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* Jack Sparrow in the third ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie.

* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]'', Rick finds an old pilot who was a hero in his [[Glory Days]], and he jumps at the chance to take them into incredible danger and die doing it (which he does).

** And again at the beginning of ''[[Film/Star Trek II Wrath Of Khan|Star Trek II Wrath Of Khan]]''.

** And finally, yet again, in ''[[Star Trek Generations]]''. {{spoiler|Twice.}}

* [[Fritz Leiber]]'s [[Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser]]'s endless adventures are also the fruit of a love of it. In one story, they set out in search on the grounds that they are bound to find it.

* Oscar in ''[[Glory Road (novel)|Glory Road]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]], a book with this as a major theme. Possibly also Lazarus Long in other books by the same author.

** [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s hero, [[Ciaphas Cain]], is [[Fake Ultimate Hero|a coward with a great reputation for heroism]]. He enjoys the advantages of this reputation so much that he has to fake it, including a love of being In Harm's Way. This inevitably results in him emerging looking like a [[Big Damn Heroes|big damn hero]], [[Blessed with Suck|which only results in him getting thrown into even worse situations.]]

** In [[Dan Abnett]]'s novel ''Malleus'', the rogue trader Maxilla works for [[Eisenhorn]] not for the money but the challenge.

== Tabletop Games ==

 

** Not half as much as orks do.

** Some Eldar intentionally get themselves banished so they can go off wandering as Corsairs or Rangers.

* The second game in the ''[[No One Lives Forever]]'' series was subtitled "A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way", which is a quite clever pun: no only does it show that Cate Archer is on it, fighting [[Nebulous Evil Organisation|H.A.R.M.]]'s agents again, but also that she just cannot leave the front lines again.

* Arkantos is portrayed this way at the start of the first ''[[Age of Mythology]]'' game campaign - it starts with him reliving his glorious battles in his dreams and grumping about 'facing feeble pirates'.

* Pokemon Gold/Silver showed that even after the first games protagonist beat [[The Rival]] and the strongest trainers the region had to offer he wouldn't settle down and become the champion. He's still out there training, waiting for another battle.

* In the Metal Gear Solid series this is one of the central conflicts of Big Boss's character. Big Boss tried to give up on war and live a peaceful life, but he realized that all that he was truly good at was war and he only felt truly alive when he was facing death. Civilian life was foreign and intolerable to Big Boss, his skills were useless back home and he never felt that he could fit in or be appreciated by civilians bar a magazine interview or two, he needed war and anything else was inconceivable to his very existence. This is why he created Outer Heaven, a paradise where soldiers would be respected and needed forever more.

* The radio show ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'' is on its indefinite farewell tour.

* John Paul Jones, who uttered the quotation at the top of the page, falls under this trope. When the Revolutionary War ended and America wasn't at war enough and wouldn't promote him, he served as an Admiral for the Mexican and Russian navies, so he could keep fighting at sea. In fairness to him, at the time he uttered the quote, the Revolutionary War was still ongoing, and he was tired of captaining a really slow ship.

* The Army gets roughly 50% of its soldiers from this trope. They play it up by advertising thrills.

* As seen in the documentary ''[[Man on Wire]]'', Philippe Petit. How mind-boggingly reckless do you have to be to ''hang a wire between the Twin Towers and walk on it?''

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