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Badass Bureaucrat

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Badass Bureaucrat	comment	Some bureaucrats are a bother. Others are overworked. Still others are dishonest. However, this one is a lord or lady of the office, and even the most powerful kneel before them. This is a character no one on the outside knows about. Others get the glory, but they get the job done and well enough to earn praise from their fellows. They are living paper shredders who cut through red tape like a buzz saw and are usually very good with being The Scrounger. When female, she is likely to be attractive and very much a Plucky Office Girl, but with a streak of an Iron Lady as well, especially if she is old. Often this is a female intelligence analyst who is something of an indirect Lady of War. Sometimes her Love Interest will be one of her field agents. Their general behavior is rather like an Apron Matron in their dedication and their hidden but intimidating air of authority, except this character brings these traits to work. Regardless of gender, they are something like The Consigliere but tend to work farther in the background. If circumstances call upon them to go into peril openly, they will, of course, take a level and be more straightforward in their badassery. But for now, they are just a Badass Bureaucrat. Of course, just as often their ability to use the rules is their deadliest weapon. Often found in combination with an Almighty Janitor and/or Silk Hiding Steel. The most effective Desk Jockey can pull this trope off to prove that they're no mere REMF to their fellow soldiers. Also see Pen-Pushing President.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock: Mycroft Holmes claims to have a minor position within the British government. It is heavily implied that Mycroft Holmes is the British government. He does, after all, control all the CCTV cameras in London... and is possibly the head of MI6... when he isn't running the CIA... or, according to the fandom, any or all of the other intelligence agencies on the planet.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_13665790	comment	A.E. Pessimal from Thud! deserves at least honorary mention, notable for attacking a troll (which are made of rock) with his teeth. After being inducted as a full copper, he puts his skills to use against white-collar crime. The business community's greatest fear is being subjected to one of his audits.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_19948e9a	comment	The Story of Saiunkoku's heroine wants to become a civil servant in an ancient China-esque country; the show focuses much with the internal workings of the State, and most main characters are Badass Bureaucrats of some sorts.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_2342c40a	comment	Arthur in The Tick (2016) can put on a suit of Power Armor and go out and fight evil. Thanks to working a boring office job for most of his life, he's also one of the few people capable of navigating the convoluted regulations of A.E.G.I.S. well enough to actually get anything done while still playing by the rules.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_2675c915	comment	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: When Coulson recruits Melinda May, she's working a desk job she willingly chose to avoid going through the trauma (eventually revealed to be killing an insane superpowered child in self-defense) that she suffered in the field earlier.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_267cbfa	comment	Lars Sturtz from Dominic Deegan. Most of the events in the Battle for Barthis were to either delay or distract Brakkis, the Lawful Evil Corrupt Corporate Executive, so that Lars could navigate the legal system to rescind the unsubstantiated declaration of corruption on the town, grant the citizens disaster relief, circumvent Gregory's "debts", organize a benefit concert, and expedite the rebuilding protocols. Not to mention Lars' painstakingly arduous auditing of the executive's doctored consolidated financial statements that uncovered a complex money laundering scheme and connections to a few murders that ultimately took Brakkis down. And Lars only did that just to bring his son closure.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_2cc4abd9	comment	Roz from Monsters, Inc. sees everything, can appear anywhere, and will have your paperwork filed correctly. She's also the CDA Administrator incognito.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_2e833eb	comment	In the Fallout: Equestria Recursive Fanfiction Black and White, Velvet Remedy has become this, pretty much running the newly formed NCR's entire infrastructure. Unfortunately, she's too successful, as her role as Chessmaster Sidekick to a succession of weak elected officials ends up inspiring an ill-fated attempt to force her to take control as Princess.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_3199e98a	comment	A Practical Guide to Evil has Eudokia, The Scribe. She's usually found in the corner with a lapdesk, quietly catching up on correspondence or whatever. She's also essentially the entire spy network for The Empire, and when it comes to not seeing her coming, she's said to be as dangerous as Assassin. A few words in the right ears at the right time, the correct paperwork filled out and verified — [redacted] was, officially, never even a little problem to have managed existing.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_319f68cc	comment	In The Universiad, the Salary Men of the Office of Special Resources' Financial Management Directorate pursue financial crimes with superhuman diligence and persistence and have been known to stay on cases for decades to centuries in order to get their man.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_326c82c5	comment	Hetty from NCIS: Los Angeles is both a bureaucrat and a former agent who once wrecked a Ferrari in Monte Carlo and is proficient in numerous exotic weapons. She is nicknamed "The Duchess of Deception".
