same trope is subverted in the third book of the trilogy, when we meet the Gallivespians, who are a fierce and vicious assassin-race who are born with poison spurs in their heels [[spoiler: and ride about on dragonflies, because they're all about ''six inches tall.'']]

** The Chiss are an interesting example: they manage to combine this with militant neutrality. The upshot is that every other power in the galaxy makes a pretty wide berth around Chiss space, turning it into Switzerland [[RecycledInSpace In Space!]]
*** To be specific, the Chiss consider it the height of dishonor to ever strike first, but [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant are undisputed masters of striking second]].

* The armored bears in ''HisDarkMaterials''. Ahem, let me rephrase that: Polar Bears that build their armor from meteorite iron. As their king put it, "War is the sea I swim in and the air I breathe." This same trope is subverted in the third book of the trilogy, when we meet the Gallivespians, who are a fierce and vicious assassin-race who are born with poison spurs in their heels [[spoiler: and ride about on dragonflies, because they're all about ''six inches tall.'']]

*** The Uruk-hai are a variation; they're a breed of super-orc literally ''born'' for warfare, and they have the arrogance and violent tempers to match, but they just love fighting and killing without any regard for things like "honor" or "fair play" the way the standard ProudWarriorRace does. Possibly better-described by TheHorde trope.
*** As an amusing side note Tooks and Brandybucks are the closest thing hobbits have to this. Of course neither are really a ProudWarriorRace but they have that reputation among other hobbits but both have a slightly greater tolerance for adventurous eccentrics. The chief of the Tooks is head of the Shire Muster, and Bandobras the Bullroarer (who repelled an orc-raid) was a Took. Brandybucks live near the border closer to danger. And it was a Brandybuck that helped slay [[TheUndead the Witch-King]]. It should be noted that when Saruman took over the Shire, the Tooks and Brandybucks were the only ones able to keep his enforcers out of their respective territories.
*** Brandybucks might after all come pretty close to qualifying. They live near the Old Forest and have a tradition of StaringDownCthulhu. As Merry tells it at one time a number of evil magical trees tried to invade Buckland and the Brandybucks chopped them down. And when the Nazgûl tried to raid Fatty Bolger's house the first thing they did on hearing of it was to sound an alarm and try to assemble an army of hobbits to fight off the Nazgûl! They are MoreThanMeetsTheEye.

** In the novel ''Destiny's Forge'', a much larger amount of cultural background is presented, including the datum that 75% of Kzinti males die in duels before reaching adulthood; [[spoiler:the plot of the novel revolves around ''skalazaal'', which is an extremely formalized war between two Prides or Great Prides -- no weapons may be used that are not muscle-powered, for example, preventing the use of lasers, guided missiles, or explosives -- by Staatz Pride against Rrit Pride;]]. In a private conversation between the Patriarch and a human emissary, the Patriarch, explaining why he cannot simply ''order'' the cessation of hostility hostility against humanity, states that conquest is ''necessary'' to the Patriarchy as an outlet for Heroes to get themselves killed and focus their hostilities outward, rather than turning inward against other Prides or the Patriarchy itself.

** Creator/TerryPratchett's non-Discworld novel, ''Literature/{{Strata}}'', gives us the paranoid but violent ''kung'', an alien race accurately described as "frightened of everything except immediate [[BerserkButton physical danger]]." Our representative of the race, Marco, can decapitate dragons mid-air, but otherwise lives in terror that Someone is out to get him. As another character put it, "These Northmen have a word, 'Berserker.' It was made for Marco."

->"''You ask a krogan if he'd rather find a cure for the [[DepopulationBomb genophage]], or [[HiredGuns fight for credits]], and [[BloodKnight he'll choose fighting — every time]]. [[PlanetOfHats It's just who we are]], [[PlayerCharacter Shepard]]. [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch I can't change that. No one can]].''"
-->-- '''[[TheBigGuy Urdnot Wrex]]''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''

-->-- '''[[TheBigGuy Urdnot Wrex]]''', ''Videogame/MassEffect1''

* The Clans of ''BattleTech'' are extremely socialist and honor-driven societies divided cleanly into five castes - with the warriors taking the top rank.
** They fight to see who gets to fight (trial by combat).

** There's also the Eldar of Biel-Tan, whose Craftworld is mainly run not by farseers, but by exarchs and autarchs. Anyone who thinks the Eldar hat is being clairvoyant, manipulative bastards has never met the Swordwind.

Compare ''and'' contrast with HumansAreWarriors. Also compare ProudScholarRaceGuy and ProudMerchantRace for different [[PlanetOfHats kinds of hats]] a species can wear. A ProudWarriorRace with a strong intellectual or aesthetic tradition about it's warmaking will have a number of [[WarriorPoet Warrior Poets.]]

Compare ''and'' contrast with HumansAreWarriors. Also compare ProudScholarRaceGuy and ProudMerchantRace for different [[PlanetOfHats kinds of hats]] a species can wear.

-->-- '''[[TheBigGuy Urdnot Wrex]]''', ''Videogame/MassEffect''

* ''Videogame/MassEffect'' has the disciplined Turians and the thuggish Krogans.

** Also the Jiralhanae/Brutes, for the "psycho klingon" side of this trope. Think the Turian/Krogan side presented in the MassEffect entry.