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Obstructive Bureaucrat

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Obstructive Bureaucrat	comment	This guy is the ultimate pencil pusher from a government agency or corporation, and he creates the red tape that normal citizens hate, wielding the Stamp of Rejection like a weapon. He's an unlikeable Punch-Clock Villain with a bad temper and a sizable streak of callousness. Works for any and all bureaucracies, including Department of Child Disservices, banks and possibly even your own afterlife. His job, storywise, is to get in the way of whatever the heroes need to do, sometimes because what the heroes are doing is against some form of regulations, but other times because the character is a Jerkass who just doesn't like the heroes and is using "regulations" to make their lives difficult. In disaster movies and other works that lack a real villain (or whose villains are too cool to effectively hate), expect this guy to be the work's resident Hate Sink. Sometimes he can be restored to humanity by uncovering the secret dream buried deep beneath his efficient exterior. Failing that, you may be able to use his respect for Exact Words against him. On the other hand, sometimes he is obstructing a Matter of Life and Death. He and his colleagues often contribute to Head-in-the-Sand Management, refusing to do anything to help the situation. Threat of force, or actual force, may be needed to get by him. A benevolent Obstructive Bureaucrat may go and obstruct the villain by actively devising regulations to impede and hinder him, and then, with the same mindless fervor as any other bureaucrat, insist on their being followed to the letter. A common cause of Divided We Fall. Many a surreptitious entry into, or exit from, a location, or requisition of supplies, is needed because it would take too long to get by him. Almost all this form-filling out serves no useful purpose; for the hero to put in a list that will allow him access to a facility, for instance, is a very rare subversion. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy (see above) is always in effect. The tropes: Beleaguered Bureaucrat, Department of Child Disservices, and Social Services Does Not Exist overlap since they all involve the same problems. The employees are often overworked, underpaid, lack resources, and suffer the publicâ€™s wrath. They then turn into the Obstructive Bureaucrat and use Bothering by the Book to slow down the workload or get revenge on the people who make unreasonable demands. This trope also has a darker version, where the character is still a government employee concerned with the bottom line, but what he does in daily work probably violates the Geneva Convention. He is likely to be a murderer and/or a torturer who defends himself by saying "I'm just doing my job". In short, he is a Well-Intentioned Extremist whose overriding motivation is being Employee of the Month. Note that this is not the same as the Knight Templar, another type of Well-Intentioned Extremist. The Knight Templar does horrible things for some greater good, whereas the Obstructive Bureaucrat has no concept of "greater good", and cares only about following procedure, or rather believes that procedure is equivalent to the "greater good". He's not just prone to Just Following Orders: as long as the orders match the rules he thinks it's his job to enforce and follow, Just Following Orders is what he is all about. In another sense, where the Knight Templar is the extreme leader, the Obstructive Bureaucrat is the extreme follower. If he has no idea that the job he's doing is evil, he may be a Clueless Deputy. This sort of Obstructive Bureaucrat can be drawn into a Heelâ€“Face Turn or Freak Out more readily than one who does know and just feels it's none of his business (a fella's gotta eat)... For a character who isn't so much obstructive as much as overworked, see Beleaguered Bureaucrat. For a bureaucrat who can actually get things done, see Badass Bureaucrat. For a civil servant who's outright crooked, see Corrupt Bureaucrat. In the US, this character can also be a member of Congress (usually a senator) who is investigating the heroes. This type of character is also known as a "jobsworth" in British slang, named for their tendency to deny a perfectly reasonable request with "That's more than my job's worth." This species might easily proliferate around a Vestigial Empire, and any Vast Bureaucracy is likely to include them among their numbers. See also The Barnum. Related to Triage Tyrant. These characters tend towards Lawful Neutral, usually Lawful Stupid and sometimes Lawful Evil. Usually tends to be a subtrope of Villainy-Free Villain. They may dole out hefty doses of Paperwork Punishment.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_10bc0a19	comment	In Night Watch, Vimes refused to hand over people to the Unmentionables without a receipt. And proof of ID from the man who signed it. He insists that it is regulations — though regulations that had not been enforced before due to watchmen being scared. This stops them for a while, as no member of the Unmentionables wants to have his name connected to what they do to people. And asking for proof of ID made sense since the Unmentionable who initially signed for the prisoners did so with the name "Henry the Hamster" and Vimes, quite reasonably, pointed out that he'd look a bit silly if he went back to his captain with that on a receipt.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_11010edc	comment	How most city employees in Parking Wars are regarded by the public, whether deserved or not.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_13665790	comment	A. E. Pessimal in Thud! who has been sent to audit the Watch and comes up with things like "Two officers were patrolling a street where no crimes were committed. How is this a good use of resources?" and, somewhat more justifiably "What is the point of Corporal Nobbs?" Vimes tries to wind him up by saying that if he wants to know how the Watch operates he should experience it, and putting him in the middle of a riot, and is rather taken aback when Pessimal enthusiastically gets involved and chooses to remain in the Watch. By Snuff he's become the Watch's forensic accountant, as long as every so often he gets to wear a helmet and walk a beat.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_1449a8e8	comment	Dirty Harry had one per film. Not as evident in the first film, where he is mostly just chewed out for his methods, Lt. Briggs in Magnum Force is the Big Bad, Captain McKay in The Enforcer is portrayed as completely incompetent (leading to an ending where he gives in to the terrorists' demands if they release the mayor after Harry has dealt with them) and in later films, they want him to outright retire.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_16aedea5	comment	In the Foreign Affairs (1966) episode, "Can We Have Our Ball Back?", some youngsters are playing cricket near the Soviet Embassy when their ball lands in "Russian Territory". Rather than just give the boys their ball back, the Soviet Embassy and the Foreign Office get into a conflict over whether it is allowed to be returned or not.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): The Council of Acorn combine this with Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering. While they mean well, more often than not they prevent the Freedom Fighters from actually saving the day, such as initially refusing to let them stop Scourge and the Suppression Squad from invading Mobius in favor on focusing their efforts on Eggman, trying Sally for treason when she and the others do so anyway, letting Ixis Naugus become king while dismissing Sonic's warnings and annoyance, and voting to exile Nicole from New Mobotropolis because it was "what the people wanted"; it eventually got to the point where Rotor got sick of it and left in outrage. Hamlin Pig is one of the most blatant examples, mostly out of spite toward the Freedom Fighters for having made him a member of the rarely-used backup unit. He uses his position to attempt to make it hard for the Freedom Fighters to act, and is the only one to vote to punish Sally for leading an urgent mission against orders not to (though, granted, he likely wouldn't have been the only one if Sally hadn't threatened to become an Obstructive Bureaucrat herself).
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_1a1bd616	comment	The Chaotic Masters: The Titans dismiss Captain Black's superiors as red tape-wielding stereotypes, who have inadvertently kept them and the Justice League in the dark about the threats that the Chans have faced due to refusing to pass along word of them without definite proof. The Chaotic Masters and their worshippers have this view of the Dragon Council, seeing them as self-righteous jerks who stick their nose into any magical business and enforce The Masquerade even for magic practitioners who don't want to keep things secret.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_1b5eec6e	comment	The Sheep in the Big City episode "Baah-dern Times" had Lisa Rental sing a musical number about how she'd like to grow up to be a bureaucrat because she'd be paid to make things frustrating and miserable for other people.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_1bd69d53	comment	In Nickelodeon's TV show The Adventures of Pete & Pete, the younger Pete befriends Clothing Inspector #34, who proceeds to make the entire neighborhood rule mongers equal to himself. Finally defeated when Pete challenges him to an eating contest of barbeque chicken. Inspector 34 finishes every bit of meat on his chicken without getting a bit of sauce on his hands or clothes. Only to be reminded by Dad "You're supposed to get dirty eating chicken." Causing Inspector 27 to realize the error of his ways, and not be such a perfectionist.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_1d0bbd68	comment	There are quite a few of these in Simon's workplace in The Double, but especially the security guard. He makes Simon fill out a form to get into work every single day, and won't let Simon in until he shows him the form the guard just watched him fill out.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_1eebd8e1	comment	In his youth, the only expression of strength and personal vengeance the mouse-like narrator of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground could hope for was by playing this trope.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_1fc7499e	comment	In Reaper Man, Miss Flitworth helps Death against them because he explains they are like revenuers — which everyone knows are worse than death. (You only have to die once.)
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_1fcdbe32	comment	In The Phantom Tollbooth one of the demons lurking in the Mountains of Ignorance is the Senses Taker. He stalls the heroes with reams of pointless paperwork, which he then uses to distract them by creating the ultimate sensory experience for each one. The Taker is defeated when Milo accidentally breaks open a package of laughter, since the only sense he can't take is humor.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_22f708ef	comment	Otto Palindrome from Quark, who often sends Quark on various garbage picking missions.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_23a77ba7	comment	Subverted in Worm/DC Universe crossover Echoes of Yesterday. Director Piggot tries to play hardball with Supergirl and throw the book at her in order to get her join the Protectorate, but when Piggot puts forward a Protectorate contract, Supergirl takes five seconds to read and memorize the entire document, and then makes Piggot listen to and clear all of her concerns on the spot.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_247422c7	comment	The bureaucrats of the Solarian League in the Honor Harrington books. Unfortunately, they are the ones with the real decision-making power, thanks to the League's very poorly-written constitution.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_24a18ffe	comment	In The Ship Who... Won, Carialle is sixteen years out from a major traumatic experience. She needed two years of intensive, loving therapy to recover but has been reasonably healthy and stable since then, assisted by her brawn, with whom she likes to LARP. Psychologists still like to check in with her to see how she's doing, which is fine with her... except when it's the Inspector General Dr. Sennet Maxwell-Corey doing it. He seems to approach her every time she makes stationfall and has what Carialle sees as an obsessive desire to prove she's unfit for service, demanding lengthy psychological profile sessions, prodding the old trauma that rarely bothers her otherwise, and fixating particularly on her LARP hobby. Avoiding him kicks off the plot of The Ship Who Won, as she and Keff hare off somewhere he's not going.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_24a63b5d	comment	The humorless foyer administrator in the children's TV show Lift-Off dug up a rule banning something new every episode... including, at one point, carrying around a ban sign with a mirror on it. That one backfired when they got him to turn it around.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_26042b84	comment	He's even beyond that. His actions during Avengers: The Initiative (cloning a teenage soldier and using him to cover up a training death) clearly cross the Moral Event Horizon. He's the only comic book character where "basic human decency" is an Informed Attribute. Everyone goes out of their way to say he's not a villain, while Gyrich's actions would say otherwise.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_27831967	comment	The central premise of the Amy Poehler comedy Parks and Recreation is the Inversion of this trope. Poehler's character, Leslie Knope, is a naively optimistic bureaucrat who cares for the people of her small town and is seemingly oblivious to the fact that no one else does. Ron Swanson picked up the Obstructive Bureaucrat ball and ran with it. Namely because he's a Straw Capitalist/Libertarian who thinks government programs like parks should be abolished in favor of children spending their time at private, for-profit entertainment outfits like Chuck E. Cheese. The only time he ever shows enthusiasm for the job and does actual work is when the government needs ideas on how to slash its budget. (Or when Leslie ropes him into something.) April is technically just a secretary to bureaucrats, but in matters concerning her job, she makes it her mission to do as close to nothing as humanly possible. Which makes her Ron's ideal personal secretary.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_2817ca8b	comment	In The Killers of Krypton, C'Zal tries to hinder and dissuade Supergirl from checking the vault storing the most sensitive items in the Green Lantern Archives — where she might find evidence regarding Rogol Zaar and the Circle's dirty dealings — by listing the massive amount of paperwork she must fill to be allowed access to the Tower.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_28df3e79	comment	There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton: The World Security Council's response to Vilgax's invasion of Arcadia Oaks is to have the National Guard quarantine the area and force the Avengers to handle it themselves. When Coulson points out that this is the exact opposite of their reaction to the Battle of New York (where they wanted to sideline the Avengers and rely on conventional forces), Hill notes that it's probably retaliation to the team and Fury's habit of defying their authority.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_28fe1376	comment	Sanford Harris from Fringe, although his motivations are partly due to a personal vendetta against Olivia Dunham. ...and being The Mole.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_2a04866b	comment	In Guild Wars: Factions, we have Cantha's Celestial Ministry. The cities and slums around the Kaineng Center are struggling with oppressive Guilds, pirates, and the Infected. There are dozens of homeless Canthan peasants, and the Celestial Ministry couldn't care less about their well being. In one mission, you are tasked with delivering handmirrors to the homeless; with each delivery, you are told, in no uncertain terms, that the Ministry should be sending them food and medicine, instead of increasingly pretty and useless trinkets like the mirrors (or decorative lawn gnomes). Another mission has you running all over the city trying to find the bureaucrat with the authority to hand out the new medical supplies; the highlight of that mission is when a guy tells you to talk to his superior, who is five feet away from him. Thankfully, the Emperor himself is far more in touch with what the people need.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_2a77a546	comment	In Inside Out, the support staff of Riley's mind, which handle all the maintenance, are thoroughly unhelpful. They stick to their jobs even as the islands crumble, and serve as impediments to Joy and Sadness on several occasions.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_2ae406c1	comment	Though the bureaucrats themselves are never actually seen, the Peacekeeper faction in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri has such extensive bureaucracy that it gives them an automatic penalty to efficiency.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_2b7c5c88	comment	Harrow: In "Aurum Potestas Est" ("Gold is Power"), an official from the Department of Energy does everything in her power to stymie Harrow's murder investigation when it threatens to derail a multi-billion dollar mining deal.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_2c2a56e3	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_2c2a56e3	comment	The Phantom Menace: Palpatine suggests apathetic politicians rule the Republic with Chancellor Valorum as their puppet, and they are the reason that rather than doing anything about the Naboo situation, the Senate has merely had meetings.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_2ea6ae26	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard: The Romulan Star Empire is no more, but its successor, the Romulan Free State, is still a bureaucratic nightmare.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_30ece126	comment	In the Paladin of Shadows series, obstructive bureaucrats (particularly US government ones) are occasional roadblocks to the Keldara doing their jobs. However, since their boss is personal friends with the President of the United States, the bureaucrats don't remain obstructive for very long.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_310d6df7	comment	Stand Still, Stay Silent: A couple plot elements hint that the type is still around in the After the End Known World. It's unknown if this happens with everything, of if trips to the Silent World being involved make things more difficult. The main cast, who is on an expedition to explore the Silent World, runs out of food early because of an Unfortunate Item Swap while loading their supplies. The military base from which they departed could technically resupply them on the same day, but getting permission to do it is stated to take four weeks. This results in a member of Mission Control blackmailing the captain of merchant ship into doing it instead. The merchant ship in question unfortunately turns out to have been carrying, among other things, a sheltered Farm Boy turned unpaid kitchen aid eager to see other places than his home country, and who had just found out that he wouldn't be allowed to disembark once the ship reached its destination. The main cast finds this out the hard way upon opening one of their newly delivered food crates. They end up having to keep him with them because he's not immune to The Plague, the Silent World is ridden with Plague Zombie monsters, and merely arranging for a proper transportation to come get him would take at least half the time the expedition is supposed to last anyway. Add the twenty-something days the boat will need to get there, and the transportation might as well be used to pick up the whole expedition crew once their mission is complete.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_32399bc4	comment	In The Pulse, the administrator of the hospital Jessica Jones was taken to demands that she be removed from the premises immediately, despite — and because of — her being in active labor.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_329d44e6	comment	In Star Trek: Gemworld, there's Tangre Bertoran, and indeed most of the Jeptah (as the government elite maintaining Gemworld's environment are called). In contrast to most of the â€œnormalâ€� folk encountered on Gemworld (who tend to be pleasant and welcoming enough), the Jeptah — and Bertoran in particular — resent the presence of anyone trying to actually help rather than blindly follow the rules, and complicate plans to save the planet considerably.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_33909389	comment	In Larry Niven's Inferno (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle), the protagonist, Carpenter, finds himself in (a very Dante-like) Hell and in need to some togas to escape. Finally getting to the administrative center of Hell, he puts in a requisition for the garments and is handed a two foot tall stack of forms to complete and a single pencil. When he points out that a single pencil will never last to complete all the forms, he is told to improvise and his attention is directed to another guy nearby who is working on his own stack of forms. His pencil has been worn down to a nub and he is using a ripped out fingernail and his own blood to complete the forms.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck sometimes works with an Interpol-like spy organization called SHUSH. One SHUSH bureaucrat, a Russian bear named Vladimir Goodenov Grizzlikov, loathes Darkwing and his unpredictable methods; Grizzlikov treats his agency's manual as if it were his Bible. (By contrast, Darkwing's immediate supervisor is too impressed by Darkwing's excellent track record to object to his unorthodox techniques.) Subverted in "The Darkwing Squad", in which SHUSH retrains a team of agents to fight crime in Darkwing's anarchic style ... and the squad eventually triumphs by following the book.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_34dfb906	comment	Dominion. In this early-Renaissance-themed deck-building card game, the Bureaucrat is an Attack card that forces everyone else to move some useless-in-game cards (which are sort of like deeds to lands) to the top of their decks. These cards therefore take up space in one's hand for two turns in a row, and the Bureaucrat player gets a shiny coin for his trouble.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_35ada324	comment	The Alien franchise. Alien. Ellen Ripley quotes "24 hours for decontamination" regulations rather than allow Kane to enter the Nostromo for treatment. Of course, she turns out to be right, but by making her appear unsympathetic the movie conceals her eventual role as the hero. A more straight-up application of the trope is the board of inquiry in Aliens. Again this is used to mislead the audience, as the only member who expresses sympathy towards Ripley is Carter Burke, hiding his role as the villain. Mr. Andrews in AlienÂ³. When Ripley tells him about the Alien he won't help her and confines her to sickbay, because he finds her story very implausible and he has a much simpler explanation for the recent deaths.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_367f632a	comment	Dawn of War 2: When the Space Marines arrive to the industrial planet Meridian and request access to a huge productional facility called Angel Forge, the planetary adminitrator Elena Derosa replies that the use of Forge is booked years in advance, and even then, only a fraction of its capacity will be available. When the bewildered Marines explain, that the Forge is needed urgently to make weapons against the Tyranid Fleet that threatens the entire sector, Derosa haughtily retorts that no Tyranid presence was registered on Meridian (implying that the rest of the sector can go frag itself). However, it turns out she wasn't entirely at fault. The lack of intelligence on Tyranids was due to the meddling from the Eldar, and Derosa was instructed to stall the Marines by the treacherous planetary governor. Once both those issues are resolved, she becomes much more helpful.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_36b7f3c	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_36b7f3c	comment	In the Lafayette O'Leary series: O'Leary has the phone number for the mysterious agency known as "Central", whose job it is to keep the multiverse running properly, but whenever he calls with a spacetime-breaking emergency, he inevitably gets connected to some paper-pusher who refuses to believe him, and doesn't want to get involved.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_36ee2abe	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia: Red tape is one of the many perils of life in Alpha Complex: for example, Troubleshooters might be forced to fill out Personal Authorized Handmounted Firearm Requisition Application Forms (in triplicate) to get laser guns so they can defend themselves from a horde of rampaging mutants. While being shot at by said mutants, no less. Source materials encourage this, even suggesting a GM may send forms other than what players requested and then execute them for treason if they fail to fill them out correctly or protest that they got the wrong ones. Another favorite: the equipment they need is available at their clearance level for once, but the requisition form for said equipment isn't. Or, for experimental equipment, the instructions aren't.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3aabfec3	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3aabfec3	comment	Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Subverted in "Fare Thee Whale". The whaling commissioner seems to be one at first, but soon reveals that he also wishes to see Blight and Plunder stopped. It's just that he can't take any legal action without solid evidence.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3aff800d	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3aff800d	comment	Fun with Dick and Jane (1977): Dick's un-employment money is ended by a low level bureaucrat who follows the letter of the law and personally dislikes Dick.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3b34143f	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3b34143f	comment	Cornelius Fudge of Harry Potter proves to be this. He primarily acts as headpiece for the Ministry with recommendations from Malfoy and other respected individuals deciding his actions rather than his own opinions. However, unlike his Undersecretary who is decidedly evil, Fudge simply wants to stay in control, and he seems to know that any disturbance in the peace would see him quickly ousted. As such, he refused to review the case of Sirius Black or accept Voldemort's return in order to maintain the status quo.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3b7abee2	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3b7abee2	comment	The G-Man in Half-Life is an (evil?) inter-dimensional bureaucrat, walking in the middle of a destroyed facility while wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase, orchestrating events threatening the whole of humanity, taking care of selected people, all for his "employers". We just don't know who they are yet.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3b91d912	comment	Evangelion 303: The group of politicians tasked with overseeing the Evangelion project is always complaining about funding, the march of the program... and some of them would love an excuse for shutting it down. To be fair, their concerns are not without merit:
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3c20669a	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3c20669a	comment	Pie in the Sky: In "A Matter of Taste", Henry Crabbe's restaurant is beset by one from the local planning office played by Pete Postlethwaite. Turns out he just happens to be the brother-in-law of a rival restauranter who's been losing customers to Crabbe. One from the local health inspector's office makes repeat visits to the restaurant in "Coddled Eggs".
