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  2. List of vigilantes in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Stillwater (film) - Wikipedia

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    It stars Matt Damon as Bill Baker, an unemployed oil-rig worker from Oklahoma who sets out with a Frenchwoman (Camille Cottin) to prove his convicted daughter's (Abigail Breslin) innocence. The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 8, 2021, and was released theatrically in the United States on July 30, 2021, by Focus ...

  4. She Was Killed by Space Junk - Wikipedia

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    The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Lila Byock and directed by Stephen Williams, and aired on November 3, 2019. It introduces the character of Laurie Blake , formerly the vigilante Silk Spectre but now a member of the FBI's Anti-Vigilante's Task Force. The title of the episode is a quotation from a song by Devo, "Space Junk."

  5. Category:American vigilante films - Wikipedia

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    American vigilante films, a film genre in which the protagonist or protagonists engage in vigilante behavior, taking the law into their own hands. Vigilante films are usually revenge films in which the legal system fails protagonists, leading them to become vigilantes.

  6. Vigilantism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance was a vigilante group formed in 1851 and reorganized in 1856 in response to rampant crime and corruption in San Francisco, California. The need for extralegal intervention was apparent with the explosive population growth following the discovery of gold in 1848.

  7. Category:Fictional vigilantes - Wikipedia

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    Vigilante characters in video games (1 C, 47 P) N. Fictional Nazi hunters (7 P) S. Spider (pulp fiction character) (10 P) Superheroes (11 C, 22 P) Pages in category ...

  8. Vigilantism - Wikipedia

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    The "Bald Knobbers", an 1880s vigilante group from Missouri – as portrayed in the 1919 film The Shepherd of the Hills. Vigilantism (/ v ɪ dʒ ɪ ˈ l æ n t ɪ z əm /) is the act of preventing, investigating, and punishing perceived offenses and crimes without legal authority. [1] [2]

  9. The Vigilante - Wikipedia

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    The Vigilante, marketed as The Vigilante: Fighting Hero of the West, is a 1947 American Western film serial directed by Wallace Fox. The 33rd serial released by Columbia Pictures , it was based on the comic book cowboy Vigilante , who first appeared in Action Comics , published by DC Comics .