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** Setsuna to Konoka, and Chachamaru to Evangeline.
** Ostia's Governor General, Kurt Godel seem to have one of those.
* Noel from ''[[Triangle Heart 3
* Wilhelmina Carmel from ''[[Shakugan no Shana (Light Novel)|Shakugan no Shana]]'', guardian and maid of Shana, the title character. Hecate (the girl with the [[Nice Hat]]) also has her own literal demonic battle butler.
* ''[[Slayers (Anime)|Slayers]]'': Jilas is Gravos's Battle Butler. Interestingly, he outlives his master.
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* ''Miami Guns'' parodies this trope with Jii, faithful servant to Yao{{spoiler|'s father}} and exaggerated [[Badass]].
* In ''[[Digimon Adventure 02 (Anime)|Digimon Adventure 02]]'', Wormmon acts as a (not especially useful) Battle Butler for Ken, getting nothing but insults and whippings in return. {{spoiler|Ken comes to regret abusing Wormmon, though, after he performs his [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
* Ukyo's... whatever he is... Tessai in ''[[Samurai
* Kogarashi, the title Maid Guy in ''[[Kamen no Maid Guy (Manga)|Kamen no Maid Guy]]''. He's a large, musclebound masked man, and the fact that he's wearing a dress only makes him that much more terrifying to any who meets him.
* Roberto of ''[[Monster (Anime)|Monster]]'' has an undying loyalty to [[Ubermensch]] Johan Liebert practically bordering on [[Ho Yay]].
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* Riff{{spoiler|/Riffael}} of the Hargreaves family in ''[[Count Cain (Manga)|Count Cain]]''.
* Juubei from ''[[Get Backers]]'' has a brief angst fit because his duty in life was basically to be Kazuki's Battle Doctor, but Kazuki left, and he's since sworn himself to [[The Cracker|Makubex]], who previously ordered him to kill Kazuki in what he [[Manipulative Bastard|admitted was a test of loyalty.]] In the end, he balances his dual loyalties nicely.
* Jodo from the second ''[[Lupin III]]'' movie, ''[[The
* Both Kirishima Shinobu and Hosaka Mitsuru of ''[[Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun]]'' are Battle Butlers to their [[Ojou|ojou-sama]] Houjou Reika. Both demonstrate extreme devoutness, top-notch martial skills, and protective behavior towards Reika.
* From ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai]]'' we have Kasai. {{spoiler|With his occasionally [[Yandere]] client Shion and Doctor Irie, he breaks into a hospital filled with secret conspirators. He then gets to show off his skills with a shotgun including smacking some guy in the face with one after interrogating him. He is later shown shooting out the tires of a van with a sniper rifle}}
* Wynnfield from ''[[Demonbane (Visual Novel)|Demonbane]]''. He doesn't look like much, but his fight scene features him ''[[Good Old Fisticuffs|boxing]]'' a ''[[Dual-Wielding|four-armed]]'' [[Samurai]].
* ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano]]!'' has three of them, played with varying levels of straightness: Christopher Shouldered is the most simple and straightforward example, serving as Ricard Russo's bodyguard out of [[I Owe You My Life|gratitude for saving his life]]. Chane Laforet is a little more complicated, as she ''was'' an almost [[Love Martyr|disturbingly loyal]] servant of her manipulative father up until her run-in with {{spoiler|Claire Stanfield}}, after which she finds herself fretting the inevitable [["Friend or Idol?" Decision]]. Ennis is a subversion -- she initially fits all of the characteristics of a typical Battle Butler for [[Big Bad]] Szilard Quates (up to and including wearing suits and serving as his driver), until she gets the opportunity to voice her thoughts: she serves him only because [[You Have Failed Me|he can kill her with a single thought if she doesn't]], and hates him more than anyone else does for the things he makes her do.
* Both Kanon and Ronove from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]''.
** Genji, too.
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* Hideo, the Tessier-Ashpools' deadly but devoted servant in William Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]]'', is an example of this trope.
* Mr Grin, the [[Knife Nut|knife-throwing]] butler/pilot of Darius Sayle in ''[[Stormbreaker]]''.
* Samwise Gamgee starts out as Frodo's personal servant (and gardener) in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Literature)|The Lord of the Rings]]''. Every biographer of [[JRR Tolkien (Creator)|JRR Tolkien]] says he's modeled after the [
* Willikins, Commander Vimes' butler from ''[[Discworld]]'', has quite a lot of violent capacity when his employer or city are threatened. It's explained he used to be a member of a rather vicious youth gang. He's also a member of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch "Specials", a group of would-be watchmen who, due to whatever reason, are not able to devote their full time to the job. Willikins is notable for politely downplaying in conversation his combat abilities, or even getting excessively specific when explaining why he, for example, happened to be holding a fifteen-inch icepick when a hit squad attacks the house.
** More scary in that it wasn't an ice ''pick'', but an ice ''knife'' - imagine, if you will, a breadknife, only a foot-and-a-half long, with half-inch, razor sharp serrations. That poor Dwarf.
** And the slashing hat mentioned on [[Battle Butler/Quotes|the quotes page]] is of course a [[Shout
{{quote| '''Willikins:''' "My weapon of choice was a hat with sharpened pennies sewn into the brim.<br />
'''Vimes:''' "Ye Gods, you could have someone's eye out with that."<br />
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* Kato, the chauffeur and sidekick of ''[[The Green Hornet]]''. As played by Bruce Lee, Kato was substantially more impressive in a fight than the Hornet himself, yet remained in the humble role of a servant.
* Aloysius "Nosey" Parker, servant and chauffeur to Lady Penelope from ''[[Thunderbirds]]'', also qualifies, m'Lady.
