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{{trope}}
{{quote|''Wanted: Dead or Alive.''}}
One of the stock [[Western Characters]], a fugitive from justice into the wilderness.
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As of the Twenty-First Century, the meaning of "outlaw" has continued to suffer linguistic decay; now it is often used by media to mean any criminal, or to add a "rebel" cachet to something (like "outlaw country music" or "[[All Bikers Are Hells Angels|outlaw motorcycle club]]").
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* ''[[The Outlaw Josey Wales]]''▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Jesse James gang, of both [[Real Life]] fame and many, many movies.▼
* Wyatt Earp was an example of an outlaw becoming a lawman.▼
** It seems as though many if not most renowned gunfighters have spent some time as both outlaws and lawmen.▼
* [[Robin Hood]] and his Merry Men are perhaps the most well-known medieval outlaws in fiction.▼
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid tried going straight in [[Real Life]] as well, working as guards. It was the first time Butch Cassidy had ever killed anyone. In [[The Movie]], they're given the [[Robin Hood]] treatment.▼
* By the futuristic setting of ''[[Outlaw Star]]'', the term has decayed even further; "outlaw" means that they don't have a formal allegiance to the government or a pirate gang.
* ''[[Berserk]]'' has the Band of the Hawk being declared outlaw (in the classical sense of the word) by the King after Griffith's indiscretion with Princess Charlotte gets him thrown into the Tower of Rebirth to be put to the torture.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Terra-Man, a [[Silver Age]] foe of [[Superman]], combined the trappings of a Wild West outlaw with alien technology, since he was actually born in the appropriate time period.
* [[Land Down Under|Australian example]]: Ned Kelly, infamous for the home-made suit of armour worn in his last stand. During Australia's colonial days, outlaws were known as 'Bushrangers', and there's a number of songs about them.▼
== [[Film]] ==
* Famous heroic outlaws from [[The Icelandic Sagas]] are Grettir Ásmundarson and Gisli Súrsson. Grettir supposedly survived almost 20 years as an outlaw on Iceland, Gisli twelve years, before they were tracked down and killed by their enemies. Outlaws also occur as villains in other sagas, as outlaws often would turn to robbery, waylaying or even murder to feed themselves.▼
▲* ''[[The Outlaw Josey Wales]]''
== [[Literature]] ==
* Turin Turambar from [[The Silmarillion]] and [[Children of Hurin]] and his Gaurwaith gang are modelled after medieval outlaws.
* The Seablite gang in ''[[Dark Life]]'' are undersea outlaws who prey on ocean-floor pioneers.▼
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* The heroes of ''[[Wild Boys]]'' are all bushrangers.
▲* The Seablite gang in [[Dark Life]] are undersea outlaws who prey on ocean-floor pioneers.
== [[Oral Tradition]] ==
▲* [[Robin Hood]] and his Merry Men are perhaps the most well-known medieval outlaws in fiction.
▲* Famous heroic outlaws from [[The Icelandic Sagas]] are Grettir Ásmundarson and Gisli Súrsson. Grettir supposedly survived almost 20 years as an outlaw on Iceland, Gisli twelve years, before they were tracked down and killed by their enemies. Outlaws also occur as villains in other sagas, as outlaws often would turn to robbery, waylaying or even murder to feed themselves.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Cwynhild in the [[Cattle Punk]] webcomic ''[[Cwynhild's Loom]]'' is on the run from the military.
== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* The Jesse James gang, of both [[Real Life]] fame and many, many movies.
▲* Wyatt Earp was an example of an outlaw becoming a lawman.
▲** It seems as though many if not most renowned gunfighters have spent some time as both outlaws and lawmen.
▲* [[Land Down Under|Australian example]]: Ned Kelly, infamous for the home-made suit of armour worn in his last stand. During Australia's colonial days, outlaws were known as 'Bushrangers', and there's a number of songs about them.
▲* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid tried going straight in [[Real Life]] as well, working as guards. It was the first time Butch Cassidy had ever killed anyone. In [[The Movie]], they're given the [[Robin Hood]] treatment.
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