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3caeeb6f	comment	SimCity 4 combines this, Shaped Like Itself and the Department of Redundancy Department with the Bureau of Bureaucracy building. Its description? "The bureau that handles bureaucracy".
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3d24ebc	comment	Oblivion (2013): Victoria is a much more obedient to mission control than Jack. She refuses to go down to the planet with him, and believes everything mission control says - even ratting him out by saying they are no longer a good team.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3efde824	comment	Johannes Cabal the Necromancer: The new first circle of Hell is the egregious application paperwork devised by Arthur Trubshaw, a former bank clerk who was so obsessed with procedural busywork for procedural busywork's sake that he died demanding a receipt from an armed robber.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3f047e59	comment	Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks runs into an obstructive clerk (played by Frank Nelson) in "Custodian of Students Funds". Mrs. Davis accidently uses school money to buy Miss Brooks a present from Sherry's Department Store. Miss Brooks tries to return the dress to Sherry's, a store that promises if the customer isn't satisfied their money will be "cheerfully refunded". After being given the third degree on the reason for the return, Miss Brooks is turned down because the dress was sold on sale. The scene is ommitted in the Sound-to-Screen Adaptation "The Embezzled Dress" Another obstructive clerk from Sherry's appears on the television episode "Christmas Show". This time it Sherry's promises to "cheerfully exchange" goods. Miss Brooks, Mr. Boynton and Mr. Conklin each face the ill-tempered Mrs. Carney as they try to exchange their presents before Christmas.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3f0d1805	comment	In Spaced, Daisy Steiner does not have a good time in the Job Centre: "No, this is the A-b form, you need the A-B form, capital B." The clerk responds to any question with a simpering smile and an inane, "I'm sorry, I don't understand." — although this is partly because Daisy's making a transparent attempt to claim benefits for the period she spent on holiday in Asia and the clerk, whilst definitely an example of this trope, has clocked exactly what she's up to. She also told him to "fuck off" instead of serving him whilst working at a bar. Tim Bisley, on the other hand, has a rather different experience, being fast-tracked through the system thanks to a shared difference of opinion regarding The Phantom Menace.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3f4a104b	comment	In Dilbert, the accounting department where Dilbert works is staffed by ugly trolls (not this kind, but this kind, and dealing with them is frustrating, if not dangerous.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3fbd173e	comment	In Freefall, Mr. Kornada and the Mayor both qualify as these. An erstwhile one sleeps better at night by (illegally) providing what people want instead.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3fe6b4fb	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	In the New Jedi Order he does, after Coruscant's fall, surrender to the highest-ranked nearby Vong, and then trigger a massive suicide bomb. Books that don't have him as a petty semi-villain portray him as brave in his way, but unable to let go of his paranoia and vindictiveness.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_423d62c4	comment	The player can be this in Papers, Please. There are often decisions that give you the choice between helping out a person whose paperwork has simple errors and keeping your family warm and fed. There are also people who are just asking for rejection, though ("What is passport?"). As bad as you may be, your boss is worse. If he sees a sports poster, family photo, or child's drawing on the wall, he issues a fine equivalent to what basically amounts to a day's salary, for your first offense.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_43576f5	comment	Dean and Sam from Supernatural meet quite a few of these in their Monster of the Week scenarios, but are very, very good at getting round them. Mostly because they have a seemingly limitless supply of fake identification.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_4388e597	comment	The embassy workers in Chess, in their handling of a Russian potential defector. The lyrics of "Embassy Lament" really say it all.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_44e08ee8	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_44e08ee8	comment	In Homicide: Life on the Street, the upper ranks of the BPD was filled with grand-standing, PR-obsessed Pointy Haired Bosses who constantly interfered with police investigations and sometimes stonewalled investigations out of personal spite.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_4522fd1	comment	From the Whateley Universe, Amelia Hartford, assistant to the headmistress at Whateley Academy, is the superpowered version of this. She uses her power over computers as well as her malicious nature to be the Obstructive Bureaucrat of your nightmares, except for the chosen few who get special privileges from her. As the stories go on, it's shown from time to time that she does in fact have a human side as well. She's nonetheless quite possibly the most difficult actual member of the school staff to get along with, and there's not much love lost between her and Team Kimba in particular.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_4539f721	comment	The British medical establishment in The Citadel. They are horrified that Dr. Manson took a patient to an American named Stillman, because Stillman isn't a medical doctorâ€”despite the fact that Stillman saved the patient when her hide-bound British doctor would have let her die. For this Manson is brought up on charges that could lose him his license.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_453a04b0	comment	The first appearance of the Pixies on The Fairly Oddparents had them taking over Fairy World. They immediately implemented a long paperwork system for granting wishes that it was nearly impossible to get any wish approved. They're so into bureaucracy that it's often their downfall.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_457b671e	comment	24 always had one in there to get in the way of stopping a terrorist attack. The most memorable of which being Ryan Chappelle in the first three seasons, who essentially was an insufferable pain in the ass that got in Jack's way everywhere he went, yet had arguably the most emotionally-jarring death of the series. Briefly subverted on Day 5 by Lynn McGill. When Jack (who had been in hiding for two years) uses an out-of-date distress code, McGill is the only one anal and methodical enough to recognize and research it, thereby saving the day. Of course, after that brief moment, he reverts to playing this trope completely straight, eventually crossing into Tyrant Takes the Helm territory.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_4626bb6d	comment	Third Time Lucky: And Other Stories of the Most Powerful Wizard in the World: In "Nothing Up Her Sleeve" the Council of Wizards forbids wizard interference with muggle affairs, even to save them (e.g. from a disastrous flood). Magdelene's unimpressed by this and helps anyway as she sees fit.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_468bebb0	comment	The Discworld universe features the Auditors, mysterious, cosmic beings who balance the books of reality. They would prefer an existence devoid of life, which makes things untidy, and intelligent thought, which is even less tidy and predictable. They have repeatedly attempted to eliminate the Discworld in an attempt to tidy up their books. If they even think the world "I" or "me" or any other personal pronoun too many times they vanish in a Puff of Logic. They don't have names or even designations. They don't have faces. They never have any original thoughts. They have no feelings. Period. Abstract concepts cause them difficulties as the Auditors want to quantify everything that exists, but cannot isolate these concepts; at one point, they even disassembled a portrait to its component atoms in a vain attempt to locate the beauty. In Thief of Time they were introduced to mortal delights. Unlike the description in the page header where this could free them of their evil, this doesn't. The shock of experiencing chocolate was enough to make them vanish. Their attempts to catalog everything their body experienced made them think so hard they forgot to exist. The Death of the Discworld is, ironically, a recurring opponent of theirs; his job may be to take it away, but that doesn't stop Death from appreciating life. One might point out cynically that by defeating the Auditors, Death is protecting his own job, since if there's no life anymore he's literally redundant. In fact the real reason is probably because the Auditors are trying to disrupt the natural order of things, of which Death is a part. But while he is Bill Door he saves a little girl — even though it's usually his job to take people's lives away. The implication is that while he would prefer to be saving people, he's attached to his job to make sure that no one worse does it. Death has been shown as being the only remaining thing at the end of the universe, and then waiting for another one to inevitably form. His job is safe. By the end of Reaper Man, he makes it clear that he cares, first by asking the Ultimate Death, "What can the harvest hope for if not the care of the Reaper Man?", and, later, having installed fields of corn in his deathly estate, proceeds to carefully notice that they are not all alike, but are individuals each worth caring for. Of course, his waiting for a new universe occurs in an earlier book (he started out as an Omnicidal Maniac) and this was his Character Development book. Indeed, saving the girl was part of the Character Development — he had to be convinced to do it. Since from his point of view, if it was her time to die, then it was time. As 'Death', his (official) concern had been making sure it happened 'at the appropriate time' (and didn't take too long to actually happen); as 'Bill Door', well... what's wrong with fighting for those few extra minutes? In Reaper Man, Miss Flitworth helps Death against them because he explains they are like revenuers — which everyone knows are worse than death. (You only have to die once.)
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_46d48eba	comment	In James Bond book From Russia with Love, the author points out that all well-run organizations have at least one Obstructive Bureaucrat for the other workers to hate. He should have a job which isn't vital but affects everyone's day to day life. Something like being in charge of the office supplies. This is to unite them in at least one thing, that is they all agree this guy is a Jerkass. M makes sure to have one.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_47b1287b	comment	Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger: A series of trials deconstructs varying codes of conduct and harshly judges those responsible for mass death and destruction with the use of subtle laws and regulations that ended up causing no-win situations. First off, the Captain Picard expy and his civilization get massive penalties to spatial travel and are sentenced to planetary rebuilding because they didn't save a planet with intelligent, non-advanced life over Prime Directive regulations. Then 'Yoda' is charged with abducting children to be indoctrinated into a cult and assassinating a legally-elected ruler over 'religious differences'. Finally, what seems like an Open-and-Shut Case of a space pilot spacing a young housewife because he wasn't prepared or determined to come up with a third option (spacecraft was carrying crucial medical supplies and there was too much weight, classic Cold Equation) ends up going the opposite way because of the bureaucracy forcing him to do it: The shuttle was a deathtrap because of "safety regulations" banning advanced technology or even redundant systems, the housewife stowed away because the local TSA was "cracking down" on space pirates, which made getting a shuttle too expensive, and she was able to get stow away because TSA TERRORIST REGULATIONS BANNED DOOR LOCKS (YES REALLY), and finally, while the pilot wasn't smart enough to just use the chair instead of the housewife, he did call for help and got a direct order to follow protocol and execute her. Fortunately, he got a slap on the wrist because he didn't even try to kill her; he intended to kill himself instead, but she sacrificed herself first, and she got paid enough for medical bills (she survived spacing herself) and her own ship. Additionally, the TSA was cracked down for designing this no-win situation intentionally to justify their "losing spacecraft constantly"; the plan was to decrease security, wait for hitchhikers to board one of the deathtraps, and then get their recently-promoted pilots to panic and do something stupid, thereby justifying the rumors of pirates (frame the pilot as a murderer, record the death of the housewife, or watch the ship blow itself to bits).
