Disposable Bandits: Difference between revisions

** Interestingly, ''[[Fire Emblem: Three Houses]]'' plays this trope straight ''and'' subverts it. While bandit leader Kostas is basically a throwaway [[Starter Villain]] (as is fellow bandit leader Pallardo, who kicks off the game's [[Time Skip]]), every conflict in this game has its roots in the actions of {{spoiler|Nemesis, former Disposable Bandit turned genocidal warlord responsible for the murder of the goddess Sothis and the near-extinction of her children. While he doesn't factor into most of the game's routes, he's the [[Final Boss]] of the Verdant Wind route where he returns from the dead as a zombified berserker and proves to be every bit as dangerous as the game's [[Draconic Demon|other]] [[Humanoid Abomination|final bosses]]}}.

* Common in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]''. One of the first NPCs the player meets in ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]'' even outright tells the player such criminals have no rights under Imperial law. ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall]]'' is a possible exception, as it never actually bothers to clarify just what those hostile humans in non-plot dungeons are doing there.

* Bandit parties in ''[[Mount & Blade]]'' are generally the weakest non-civilian party on the world map and, unlike civilians, nothing negative happens if you kill them. After the early game groups of "deserters" start spawning, which are functionally identical except for being stronger fighters.

* In ''[[Warcraft]] III'', bandits are a common type of unaligned creep. They can "Shadowmeld" to turn invisible at night, and the stronger ones have some tricks, but generally are no match for a hero with decent backup.