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* Han Solo from the ''Franchise/StarWars'' original trilogy is one of the best-known examples of this archetype: a LovableRogue who is NotInThisForYourRevolution and whose CoolStarship is famous for making a notoriously difficult smuggling run in twelve parsecs.

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* Han Solo and his Wookiee BestFriend Chewbacca from the ''Franchise/StarWars'' original trilogy is one of are among the best-known examples of this archetype: archetype, especially Han, a LovableRogue who is NotInThisForYourRevolution and whose CoolStarship is famous for making a notoriously difficult smuggling run in twelve parsecs.

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* ''Film/{{Blow}}'': George Jung likes to portray himself as this type of LovableRogue, even waxing poetic in court about "moving plants over an imaginary line".
* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'': Rick Blaine used to be an ArmsDealer for the Spanish Republic, and now specializes in helping refugees from Europe passing through Casablanca, for a price.



* Film/JamesBond's ally Columbo in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''. He cheerfully admits that he is a smuggler, but he does not smuggle drugs. That is the purview of his Archenemy (and the BigBad of the movie) Kristatos.

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* Film/JamesBond's ally Columbo in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''. He cheerfully admits that he is a smuggler, but [[EveryoneHasStandards he does not smuggle drugs. drugs]]. That is the purview of his Archenemy ArchEnemy and EvilFormerFriend (and the BigBad of the movie) movie), Kristatos.



* In ''Film/KaamelottPremierVolet'', Venec has turned to a life of smuggling a few years after the events of [[Series/{{Kaamelott}} the series]] (he was already a scoundrel in it), though he gets eventually caught by BountyHunter Alzagar. Not so much because he's a smuggler, but because he knows where [[Myth/KingArthur Arthur Pendragon]] is.
* In ''Film/LesPasseurs'', Maurice Nicod is a French mountain man who smuggles goods to Switzerland through mountain ways he perfectly knows, out of the sight of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII German occupiers]]. His caveat is that he only smuggles goods, not people. The people smuggler is his longtime {{feud|ing Families}} adversary Bernard Anthonioz, meanwhile.



* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'': Rick Blaine used to be an ArmsDealer for the Spanish Republic, and now specializes in helping refugees from Europe passing through Casablanca, for a price.
* ''Film/{{Blow}}'': George Jung likes to portray himself as this type of LovableRogue, even waxing poetic in court about "moving plants over an imaginary line".
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* In [[Film/Dune2021 both]] [[Film/DunePartTwo film adaptations]] of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', just like in the book, it turns out Gurney Halleck escaped alive from the destruction of House Atreides on Arrakis by the Harkonnens and Sardaukar legions, and turned to {{Spice|Of Life}} smuggling with a ragtag crew. He's happily reunited with Paul Atreides when the latter leads a Fremen raid on his Spice harvesting machine.
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** ''Film/{{Solo}}'' established that Lando Calrissian was already an accomplished smuggler before he and Han met, and lived a far more ostentatious lifestyle.

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** ''Film/{{Solo}}'' established that Lando Calrissian was already an accomplished smuggler before he and Han met, and lived a far more ostentatious lifestyle. The film also shows the aforementioned twelve parsecs run around the mines of Kessel which, as it turned out, was particularly perilous.
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* ''Podcast//TheKingmakerHistories'' has the international smuggling/thieving duo of Iyer and Winterlich: General Services who save Colette's life in the [[EnchantedForest Seltsamwald]].

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* ''Podcast//TheKingmakerHistories'' ''Podcast/TheKingmakerHistories'' has the international smuggling/thieving duo of Iyer and Winterlich: General Services who save Colette's life in the [[EnchantedForest Seltsamwald]].
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* ''Podcast/{{Kingmaker}}'' has the international smuggling/thieving duo of Iyer and Winterlich: General Services who save Colette's life in the [[EnchantedForest Seltsamwald]].

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* ''Podcast/{{Kingmaker}}'' ''Podcast//TheKingmakerHistories'' has the international smuggling/thieving duo of Iyer and Winterlich: General Services who save Colette's life in the [[EnchantedForest Seltsamwald]].
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* ''Film/TheTransporter'' is a modern take on the classic archetype. Frank Martin is a consummate professional who gets paid for bringing things from point A to point B, no matter how many cordons he has to run or mooks he has to punch out. His vehicle of choice in the first film is a heavily-customized BMW 7-series.
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** Talon Karrde, introduced in ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', is a mix of this and KnowledgeBroker. His organization managed to pick up most of the pieces of Jabba the Hutt's criminal empire after Jabba's death, and Karrde himself has a reputation as a respectable and trustworthy business partner - as much as a smuggler can be trusted, anyway. Karrde tried to remain neutral in the Galactic Civil War, but eventually [[DefaultToGood Defaulted to Good]], helped the New Republic defeat Grand Admiral Thrawn, and went on to help them and the Imperial Remnant make peace in the ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'' duology. His personal ship is the ''[[JustForPun Wild Karrde]]''.

