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Military Maverick
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A Military Maverick is one of those service members who often breaks the rules, and regularly annoys superiors: but he/she generally prevails in the end, just because they broke the rules in the first place.note Breaking the rules in this context doesn’t have to be an outright violation, but could also include imaginative interpretations of the rules, serving as the justification of such actions. Consider them the armed forces counterpart to the Cowboy Cop. The popularity of this trope is largely because of the Rule of Cool. For in real life, any military needs people they can be certain will stop fighting when so ordered, just as much as they need people who will start fighting when so ordered. The primary purpose of order and discipline in the military, apart from doing what you're told, is to learn self-restraint, after all. Still, most instances of this would have far more consequences in Real Life than in fiction (and so does everything). Note that the higher up you are in the chain of command, the more likely you are to get away with stuff. There are no recruits and privates who can get away with acting like a Military Maverick in fiction does. Or at least, if there are right now, give it a few days. You might get away with disobeying orders and regulations on rare occasions or under unusual circumstances, but doing so to the point of recklessness is a good way to end a military career with a plain and simple dismissal at best or capital punishment at worst. So it goes without saying... That being said, this trope is Truth in Television to some extent. Some officers in regular militaries really do rise to the top without ever picking up the "regular" part. However, these folks are much more common and tolerated in non-professional insurgent armies, guerrillas, and during civil wars, where the entire society goes bananas. If they're still competent military professionals, despite regarding following orders and regulations as optional, they might also be a Colonel Badass, a Sergeant Rock, and sometimes even a Four-Star Badass. If they can get away with just about anything, they have Ultimate Job Security. It's possible they might also be The Neidermeyer, a Colonel Kilgore, a General Ripper, or sometimes all three. Often, they're a Glory Seeker. Sometimes they're a Bunny-Ears Lawyer in uniform. |
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Many Space Marine chapters interpret the Codex Astartes differently and go their own way about implementing it. Then there's the Space Wolves. Who do not give half a damn about what the Codex has to say. | |
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Axton in Borderlands 2 was a former Commando in the working for the Dahl Marines. Emphasis on "former" because he was facing the firing squad due to his Glory Hound ways and his preference for doing things that were "awesome" instead of following orders. The incident that got him kicked out involved a mission to protect a dignitary from terrorists — only he allowed the dignitary to be kidnapped by terrorists, trailed them back to their hideout, and blew it up, with the dignitary still inside. | |
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In Maiden Rose, both Klaus and Taki are mavericks at times. And it gets them both in trouble. | |
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The Bleach character Rukia is a hardass by human civilian standards, which is why it's a surprise when her fellow shinigami reveal that, by their standards, she's a traitor who deserves execution. It turns out that sharing her power like she did is illegal, even if she was doing it to save lives. Successive scenes show that her temper often made it difficult for her to tolerate the Gotei 13's aristocrat leaders or do What Must Be Done. Fortunately, shinigami with her level of spiritual power can't be discarded so easily. | |
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Sabres of Infinity has Sergeant Harlech, a boisterous soldier who has little respect for authority or discipline and has the lowest loyalty stat of the available sergeants. | |
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Honor Harrington: Lester Tourville used a mild form of this as a method of Obfuscating Stupidity. His persona as a competent but somewhat reckless officer helped him avoid promotion to a rank where he would be at risk of getting shot for either failing or being perceived as a threat to those in power. Captain Aivars Terekhov was another milder form of this. He never once actually disobeys orders, but in Shadow of Saganami he goes WAY outside his authority, requisitioning every ship in range in order to launch an attack against another star nation without a formal declaration of war — and to boot, he commandeers a Solarian freighter in order to recon said system. He does at least set things up so that if things go wrong, his superiors can disavow his actions. As it is, he ends up promoted and knighted. |
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In The Corellian Trilogy, Admiral Ossilege is fond of Refuge in Audacity strategies and uses dummy corporations to buy starships and convert them for military use to build up his system's defense fleet without alerting the New Republic. That being said, it's implied that his direct superiors may know about what he's doing. | |
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The Dirty Dozen's Major Reisman, whose competency coupled with his ability to get results and tendency to exceed orders nets him a crappy, high-stakes, all-but-outright-stated Suicide Mission with a bunch of expendable convicts who hate his guts. Said convicts are actually mavericks (or much worse) but they definitely face consequences for it. | |
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The only reason NERV hasn't fired Asuka in Neon Metathesis Evangelion yet is that this would cost them use of EVA-02, a fourth of their fighting force. | |
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In Edward Elric's early years as a State Alchemist, Roy Mustang made good use of his sense of honor and knack for trouble-making by sending him in the general direction of cowboy-prone situations with rumors of the Philosopher's Stone surrounding them. One assumed he was tolerated for his position as a rare State Alchemist, not doing anything particularly harmful, and passing the mandated yearly combat test with flying colours — the future possibility of their nation Amestris going to war and demanding Edward be called for duty is also mentioned at one point, so it could implicitly be that he's tolerated for potential future combat potential (and State Alchemists are portrayed as likely having quite a lot of it). It may have also been explained by him being later shown as designated as a sacrifice for the antagonists. | |