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist: Maes Hughes is certifiably badass as he uncovers a lot of The Conspiracy through sheer investigation and intelligence not to mention that he takes out both Envy and Lust single handed; too bad they are both immortal and He Knows Too Much.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_33fdae4d	comment	Mad Men: Pretty much everyone in the office acknowledges that Joan Holloway really runs the place and is one of the only people who knows how the office bureaucracy and logistics truly works.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_390729ff	comment	Bunpei Shiratori, a local government bureaucrat from Inba, Japan, is an All-Star competitor in Ninja Warrior. A particularly memorable competition has him recovering from heat exhaustion to advance all the way to the third stage.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_39fe00f1	comment	Dragon Age: Inquisition: Josephine Montilyet, one of your advisors and the Inquisition's designated paperwork wizard. You go to Cullen if you want a problem fought, Leilana if it needs a good backstabbing, and Josephine if you want nobility to give you everything you need and thank you for the opportunity.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_3bd63f78	comment	Pam from The Man Who Never Was, and most of the other main characters. They're not soldiers, but they manage to alter the course of World War II through careful intelligence, covering their bases, and a well-placed corpse.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_3f527396	comment	The Bureaucrat class from Anarchy Online lives and breathes this trope. They use a combination of bureaucratic red tape and propaganda to hold enemies in place or turn them neutral, making them invaluable for crowd control, while their robot bodyguard or charmed enemies handle the rest. The nice suits and Guns Akimbo which they frequently sport are just gravy on one of the most Difficult, but Awesome classes in the game.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	New Jedi Order: General (and later Supreme Commander) Sien Sovv is characterized by his thoughtfulness, efficiency, thoroughness, and not a lot of combat experience. While he suffers some ignominious defeats, due mostly to his bosses, the Senate or to the enemy's sheer numbers, he matures into exactly the sort of commander the Galactic Alliance military needs: a shrewd politician but unconcerned with his own power, capable of keeping morale up and riding herd on his more impetuous junior officers while managing the interstellar infrastructure needed to keep new troops and ships pouring in. Over the course of Destiny's Way, he transforms the allied fleet from a crippled, scattered, demoralized Redshirt Army into a well-equipped, fully replenished force of seasoned veterans capable of carrying out Admiral Ackbar's ambitious plans to take the war back to the Vong. Nom Anor is a bureaucrat by trade. He is also The Spymaster, a Manipulative Bastard, and highly dangerous when cornered. During a Yuuzhan Vong rallying ceremony, while each of the other castes is calling out their battle cries, he muses that if the bureaucrat caste had a rallying cry, it would be, "Have you triple-checked that order with your superiors?"
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_41b0198a	comment	Harry Dresden of The Dresden Files mentions that the White Council has a whole branch of wizards whose sole job it is to leverage their collective political and economic power against the other supernatural factions. It doesn't take a genius to get rich after a few centuries of compound interest trading, after all. And the White Council's been around for millennia...
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_423d62c4	comment	The checkpoint the player mans in Papers, Please is regularly attacked by terrorists. Eventually, funding is cut so much that they no longer employ soldiers to protect you, meaning you have to resolve such situations with a sniper rifle. The player can choose to aid a shadowy revolutionary group. While this requires less shooting and making more "mistakes", the player and their entire family are under the watchful eye of the Arstotzkan government and could be killed or detained for the slightest infraction.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Several of Lord Vetinari's "dark clerks" are Assassin's Guild-trained. How much actual clerical work they do seems to depend on the assignment. Inigo Skimmer in The Fifth Elephant is one of them, a small man with a way of nervously clearing his throat and an expert on Ãœberwald politics, who, left alone with a group of bandits, killed seven before the rest fled. A.E. Pessimal from Thud! deserves at least honorary mention, notable for attacking a troll (which are made of rock) with his teeth. After being inducted as a full copper, he puts his skills to use against white-collar crime. The business community's greatest fear is being subjected to one of his audits. Even the regular clerks get a touch of this at the end of Going Postal, where the description of the clerks auditing Reacher Gilt's finances makes forensic accountancy sound like an inexorable, inescapable force of Truth. On the other hand (or at least the hand that pays him more) is Mr. Slant, zombie attorney and president of the Guild of Lawyers, whose death only enabled him to stop taking lunch breaks. He can quiet a roomful of attorneys with a glance, and he has an encyclopedic knowledge of case and precedent because he was there and helped write it. And don't forget Mr. Bent, from Making Money, who runs the bank accountants with an iron fist... but as it turns out is very well-thought of because tough as he is, he's also the sole reason why the bank of Ankh-Morpork has worked at all, and he's been a tireless crusader for improving work conditions for the bankers. Plus, he took out assassins with long-forgotten, probably genetic clowning techniques!
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_4e5b6428	comment	And don't forget Mr. Bent, from Making Money, who runs the bank accountants with an iron fist... but as it turns out is very well-thought of because tough as he is, he's also the sole reason why the bank of Ankh-Morpork has worked at all, and he's been a tireless crusader for improving work conditions for the bankers. Plus, he took out assassins with long-forgotten, probably genetic clowning techniques!
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_4eaee975	comment	The Vogon Constant Mown from And Another Thing... seems well on his way to become this at the end of the book — in a race of Obstructive Bureaucrats, he figures out how to use laws and loopholes in laws to help people while at the same time making it appear that he's being as ruthless as other Vogons. (He does have some luck on his side, when some of his genuinely concerned remarks are mistaken for and lauded as very sophisticated sarcasm.)
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_4ff41a9c	comment	In Origins, Senator Glia Ham'Del might qualify, seeing as she's almost a one-woman crusade against the Republic Intelligence Service, who despite being much removed by time seem to take their cues from the Imperial Security Bureau.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_59da62aa	comment	In Fallout: New Vegas, you can find Ranger Jackson, a mustached ranger who serves as the commander of the Mojave Outpost. He is described by Cass as a "washed up old fuck-up" and a "Brotherhood Scribe" because he loves paperwork and doing things exactly like the law says. However, if you accomplish some good work for him, he may have "lost some supplies" that ended in your pocket, and if you find evidence of the Van Graff's and Crimson Caravan's corruption and murdering work... The NCR bureaucracy is described in the game as obstinate, but you don't want to have it against you. Jackson will assure you the Van Graff and the Crimson's leader will be in deep trouble, and Cass even says that it is a fate worse than death...
