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[[File:GIGN46 Domenjod 011021.jpg|thumb|400px|They aren't always this easy to spot. (French gendarmerie GIGN demonstration, October 2021.)]]
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Suki: A Like Story]]'' has a bodyguard as a major character, but saying who it is would be a major spoiler.
* In the sixth episode of the second season of ''[[Squid Girl]]'', Sanae becomes Squid Girl's self-appointed [[w:Security Police (Japan)|"SP"]]. Since Sanae is one of the people who Squid Girl sometimes needs to be protected from, this does not fill her with confidence.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In the ''[[Batman]]'' comics, Wayne Enterprises assigned Bruce a bodyguard in the 1990s, Sasha Bordeaux. [[Hilarity Ensues]] because Sasha keeps trying to do her job, and Bruce keeps shaking her off his tail to become Batman. {{spoiler|She would eventually become a hero in her own right, after she discovered Bruce's identity and he started training her.}} ▼
* Miyamoto Usagi, the title character of ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]'', was a bodyguard to his daimyo before he became a ronin and occasionally takes up that job during his travels.
▲* In the ''[[Batman]]'' comics, Wayne Enterprises assigned Bruce a bodyguard in the 1990s, Sasha Bordeaux. [[Hilarity Ensues]] because Sasha keeps trying to do her job, and Bruce keeps shaking her off his tail to become Batman. {{spoiler|She would eventually become a hero in her own right, after she discovered Bruce's identity and he started training her.}}
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The title character of Sir [[Walter Scott]]'s novel ''[[Quentin Durward]]'' acts as a bodyguard to the French King Louis XI.
* ''[[The Three Musketeers]]'',<!-- MOD: Do not disambiguate; this applies in all versions of the stories. --> especially d'Artagnan, served as bodyguards to Louis XIV.
* Greg Rucka's character [[Atticus Kodiak]] is a professional bodyguard. The novel series about him ranges from realistic to cinematic.
* Domovoi Butler is the bodyguard to the titular [[Artemis Fowl]]. Being a character in a children's book series, he tends to the cinematic side of the spectrum.
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* The "mirror universe" in the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S2/E04 Mirror, Mirror|Mirror, Mirror]]" is a dangerous place to live. One assumes that the security guards assigned as the officers' personal bodyguards are very highly paid, in credits, promotions, or both.
* Game company CEO Ahn Min-hyeok initially hires the title character of the South Korean series ''[[Strong Girl Bong-soon]]'' to act as his bodyguard during the early part of the series because ''someone'' is threatening his life, and a tiny, inoffensive-looking "secretary" who could arm-wrestle [[She-Hulk]] and win is, in his eyes, the perfect defense.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[backstory]] in ''[[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings]]'' says that the player character was one of King Foltest's bodyguards, albeit a reluctant one.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Batman]]'' had GCPD assign a cop as a bodyguard for Bruce Wayne in "Cash for Toys". Why? Because the villain of the week, Krank, was trying to murder Wayne in revenge for shutting down his company down, on the grounds that the toys endangered kids. Only problem is that the bodyguard was Cash Tankinson, probably the worst guy for the job as a [[Small Name, Big Ego]] cop. Bruce has to figure out how to ditch Cash, who is more competent than he looks at bodyguard duty, so as to catch Krank.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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