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Axton from Borderlands 2. Once while assigned to protect a foreign dignitary he just let the guy get captured, traced him to an enemy outpost, and blew it up with the guy still inside. He got discharged shortly before the events of the game. | |
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Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-0. Extra points for being a Cowboy Cop in his regular day job, as he is technically a reservist Navy SEAL and not on full-time active duty. He will break the rules to complete a "mission" (military or police), or to help his friends and family. | |
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The Crossing shows George Washington as this, to the extent that absolutely nobody thinks his plan to attack the Hessians will work. Washington's maverick nature was Truth in Television. | |
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Sergeant John Forge from Halo Wars apparently had discipline problems (with multiple promotions AND demotions) and a cocky attitude, once punched out a superior officer, and even brawled with a Spartan-II. He makes up for it by being extremely Badass Normal. Avery Johnson is another badass sergeant with a checkered past and a cocky attitude; he also happens to be a Spartan-I. | |
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Wedge himself later becomes a flag officer (against his wishes) and fleet commander during the New Jedi Order, without a notable change in his attitude vis-a-vis orders. Notable is the incident in Rebel Dream where the new (self-proclaimed) Chief of State orders Wedge to commit his forces to a suicidal Last Stand at Borelias. Wedge, believing (not wrongly) that the chief's ascension is itself extra-legal, begins dictating terms and implicitly threatens the head of his own government to get the resources he needs to pull the mission off. | |
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Corporal Kojo "Romeo" Agu, whose only reason for not being kicked out of the military yet is because of his sniping skills. | |
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In 24, Counter-Terrorist agent Jack Bauer is the epitome of this trope. Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique is named after him. | |
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In Starship Troopers, the Mobile Infantry seems to be entirely run by these people and they encourage this behaviour in recruits. Fraternisation between male and female troopers is rife, discipline is incredibly lax, and the only time anybody is disciplined is Rico when he gets a squadmate killed during a horribly unsafe live-fire exercise (and he is still shown sympathy for explaining his actions with "I wanted to win, sir!") | |
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Jyn Erso in Rogue One. She leads an unauthorized suicide mission to retrieve the Death Star plans after the rest of the Rebel Alliance had given up. | |
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Revan and Malak in Knights of the Old Republic, before their Motive Decay. | |
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He was a maverick even before he fell to the Dark Side. During the Clone Wars, Anakin was known for disregarding protocol and orders from higher authorities — whether it be from the Jedi Council or the Supreme Chancellor — and still ending up with successful results. | |
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Though the players only see the units after they go rogue, FOX, FOXHOUND, and Dead Cell are considered maverick units. Illustrated repeatedly in The Last Days of FOXHOUND. |
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MI6 Agent 007, aka Commander James Bond. Spies tend to play things by ear as a rule, but Bond seems to revel in doing things that will give Q, M, and the British government a heart attack. The fact that he saves the world with clockwork regularity tends to offset this. | |
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While Tagon's Toughs were under Breya's employ in Schlock Mercenary the entire crew from Tagon and downwards (i.e. everyone except Breya) arguably qualified. While the Toughs are still as maverick as they used to be, they now work under Tagon, who encourages this behavior. Besides, they're mercenaries and not a military unit, which justifies it. Schlock is special forces in the mercenary company and is arguably twice as much maverick as everyone else. | |
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Snake-Eyes, G.I. Joe (Reloaded continuity), is pretty much insane—and the most dangerous man alive. (In other continuities, he's simply the most dangerous man alive.) | |
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Army of Two somewhat takes on the Black Hawk Down example; the first mission is set back when Rios and Salem were Rangers, and their initial awe at the sight of Phillip Clyde whooping ass with his bare hands and freerunning is tangible. Unlike the Delta operators from Black Hawk Down, he's very condescending to them and rather homicidal. In fact, their awe lasts all of five minutes, after which they join the same mercenary company but refuse to work in the field alongside him. (In contrast, according to the Blackhawk Down book the Deltas sometimes helped out the Rangers on-base, i.e. teaching techniques, or in the case of one Ranger building him a custom machine gun grip.) |
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Rainbow Six as of Vegas and onward stopped being soldiers who did everything in their power to keep the peace while minimizing the body count of civilians to having to shoot cops just to stop them from detonating a bomb and ultimately throws the guy off the bridge anyway. | |
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Another water-based one: McHale's Navy. If nothing else, typical naval crews were probably discouraged from carrying Japanese soldiers on board. | |