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_5c0e4258	comment	In SWAT Kats, Callie Briggs is officially the Deputy Mayor of Megakat City, but as the Hypercompetent Sidekick to the lazy, incompetent Mayor Manx, she's the one who does most of the work. She can also handle herself in a fight, becoming an Improvised Weapon User to defend herself when necessary.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_5d21fab8	comment	Wolf Hall is about (a Historical Hero Upgrade of) the resident Badass Bureaucrat of Henry VIII's court, Thomas Cromwell. He knows how to fight, but by the time of the books' main plot, he rarely has to, preferring to use words, Rule Fu, and a network of bankers, merchants and spies to get things done.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted, the number of things that can be accomplished by members of the Celestial Bureaucracy with the mere stroke of a pen can be staggering. Some of the most noteworthy are the Sidereal Exalted who are at the forefront of the Bureau of Destiny. The most powerful Sidereal, Chejop Kejak, hasn't been using his powers much in the past several centuries, but maintains incredible power in Heaven through the number of committees he chairs or has membership in (which amounts to virtually all of them), and in Creation through his status as advisor to the Scarlet Empress, tutor to her children, and secretary of the head of the most powerful religion in the world. In the First Age, we have Salina. To recap, Salina is (in)famous for a Working that literally rewrote the laws of reality. The only thing exceeding this achievement is the amount of bureaucratic wrangling she managed to pull off to secure the official support and logistics required to implement it. This is one of the key talents of Eclipse Caste Solars. Give an Eclipse ten minutes, a piece of parchment, and a pen, and he will snare your entire government in pits of bureaucratic madness that nobody can escape, then take advantage of the chaos to go and punch a deathknight through a wall or three.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: Ivan Vorpatril from Captain Vorpatril's Alliance is a Professional Slacker and a notorious womanizer. He's also a major administrative genius, being able to chew through the whole daily workload of his boss, the Chief of Naval Operations, in just three hours — and it wasn't a particularly slow day at the HQ, as the narration kindly notes. Later on, after he gets caught up in a major scandal and is Reassigned to Antarctica to hide him from sight for a few years, he manages to compress the whole workload of a Barrayaran Consul (himself) into just three mornings per week, so efficient he is. The "Badass" part comes in when you add that he's from Barayyar. He's expected to look like he came straight out of a recruiting poster and his security clearance requires him to take advanced combat training. This becomes important in the climax of the book when he helps to take out a group of armed thugs.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: Richard Woolsey starts off as an Obstructive Bureaucrat, but through character development becomes this when he is put in charge of the Atlantis Expedition. In the Grand Finale, he takes the Atlantis into battle against a super-hive in Earth's orbit, even ordering Carson to keep firing at the risk of causing the city to have an uncontrolled re-entry.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_6196490	comment	In all incarnations of Ghost in the Shell, Daisuke "The Ape" Aramaki is an old government hand, respected and feared by a friend and foe alike. However, setting the Division 9 as an independent Cabinet-level investigative agency — without any oversight by the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Defence or Ministry of Foreign Affairs — is usually treated as his greatest feat.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Henry Peter Gyrich has his moments, despite usually being at best an Anti-Villain. See his epic victory over the Man-Ape in Black Panther, using nothing but his encyclopedic knowledge of the law. In The Avengers, Gyrich was briefly replaced as government liason to the Avengers by Dwayne Freeman, who actually liked them and did his best to help them. Sadly, he died saving the team in a Heroic Sacrifice. Afterward, his position was once again filled by Gyrich.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_62aa95a6	comment	The Lost Fleet: Ambassador Rycerz shows a resourceful streak regarding fruitful negotiation strategies and handling the civilian officials who give her a hard time.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_69daf29	comment	In Grrl Power, when faced with an aggravating supervillain that gets power via getting hired by other supervillains and abusing the terms of the contract, it's up to Arianna, the team's PR representative and lead counsel to play Rules Lawyer and break the contract and end the fight with a stamp on a piece of paper.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_6a8ce345	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se's extremely bureaucratic government and head of the Dai Li, maintains a brutal grip on the city (at least until exposed by Team Avatar), and is also a highly capable earthbender (being one of the few characters on the show to actually kill someone) Yangchen's predecessor Avatar Szeto — as revealed in The Shadow of Kyoshi — was a highly competent administrator in the Fire Nation Government and did most of his good work by keeping the Fire Nation from civil war through diplomacy and administrative politics. However, as the Avatar, he was also highly capable of incredible displays of power, such as the time we see him enter the Avatar State and bend the lava out of several distant volcanoes. Tarrlok, a Sleazy Politician from The Legend of Korra, at first seems to be your average Desk Jockey, but quickly displays his prowess as a martial organizer (What else do you call a politician who participates in police raids?) and is a competent waterbender who can bloodbend without the full moon.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_6ac86aae	comment	Yangchen's predecessor Avatar Szeto — as revealed in The Shadow of Kyoshi — was a highly competent administrator in the Fire Nation Government and did most of his good work by keeping the Fire Nation from civil war through diplomacy and administrative politics. However, as the Avatar, he was also highly capable of incredible displays of power, such as the time we see him enter the Avatar State and bend the lava out of several distant volcanoes.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_6c1234ed	comment	In earlier versions of Dwarf Fortress, raising any skill would increase all your stats, regardless of the skill; raising it to godlike levels would make you godlike. And the Bookkeeping skill was incredibly easy to raise by assigning a dwarf as your bookkeeper. As a result, Dwarf Fortress bookkeepers would rapidly become practically demigods.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_6e73440d	comment	The Victors Project: Plutarch acts like a subservient gamemaker and government cog, while aiding the rebellion in ways like convincing Snow to allow a sponsor gift to be sent to Abram and "losing" a letter Snow sent him demanding that Roan be given a special advantage in the 3rd Quarter Quell and sent after Katniss Everdeen.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_6f7c29bc	comment	Kwiatuszek from Shaman of the Undead may look like a pudgy secretary, but she has the gift of Awesomeness by Analysis and doesn't shy away from helping main characters, even if it's technically none of her business. She also worked herself into Man Behind the Man position without having other characters' badass magic skills.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_705bb59a	comment	There's a reason Clan Ventrue is considered the Lords of the Camarilla in Vampire: The Masquerade. They may not have Disciplines that directly aid in combat, but Presence and Dominate are perfect for currying favors and lobbying bills and policies in the grand scheme of things, while Fortitude will let them survive assassination attempts that would have eviscerated other vampires. You being an Elder won't matter if a Ventrue simply condemns your home and has it demolished in the daylight.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_72262aee	comment	Long Feng in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se's extremely bureaucratic government and head of the Dai Li, maintains a brutal grip on the city (at least until exposed by Team Avatar), and is also a highly capable earthbender (being one of the few characters on the show to actually kill someone)
