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* It may be up for discussion, but Michael Corleone could easily qualify. He enjoys his opera, has a child who sings in one, and has a full college education... while ruthlessly fighting his way up the Mafia hierarchy, and eliminating all threats to his family.
* T.E. Lawrence the titual character in ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'' (though he didn't write a whole lot of poetry)
* Horton, of ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]'', is [[Lampshading|called]] a [[Warrior Poet]] by his friend near the end of the movies.
* D'Artagnan gets the Musketeers to like him in ''[[The Three Musketeers (1993 film)|The Three Musketeers 1993]]'' by tossing out a one-liner.
{{quote|'''D'Artagnan''': I may not wear the tunic, but I believe I have the heart of a Musketeer.
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* [[Siegfried Sassoon]] and Wilfred Owen, two of the best known war poets in history. Both were decorated for heroism; Sassoon was arguably more [[Badass]], and certainly luckier (he survived the war and lived to a ripe old age; Owen died so close to the end of it that his mother got the telegram as the armistice bells were ringing).
* [[World War I]] in particular produced a great deal of war poetry of acclaim. Besides Sassoon and Owen, [[wikipedia:John McCrae|John McCrae]] is another of the better-known examples of this lot. He was an artilleryman who had fought in the Second Boer War before serving as a surgeon in World War I. Like Owen, he died on the battlefields of France (though unlike Owen, who was killed in action, McCrae died of pneumonia). His poem "In Flanders Fields" earned him fame while the war was still raging, and is still often read to commemorate Remembrance Day.
* [[Mao
* Tupac Shakur and other gangsta rappers created very influential and popular music, while at the same time engaged in some pretty serious urban violence. Whether you believe this makes them Warrior Poets and Criminal Poets is [[Your Mileage May Vary|up to you]].
* [[wikipedia:Egill Skallagrimsson|Egil Skallagrimsson]] of Iceland was famous as both a fighter (a berserker in fact) and a poet. He subverts this trope somewhat, in that while he had a caring and sentimental side, he also had a terrible temper and sometimes behaved very rashly.
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