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The X-Files: Special Agent Fox Mulder is considered odd by most of the FBI and outright disliked by a few. However, he is also known to be one of the best detectives and crime solvers in the whole Bureau. | |
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The Whistlers of A Brother's Price were a family of soldiers blacklisted from service after a sister's treason, who joined the thieves' guild out of desperation. When caught stealing by General Wellsbury, Tea Whistler had the chutzpah to tell her that they'd make excellent spies. They lied, they stole, they ignored orders, and they turned the tides in the War of the False Eldest since their duties were expanded from spying to wreaking general mayhem behind enemy lines. | |
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Deconstructed in Pacific Rim. Most action films portray disobeying or contesting orders as a positive trait, but the opposite happens early on in the storyline when Raleigh and Yancy ignore Stacker's orders for them to stay in the Miracle Mile outside of Anchorage. Instead, they venture 10 miles out to sea in order to save a small fishing boat, which gave Knifehead the advantage of deeper water. Coupled with their cocky attitudes, this ultimately leads to Yancy's death and Gipsy Danger's destruction. It also marks the end of the Golden Age of the Jaegers, eventually leading to the Pan Pacific Defense Corps only possessing three Jaegers when they attempt to nuke the Breach. It's specifically mentioned by Chuck Hansen that one of the main reasons the Jaeger Program had been decommissioned was because of mediocre and reckless pilots. Chuck's contempt for Raleigh stems directly from his maverick and Screw This, I'm Outta Here tendencies, which he believes have hurt the PPDC in the past and could possibly do it again in the future. |
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Willard Phule of Phule's Company. He gets promoted as a result of accidentally strafing a peace conference after the war had already ended. It wasn't a reward. He was only not fired because the Space Legion never fires anyone, wasn't demoted only because of politics, and winds up in command of an "Omega Company", a dumping ground for troublemakers too stubborn to quit. | |
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Commander Michael McNeil of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, who is defined by his headstrong aggressiveness, most notably in the final mission, where he refuses to obey orders to wait for reinforcements before assaulting Kane's headquarters. Captain Nick "Havoc" Parker in Command & Conquer: Renegade also disobeys orders, but is arrested immediately upon his return from the battlefield. Of course, he doesn't spend more than a few hours in jail, but his boss is explicitly described as unusually tolerant of his quirks, "which makes him the ideal boss for Havoc". Note that while his motives are admirable ("They're torturing civvies, we can't wait six hours."), he hijacked a hovercraft that couldn't really be spared to go off and assault the enemy base single-handedly immediately after a previous attack had failed, and when there was absolutely no reason to not simply wait a mere six hours for reinforcements to arrive. |
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Captain Frank Ramsey in Crimson Tide. He's apparently given a lot of leeway due to his combat experience, even taking his dog with him on the boat. | |
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In Far from Home, the lieutenant made a paper airplane out of a briefing. Hence, the scouting mission. | |
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Colonel Jack O'Neill from Stargate SG-1. He manages to get away with it because his judgement in the field usually turns out to be correct in the long run, and the number of times he's saved the planet tends to give him some job security — plus, there's the fact that he can technically retire whenever he feels like it, having come out of retirement in the first place to lead SG1. Humorously, when real-life Air Force Chief of Staff General Ryan guest-starred As Himself on the show, Richard Dean Anderson, who played O'Neill, asked him if he had any officers as insubordinate as O'Neill. The response, apparently, was "Son, we've got colonels like you, and worse." | |
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In the Nintendo Wars titles where he features as one of the controllable Commanding Officers, Grit of the Blue Moon armynote which, like the rest of the Wars World armies and COs, does not make much of a distinction between the various military branches; he's as much of a naval and air commander as he is of infantry and vehicles is perhaps the most easygoing characters in the franchise. His commander-in-chief Olaf is always chewing him out for being lazy and unmotivated, and, by Grit's own admission, he is largely uninterested in matters regarding whose borders are where. Nevertheless, his indirect combat proficiency is peerless, and, when he gets serious, he'll fight just as hard as any other CO against would-be invaders. | |
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In the Wrath Squadron trilogy, General Han Solo, commanding the anti-Zsinj task force, discovers one downside to being a Military Maverick: | |
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Halo: Sergeant John Forge from Halo Wars apparently had discipline problems (with multiple promotions AND demotions) and a cocky attitude, once punched out a superior officer, and even brawled with a Spartan-II. He makes up for it by being extremely Badass Normal. Avery Johnson is another badass sergeant with a checkered past and a cocky attitude; he also happens to be a Spartan-I. Corporal Kojo "Romeo" Agu, whose only reason for not being kicked out of the military yet is because of his sniping skills. In the Expanded Universe, there's Kurt-051, who does a lot of things behind the back of his superiors in order to help his Spartan-IIIs, and Gray Team, the most unruly trio among all the Spartan-IIs who were explicitly separated from the rest for covert operations because of their tendency to play fast with the rules to complete objectives and talking back to their superiors. Admiral Preston J. Cole was probably the biggest of all, to the point his first notable victory during the war with the Insurrection was because he made an incredible breach in military protocol by shooting a missile into the enemy vessel that was only possible because he sent a surrender and shot it into their docking tube to gut the ship. The top brass wasn't sure if they should give him the highest honors or have him court-martialed. Afterwards, he continued to distinguish himself with unconventional strategies and tactics fighting the Insurrection and later the Covenant. |
