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* [[Nick Fury]], director of SHIELD.

* In ''[[The Iron Giant]]''. General Rogard is actually a good guy who is only fighting the Giant because [[Jerkass|Kent]] lied to him that it was a killer. Once he learns the truth, he immediately stops attacking it.

* General Jack Gordon Shepherd in ''[[Starship Troopers|Starship Troopers 2]]''.

* While not military, this is exactly the behavior of (police) Captain Lorenzo in ''[[Die Hard 2]]''.

* Literary (and TV) example, on a smaller scale: Lt. Murphy from ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' book and TV series. As the head of the "Special Investigations" department of the Chicago PD, Murphy is responsible for fitting vampire attacks, troll rampages, etc. into the standard police blotter. She uses the titular Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the phone book, as a consultant; when the first story opens, she doesn't really care about "all this supernatural mumbo-jumbo"—she just wants to make her case. Four books in, she's answering the door with her sidearm in one hand, and a crucifix in the other.

** In her early days, she was still trying to 'fit' the supernatural into the world of law and order, to subordinate it to the law and the procedures thereof. Some nasty encounters with demonic super-werewolves and spiritual predators able to invade the minds of her and her men forced her to accept that the supernatural is bigger than she is, which changed the path of her character considerably. These days she's increasingly amenable to vigilante action and far more fast-and-loose with the law than she once was, from necessity.

** [[Badass Normal|And]] hamstringing ogres [[Chainsaw Good|with a chainsaw]]. [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Can't forget that.]]

* Lord General Zyvan in the [[Ciaphas Cain]] ('''[[Fake Ultimate Hero|HERO OF]] [[Memetic Mutation|THE IMPERIUM]]''') novels is a highly competent commander and on close personal terms with the eponymous commissar.

* Sir Colin Campbell receives this treatment in the ''[[Flashman]]'' novels, first at Balaclava and then at Lucknow.

* Pellaeon from the ''[[Hand of Thrawn]]'' duology. Yes, he's the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Forces, but he kicks off the plot with his attempts to make peace with the New Republic.

* In the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series, most senior military commanders are portrayed in this light, especially Gareth Bryne and Davram Bashere. The only real exceptions are the Whitecloak Lords Captain.

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* Speaking of guys named Ross, Vice Admiral William Ross, a secondary character from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' who spent most of his time behind the scenes leading the Federation war effort against the Dominion (which is actually a little bit odd, seeing as Vice Admiral, even in Trek, is only a three-star rank and the equivalent of a Lieutenant General. Ross should have been a Fleet Admiral).

* Admiral Steven Hackett and Captain/Councilor David Anderson from ''[[Mass Effect]]'' are these, being a staunch supporter of Shepard to the point where the former denied a request to detain and interrogate Shepard due to Cerberus ties {{spoiler|and confirmed Shepard being alive without actually meeting him/her (wants to say "hi")}} and the latter risks court-martial or getting shot to help you do your thing in the first game and is the only one in the Council to actually believe you in the second.

* Most of the main cast of ''[[Operator]]'' are both military (owing to the alternate-[[World War I|WWI setting]]) and their reactions to the supernatural element range from accepting it to acting as if it's nothing out of the ordinary at all.

* At the [[Super-Hero School]] Whateley Academy in the [[Whateley Universe]], there's a huge security staff, headed up by ex-military officer Security Chief Franklin Delarose. At Whateley Academy, near Dunwich New Hampshire, the security officers have to be prepared to handle troublesome teenaged superpowered students, not to mention the occasional monster or invasion. So he's a lot more [[Genre Savvy]] than the usual Brigadier.

* [[Supercop|Bill 'Bulldog' Maddicks]] is the most prominent canon example in ''[[Freedom City Play By Post]]''. The tough, no-nonsense commander of STAR Squad, the local super-SWAT team, Maddicks can best be [[Captain Ersatz|understood]] as an honest, clean-living [[Cowboy Cop|Harvey Bullock]].

* General Newcastle on ''[[Challenge of the Go Bots]]''.

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