Military Maverick: Difference between revisions

* In [[Advance Wars: Eternal War]], we have the Pink Queen. "Our units are under attack? Who cares? Do you like my new eye-liner?" Robyn too. She'd rather stare at the sky than go to war.

* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', as noted above. The Imperium is big and naturally has all sorts, including this. Every tradition got its own way to do things, and many are unwilling to change it just because someone else has his own ideas. More rough-and-tumble units are infamous for having probability of "unfortunate accidents" correlate with high-handedness among the [[Political Officer|Commissars]] as much as among the management of [[Bastard Operator From Hell]].

* Sister Miriya from James Swallow's [[Warhammer 4000040,000]] novel ''Faith & Fire'' regularly pisses of her Canoness for her "creative" interpretations of instructions given to her, although she usually doesn't disobey the direct orders of a superior and usually gets good results. However, with her actions in the course of the book included {{spoiler|discharging her weapon in a library, disobeying direct orders, postponing the arrest of a psyker to go find a deacon and killing that deacon}}, so it's a miracle she wasn't executed on the spot, this being [[Crapsack World|40k]] and all. As it turns out, {{spoiler|there was an assassin in the library, the psyker helped them uncover a conspiracy (and was killed later) and the deacon was hoarding psykers for an experiment [[What Measure Is a Non Super|to try to turn all the humans of the Imperium into psykers]]}}, so in recognition of that, she was just demoted into a line Battle Sister and reassigned to another Canoness.

* Teana Lanster at the start of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]''. Unlike most examples, the series went for a far less positive potrayal of this type of character. Teana's Maverick nature almost caused a friendly fire incident during their second mission and her adamant refusal to listen to the advice and orders of her superiors [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|required several officers to beat the idea into her head]] that being reckless just for the sake of personal pride is a quick way to get you and your comrades crippled or killed. It was only when Teana toned down the Maverick nature of hers did she [[Took a Level Inin Badass|begin to be truly efficient in battle]].