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_489150a8	comment	Administration in The Licanius Trilogy acts as a permanent foil to Wirr's plans for reforming Andarra's treatment of the Gifted. They do this with obstruction and politicking instead of outright violence.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_4dd54482	comment	Alien X of Ben 10: Alien Force obstructs itself. The most powerful being in the universe, capable of altering reality... and its two halves are still in a meeting deciding whether or not they should save the dinosaurs. It's later shown that this is the hat of its species, as they all spent virtually all of their time standing motionlessly, deliberating on what to do with their awesome power and ultimately doing nothing. The only time they actually do anything is in Ben 10: Omniverse, when they all agree to fine Ben for using their powers to recreate the universe without permission.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_4e2d3d00	comment	The Glades: The hospital insurance administrator in "A Perfect Storm". She tries to stop Sanchez connecting up a generator to the blacked-out hospital during a hurricane. Later she is targeted by a spree killer because she was the one who cut off his meds when his insurance ran out, causing him to suffer a psychotic break.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck: Jack Noir was originally this, stating that he'd rather gut someone than do paperwork for them that he doesn't feel like doing. This is dropped when he later goes on to be the Disc-One Final Boss of the series. It resurfaces again in Act 6, and when Jack ends up imprisoned on Prospit, Draconian Dignitary, now saddled with his job, contemplates negotiating with the White Queen to have some of the paperwork shipped to Jack's cell.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_52837809	comment	Kamen Rider Drive has most of the regular police force be this to the Special Crimes Unit, but particularly their manager Mitsuhide Nira. It eventually becomes clear why nobody on the force except the Ragtag Bunch of Misfits seems to take the ongoing spree of killer robot attacks seriously: one of their number killed and replaced the Secretary of Defense, and has been making very liberal use of his ability to manipulate memories to make it so virtually every officer is physically incapable of thinking about the robots, leaving only an underfunded special task force to make the public think the authorities are still doing something. Nira, meanwhile, is The Quisling.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_53b04f6e	comment	The first world of Obsidian plays with this trope to fit the fact that it's based on one of the main character's dreams. So much that the receptionist is as much of a bureaucrat as everybody else, and all of them are shown as TV-headed robots that only show the nose and mouth of a human. Their chief is withholding information about your partner Max, and you are asked to fix a literal Broken Bridge between you and the Chief's office, "through the proper channels"; but as you progress, the complexity of the tasks you have to do increases to the point that the facility's rules actually have to be broken to reach the Chief by the end.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_5412d1	comment	Nerdy Show's Dungeons and Doritoes portrays Cleaveland as an entire society of these. The party must negotiate and navigate the bureaucracy to get Jen'Ifer off the bus.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_55740773	comment	When You Reach Me: When the police come to interrogate Marcus, Wheelie, the school secretary, who knew all of the children at the school and what class they were in, stalled for as long as she could, asking them to repeat the name and age of Marcus and just taking time looking through the files to find him. This gave Miranda time to get Marcus out of his class.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_56fa0ea4	comment	Purchase the Democracy perk in Civilization Revolution and your production and culture increase greatly, but at the cost of your Congress vetoing you whenever you try to break peace treaties or refuse peace offers from rival civs. The other civs understand this limitation, and will liberally abuse it by attacking and capturing one of your cities, quickly offering you peace so you can't do anything about it, and repeating the process from there. And Congress never lets you refuse the peace offer or launch a counter-attack to reclaim your city, no matter how obvious it is that you're being played.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_57b6a595	comment	The mayor's receptionist in Copperhead is one: anyone attempting to meet with the mayor is informed his schedule is full and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. Successful appointments are susceptible to cancellation due to last-minute travel or double-booking.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_58907201	comment	In Sinfest, the forms to sell your soul.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_5908ee91	comment	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: One particularly vicious and procedure-oriented Imperial captain hears one of her subordinates protesting that one of the traitorous rebels being sent to the block for execution is not on the list of Stormcloak rebels sentenced to death. She promptly shouts him down, since the prisoner is in that cart, so that prisoner is going to the block, and nothing is stopping this execution save for the dragon-god showing up a few minutes later. Said prisoner is you, the player-character. It is entirely possible after you escape to join up with the Stormcloaks and proceed to utterly destroy the entire Imperial presence in Skyrim out of raw fury at your near-experience with a Viking crewcut... because one jerk didn't double-check the list. Should you favor the Stormcloaks during your escapenote By following Ralof, the same Stormcloak official who you shared the cart ride with at the first minutes of the game, inside the fort., the player can get retribution against said Captain, who's one of the enemy NPCs spawned inside said fort, right at the doors. No such chance is given if the player follows Hadvar, the Imperial officer, instead. This, of course, shifted many players in favor of the Stormcloaks.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_59da62aa	comment	The main 'good guys' in Fallout: New Vegas are the New California Republic, a democratic faction whose lofty ideals are tempered by an aggressive expansionist policy and more red tape than you can shake ten sticks at. While natural for such a large organization, the inefficiency is one of the reasons the NCR has come to a stall in the game and gives plenty of work for the player character.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_5b43d745	comment	Another Douglas Adams title, Starship Titanic contains the sarcastic, deliberately unhelpful DeskBot, Marsinta Drewbish, at the start of the game, as well as in its novelization. It only lasts until you reset her off-kilter personality settings, though.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_5c3ec7f1	comment	Mr. Chesney in Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones is somewhere in between humorous and dark. Making an entire world act like a bad fantasy novel might seem like a funny concept, until you take into account the people who are tortured, raped or killed because of it. A more benevolent version of this trope is found in another Diana Wynne Jones book: Brother Lawrence in A Sudden Wild Magic.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_5c5251b6	comment	HERZ: Every so often HERZ -the organization the main cast works for- has to deal with UN Inspectors and Auditors overseeing them, examining their accounts and records and poking their noses where they do not belong.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_5c897f4a	comment	The Lunar Government's bureaucracy in Schlock Mercenary requires multiple redundant signatures on everything, with no copying or computers, in the 31st century. After filling out a "short" form a foot thick by exploiting a loophole that allowed them to use Ennesby (as an AI forbidding him would be discrimination) the Toughs are hired to disperse a long-term mob outside the licensing office, which actually turns out to be the line.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: There are two uses for the Bureaucracy skill and its related Charms. One is to evade these characters. The other is to become one. With the Charms, you can magically aid your obstructions to be nearly insurmountable.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_600454b2	comment	Always Visible: Portland police see no point in investigating Delia's murder. Galbraith only miraculously manages to obtain documents to fly to London to begin the pursuit of doctor Baselard.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_60570997	comment	In S.S.D.D. Trisha, Maytec's customer service AI, is designed to ward off complaints by being so annoying that most just give up.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_605dd875	comment	The Stargate-verse sort of has a revolving door of them. Either, like Woolsey, they see what's going on and become more reasonable over the years, or like Kinsey, they get worse and get into a much more antagonistic role than just being the guy whose turn it is to say "the SGC is costing too much money" this year. Either way, this means it's time to bring in the next and start the cycle again.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_61052082	comment	The Pentagon Wars: The sheer lengths of obstructiveness by military bureaucrats is taken to near satirical levels, when the Army insists on creating an Office of Ruminant Procurement to determine â€œstandards for sheep used in munitions testsâ€� before sheep are provided for a test of the M-2 Bradleyâ€™s armor. The Air Force Colonel who wants to conduct the test, just goes and buys sheep from a local farmer.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_6148031a	comment	Broken Souls has Charles Lamb, head of Section XIII. When one of the officers within the Ministry of Magic started claiming that somebody was leaking information, he and the Joint Intelligence Committee tried to essentially sweep things under the rug. Justified in that while many people wanted a witch hunt, he wasn't about to start pointing fingers without evidence. He's also not remorseless, as he seems very distraught that several deaths have occurred because of his actions.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_62570927	comment	If there is ever a need for an insufferable jackass with a load of red tape in the Marvel Universe, expect to see another appearance by Henry Peter Gyrich. He spent decades being a massive pain in the ass of superhero teams, particularly the Avengers, before Crisis Crossover events such as Civil War and Secret Invasion pushed him into Knight Templar territory. He's even beyond that. His actions during Avengers: The Initiative (cloning a teenage soldier and using him to cover up a training death) clearly cross the Moral Event Horizon. He's the only comic book character where "basic human decency" is an Informed Attribute. Everyone goes out of their way to say he's not a villain, while Gyrich's actions would say otherwise. In a related example, in the climactic issue of Rom Spaceknight, he attempts to use the weapon that just defeated the Dire Wraiths to strip every super-being on Earth of their powers. No country on Marvel Earth has any law forbidding the possession of super-powers (though the US had tried to pass similar legislations - and failed), and Gyrich has no judicial authority at all. Hilariously enough, at one point, he was almost redeemed. During the Geoff Johns run around '03, Gyrich even managed to have a somewhat friendly relationship with Falcon and the two of them working together discovered that the US Secretary of Defense was the Red Skull in disguise, which was instrumental in trying to fight the Skull's plan to cover the US in a flesh-eating virus and use the attack to start WWIII by blaming Wakanda for it. Aaaaaand then Gyrich promptly dropped off the Moral Event Horizon himself only about three years later with his aforementioned atrocities in the Initiative.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_630755ab	comment	The Senators in Codex Alera are bad about this. They tend to focus on irrelevant personal feuds and power plays in the face of such things as an invasion of 60,000 Wolf Men or a Horde of Alien Locusts, and one of them, Arnos, turns out to be an incompetent General Ripper when he's actually put in charge of something. Cheers could be heard from the readers when High Lord Placida bodily threw Senator Valerius out of a command meeting in the last book.note (He'd been ranting about how Bernard was breaking the law by building the fortifications that were the last defense of the human race, for the curious.)
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_67f8d3b9	comment	Dis in Earthdawn is a literal god of bureaucracy. His rituals include the creation and filing of needless paperwork, and a specific element of his portfolio is busywork that does nothing for anyone. What makes him dark instead of humorous is that he's the chief god of Thera, and his beliefs and practices are a strong part of why slavery flourishes in that country.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_691be369	comment	Near the end of The X-Files novel Ground Zero by Kevin J. Anderson, Mulder, Scully and four civilians are stranded on a boat far out in the Pacific Ocean. Mulder tries to call for help on his cell phone, finally reaching a tracking station whose operator tells him to get off the line because this is a restricted number. Even when Mulder says that he's making an emergency distress call, the operator tells him that he shouldn't be on this frequency and to "try the appropriate contact numbers." Mulder then suggests that they send someone out to arrest him for misusing the number. The tracking station does eventually send help, but still...
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_697c6470	comment	In The Consul, the only visible employee of a foreign consulate in a European Police State is a secretary who gives people trying to obtain exit visas an endless series of forms for them to fill out and sign, if the documents she asks them to provide are all in order. Many are made to wait for months on end. The secretary views them as numbers rather than as people with names, because "otherwise, how can one do any work?"
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_69fa7496	comment	Disney Ducks Comic Universe: The bureaucrat from "Cosmic Confrontation" originally sneaked up aboard Gyro's rocket to check how many laws it violated, but when the rocket came face-to-face with a squad of giant alien constructor workers out to destroy Earth to make room for a space highway, he proceeds to use his bureaucracy to drive them away and save Earth. Another story shows that Duckburg's city bureaucrats were astoundingly lazy and unmotivated workers who'd leave the office to laze about or go shopping and proud of it—to the point their supervisor, seeing how fast and precise Scrooge's office workers were, at one point lied and claimed a permit Scrooge needed was being held up by his workers' laziness just to get him to break them out of it. Scrooge being Scrooge, he outsmarts and outplays constantly, breaking most of them out of their lazyness in days and the last stubborn wastrels, who decided to hide in the city hall's basement with the other covering for him just to prove he could still avoid working, being dealt with by locking him in.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: A mix of types from the Azir. They are obsessed with paperwork, requiring proper forms for everything from prisoner transport to requisitioning snacks. On the other hand, they're a meritocracy in a world otherwise ruled by feuding warlords, and anyone has a chance to rule the country if they submit the proper forms and write a particularly good essay. When an assassin is flying around the world killing princes and kings, every country is descending into in-fighting and anarchy—every country except Azir, where the mere possibility of a civil war is dismissed as "too much paperwork." The Azir have bureaucracy steeped into their bones so much that when their slaves regain their minds and become an army following demons, the first thing they do is sue the government for back pay and damages. Even better, it's implied they are fairly close to working out a deal, until said demons forced a fight.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons cosmology, anyone who has a legitimate reason to visit the Nine Hells (which also means being desperate or insane enough to want to) has to deal with one or more amnizu who watch the portals, obese, ugly fiends who double and triple check everything a visitor has, ask dozens of questions, and subject them to the most humiliating of searches before letting them by, both to be thorough and because, well, devils do that kind of thing. Natives of Mechanus - the Plane of Ultimate Law - are even worse. Simply being allowed one hour's access to the Guvner's library in the Fortress of Disciplined Enlightenment could mean filling out hundreds of pages of paper work just to get on the waiting list to see someone who you can make the request to. (Unless the guy making the request is also a Guvner; that might eliminate some of the red tape.) And don't even get into how long it takes when dealing with the modrons. For beings obsessed with law, it's always complicated, and sometimes dangerous, because not dealing with these bureaucrats in Mechanus could get someone arrested for something they had no idea was a crime.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	In Pacific Rim the world council shelves the Jaeger project after the Kaiju start adapting, instead choosing to focus on the coastal wall project. When a Kaiju effortlessly destroys one such wall, riots ensue.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_6bc0f10a	comment	The movie plays it up when the Heart of Gold makes a Hyperspeed Escape from the Vogon armada. Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz turns to a subordinate and asks if the criminals they're pursuing filled out the proper paperwork to do this. The subordinate is shocked to find out that they did not. Later on, Arthur, Ford, and Zaphod fill out the release form for Trillian, who is about to be executed, only to be told that, since Zaphod is the President of the Galaxy, he has to submit a Presidential Release Form. Jeltz, who is all too eager to execute Trillian is instantly pacified when he receives the release form and orders her freed. Also, when the heroes are escaping, Jeltz is about to order pursuit, when a factory whistle is heard, and Jeltz tells everyone to take an hour for lunch.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_6be52549	comment	West of Loathingâ€™s Ghostwood is a literal Ghost Town populated by nothing but these. You'll need to fill out a good dozen "different" (functionally-identical) forms to complete all the quests involving this area. And that's if you don't screw anything up and have to do it again...
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_6cdec540	comment	Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Prowl, who can and will use all manner of legal loopholes and red tape to get what he wants, while using it to make everyone else's life miserable. As can be imagined, the guy is all kinds of unpopular with everyone. He's bad enough that when the Decepticons mind-controlled him, none of Autobots noticed a change in his behavior.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_6f1dfbf0	comment	Myth Adventures: Parodied in one of the M.Y.T.H. Inc novels. The perspective characters are trying to sabotage an army. They end up in charge of a supply depot, which they hope to use for this purpose by deliberately screwing up 10% of all supply requests. They are thwarted by Obstructive Bureaucrats in an unusual way: First, they categorically refuse to use the horrifically convoluted official record-keeping procedures, inventing their own, just because they don't want to deal with the paperwork, making the processing once requisitions get to them much faster. Second, because of the long delays caused by the bureaucrats in getting the requisitions to the supply depots, the 'accidental' mistakes often improved things (like sending summer-weight uniforms to a unit that requested winter-weight uniforms and vice versa, not realizing that the requisition orders are six months old and consequently sending them uniforms that were correct for the current season). As a result, their sabotage made their depot the most efficient facility in the army.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_70814599	comment	Richard Woolsey from Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis is exactly this. Even though he strictly believes in rules, he is generally benign and fair, although annoying. When he took command of Atlantis, the initial reaction was that A Tyrant Has Taken The Helm, exactly because of this trope. However, he turned out to be a capable leader after all. Even once he becomes a good guy Woolsey, uniquely, remains a bureaucrat. In fact he gets a few CMOA out of his skills as a lawyer and underhanded politician. Senator Kinsey also counts. In his first appearance he tries to get the Stargate Program shut down, under the guise that it's a money pit and exposes the Earth to unnecessary dangers. While he's right, the fact that he's trying to take on a more advanced race with regular weapons and believes God wouldn't let them lose is what cements him as this trope. Later on, he's shown to be working with a Government Conspiracy that wants to handle interplanetary relations their way, accusing the SGC of being "too soft". This includes them slaughtering millions of Jaffa, not caring whether the planets they attack are home to Free Jaffa or Jaffa that serve the Goa'uld, thus tacking on "hypocrite" to the above (which he also justifies by citing the Bible). Kinsey's actions, even as part of a conspiracy, are absolutely ungodly stupid. They seem to believe that they could defeat the Goa'uld by stealing certain pieces of alien technology from the Tolan, Tok'ra, and even Asgard and Ancient tech. They never seem to consider that without the help of these guys, especially the Asgard, Earth would have been conquered, glassed and/or shattered by at least a dozen different bad guys. There's also the fact that his initial objection about exposing Earth to alien threats ignores the fact that you can't put the genie back in the bottle. Earth had already been exposed to the Goa'uld, and shutting down the Stargate program wouldn't make them go away or ignore Earth. It would just require them to take (very slightly) longer to attack using spaceships (a point made by Col. O'Neill in the pilot and during the episode in question). Which they do. The very next episode. Understandably, after the shit had barely missed the fan, the rest of the government told Kinsey to put a sock in it and overruled him. Worth noting, Woolsey was introduced as Kinsey's assistant. When he realizes what sort of person Kinsey is and what he's up to, he collects evidence on him and turns it over to the President. Camile Wray of Stargate Universe, given her status as a member of the IOA. Of course, she is also trying to take over the ship, so she's the darker variant. She gets better after things have settled down. The entire IOA counts as this. After watching enough of Stargate Atlantis, you would think the only decisions they make is to put the blame on whoever else they can. On the rare occasion they do take action, they usually make things worse. Particular mention goes to their borderline-suicidal plan to stop the Ori in The Ark of Truth, which involved reviving the Replicators and taking away their only weakness. The Stargate-verse sort of has a revolving door of them. Either, like Woolsey, they see what's going on and become more reasonable over the years, or like Kinsey, they get worse and get into a much more antagonistic role than just being the guy whose turn it is to say "the SGC is costing too much money" this year. Either way, this means it's time to bring in the next and start the cycle again.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_71a1ca53	comment	Frank Dixon in The Terminal zigzags between this and the Dark version. He is not actively malicious, and believes that following the rules is the best option (best shown when he uncovers a man hiding drugs), but this prevents Viktor from being able to leave the airport legally. For much of the movie, he wavers between trying to pass Viktor off to some other authority, finding ways for him to lawfully leave the airport, tricking him into a legal nightmare, and locking him in a cell. He also prevents him from allowing a Russian man from leaving the country with medicine for his dying father, and when Viktor gives the man the means to give his father the medicine Dixon makes every attempt not to allow Viktor into the US, and threatens to destroy the careers of his friends if he tries. In the end, however, he relents when Viktor does get into the city.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Earth Kingdom in general (particularly Ba Sing Se) is depicted as symptomatically bureaucratic, much like the ancient China that pretty much codified the concept of bureaucracy in Real Life. An Earth Nation immigration official at Full Moon Bay prevents any refugees from taking the ferries to the city without an official ticket. Aang is forced to circumvent her by taking the deadly Serpent's Pass, to help out a family who lost their tickets. Joo Dee plays this part when she makes the Gaang wait through weeks-long processes to post "Lost Bison" posters or talk to the Earth King about the invasion. She's really under Long Feng's order to prevent them from doing anything.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_734db98d	comment	"Blind Alley": A seemingly fussy bureaucrat, Loodun Antyok, manages to free an alien species kept under observation, all the while making sure he comes up smelling like roses.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine In the first season episode "Past Prolouge" Commander Sisko has his crew play obstructive bureaucrats by having them insist to Gul Danar that all docking procedures have to be precisely followed no matter how long it takes. Sisko later tells Danar that DS9 is still repairing all the damage the Cardassians did when they left, hence the extending docking times.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_740815bb	comment	Interesting Times: The Agatean Empire, as a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Imperial China, has a lot of this. As Cohen puts it "You can't even go to the privy without a piece of paper."
