History Main / RogueSoldier

* In the final mission of ''[[VideoGame/LethalEnforcers Lethal Enforcers 3]]'', [[spoiler:you fight a group of rogue JGSDF soldiers led by [[BigBad Yoshiki Tokita]] who have stormed the National Diet Building]].

* ''Series/TheWalkingDeadTheOnesWhoLive'' reveals that the [[GreaterScopeVillain Civic Republic Military]] was originally the Pennsylvania National Guard, which went rogue during [[ZombieApocalypse the Fall]] and refused to go along with Operation Cobalt, the federal military's plan to [[GodzillaThreshold napalm major cities to contain the rising numbers of walkers]]. Specifically, Colonel Okofor turned a bombing raid he was supposed to lead on civilian targets onto a Marine staging ground instead, allowing the Guard a chance to rise up against the military, ultimately sparing Philadelphia from destruction.

However, it's not always the case that anyone who goes rogue from the military is automatically a bad person. Many times, they only do so if the military they serve in is bad and rotten to the core, the soldier/soldiers are highlighting problems they've seen or heard of while serving in it or if the situation is bad enough that the military cannot establish a solid line of communcation with the government and its troops as part of a chain of command. If they do so, then they're a DefectorFromDecadence, a {{Turncoat}} or someone who decides to bail while they still can. It'll inevitably result for them being a HeroWithBadPublicity.

However, it's not always the case that anyone who goes rogue from the military is automatically a bad person. Many times, they only do so if the military they serve in is bad and rotten to the core, the soldier/soldiers are highlighting problems they've seen or heard of while serving in it or if the situation is bad enough that the military cannot establish a solid line of communcation with the government and its troops as part of a chain of command. If he/she does so, then they're a DefectorFromDecadence, a {{Turncoat}} or someone who decides to bail while they still can. It'll inevitably result for them being a HeroWithBadPublicity.

A military soldier is someone from a military force who is highly trained and motivated to serve his/her country and defend it from its enemies. But what happens when the soldier decides to make use of their skills not to protect the country, but for ulterior motives? Going rogue makes them dangerous with the training they have from their time in military service, especially if they work with criminals/terrorists. They may choose to strike on their own as HiredGuns like PrivateMilitaryContractors, or if they're particularly strong, they may become TheWarlord and seize individual power.

* Near the end of ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'', Staff Sergeant Henry "Black" Blackburn and Private First Class David Montes go rogue after they were detained by the CIA for what happened in the Middle East concerning the PLR's terror plot for France and the US in using dirty bombs. They break out of their custody and try to stop Solomon in New York, but Montes get killed in Times Square.
** Spestnaz commando Dmitri "Dima" Mayakovsky has a history of going rogue that he was once punished for killing a GRU station chief in Paris for attempting to defect and crazed Russian soldiers who were killing French nurses in Afghanistan while high on drugs.

* The ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' games have them as recurring or secondary antagonists.
** The story of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' involved Operation Virtuous Mission, where Naked Snake and the rest of FOX are deployed secretly in Soviet territory to take out the Boss, a war hero who fought in World War II in the US Army when she defected with her comrades in the special forces unit known as the Cobra Unit. It's really complicated...
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPortableOps'', Naked Snake gets kidnapped by fellow [=FOX=] unit soldiers after they go rogue with some Soviet soldiers in the San Hieronymo Peninsula.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' involves FOXHOUND going rogue when they are Shadow Moses and Solid Snake gets called in to resolve the situation before they use hijacked Metal Gear Rex.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' has surviving Task Force 141 soldiers painted as rogue commandos thanks to the actions of General Shepard. Before the end of Modern Warfare 3, they were cleared of being rogue soldiers.
** General Shepard and his Shadow Company are themselves rogue soldiers after the events of Modern Warfare [[spoiler:where he conspires with Makarov's Ultranationalist faction to start another world war by having Joseph Allen infiltrate his group, then secretly tell Makarov that Allen is an active US soldier, allowing him to kill Allen and use his presence in Russia as an act of state-sponsored terrorism.]]

** In Rogue Spear, RAINBOW is deployed to Russia to secretly cut off the Astasanov Nuclear Weapons Storage Facility from outside contact, which is being used by mafiya boss Maxim Kutkin as a hideout with Russian Army officer Viktor Rudenko and the soldiers under his command. Kutkin also forces unemployed scientists to create nuclear weapons for his use.

* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'': Jim Raynor worked with Arcturus Mengsk back when Jim though he was a Well Intentioned Extremist, but after Mengsk made the Zerg attack Tarsonis, Jim Raynor and his men went rogue and became Freedom Fighters.

* In the final mission of ''[[VideoGame/LethalEnforcers Lethal Enforcers 3]]'', [[spoiler: you fight a group of rogue JGSDF soldiers led by [[BigBad Yoshiki Tokita]] who have stormed the National Diet Building.]]

* The Gundam franchise makes use of this character type, usually as a protagonist or antagonist.

* In the first book of ''Op-Center'' (by Tom Clancy), terrorist attacks are conducted in South Korea by rogue South Korean soldiers to keep the status quo of having two separate Koreas while making [[FalseFlagOperation false flag attacks]] to blame Pyongyang.

* ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'': In ''Recap/WhatIfS1E1WhatIfCaptainCarterWereTheFirstAvenger'', Johann Schmidt ends up going rogue from the rest of the Nazi regime much like his Sacred Timeline counterpart. Unlike his Sacred Timeline counterpart, however, HYDRA lacks the Tesseract, Dr. Zola, and his advanced weapons designs, and pulls this separation off much later in the war, when the Third Reich's collapse is much more imminent and thus unable to oppose their plans.

->'''Colonel Mustafa Mokrani''': [The soldiers'] belonging are gone. Their rations as well.
->'''Catherine Durand''': Where would they have gone?
->'''Colonel Mokrani''': Likely to their families.

* The Metal Gear games have them as recurring or secondary antagonists.