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The entire membership of The A-Team, most notably Murdock, who may or may not be certifiably insane. | |
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In Mass Effect 3, the turian general Adrien Victus is widely mistrusted by the turian military for using unconventional and "dishonorable" tactics. He ends up as the leader of the turians after everyone else above him in the line of succession is killed by the Reapers and turns out to be pretty good at it, if still unconventional by supporting such measures as curing the krogan genophage to secure their assistance. | |
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Teana Lanster at the start of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. Unlike most examples, the series went for a far less positive potrayal of this type of character. Teana's Maverick nature almost caused a friendly fire incident during their second mission and her adamant refusal to listen to the advice and orders of her superiors required several officers to beat the idea into her head that being reckless just for the sake of personal pride is a quick way to get you and your comrades crippled or killed. It was only when Teana toned down the Maverick nature of hers did she begin to be truly efficient in battle. | |
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In Mass Effect, the Spectres are considered above all authority but that of the Council, and Shepard still manages to be a Military Maverick. Hell, one of the two alignments is called Renegade. And even playing the Paragon side of things, you end up defying the Council and conspiring to get your ship back so you can save the day. And that's just the first game. In the second one, you can get in double the Bunny Ears Lawyering and maverickiness between the Council and the Illusive Man. Jacob Taylor, one of your squadmates in 2, is a former Alliance soldier who's only working for Cerberus because the Alliance refuses to get involved in the colony attacks due to red tape. Despite Cerberus being Mildly Military at best, and Shepard's squad being an extreme Ragtag Bunch of Misfits, he acts the same way he would at the Alliance and is the only squadmate who makes it a practice to salute. |
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British Commandos sergeant Jack O'Hara (AKA "the Green Beret", AKA "Butcher"), from the Commandos series. He was sentenced to fourteen years of hard labour after striking an officer. His sentence was suspended upon volunteering for the commandos. According to the tutorials, he is violent and undisciplined but is more of a nightmare for the enemy than he is for his superiors. | |
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In For All Mankind, virtually all the astronauts have a tendency to disregard orders they do not particularly agree with. They are, after all, selected precisely because they push the envelope and have to be able to take quick decisions when reaching Mission Control would take too long or is plain impossible (e.g. being "behind" the moon). It is sometimes acknowledged by members of NASA's ground crew with words to the effect of "it's his/her spacecraft" and it is often pointed out that there is no way to actually enforce an order from earth to a spacecraft. Still, Molly Cobb takes the cake. It pays off, mostly, except when She gets exposed to way too much radiation saving a fellow astronaut against clear orders. | |
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Most of the captains from Star Trek seem to fit this mold. Even Picard was credited with violating the Prime Directive about eight or nine times, and that's in the middle of the series run. This would have some meaning if the Prime Directive wasn't redefined nearly every episode. Often, the Federation seems to survive more on supreme acts of heroism than any actual organised strategy. Against technically superior forces like the Borg or the Dominion (early on, before the Federation learned to counter the latter's advantages), this approaches Conservation of Ninjutsu; elsewhere, it's more a case of One Riot, One Ranger, with single ships scattered through the galaxy. Said ships usually prevail by some fantastically risky tactic, as often as not a brazen bluff or Making Shit Up On The Spot, many times never to be done again. The lack of effective fleet-level planning may derive from Gene Roddenberry's reported dislike for making Starfleet "too military" — feel free to insert any joke about his Air Force background you wish. | |
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Captain Titus in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. Instead of rigidly adhering to the Codex Astartes, he views it more of a guideline on how to act, instead of it being utter law. This goes against the popular concept that the Ultramarines view the Codex Astartes as sacrosanct, and compared to most Ultramarines depicted, he's the one who deviates from it the most. He's also a Captain and doing this. | |
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Hawkeye Pierce and, for that matter, about half the cast of M*A*S*H. The only reason Hawkeye is rarely, if ever, charged for being such a loose cannon is that they need as many medical personnel as possible and can't afford to lose him as Chief Surgeon. There's also that as doctors directly commissioned (and apparently conscripted) from civilian practice, most of the cast of M*A*S*H can afford to be utterly indifferent about damage to their military careers — they don't have any careers to damage. So long as they can actually avoid being caught in a major felony or committing medical malpractice, there's really not much they need to worry about in the long run. It's instructive to note that the one regular army doctor on the cast, Colonel Potter, is not a maverick...much. Truth in Television to a large degree, even today; the U.S. armed services have enough of a need for medical personnel that they are given more leeway about their (lack of) military bearing than would be tolerated in combat soldiers/sailors/airmen. Crystallized in a saying going back to the Korea War if not earlier: "There is nobody as un-military as a military doctor." |