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_734db98d	comment	In "Blind Alley", the outwardly mild-mannered bureaucrat Loodun Antyok single-handedly rescues an entire alien species, which he does entirely by being extraordinarily competent at manipulating the rules of the Galactic Empire's labyrinthine bureaucracy, and manages to do it in a way that means he will escape any potential legal consequences for his actions.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_74365738	comment	Even the regular clerks get a touch of this at the end of Going Postal, where the description of the clerks auditing Reacher Gilt's finances makes forensic accountancy sound like an inexorable, inescapable force of Truth.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_75149ccd	comment	Rogue Squadron is an elite special forces unit in the X-Wing Series, whose members were recruited not only for their experience and expertise as starfighter pilots, but also for a wide range of additional skills that could come in handy during covert infiltration mission behind enemy lines. One of the most important members is Nawara Ven, who is a former lawyer and whose legal expertise is frequently used to trick Imperial bureaucrats and occasionally exploit legal loopholes against their superiors. This allows Nawara to continue as a key member of the squadron even after severe injury leaves him no longer cleared as a combat pilot.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_7571d777	comment	In Ships Ahoy!, Oprah becomes one of the top agents of Precinct 13579 shortly after being hired there, only behind Olesya, Obfusco and Osage, and it definitely shows in her intelligence and wit. It helps that she's obtained Living Legend status for her efforts in stopping Olga.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3: You can intercept this transcript from a human colony world about to be overrun by the Reapers: There are a few oblique references that Shepard, despite being a hero shouldering the burden of an entire galaxy at war, is still careful to always fill out his/her paperwork properly.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller: The few notable Vilani commanders in the Interstellar Wars era tended to be this. Vilani bureaucracy is so convoluted that only a badass can survive it. But several do and do so quite well. The alien race of the Bwaps has this as its hat.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_8132c15b	comment	Jorj X. McKie and probably everyone at the Bureau of Sabotage in ConSentiency.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_863b7825	comment	Sir Humphrey Appleby of Yes, Minister epitomizes this trope. He basically runs the Department of Administrative Affairs and has a huge influence on the British Government whether working for his Minister or out-gambiting him as an adversary. He eventually rises to Cabinet Secretary where he is the bulk of the power behind the Hacker regime, including getting Hacker promoted to PM in the first place — all while being a "humble functionary". Sir Arnold, prior to retirement, also fit this.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Vanamonde von Mekkahn looks like a young loafer who does nothing but laze around and drink coffee all day. In reality, Vanamonde secretly runs the town of Mechanicsburg from his seat in the coffee shop, can rally the people of the town into highly effective guerrilla fighters against the Wulfenbach army in a matter of hours, and will utterly mess you up if you dare threaten a member of the Heterodyne family. By necessity, Baron Klaus Wulfenbach had to become this. By the time he returned from exile, he found Europa torn apart by the various mad scientists, his estate destroyed and rampaging Eldritch Abominations, essentially undoing all the work his friends (the Heterodyne Boys) did. Lacking their charisma and the fate of Bill and Barry Heterodyne pretty much unknown, the Baron proceeded to amass a great army to take over Europa and force people to stop fighting by basically saying "Do NOT make me come over there." And it worked. He brought peace and order back to the land, with the quality of life being second to only when the Heterodyne Boys were around. However, he is very miserable as the realpolitik and managing of an empire has made him cynical and weary, not able to enjoy his passions in science and having to be forced into greater measures when worse things happen (even having to coerce Gil, his own son, at one point, something he really didn't want to do). The necessity is proven during the timeskip. Klaus' latest drastic measure ends up locking him and the rest of Mechanicsberg in time-stop state, putting him out of the picture. Two years later, 40 of the 52 royal families of Europa are dead, warlords are trying to take the Empire and Gil having to use all the forces to retake his empire while dealing with the aftermath his dad put in. The people view Wulfenbach's rule as some sort of lost golden age and things have gotten so bad that the Knights of Jove (a massive conspiracy against the Baron) align themselves to restore Gil to the throne to try and restore order. Boris Dolokhov serves as the Baron's personal secretary and administrative second-in-command. He personally organised the forces of the empire in the face of continent-wide rebellions while the Baron is incapacitated, and when faced with the mutiny of the Jagers he beats the location of the generals out of their messenger so that he can discuss the matter with them.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_86e51bb5	comment	The Adventure Zone: Balance: The Director of the Bureau of Balance also survived a destructive planet on her own, survived Wonderland, and saved the world.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_870b2a7f	comment	Savatage features two on Handful of Rain. "Chance" is about Chiune Sugihara and the turmoil he must have felt as he destroyed his career to do the right thing (see the Real Life section below). "Castles Burning" is about Giovanni Falcone, who died taking on The Mafia.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_8889afa3	comment	The Seneschal player class in Rogue Trader is characterized in this way. A typical seneschal is a financier, quartermaster, and/or business manager to one of the eponymous Rogue Traders and is an expert in matters of commerce, intelligence — oh, yes, and personal combat as need be. Like all Rogue Trader characters, they are expected to hold down both shipboard posts and participate in highly dangerous adventures.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_897271d7	comment	In Alien in a Small Town, although Paul loathed his time shuffling papers in his alien race's endless bureaucracy, he became good enough at it that when the abused Warriors want to stage a demonstration, he's able to navigate the permits and legal red tape so deftly that the leaders have absolutely no legal way to stop the protest, as much as they want to.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_8c264362	comment	Mallory from Skyfall at first seems like an Obstructive Bureaucrat but is later shown to be a Reasonable Authority Figure, even Taking the Bullet for M from Silva and killing two of his Mooks before becoming the new M after the previous one's death.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_8d0c224c	comment	Harry Is a Dragon, and That's OK: It would be dangerous for Empress the basilisk teaching Parseltongue to young dragons, which causes them to become sapient, to become common knowledge, but Percy is able to keep her activities aboveboard by getting Mr Crouch to sign off on "cross-language classes for below-age foreign visitors".
