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{{quote|[Y]ou can kill smugglers and bandits and other outlaws all you like. Outlaws have no rights. Plenty of adventurers make a living from killing and looting outlaws.|'''Arrille''', ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]''}}
Laconic: Bandits as
Groups of bandits are very popular picks for the lowest power human([[:Category:Fantastic Sapient Species Tropes|oid]]) enemies in the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]] in fantasy and [[Post Apocalyptic]] fiction. Their motivation is straightforward and requires little explanation, they can come from anywhere, and, while armed combatants, bandits rarely have significant combat skill and generally only have actual training if they began as [[Dangerous Deserter|military deserters]] (in which case their training is generally still minimal) making them some the weakest willing combatants possible. Even more importantly is that, unless [[Just Like Robin Hood|they style themselves as champions of the poor]], bandits [[Outlaw|have absolutely
If they're stupid enough to try attacking someone who winds up clearly overpowering them, they're [[Mugging the Monster]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* All over the place in early and filler parts of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''. Virtually all of them are [[Too Dumb to Live|stupid enough to charge at the guy who just made their friends explode with a touch]]. They decrease in frequency as Kenshiro starts fighting the forces of the major villains instead, though the only real difference those new minions have is sometimes making their futile attack out of fear of/loyalty to their superiors rather than stupidity.
== [[Child Ballad|Ballads]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Very common in low level ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and ''[[Pathfinder]]'' modules.
== [[Theatre]] ==
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