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* Captain Bannon from the video game ''[[World in Conflict]]'' manages to be everything an officer in the Armed Forces should ''not'' be (cowardly, insubordinate, whiny, arrogant, incompetent and many more), yet the worst thing that happens to him career wise over the course of the game is a transfer to another front. Somewhat justified by the fact that World War III ''is'' occurring and there is a shortage of officers... though Bannon's bungling occasionally reaches levels where he could be considered a bigger danger than the Soviets. If it wasn't for {{spoiler|his Heroic Sacrifice near the end}}, he would have surely been court-martialed or possibly executed.
* Commander Shepard from ''[[Mass Effect]]'' becomes a Spectre and does a few questionable things(one way or the other) and has this mainly because the main government of the galaxy is [[Too Dumb to Live]] and refuse to believe evidence of their impending doom. Repeatedly. But he's so needed that he gets [[Resurrected for a Job]], and can get reinstated as a Spectre and still continue to screw up whatever he wants to his/her heart's content. The Council does ask that he keep his cowboy ways to the Traverse and the Terminus Systems, but that's an empty request and Shepard knows it.
* The [[Badass Family|Kenny family]] is the ''[[Star Ocean]]'' series have done all sorts of things that not only defy Federation regulations, they also would be considered if they didn't turn out right crimes worthy of the death penalty. Thankfully, since their actions have ultimately proven to be of massive benefit to the Pangalactic Federation, they've managed to keep their positions and in some cases, like Ronyx in the first game, got promoted for it.
** ''The Divine Force'' does, however, have one member of the family try to invoke being [[Lawful Good|someone who respects the law even if her conscience demands she break it to serve a greater good]]. In a moment of supreme irony, while she is commended for this, circumstances basically prevented her court martial at the time because her actions blew the lid on a bunch of corrupt higherups who would have been her judges otherwise, and the noncorrupt Federation officials had every reason to be grateful for her actions. As a result, she passed her court martial with flying colors [[Springtime for Hitler|with a complete exoneration anyway.]]
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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