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NCIS: Jethro Gibbs doesn't cross the line with his agency's directives unless he has to. Or needs to. Or feels like it. Quite frankly, it's amazing that Gibbs has a job sometimes. He finally gets chased out of the service early in season 19, after beating a suspect on camera late in season 18. | |
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All four of the protagonists (and their pilot) in Battlefield: Bad Company. | |
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Ensign (later Lieutenant Lower Grade) Beckett Mariner of Star Trek: Lower Decks is a deconstruction of this sort of person. She's been in Starfleet for years, so much that she could have been a captain of her very own starship. However, she hates the red tape and bureaucracy of Starfleet and the Federation so much that she decides to do things on her own and fights tooth and nail to not be promoted. This has frustrated her higher-ups greatly. However, between a 10-Minute Retirement and her own promotion by someone who wasn't going to play her games anymore, she has started to wonder why she's doing such things. She eventually admits that her behavior is the result of losing a friend, Sito Jaxa, to a covert mission and then going through the Dominion War, which led to severe PTSD that caused her to intentionally hobble her career so she'd never have to give orders that cause a subordinate's death. | |
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Thrawn's old student and second-in-command Pellaeon, having picked up a bit of that genius and becoming Supreme Commander in time, also manages to utterly frustrate his poor captain with tactics that seem counterintuitive at best and stupid at worst. | |
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Eiger from Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall is an extremely by-the-book ex-soldier. This gets her into hot water when she forgets the "ex-" part, and that her new team consists of one hacker and professional anarchist, an ex-cultist on the verge of cyberpsychosis, and a street-fighting shaman, all of whom have not only never even read the book, but think the book is best used as toilet paper on general principles. | |
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This trope is given extensive treatment in the first volume of Reflections of Eterna: the youthful and overconfident general Oscar Fenschau is manipulated by Marshal Alva to walk right into the enemy's trap in direct violation of his orders, so Alva's own forces can flank and rout them. Afterwards, Alva has Fenschau court-marshaled and executed for insubordination, and when his other officers confront him (reminding him how often Alva himself ignored orders and regulations), calmly explains to them that had Fenschau defied his orders and won the battle by himself, he would have been made Marshal soon (like Alva did in his time), but since he disobeyed orders and lost his men, he is better off dead before he causes any more harm to his own army. | |
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Isamu Alva Dyson from Macross Plus. Reckless, insubordinate, short-tempered, and not even punishment details wanted him. Eventually transferred to Project Super Nova as a test pilot since the only thing keeping him in the military was that he was that damn good. | |
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Lieutenant Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, USN from Top Gun (later designated as Captain in the sequel). "Your ego is writing checks your body can't cash." — "You don't have time to think up there. If you think, you're dead." Maverick's tendency to ignore rules and abandon his wingmen to do things his way is his key flaw, and reining those issues in is the essence of his Character Development. The sequel also shows the consequences of it: he only served as a TOP GUN instructor for two months before his unorthodox style proved unacceptable (whether he was transferred or left willing isn't stated), almost forty years later he's still just a Captain (Iceman meanwhile has become an Admiral), and multiple Admirals express a desire to kick him out of the Navy. The only reason he hasn't been discharged is that Iceman, the Admiral of the Pacific Fleet, is supporting him. | |
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Not a lot of Marines on this list, but two that fit, both from DC Comics' Hitman (1993), are Tommy "Hitman" Monaghan and Natt "The Hat" Walls of the United States Marine Corps. Tommy ends up killing two fellow Marines with a sniper rifle (Don't worry, they had it coming....) They ingeniously, if messily, Make It Look Like an Accident and get away with it. Later, during Operation Desert Storm, Tommy and Natt accidentally kill several British S.A.S. troops in a "friendly fire" incident. They get away with that too. Well, for a few years, anyway. | |
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One Piece has Former Vice-Admiral Garp and Captain, turned Commodore turned Vice-Admiral Smoker. Though, the latter is the only one known to have risked being kicked out. Interestingly, the naval forces of the One Piece world are referred to as the Marines. | |
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Mackenzie "Mac" Calhoun, of Star Trek: New Frontier, was specifically picked to command the Excalibur, the only ship in the sector because he was basically the Cowboy Cop of Starfleet. | |
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Lilya from Reverse: 1999 is an Ace Pilot witch, using a rocket-propelled broomstick to take down other, larger, better armed fighter jets by literally flying under the radar as she's too small and fast to detect properly, and destroying them with her superior maneuvaribility and being extremely hard to hit. Since she was also a Child Soldier, and since the administration of Zeno Military Academy decided to overlook her troublemaking and pranking for her skills, she's infamous for disregarding chain-of-command and any reprimands others have of her attitude, doing what she wants and only what she wants. | |
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Sgt. William James of The Hurt Locker is a deconstruction. Sure, he manages to defuse many bombs in his time at war, but he winds up alienating pretty much everyone in his unit due to his antics. | |
