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* The ''[[Samurai Gun]]'' exist to avenge the evils of the Shogunate, though in practise this means avenging the deaths of [[Fan Service|large-breasted women]].
* Hibari Kyouya from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''. He rules Nanimori with an iron fist and does whatever he pleases since people are too afraid to call him out on it, but god help you if you so much as look at his hometown the wrong way.
* ''[[Triage X]]'' follows an entire team of medically-themed vigilantes who kill gang leaders, mob bosses, and other menaces to society.
* Lunatic in ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]''. As opposed to Heroes who take part in HeroTV who only seek to arrest criminals, Lunatic actually ''[[Vigilante Execution|kills]]'' them. Though he tends to save this for [[Complete Monster|people who REALLY deserve it]].
* {{spoiler|Jellal}} becomes this in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', forming a small independent guild that hunts down dark guilds, something the Council doesn't allow of the guilds in it's jurisdiction, as it counts as illegal warring between guilds.
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* The Crimson Avenger, who also has the honor of being (disputably) [[The DCU]]'s first masked superhero.
* The Huntress in [[DC Comics]] became a vigilante after her family was murdered by rival mafiosi.
** Jason Todd became one of these after coming [[Back
* The Paladin, who appeared in a ''[[Justice League of America]]'' story where Anansi was changing all the hero's stories, is an alternate Bruce Wayne who picked up Joe Chill's gun while he was running off, and shot him. He became a gun-toting vigilante in a cowboy hat, whose story (until Vixen interferes) ends with him and Commissioner Gordon in a [[Mexican Standoff]].
* Wild Dog in [[DC Comics]] is a largely unknown vigilante. He's basically per his creator Max Allan Collins in Amazing Heroes#119, a modern version of the Shadow, Zorro, the Lone Ranger, and the Green Hornet.
* The Blue Knight in ''[[Astro City]]''.
* John Dusk, the protagonist of ''[[Absolution]]''. He's a superhero in a setting where the superheroes are all legitimate law enforcement officers, which means they have to observe due process and other pesky legal restrictions. One day, he gets fed up with having his hands tied, and starts killing.
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* In ''[[The Question]]'', the Mikado was a physician who started inflicting [[Karmic Justice]] on those who caused the pain he saw every day in the ER. A man who scalded his newborn baby was boiled alive, for example.
* Find a hero who '''doesn't''' fit this trope in ''[[Sin City]]''.
* John Tensen from the [[New Universe]] title ''Justice''. In early issues, when he thinks he's a warrior from a [[Magical Land]], he goes after criminals in general. After a [[Retcon]] reveals that he's actually a paranormal, he devotes himself to policing his brethren, punishing the ones who use their powers for evil.
* Victor Ray from ''[[100 Bullets]]'' kills criminals in his spare time to balance out the awful things he does on behalf of Agent Graves
* [[Depending on the Writer|Depending on the story]], Paperinik (Donald Duck's superhero alter ego in some Italian stories) may have this as his reason to hunt down criminals: Duckburg has a serious criminality problem (seriously, how is that the Beagle Boys manage to get free in a lawful way?!), and an unstoppable sadistic superhero going to extreme lengths to humiliate and beat you up after catching you in the act or getting proof and a confession ([[Justified Trope|justifying]] the fact his victims are always guilty: he makes sure, and those times he was wrong he found out before beating up the supposed criminal) tend to keep the problem manageable. In those stories he's also a wanted criminal due various spectacular thefts he committed at the start of his career to punish Donald's bullies (the very first being the money-filled bed Scrooge was sleeping on: the sacks of money were ''too easy'' for him), but most of the police doesn't want to arrest him due a combination him catching an insane amount of criminals and leaving them on their step and mercilessly humiliating the ones who actually try and arrest him (one memorable occasion had him fooling two cops into breaking into the bedroom of the chief of the police. [[Hilarity Ensued]]).
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* [[Tom Clancy]] dipped into this genre with ''Without Remorse'', which probably owes some inspiration to [[The Punisher]]. Desconstructed in that the protagonist himself is a little worried by his own lack of guilt over some [[Cold-Blooded Torture|pretty]] [[Nightmare Fuel|unpleasant]] methods of questioning, even on an unrepentant [[Complete Monster]].
* The Bluejay, also known as {{spoiler|Mortimer Folchart}} in ''[[The Inkworld Trilogy]]'' shows shades of this, particularly in the third book.
* Vigilante man? Try vigilante GENERAL!!! [http://tcrane.tripod.com/johnstn.html Ben Raines of the Ashes series] by [http://www.williamjohnstone.net/Ashes.html William Johnstone]. Imagine if the Punisher saved America by being the post-apocalyptic George Washington. Imagine the rest of the world is made of alternately criminal drug-running dictators or tree-hugging communist hippies. And now imagine he's just been elected president. And you still only have a TENTH of the insanity of this world. [[What the Hell, Hero?|Raines does such downright crazy and morally black shit]] sometimes that not even [[Warhammer
* In Ian [[Mc Ewan]]'s novella 'Black Dogs' the narrator becomes a Good Vigilante Man after he sees a man in a restaurant ''smack his kid across the face so hard the kid's chair is knocked over backwards and cracks on the floor.'' The narrator challenges the man to "fight someone his own size" and then manages to break the guy's nose and knock him out with a few punches. He is called off by a waitress and stops him just before he becomes [[He Who Fights Monsters]] and kicks the guy to death. This moment provides a contrast from the [[Grey and Gray Morality]] of the rest of the book.
* ''[[Nuklear Age]]'' presents The Civil Defender, a crazed vigilante hell-bent on eliminating all crime, no matter how small. Complete with machine gun and futuristic body armor, the Civil Defender took up being a vigilante when his sandwich was stolen, and gives out tickets written on notebook paper when he's sane enough to have his finger off the trigger of his machine gun. He has repeatedly given out tickets for littering because of the pile of other tickets he personally threw to the ground.
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