I silently groan when fictional military organizations, or real life militaries in movie dramatizations have main characters of ranks several grades apart working together as leader and deputy. For example, in The Force Awakens Captain Phasma standing alongside the Generals and Admirals of the First Order when Hux is giving his Starkiller Base podium speech rather than with the assembled stormtroopers on the parade ground, or Commander Cody working alongside Captain Rex in The Clone Wars rather than with a deputy clone of the next rank down.

Distinctions between army and navy ranks often get murky in TV fiction. In Babylon 5, Susan Ivanova eventually becomes a General even though she was a blue uniformed Fleet officer and there was no reference to her transferring to the Earth Force Ground Forces.