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* ''[[Ranma ½]]''
** [[Canon Foreigner]] Sasuke Sarugakure is the Kunō Family's devoted, albeit grossly inept, ninja butler in the anime. He was conceived as a filler character, who was given most arcs involving [[Stalker with a Crush|Gosunkugi]]. All of them except the [[Mind Control|magic paper dolls]], if memory serves. However, he became his own unique character pretty quickly.
** The very first filler in the anime also has an elderly, childless rich couple try to adopt P-chan/Ryoga, and when Ranma (reluctantly) tries to retrieve him, the three butlers/servants chasing him promptly pull off their bowties and reveal martial artist weapons, much to Ranma's shock. The [[Ranma ½: The Abridged Chronicles|abridged series]] lampshades this trope.
* ''[[Last Exile]]'' presents Dio of the Noble House of Eraclea, whose friend and combat butler Luciola acts as his loyal bodyguard up to the point of {{spoiler|giving himself up to Dio's sister, Maestro Delphine, so she allows Dio to escape. He has no regrets as he calmly accepts a ring that immediately kills him.}}
* ''Miami Guns'' parodies this trope with Jii, faithful servant to Yao{{spoiler|'s father}} and exaggerated [[Badass]].
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* From ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai]]'' we have Kasai. {{spoiler|With his occasionally [[Yandere (disambiguation)]] 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]]''. He doesn't look like much, but his fight scene features him ''[[Good Old Fisticuffs|boxing]]'' a ''[[Dual-Wielding|four-armed]]'' [[Samurai]].
* ''[[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]]''.
** Genji, too.
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* I would count Merlin in this one, from ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' even though Arthur never knows about it.
* Higgins, Robin Master's Major Domo in [[Magnum, P.I.]] 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 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S17
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