History Main / Ambadassador

** Ambassador Robert Fox is a cut above most of TOS' useless bureaucrats. He confronts both Kirk and Scotty head-on, manages to get himself beamed down over the latter's objections, and once the true nature of the situation on Eminiar becomes apparent, he picks up a disruptor and joins the fight. And when it's all over, he manages to negotiate a successful peace treaty between two planets that have been at war for centuries.

* Ambasador Duvat in the BuckRogers episode ''Journey to Oasis''.

*** Like mother like daughter & son. Padme Amidala was in the thick of it at the Battle of Theed, the Battle of Geonosis, and several engagements of the Clone Wars. Leia's adopted father, Bail Organa, also wasn't a slouch in the butt-kicking department. Apparently, being a near-perfect shot with a blaster pistol is one of the qualifications for being a Senator.

** Important note: Vimes doesn't do this because Detritus, the ten foot tall Troll made of stone, is more BadAss than him. He does it because he's going to visit the Low King of the Dwarfs and they hate Trolls
*** Actually Vetinari instructs him to take Detritus since he was originally from Uberwald

* In the ''HellsGate'' series, also by DavidWeber, we have a pair of Sharonan diplomats. One is a psychic cop who can tell when you are lying. The other is a only an ambassador part-time, he spends most of his time as an ''Imperial Marine!''

* Worf becomes an Ambassador at the end of ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. You don't get much more badass than Worf. Especially given that he's long since overcome [[TheWorfEffect TNG-era jobbing streak]].

** Sarak, Spocks father is a more obvious example as it is not revealed for a long time that Spock becomes a diplomat latter in his career.

* [[MarvelUniverse Marvel]] comics character M/Monet is the daughter of an ambassador, but is also very adept at ass-kicking. Being a NighInvulernable FlyingBrick helps quite a bit.

* [[MarvelUniverse Marvel]] comics character M/Monet is the daughter of an ambassador, but is also very adept at ass-kicking.

*** Like mother like daughter & son. Padme Amidala was in the thick of it at the Battle of Theed, the Battle of Geonosis, and several engagements of the Clone Wars. Leia's adopted father, Bail Organa, also wasn't a slouch in the butt-kicking department.

* Worf becomes an Ambassador at the end of ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. You don't get much more badass than Worf.
** Also, from what we've heard anyway, Curzon Dax would probably qualify.
** [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Ambassador Spock]] is pretty handy in a fight, too.

* The first Japanese Ambassadors were Samurai. It helped that there wasn't much else for them to do during the MeijiEra.

* In [[HonorHarrington MissionOfHonor]], Honor gets to play peace ambassador to the (not People's) Republic of Haven. Of course, she is also the single highest-ranking currently-serving officer in the RMN and the commander of the only fleet with the longest-possible-range [[MacrossMissileMassacre Manticoran Missile Massacre]] (read: unstoppable superweapon). Not to mention a seventh-dan in the hardest martial art in the galaxy. And an expert sword fighter. And gunfighter. And conducts the peace talks with said fleet hanging over the Havenite homeworld.

* Raiden from the ''Mortal Kombat'' films serves as a mediator between mortals and the elder gods, eventually fighting alongside mortals.

* In HBeamPiper's ''A Planet for Texans'' (aka ''Lone Star Planet''), Ambassador Stephen Silk seems like a fairly average diplomat (albeit an armed one) until near the end of the story when he goes [[spoiler:gunsakimbo on the three mooks that assassinated his predecessor]].

* In HBeamPiper's ''A Planet for Texans'' (aka ''Lone Star Planet''), Ambassador Stephen Silk seems like a fairly average diplomat (albeit an armed one) until near the end of the story when he goes [[spoiler:gunsakimbo on the three mooks that assassinated his predecessor.

* In [[Honorverse MissionOfHonor]], Honor gets to play peace ambassador to the (not People's) Republic of Haven. Of course, she is also the single highest-ranking currently-serving officer in the RMN and the commander of the only fleet with the longest-possible-range [[MacrossMissileMassacre Manticoran Missile Massacre]] (read: unstoppable superweapon). Not to mention a seventh-dan in the hardest martial art in the galaxy. And an expert sword fighter. And gunfighter. And conducts the peace talks with said fleet hanging over the Havenite homeworld.
* The UN Envoys in the Takeshi Kovacs series by [[AlteredCarbon Richard Morgan]] are a subversion, of some kind. While Takeshi Kovacs is undoublty a badass, his function as envoy seems to be mostly name only.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jame_Retief Jame Retief]] in KeithLaumer's ''Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne'' (''Terran Diplomatic Corps'') stories. Basically James Bond as a diplomat.

* Venetian diplomats could live in unusual places hosted by rulers who were prone to [[OffWithHisHead erratic behavior]], sometimes with the foreign diplomats as a mark. Venetian diplomats were not only known for their cunning but for their [[StiffUpperLip coolness]] and their skill as DeadpanSnarker s. At one Venetian Ambassador Giorgio Dolphin was in an audience with Pope Julius II who, in a fit of fury declared his intent to reduce Venice to a humble fishing village. Whereupon Giorgio replied that ''Venice'' would reduce ''him'' to "''un curatello qualsiasi''" (a humble country priest).

** Important note: Viimes doesn't do this because Detritus, the ten foot tall Troll made of stone, is more BadAss than him. He does it because he's going to visit the Low King of the Dwarfs and they hate Trolls

* Collectively, the role of the titular team on Stargate [[SG1]], as they specialize in first-contact and other tricky situations. As per their different roles on the team, some members (ie, Daniel) are far more diplomatic while others are more ready to break out the big guns, but all are capable of both talking to and blowing up potential allies/enemies.

* Bren Cameron of [[CJ Cherrh]]'s ''Foreigner'' books has a penchant for engaging in this, often to the disapproval of his bodyguards.

* Collectively, the role of the titular team on [[Stargate SG1]], as they specialize in first-contact and other tricky situations. As per their different roles on the team, some members (ie, Daniel) are far more diplomatic while others are more ready to break out the big guns, but all are capable of both talking to and blowing up potential allies/enemies.

* Most of the regular cast in BabylonFive who are not station personnel (it is a ''diplomatic'' station, after all). Notably Delenn, G'Kar, Londo and their respective seconds-in-command, Kosh, the Rangers... the list goes on.

* In MissionOfHonor, Honor gets to play peace ambassador to the (not People's) Republic of Haven. Of course, she is also the single highest-ranking currently-serving officer in the RMN and the commander of the only fleet with the longest-possible-range [[MacrossMissileMassacre Manticoran Missile Massacre]] (read: unstoppable superweapon). Not to mention a seventh-dan in the hardest martial art in the galaxy. And an expert sword fighter. And gunfighter. And conducts the peace talks with said fleet hanging over the Havenite homeworld.