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** In ''[[Belgariad]]'', many [[Boisterous Bruiser|Mimbrates]], [[Horny Vikings|Chereks]], and [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Murgos]] fall into this trope. Taur Urgas, King of Cthol Murgos, is an [[Ax Crazy|especially]] [[The Caligula|scary]] [[The Berserker|example]]. He sleeps in his armour, is always at war with someone, and dies screaming at the man who killed him to come back and fight.

* The Nac Mac Feegle in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels are clans of "[[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|pictsies]]" who live primarily for drinking, fighting, and stealing, preferably at the same time. Each clan also has a Gonagle or [[Warrior Poet]], though in this case the poetry itself is a weapon of war. Taken to extreme when it's explained that a Feegle left all by himself may very well kick himself in the nose just to keep himself occupied.

* Several characters in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' see combat as an end to itself. Jaime Lannister hardly feels alive unless he's fighting (or [[Twincest|with Cersei]].) Strong Belwas, a former pit fighter, delights in showing off his prowess to the point that he always allows his opponents to get one slash in before he kills them. House Clegane has spawned two—Sandor Clegane lives for little other than fighting and believes that "killing is the sweetest thing there is", and he's the ''good'' brother. Gregor Clegane managed to make a career out of [[Complete Monster|raping and murdering his way across Westeros]], referred to as "foraging" in polite conversation.

* [[Badass|Mace Windu]] struggles with this in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''[[Shatterpoint]]''. You don't get to be second-in-command of the Jedi Order by going to town on everyone with a lightsaber, and Windu loves the stability the Republic provides, but he likes fighting anyway. He develops the dangerous lightsaber style known as Vaapad as a way to channel this aggression for good purposes.

* A long time ago, the Spanish were sailing in the Caribbean when they found a group of three islands full of very aggressive Indians. Remembering the Spartans, they named these islands [[Red Baron|"Nueva Esparta" (New Sparta)]]. One of their greatest moments was during the Independence war: thousands of royalists against hundreds of Neo Spartans, their weapons couldn't match the enemy's...and they won. Ever since then, both the battle and the mountain where it happened is called "Matasiete" ("Seven at one blow"), even though the real proportion was [[Awesome Moments|ten to one]].

* In the Eighteenth Century, English had a reputation for this in Continental Europe. Foreign visitors noted the priority of violence in their entertainment which included cockfighting, prize-fighting, brawling, rioting, dueling, and public executions. And naturally of course war though that was [[Humans Are Warriors|everyone's entertainment]] albeit English were [[The British Empire| unusually lucky]].

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