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* ''Shogun's Samurai'': The tide turns in a civil war between two brothers vying to be shogun after the supporters of one brother frame the other for hiring an army of ronin to kill the first brother.
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* ''Shogun's Samurai'': ''Film/ShogunsSamurai'': The tide turns in a civil war between two brothers vying to be shogun after the supporters of one brother frame the other for hiring an army of ronin to kill the first brother.
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* ''Film/{{Goyokin}}''. Magobei leaves his lord's service and becomes a ronin because he feels ashamed by his massacre of a village to conceal a gold theft from the shogunate. The ForeignRemake ''Film/TheMasterGunfighter'' has the hero become a travelling trick shooter and hired gun (though [[CowboySamurai he carries a sword as well]]). Both men decide to return home when they realise another massacre is planned.
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* ''Film/{{Goyokin}}''. Magobei leaves his lord's service and becomes a ronin because he feels ashamed by his massacre of a village to conceal a gold theft from the shogunate. The ForeignRemake ''Film/TheMasterGunfighter'' has the hero become a travelling trick shooter and hired gun (though [[CowboySamurai [[SamuraiCowboy he carries a sword as well]]). Both men decide to return home when they realise another massacre is planned.
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* ''Film/{{Goyokin}}''. Magobei leaves his lord's service and becomes a ronin because he feels ashamed by his massacre of a village to conceal a gold theft from the shogunate. The ForeignRemake ''Film/TheMasterGunfighter'' has the hero become a travelling trick shooter and hired gun (though [[CowboySamurai he carries a sword as well]]). Both men decide to return home when they realise another massacre is planned.
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* ''ComicBook/Ronin1983'' revolves around a ''ronin'' whose master was killed by a demon.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' is a perfectly [[MeaningfulName named comic]] as it means "Rabbit Bodyguard", although Usagi doesn't take on that many bodyguarding jobs. While Usagi is an example of the "dead master" ronin, others encountered have different backstories such as the clan's disintegration (Gen) or turning to banditry (most of the mooks Usagi fights).
* The title character of the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' {{spinoff}} ''Shimura'', a Hondo City Judge who went rogue to take revenge on the {{Yakuza}}.
* While Jiro from ''ComicBook/GetJiro'' wasn't a {{Samurai}}, he has some of the hallmarks associated with the Ronin. He once implied to have fought for a "Master's" cause and vowed not to do it again. His skills are desired by both ruling mobs in the city, but instead he works on behalf of himself and the populace that suffers under their rule. He even wields a moguro bocho[[labelnote:*]]a 60-inch fish-cutting knife[[/labelnote]] as though it were a katana.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' is a perfectly [[MeaningfulName named comic]] as it means "Rabbit Bodyguard", although Usagi doesn't take on that many bodyguarding jobs. While Usagi is an example of the "dead master" ronin, others encountered have different backstories such as the clan's disintegration (Gen) or turning to banditry (most of the mooks Usagi fights).
* The title character of the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' {{spinoff}} ''Shimura'', a Hondo City Judge who went rogue to take revenge on the {{Yakuza}}.
* While Jiro from ''ComicBook/GetJiro'' wasn't a {{Samurai}}, he has some of the hallmarks associated with the Ronin. He once implied to have fought for a "Master's" cause and vowed not to do it again. His skills are desired by both ruling mobs in the city, but instead he works on behalf of himself and the populace that suffers under their rule. He even wields a moguro bocho[[labelnote:*]]a 60-inch fish-cutting knife[[/labelnote]] as though it were a katana.
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* ''ComicBook/Ronin1983'' revolves around a ''ronin'' whose master was killed by a demon.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' is a perfectly [[MeaningfulName named comic]] as it means "Rabbit Bodyguard", although Usagi doesn't take on that many bodyguarding jobs. While Usagi is an example of the "dead master" ronin, others encountered have different backstories such as the clan's disintegration (Gen) or turning to banditry (most of the mooks Usagi fights).
*''ComicBook/FiveRonin'': The title character of the ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' {{spinoff}} ''Shimura'', a Hondo City Judge who went rogue to take revenge on the {{Yakuza}}.
comic reimagines various Franchise/MarvelUniverse superheroes (ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, ComicBook/ThePunisher, ComicBook/{{Psylocke}}, and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}) as Ronin in 17th century Japan.
* ''ComicBook/GetJiro'': While Jirofrom ''ComicBook/GetJiro'' wasn't a {{Samurai}}, he has some of the hallmarks associated with the Ronin. He once implied to have fought for a "Master's" cause and vowed not to do it again. His skills are desired by both ruling mobs in the city, but instead he works on behalf of himself and the populace that suffers under their rule. He even wields a moguro bocho[[labelnote:*]]a 60-inch fish-cutting knife[[/labelnote]] as though it were a katana.katana.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The title character of the {{spinoff}} ''Shimura'', a Hondo City Judge who went rogue to take revenge on the {{Yakuza}}.
