Basic Trope: Someone is a bodyguard to someone much more powerful than them. * Straight: Bob bodyguards Alice even though she's a fully trained martial artist and he's just a random police officer assigned to protect her while she gives evidence. * Exaggerated: Alice is The Chosen one; not only is she much more capable of dealing with threats than Bob, but she's actually the only one capable of doing so at all. * Downplayed: Bob is a well trained, experienced officer...but so is Alice. * Justified: * Bob's bosses don't quite trust Alice. He's there to keep any eye on her as much as he is to watch her back. * Alice is an important person who knows that protecting herself will distract from her main business whether or not she is capable of it. * Inverted: Bob has