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7460586f	comment	Rodney Whosits from Archer, the requisitions officer. Played for laughs as strict bureaucrat who cannot be threatened (but can be bribed). Also subverted in the sense that his placement is probably for the best, since the ISIS staff have a penchant of taking weapons for personal use, or for sale on the black market.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_75149ccd	comment	In the X-Wing Series Admiral Ackbar assigns a droid called M-3PO (aka Emtrey) to the squadron at the behest of General Cracken in order to ensure that Captain Celchu is not a Manchurian Agent after escaping Imperial captivity. Emtrey has programming and an override mode installed that make him a very tempting tool for such agents. Part of his abilities are an ability to work around obstructive bureacrats to get Rogue Squadron the equipment they need, and to wheel and deal to obtain goods. Even after the real mole is exposed and the override mode is removed, Emtrey still has some of the requisition programming and is still able to function as a requisition specialist for the unit.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7668653a	comment	Shepard can threaten to get Illium's own obstructive bureaucracy involved in Mass Effect 2 when trying to convince a Synthetic Insights representative to buy a contract for an "indentured servant". The representative is extremely quick to take up the contract because they don't want the bureaucracy to get involved. There's also a minor sidequest where you find a lost trinket with no monetary worth but significant sentimental value during Miranda's loyalty mission, and can return it to its owner, who gives you a fistful of money on the grounds that getting it back via the bureaucracy would have cost far more.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_774aac31	comment	District 9 features a rare Obstructive Bureaucrat protagonist in the (initially) cowardly and weak-willed Wikus van de Merwe, who is put in charge of the relocation of several thousand fugitive aliens from one slum to another, even worse. He's something of a deconstruction, as he's a very realistic and complex character who shows that behind even the most obstructive of bureaucrats, there's still a human being — most likely an unhappy one in search of validation.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_77be988d	comment	In Thief of Time they were introduced to mortal delights. Unlike the description in the page header where this could free them of their evil, this doesn't. The shock of experiencing chocolate was enough to make them vanish. Their attempts to catalog everything their body experienced made them think so hard they forgot to exist.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7848e564	comment	Superintendent McClellan in Monster Warriors. This paper-pusher is a real stickler for policy and procedure. Heâ€™s Mayor Melâ€™s right-hand-guy, but heâ€™s no Warrior allyâ€”-in fact quite the opposite! When something goes wrong in Capital City, teenagers are blamedâ€”namely the Monster Warriors.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_78f53d16	comment	In Kara of Rokyn, Green Lantern and Supergirl need to head off to Earth, but the emigration officer will not let them leave planet Rokyn because Hal Jordan needs an official authorization. So what if they need to save Superman? Hal has no travel permit, and that's it.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_791e7b7f	comment	In Zootopia, the DMV (Department of Mammal Vehicles) is staffed exclusively with sloths, meaning it's even slower than the Real Life version. It's a downplayed version of the trope in that none of the sloths are intentionally trying to be obstructive or petty, they're just really, really slow.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7976faf1	comment	In A Basket, a Blanket and a Bundle of Bills, the Treasury Wing is full of them; they don't like handing out money to anyone for any reason.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_79878ea	comment	The Spoils: A number of cards from the Banker trade are bureaucrats created from the reanimated corpses of those who died in debt. They must pay back their debts to their lenders (a process one card implies takes roughly 500 years), and are mostly used a pencil-pushers to deal with the poor and undesirables the bank has no interest in lending money to, drowning them under mountains of paperwork. Mechanically, their function is to tie up the opponent's resources (for example, depleting their Character cards to no effect). One card's flavor text sums up the experience rather aptly: "Could I please speak to a living person?"
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect Donnel Udina serves this role to Shepard, caring only for looking good politically. He gets a special mention just for nearly causing the destruction of the universe in the first game before Jumping Off the Slippery Slope in the third. There's also Rannadril Ghan Swa Fulsoom Karaten Narr Eadi Bel Anoleis, who as the administrator of Port Hanshan on Noveria, sits halfway between this and Corrupt Corporate Executive. Fortunately, you can acquire evidence of his corruption (demanding large kickbacks from corporate interests who want to operate on Noveria to the point that it is damaging profits for Noveria as a whole) and get him arrested or killed. Amusingly you can bypass his entire subplot by exploiting this trope and turning an unrelated smuggler in to him and he'll handle the red tape as the reward. Shepard can threaten to get Illium's own obstructive bureaucracy involved in Mass Effect 2 when trying to convince a Synthetic Insights representative to buy a contract for an "indentured servant". The representative is extremely quick to take up the contract because they don't want the bureaucracy to get involved. There's also a minor sidequest where you find a lost trinket with no monetary worth but significant sentimental value during Miranda's loyalty mission, and can return it to its owner, who gives you a fistful of money on the grounds that getting it back via the bureaucracy would have cost far more. Councilor "We have dismissed that claim" Sparatus. The man seems to make it his mission in life to question everything Shepard says or does, regardless of how insane it makes him look... up until the third game (if he lives that long), where he's the first councillor to offer Shepard assistance. The Citadel's bureaucracy in general. Proving you just can't escape some things, Mass Effect: Andromeda has the acting head of the Andromeda Initiative, Jarunn Tann (acting because everyone above him died), and Director of Colonial Affairs Foster Addison. They're the people Ryder has to report to. Thankfully, they hate one another, and they at least don't try to make Ryder's job harder than it needs to be often. Intentionally. Usually. Though they are both serious micromanagers, though unlike the Citadel council, they at least are willing to admit they were wrong. Well, sometimes.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_79ab0b3c	comment	Tortall Universe: Sir Lionel of Trebond from the second Beka Cooper book. He's the Lord Provost of Port Caynn (Da Chief, in other words), but when Beka and Goodwin arrive to investigate the colemongering he actually forbids them from doing any other policework. Nor does he allow his own officers to interfere much with all the crime a port city can generate. After Pearl Skinner threatened his family, he's too scared of her retribution to curb her activities.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7a7a1a46	comment	Mr. Andrews in AlienÂ³. When Ripley tells him about the Alien he won't help her and confines her to sickbay, because he finds her story very implausible and he has a much simpler explanation for the recent deaths.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7a7a1a86	comment	A more straight-up application of the trope is the board of inquiry in Aliens. Again this is used to mislead the audience, as the only member who expresses sympathy towards Ripley is Carter Burke, hiding his role as the villain.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7c802b66	comment	A major theme in Brazil. The world is a consumer-driven, bureaucratic nightmare, with the Central Service being aggressively unhelpful to anyone who needs them and classifying anyone who tries to report a mistake as a terrorist. The hero, Sam Lowry, tries to defy this, and has daydreams about being a Badass Bureaucrat.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller: The Vilani Imperium is a Vestigial Empire composed of these. They were completely incapable of running the war against the Terrans because of this. Interestingly, they were deliberately designed this way to ensure that the Imperium ran on autopilot and had as little disorder as possible. As there hadn't been a real enemy for thousands of years, it made sense in its day.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7efbc126	comment	Divine Misfortune: While the Court of Divine Affairs was founded to make things fair between gods and mortals, actually relying on them when things go pear-shaped â€” like Syph making her "followers" miserable, or Phil and Teri having to deal with Lucky's enemies showing up and making their lives difficult â€” is an exercise in futility considering how long it takes to get one's case sorted out.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_7f87dafc	comment	Captain William Sutherland, a member of the Earth Forces' General Staff in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. During his initial appearances he interrogates the crew of the Archangel about the alleged improprieties in voyage, transfers the crewmembers he views as politically reliable to other assignments, than puts in motion a plan that will get not only the remaining Archangel crew, but also most of the Earth Forces' Eurasian allies killed off. He's later revealed to be The Dragon to Blue Cosmos leader Muruta Azrael, and in his own banal, pencil-pushing way, a major mover and shaker behind the plan to exterminate all of the Coordinators. A truly reprehensible, if dull personality.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_8132c15b	comment	Frank Herbert's ConSentiency universe has the "Bureau of Sabotage", whose job is to create or destroy red tape. However, BuSab obstructs the government to protect individual rights (when governments become too efficient, bad stuff occurs). Instead of paper work, the Bureau employs some rather humorous sabotage to get the job done. Jorj X. McKie, saboteur extraordinary and protagonist, subverts the trope by speeding up a meeting in one story, as well as being sensitive to the alien cultures he works with.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine In the first season episode "Past Prolouge" Commander Sisko has his crew play obstructive bureaucrats by having them insist to Gul Danar that all docking procedures have to be precisely followed no matter how long it takes. Sisko later tells Danar that DS9 is still repairing all the damage the Cardassians did when they left, hence the extending docking times. Star Trek: Picard: The Romulan Star Empire is no more, but its successor, the Romulan Free State, is still a bureaucratic nightmare.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_81bd6d63	comment	In Beyond Atlantis Hell is depicted as a bureaucracy run by demons who are insistent you follow protocol to get a Plot Coupon from them. The protocol involves getting a specific order of stamps on a claim form but the correct stamps and order is not disclosed. Wandering souls in the area were previous applicants who died while trying to get the order right.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_82439e64	comment	The Office (US), Michael Scott definitely thinks Toby Flenderson qualifies as one of these. Toby is actually a much more sympathetic character than Michael gives him credit for, even to the point of Woobiefication to some viewers.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_83264fb1	comment	The Bastard Operator from Hell regularly meets these, so there are plans for such a case.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_863b7825	comment	Elevated to an art form by Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes, Minister. As a matter of fact, pretty much the entire British civil service is portrayed as such in those series. On the other hand, you do see their perspective on things—though the writer clearly disagrees, the Civil Service seems to genuinely believe that it knows what's best for the country (and there are occasions when the Civil Service appears to be acting in the interests of Britain while the politicians are acting in the interests of their approval ratings), and Humphrey himself is hardly a one-dimensional character. He actually gets a fair number of sympathetic moments in. In the end, you see that they're still Obstructive Bureaucrats, but also see that there's a kind of twisted method to their obstructiveness. And in the (very) few times when the goals of the politicians matched theirs, their efficiency is deadly. There are also times when Minister Hacker successfully adopted Humphrey's methods with devastating effect, such as the time he arranged for a 'good will' visit of British troops...to a country that had just had a surprise invasion.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_872f1ff1	comment	Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire: And of course NYC Mayor Walter Peck continues to harass the Ghostbusters over the course of the film, and is prepared to shut them down once and for all until he realizes how low long his political career would last in that case.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_884b3eb6	comment	Arthur Brooks in Big Daddy appears to be this; however, his "victim" is a Jerkass who deserves to be taught a lesson by the government, so Brooks is instead an example of Good is Not Nice.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_889ea24c	comment	"The Evitable Conflict": Stephen Byerley, Co-ordinator of Earth, suspects someone is sabotaging the Machines, powerful robots that advise the decisions of humanity. He asks for help investigating this from the four Vice Coordinators of the four regions that Earth is divided into. They all dismiss the idea and none help Byerley, insisting they are doing their jobs well. Justified, because the Machines already control humanity and they will never let anyone competent enough to initiate an investigation have the job.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_89a21f03	comment	Ahsoka has an Imperial broker named Jenneth Pilar, who sends the Empire to out-of-the-way moon Raada so it can grow a plant used in nutritional supplements that renders the soil barren for years afterward, without any concern for the inhabitants that will be stuck there after the Empire is gone. He ends up having to flee Imperial service after things go pear-shaped.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_8aaeda7e	comment	Godzilla Aftershock: The United Nations Security Council. They've made up their minds about what not to do about the MUTO Prime crisis as soon as they heard the part where the MUTO Prime succeeding in its goal of wearing down and fatally impregnating Godzilla with its parasitic spawn will cause the MUTO Prime to go back into dormancy. They're convinced this will solve both their problems with Godzilla dead and the MUTO Prime inactive, in blatant and frankly obscene disregard of the bit where allowing the MUTO Prime to do that will result in its spawn being unleashed on the world to at best trigger a repeat of the 2014 incident or at worst succeed in causing an extinction event, with no Godzilla to fight them (or any other hostile Titans) off this time.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_8c05f749	comment	In the early seasons of Death in Paradise, Commissioner Selwyn Patterson often took this role, visiting the police station to inform Detective Inspector Richard Poole that some element of the current investigation implicated powerful local political figures or risked damaging the island's tourism trade, and subtly suggesting that Poole focus his attention elsewhere. However, as the series continues, this part of Patterson's personality fell to the side, and he became more willing to allow Poole's successors to follow their instincts as he trusts them to only do that with good reason.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_8c7237b3	comment	In Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion, some of the issues of the Galactic Empire's military are blamed on "efficiency experts" that at the end of the Clone Wars ordered the removal of equipment they found useless without really understanding how it worked and Palpatine letting them to reroute the funds to his various superweapon projects. The two examples we're given are the Imperial Star Destroyer having been designed with dual use torpedo launchers/flak guns only to have them removed (thus making them criminally vulnerable to fighter attacks and reducing their anti-ship firepower on top of that), and the line infantry squads losing their light repeating blasters, with the "experts" resisting their reintroduction after Imperial ground forces suffered grievous losses, but it's so bad that Tarkin is genuinely surprised when it turns out the one he's being forced to work with actually knows his job.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_8d8157e0	comment	In Lexx, the entire city of Hogtown in the afterlife for evil souls is populated by these types. The devil simply leaves them to their own devices, preferring to avoid contact with them.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_8d81bc90	comment	MAS*H: An episode saw Hawkeye and Trapper navigate up the ranks through a series of obstructive bureaucrats in an attempt to obtain a piece of medical equipment. Of note is the guy who told them they couldn't have the vital piece of medical equipment they needed, but could have a pizza oven if they filled out the standard paperwork and replace "machine gun" with "pizza" on the request. However Radar is ultimately able to do some wheeling and dealing to obtain the equipment the surgeons need. Later, both before and after Radar leaves for the family farm in Iowa Klinger shows off his skills in getting around bureacrats to get the camp needed supplies. Klinger later becomes proficient enough in dealing with the bureacracy and his other duties that he's promoted to seargent.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_8da301a6	comment	Chasing Dragons: While Norvos is ruled by its priests, it's actually administered by a byzantine arrangement of councils and committees with a complex checks-and-balances system which means that it usually takes forever to get anything done.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_8fc868f5	comment	Gordon Brittas from The Brittas Empire acts like this sometimes. Like spending well over a minute to explain why he doesn't give change for the bus (ending in "it takes too long") or refusing to let people book the badminton court for more than 40 minutes, even when no one else had even tried to book it that day.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9004922f	comment	Hogfather: A traditional Obstructive Bureaucrat appears when Susan is searching for the Tooth Fairy. Although he doesn't actually obstruct Susan by demanding forms and procedure, he does obstruct her by incessantly Wangsting about his rather boring life instead of answering her questions. Susan describes him as a very small, very weak bully, who couldn't find anyone smaller or weaker than him to bully and so took to making people's lives just that little bit more difficult.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_903a9871	comment	Dark Heresy: One of the locations described is the "Scrivener's System" of Prol, an entire solar system filled almost completely with Obstructive Bureaucrats. There is literally a civil war brewing in the Prol system because they're running out of places to store all the paperwork. All sides making their points in multi-volume treatises is not helping.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_90ab7fe1	comment	Disney's Recess has Menlo, who's en route to becoming one of these guys and has already, through unfailing adherence to the rules, attained a highly trusted position within the school. An example of how strict he is: Gus and Mikey were standing in line with their permission slips for an excursion, but when they finally got to the front of the line, Menlo pointed out it was a few seconds past the due time, and got angry when they suggested still taking the slips. He seemed to find the fact that there was a line irrelevant. In one episode he teams up with Randall, and together they basically take over the entire playground through blackmail, because there's always some rule Menlo knows everyone or one of their friends is actually breaking it. The gang in general reacts quite negatively toward his legalism, although in one episode they are shocked to discover that Menlo and T.J. used to be inseparable best friends, but grew apart, some time before the gang got started — and both still have fond feelings for each other, despite the rivalry. It gives a bit of humanity to the kid.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_91ba5165	comment	The Fold has two examples, both of which are more "light drama" than humorous. Protagonist Mike is hired as to audit a research project, but the subjects of his audit see his constantly asking for "access" and "basic information" as meaningless busywork that's getting in the way of their research. Later a different researcher is revealed to be ordering his staff to swap out parts relentlessly to generate a stream of paperwork that he can send up the chain showing "work" while he stalls for time to complete his own documentation.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_93939352	comment	Deconstructed in Spectre. C/Max Denbigh is a corrupt paper-shuffler who expresses ignorant views on issues like total surveillance, interferes in MI6's operations, and advocates for the replacement of field agents like 007 with Attack Drones. However, James Bond and M find him to be quite suspicious given he's in charge of the Centre for National Surveillance system, which is really a Trojan horse for world domination for the titular criminal empire (of which C is a top-ranking member of) that they could use it to destroy their enemies. He nearly succeeds in getting it activated too. C is actually the Bond-verse's version of Kim Philby.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_94a444e6	comment	Goblin Quest: One of the many misfortunes that can interfere with whatever the players are currently doing involves a hobgoblin arriving and demanding that the players show identity papers, which the book says the players don't have.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_969fb090	comment	In Blindspot, Jonas Fischer is a particularly malignant version, cynically using his powers as Chief Inspector of the Office of Professional Responsibility to shut down an investigation that would have revealed that he's a double agent for the FSB.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_98288223	comment	The Magicians (2016): The library in the Neitherlands runs on one. Franz Kafka wrote The Trial after a week there.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9910cc85	comment	Disney's Mulan had Chi-Fu, a pompous government official appointed to oversee the training of the batch of recruits Mulan ended up with, who seemed to positively delight in documenting Shang's failures and the general ragtag nature of the unit in training, would have gotten Mulan killed had Shang not owed her his life, and proved to be an incredible ninny when not on duty. Though to his credit, he also seemed quite pleased when Shang or the unit actually met his unfairly high standards, and possessed enough intellectual integrity to recognize when following the rules simply wasn't possible or when The Book didn't really have anything to say about the situation. Chi-Fu also doubles as a Meaningful Name, as Qi Fu (æ¬ºè² ) means "bully" in Mandarin.