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_8d814070	comment	Radar from MASH. Klinger later manages to grow into the role after Radar gets sent back to the States.*
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue has a scary-looking guy with a deep voice who "seeks to serve Lavernius Tucker". Then it's revealed that he wants to serve a legal injunction — he's a process server!
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_90e09c2e	comment	Descendants of Darkness gives us the Right-Hand Hottie to Chief Konoe, Seiichirou Tatsumi. Very handsome, very smart, and has the power to manipulate shadows.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_97a70962	comment	The Professionals: Cowley may be Da Chief of a unit of Cowboy Cops, but he's always done the paperwork to cover his backside. And as various powerbrokers who think they can use CI5 for their own ends discover, Cowley knows the corridors of Whitehall better than any of them.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls has Ocato of Firsthold, an Altmer who served as the High Chancellor of the Elder Council and Imperial Battlemage under Emperor Uriel Septim VII. His talents for running the government earned him those positions, and later, the title of Potentate of the Empire once there were no more Septim heirs. His other position as Imperial Battlemage, along with his actions during Mehrunes Dagon's attack on the Imperial City, shows just how capable he was in combat. After being named Potentate, this made him in charge, and he was such a threat that the Thalmor had him assassinated to force the Septim Empire into vestigial status.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: While Tywin Lannister is definitely an effective battlefield commander and tactician, his real strength is his almost unmatched skill as a politician and long-term strategist. He is feared throughout the entire country for his ruthlessness and brutal efficiency. His audiences with people are almost universally one-sided, with him being able to completely break people's ability to negotiate with brutal speeches and out-maneuvering. While his psychopathic grandson is, on paper, the king and the most powerful person in the Seven Kingdoms, Tywin is the real power behind his rule and lets Joffrey know on several occasions who is really the one in charge. Subverted in that the moment Tywin's dead (itself the result of his character flaws), the Lannister faction begins a slow collapse, due to Tywin's sexism and excessive methods, contrasted with the continuing devotion to the idealistic but revered Ned Stark.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_a183d57f	comment	Hermes Conrad from Futurama once organizes a forced labor camp where he is imprisoned efficiently that all the work can be done by one Australian man. He also uses his organization skills to lead a fleet in a battle to retake Earth in Bender's Big Score. He also at one point manages to clear the Central Bureaucracy's entire backlog in 3 minutes, 58 seconds... while performing a musical number.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_a32b6a64	comment	Pretty much the entire main cast on The West Wing. They're always cutting deals, manipulating other departments and offices, and getting none of the glory outside of the office.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_a495544e	comment	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: Whenever Commander Nebula isn't reluctantly fulfilling his bureaucratic duties, he is more than happy to help Buzz Lightyear and his team whenever they need help. His peg-leg even doubles as a laser gun. He even plays the undercover role of a mercenary tasked with hunting down rogue subordinates of Emperor Zurg under the alias "Shiv Katal" (though he ends up needing to hand the role down to Buzz).