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Command & Conquer: Renegade has you playing Captain Nick "Havoc" Parker. It's right there in the title and his Call Sign. The man is mouthy, Hot-Blooded, rebellious, and loves a good fight, but he's intelligent, motivated, totally loyal to GDI, and cares deeply about civilians, to the point of stealing a hovercraft to go free them when he hears about a NOD camp full of them rather than wait for reinforcements like his commander wanted. He gets put in the brig every so often, but they keep him around because he's effective to the point of being the setting's Master Chief. | |
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Mel Gibson's character from Lethal Weapon tetralogy (though most prominently in the first 2 installments) is an extremely reckless cop and ex-army special forces. He routinely places himself in great danger as part of a suicidal deathwish, yet his skills are so great that he continues to live through his adventures. | |
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Captain John Rumford in Victoria regularly uses highly irregular tactics, often subverts orders, and frequently commits regular atrocities against military standards of grooming and conduct, yet does so with the full blessing of his superiors and maintains amiable and generally respectful relations with them. In effect, he respects authority, just not its trappings, and has an understanding CO who lets him get away with it because he can be counted on to deliver when the going gets tough. | |
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While they're only students of a military academy, Class VII in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III breaks so many military rules that their homeroom teacher ends up getting headaches from their acts like not staying put in camp and actually stealing a military robot while tailing him and his friends in his mission given to him by the government, disobeying their other instructor's orders just so they can follow him, and even tailing him to a casino when he's gathering information from jaegers. He even calls them out on it by the end of the first chapter. | |
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Maniac, from Wing Commander, is generally agreed to have earned his callsign. At times, the protagonist, Christopher "Maverick" Blair, has as well. Some say he's a subversion. Ironically, he got his callsign because in his Academy Days where, unlike most other hotshot cadets there, he was actually the most by-the-book cadet, and thus a "Maverick" when compared to others. | |
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Ender Wiggin from Ender's Game was a deliberate Military Maverick — he thought he was being a rebel, but they figured he was smart enough to know better than the rule-makers, and actually intended him to break the rules.note And there was one 'rule' they especially wanted him to break... because he would be less conflicted about giving the order (versus regular soldiers) until after giving it. | |
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Colonel Temeraire turned into one of these, quickly, much to Laurence's dismay. It resulted in a couple cases of treason and eventually being banished to Australia. Of course, if Temeraire wasn't such a maverick Laurence would probably be dead. | |
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Horatio Hornblower, mostly because he has an extremely active mind and naval service is mostly routine with bursts of action; therefore he does his best to increase the frequency of those bursts. In Ship of the Line, he deliberately sails past a rendezvous at night so he can continue to independently raid. In Hotspur he casually mutilates the stern of his ship to put guns in it for a single but crucial battle. In Lieutenant Hornblower, it is suggested that he pushed his dangerously insane captain down a ship's ladder. His fellow lieutenants suspect this, but no one calls him out on it. | |
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Game of Thrones: Initially a green commander in charge, Robb Stark frequently ignores senior bannermen who try to rein him in. This is apparently the main reason he gives Tywin Lannister such hell on the battlefield — none of Tywin's commanders can predict his movements because, between his inexperience, boldness, and confidence at his success, he's willing to take risks none of them would dream of taking, and pulls them off. | |
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Zack Lightman and Xavier Lightman from Armada are both mavericks. Somewhat justified because they aren't really soldiers. | |
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Leverage: "The Rundown Job" has an old associate of Eliot's, Colonel Michael Vance, who is known for putting together teams of people from different branches and agencies to suit specific situations, but he treads on a lot of toes in the process, and the beginning of the episode has him in front of a panel of congressmen being raked across the coals, and then warned not to do it again or face jail time. | |
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Demons of War's Major Keller is a heavy deconstruction. His main characteristic is his utter disregard for HQ commands. The film opens with him being discharged for his insubordination. The story then examines all the pitfalls of such behaviour from a commander, despite at the same time playing the trope itself straight, with brash heroics and on-field competency. Ultimately, his decisions and actions eventually lead to getting most of his men killed, while he's shipped back home for a court trial in a plane loaded with their coffins. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Many Space Marine chapters interpret the Codex Astartes differently and go their own way about implementing it. Then there's the Space Wolves. Who do not give half a damn about what the Codex has to say. The Space Wolves themselves have their own take on the problem, due in part to their method of recruitment (a Wolf Priest selects a badly-wounded warrior from one of Fenris' many clan wars, and the recruit is made aware that he has been chosen to make war on the Emperor's enemies for all eternity). Where other chapters only use veteran Marines in melee assault teams, Space Wolves give their newest members a sword and a boltgun and point them in the enemy's direction, viewing it both as good training and an opportunity to remove the weak and unlucky. The survivors can then move on to become Grey Hunters and Long Fangs (Tactical and Devastator Marine equivalents), while those whose enthusiasm for melee combat never abates can get a bike or jetpack to continue on their chosen path. |
