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* Because he apparently hated butlers (going so far as to say they had their own circle of hell, [[Laser-Guided Karma|where kitchen-maids and journalists could watch their torments from Heaven]]), [[Hilaire Belloc]] wrote a different kind of subversion in ''The Emerald of Catherine the Great''. The butler acts like The Jeeves around his master (except his schemes don't work), but is thuggish to the other servants. He even switches between [[British Accents|posh dialect and Cockney]], depending on whether there are toffs around or not.
* [[Poul Anderson]]'s [[Technic History]] has the valet of Dominic Flandry, Chives, who is a clear [[Shout-Out]] to Jeeves. Even if he is not human.
* Miss Feng in [[Charles Stross]]'s short story "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131020105557/http://www.asimovs.com/_issue_0701/Trunk.shtml Trunk And Disorderly]", which is a pastiche of the ''Jeeves'' novels relocated to an indeterminate future.
* ''[[Ruggles Of Red Gap]]'' which was also made into a play and a movie.
* Konstantin Bothari from the ''[[Vorkosigan Saga]]'' fits as one of the tropes' subversions. He plays batman to Aral Vorkosigan in the Barrayaran army, and later young Miles Vorkosigan after his release from service, but his primary qualities are his loyalty to the Vorkosigans and his martial abilities as a body guard. Later Miles acquires the suave and Jeeves-like Armsman Pym, who more closely embodies the original trope. Both Bothari and Pym are examples of the [[Battle Butler]].
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