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass has Magnificent Bastard Lelouch; not just a master strategist and Guile Hero, Lelouch is very good at organizing people, arranging treaties, and creating a coherent, proper army out of a rabble of "freedom fighters". To the point he establishes the United Federation of Nations in R2. Then he becomes The Emperor and ends up taking over the world.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Gilgamesh's Caster version from Fate/Grand Order remains as amazing of a king as his Archer counterpart and is jokingly called "the busiest man in the world" due to him being always loaded with paperwork, to the point of once casually dying from overwork in the middle of his Singularity, forcing the protagonists to interrupt their quest to go pick him up in the underworld.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: While very much conforming to the Obstructive Bureaucrat archetype, there's no denying that the Azorius are awe-inspiring when moved to do something.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_abbb5fed	comment	Plenty of the Ministry workers in The Ministry of Time. They're civil servants with little to no weapon or hand-to-hand fighting training, but perfectly able to kick serious ass.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_b1143709	comment	Chancellor Jarjuna of the human nation of Vasgol in The Water Phoenix King has yet to appear in person, other than one brief glimpse in a flashback to the war as a "kid in goofy armor", but he gained his position by leading the rebellion despite being only a commoner and killing a god with his own sword — and he's held onto that job for the decade since despite ongoing attacks from outside forces and fractious nobles trying to grab, or grab back the power they had before the empire was shattered. So pretty badass, despite being dismissed as a mere bureaucrat by the old nobility, and hinted to be pretty good as well — he seems to be trying, and at least partially succeeding, to be a good ruler, at least.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_b212951e	comment	The Outer Worlds: Sanjar Nandi, the Honest Corporate Executive CEO of Monarch Stellar Industries, can out-bureaucracy the Board, a collection of the system's worst Corrupt Corporate Executives, all while living on the sulfur-drenched Death World of Monarch, keeping his employees alive in a world that only barely counts as terraformed.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Tyrion during his stints as acting Hand of the King and Master of Coin. Tywin was previously Hand of the King to Aerys II. He becomes Hand of the King once again after King Robert dies. For all his faults, and perhaps because of some of them, he is a true genius with political intrigue and public administration within his capacity as a statesman. The Braavosi banker Tycho Nestoris is played by Mark Gatiss of Sherlock fame for a reason. In Season 7, Sansa Stark becomes this when her brother Jon names her as his regent and she accepts the position. When Jon must go on a mission to retrieve the necessary resources and win the alliances they need to defend the North against the oncoming army-of-the-dead, Sansa rules the North until his return. She proves herself capable by managing to hold down the fort, helps prepare for winter, diplomatically addresses the concerns of the Northern lords, and manages the day-to-day affairs of the North. Her administrative acumen and savviness in northern politics eventually earns her realm independence from the rest of Westeros and herself the title of Queen in the North in the series finale.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_b6130933	comment	"Short Skirt, Long Jacket" by Cake is about the narrator's love for a female badass bureaucrat. She "uses a machete to cut through red tape".
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_ba1120d0	comment	Keiji Watanabe in Ikiru is an understated example, but best exemplified when his response to being punched in the stomach (while suffering from stomach cancer) is to simply go into the office to rabble-rouse some more.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_ba3d2748	comment	Bob "Mr. Incredible" Parr, from The Incredibles, is this during his brief stint as an insurance claims agent, much to the chagrin of his Obstructive Bureaucrat boss Mr. Huph. When a sweet old lady has her coverage denied, he quickly and covertly rattles off a string of forms and contacts to get her what she needs.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_bb3dea41	comment	The middle-aged professionals in Old School are noted for being really good at filing paperwork.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_bc1a0949	comment	In The Star Beast, we have his Excellency the Right Honorable Henry Gladston Kiku, M.A. (Oxon.) Litt. D. honoris causa (Capetown), O.B.E., Permanent Undersecretary for Spatial Affairs. Mr. Kiku can read at over 2,000 words per minute, useful since he needed to go through a dozen memos and other documents per working hour, making the occasional notation and referral to subordinate for action. Most were for information, but he needed to be kept informed. During the climactic confrontation with the Hroshii on the tarmac of a spaceship landing field and with the threat that they could destroy the Earth with their one ship, he stood there and cursed mildly when the wind nearly blew his hat off.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Each of the Emperor's eighteen Primarchs had a specialty that their superhuman prowess was particularly invested in, on top of being superlative warriors. Vulkan and Ferrus Manus were Ultimate Blacksmiths, Magnus was The Archmage, and so on. Roboute Guilliman's specialty was administration. Under his leadership, his fiefdom of Ultramar became the most comfortable and prosperous of the Imperium's subdomains, and his Ultramarines were the largest and best-organized of the Legiones Astartes. An early scene in Know No Fear shows him smoothing over logistical problems as they arise on individual warships during a fleet muster of thousands (including things like engine certifications and the latest weather forecast), while at the same time drafting what would become the Codex Astartes.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_bdc49dbe	comment	The Laundry Files: Anyone and everyone working for Her Royal Majesty's Laundry Service who is not an Obstructive Bureaucrat or snivelling incompetent is revealed to have elements of this trope.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_be3bd6	comment	Lawrence starts off as this in Lawrence of Arabia. He's supposed to be a paper pusher collecting information on an Arabian feud, and he proves so determined and clever that he winds up playing a major role in it.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_bf24c7bb	comment	Chernobyl portrays Boris Shcherbina as this. Being a grumpy career politician, each episode shows he got where he is because he knows how to read people and play the game. Display incompetence and he'll politely instruct guards to escort you to Party Headquarters. Prove you know what you're talking about, and he'll bite your head off, but then he'll stomp off to conjure up five thousand tons of boron and sand so you can save the day.