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* Even at the start of ''[[Casino Royale (literature)|Casino Royale]]'', [[James Bond]] is considered an experienced and capable agent.

* Mack Bolan from ''[[The Executioner]]'' is an elite sniper and penetration specialist fighting in the Vietnam War. He learns that his father was being pressured by [[The Mafia]], snapped and committed murder-suicide on the rest of his family, and decides to put his skills to good use fighting a war at home instead.

* While the main protagonist of the ''[[Monster Hunter International]]'' series starts off new to the monster hunting thing, even if he's ''very'' good with guns and brawling, ''Alpha'' and ''Nemesis'' shift the prospective to his {{spoiler|king of the werewolves}} boss and the government's top anti-monster agent {{spoiler|who was also the inspiration for Frankenstein's Monster}}. As the two {{spoiler|have been killing monsters for over a century and three respectively}}, they naturally qualify.

* While the main protagonist of the ''[[Monster Hunter International]]'' series starts off new to the monster hunting thing, even if he's ''very'' good with guns and brawling, ''Alpha'' and ''Nemesis'' shift the prospective to his {{spoiler|king of the werewolves}} boss and the government's top anti-monster agent {{spoiler|who is an ex-demon in a flesh golem that was also the inspiration for Frankenstein's Monster}}. As the two {{spoiler|have been killing monsters for over a century and three respectively}}, they naturally qualify.

** The ''Monster Hunter Memoirs'' spinoff stars Oliver Chadwick Gardenier who is both a marine's marine, proficient with every small arm in service, [[Cunning Linguist|divinely blessed by God himself with an ability to naturally pick up even the most complicated languages]], saved from death by an explicit miracle, and trained in a variety of useful talents ''before'' becoming a monster hunter and then breezed by his earliest assignments prior to the assignment the book is mostly about. The opening of each book and ending to the series state [[Unreliable Narrator|the viewpoint character whose memoirs you're reading was fond of tooting his own horn and was absolutely exaggerating his own ability, even if the core of the events is true]], but it's clear Chad had ''some'' experience before the events in Seattle.

** The ''Monster Hunter Memoirs'' spinoff stars Oliver Chadwick Gardenier who is both a marine's marine, proficient with every small arm in service, [[Cunning Linguist|divinely blessed by God himself with an ability to naturally pick up even the most complicated languages]], saved from death by an explicit miracle, and trained in a variety of useful talents ''before'' becoming a monster hunter and then breezed by his earliest assignments prior to the assignment the book is mostly about. The opening of each book and ending to the series have other characters present state [[Unreliable Narrator|the viewpoint character whose memoirs you're reading was fond of tooting his own horn and was absolutely exaggerating his own ability, even if the core of the events is true]], but it's clear Chad had ''some'' experience before the events in Seattle.

* At the start of ''[[Saga of the Forgotten Warrior]]'', Ashok Vadal is not only one of Lok's Protector of the Law, making him a ''[[Judge Dredd]]''-esque uncaring enforcer of the Law and a [[One Man Army]], he's considered one of its best and credited with having revived the order that was sliding into extinction though how much of a paragon of it he is. How does this protagonist get challenged? By {{spoiler|a complicated series of conspiracies that both render him Lok's most wanted and cause him to question if he should even be allowed to live, as he is a criminal through no fault of his own}}.

* ''A Study in Scarlet'' has [[Sherlock Holmes]] already recognized as a detective worth employing, and Watson an accomplished but medically retired army surgeon.

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