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* Betty Carp, an attractive immigrant filled this position at the OSS and earned praises from various formidable spymasters.

* [http://www.cracked.com/article_18509_5-unknown-schmucks-who-turned-into-superheroes-in-clutch.html Felix Vasquez] your typical [[Salaryman]], a Housing Authority Supervisor for the city of New York to be exact, who received a call that one of the buildings that he oversaw was on fire. After calling the fire department, he then ran to the burning apartment building, beating emergency services, and saw a woman who was waving her baby out of a window. When he told her [[Tempting Fate|not to throw the baby]], the woman [[Too Dumb to Live|misunderstood]] and threw her baby out of the window. Having only seconds to spare, Felix [[Took a Level In Badass|hopped a freaking fence]] and caught the baby, saving its life. If that's not a badass bureaucrat move, then nothing is.

* [[Dwight D Eisenhower]]. Stuck in a training post for [[World War One]], he never saw action leading men in combat and did not hold an indepedent command higher than a battalion before the [[World War II]]. His appointment as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force was considered a maverick act. He turned out to be one of the most able general officers the United States has ever sent to war, at least partially because the sheer size of the Allied Expeditionary Force required someone whose skills were not those of your typical combat general.

* [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. Stuck in a training post for [[World War One]], he never saw action leading men in combat and did not hold an indepedent command higher than a battalion before the [[World War II]]. His appointment as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force was considered a maverick act. He turned out to be one of the most able general officers the United States has ever sent to war, at least partially because the sheer size of the Allied Expeditionary Force required someone whose skills were not those of your typical combat general.

* Eisenhower's boss, George C. Marshall. Marshall more than any other man was the architect and builder of the United States Army that fought World War II, and as such its ultimate success in Europe and the Pacific was largely his doing. Winston Churchill called him the "organizer of victory". After the war he moved into diplomacy, where he was responsible for the Marshall Plan that rebuilt Europe in the late 40s and early 50s.

* [[Joseph Stalin]]. Whatever else you might think of him, he was a bank robber and a revolutionary, and a far more charismatic and intelligent one than his most famous sources portray him as. He used bureaucracy as a springboard to establishing a personal dictatorship and in turn to annexing most of Eastern Europe and turned Russia from the least of the Great Powers into one of Earth's only two superpowers. It's only that pesky stuff like [[Complete Monster|repression and mass murder]] that stops him being the villainous poster boy of this trope.