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This is a list of vigilantes featured in popular culture and entertainment media. For commentary, see the main vigilante article.

Contents

• Film
• 1920 - 1980
• 1980 - 2004
• 2005 - present
• Radio
• Television
• Literature
• Comics
• Pulp Fiction
• Video games
• References

Film

Radio

• The Lone Ranger

Television

Literature

• The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903) by Emma Orczy and Montague Barstow
• Crossfire (1998) by Miyuki Miyabe
• The Virginian by Owen Wister (1902), the first American western novel based on the theme of "frontier justice"
• Jimmie Dale, alias the Gray Seal (1914) by Frank L. Packard the first masked urban crime-fighter in American popular culture.
• Zorro (1919) by Johnston McCulley
• Without Remorse (1993) by Tom Clancy, explicitly about an ex-US Navy SEAL wiping out a gang of drug dealers
• Darkly Dreaming Dexter (2004), Dearly Devoted Dexter (2005), and Dexter in the Dark (2007) by Jeff Lindsay, with adapted TV series Dexter (2006), all about fictional character Dexter Morgan who by day is a blood splatter expert for the Miami-Dade Police Department and by night hunts down and kills those who he feels "deserve to die"
• The Chocolate War (1973) by Robert Cormier, The Vigils, a semi-private group (students and teachers know of them but do not speak of them) who run the school, giving students "assignments" that bend or break school rules and regulations
• The Executioner (1963–) by Don Pendleton, a book series about an ex-US Army Master Sergeant sniper named Mack Bolan and his "war" against the Mafia
• Khabardar Shahri (rough Hindi translation of "vigilante"), one of the most famous vimal series of novels by Surender Mohan Pathak in which the hero, a serious offender on brink of reform takes up arms once again to punish five rapists one of whom is nephew of the kingpin of the local crime syndicate which results in a new gang war and the unfortunate Vimal find himself back in world of violence
• Dirty Weekend (1991) by Helen Zahavi is about a young woman who kills seven predatory males over three nights. It was later made into a movie (1993) by film director Michael Winner.

Comics

• Americop
• Blade
• Batman
• Batgirl
• Batwoman
• Black Canary
• Black Cat
• Casey Jones
• The Crush
• Cloak and Dagger
• Crimson Avenger
• Daredevil
• Deadpool
• Death Note
• Doc Savage
• Elektra
• Foolkiller
• Ghost Rider
• Green Arrow
• Hellboy
• Hit-Girl
• Huntress
• Iron Fist
• Jessica Jones
• Kick-Ass
• Luke Cage
• Malcolm Reynolds
• Miles Morales
• Moon Knight
• Nightwing
• Peacemaker
• The Phantom
• Punisher
• Question
• Red Hood
• Robin
• Rorschach
• Sam & Max
• The Shadow
• Solitaire
• Spawn
• Speedy
• Spider-Man
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Venom
• V
• Vigilante
• Wallestein the Monster
• Wild Dog
• X

Pulp Fiction

• The Shadow
• The Green Hornet
• Zorro

Video games

References