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** Similarly, in ''[[Angel]]'', Wesley takes the Number Two spot in Angel Investigations.
* Commander Ivanova of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' is frequently approached by alien diplomats with personal problems.
** Although her job is to deal with the routine day-to-day matters coming from the station, Sinclair and Sheridan are the military governors of the station and responsible for making decisions and interacting with the ambassadors on a professional level. Later in the series her job gets harder when Sheridan is also running a war (or two).
** Sheridan gave her increasing diplomatic responsibilities beginning early in Season 2, partly in recognition of her recent promotion to full Commander, partly to groom her for greater command responsibilities (since Ivanova was a dedicated and ambitious career officer), and perhaps partly to ease the transition from Sinclair to himself.
*** Greater responsibilities indeed. Her status as Sheridan's Lancer result in the odd situation where, when Sheridan {{spoiler|is arrested for leading the Pro-Constitution faction in the [[Earth Civil War]]}}, Commander Ivanova ends up in command {{spoiler|of a large fleet of ships including many officers who outrank her.}} Granted, by that point, she may indeed be one of the most battle-tested officers around at the time.
* On ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', Leslie Knope is Number Two to Ron Swanson, director of the Parks and Rec department.
** Her title may be that of a Number Two, but she's the only one getting anything done, since Ron has admitted on camera that he hates government, and plays the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] to the hilt.
* ''[[Sea Patrol]]''. Lt Kate McGregor, apply nicknamed "XO",is second in command and the leader of the boarding parties.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* This is standard practice in most military forces around the world: every officer will either have a junior aide or senior enlisted man to advise them. Occasionally, the job description also entitles replacing said officer in case he takes a dirt nap or is otherwise incapacitated, to maintain operation even during an emergency.
* Alan Brooke was the Number Two of [[Winston Churchill]]. Theoretically he was the Number Two of King George VI (since the Monarch, by convention, delegates power to the Government of the day) but that was eccentric British [[Nostalgia]] rather than a serious governmental arrangement. The Armed Forces are loyal not to Parliament, but to the Crown, and therefore Alan Brooke could not be nominally subordinate to the PM and retain the authority to over-rule any other military advisor the Government might call in. Alan Brooke was also Chief of the Imperial General Staff - the Empire's senior military officer - and therefore in a position to exercise command over Empire and Dominion troops who Churchill had no direct authority over, and this derived specifically from his nominal role as the King-Emperor's military advisor (since Churchill was subordinate to the King in that respect).
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'''Random bystander:''' Hey, why are you letting him boss you around?
'''"Blue"-clearance Executive Officer:''' Hey, yeah! ''*blam blam blam blam blam blam*'' All right, men, let's go! }}
* The command structure for Space Marines in ''[[Warhammer
*** It's not that he's officially being groomed, he just keeps racking up so many victories for the Chapter that he's the most likely successor. It's a theme frequently played with in the tie in novels featuring the Second Company.
** When a member of a squad dies in most cases the player whose squad it is gets to pick which model is removed, the rules say this is to represent corporals taking over for sergeants or extra grunts grabbing the fallen heavy weapon.
** During the Great Crusade, the Primarchs (the head of the Space Marine Legions) would usually split the role of Number Two between the First Captain and their own Equerry. The First Captain would be the senior most commander after the Primarch, while the Equerry would be a personal adviser. For those Primarchs who went rogue, the First Captain would become [[The Dragon]] while the Equerry would become [[The Consigliere]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' has Johanna Ingolfsson and later Xinjao O'Reilly as Number Two to Erich Von Shrakenberg.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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