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*** Of course, at that point in his career, he's a ''retired'' Admiral (he retired from the service to take his position as Deputy Director of Intelligence at the CIA). Which makes him a [[Retired Badass|Retired]] [[Four-Star Badass]]
* In [[An American Carol]] we are treated to a scene where General George S. Patton is gunning down zombie ACLU lawyers with a non-automatic rifle. Despite being played for humor, it's pretty badass.
* General Grey, played by Robert Loggia - ''[[Independence Day]]''. He's pretty much the only person in the government who manages to keep a cool head throughout the crisis, besides President Whitmore, who himself is a badass from the [[Gulf War]]. It's really no surprise that in the movie's second act--by which point the Vice President has been killed off-screen by the alien invaders--General Grey becomes the President's de facto second-in-command and closest adviser. It's likely that in the movie's universe, General Grey emerges from the crisis with a Patton or [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]]-like level of respect, and [[Wild Mass Guessing|it's likely that he's either going to be Whitmore's new VP or Secretary of Defense...and the most likely candidate to be Whitmore's immediate successor once his term of office is up]].
* Kurogane, in ''[[Ran]]'', Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of Shakespeare's ''King Lear''. Kurogane is the general serving Jiro, second son the old warlord Hidetora. He {{spoiler|assassinates the eldest brother Taro during the battle with Hidetora's forces. He refuses Jiro's order to kill his wife Lady Sue after he's been seduced by Taro's widow, the vengeful Lady Kaede who's been orchestrating the destruction of Hidetora's clan. At the end. when all her schemes have come to fruition and she has Lady Sue killed, Kurogane beheads in her in spectacular fashion.}} See [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]
* The original M, played by Bernard Lee in the [[James Bond]] films, holds the rank of rear admiral in the Royal Navy as well as being the head of [[MI 6]].
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** The Tau Shas'Os qualify, too. The Tau culture is a culture where there are only two ways to retire from the field: Ascending to become a Shas'O and remaining in the rank for four years... Or going to the grave. The Shas'Os lead entire armies of fire warriors from the frontlines, with a minimum of 12 years of constant fighting required to ascend to the rank, and so every single Tau who manages to ascend to that rank is a Four Star Badass by design. The fact that they get [[Power Armor|the coolest armor]] and [[BFG|the biggest guns]] helps.
* [[Legend of the Five Rings]] provides multiple examples: a number of Clan Champions, Emerald Champions and Family Daimyo, as well as Toturi Tsudao, General of the Imperial Legions, The Shogun Akodo Kaneka, and even the Splendid Emperor Toturi I himself all fit in here.
* Used in [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] Fantasy Battles as well, where every race gets more powerful characters the higher in rank they are. This is explained with some like Chaos and Orcs, where brute strength does take you to that position (and is required to keep it), but not for Elves and Dwarfs that inherit their positions as leaders, but still are far superior to the best elites of their armies. The Empire makes a single exception to this with the general choice which only excels the captain in leadership and is otherwise equal to a captain.
* In the Roleplaying game [[Rogue Trader]] you begin as one, and gets to chose how you became one.
* Admiral Albadawi of the Terran Confederation in [[Traveller]].
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