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** Inigo Skimmer in ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'' is one of them, a small man with a way of nervously clearing his throat and an expert on [[UberwaldÜberwald]] politics, who, left alone with a group of bandits, killed seven before the rest fled.

** By necessity, Baron Wulfenbach had to become this. With the world falling apart, and everyone and their army ready to tear it ''further'' apart, Klaus did the only thing he could do; take over the world and force people to stop fighting by basically saying "Do '''NOT''' make me come over there." [[And It Worked]]. And he's miserable for it, because now he lives out his days playing the much-hated game of bureaucracy.

*** Boris Dolokhov serves as the Baron's personal secretary and administrative second-in-command. He personally organised the forces of the empire in the face of continent-wide rebellions while the Baron is incapacitated, and when faced with the mutiny of the Jagers he beats the location of the generals out of their messenger so that he can discuss the matter with them.

* [http://www.cracked.com/article_18509_5-unknown-schmucks-who-turned-into-superheroes-in-clutch.html Felix Vasquez] your typical [[Salaryman]], a Housing Authority Supervisor for the city of New York to be exact, who received a call that one of the buildings that he oversaw was on fire. After calling the fire department, he then ran to the burning apartment building, beating emergency services, and saw a woman who was waving her baby out of a window. When he told her [[Tempting Fate|not to throw the baby]], the woman [[Too Dumb to Live|misunderstood]] and threw her baby out of the window. Having only seconds to spare, Felix [[Took a Level Inin Badass|hopped a freaking fence]] and caught the baby, saving its life. If that's not a badass bureaucrat move, then nothing is.

* [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. Stuck in a training post for [[World War OneI]], he never saw action leading men in combat and did not hold an indepedent command higher than a battalion before the [[World War II]]. His appointment as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force was considered a maverick act. He turned out to be one of the most able general officers the United States has ever sent to war, at least partially because the sheer size of the Allied Expeditionary Force required someone whose skills were not those of your typical combat general.