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* Admiral Greer in ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]''. Played by [[James Earl Jones]]. Although Ryan, Cmdr. Mancuso, and Capt. Ramius do the heavy lifting, his willingness to gamble and let Ryan do his job resulted in a nuclear war being averted.
** "Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And [[I Was Never Here|I... Was never here]]."
*** 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
* 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]].
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** General Luke Skywalker in [[Luke Skywalker and The Shadows of Mindor]]--the youngest general in his impressively-sized taskforce. The second-youngest is five years older than Han Solo. He's not bothered by the age gap. He's bothered by how the others assume that since he's a Jedi he automatically knows better, and people are afraid to question his plans.
** [[The Thrawn Trilogy|Grand Admiral Thrawn]]. He was the mysterious alien Grand Admiral who, five years after [[Return of the Jedi]], returned from the Unknown Regions to breathe life back into the flagging Empire, and listing off all the things that make him awesome would take a while, but there's a reason why he was one of the (many, many, many) pictures on the [[Magnificent Bastard]] page.
** Supreme Commander [[Hand of Thrawn|Gilad Pellaeon]]: "Supreme Commander" is just about the highest military rank in the Empire. This was Vader's rank, back when the Emperor lived. Pellaeon earned it. A dedicated naval officer and [[Commander Contrarian|the best second-in-command anyone could hope for]], Pellaeon started service when he was fifteen and died in service when he was in his nineties, having seen the start of the Clone Wars, the rise and fall of the Empire, the subsequent rise of the New Republic and all that that entailed, the Vong invasion, and the unpleasantness that followed. He was the one who was always there to pick up the pieces when the head Imperial died, which happened worryingly often, and he got his rank by being quietly competent, [[Know When to Fold
* Morgan and Luccio in The Dresden Files. Morgan may be a complete [[Jerkass|dick]] but he there is no denying he is a badass. And [[Four
** Technically now that he is a {{spoiler|regional Warden commander}} and {{spoiler|Winter Knight}} Harry is one as well.
* The ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'''s Admiral Miles Naismith of the Dendarii Free Mercenary Fleet, especially since he's really only a lieutenant in his "real" military identity.
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* Sir Thursday from ''[[The Keys to The Kingdom]]'' was insanely badass, as well as having a fiery temper. His own soldiers were terrified of him.
* Admiral Rybakov in ''[[The Sixth Battle]]'' subverts this: {{spoiler|He decides to lead his remaining carrier airwing into its last battle. However, he's shot down and can't even take out an AAA gun when he crashes.}}
* Generals in ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms (Literature)|Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' typically lead from the front, [[Justified Trope|as troops were mainly peasant conscripts with little training and less morale.]] So [[Four
** Lu Bu is possibly the best example, being known as the mightiest warrior of his day but not very bright when it came to actually leading an army.
** Xiahou Dun {{spoiler|[[Eye Scream|ripped out his own eye and ate it]] after getting shot in the eye with an arrow. He felt it would be wrong to abandon his eye, since it came from his parents. And then killed the guy who shot him.}} He was forced to withdraw after that, though.
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* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' all the major houses have at least one of these. Jon Snow and Dany Targaryen are also both shaping up to become this as well.
* The ''[[Tortall Universe]]'''s Lord Sir Raoul of Goldenlake and Malorie's Peak, Commander of the King's Own. Notorious for finding excuses to stay in the field, even when ordered otherwise by the king. Nicknamed 'Giantkiller' [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|for a reason]]. A desk knight, he ain't.
* General Antonio Vega of [[Larry Bond]]'s ''[[Vortex (Literature)|Vortex]]'' is the commander of the Cuban Expeditionary Force in Angola. A brilliant commander who leads from the front, he defeats the South Africans and outmanouveres the Americans using second-line and older equipment, and nearly beats the USA to Pretoria. He [[Know When to Fold
* A fair few in [[Sharpe]]. Major-General David Baird in the early ones, based on the real life [
** Sharpe sometimes steps into this role, usually when he either manipulates ineffective superiors into taking the action he wants or when he simply decides the superior in question isn't up to the job and "promotes" himself.
** General Harris didn't let losing ''part of his skull'' at Bunker Hill stop him crushing the Tipoo Sultan.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Jack O'Neill was promoted from [[Colonel Badass]] to [[Four
** General Hammond put on fatigues every now and then and was never afraid to leave the desk when a more ''"personal"'' touch was needed. Also, Sam Carter's dad General Jacob Carter became one of the leaders of the Tok'ra resistance.
*** The writers were even kind enough to give Gen. Hammond a [[Badass]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. One episode found him serving as gunner in a Goa'uld vessel piloted by Teal'c. After a successful strafing run against the bad guys, Hammond yelled out a good-ol' Texas "Yee-haw!"
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* Due to the weird system of Colonial rank, Commander Adama of the ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' is most likely equivalent to a Commodore. And he is certainly a [[Badass]]. And he became an even bigger badass when the President promoted him to Admiral.
** Admiral Helena Cain was certainly a [[General Ripper|Ripper]] but she was undoubtedly badass.
* [[The Brigadier|Brigadier]] Sir Alastair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (later renamed the Unified Intelligence Taskforce) from ''[[
** In his final appearance in the main series, he is face to face with a world destroying demon. This doesn't seem to bother him at all.
* General Benjamin Juma of ''[[Twenty Four|24]]'' who's so badass he decided to lead a raid on the freakin' White House '''himself''' and even slapped the President. It's too bad he was a villain.
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