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=== Live Action TV ===
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'': Kara Thrace, a deconstruction of the trope whose maverick existence only exists with a messed up life and a lot of favouritism.
** It's made obvious at the start of the series that the only reason she was able to get away with all the crap she pulls is because she's just ''that damn good'' and the ''Galactica'' herself was under the command of an officer who was going to be retired soon. Later, she was one of a few dozen fighter pilots left in the whole of humanity in a little fleet almost completely dependent on pilots for defense. There was a good chance she'd get discharged in normal times
** Later a major reason for the favoritism shown by Adama(and a lot of the recklessness shown by Kara) is explained by revelations concerning her engagement to Adama's dead son.
** Subverted with Pegasus Commander Barry Garner, who once made the typical Maverick "Screw the orders, I'm saving my men" decision, complete with his crew backing him against the outsider observer (aka Lee Adama) - only to notice that ''yes'', it ''was'' a trap, it very nearly cost the human race its most powerful battleship and it gained them nothing.
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