* ''ComicBook/Ronin1983'': The comic revolves around a ''ronin'' whose master was killed by a demon.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': The comic is [[MeaningfulName perfectly named]] as it means "Rabbit Bodyguard", although Usagi doesn't take on that many bodyguarding jobs. While Usagi is an example of the "dead master" ronin, others encountered have different backstories such as the clan's disintegration (Gen) or turning to banditry (most of the mooks Usagi fights).
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' is a perfectly [[MeaningfulName named comic]] as it means "Rabbit Bodyguard", although Usagi doesn't take on that many bodyguarding jobs. While Usagi is an example of the "dead master" ronin, others encountered have different backstories such as the clan's disintegration (Gen) or turning to banditry (most of the mooks Usagi fights).
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* ''ComicBook/GetJiro'': While Jiro
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The title character of the {{spinoff}} ''Shimura'', a Hondo City Judge who went rogue to take revenge on the {{Yakuza}}.
* ''ComicBook/Ronin1983'': The comic revolves around a ''ronin'' whose master was killed by a demon.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': The comic is [[MeaningfulName perfectly named]] as it means "Rabbit Bodyguard", although Usagi doesn't take on that many bodyguarding jobs. While Usagi is an example of the "dead master" ronin, others encountered have different backstories such as the clan's disintegration (Gen) or turning to banditry (most of the mooks Usagi fights).
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* ''VideoGame/ConquerorsBlade'': The Japanese-themed ''Season XVI: Sengoku'' introduced Ronin, a mid-tier unit of wandering, masterless Japanese swordsmen whom you can hire.
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Although in ancient days rōnin were considered a dangerous threat since it was believed they were likely to become bandits, the noble rōnin is a common hero type in Japanese pop culture, typically acting as a KnightErrant. Since a samurai is defined by loyalty to his master, a samurai losing that master and struggling afterward for a purpose in life can make for a great TragicHero.
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Although in ancient days rōnin were considered a dangerous threat since it was believed they were likely to become bandits, the noble rōnin is a common hero type in Japanese pop culture, typically acting as a KnightErrant. Since a samurai is defined by loyalty to his master, a samurai losing that master and [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife struggling afterward for a purpose in life life]] can make for a great TragicHero.
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* In ''Franchise/StarWars: Series/{{Ahsoka}}'', Grand Admiral Thrawn refers to former Jedi Ahsoka Tano as a ronin, as she's been wandering the galaxy ever since Order 66 all but destroyed the Jedi Order.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': The Samurai class has more in common with this trope than the traditional image; Samurai here wear kimonos instead of heavy plate armor and carry a single katana that they wield as an IajitsuPractioner. They aren't bound to any houses, instead being wandering, masterless swordsmen [[WalkingTheEarth Walk The Earth]] correcting injustices wherever they see them. The PlayerCharacter ''does'' have a master early on in the form of Murosai, your elderly Samurai mentor, but after you complete your training with him you're free to do as you wish.
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Compare StreetSamurai, SamuraiCowboy, and RogueAgent. Compare DangerousDeserter for the less romanticized (and not necessarily Japonesque) version. A rough western equivalent would be the BlackKnight (of the RealLife mercenary type, not the TinTyrant type.)
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Subtrope of TheDrifter. Compare StreetSamurai, SamuraiCowboy, and RogueAgent. Compare DangerousDeserter for the less romanticized (and not necessarily Japonesque) version. A rough western equivalent would be the BlackKnight (of the RealLife mercenary type, not the TinTyrant type.)
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* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Yomi is the only one of the central cast who fails her initial entrance exam and has to pass a retake or else she'll end up a modern-day ronin. When she goes to check her test results, she notices that her student ID number is 3661, which as a GoroawaseNumber can be read as "sa-mu-ra-i", like fate was mocking her potential ronin future. [[spoiler:She passed, rendering it more an affirmation that she will attend university.]]
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* ''Film/AfterTheRain'': Misawa Ihei.
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* Miyamoto Iori from ''VideoGame/FateSamuraiRemnant'' technically isn't a disenfranchised samurai, since he was still in training as the shogunate rose to power, but his only marketable skill is his swordsmanship, so he is experiencing the same economic and social strains as the "real" ''rōnin'' are. He's also doing this to himself to some extent — the Ogasawara clan would love to have him in their service (and he was indeed a chief retainer for them in real life), but he wants to remain a free agent until he actually masters Niten Ichiryu.
