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Agent Octant, let me... try to put this as delicately as I can.
You seem to be accidentally misunderstanding what multimedia <span class="mu-i">is</span>, in the sense that, uhm, Agent, uhm, Albert Farthing value - renowed and famous butler to Marcus Nightsoar - is a stoic, witty, lovable scamp with a intriguing past involving British Intelligence. I think he even has these hidden badass moments, like in "Night Guardian 2" where he takes down three assassins with nothing but a serving tray while calmly reciting proper afternoon tea etiquette! So, yes, as you say, SBS training!
BUT THE THING IS, AGENT his mysterious past involvement with British Intelligence,comes up whenever <span class="mu-s">the plot needs</span> someone who "coincidentally" knows exactly how to defuse an obscure 2060s mind-control device!
If you asked Agent Foldworth--Agent Albertold--Agent <span class="mu-s">Fold</span> how to disable a novel Chironan Corporate Riot Mind Control Device (if such a thing existed) <span class="mu-i">he wouldn't know</span> because in real life such devices don'te exist and if they did exist they'd be enormously complicated. Albert Farthingvalue has years as a trained commando turned unflappable butler always ready with a dry quip but <span class="mu-i">Agent Fold is not a trained SBS operative</span>! He's just presently VERY CONVINCED he is.
And we're going to need to pluck that out of his head, because, Agent Octant, I'm really enormously very sorry to tell you this, if you drive like the cool and suave protagonists in FIERCE AND FLEET drive, you end up causing a calamitious traffic accident and quite a lot of collisions! In real life, <span class="mu-s">cars don't work that way</span> but the people you pump full of brain-rotting media-exposure <span class="mu-s">get very convinced they do and start acting like it</span>.
Agent Octant, Agent Jack'Oal <span class="mu-i">died</span> because he thought he could <span class="mu-i">fire two guns through the air while jumping through a cone of suppressive fire</span> which is something REALLY COOL ACTION HEROES do ALL THE TIME but in actual rea life it, uhh, Agent, it, uhm, it -- It kills you. You die. You jump, you fire a lot, you miss everything, and the bullets go everywhere and by voluntarily jumping through a cone of suppressive fire you probably got shot a lot!
Agent Jack'Oal <span class="mu-i">thought</span> he was an action hero but the world <span class="mu-s">does not work on action hero rules</span>. Agent Fold <span class="mu-s">thinks</span> he's a combat trained british commando butler who happens to be the exceptional aid-de-camp to a billionaire who likes dressing up as a lemur and having fist-fights with bad guys but <span class="mu-s">there are no billionaires who have fistfights with badguys in real life and very, very few customed superheroes</span>.
The coincidental overlap betweeen, errr, comic book writing and multimedia does mean that Fold can "play the role" of a butler remarkable well because the STYLINGS of it can be mimicked with proper behaviour, protocols, the few snippets of multimedia where the authors did proper research and it happens to be how it works in real life, but, uhm...
