History PlayingWith / DiplomaticImpunity

** Eventually Wikitopia's government grows tired of Bob's cruelty, seeing it as [[AttackOnOneIsAnAttackOnAll an insult against their whole country]]. [[ShootTheMessenger Bob's severed head is sent back to Troperia in a basket]] with a list of Bob's crimes and a formal declaration of war attached. In the resulting war Troperia is left bankrupt, ravaged, and defeated. This suffering would have been avoided had Wikitopia been allowed to arrest Bob at first.

'''Basic Trope''': A villain or criminal is protected from the law because they're a diplomat. The most absurd part of it all (Maybe) is that it's almost explicit that only supervillains can benefit from it. Examples: Doctor Doom (Marvel Comics) and Black Adam (DC Comics) can openly attack America and try to murder their enemies for some petty childish ribbing and they can't be touched because of "Diplomatic Immunity", not even taking any damage rm its influence and political position. If Wonder Woman (Ambassador of Themyscira) and Aquaman (King of Atlantis) did something similar, they would instantly be considered Enemies of the State and everyone would try to convict them of Crimes Against Humanity (Even if they hadn't committed any Crimes Against Humanity). ) !

'''Basic Trope''': A villain or criminal is protected from the law because they're a diplomat.

* '''Downplayed''': [[AssInAmbassador Bob]] speeds through town, parks illegally, and is generally a {{Jerkass}} but no one can make him pay the fines he owes because he's a diplomat.
* '''Justified''':

** Meanwhile, the country Bob represents appoints its diplomats based on [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections nepotism]] rather than competence so it's easier for someone who can't be trusted with the heavy responsibilities of diplomacy to find themselves in this position.

** But it turns out under the relevant local laws, everything he did ''before'' his immunity was revoked is still covered, so he's in the clear.

* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob is protected by his diplomatic immunity ... but then it turns out that his accreditation is fake ... because he's really a diplomat for a different country ... so the hero gets appointed a diplomat too ... and then someone points out that the country they're in doesn't even recognize the concept of diplomatic immunity at all.
* '''Averted''': Bob may be a diplomat, but diplomatic immunity doesn't matter much in a DisasterMovie.
** Diplomats operate by using avatars instead of legal immunity. You can arrest their body but the worst thing that could happen is that they'll get bored or annoyed and log off.

** Bob gets himself appointed diplomat solely because he wants to commit crimes without consequence.

** It is easier to get one declared ''{{persona non grata}}'' and thrown out of the country or withdrawn as a diplomat than it is to arrest one for one's suspected, proven, or planned misdeeds. Unfortunately, [[SmugSnake Bob]] doesn't think of this.

* '''Played For Horror''': Bob abuses his diplomatic immunity to be a SerialKiller on the side, knowing that at the absolute worst if he's caught he will be sent back to his country... which doesn't has a death sentence and because of his diplomatic status he will earn a LuxuryPrisonCell.

** An AntiHero [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight circumvents international law by simply killing Bob]].

* '''Reconstructed''': Diplomatic Immunity, as irritating as it can be sometimes, is really necessary. If she hadn't had it, the Wikitopian Ambassador Alice might have been harassed or killed when Wikitopia did something that offended Troperia. Of course, that's no consolation to Bob's victims, which is why the status of ''PersonaNonGrata'' exists, and why Alice can go talk to Troperia's leadership and request Bob be stripped of his status before he gets both countries in massive trouble.

* '''Justified''': The country in question really does take diplomatic immunity seriously, believing that the potential problems emerging from it are less important than maintaining peaceful relations with its neighbours.

* '''Implied''': The [[SugarWiki/SweetExists Sugarwikian]] ambassador Dana is said to be [[NiceGirl unusually pleasant]] for her profession, especially compared to Bob or Charlie, but we can't determine the veracity of that claim because [[TheGhost we don't see them]].

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* '''Zig-Zagged''': Bob is protected by his diplomatic immunity ... but then it turns out that his accreditation is fake ... because he's really a diplomat for a different country ... so the hero gets appointed a diplomat too ... and then someone points out that the country they're in doesn't even recognise the concept of diplomatic immunity at all.