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** Talon Karrde, introduced in ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', is a mix of this and KnowledgeBroker. His organization managed to pick up most of the pieces of Jabba the Hutt's criminal empire after Jabba's death, and Karrde himself has a reputation as a respectable and trustworthy business partner - as much as a smuggler can be trusted, anyway. Karrde tried to remain neutral in the Galactic Civil War, but eventually [[DefaultToGood Defaulted to Good]], helped the New Republic defeat Grand Admiral Thrawn, and went on to help them and the Imperial Remnant make peace in the ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'' duology. His personal ship is the ''[[JustForPun ''[[PunnyName Wild Karrde]]''.
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** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'', Miss Flitworth's father was a reciever of contraband, and her firm moral absolutism includes that she's ''absolutely'' sure there's nothing wrong with smuggling. It appears this is common in Sheepridge, since it's suggested that the reason everyone was suspicious of Bill Door's strangeness was that they thought he might be a revenue man.
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--->'''Chidder: We're poor traders.\\
'''Teppic''': The usual phrase is "poor ''but honest'' traders".\\
'''Chidder''': Oh, I think we'll stick on "poor" at the moment.

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* ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'': Vetinari is (secretly) willing to tolerate some smuggling in Ankh-Morpork, seeing it as a good way to keep people smart (both the smugglers and the customs police).

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** Chidder in ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'' is always quick to say his family is in commerce, and always vague about what that commerce is. Teppic isn't particularly surprised to notice that his merchant ship, the ''Unnamed'', seems to have a much smaller hold than you might expect from the outside, and also a hidden ramming spike.
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* The Romney Marsh smugglers are the heroic figures in the ''LLiterature/DoctorSynTheScarecrow'' books, supported by the local population for the wealth they bring to the area.

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* The Romney Marsh smugglers are the heroic figures in the ''LLiterature/DoctorSynTheScarecrow'' ''Literature/DoctorSynTheScarecrow'' books, supported by the local population for the wealth they bring to the area.
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* The Romney Marsh smugglers are the heroic figures in the ''Literature/DoctorSyn'' books, supported by the local population for the wealth they bring to the area.

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* The Romney Marsh smugglers are the heroic figures in the ''Literature/DoctorSyn'' ''LLiterature/DoctorSynTheScarecrow'' books, supported by the local population for the wealth they bring to the area.
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* ''Filma/{{Blow}}'': George Jung likes to portray himself as this type of LovableRogue, even waxing poetic in court about "moving plants over an imaginary line".

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* ''Filma/{{Blow}}'': ''Film/{{Blow}}'': George Jung likes to portray himself as this type of LovableRogue, even waxing poetic in court about "moving plants over an imaginary line".
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* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'': Rick Blaine used to be an ArmsDealer for the Spanish Republic, and now specializes in helping refugees from Europe passing through Casablanca, for a price.
* ''Filma/{{Blow}}'': George Jung likes to portray himself as this type of LovableRogue, even waxing poetic in court about "moving plants over an imaginary line".


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* "A Pirate Looks at 40" by Music/JimmyBuffett is from the point of view of an old drug smuggler.
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* In ''Film/Revolver1973'', Vito and Ruiz employ Carlotta, a female smuggler who makes a living running people across the Italian/French border, to smuggle them from Italy into France. She also serves as Ruiz's into LoveInterest.

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* In ''Film/Revolver1973'', Vito and Ruiz employ Carlotta, a female smuggler who makes a living running people across the Italian/French border, to smuggle them from Italy into France. She also serves as Ruiz's into LoveInterest.

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* In ''Literature/LucifersStar'' by Creator/CTPhipps stars Cassius Mass, who is a navigator [[spoiler: later captain]] of a huge freight hauler. He eventually turns to smuggling as a way to supplement his legitimate income. He is somewhat different from other examples because his spaceship, the ''Melampus'' is the size of a small town and he's closer to a Rogue Trader from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' than Han Solo.



* In ''Literature/LucifersStar'' by Creator/CTPhipps stars Cassius Mass, who is a navigator [[spoiler: later captain]] of a huge freight hauler. He eventually turns to smuggling as a way to supplement his legitimate income. He is somewhat different from other examples because his spaceship, the ''Melampus'' is the size of a small town and he's closer to a Rogue Trader from ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' than Han Solo.
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* In ''Film/Revolver1973'', Vito and Ruiz employ Carlotta, a female smuggler who makes a living running people across the Italian/French border, to smuggle them from Italy into France. She also serves as Ruiz's into LoveInterest.
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* ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'': Edmond is rescued by a group of smugglers when he escapes prison and quickly becomes TheAce among them, later secretly recruiting them for his many plans.
* ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'': Vetinari is (secretly) willing to tolerate some smuggling in Ankh-Morpork, seeing it as a good way to keep people smart (both the smugglers and the customs police).


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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': A TabletopGame/RogueTrader is an independent ship captain who's equal parts smuggler, pirate, explorer, and mercenary. Many are used as Inquisitorial agents (knowingly or not), especially where the smuggling of forbidden xenos artifacts is involved.
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* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': They never appear on-screen, but Batman hires a crew of South Korean smugglers to help him kidnap a Chinese money launderer from his home base in China. The implication is that they're this trope.

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