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Down Periscope is pretty much based on the idea of the main character playing the part of this trope; in fact, he is under direct orders to do so in order to test how well other navy units do when the enemy doesn't follow the script. In particular, one of his crew is deliberately trying to be as big a nuisance as possible so he'll be discharged because he really doesn't want to be in the Navy but his dad's an Admiral and won't hear of it. | |
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Averted by Greer in Stargate Universe. There's no doubting that he knows his job and is willing to give his life to protect even people he dislikes, but he displayed such a temper. He also reputedly beat up a superior officer...and so was languishing in the brig waiting to be shipped back to Earth when the attack hit Icarus Base. | |
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Elizabeth Beurling of Strike Witches fame is a maverick herself, taking little heed to the brass and disobeying them at almost every turn (from simple things like smoking and going to the pub late at night to more complex things like refusing to use the new striker units), she is rather skilled in combat and has no ranged weapons instead just uses her kukri and cuts up enemy soldiers, grant she does have a rather gloomy personality to her. The girl has got issues but she can hardly care less. Not surprising given she was at least somewhat based on the real-life maverick George Beurling. See Real Life below for more details. | |
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A minor example only: in Crusader, aside from their armor, Silencers are given free rein to use whatever equipment they deem necessary for an upcoming mission. As they are Silencers, their judgement on what they need is generally considered unimpeachable. | |
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Horatio Hornblower, which covers his early career from the novels. Horatio is particularly fond of Dressing as the Enemy; in the first episode, he forgets to strike the colors on a captured French frigate and refuses to have them hauled down later because it will let them ambush the corvettes attacking the Indefatigable, despite what the Articles of War say.note Technically you were allowed to sail as close and as long as you liked under false colors, but you had to show the correct flag before opening fire. One fellow midshipman later accuses him of "cheating" tactics for stealing uniforms later, and he gets called incompetent by the (admittedly paranoid and insane) Captain Sawyer for firing a half-loaded gun to scare off a couple of frigates who caught them off-guard. | |
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Harmon Rabb from JAG. | |
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Yang Wen-Li and his group from Legend of the Galactic Heroes. | |
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The Arts of Dark and Light: Tribune Fortex, who disobeys direct orders when he thinks himself better qualified to decide when his unit should charge. Then Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs as this disorganizes the entire order of battle, and while his side are still victorious in the end, Fortex is nonetheless arrested and charged with insubordination. | |
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In Heavy Object the protagonists Qwenthur and Havia — a civilian student studying Objects and a radar analyst — often ignore or disobey orders in order to take down enemy Objects. They're a massive headache for Frolaytia, their commanding officer, and during reassignments were even bigger headaches for other commanders. The only reason they haven't been kicked out of the military yet is that their government is terrified they'll defect to another supernation. | |
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Sharpe: Richard Sharpe, who even Cornwell calls a loose cannon. Though rules were a bit lax back then, he still gets in trouble for breaking them at times. | |
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Battlestar Galactica: Kara Thrace, a deconstruction of the trope whose maverick existence only exists with a messed up life and a lot of favoritism. It's made obvious at the start of the series that the only reason she was able to get away with all the crap she pulls is that she's just that damn good and the Galactica herself was under the command of an officer who was going to be retired soon. Later, she was one of a few dozen fighter pilots left in the whole of humanity in a little fleet almost completely dependent on pilots for defense. There was a good chance she'd get discharged in normal times, but when you're down to 40... Later a major reason for the favoritism shown by Adama (and a lot of the recklessness shown by Kara) is explained by revelations concerning her engagement to Adama's dead son. Subverted with Pegasus Commander Barry Garner, who once made the typical Maverick "Screw the orders, I'm saving my men" decision, complete with his crew backing him against the outsider observer (aka Lee Adama) — only to notice that yes, it was a trap, it very nearly cost the human race its most powerful battleship and it gained them nothing. |
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The Ultimates: Captain America called on all military personnel to ignore their orders from above, take a weapon, go to the site of the Chitauri alien invasion and start firing. Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!. | |
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Razing Storm has Shin as the team's maverick. He tends to wind up alerting enemy presence, wrecking jeeps, and getting his friends killed because he gets too far out into the open. | |
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The foul-mouthed Guinness-drinking cynic and anti-Biggles Major Wooley, in Goshawk Squadron. A working-class Brummie who made it into the WW1 officer corps, his superiors would dearly like to sack or demote him, but as he is an accredited Ace, they dare not. | |
