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A mercenary is a soldier who fights for hire.

Mercenary or mercenaries may also refer to:

In music:

• Mercenary (album), an album by the band Bolt Thrower
• Mercenary (band), a melodic death metal band from Denmark
• "Mercenary", a song by Brave Saint Saturn and the first single from their 2008 album, Anti-Meridian
• "Mercenary", a song by John Cale from his 1979 album, Sabotage/Live
• "The Mercenary", a song by Iron Maiden from their 2000 album, Brave New World.

In computer games:

• A minigame included with Resident Evil 3, Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5
• Mercenary (computer game), a computer game released by Novagen Software Ltd. in 1985
• Tegel's Mercenaries, a computer game released by MindCraft in 1992
• Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction, an Xbox and PlayStation 2 video game released in 2005
• Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, the sequel to Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction in 2008
• Mercs Inc, the sequel to Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
• MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries, a computer game released by Activision in 1996
• MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries, a computer game released by Cyberlore Studios and FASA Studio in 2002

In film:

• The Mercenary (film), a 1968 spaghetti western film
• Dark of the Sun, 1968 film starring Rod Taylor also known as The Mercenaries
• Mercenary for Justice, a 2006 film starring Steven Seagal

In comics:

• El Mercenario (English: The Mercenary), an oil-painted fantasy graphic novel by Vicente Segrelles, published from 1980 to 2003

In role-playing games:

• Traveller Book 4: Mercenary, the fourth rulebook of the Traveller SF role-playing game

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