* Lennier is this to Delenn in ''[[
* On the Batman TV series, Alfred Pennyworth goes into action against Penguin (with his fists) and the Joker (fencing) on separate episodes.
* I would count Merlin in this one, from ''[[Merlin (TV)|Merlin]]'' even though Arthur never knows about it.
* Higgins, Robin Master's Major Domo in [[Magnum PI]] is a former sergeant in the British Army with a complex and colorful past (though not as complex and colorful as his father's past!). However he may no qualify since {{spoiler|there is a very good chance that he is the real Robin Master}}.
* Hermann in the ''[[
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* In the ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' mod series The Aielund Saga, the evil aristocrat who serves as the primary adversary in the second chapter has a capable butler who dual-wields bastard swords and attacks upon being told you are on an official investigation.
* ''[[Wild Arms 3 (Video Game)|Wild Arms 3]]'' has Todd Dukakis, who serves as the butler of [[The Rival]] of the protagonists to the point of accompanying her and [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|her family]] on treasure hunting expeditions. He is also quite good with a sword and shows his loyalty by {{spoiler|briefly aiding the protagonists in the rescue of his master when she is abducted by another group of villains.}}
** Todd himself is a [[Shout
* [[Trauma Team|Tomoe Tachibana]]'s head butler Hanzou.Skilled with a naginata, masters the katana to such a degree he can ''make a surgically-precise cut to make an airway for an operation'', and can ([[Crowning Moment of Funny|almost]]) dodge arrows.
* Ramirez from ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]''. This one {{spoiler|showed some very insane tendencies, however; when his first Master betrayed him, Ramirez killed him and nearly everyone on his staff. When his second Master, the game's main [[Big Bad]], is killed by the player characters late in the game, he goes into a psychotic rampage and tries to kill everything on the planet.}}
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** Also in ''Fallout 3'', the local radio host did a series about Daring Dashwood and his "stalwart [[Our Zombies Are Different|Ghoul]] manservant" Argyle. It's made clear in the series that Argyle did most of the work when things got messy, which was quite often as Dashwood's mix of chivalry and womanizing got him in a lot of trouble.
*** You can meet the real Dashwood, he'll openly admit this was the case. He insists his own character flaws are exaggerated in the show, though.
*** This is actually a [[Shout
* In ''[[Fallout]]'' New Vegas you can have a few, Boone a Ex-Special Forces Sniper.
** Perhaps the best, [[Yes
*** However you can become Mr. House's Battle Butler, Considering you can have a nuclear rocket launcher and the destructive power of the sun under your command you are kinda bad ass.
* There is an actual class of Pokemon trainer called "Castle Valet" (Castle Butler in the Japanese version) in Pokemon, however it refers to [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Castle_Valet_Darach_and_Lady_Caitlin Darach]. Darach is implied to be the actual battler, while Caitlin just sits down watching the battle. There is also a class of trainer named "[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Maid Maid]".
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* Gin from [[Minion]]. Kinda comes with the territory of being minion for a [[Hired Guns|dark-witch-for-hire]].
* [[Nosfera]] features Grimsworth, who is basically the Grim Reaper in butler form.
* [[
* Cello from [[Fruit Incest]] doesn't do much battling, but despite being the butler he was still the [[Portal (Video Game)|Companion Cube's]] right hand man and later became the leader of his division.
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** In an altenate scene of "Burns' Heir", he wields a shotgun against a robotic Richard Simmons. In the original, Burns simply closes the door on Homer. It was cut from the episode because "it often did not get a good reaction during table reads."
** He was also surprisingly good at [[Affably Evil|cheerfully]] kidnapping Tom Jones at gun point.
** Smithers only goes Battle Butler when he has to (read: [[Ho Yay|when Burns is in danger]]). Most of the time he's just a [[Yes
* Mercy Graves, Lex Luthor's aide-de-camp in ''[[Superman the Animated Series]]'' ([[Canon Immigrant|and later the comics]]).
** And don't forget that her impossibly short skirt made her very appealing. So she's tough AND sexy!
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[''Megatron starts to strangle Inferno''] }}
** From ''[[Transformers Armada]]'', Demolisher ''could'' qualify, but the real winner was {{spoiler|'''Starscream''' of all mechs,}} who lost his memory in the sequel ''[[Transformers Energon]]''.]] For one glorious season Megatron had '''the''' most loyal Decepticon he could ever ask for, and one who eventually {{spoiler|followed Megatron into the Energon sun, to their mutual deaths.}}
** Finally, ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' crosses the [[Battle Butler]] with the [[Yes
*** Lugnut has two driving forces in his programming: The compulsion to serve the grand and glorious Megatron, and the utter destruction of Autobots (in the name of his glorious master).
** The ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' version of Soundwave is also this. While he usually just hovers omniously in the background, his presence alone keeps [[The Starscream|Starscream]] from pulling the plug on a half-dead Megatron. [[Curb Stomp Battle|Airachnid learned this the hard way.]]
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** In fact in one episode, Skwisgaar calls him "... the bests butler we's ever had..."
*** The show did a good job of playing up Ofdensen as being a secret [[Badass]], but he really shines as a Battle Butler when you ''don't'' see him acting. When Pickles tells him that their amazingly bad movie can't be released to the public after its first screening, Ofdensen just nods, and walks away, with no attention paid to it. A few minutes later, everyone who has laid eyes on the film (and can confirm that it sucked) is dead. Sure, it "looks" like an accident (the helicopter rotor hits the pipeline on the oil platform used for the screening as it's leaving), but you know it wasn't.
* Though he usually functions as a [[Yes
* While not technically a butler, Hammerheads driver in Spectacular Spider-man didn't have any problem's busting out a gun and opening fire on super powered people that went up against her boss, or using car-fu to fight off Rhino. She is one of the coolest characters in the show and doesn't even have a name.
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