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer: Most high offices in the Empire are inevitably held by great generals, wizards or Sigmarite warrior priests. It's not bizarre at all for the Treasurer of the Empire to suit up in plate armour and fight Orcs in personal combat from horseback, with thousands of men at his back. Karl Franz, the Elector Count of Reikland and current Emperor, is not only a skilled warrior and a brilliant tactician but also considered one of the greatest statesmen the Old World has ever seen. He once ventured into the forests of Athel Loren alone, a place where even the inhabitant Wood Elves have to be careful, and not only survived but was also able to convince the xenophobic elves to strike an alliance with the Empire to fight the Beastmen together. This feat of courage and wit impressed the elves, so they gave him the egg of a gryphon, which the noble creature Deathclaw hatched from. The Seneschal player class in Rogue Trader is characterized in this way. A typical seneschal is a financier, quartermaster, and/or business manager to one of the eponymous Rogue Traders and is an expert in matters of commerce, intelligence — oh, yes, and personal combat as need be. Like all Rogue Trader characters, they are expected to hold down both shipboard posts and participate in highly dangerous adventures.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_c170f75a	comment	The Power Broker: Robert Moses is called "the best bill drafter in Albany" early on and lives up to it by injecting loopholes into all kinds of legislation. Despite having no elected position, Moses runs right over checks and balances and mayors and governors to build infrastructure how he wants.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_c2e48301	comment	Jack Ryan starts off as this in The Hunt for Red October. If anyone wants to know something, talk to him. There is also a secretary referred to who, while directors come and go, she "really" runs the CIA.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Twilight Sparkle adores lists and schedules, which is often mocked by those around her. (One Running Gag is her penchant for very long checklists. Another is her attempts to precisely schedule her day only for life to happen.) Still, on many occasions, her attention to detail has saved the day, and she has shown herself to be pretty competent in a governmental position. She's also a traditional badass, for added flavor, especially after her promotion to alicorn, placing her fourth in command over all Equestria. The comics suggest that third in command Cadance has a streak of this too. And then there's the glimpse of Celestia's life. Celestia and Luna may share the top two spots in name, but of the four, Luna stands out by not having been depicted as this.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Curse of Peladon" had the Ice Lord Izlyr, an Ambadassador from the Galactic Federation and (naturally, being an Ice Warrior) quite a badass. Donna is a variation: although she never made it past temp,note in the main timeline, at least she can pretty much single-handedly run an office, work out complex calendar systems, type 100 words a minute and do a Sherlock Scan of office file systems. She saves the day a few times over with those skills.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has an offhand mention of S.H.I.E.L.D. Accountants who look like they could break you into pieces with their pinkies. This being S.H.I.E.L.D., they probably can.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_c9ff23dd	comment	The Cape: Secretary of Prisons Patrick Portman has a gun in his desk to use against enemies in the second episode and provides some assistance during one fight scene in a later episode.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_d0744832	comment	In The Avengers, Gyrich was briefly replaced as government liason to the Avengers by Dwayne Freeman, who actually liked them and did his best to help them. Sadly, he died saving the team in a Heroic Sacrifice. Afterward, his position was once again filled by Gyrich.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_d3cc40b5	comment	Anyone with high Administration and Martial/Combat in Embers in the Dusk. Governor Fredrick Rotbart, an Administratum Adept who not only turned out to be a military genius but also personally killed a Chaos Lord with a Power Knife before he acquired any augmentations or much combat training. Avernites in particular have earned a reputation for making these, helped by the fact that their Governor started off as one. There's even a trait named "Avernite Bureaucrat", which gives bonus to Administration and Combat.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_d861bfb	comment	The Infinite Loops makes Mayor Mare into one of these when she convinces the Vogons not to destroy Equestria (with superior paperwork-fu).
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_d8bda674	comment	In X/1999, Yuuto Kigai and Kanoe work in the Japanese government (he's an office worker in a Tokyo ward, she's the Sexy Secretary to the Prime Minister). Kanoe leads the Dragons of Earth and Yuuto is her right-hand man.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_d9b3fe48	comment	Ben Safford Mysteries: In The Attending Physician, HEW employee Charlene Georgian is good at detecting corruption and deception amidst mountains of paperwork. When it looks like the doctors scamming Medicaid will pull a Karma Houdini, Charlene turns whistleblower. She also alerts several patients — all from welfare families who will greatly benefit from lawsuit awards — how the doctors have been using their names to bill for nonexistent operations. This leads to multiple malpractice and defamation lawsuits. When Ben regretfully tells Charlene that she may lose her job for stealing and illegally distributing files, Charlene and her lawyer reply that there was no actual theft or misuse.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris allows empires to have the Byzantine Bureaucracy and/or Efficient Bureaucracy civics, which make the empire's bureaucrats more effective and productive at their jobs (Byzantine has them produce more Unity, needed to enact new government policies and societal traditions, and Stability, which keeps the population from unrest; Efficient has them require less money upkeep). Individual leaders may also have traits which make them better at wrangling bureaucracy if they're in positions of power, like those with the Master Bureaucrat trait.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_e64a6382	comment	Arknights: The Laterano Notarial Hall frequently deploys field executors to perform legal services for Lateran citizens, whether in the country or abroad. Said executors are also combat-trained and armed with weapons, both for self-defense in the Crapsack World of Terra and part of their job being Laterano's police force.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_e694aadb	comment	Ciaphas Cain: While most Administratum drones are of the Obstructive Bureaucrat variety (that oft-repeated quote about losing entire planets to rounding errors? Yeah, that's them), Cain meets a refugee who qualifies during his trek through the deserts of Perlia. Not only does the guy survive months of desert warfare enduring countless ork attacks, but he also even plans out the column's rationing for food, fuel and water, without which they'd all have died in the desert.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_ed480be	comment	The Hands of the Emperor: Cliopher Mdang, secretary to the emperor and unofficial head of the government: he is by his own admission the bureaucrat of bureaucrats, absolutely incorruptible, clever, compassionate and diligent. He made the civil service more inclusive, dismantled a millennia-old-ruling-system to build a better one in the wake of a world-spanning catastrophe, brokered peace and practically eradicated poverty.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_f0841a69	comment	Primeval: James Lester's main concerns are typically bureaucratic in nature, but it's quickly revealed that he cares much more than he'd like to admit. When someone points this out, he coldly threatens to sue them for libel. In the latest season, when the wealthy industrialist financing the ARC is demanding that all the prehistoric creatures be put down (after one nearly causes his death), Lester threatens to leak information about this to the press, even though he himself has often complained about the animals (except for the mammoth, which saved his life earlier).
