Outlaw

Though the judgment of outlawry is obsolete, romanticised Outlaws became stock characters in several fictional settings.

Description
This was particularly so in the United States, where outlaws were popular subjects of newspaper coverage and stories in the 19th century, and 20th century fiction and Western movies. Thus, "outlaw" is still commonly used to mean those violating the law or, by extension, those living that lifestyle, whether actual criminals evading the law or those merely opposed to "law-and-order" notions of conformity and authority (such as the "outlaw country" music movement in the 1970s).

The colloquial sense of an outlaw as bandit or brigand is the subject of a monograph by British author Eric Hobsbawm. Hobsbawm's book discusses the bandit as a symbol, and mediated idea, and many of the outlaws he refers to, such as Ned Kelly, Mr. Dick Turpin, and Billy the Kid, are also listed below.

Associations

 * Gentleman Thief
 * Pirate
 * Bad Boy

Literature

 * Zorro (Zorro)

Manga/Anime

 * Scar (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Comic Books

 * Anarky (DC Comics)

Video Games

 * Isaac Clarke (Dead Space)