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9a1a8272	comment	Odd Squad: The episode "A Job Well Undone" has Orson invoking this trope in order to claim yet another "Agent of the Month" award after Olympia and Otis win it instead of him, but can't claim the award themselves due to Otis not turning in his paperwork on time. Orson disguises himself as Opa, a receptionist who nitpicks at minor flaws with Otis's paperwork and forces him to do various things to correct the flaws in order to drop off his files. Otis doesn't figure out that "Opa" is really Orson until he becomes exasperated enough to call Olympia, admit that she was right about offering him help (and he was wrong about refusing that help), and explain his situation, only for her to respond, "Who is Opa?" The two agents end up exposing Orson and win the Agent of the Month award, breaking his win streak.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9a7088bc	comment	In the Star Trek: The Original Series novel Death Count, the Enterprise is plagued with efficiency experts who don't quite get the distinction between rules and practice, and particularly have it in for Chekov. This is summarily resolved when two of them are murdered by an on-board saboteur, and the third is so grateful to Chekov for saving his life that he gives him a glowing report.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9aac0273	comment	In Men at Arms, Mayonnaise Quirke of the Day Watch has completely screwed things up, leading to a riot. When a Day Watch officer arrives at the Watch House for help, Carrot first points out they've been relieved of duty, and then asks him a series of questions. Based on the answers he announces that, according to the Laws and Ordinances of Ankh-Morpork, the "Citizen's Militia" is now in control of everything. The Citizen's Militia consists of the Night Watch and whoever else they felt like recruiting.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9b2df4bd	comment	In You Are Dead (Sign Here Please), the Celestial Bureaucracy seems to go out of its way to be as obtuse and long-winded as possible and they require forms be filled out for absolutely everything that happens, including scheming against your boss, sobering up or disastrous romances based on clingy desperation and/or desperate clinginess.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9bc68a3f	comment	Smaller & Smaller Circles has Attorney Arcinas, who siphons off resources from the Payatas murder cases and turns down the priests' assistance in order to go chasing after far more sensational crimes. Never mind that his own boss asked them to help him with the said murders — Ungrateful Bastard, indeed. In his defense, even Arcinas thinks (however mistakenly) that: a) the Director will agree with him that the Bureau can conclude the investigation without the priests' help; and b) the person he framed might actually be the murderer (although the former could just be Arcinas trying to throw the priests off or an attempt to win more glory for himself, and the latter is mostly Jerome's speculation). Subverted by a few other government workers, the NBI Director most of all. The novel pointedly goes on to state that he is something of a rarity in the Philippine government, precisely because he is remarkably competent and honest. In fact it is because of this that the Director found it difficult to get good appointments in a public sector crawling with Obstructive Bureaucrats, Corrupt Bureaucrats, and friends and family of incumbent politicians.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9d47a2a2	comment	From A Song of Ice and Fire we have the ever-charming House Frey, headed by Lord Walder Frey. They somehow manage to combine all the best features of this trope with those of Corrupt Bureaucrat and Crooked Contractor, and, to top it off, are operators of what amounts to a glorified Troll Bridge that brings in the bulk of the tax revenue for their part of the Riverlands. If they want to make you wait to cross their bridge, they will find a way to do it, dammit, using protocol and standard hospitality at its most excruciatingly drawn-out worst, if necessary, to do it. Do they use Exact Words and/or various statements as part of their deals and treaties with you and Disproportionate Retribution if you somehow break them by their lights, no matter how good or reasonable your reasons may appear? Mayhaps.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9e7653e4	comment	Sisterhood Series by Fern Michaels: A major plotline that develops is how Martine Connor becomes the first female President of the United States, and she is trying to secure pardons to the Vigilantes. It proves to be more difficult than it appears. Here's why: Deadly Deals reveals her chief of staff, Aaron Lowry, who is The Napoleon, had been obstructing the presidential pardons, supposedly because it would be political suicide for the president to even try it. She ends up firing him as well as charging him in Game Over, because he turns out to be in bed with Baron Bell, a lawyer and Villain with Good Publicity who had been selling babies! Game Over also has the president obstructed by her advisors, who are more interested in their own agendas than in being loyal to her. At the urging of Henry "Hank" Jellicoe, head of Global Securities, she ends up throwing out many more people, and he supposedly pulls strings to replace them with people 100% loyal to her. She also has the pardons signed, and she paves the way to make it easy for the Vigilantes to sneak in and snatch the pardons! It's hard to be president!
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9e8e9ba3	comment	There's also a subversion in the Gaunt's Ghosts novel Necropolis. When the government begins bickering over whether they should call the Imperial Guard to help, the ranking Administratum official goes over their heads and contacts the Imperium anyways. He justifies this by saying that the planet is crucial for its production of military equipment, so it is therefore the Imperium's problem, not a local one.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_9ff7441c	comment	This is constant source of comedy in The Men from the Ministry: whenever One and Two oversee a construction site or any other business, they always tangle on to the smallest of regulations, laws and orders no matter how insignificant they are. They also love to create forms full of personal questions which have nothing to do with what the form's about and are often impossible to answer.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Hermes Conrad and various other agents of the Central Bureaucracy. They even have a neat pseudo-Villain Song about it in "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back". Nicely summed up by the leader of the Central Bureaucracy in this line:
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a1f8fe8	comment	In The Brother from Another Planet, such a bureaucrat bothers the title fugitive alien, than later on has a heroic moment when she thwarts the two bounty hunters who are after him.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a216bc3f	comment	In a related example, in the climactic issue of Rom Spaceknight, he attempts to use the weapon that just defeated the Dire Wraiths to strip every super-being on Earth of their powers. No country on Marvel Earth has any law forbidding the possession of super-powers (though the US had tried to pass similar legislations - and failed), and Gyrich has no judicial authority at all.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a28912cf	comment	The Bridge in the Menagerie series has the Emeritus Professor of Bio-Sophistry, aka the Secretary Bird, who insists on pedantically enforcing obscure bridge rules even when everybody else at the table would rather just let the offence go and get on with it. The result of the pedantic rule enforcement is never to the Secretary Bird's advantage.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a3c14f85	comment	In Don't Look Up, President Orleans' response to being told that an Everest-sized comet is on a collision course with Earth is to classify the information and publicly discredit its discoverers and her own NASA official when they (naturally) try to inform the public anyway. She later has Kate, its discoverer, abducted by the FBI and forced to sign a gag order when she tries again, successfully co-opts Dr. Mindy for a time, but then gives him the same treatment when he snaps and rails against her risky decision to let a private company mine the comet into pieces. (Although it's presented in a Black Comedy way, it's still deathly serious and her selfish obstruction ultimately dooms the planet.)
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a3eb1343	comment	In Chivalry of a Failed Knight Ikki's family put pressure on Hagun Academy to keep him from graduating. This resulted in new rules that require students to have a certain ranking in order to take classes, keeping Ikki from getting units and passing his first year. Luckily, Kurono Shinguuji became director and fired the obstructive staff. Turns out to be the real reason they were trying to stop Ikki was they want Ikki to fail as an example. They don't want other F-Ranked to try to succeed as unlike Ikki, they will fail causing unrest in the mage-knight system.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a3ef164b	comment	Ultimate X Men: Wraith felt that Ross was one because he wanted to shut down Weapon X. So, of course, he tried to kill him.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a3fcd166	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy: "Vogons are one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy. Not evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious, and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters. On no account should you allow a Vogon to read poetry at you." The movie plays it up when the Heart of Gold makes a Hyperspeed Escape from the Vogon armada. Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz turns to a subordinate and asks if the criminals they're pursuing filled out the proper paperwork to do this. The subordinate is shocked to find out that they did not. Later on, Arthur, Ford, and Zaphod fill out the release form for Trillian, who is about to be executed, only to be told that, since Zaphod is the President of the Galaxy, he has to submit a Presidential Release Form. Jeltz, who is all too eager to execute Trillian is instantly pacified when he receives the release form and orders her freed. Also, when the heroes are escaping, Jeltz is about to order pursuit, when a factory whistle is heard, and Jeltz tells everyone to take an hour for lunch.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a40b1126	comment	The U.S. Secretary of Defense Albert Nimziki in Independence Day. He knowingly concealed the fact that the aliens had visited Earth before, even after they became hostile and any information would have been immensely helpful. He only admits it after the first failed attack and David's father draws attention to the supposed "myth" of the Roswell crash. He wants to continue nuking the aliens even after the first attempt proves that their shields can resist the bombs. Then he has the gall to insist that David's plan, which he had demonstrated could actually work, is a bad idea and tries to talk the President out of it (the RiffTrax crew dubs him "Foily McAntagonist" for his pointless and completely motive-free naysaying). At this point, the President gets tired of his crap and fires him.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a4db7d1	comment	Randy Pope, Joe's superior in Fish and Game in the Joe Pickett novels. Having risen through the ranks of the bureaucracy rather than being a field officer, he has little understanding of field work. Having a personal dislike of Joe, at one point he demands daily (rather than weekly reports) from Joe, and insists Joe clears any investigation with him before proceeding.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a5549ed0	comment	As with in the humorous section, the New Testament of The Bible frequently painted the Pharisees as antagonists in this vein. It seems that one of Jesus's main purposes in coming back, aside from His sacrifice, was to clarify some very literal and twisted interpretations of Old Testament commandments. The Pharisees tried several times to catch Him in a logical contradiction using Hebraic code.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a698aa86	comment	Ghostbusters: In the original Ghostbusters film minor EPA official Walter Peck (played to perfection by William Atherton) had the unmitigated gall to arrest the Ghostbusters for causing an explosion that he himself was responsible for when he ordered, in front of multiple witnesses, that the ghost-containment grid be shut down, despite repeated warnings that would be disastrous. In a deleted scene, as Gozer the Gozerian was wreaking havoc, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man was smashing up the city and the End Of The World was quite seriously nigh, Peck's response was to grab a fleeing police officer and order him to go up to arrest the Ghostbusters for "going too far". The officer's response, not unreasonably, was "You go and arrest them!" Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire: And of course NYC Mayor Walter Peck continues to harass the Ghostbusters over the course of the film, and is prepared to shut them down once and for all until he realizes how low long his political career would last in that case.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a6e9ef3d	comment	An example of this being used for good in Earthworm Jim, where one of these foils 'The thing that dares not speak its name''s plan to destroy the universe by making it fill out paperwork first. Paperwork so long that it would take a billion years to fill out. And after that, it turns out it was given the wrong paperwork!
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a7469a75	comment	In Kolchak: The Night Stalker, pretty much every cop and authority figure Kolchak ran into was one of these, stonewalling his investigation and refusing to acknowledge anything supernatural was going on. A few of them actually turned out to be corrupt and in the know about whatever monster was on the loose, but covering it up for their own reasons.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a77de360	comment	Dilbert's Bob Bastard, the test engineer who NEVER aproves anything, and enjoys destroying people's dreams and emotionally and financially abusing women.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a79d1e14	comment	Twelve O'Clock High: General Savage, the new commander of the 918th Bomb Group, conspires with the Group Adjutant, Major Stovall, to invoke this trope in a darkly humorous fashion. Savage's new policies are so harsh that all of the pilots put in for transfers. Savage needs time (ten days is his estimate) to prove that his policies will work, but is at a loss as to how to proceed. To the rescue comes Major Stovall, formerly a civilian lawyer who knows all the tricks of the bureaucracy. He outlines a plan that will delay processing any transfer requests for quite a while. First, he has two or three days worth of other work to deal with, before he can even look at any new items. Second, he'll have to check all those transfer requests for mistakes (since of course the General doesn't want sloppy paperwork coming out of the Group). Stovall predicts that every one of those requests will have to be returned to the squadrons to be redone, then checked again. By the time the whole process is done, Savage will have his ten days and probably more. Savage remarks that it's "a hell of a way to run a war."
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a825da3e	comment	In the Ravnica: City of Guilds set of Magic: The Gathering, the Azorius Senate can be seen as an entire guild of such characters. Just look at the cards Droning Bureaucrats and Minister of Impediments. Naturally, the guild's cards lend themselves well to stalling and control strategies. The Guild Charter of Ravnica explicitly states that the purpose of the Azorius Senate is to make the most complex and confusing laws possible. In 'Ravnica' fluff, Orzhov are shown to be more or less the same - a massive obfusticating bureaucracy, but this being black, partially staffed by the undead - adding a whole new meaning to the idiom ' corporate zombie '. This is pretty much the modus operandi for a good portion of White's cards. Being the color of light and law, (though not necessarily good,) White has no trouble using the Long Arm of The Law to strangle you to death. Of course, since the military falls under the technical definition of "law," they're just as likely to strangle you the old-fashioned way as well. And the Aysen Bureaucrats from the Homelands set. Parodied with Bureaucracy, an Unglued card where the bureaucratese is not only in the flavor text but in the entire text of what the card does.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a90d239a	comment	Go through anyone's mind in Psychonauts and you will find hundreds of these guys running around Censoring thoughts that should not be there. Normally, this is vital to the mental health of whoever owns the brain, but since technically you're not supposed to be in there either...
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a9318083	comment	In The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, the Zissou expedition is forced by their creditors to take on a "bond company stooge", and Steve immediately assumes he's going to be this. It's subverted when he turns out to be an decent, inoffensive guy, and Steve ends up mounting a rescue when he gets kidnapped by Ruthless Modern Pirates.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_a9a9a4b0	comment	"Marks" on Overhaulin' tend to run into these in the quest to retrieve their stolen or erroneously impounded cars. They're usually played by the hosts or other members of the production crew.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_aa819c97	comment	All Nagisa wants to do in CLANNAD is to re-establish the Drama Club. At every turn, whenever she thinks she's either overcome a rule handed down by the Student Council or found a creative way to solve her problem, the Council either announces a new rule or tells her that her solution isn't allowed
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ab60e67e	comment	Henry Peter Gyrich again in Origin Story. He becomes obsessed with acquiring the eventual Superwoman as the government's attack dog, and authorizes several missions in a vain effort to capture or cow her. Fed up with Gyrich after several people nearly die in his attempts, Superwoman locates him in Washington, grabs him, and bodily hurls him into space.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ac58f5fa	comment	"The Dead Past": Thaddeus Araman, Department Head of the Division of Chronoscopy, is supposedly in charge of determining who gets access to the Chronoscope. In actuality, his job is to suppress access and knowledge of the technology, usually by making petitioners feel like they're on a waiting list to eventually make use of it, once all the higher-priority people have gotten their chance.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ad6b641b	comment	In his preface to the The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis references the "Eichmann" bureaucrat type as a model for how he envisioned demons.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ae679c04	comment	Retired Witches Mysteries: The Grand Council of Witches are ostensibly meant to keep witch society running smoothly, but more often than not they just end up making things difficult for the heroes. The witch community in Wilmington especially doesn't like them because they're more obstructive than helpful. Cassandra Black, the herald of the Grand Council of witches, especially serves in this role, since she's mainly out to stop witches from doing anything the Council doesn't like. Among other things, in book 1, the Council's representatives try to stop Molly and her coven from investigating Olivia's death (and barely do anything to investigate on their own until the witch in question's been dealt with already), and try (but fail miserably) to confiscate the amulet her mother left her because of its non-witch origins.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_aed912f3	comment	For the Glory of Irk: The Syndicate's government has an unfortunate habit of needing to process everything through extremely precise means, and then debate it heavily, before they do anything. This earns them a lot of derision from the Irkens. Sym, the Irkens' Chief of Agenda, is basically the Tallest's secretary who controls all of their appointments, which she uses to control who speaks to them, and makes it as difficult as possible for anyone to do so. On the other hand, she's also such a stickler for the laws that it even gets on the Tallest's nerves sometimes.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_af10a8a7	comment	Later, in Legacy of the Force Jacen feels the Galactic Alliance bureaucracy is hobbling the military. In order to deal with the situation he heads directly to the supply department and forces the procurement agent in charge of turbolaser parts to be sent to the frontline unit with the most misfires. After Jacen does that his troopers compliment him, telling Jacen that he acted like his grandfather would have and their weapons were already working better.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_b0869b12	comment	In Ashes to Ashes (2008), Jim Keats is initially made out to be this, until the finale suggests he's some kind of demon trying to collect the souls of the team.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_b08f67f7	comment	Asterix and Obelix have to deal with a whole building of obstructive bureaucrats for one of the challenges in The Twelve Tasks of Asterix. While none of the individual bureaucrats at "The Place that Sends You Mad" are particularly difficult or unhelpful in their own right, each one of them has a very specific job to do (which boils down to "If someone asks for X, request form Y, which can only be found at window Z. Then give them form A, to be filled out and delivered to window B, so they can receive form C..." There are a seemingly infinite number of forms, and the windows are randomly scattered around a very large building) and knows very little about the systems and procedures outside their own department. Realizing this, Asterix turns the tables on them by asking for a permit that doesn't exist, sending the entire workforce into disarray as they scramble to find information about new documents and instructions that nobody knows anything about. In the end, one bureaucrat gives Asterix the real permit he needs just to make him go away — and promptly goes insane himself when he realizes someone actually got a permit.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_b1c94339	comment	The British Navy in the Horatio Hornblower books is sometimes worse than Napoleon. In Lieutenant Hornblower, they rescind his unconfirmed promotion due to the Peace of Amiens and then put him under complete pay stoppage until he's "repaid" the commander's salary he drew during that time—while he's furloughed in London in the middle of winter. He has to pawn most of his possessions and become a professional whist player to survive. In Hotspur, the supplies office gets on his case for using what they deem is too much shot, powder, and cordage while at serious blockade work for months, but Cornwallis fortunately has his back there.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_b27fdd6d	comment	In Catch-22 Doc Daneeka is listed as a crew member of a plane so he can get flight pay, although he hates flying. He's not actually aboard the plane when it crashes. Still, since he is listed as being on it, he is marked down as dead. Even while he is standing right in front of people who have known him for months, they talk about what a shame it is he died in the crash. This does not turn out well for him.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_b29b88fb	comment	Evil Diva: Hell's complaint department just puts people on hold.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_b5134390	comment	The "Mystery of Magic" in My Immortal. They were most likely supposed to be serious, but given how it's written...