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_f3368832	comment	Buffyverse: Giles describes the Watcher's Council as good enough to get the job done when it comes to combat, and the best in the world when it comes to manipulating bureaucracy and pulling political strings. On the evil side, there's Wolfram & Hart, who keep rich dangerous criminals and demons free to wreak havoc. One of them got the idea to weaponize municipal bureaucracy against Angel.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_f3ae2950	comment	Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has Senator Steven Armstrong, who is not only the true mastermind behind the plot but is also capable of physically overpowering Raiden with his bare hands due to nanomachines that grant him Nigh-Invulnerability and Super-Strength. At first, Raiden stands no chance against him. It's only after Raiden obtains Sam's High Frequency Blade that he is able to do any significant damage to Armstrong.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_f74b5f80	comment	Vir Cotto in Babylon 5 uses recordkeeping to aid his smuggling of Narns to other worlds, by declaring them dead via a fake Centauri noble so that they would not be missed. He helps thousands of Narns in this way.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_f89f466d	comment	Torchwood: Miracle Day: Esther Drummond isn't very good at gathering intelligence, or being professional and separating her work from her personal life, or coping with high-risk situations, but give her a pile of data, and she's sure to advance the plot.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes: The Rogue Isles are run in a state of organized anarchy by Arachnos, which keeps things running smoothly with their Arbiters. You need to go to them to take advantage of level-ups, they give you training while also taking note of your current threat level. However, one does not get to be a bureaucrat in the Rogue Isles without first having veteran military experience, as all such Arbiters will have a pencil in one hand, a notepad in the other... and an assault rifle strapped to their backs. Furthermore, if you do not fill out form 32-B, they have legal authority to open fire.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_fa86c3ad	comment	Vinny Duto from the John Wells series, Hero of Another Story. While his days in the field has passed now, he remains legendary in the CIA for his fearlessness. He has once shrugged off a two-month abduction by Colombian rebels with two-week trips in Caribbean.
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: In some continuities, Optimus Prime was a "data clerk" before becoming a soldier. Needless to say, after becoming leader of the Autobots, his ability to fight and command is demonstrated in full. The Transformers Aligned Universe Optimus (or Orion Pax as he was known at the time) in particular is mentioned in Transformers: Prime to have predicted the massive inequality that led to the rise of the Decepticons and tried to work alongside Megatronus to rectify it. Unfortunately, Megatronus — now known as Megatron — became arrogant and greedy, and tried to seize power for himself, so Orion/Optimus had to take matters into his own hands. Perhaps best exemplified in this quote from Transformers: Fall of Cybertron:
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Badass Bureaucrat / int_fd2e8800	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam: The Plot to Assassinate Gihren has an evil example in Gihren's secretary, Cecilia Irene, who is also an example of the dark type of Obstructive Bureaucrat. A coldly efficient young woman who acts like The Baroness, she is feared/respected by the top brass, pushes Gihren's special projects through the red tape, and acts as his keeper of the keys, handling all the black operations that the rest of the General Staff doesn't want to think about.
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Crimson and Emerald (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Dial (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Dragons of Ice and Fire (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Nymeria's War (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Ships Ahoy! (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Great Alicorn Hunt (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Things Involving Shipgirls That Are No Longer Allowed (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Things We Don't Tell Humans (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Zillo Beast for Chancellor! (Fanfic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
A Chinese Ghost Story / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
C.K. dezerterzy / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Eraser / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Escape from New York / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Incendies / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Lawrence of Arabia / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Ride a Crooked Trail / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Shin Godzilla / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Skyfall / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Adjustment Bureau / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Bad Sleep Well / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Pentagon Wars / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Agent to the Stars / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Ben Safford Mysteries / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Blind Alley / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Brothers Keepers / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Craft Sequence / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Dirk Pitt Adventures / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Executive Orders / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Fred, The Vampire Accountant / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
John Putnam Thatcher / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Kris Longknife / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Magicals Anonymous / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Now Blooms the Tudor Rose / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Shake Hands with the Devil / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Shaman of the Undead / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Snuff / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Book of Lord Shang / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Diary of Samuel Pepys / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Hands of the Emperor / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Heirs of Alexandria / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Hunt for Red October / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Long Price Quartet / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Saxon Stories / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Shadow Campaigns / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Shadow of Kyoshi / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Star Beast / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Story of Saiunkoku / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Travels of Marco Polo / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Winds of War/War and Remembrance / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Wayfarers / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Without Bloodshed / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
AngloDutchWars	seeAlso	Badass Bureaucrat
BadAssBureaucrat	sameAs	Badass Bureaucrat
BadAssTeacher	seeAlso	Badass Bureaucrat
The39Clues	seeAlso	Badass Bureaucrat
Bloody Cross (Manga) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Savatage (Music) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Adventure Zone: (K)Nights (Podcast) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
ATL Meetup (Roleplay) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Borgia / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Boss / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Delightful Girl Choon Hyang / int_8ddb659d	type	Badass Bureaucrat
E-Ring / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Major Crimes / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
NCIS: Los Angeles / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Cape / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Great / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Last Kingdom / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Ministry of Time / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Professionals / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Yes, Minister / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Hollow Earth Expedition (Tabletop Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Pandemic (Tabletop Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Princess: The Hopeful (Tabletop Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Traveller (Tabletop Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Wagadu Chronicles (Tabletop Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Age of Empires IV (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Imperator: Rome (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Medieval II: Total War (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Middle Manager of Justice (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Nefarious (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Return of the Obra Dinn (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Sid Meier's Pirates! (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
The Outer Worlds (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Torment: Tides of Numenera (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Zombie Army Trilogy (Video Game) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Shadowrun Returns / Videogame / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Critical Role: Campaign Two (Web Video) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Dokibird (Web Video) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Door Monster (Web Video) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
A Girl and Her Fed (Webcomic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
City of Somnus (Webcomic) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Carmen Sandiego / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat
Nick Aldis (Wrestling) / int_5e3c35bd	type	Badass Bureaucrat

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