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The Government
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The Government. Can be Orwellian, also seen as the forces that hide aliens/shot JFK. Major unseen character in Government Conspiracy shows. Recently, some shows and movies have slightly subverted this with a government that is villainous not due to malevolence or conspiracy, but due to ineptitude, necessity, or sheer size. This is the government that isn't actually out to get you, but isn't interested enough in your plight to notice that there's any abuse going on. Can be condensed into a single character, a rules-stickler or jobsworth who doesn't much care that your life's on the line: you still have to fill out form 47-B. (Such characters have some overlap with the less sympathetic instances of Inspector Javert.) Related to the Government Procedural setting, but while these focus on the inner workings of the government and the people inhabiting it, they rarely cast the government officials as a malevolent force. See also Blaming "The Man", Democracy Is Bad, and President Evil. Compare Police State and The Empire. |
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The Corrupternment in Disgaea 4. It's not supposed to be terribly ideal in the best of times (it's the government of hell after all), but Valvatorez decides it's time they've gotten overthrown when they issue an order to exterminate the Prinnies... Not because Valvatorez especially cares for the Prinnies (nobody does), but because he promised each of them a sardine upon graduation, and he can't go about doing that if they're dead, now can he? | |
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Bleach: The Central 46 is the supreme governing and judicial body in Soul Society. It's made up of 46 members: 40 elders and 6 judges. They handle all laws and decisions regarding Soul Society, including punishments. Their orders are absolute, not even captains have the power or right to question a decision that's been made, even when their decisions are unjust. The organisation is housed in a building that has no public access. Even captains have no right to turn up there unless explicitly invited to do so (which almost never happens). The organisation not only governs from this building but also lives there. The building also contains the great archive of Soul Society's history. There is an in-universe conspiracy theory that there's a shadow organisation secretly pulling the strings of the Central 46, but the story's only been willing to confirm that on one occasion Aizen destroyed the Central 46 and issued orders in its name to further his own agenda (the entire Soul Society arc was based around this). Once he'd been ousted from Soul Society, Captain-Commander Yamamoto temporarily functioned as the Central 46 until it was rebuilt. The organisation is a flawed system, a strong supporter of tradition, very inflexible once decisions have been made and functions in absolute secrecy making it almost impossible to hold them to account even when they're being unjust (which isn't uncommon). Even Yamamoto wasn't willing to defy the wishes of the Central 46, but his successor Kyouraku's very first act as Captain-Commander was to run roughshod over the Central 46's way of doing things, imposing his own style from the get-go and making it very clear that the relationship between the Central 46 and Gotei 13 Captain-Commander is going to undergo a very radical change. Not bad for someone who has a reputation for being Brilliant, but Lazy. | |
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The US government in Half-Life orders US Marine and Black Ops forces to contain the Black Mesa incident through force, which includes silencing all witnesses. Eventually, this includes many of the military personnel left behind in a hasty evacuation. | |
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Kiddy Grade's Galactic Organization of Trade and Tariffs, or GOTT, is a branch of the Galactic Union (GU), a sort of United-Nations-like government over many of the planets and other locations that have been colonized by humankind across space. And of course, they get their share of conspiracies as well. | |
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There is America's totalitarian religious fundamentalist government in Escape from New York/LA. Every government agent we see is practically a Card-Carrying Villain. | |
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The Ministry of Magic in the Harry Potter books, which seems to become increasingly corrupt as the series advances, reaching Putting on the Reich levels in the final book (after Voldemort took over, but still). Actually, it doesn't become more corrupt at all. The atmosphere of the books changes in accordance with Harry's growing up. When he's a kid, he knows that a bad man killed his parents and wants him dead, but as he grows up, he realizes the politics behind everything, and that, while they may be "on his side," the Ministry of Magic is certainly not his friend. |
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Recent seasons of 24 have featured terrorist conspiracies operating from within the White House - directed by the president in season 5, the vice president in season 6. | |
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The new government in Jericho (2006) restores order via Private Military Contractors and a healthy dose of help from a major mega-corp. While there is a sinister connection between the corporation and the new government, the average person who works for the new system is usually only as obstructive as the new laws force them to be. | |
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Zig-zagged in Kamen Rider Build with the Touto government. While it does have several corrupt members involved with the Nebulous Evil Organisation of the setting, overall it's not shown to be an evil force necessarily, with its Prime Minister being a Reasonable Authority Figure who wants to avoid war with Touto's two neighboring nations, Hokuto and Seito. Hokuto and Seito however are straighter examples of this trope, and both are all too happy to invade once a Corrupt Politician in Touto gives them the Pretext for War they need. | |
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The U.S. Government in the Resident Evil franchise started showing some shades of this as far back as Resident Evil 3: Nemesis. Resident Evil 5 confirmed it. If at best they're not out right evil they're still definitely culpable of certain things behind the scenes. In Resident Evil 6, the U.S. National Security Advisor Derek C. Simmons who also ordered the missile strike to destroy Raccoon City is revealed to be corrupt and serves as the main villain of Leon's campaign of the game. Throughout the game, it's also revealed that Simmons is the current leader of The Family and created the C-Virus by experimenting with the G-Virus in Sherry's body and the T-Veronica Virus while using it to turn Carla Ramadeas into a clone of Ada Wong which kickstarts the majority of the game's plot. He also uses his influence to have Helena Harper made part of President Adam Benford's security team and forces her to help him cause his death when he was planning to disclose the truth about Raccoon city to the world after taking her sister hostage. | |
