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** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] with Voules, Reggie Pepper's manservant. Reggie Pepper was a [[Upperclass Twit|scatterbrained aristocrat]] who was later [[Expy|Expied]] into Bertie Wooster, and Voules at first appears to be a cool, calm forerunner of Jeeves...until he turns out to be an angry, drunken [[Jerkass]] who betrays his master. [[Characterization Marches On]], what?
** Also subverted with Brinkley who Bertie hires when Jeeves is temporarily working for someone else. Brinkley is an incompetant, violently alcoholic Communist who ends up setting the house that Bertie is staying in at the time on fire.
* Also, Jeeves the [[Expy|eponymous]] robotic [[Battle Butler]] for Clan Korval in the [[Liaden Universe]], {{spoiler|a rehabilitated decommissioned war machine}} who it turns out actually adopted his name and manner specifically from certain ancient novels {{spoiler|(after having suffered at the hands of a character who is ''entirely coincidentally'' named [
* Henry from [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''Black Widowers'' stories: these are puzzle-mysteries in which a group of men discuss a mystery or conundrum over dinner and fail to solve it; the solution is always offered by their humble and devoted waiter Henry.
* [[Lord Peter Wimsey]]'s valet Bunter is not, in fact, smarter than his amateur-detective employer, but he does have a number of useful skills that his boss doesn't -- like knowing how to develop a photograph.
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* Lugg in the [[Albert Campion (Literature)|Albert Campion]] mysteries is a good example of the subversion.
* 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
* Miss Feng in [[Charles Stross]]'s short story "[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.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* After he won the lottery, Robbie of ''[[
** ... And apparently {{spoiler|1=LolBat in his spare time}}.
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (Webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', Perrault effectively runs his master's life. Until he decides he's bored; and even then setting guidelines for continued success while he's gone.
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