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Easy: Rangers.

 

 

In short, "Ranger" is shorthand for ''awesome''.

 

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* The Rangers in the ''[[Marvel Universe]]''.

* [[Badass]] superspy [[Nick Fury]] was an Army Ranger during [[World War II]].

 

* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'': Buzz Lightyear, [[Recycled in Space|Space Ranger!]]

* ''[[Der Schuh des Manitu]]'': Ranger. He has no other name besides that.

* Cameron Poe from ''[[Con Air]]''.

** Of course, Saruman has a bigger one when Grima mentions he's wearing a ring of entwined serpents and realises ''who'' he is.

 

* Rangers from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. Both the Arnorian and Gondorian ones.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Obviously]], the Rangers of the ''[[Ranger's Apprentice]]'' series.

{{quote|To be a Ranger meant knowing how to move in any environment. To blend in with the forest or grasslands, to sail, to swim, to dive, to pilot. To be masters of our surroundings. We were good spies, good warriors, very adept at intrusion and escape.}}

* The "Ranger Girls", female federal agents in Don Pendleton's ''[[Mack Bolan]]'' novels.

* In [[Dale Brown]]'s books, Hal Briggs and Trevor Griffin are Air Force officers who have gone for the Ranger course. Sergeant Major Ray Jefferson was also a Ranger.

* In [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[Jack Ryan]]'' story arc, Chavez is a graduate of Army Ranger school. He is a part of [[Badass Crew|Rainbow Six]].

* The Rangers of the Night's Watch from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. Especially [[Handicapped Badass|Qhorin Halfhand]]

 

* The ''[[Power Rangers]]'' in all their forms.

** Some (but not all) of the ''[[Super Sentai]]'' teams.

* A short-lived ('''six''' episodes) program in 1993 was titled ''Space Rangers'' (unrelated to the game). The Rangers were a cross between [[Space Police]] and [[Space Marine]]s in the year 2104, with the series focused on an outpost named Fort Hope on the planet Avalon. They were Fort Hope's first, last, and only line of defense against all threats, both from human criminals and alien menaces.

 

* ''[[The Lone Ranger]]''

 

 

* The ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' class Ranger.

** Particularly in the 1st edition AD&D, where they almost define [[Badass Normal]]. Rangers started their career with 2 hit dice rather than the 1 everyone else got - say an average 66% increase over the other fighter-types, 400% over spellslingers, a whompin' 90% base tracking chance (by comparison, a 1st level thief with ''maximum'' dexterity would have 20-40% in all but one skill), a 50% chance to surprise ''anyone,'' a huge (by 1st ed standards) damage bonus to pretty much any humanoid monster; and at high levels, [[Rule of Cool|spellcasting from two different primary spellcaster classes]] (druid & magic-user) and [[The Beast Master|loyal followers,]] potentially up to ''[[Gentle Giant|storm giants]] and [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|copper dragons.]]'' Yeah.

* ''[[Deadlands]]'' uses the Texas Rangers—see the [[Truth in Television]] section below—and uses them shamelessly. [[One Riot, One Ranger]] is still the [[Catch Phrase]], but the "riot" in question may well be undead, werewolves, worshippers of an [[Eldritch Abomination]], whatever. If that seems unfair to the Rangers, that's because it is; even [[Player Character]] Rangers are told to "make do" when encountering adversity. ''[[Earn Your Happy Ending|Especially]]'' [[Player Character]] Rangers.

 

* The ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' High Elven class Ranger.

** ''Playable'' characters get... "hunter". Meh.

* The Desert Rangers (the source for Fallout's Desert Rangers) of [[Wasteland (video game)|Wasteland]] were (in-universe) inspired by the Texas Rangers, and (once they realized other communities had survived the nuclear war) decided to help rebuild and re-establish human civilization in the wastelands. Your characters belong to the group, and will either die or end up doing many impressive things.

 

* Ranger from ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' is a parody, double-classing as Ranger/Ranger to dual-wield his dual-wield. With bows and arrows.

* The Highland Raiders from ''[[Drowtales]]''. The various Sarghress units are mostly among the best in the business in their chosen field. The highland raiders may not excel as a group in any specific field, but they compensate by doing a bit of everything for long periods of time. Including expeditions to the surface, where they will suffer from [[Mana]] deprivation if they stay too long and are too few.

* ''[[Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger]]'' features quite a group of [[Badass]]es.

 

* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]''

* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]''

 

* United States Army Rangers, who are advanced light infantry troops in the United States Army.

* Similarly, Irish Army Rangers. (although they are actual special forces as opposed to advanced light infantry)

* The Pakistan Rangers.

* The JGSDF has this, but it's more of a soldier's qualification than a unit. It's been coveted since JGSDF soldiers with Ranger training are for the most part either with the Special Forces Group, the JGSDF's counter-terrorist/elite special forces unit or with the elite paratrooper unit, the 1st Airborne Brigade. JGSDF soldiers with Ranger status are also trained to conduct anti-guerrilla/infiltration operations (alongside other special forces-type training) throughout Japan should there be a future conflict involving commandos/soldiers from intruding nations or terrorists inserted into Japan.

* The Kachin Rangers were tribesmen of Burma who, supplied with automatic weapons and other equipment by the [[OSS]], made occupying Burma a painful experience for the [[Katanas of the Rising Sun|Imperial Japanese Army]]. Among other tactics, filling the underbrush on either side of a road [[Human Pincushion|with bamboo slivers]] taught the Japanese never to dive for cover when ambushed.

 

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