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_b8d48026	comment	Hermitcraft: The DHP, or Department of Hermit Permits in Season 10 is a parody of bureaucratic offices where the staff uses the bureaucracy to avoid having to do any work. The first task is finding the office, which is located in the middle of the forest. The only door doesn't work (and has a sign that says, "please use other door"). Once you finally get inside, you're faced with monsterously long forms that force you do do nonsensical things like run laps around a lighthouse or place a live salmon in your neighbor's basement. If anything is even the slightest bit wrong, your paperwork is rejected outright.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_b93ba031	comment	The Thin Blue Line: To be fair, Fowler's rigid adherence to proper procedure is rooted in a heartfelt belief in things like due process, rule of law, work ethics and other unglamourous but socially beneficial principles. He just has a tendency to take it a teensy bit too far at times....
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_b9a0d78d	comment	Alien. Ellen Ripley quotes "24 hours for decontamination" regulations rather than allow Kane to enter the Nostromo for treatment. Of course, she turns out to be right, but by making her appear unsympathetic the movie conceals her eventual role as the hero.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ba1120d0	comment	In Ikiru, Kanji Wanatabe works in a City Hall that is full of them. As one person said during his wake, "in order to clean up a garbage can somewhere, you need a garbage can full of paperwork!"
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ba3d2748	comment	The Incredibles: Gilbert Huph, the Insuricare Middle Manager and Bob's boss. His job is explicitly to see that every single claim that is made against Insuricare, no matter how valid or dire, is denied. He sees his clients as his stockholders, openly chafes at laws that protect policyholders, and mocks a man Bob sees getting mugged and beaten. Bob hurls him through several walls.note That said, we see Huph hospitalized with severe injuries, we're forced along with Bob to realize he could've killed him... Earlier, we have Bob secretly helping an old woman with a backdoor solution after he denied her claim. It works enough that Mr. Huph doesn't notice after she leaves. The trope is lampshaded when Huph rants at Bob for secretly helping his clients negotiate all the obstacles he's putting in their way. "They're penetrating the bureaucracy!"
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000's bureaucrats will tell you you're dead to your face if they have the paperwork, and there are planets of them, running a million-world Imperium as best they can. In the Ciaphas Cain novel The Caves of Ice, there are two particular Obstructive Bureaucrats, the local heads of the Administratum and Adeptus Mechanicus. Their constant arguing over protocols and procedure affects not only the normal operation of the promethium-mining facility there, but also the efforts of the Valhallan 597th as it works to prepare defenses against an oncoming Ork onslaught. Fortunately, Cain is able to find some lower-level officials in both ranks who not only are on amicable working terms with one another (and the mining population), but also happen to be able to actually get things done despite their superiors' constant bickering. The "dark" element of this trope comes into play when it is learned that the mine is built atop a Necron tomb; as later evidence proves, the site was intentionally chosen by the AdMech to give them easy access to the facility away from prying eyes should a way be found to investigate the tomb and recover its ancient technology. Fortunately, Cain and his comrades are able to deal with the "obstructive" part of the problem by imposing martial law and threatening to shoot anyone who gets in their way. The Valhallan 597th also owns some thanks to the Administratum, which still thinks they're two regiments, as such they are given twice as much supplies and recruits than most (also why the men/women ratio is always 50/50) Subverted by the Administratum bureaucrat Scrivener Quintus from Death or Glory, who single-handedly organizes logistics for Cain's ragtag army with impeccable skill for several months. He's also quite easy to get along with and even has something of a sense of humour. Also subverted by Bursar Brasker in Cain's Last Stand who is using Obfuscating Stupidity to conform to peoples' expectations of a fussy bureaucrat and is actually quite an amiable (and helpful) fellow once Cain finds out. Though, it wasn't so much Obfuscating Stupidity as it was Cain never seeing his skills as necessary before, and Brasker never really having anything important to do before. The book is written from Cain's perspective, who would have had little interest in how competent Brasker was at his job until the planet was being invaded and he had to ask for his help. In The Last Ditch the ship Cain and his regiment arrive on crashes on arrival before the shuttles assigned to unload them even leave the spaceport. The shuttles are therefore declared lost and made to leave so there's room for shuttles that exist. Cain doesn't give details, but apparently ex-quartermaster Sulla absolutely rips the administrators responsible a new one getting it straightened out. There's also a subversion in the Gaunt's Ghosts novel Necropolis. When the government begins bickering over whether they should call the Imperial Guard to help, the ranking Administratum official goes over their heads and contacts the Imperium anyways. He justifies this by saying that the planet is crucial for its production of military equipment, so it is therefore the Imperium's problem, not a local one. It should be also noted that the Administratum, is only Obstructive Bureaucrat because it covers such a large Empire, this is why fluff always shows that the lower-levels are so good at their jobs. The 5th ed. Imperial Guard codex has a mention of a unit that died to a man in battle. The paperwork wasn't completed properly, and their leader was selected to lead a later attack. When they didn't show up, the entire unit was posthumously sentenced to death for desertion. There's an example in one of the Eisenhorn books when Aemos tells someone that if all the data generated by the entire Imperium in a single second was put through all of Earth's cogitators, they would explode.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_bd41836e	comment	In StarCraft, Aldaris sends a fleet to Char, the planet that Tassadar was stranded on. To arrest him for, in short; disobeying orders and not purifying the infected Terran planets, not returning to Aiur to be punished, demoted, and maybe executed; attempting to help his race and home world by allying with the Nerazim; whom the Conclave had exiled for "heretical powers born of darkness", and not returning to Aiur after his ship was destroyed and he was marooned. His military contingent (led by the player) defects to Tassadar on the spot when they finally hear this spelled out. The entire Conclave likely fits this trope, although Aldaris is the only Judicator you meet. Also, the Confederacy when they arrested James Raynor for "destruction of Confederate property". The destroyed property? Infested Terran bases that were making more infested Terrans. The last example actually makes sense later on; the real reason Raynor was arrested was for disrupting the progress of the Zerg on Mar Sara. The Confederacy wanted to let the Zerg run free as a sort of sick "weapons test".
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_bdc49dbe	comment	In The Laundry Files, almost all of the staff of the Laundry except field agents are obstructive bureaucrats that are more concerned with matrix management, powerpoint presentations and paperclip audits than with the things the Laundry is supposed to do, like saving the world from Eldritch Abominations. This is justified for two reasons: first, The Masquerade is upheld by recruiting people that find out about it, rather than killing them (the Laundry used to employ Murder Is the Best Solution, but they've moved away from that), so the people that work for the Laundry aren't necessarily qualified for any position of power or access, resulting in scores of "busywork" positions, usually middle management. The other reason is that those paperclips could be infused with demonic power. They need to know where all of them are at all times. The only aversion is Angleton, who stands at a weird position between Affably Evil and Reasonable Authority Figure and that is because he secretly is an extremely powerful demon. It seems nothing short of being the Eater of Souls can prevent the Laundry bureaucracy from turning you into a mindless cubicle drone.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_bedd4fe5	comment	Quicken: When Emma is looking for her sister, she goes to her college. Unfortunately a RA refused to let her see Anne or tell her if her sister was even there.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_bf30abce	comment	I, Robot: In "The Evitable Conflict", Stephen Byerley, Coordinator of the Earth, suspects someone is sabotaging the Machines, powerful robots that advice the best decision to humanity, endangering the peace and stability of the entire planet. He asks for help investigating this from the four Vice Co ordinators of the four regions in that Earth is divided. All dismiss the idea and none helps Byerley, insisting they are doing their jobs well. Justified, because The Machines already control humanity and they will never let anyone capable of initiating an investigation have the job.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_bf7a989a	comment	Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten has Principal Harriet Shoutzalot, who is suspicious of Arnold and his class and is always trying to figure out their secrets.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_c00df586	comment	Androgyninja's A Dose of Venom: Sakura runs into this when she discovers that somebody is falsely reporting that she's already claimed her accolated equipment before she can actually procure it. Her complaints about this are repeatedly dismissed, forcing her to make due with her diminishing stock of what she already has on hand.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	Camile Wray of Stargate Universe, given her status as a member of the IOA. Of course, she is also trying to take over the ship, so she's the darker variant. She gets better after things have settled down.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_c1cc14e5	comment	In the second book of The Southern Reach Trilogy, Control is appointed as the new director of the Southern Reach. His secretary immediately makes it known in no uncertain terms that she is still loyal to the old director and will go to every length to undermine anything he attempts to do and sabotage any change he attempts to make.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_c2297a9c	comment	In Judge Dredd, Mega-City One has the Bureau of Creative Bureaucracy. Its motto is "Saving Money For The City By Making Things Difficult For You!"
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Mr. Popplewick in "The Trial of a Time Lord" is a Victorian clerk who pops up numerous times to obfuscate, torment and hold up the Doctor while he's trying to locate the Valeyard in the Matrix. It's revealed that Popplewick is a disguise used by the Valeyard. The true villain of "Ghost Light" is a godlike bureaucrat known only as Light: having made a comprehensive survey of life on Earth many millions of years ago, he retires to stasis â€” only to awake in the nineteenth century and discover that evolution has made all his work invalid. His proposed solution is to sterilise the planet of all organic life and prevent any further amendments to his catalogue.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_c4d1c0e8	comment	In Bloom Into You, Kuze, Touko's predecessor as Student Council President, usually is rather lazy and tends to delegate work to his subordinates (doing said work helps Touko build up her reputation and get elected as his successor). The one time he acts as a president should is when he vetoes Touko's proposal to bring back the School Play in the second volume of the Regarding Sayaka Saeki spinoff novels, which take place during Sayaka and Touko's first year of high school, in part because it's too much trouble. That being said, Sayaka admits that he raises some reasonable objections about the student council lacking the resources and talent for this endeavor, so he isn't solely motivated by laziness.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_c511c682	comment	Asterix had to deal with the Roman bureaucracy on a few occasions, such as in Asterix the Legionary.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_c72021c5	comment	In Deus Ex, you start out under the employ of a Joseph Manderley, a respected counter-terrorism official best known for eradicating a sect of Knights Templar. The best you ever see him do is push papers until he decides to shoot you in the back rather than the face when you escape UNATCO.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ca08598f	comment	Many politicians and high-ranking police officers in The Wire. Stan Valchek and Ervin Burrell are probably the most notable. Special mention goes to people in charge of homicide, all the way to the top, being more obsessed with their crime stats than with actually finding the guilty parties and jaling them, going so far as to being willing to jail someone innocent of the crime on dodgy evidence or refusing to go looking for bodies for fear it will worsen their statistics.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ca1f6145	comment	In The Pale King, The Author's Foreword includes a lengthy description of all the legal issues that went along with the creation of the book. Everything involving David Foster Wallace's entry into the IRS, with the sole exception of Leonard Stecyk. The horrendously complex and ultimately bungled wrongful death lawsuit after Chris Fogle's father dies. After his experience in Advanced Tax class, Chris tries to make up for his mistakes by going to the dean and begging for a chance to salvage his college career. The dean laughs in his face.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ca786c92	comment	In Mega Man Reawakened, General Yancey imposes a strict time limit on Project Gamma's completion, and he threatens to have the whole thing scrapped if it isn't done in time.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: In the season eight episode "Need To Know", the CIA Director and his attorney tries to block the Navy's attempt to declassify material relating to a secret joint Navy-CIA submarine mission in 1968 in which the sub sank near the Soviet coastlline.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_cae652c	comment	Pariston Hill, the vice-chairman of the Hunters Association in Hunter Ã— Hunter is this - very intentionally. He in fact took the position just for the sake of becoming one. Why? Because it amuses him.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_cb4d8cb0	comment	Doctor in Love: Despite Dr. Deakin's drug being needed to save a young child's life, Dr. Mincing refuses to let Dr. Hare have it as he claims it is too dangerous despite knowing the boy will die.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_cbd30f6b	comment	As the Chief Officer of Rules and Regulations, Shika of Maryoku Yummy lives to enforce the rules, and nothing makes him happier than filling out forms.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ccc80720	comment	In My Life as a Teenage Robot Jenny is needed as the Skyway Patrol, the official global defense group, have to deal with literal mountains of paperwork in order to do virtually anything. They once try to arrest Jenny for her vigilantism, but are unable to do so because the necessary paperwork would take decades to fill out. It's little wonder Nora Wakeman retired from Skyway Patrol and began working on creating her daughter. Even Brad realized that being a Skyway Patrol Officer in "Last Action Zero" wasn't all that cracked up to be, especially when basic duties, such as making arrests are completely mummified in red tape and paperwork in triplicate.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_d109f322	comment	Andromeda: One episode involved a world with extremely strict bureaucratic procedures. Interacting with them gave Tyr a lovely line (which the audience likely agrees with) after listening to a message summed up as "You don't have an appointment, please hold" for the umpteenth time: Followed by this exchange:
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_d14c3aa1	comment	In the original Ghostbusters film minor EPA official Walter Peck (played to perfection by William Atherton) had the unmitigated gall to arrest the Ghostbusters for causing an explosion that he himself was responsible for when he ordered, in front of multiple witnesses, that the ghost-containment grid be shut down, despite repeated warnings that would be disastrous. In a deleted scene, as Gozer the Gozerian was wreaking havoc, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man was smashing up the city and the End Of The World was quite seriously nigh, Peck's response was to grab a fleeing police officer and order him to go up to arrest the Ghostbusters for "going too far". The officer's response, not unreasonably, was "You go and arrest them!"
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In Nomine: Asmodeus, Prince of the Game, runs the infernal beauracracy, and very intentionally not in a way that makes it efficent or helpful. He views all of existence as an elaborate game with arbitrary and malleable rules and with no particular goal beyond one-upping everyone else, and organizes his civil services based on that logic.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_d5166b45	comment	Halo 4 has Captain Andrew Del Rio. When his ship is dragged into a Forerunner Shield World, his first impulse is to do whatever it takes to flee. Despite the fact that the Master Chief warns him about the danger posed by the Didact, Del Rio focuses on leaving Requiem. While he has some legitimate concerns (regarding Cortana's Rampancy), he is completely dismissive of a soldier whose entire life was defined by protecting humanity (going so far as to flippantly respond to the Chief asking for intel about a combat zone he was being sent to), as well as his own officers. His refusal to try and interdict the Didact allows the Forerunner to retrieve the Composer and wipe out all life in the city of New Phoenix with it, before the Master Chief managed to stop him. Del Rio, meanwhile, ended up thrown in the brig for his treatment of the Chief.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_d5916141	comment	In the Jedi Academy Trilogy readers learn just how little tolerance the Empire has for obstructive bureaucrats. Those who weren't executed often went into hiding to avoid the wrath of Palpatine or Vader.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_db3b75ff	comment	A frequent visitor on Barney Miller. Often it's the higher-ups in the department, or the gleefully malicious Scanlan of Internal Affairs, but there are many officials from the state and federal government who get drawn into whatever crazy case is going on.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_dc757598	comment	Esther Diamond: Lysander Singh is a rare example who goes out into the field, but the narrator considers him to be an Insufferable Genius who isn't as smart as the people he bosses around.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_dcb07085	comment	Soul Music: Mr. Clete of the Musicians' Guild, is a nastier version, taking genuine pleasure in the suffering of those ensnared in red tape. It's mentioned in the text that the guild hired him for this specifically, because without a hard-ass forcing things the musicians would absentmindedly stop paying their fees and the guild would fall apart. Over the course of the story he gradually loses his mind entirely, to the point his own enforcers try to rein him in.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_dd069325	comment	In Max Havelaar, the titular character's attempts to do something about the merciless exploitation of the Javanese peasants by their feudal overlords are thwarted at every step by those above, below, and next to him in the Dutch colonial bureaucracy. Some actually don't want him to succeed (it's easier to keep the peasants in check if the local feudal system remains in place, after all), but others are simply Dirty Cowards who don't want to step on any powerful toes — especially not since Havelaar's similarly idealistic predecessor died in a terrible accident. (Note that all of this actually happened in Real Life.)