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John Sheppard from Stargate Atlantis and suffers far more consequences for it than O'Neill. His military background was built on this as in Afghanistan he disobeyed direct orders and took his helicopter to rescue his friends. Not only did he fail to save them, but he was court-martialed, nearly kicked out of the Air Force (and in an Alternate Universe, he was) but was literally Reassigned to Antarctica instead. In the show itself the only reason he was even allowed to accompany the Atlantis mission is because of luck, skill, and the support of more alternative thinking higher-ups Elizabeth Weir and General O'Neill. He impressed O'Neill by performing a High-Speed Missile Dodge with a non-combat helicopter to escape an alien drone and then got Weir's attention by discovering he had the Ancient gene and could command their technology seemingly without effort. As Weir was a civilian diplomat rather than military commander, his rebellious streak didn't put her off (especially as it was motivated by personal loyalty) and she persuaded his superiors to let him onto her expedition since establishing a base in an entirely different galaxy required out-of-the-box thinking type people. Still, the mission's military commander Colonel Sumner, a far stricter by-the-book officer, didn't like Sheppard for his past and made it clear he wasn't welcome. Later after Sumner was killed Sheppard became Weir's second in command so Sheppard's superiors tried to replace him. Luckily Weir stepped in to defend him and he was safe with her support, but it was still obvious many of the other military commanders disliked him. |
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Doom's protagonist is a Marine who was shipped out to the Mars base because he assaulted a superior officer (who himself deliberately ordered the company to open fire on people he knew were probably pacifist monks). | |
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According to Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!), Sentinel pilots are this, as they spend a lot of time operating independently behind enemy lines, leading to mysterious vox failures when receiving orders they don't agree with. Cain himself regularly has to deal with these guys, notably Trooper Magot, Psycho Lesbian and perennial discipline problem. Not that Cain himself has much room to complain as he tends to ignore his own rule book on a regular basis too. | |
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Firefly's Malcolm Reynolds, in his time as an Independent sergeant, made something of a reputation for himself for unconventional tactics, a distinct willingness to defy the odds, and an absolute refusal to quit... even when, it might be said, he should have. He was an irregular in a nonprofessional insurgent army, so not unexpected. | |
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In the classic (if short) German SF series Raumpatrouille, Commander McLane and the crew of the Orion are this to the extent that the series starts with their being reassigned to 'boring' patrol duty for a couple of years and saddled with a security officer who's supposed to ensure they tread the straight and narrow from now on. Needless to say, that's not quite how it works out. | |
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In World Trigger, Masato Kageura is one of Border's best close-combat agents, with naturally heightened senses and blinding speed. However, he is Border's loosest cannon, only following orders from his superiors if he agrees with them and violently attacking fellow agents who annoy him. Because of his recklessness, he is ranked somewhere towards the upper-middle among all Border agents, rather than near the top, as he keeps getting reprimanded and demoted at about the same rate he rises the ranks for his skill in battle. He is still considered a valuable asset to Border as he can easily get the upper hand on his enemies through sheer power and guts, and he cares about his own subordinates, who have much cleaner records than he does. | |
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Jack Aubrey from the Aubrey-Maturin books and film, and Thomas Cochrane, the real-life British officer he is based on. | |
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Colonial Jessup from A Few Good Men makes no secret out of the fact that he thinks he is one of these, lampshading more than once how he considers himself to be successful for being able to do things other people aren't ready to do like punishing one of his subordinates in a way that is forbidden in the military. He is a fairly strange case since he claims that this case of him disobeying the rules was necessary in order to ensure that orders are always followed, and also because he is high-ranking enough and/or simply stationed on a place remote enough (on Cuba) that his violations of the laws of the military never got him into trouble prior to the film. Deconstructed since at the beginning of the film, a marine dies because of the illegal punishment he ordered, and when the military sends people to investigate, it becomes clear that high-ranking or not, Jessup still committed a crime for disobeying the rules and will be punished himself for it. | |
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Holly Short from Artemis Fowl is like this. Infamously, when her final exam to join LEPrecon was interrupted by a terrorist plot, as her instructor was yelling at her for rescuing him rather than getting backup, she shot him with her paintball gun and repeated what he told her at the beginning of the exercise: "Shoot me before I shoot you, you pass." | |
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Babylon 5: John Sheridan was such a maverick that he participated in a conspiracy against the (increasingly dictatorial) civilian Earth Gov and finally decided to turn his command into an independent country. He also was not a fan of standard military tactics. His predecessor, Jeffrey Sinclair, was a bit of a twist on this: While he wasn't afraid to fight the enemy in battle (more often than not, he'd lead the attack himself), but he was also a master at defusing conflicts, often through Loophole Abuse and predicting how others would react to his actions. His style tended to make him more enemies within the Earth Alliance than with outside parties. Captain Jankowski presents a deconstruction of the trope. His fellow officers consider him overly Hot-Blooded, or as Sheridan describes him, a Loose Cannon. When Sheridan is offered the career-making opportunity to be Jankowski's XO on a recon mission into Minbari space, Sheridan refuses. Jankowski ends up inadvertently kicking off the most destructive interstellar war in human history when he overreacts during a standoff with a Minbari task force. |
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