Gunboat Diplomacy: Difference between revisions

* In just the second episode of ''[[Yes Minister]]'' Hacker finds himself faced with a tricky situation involving the new dictator of an African state who, for various reasons, they need something from, but who is threatening to cause an embarrassing incident. The foreign secretary muses jokingly that in the old days they would just send in a gunboat. Hacker then asks if that is, absolutely, out of the question, to shocked stares.

** In ''[[Yes Prime Minister]]'', Hacker (now PM), arranges for a full battalion of paratroopers to pay a goodwill visit to a small third-world country that may just be about to suffer from a Communist uprising, against Sir Humphrey's wishes.

'''Hacker''': Reinforcements of '''''goodwill''''', Humphrey! }}

* Happens quite often in the various versions of [[Star Trek]]. Captain Kirk does it well because he is such a Badass.

* Pissing off a superpower in ''[[Tropico]]'' 1 and 3 will have them sent out a gunboat that will sail menacingly around your island. Continue to piss off the superpower, [[Nonstandard Game Over|and they'll follow up with troop deployments]].

* Works surprisingly well in [[Galactic Civilizations|GalCiv 2]]. Sure, your enemies won't ''like'' it, and they'll try to politically undermine you every chance they get, but hell if they aren't polite.

** This doesn't even appear to be exclusively military - the [[Superweapon Surprise|ability to make one quickly]], [[Summon Bigger Fish|being friends with someone who has one]] or even the ability to culturally dominate them seems to be enough.

* In ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' [[The Empire]] stations the [[Humongous Mecha|Heracles mobile fortress]] outside the city of Dahngrest during the negotiations with the leaders of the guilds, this is noted by the inhabitants of the guild city.