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_dda72858	comment	Kent Mansley in The Iron Giant starts out as a humorous Obstructive Bureaucrat, but as his obsession with finding the giant grows, he starts to venture into Knight Templar territory, threatening to separate Hogarth from his mother and even suggesting nuking the town. When his recklessness leads to a nuclear missile actually being launched toward the town, his Patriotic Fervor is quickly replaced with outright cowardice: "Screw our country! I wanna live!"
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_dee6ab5b	comment	The Serge Storms novel Florida Roadkill has an insurance exec whose job is to block insurance claims, especially if they're actually covered by the client's policy. This gets him a Karmic Death when he gets shot, and when he goes to the hospital, the call to his insurance company for payment regarding the treatment gets directed to his office.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e05c6feb	comment	In Courier From Warsaw the author recounts the troubles Churchill's assistant (who may or may not have been a Soviet agent) gave him, from the "yes, sir, of course the prime minister will see you sometime in this century" variety, to outright lying his face off to discredit the author and his entire organisation.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e081af79	comment	The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: on Butane, the planet of dragons, Legate Zippobic seems to be this, although he views himself as a Beleaguered Bureaucrat.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e21bc91e	comment	The titular group from The Adjustment Bureau, though not in the usual sense. Their job is to essentially railroad people into doing whatever destiny demands, and to hell with whatever people themselves want or what has to be "adjusted" to do it. However it should be noted that, despite all this and being the antagonists of the film, they're not evil or even all that unreasonable.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e2cb7d80	comment	In the 2014 miniseries Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers, the Tiger's attempts to rescue one of the Captain Victory clones is hampered by Ranger Central's imposing a quarantine around the area of space where the clone has landed.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e30b9261	comment	New Avengers: Jeryn Hogarth, lawyer for Rand Industries, manages to make Iron Man looking stupid, running rings around him with loopholes when the guy (and the Avengers) try to arrest his boss, Iron Fist for being a super-hero. Given Iron Man's being a Jerkass, it's brilliant to behold.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e30f4153	comment	Season 5 of Major Crimes introduces Deputy Chief Winnie Davis. She is gunning for the position of Assistant Chief and resents the preferential treatment that Major Crimes gets. She uses her position as Chief of Operations to make life as difficult for Rayder and her team as possible.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e4732abc	comment	The entire IOA counts as this. After watching enough of Stargate Atlantis, you would think the only decisions they make is to put the blame on whoever else they can. On the rare occasion they do take action, they usually make things worse. Particular mention goes to their borderline-suicidal plan to stop the Ori in The Ark of Truth, which involved reviving the Replicators and taking away their only weakness.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Borsk Fey'lya, to an astonishing degree. He was introduced in The Thrawn Trilogy as a Bothan council member of the New Republic, proudly flaunting his species' hat of backbiting political savvy (the other hats being spying, hacking, and great personal courage). He literally cannot imagine his fellow Council members as not out to get him just as much as he is out to get them; everyone who opposes him is his enemy. He will try and bar them at any given opportunity. And he's on the New Republic's side, shows no signs of going over to the enemy, and does not actually engineer events so much as take advantage of them, so he is never the outright enemy, to several characters' frustration, as that would've given them the ability to just shoot him. And unfortunately for everyone, he's very good at recovering from even the most embarrassing political setbacks. In the New Jedi Order he does, after Coruscant's fall, surrender to the highest-ranked nearby Vong, and then trigger a massive suicide bomb. Books that don't have him as a petty semi-villain portray him as brave in his way, but unable to let go of his paranoia and vindictiveness. Fey'lya, up to his usual Rules Lawyering, tries to take control of Booster's Star Destroyer and pull off an elegant piece of backstabbing that will end up killing Corran Horn. Fey'lya unfortunately doesn't take two things into consideration; although Booster dislikes Horn, Corran is engaged to his daughter and more importantly Booster, being a 'former' smuggler, doesn't give a damn about any rules or laws protect Borsk. What follows is a brutal beatdown of Fey'lya by Terrick that ends with a broken nose and a lot of blood. What's even funnier is that Fey'lya knows that if he ever does try and get Terrik arrested he'll become a laughingstock among Bothans because he, a fairly young Bothan, got his ass handed to him by a middle-aged human despite the fact Bothans are supposedly much physically stronger than humans. Another example, during the Black Fleet Crisis, rejected Tenn Graneet's application to join the Republic military because he came from an Imperial planet. The main thing this earned him was a chewing out from Admiral Ackbar. Making things worse for the heroes in New Jedi Order is that Fey'lya is backed up by a whole senate of corrupt and obstructive politicians, who refuse to help with the incoming Yuuzhan Vong because they're happening to faraway places, or Leia's clearly making them up in a transparent grab for power, or it's somehow the Jedi's fault, hampering the war effort right up until the Vong are kicking the door down. Even the one bureaucrat who seems reasonable is actually working for them.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e68decb8	comment	Star Control: Origins has the Measured, an entire race that has been genetically modified to be perfect bureaucrats. Before they'll even agree to talk to you, you'll have to file a request form. They have a separate form to switch from "bureaucrat speak" to "small talk" mode, even though their exasperated reaction indicates they would much rather use the former. Attempting to leave gets you a warning that you haven't filed the official forms for leaving. When you request those forms, they tell you that you don't have permission to request the forms. Then combat begins, during which their main form of attack is called "red tape" and involves launching what looks like forms at your ship. If you run into them, then your ship slows down and takes a little bit of damage, which allows more forms to catch up and slow your ship even more.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e694aadb	comment	In the Ciaphas Cain novel The Caves of Ice, there are two particular Obstructive Bureaucrats, the local heads of the Administratum and Adeptus Mechanicus. Their constant arguing over protocols and procedure affects not only the normal operation of the promethium-mining facility there, but also the efforts of the Valhallan 597th as it works to prepare defenses against an oncoming Ork onslaught. Fortunately, Cain is able to find some lower-level officials in both ranks who not only are on amicable working terms with one another (and the mining population), but also happen to be able to actually get things done despite their superiors' constant bickering. The "dark" element of this trope comes into play when it is learned that the mine is built atop a Necron tomb; as later evidence proves, the site was intentionally chosen by the AdMech to give them easy access to the facility away from prying eyes should a way be found to investigate the tomb and recover its ancient technology. Fortunately, Cain and his comrades are able to deal with the "obstructive" part of the problem by imposing martial law and threatening to shoot anyone who gets in their way. The Valhallan 597th also owns some thanks to the Administratum, which still thinks they're two regiments, as such they are given twice as much supplies and recruits than most (also why the men/women ratio is always 50/50)
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e80fa454	comment	In Battleborn, this is one of the major things if not the major thing obstructing the Peacekeepers from doing their job properly and to the fullest. Rather than get things done right away, the UPR's higher ups would rather follow protocol even in the dire state the universe is in. This is best seen in the second and third chapters of the web motioncomic where the UPR's bureaucracy causes problems such as not giving supplies immediately, and almost killing Rath and Ambra in the respective chapters.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_e9e2b5e9	comment	Protocol Officer Quine of Starslip is a humorous examination of the default characterization of these characters: when he's introduced, he sounds like a typical regulations lawyer who is unceremoniously killed in his first away mission. Then we are introduced to his personal resurrection machine (that creates a clone of him and transfers his consciousness to it whenever he dies) and he gradually starts morphing into a Butt-Monkey who is just trying to do his job surrounded by people who openly insult him for no reason other than the fact that he's the only guy willing to apply regulations on what is ostensibly a military vessel and often getting killed in the process. The pinnacle of this was a recent storyline where he used his machine to "single handedly" (in other words, going through a lot of dead clones) to take back the Paradigm from hijackers and saving the lives of the rest of the crew... only for Vanderbeam to berate him for taking too long and giving all the credit to his dead clones. Poor guy. He ultimately turns out to be a good guy when he is confronted with just how corrupt the government really is. Even then, he is slightly conflicted about breaking laws. Then his wife points out that the government's leadership is betraying the founding principles of the government, so Quine's "insubordination" is actually nothing of the sort.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ea787cd1	comment	The Forgotten Realms novel Azure Bonds shows how Lhaeo does his job, that is, prevents adventurers from bothering Elminster. How the scribe is supposed to intimidate and turn away people who used to take out dragons and worse? Riiight...
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_eb1f3536	comment	Przygody Psa Cywila have lt. Zubek, By-the-Book Cop who oversees the daily proceedings of the training facility and is Comically Serious to boot.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_eb3f3551	comment	Mass Effect: Andromeda: Assistant to the Director of Colonial Affairs William Spender. He's a clueless idiot who frequently tries to interfere with the Nexus' engineering teams trying to keep the station functioning (and the people living on it living). Even his boss knows he's an idiot, but keeps him around because he'll take jobs no-one else will... despite, again, being an idiot. It later turns out he's deliberately doing his best to make everyone frustrated and miserable so he can weasel his way up the ladder, helped provoke the riots that led to a massive split in the Andromeda Initiative, and is trying to kill of the krogan who came along just 'cuz. The end of Drack's loyalty mission has Ryder either have him exiled, in which case he's screwed, or imprisoned. Either way, it's not nearly as much as he deserves.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ebc16967	comment	A series of humor oriented web videos shows a paper pusher dealing with the Street Fighter II warriors, having issue with quite a few of them, arguing with Chun-Li over her outfit, with Vega over the definition of a "weapon" and with M. Bison over the finances. (One could likely view this guy as a sympathetic character doing an excellent job, considering.)
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ec02633a	comment	The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Blood and Wine has the quest "Paperchase". Geralt of Rivia is a hardened monster slayer who has faced the undead, vampires, werewolves, vain sorceresses, dragons and a mysterious entity who might well be the setting's equivalent of the Devil himself, but none of those threats can remotely prepare him for the sheer terror of trying to prove to the bank that he is not in fact dead so he can withdraw money from an account a client set up for him years ago as payment for a job. While the bank is frantically trying to cover up that they already spent Geralt's money after he was reported dead. The solution to the quest that gets Geralt his money is to be Nice to the Waiter.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ec2531c4	comment	Coco: The employees of the Celestial Bureaucracy are quite unhelpful to HÃ©ctor, though not by choice. During the epilogue, after the Time Skip, they are genuinely happy to allow HÃ©ctor to visit his family.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ec25a849	comment	Vice-Principal Bone from Doug was one of these characters. He had a seemingly never-ending list of rules for student behavior that made it almost impossible to do anything that wasn't against the rules somehow. In one episode, Doug daydreams of himself as his superhero alter-ego Quailman, who battles "The Rulemeister", a Control Freak that looks and sounds exactly like Mr. Bone, and who is eventually defeated by being trapped in his own rules. Mr. Bone catches him and grabs his comic away, causing Doug to point out that "No grabbing other people's comic books" is one of his rules, and manages to convince Mr. Bone to let him and the other kids out of detention. In another episode, Quailman battles the "Robo-Bones", robot versions of Mr. Bone. Rather than trapping Bone with his own rules as in the previous example, Doug uses the "Secret Dream" version of escape by convincing the Robo-Bones to become a professional yodeling troupe.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ec4df952	comment	Vice-Chancellor Nesselrode is portrayed as this in The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar; he seems more funny at first, but his decisions, based on the high political considerations of avoiding all and any possible turbulence, could easily be fatal for some of his subordinates ( and end up being fatal for the Russian mission in Persia).
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_eca5afb5	comment	This was such a problem in the militaries of ancient China that Sun Tzu addressed it in The Art of War. His favored tactic - which the annotations also ascribe to other great generals - was to ignore the bureaucracy, and if the bureaucrat became too obstructive, execute him.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ee75904a	comment	Kyoshi Rising; the magistrate's assistant Kyoshi meets early in her journey, who ignoring Kyoshi's attempts to help the town with a giant spirit monster even after she reveals she's the Avatar. The dockmaster in Taizhou has the temperament of an Obstructive Bureaucrat, but is more of a Beleaguered Bureaucrat.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_f186d60d	comment	Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River: The governor of Nevada delays the opening of the spillways at Hoover Dam when he's informed that people have to be evacuated in preparation from the towns beneath the dam.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_f3464a68	comment	Director Theodore Galloway, the President's Aide sent to oversee NEST in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen actively believes that the Autobots are to blame for the Decepticons attacking Earth, and attempts to force the Autobots to leave. When the Decepticons finally invade in force, instead of mobilizing NEST, the aide instead forces NEST to stand down and return to base, citing that standard operating procedure would be to try and negotiate a peaceful resolution with the enemy. Fortunately, they manage to get rid of him by shoving him out of a plane and dumping him in the middle of the Egyptian desert. Unfortunately they gave him a parachute first. Though considering that he's still the president's aide, that was probably for the best.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_f3ef0f86	comment	Ark Sool in Artemis Fowl, a painfully By-the-Book Cop obsessed with regulations and incredibly rude about it to boot. His being promoted to commander is enough to get Holly Short to quit LEP for a while.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_f41aa707	comment	Sugawara Akitada: Akitada's superiors don't make his job any easier, often getting in his way or taking actions behind the scenes that disrupt Akitada's efforts.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_f451da89	comment	Daisy Owl: And she's pleasant, and agrees that the fees are unreasonable, to add insult to injury. The next strip has him go to the very man said bureaucrat recommended after the one who asked for the license to be renewed wanted a less pleasant guy who plays the trope straighter. The customer was ironically satisfied with the bad customer service the less pleasant guy gave him.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: Inverted in the episode "Survivors". It is the protagonists, Sinclair and Ivanova specifically, who are obstructing Major Lianna Kemmer's attempts to locate and arrest Garibaldi on suspicion of sabotage. Played straight with Garibaldi attempting to retrieve a package from an obstructive mailman who insists Garibaldi pay a hefty fee before he can get his package (it's special ingredients for a birthday dinner). The Drazi have a peculiar system of government, in which every five cycles (six Earth years) the entire population, anywhere they are, is randomly divided in two sides, one wearing a green sash and one wearing a purple sash, and they beat each other up until one side gives up, leaving the other in power. However, in "The Geometry of Shadows", when the "election" on the station starts to include deadly force, Ivanova (trying to make them reason) takes the sash of Green Leader... and is informed that now she is Green Leader, because the system predates First Contact and the change in rules to exclude aliens got caught in a committee. For over eight hundred years.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_f7e45c31	comment	Life Is Beautiful: Rodolfo, Dora's Disposable FiancÃ©, is a city official in charge of issuing business licenses. He is haughty, rude, and unhelpful towards the citizens he is supposed to be serving. He and Guido, who aspires to own a bookshop, butt heads with each other even before they become romantic rivals.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_fb9c177d	comment	Holepunch, a Targetmaster from Transformers, is an actively malicious Obstructive Bureaucrat. In fact, making people wait in lines and having them come back later and such is basically all the fun he ever has. And he's an Autobot! The Mirror Universe version of him inverts this as a peppy motivational speaker skilled at keeping morale high.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_fc030253	comment	Project Tatterdemalion: Referenced repeatedly â€” General Yamamoto and Colonel Hughes are very by-the-book about paperwork, and obstructive bureaucrats are responsible for the Republic's harsh genetic engineering laws. This is also Ryuuken's cover for infiltrating the Project: he's supposedly a health inspector.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_fc8c3b74	comment	In Savior of Demons, the Council of Arcos is ridiculously obstructive, until you realize that they are trying to help by reigning in King Kold's tendency to jump feet-first into whatever solution he thinks is best and most expedient. Queen Isa also accuses them of being Corrupt Bureaucrats.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_fd2e8800	comment	Cecilia Irene of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Plot to Assassinate Gihren is a cross between this and Sexy Secretary. An attractive, efficent young woman, Cecelia is Gihren Zabi's keeper of the keys. She takes care of administrative trivia, acts as his liaison to the high-command, and arranges assassinations, political crackdowns, arrests, and other black operations that the brass won't touch.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_fd698fa7	comment	Tunefully adapted as a Disney animated short.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_fe5f9efb	comment	Quatermass II: During The Infiltration, these oppose the scientist hero's attempts to uncover the truth about the Alien Invasion. Some oppose the hero out of petty authoritarianism, others because they're possessed by aliens, and others interestingly enough help the hero because as experienced bureaucrats they realize that the obstructiveness is happening in a way that doesn't make sense. One of the latter even lampshades this trope.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_fe8ef766	comment	Captain America: The Commission of Super-Human Activities, who not incidentally have aforementioned Henry Gyrich among their number, usually are just regular obstructive. In "The Captain", they find Steve Rogers technically owes them back-pay. Steve resigns on grounds of conscience, and they replace him with John Walker. Fine enough, but Gyrich insists that if Steve continues superheroing, the CSA strip the Avengers of any ability to operate on American soil. He's soon outdone by the CSA's head, who as the story goes on becomes increasingly maniacal, trying to have Steve arrested for sedition (uh) and treason (breaking into the White House to save the President from being turned into a snake man. Long story), and even the other commissioners think he's being nuts. Turns out the man is working for the Red Skull as part of a plot to ruin Cap's legacy. Once he's caught out, the Skull has him killed to tie up loose ends.
