Basic Trope: An ambassador who also kicks ass.
- Straight: Bob is the ambassador of Tropestan. Even though his job is to maintain peace, he can still fight should negotiations fail.
- Exaggerated: Ambassador Bob is a One-Man Army.
- Downplayed: Ambassador Bob can stand toe-to-toe with anyone who insults him, even dishing out as much as he takes.
- Justified:
- Ambassador Bob is a retired general and has experience in self-defense.
- The nation Bob is the ambassador to has a tendency to Shoot the Messenger, so Tropestan sends someone capable of defending themselves.
- Bob is the Tropestan ambassador to a Proud Warrior Race Guy nation. Being a warrior certainly helps with one's credentials there.
- Inverted: Blood Knight Bob is suddenly forced into peace talks, and turns out to be quite skilled.
- Subverted: Ambassador Bob claims that he can fight if peace talks fail, but it turns out to be just empty boasting.
- Double Subverted:
- But when trouble does occur, he decides to actually fight and turns out to be pretty good at it.
- Bob's physical capabilities may be lacking, but he's a Guile Hero who does much better outwitting his adversaries. His empty boasting had been a ploy to make them think he's just blowing smoke and underestimate him.
- Parodied: Ambassador Bob is The Ahnold, ridiculous heavy accent included.
- Zig Zagged: Bob is the Tropestan ambassador talks a big game about fighting, only to crumble when a fight starts. Except, it was act to get his opponents to drop their guard and he defeats them all. Then it turns out that, yes, he really needed the element of surprise, because he only Minored In Ass Kicking. In a straightforward fight, he loses.
- Averted: Ambassador Bob’s negotiations go smoothly, so there’s no need for fighting.
- Enforced: Part of the story is that Violence is the Only Option, and the author needs a character who can handle that.
- Lampshaded: “For a man of peace, Bob can sure kick ass!”
- Invoked: Tropestanian law requires its ambassadors to have military experience.
- Exploited: President Alice needs someone to negotiate with General Evulz, and she chooses Bob because he can kick ass if negotiations fail, which is the likeliest outcome.
- Defied: Ambassador Bob is an Actual Pacifist and refuses to let things get violent.
- Discussed: “Ambassador Bob used to be a marine? Let’s not piss him off, then.”
- Conversed: “Let’s see how long it takes for Bob to drop his ambassador hat and pick up his ass-kicking sword.”
- Implied: When Bob negotiates, everyone immediately stops fighting and listens to him. They seem scared of him, but it's not clear why.
- Deconstructed: Being a badass and being an asshole are not incongruent. Maybe the reason why Bob is an asshole ambassador is because he is a combat monster, and thus he (and the idiots who placed him in his position) believes that Asskicking Leads to Leadership, when that is most definitely not true.
- Reconstructed: Bob's superiors know how he behaves and thus send him to a nation/planet where his behavior is respected, which both minimizes the damage his behavior causes and increase their esteem in/on said nation/planet.
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