"Snipin's a good job, mate. It's challenging work. Out of doors. I guarantee you'll not go hungry. 'Cause at the end of the day, long as there's two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead."
—The Sniper, Team Fortress 2
"Dad! Dad, I'm... I'm not a 'crazed gunman', Dad, I'm an assassin! ...Well, the difference bein' one is a job and the other's mental sickness!"
—The Sniper, Team Fortress 2
"Wait, so most of these guards are just FutureTech's hired guns? The Allies are just buying their military muscle now?"
Tyrion: If I told you to kill a babe... an infant girl, say, still at her mother's breast... would you do it? Without question?
Bronn: Without question? No. I'd ask, "how much."
"...[the mercenary life] is about more than just 'killing people'; it has many complicated facets. I once helped topple a fascist South African government in a week! I mean, it was replaced by another in two, but I still got paid."
— Pip's Grand-Père, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged
Tyrion: I thought we were friends.
Bronn: We are. But I'm a sellsword. I sell my sword, I don't loan it out as a favor to a friend.
Yeah, thing about mercenaries, Nadine... Their loyalty, it's bought. It's not earned.
—Rafe Adler, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
"The king of this land has offered me gold to dispose of you. So leave, or die. I get paid either way."
—Hercules, Hercules (2014)
"Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble."
—Captain Kevyn Andreyasn, Schlock Mercenary, also quoted in Civilization VI.
"Yeah, I was a vet, and yeah, I used my training for cash... funny thing about the army, they always promise to teach you "marketable skills," but they never mention that, by far, there’s nothing more marketable than knowing how to kill some people while keeping others from being killed."
—T. Sean Collins, World War Z
Doctor Fate: Mercenaries are the hounds of duty.
Deadshot: English, please?
Doctor Fate: You are disposable.
Deadshot: English, please?
Doctor Fate: You are disposable.
