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{{trope}}
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The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations is a treaty between countries which generally grants to the official representative of a country certain privileges by the receiving country, on the presumption of reciprocity, e.g. we will grant immunity from prosecution to your official diplomats in our country as long as you do the same for ours when they're in your country.
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See also [[Ass in Ambassador]], where the diplomat only has to be a jerk. Compare [[Sacred Hospitality]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* In [[Batman]], The Joker gained diplomatic immunity once by being appointed as an ambassador to the United Nations. (He was initially said to be representing Iran, but that was apparently deemed <s>implausible</s> beyond the bounds of bad taste -- it was retconned so that he represented the fictitious [[Qurac]]. Yes, [[Trope Namer|that one]].)
** The writer (Jim Starlin) seems to have liked this trope; he used it earlier in "Ten Nights of the Beast" and "The Diplomat's Son." In the former, Batman ends up trapping the KGBeast and walking away, presumably to let him starve to death (well, until it was retconned), while in the latter it's suggested that Jason Todd shoved the diplomat's son off a high balcony.
* In [[DC Comics]]' [[Crisis Crossover]] ''52'', [[Captain Marvel]]'s enemy [[Anti
* Once, after defeating Maxima in battle yet again, [[Superman]] cites this as a reason for the police to withdraw. The other reason is that the Queen of Almerac is just as powerful as him, so the police wouldn't have been able to hold her anyway.
* In [[Joss Whedon]]'s first ''[[Astonishing X Men]]'' run, after the X-Men(mostly the newly-resurrected Colossus) put the beat-down on the alien conquerer Ord, Nick Fury and a squad of SHIELD agents show up with heavy ordnance, claiming that Ord has diplomatic immunity. As [[Wolverine]] replied in the next issue, "Diplomatic [[Cluster F
* Deconstructed in ''[[Green Lantern]] Corps''. A prince of a planet kills a Green Lantern and many potential replacements. When the other Lanterns bring him to Oa, they are forced to return him to his family. He is then tried and guillotined by them, with Soranik Natu giving him a [[Hope Spot]] just to be cruel.
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* ''[[Ghost in The Shell]]'' (1995). At the beginning of the movie the ambassador of a foreign country claims diplomatic immunity while offering asylum to a Japanese defector. The Major executes the ambassador with a [[Pink Mist|bloody]] [[Your Head Asplode|head]] [[Boom Headshot|shot]], "ending" the problem.
* In ''[[Casino Royale (Film)|Casino Royale]]'', [[James Bond]] gets in trouble for paying absolutely no attention to the extraterritoriality of an embassy in Africa. ("You violated the only absolutely inviolate rule of international relations, and for what?")
* In ''[[The Princess Diaries]]'', the Queen claimed diplomatic immunity after she and Mia got in a car accident. Then she got Mia out of trouble by giving the traffic cops the nonexistent "Genovian Order of the [[Line
** Earlier, Joe turned down Mia's request to take the Genovian flags off the limo he was driving, on the grounds that they allow him to park anywhere.
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** [[The Other Wiki]] gives the real life version of what happened as a reason why diplomatic immunity exists in the first place.
* In ''[[US Marshals]]'', a Chinese 'diplomat' claims immunity after ''shooting an FBI agent in the head with a sniper rifle''.
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