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* In the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series, Thomas Theisman would qualify, taking into account that Honor ''fears'' and respects him at the same time. Lester Tourville, too, arguably.
* In the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series, Thomas Theisman would qualify, taking into account that Honor ''fears'' and respects him at the same time. Lester Tourville, too, arguably.
** Victor Cachat and Anton Zilwicki.
** Victor Cachat and Anton Zilwicki.
***They are arguably more an example of [[Enemy Mine]]. They are espionage agents from enemy states that have happen to both have a passion for destroying slavers, which project is by coincidence held in sympathy for the most part by their respective states both for strategic reasons(pirates tend to fence captives to slavers naturally, and piracy is bad for trade) and ideological ones; Manticore has a habit of rule of law even if not all Manticorans are precisely virtuous while Haven by this time has a new government in the later episodes that wishes to develop such habits while even in the earlier ones slavery is [[Captain Obvious|unegalitarian]] and therefore at least theoretically repulsive to revolutionaries.
***They are arguably more an example of [[Enemy Mine]]. They are espionage agents from enemy states that have happen to both have a passion for destroying slavers, which project is by coincidence held in sympathy for the most part by their respective states for strategic reasons as pirates tend to fence captives to slavers naturally, and piracy is bad for trade which means especially that it is bad for Manticore. And also for ideological ones; Manticore has a habit of rule of law even if not all Manticorans are precisely virtuous while Haven by this time has a new government in the later episodes that wishes to develop such habits while even in the earlier ones slavery is [[Captain Obvious|unegalitarian]] and therefore at least theoretically repulsive to revolutionaries.
** The People's Navy and the Royal Manticoran Navy are generally like this and [[Nothing Personal|just want to shoot at each other like professionals]]. Nasty things are done by fanatics like State Sec or the Masadans.
** The People's Navy and the Royal Manticoran Navy are generally like this and [[Nothing Personal|just want to shoot at each other like professionals]]. Nasty things are done by fanatics like State Sec or the Masadans.
**Zilwiki in ''From the Highlands'' says that even some State Sec agents can count as [[Worthy Opponent|Worthy Opponents]]. State Sec human resources(or whatever they call it) filters the sadists from the patriots, sending the sadists to run concentration camps and the patriots to do field ops. Thus Victor Cachet while he was once a State Sec man was never one of ''those'' kind.
**Zilwiki in ''From the Highlands'' says that even some State Sec agents can count as [[Worthy Opponent|Worthy Opponents]]. State Sec human resources(or whatever they call it) filters the sadists from the patriots, sending the sadists to run concentration camps and the patriots to do field ops. Thus Victor Cachet while he was once a State Sec man was never one of ''those'' kind.
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