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* In one of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] "Empire" comic lines, [[La Résistance|The Rebellion]] finds [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Able Able], an old clone trooper who has been [[The Remnant|living in the wilderness]] since the Clone Wars. He eventually gets incorporated in Luke's unit and proves to be the best, if most cynical, soldier there and looks out for Luke until [[Shaggy Dog Story|the whole unit gets wiped out]] by [[The Virus]].
* [[Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader?]] has Batman coming face to face with a vision of his mother (whether it's a [[Dying Dream]], regular dream, Fear Gas trip, genuine psychic vision etc. is never revealed) that basically pegs him as this. She says that none of the various Batman versions in the multiverse ever give up. They keep fighting until they drop, whether it's saving the world or a single person, whether on his first time out or his thousandth. Also, she states that {{spoiler|he never goes to Heaven or Hell, instead his afterlife reward is to be Batman. The same soul is continually reincarnated into every universe to keep up the fight, making Batman older than every single superhero in DC and Marvel combined seeing as at one point there were infinite universes. Whether or not this is true is up for debate, though the ending seems to show him being reborn as a baby.}}
* Wallace from ''[[Sin City]]'' has utilizes this trope, although he's a bit more laid back than most versions. Most people don't realize that he is a retired Navy Seal until he [[No
* [[Wolverine]] is sometimes written this way. You could especially see it in the late 80s, when he was [[Storm|Storm's]] second-in-command in the [[X-Men]].
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* ''[[Bolo]]'': Bolos can spend years or decades on the front lines. Of course, they're self-aware tanks armed with a [[Wave Motion Gun]] and [[More Dakka|whatever else the designers could bolt on]], so they tend to fight on a larger scale than most examples here.
* In the [[Malazan Book of the Fallen]] Whiskeyjack fits this this trope perfectly. Fiddler takes the role in later books.
* In The [[Black Company]] series, this trope was written for Croaker {{spoiler|and all of the rest of the Company kept in a decades-long magical stasis}} in the later books, where he also {{spoiler|becomes a [[Four
* ''[[Belisarius Series]]'': Valentinian is the best example. There are others who have seen quite a bit of war, but these are often [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] s whereas Valentinian is closer to the classic model of this trope, having a cynical, practical and plebian outlook on war. [[Public Domain Character|Flavius Belisarius]] himself, both in the series and in the real life. He was a Syrian Greek of peasant stock, a bunch that was noted for their practical outlook, and it was repeatedly said that he viewed the war not as [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|an honor]] or [[Blood Knight|a joy]], but as [[Humans Are Warriors|a work that has to be done]], which is why he was so good at it.
* Nestor from ''[[The Iliad (Literature)|The Iliad]]''. He's described as having at least a generation on the next oldest soldier present in the battle.
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