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Obstructive Bureaucrat / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Vice Admiral Alynna Nechayev is presented this way in most of her appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation and DS9. Her involvement in the Cardassian DMZ crisis, if not actually outright caused by her, certainly aggravated the situation The Sheliak, a one-episode race, act as this. The claim is that their particular mindset is simply fixated on the letter of agreements, but they very conveniently refuse to invoke the negotiation clause of their treaty with the Federation when it would cause minor delays for them and potentially allow fifteen thousand humans to be evacuated. Picard's ultimate response is to turn it right back at them: the negotiation clause requires both parties to agree, but a single party can invoke the third party arbitration clause. Picard does so and names a species that is in a months-long hibernation cycle as the arbitrators, meaning the delay would be much longer than the one he had asked for. The Sheliak quickly change their tune.
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Crisis Equestria (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Darkest Hero (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Exoria (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Fox in the Bunnyhouse (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Inter Nos (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Just A Phase (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Kara of Rokyn (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Legacy of the Enginseers (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Legionnaire (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Mass Effect (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Null (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Origins (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Renegade (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Renegade (Peptuck) (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Snakeskins (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Son of the Western Sea (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Terra Incognita (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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The Elements of Harmony and the Savior of Worlds (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The New Adventures of Invader Zim (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Pirate Pegasus (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Simpsons: Team L.A.S.H. (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Transformers Animated Season 4 (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Trump Card (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
What You Already Know (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
When One Domino Falls (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Worm: More Than Meets the Eye (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Wyvern (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Zero no Tsukaima: Saito the Onmyoji (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
A Few Good Men / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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A Soldier's Story / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Alien³ / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Aliens / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Amsterdamned / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
And the Band Played On / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Atomic Twister / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Avanti! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Babel / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Babylon 5: A Call to Arms / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Bad Day at Black Rock / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Beverly Hills Cop / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Beverly Hills Cop II / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Black Book / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Black Hawk Down / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Blue Monkey / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Boys Don't Cry / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Brazil / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Brute Force (1947) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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By Dawn's Early Light / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
C.H.U.D. / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Charlie Wilson's War / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Child's Play 2 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Chinatown / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Contact / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Courage Under Fire / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Darkest Hour (2017) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Day Of The Kaiju / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Die Hard / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Die Hard 2 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
District 9 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Doctor in Love / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Don't Look Up / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Election Night (1998) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Everything Everywhere All at Once / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
FX	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Fiend Without a Face / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Frantic / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Free Willy / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Frozen Days / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Geostorm / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Godzilla (1998) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Grizzly Man / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Hamlet 2 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Heartbreak Ridge / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Heaven Can Wait (1943) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Hit Team / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Horror of Dracula / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
I, Daniel Blake / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ikiru / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Immortals / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
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Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
K-19: The Widowmaker / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Khartoum / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Kingdom of Heaven / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Lawrence of Arabia / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Life Is Beautiful / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Living Proof / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Loch Ness / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mama / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Maniac Cop / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Men of Honor / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mercury Rising / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
missing. (1982) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mission: Impossible â€“ Rogue Nation / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Aliens / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Murder at 1600 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
No Country for Old Men / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Notes on a Scandal / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Once Upon a Time in China / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Operation Petticoat / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Orange County / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Osmosis Jones / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Outbreak / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Passport to Pimlico / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Payback / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Prom Night (2008) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ricochet / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ridicule / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Robot Jox / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Rose / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
San Francisco International Airport / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Saving Sarah Cain / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Schindler's List / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Serpico / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Shackleton / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Shin Godzilla / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Silver Streak / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Skyfall / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Solaris (1972) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Spectre / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Stand and Deliver / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek (2009) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek: Insurrection / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Stingray Sam / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Street Fighter / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Supervolcano / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Tetris (2023) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The A-Team / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Adjustment Bureau / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Bay / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Boat That Rocked / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Captain / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Captain from Kopenick / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Conjuring 2 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Conjuring II / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Covenant (2023) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Cyclops / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Dam Busters / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Decalogue / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Double / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Giant Gila Monster / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Host (2006) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Hot Chick / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Insider / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Kingdom (2007) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Knowledge / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Living Daylights / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Lost King / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Medusa Touch / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Mortal Storm / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Peacemaker / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Pentagon Wars / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Phantom Menace / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Poseidon Adventure / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Relic / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Report / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Siege of Jadotville / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Terminal / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Thing from Another World / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Tomorrow War / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Towering Inferno / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Trial / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Troll Hunter / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Tuskegee Airmen / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Thunderball / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Titanic (1997) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Too Big to Fail / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Train to Busan / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Transformers Film Series / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Twelve O'Clock High / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
2012 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Uncommon Valor / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
United 93 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Unstoppable / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Valkyrie / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
We Were Soldiers / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Wild Tales / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Wind River / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Wonder Woman (2017) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dune (Franchise) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ghostbusters (Franchise) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Love Live! (Franchise) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Potter Verse (Franchise)	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Quatermass (Franchise) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Transformers Film Series (Franchise)	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Something Awful: Dungeons & Dragons (Lets Play) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Chivalry of a Failed Knight / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Full Metal Panic! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
So, I Can't Play H! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
A Man Called Ove / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Adrian Mole / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Aeons' Gate / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Agent Pendergast / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Alfie the Werewolf / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Babar / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Beka Cooper / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Blind Alley / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Bridge in the Menagerie	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Castle Perilous / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Catch-22 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Cemetery Dance / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Chanur Novels / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Chivalry of a Failed Knight / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ciaphas Cain	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ciaphas Cain / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Cloak of Deception / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Codex Alera / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
ConSentiency / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Conciencia y Voluntad / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Contact / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Cryptonomicon / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Curtains For Three / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dark Heavens / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dead Lions / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dead or Alive / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Demon In White / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dirk Pitt Adventures / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Divine Misfortune / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Drassil / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Elemental Masters / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Eric / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
First Colony / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Forty Five Master Characters Support Characters / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Friday / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
From Russia with Love / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Full Metal Panic! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Gate / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Geist Series / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Guards! Guards! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Halo: Contact Harvest / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Heart of a Dog / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Heretical Edge / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Horatio Hornblower / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Imperial Radch / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Incompetence / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Inferno (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Jack Blank / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Jumper / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Keys to the Kingdom / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Legend of the Galactic Heroes / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Machine Man / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Magika Swordsman and Summoner / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Maigret / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Malê Rising / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Maoyu / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Marcus Didius Falco / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Max Havelaar / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mediochre Q Seth Series / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Monday Begins on Saturday / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Naked Lunch / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Nemesis Saga / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Nero Wolfe / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
New Jedi Order / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Night Watch (Discworld) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
No Country for Old Men / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
No Sympathies / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ordinary Time / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Outbound Flight / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Pippi Longstocking / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Portal of Evil / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Project Hail Mary / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Pump Six and Other Stories / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Punica / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Reaper Man / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Republic Commando Series / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Retief / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Retired Witches Mysteries / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Return of the Runebound Professor / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Rogue Warrior / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Senlin Ascends / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Seven Days in May / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Shadow of the Sith / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sharpe / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sharpe's Triumph / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
SilentShipSilentSea	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sime Gen / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sisterhood Series / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Smaller & Smaller Circles / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Snow Crash / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
So, I Can't Play H! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Some Buried Caesar / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Spartan / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Spectrum / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek: Destiny / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek: Ex Machina / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek: Picard - The Last Best Hope / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Wars: Master and Apprentice / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sugawara Akitada / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sunshine / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Swellhead / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Tales of the Ketty Jay / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Temeraire / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Accursed Kings / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Art of War (Sun Tzu) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Bartimaeus Trilogy / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Blonde Hurricane / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Blue Sword / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Day of the Jackal / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Dead Past / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Death of the Vazir Mukhtar / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Edge Chronicles / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Elenium / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Evitable Conflict / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Finder's Stone Trilogy / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Good Soldier Å vejk / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Ingenue / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Kingdom Keepers / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Laundry Files / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Licanius Trilogy / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Lightbringer Series / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Martian / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Mist / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Pale King / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Phantom Tollbooth / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Plague / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Railway Series / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Secret History / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Southern Reach Trilogy / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Unexpected Witness / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Thud! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Too Many Cooks / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Translation State / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Triple Jeopardy / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Troy Rising / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Turn Coat / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Unseen Magic / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Wet Desert: Tracking Down a Terrorist on the Colorado River / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
When You Reach Me / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Without Seeing The Dawn / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Words of Radiance / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
X-Men Mutant Empire Trilogy / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Xeelee Sequence / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Underground (Machinima) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
MAD (Magazine) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
MAD (Magazine) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Bank Teller	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
BloodDolphins	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
BridgeInTheMenagerie	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Farmelle	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
HenryKuttner	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
LiftOff	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
PandoraInactiveCanons	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
ParkingWars	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
PirateLatitudes	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
PlaysByHisOwnRules	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ptitleeym5vv2h	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Quark	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Russian Language	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Russian Relaxing	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
SelfPropelledBarrierOfStupidity	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
SilentShipSilentSea	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
SimeGen	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Systems Of Survival	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
TheCityHall	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
TheDeclineAndCollapseOfTheHyrzhogBurlussGalacticMiningCombine	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Men in Black / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Soviet Twenties	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
TheWarAgainstTheChtorr	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Bloody Monday (Manga) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dr. STONE: 4D Science (Manga) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Evangelion 303 (Manga) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
K-On! (Manga) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
My Neighbor Seki (Manga) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts (Manga) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Team Medical Dragon (Manga) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Bad Lip Reading (Music) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Chess (1984) (Music) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Flagged for Content (Podcast) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Qwerpline (Podcast) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Bright Sessions (Podcast) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Cabin Pressure (Radio) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Men from the Ministry (Radio) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Darwin's Soldiers (Roleplay) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Discord Plays Stellaris (Roleplay) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Hope Saga (Roleplay) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Wonderful World Of Wildcat (Roleplay)	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
A Very Secret Service / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
After MAS*H / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Alex Rider (2020) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
All American / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
All Creatures Great & Small (2020) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ashes to Ashes (2008) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Baantjer / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Bad Girls (1999) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Bar Rescue / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Barney Miller / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Beetleborgs / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Blake's 7 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Blood Dolphins	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Bodyline / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Call the Midwife / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Chef! (1993) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Chernobyl / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Clarice / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Code Black / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Colditz / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Come Back Mrs. Noah / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Continuum / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Designated Survivor / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dexter / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Doctor in the House / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dr. Death / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Drop the Dead Donkey / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Endeavour / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Engrenages / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Eureka / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
FlashForward (2009) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
For All Mankind / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Forbrydelsen / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Foreign Affairs (1966) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Fortitude / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Fringe / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Gavin & Stacey / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ghosted / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ghosts (US) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Good Omens (2019) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Hawaii Five-0 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Hello Tomorrow! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Hill Street Blues / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Homeland / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Homicide: Life on the Street / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
House / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Hunters / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
In the Flesh / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Intimate / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Jam / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Journey to the West (1996) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Kamen Rider Amazons / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Kingdom Hospital / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Last Man Standing (2011) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Law & Order / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Lexx / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Los Espookys / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
MIU 404 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Maigret (2016) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Major Crimes / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Man Like Mobeen / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Married... with Children / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Masada / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Midsomer Murders / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mike Hammer / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Monster Warriors / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mr. Robot / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Murdoch Mysteries / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
NYPD Blue / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Narcos / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Northern Exposure / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Odd Squad / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
ParkingWars	seeAlso	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Parks and Recreation / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Picket Fences / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Portlandia / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Przygody Psa Cywila / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Psi Factor / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Raumpatrouille / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Recht Op Recht / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Restaurant: Impossible / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Robin of Sherwood / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Rutland Weekend Television / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
SEAL Team / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
S.W.A.T. (2017) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Saved by the Bell / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Scorpion / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
7Days / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
7 Days (1998) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sherlock Holmes / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Shortland Street / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Space: 1999 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Spaced / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek: Picard / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Stargate Atlantis / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Border / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Brittas Empire / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Catherine Tate Show / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Chief / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The City Hall / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Closer / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Day of the Roses / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Games / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Good Doctor / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Gospel Bill Show / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Hollowmen / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Legend of Dick and Dom / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Magicians (2016) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Ministry of Time / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Peripheral (2022) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Phil Silvers Show / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Rookie (2018) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Sandbaggers / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Silent Sea / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Swarm (2023) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Thick of It / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Thin Blue Line / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Time Tunnel / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The West Wing / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The X-Files / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Treme / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
24 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
2point4 Children / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
227 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
UFO / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
UFO (1970) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ultraman: Towards the Future / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Untold Stories of the E.R. / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Vienna Blood / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
W817 / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Watchmen (2019) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Yes, Minister / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dominion (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Goblin Quest (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Hunter: The Vigil (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mutant Chronicles (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Pandemic (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Splicers (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Gates of Hell (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist (Tabletop Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (Theatre) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Brand (Theatre) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Marat/Sade (Theatre) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mrs. Hawking (Theatre) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
1776 (Theatre) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Consul (Theatre) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Tikboy: The Awakening of Boy Dragon (Theatre) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Act of War (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
AÃ«demphia (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Anna's Quest (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Atlantis: The Lost Tales (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Avalon Code (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Awesomenauts (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Battlefield 3 (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Beholder (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Beholder 2 (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Blue Archive (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Brink! (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Civilization (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Clout (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Creeper World (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dangeresque: The Roomisode Triungulate (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dark City Series (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dawn of War (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Euro Truck Simulator (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Fallout (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Fallout 76 (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Football Manager (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Gears of War (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Guild Wars (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Halo 4 (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Imperium Nova (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Link! Like! Love Live! (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Lost Horizon (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Marvel's Avengers (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Mass Effect (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
My Summer Car (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
No One Lives Forever (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Obsidian (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Overgrown: Genesis (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Pajama Sam 2: Thunder And Lightning Aren't So Frightening (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Papers, Please (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Phantasy Star IV (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
PokÃ©mon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Prison Architect (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Professor Layton and the Curious Village (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Przygody Reksia (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Roadwar 2000 (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Rome: Total War (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
SimCity (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek: Elite Force (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
StarCraft (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
System Shock 2 (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Cat Lady (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Consuming Shadow (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Jedi Masters (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Mystery of the Druids (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The New Order: Last Days of Europe (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Outer Worlds (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Room (Mobile Game) (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
This Is the Police (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Total War: Shogun 2 (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Transport Tycoon (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Trauma Center (Atlus) (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Uru: Ages Beyond Myst (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Victoria: An Empire Under The Sun (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Void Bastards (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
War for the West (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
West of Loathing (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten / Videogame / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Visual Novel) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Daitoshokan No Hitsujikai (Visual Novel) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Max's Big Bust: A Captain Nekorai Tale (Visual Novel) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Shin Hayarigami (Visual Novel) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek Specter (Web Animation) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Underground (Web Animation) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
A Redtail's Dream (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Chicken Wings / Web Comic / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
White Noise (2011) (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Brony D&D (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
CalebCity (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Door Monster (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Heart of Elynthi (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Hermitcraft (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
History Buffs (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Jaffa Factory (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
3kliksphilip (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Unfinished London (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Winter of '83 (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Wizards with Guns (Web Video) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Awful Hospital (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Damsels Don't Wear Glasses (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Dreamkeepers (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Halo: A Fistful of Arrows (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
League of Super Redundant Heroes (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Leftover Soup (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Original Life (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Paranormal Mystery Squad (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
PHD (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sly Cooper: Thief of Virtue (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Stand Still, Stay Silent (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Terminal Lance (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Word Weary (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Tower of God (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Vampire Cheerleaders (Webcomic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Overused Sci-Fi Plot Devices (Website) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Overused Sci-Fi Storylines (Website) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Duffel Blog (Website) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Alien Racers / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Avengers Assemble / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Barbie: Mariposa / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Coco / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Count Duckula / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Earthworm Jim / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
El Héroe / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Exo Squad / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Gabbyâ€™s Dollhouse / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Inside Out / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Justin and the Knights of Valour / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Legion of Super Heroes (2006) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Maryoku Yummy / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Megas XLR / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Metajets / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
My Life as a Teenage Robot / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Niko and the Sword of Light / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Ozzy & Drix / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Pigs Is Pigs (1954) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sheep in the Big City / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
SuperMansion / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
TaleSpin / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Teen Titans Go! / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Awesomes / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Incredibles / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Incredibles / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The PJs / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Yvon of the Yukon / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
WWE (Wrestling) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Savage Dragon (Comic Book) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Arc Of Sacrifices / Fan Fic / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
HERZ (Fanfic) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Transformers Alter Verse / Fan Fic / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Missing in Action / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Atlas Shrugged / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
D.Gray-Man (Manga) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Shameless (UK) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Lusternia (Video Game) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
CLANNAD (Visual Novel) / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Legion of Super-Heroes / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat

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