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In Metal Gear, The Government starts off as merely being a breeding ground for Machiavellian bastards who don't give a rat's ass about the hero or any other soldier. Later on, it turns out it's being controlled by a really bizarre Government Conspiracy (or even possibly an Ancient Conspiracy) of some sort, which the villain of the original MSX games is implied to have been fighting against. | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four. Although in this case, the government is actively malicious. It's a world where government policy revolves around keeping the masses under control, silencing dissenters, and using the threat of (effectively identical) foreign governments to keep everyone quiet. So The Government is definitely the villain, but not strictly the kind of villain described in this entry. |
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The government in Zombo is basically every stereotype of the Eisenhower, Reagan, and Bush administrations. Also, Donald Trump is President. | |
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Also known as Unity in A.P.O.C. Like Brexit on nightmare fuel in 25 years time. | |
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On The X-Files, the American government is one of the evil forces behind many conspiracies, like tests on humans, subliminal seduction, medical experiments, or the truth about alien life and their connections to the Earth. Russians are part of it, too, and it's implied that other world shadow leaders are involved as well. | |
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While obviously more local than other examples here, Sin City has this in spades since one of the most powerful men in the state has a Serial Killer/Pedophile son who is allowed to run free. | |
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Stargate SG-1 averted this trope. The government, despite doing big cover ups, collaborating with aliens, and shooting random people just for having snakes inside their heads, are actually the good guys. But there's a rogue faction in NID and later The Trust that seeks to be an example of the trope. An episode does show an alternate reality, where the US has imposed martial law after being forced to go public with the truth. Despite this, they're still the good guys, although their methods are a little more forceful. | |
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The government in the original V for Vendetta comic series was a metaphor for the British government under Margaret Thatcher. However, in the film version it's a metaphor for the Bush administration, particularly insofar as certain conspiracy theories are concerned. The comic also goes out of its way to show it was only after the far left took control and left NATO that the war happened causing the far right to gain control. |
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In Delta Green the Player Characters are US government agents, working for various law enforcement, intelligence agencies or military, so a lot of the game is about manipulating, navigating and slipping through the cracks of government bureaucracy. Many real-life agencies are provided as possible employers, from well-known from FBI and the DEA to more obscure FinCENnote Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, NTCTnote National Counterterrorism Center or the NGAnote National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or even major and influential private contractors, such as Booz-Allen-Hamilton, RAND Corporation and Lockheed-Martin. A major theme of Delta Green is how the mighty uncaring forces of government bureaucracy aren't that different from the uncaring nihilistic Cosmical forces of the Cthulhu Mythos. |
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Quintessential example: The movie Brazil. | |
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The U.S. senate in Godzilla: King of the Monsters laugh at the idea of mankind coexisting with Godzilla, and they want Monarch to co-operate with the military to wipe all the Kaiju out (no, this is is not a good idea this time). Monarch has spent the past five years since the preceding film trying to stop and delay them. The government fire the Oxygen Destroyer without telling Monarch about it in an attempt to kill Ghidorah and Rodan, but the blast not only fails to take out either Titan, it ends up near-fatally wounding Godzilla, allowing King Ghidorah to reign unopposed and enslave all the other Titans to begin destroying the planet. | |
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Discussed in Daughter for Dessert. Mortelli tells the protagonist after his trial that the federal government will be putting everything he ever did as a cop under a microscope in light of his performance on the witness stand. | |
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Shooter portrays the government as full of corruption and conspiracies. The hero, in the end, becomes an anti-government terrorist. | |
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The American and Soviet governments of 2010: The Year We Make Contact also fit the bill. | |
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Prison Break has two forms of government villains: the well-meaning police officers who are just following the rules and capturing the Fox River Eight in order to enforce the law, and the evil vice-president-turned-president's men who want to kill everybody that gets in the way of their massive conspiracy. | |
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The short-lived spin off of The X-Files The Lone Gunmen had The Government as antagonists as well, although the pilot had the protagonist's father point out that the evil was being done by a very small part and not the entire US government. | |
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The World Government in One Piece, which seems to be behind at least two conspiracies; one involving the recovery of ancient superweapons, and one involving a cover-up of the world's true history (the so-called "Void Century" during which the World Government came into existence). Apparently, this cover-up necessitates blowing an entire island and everyone on it to kingdom come. They also allow a group of people called the World Nobles; one of whom, while riding around on one of his slaves, saw a woman that he liked the look of, and decided to take her as his 13th wife; and he shot the woman's fiancé when he objected. Mind you, that the World Nobles wear bubble helmets with oxygen tanks so that they don't have to breathe the commoners' air; and are completely above the law. In fact, their general portrayal is consistently "worse than it was before". You can see them getting worse. Roswald was terrible, but he tried to look dignified. His children on the other hand... And that "completely above the law" thing is worse than you think. If there is anyone that they can't shoot and has openly defied them, you know what they do? They summon an admiral, one of the World Government's Greatest Military Powers (basically their strongest individual fighters), to take care of the threat. To make it clear, the Admirals are on a threat level that makes anyone who isn't as strong as one of the commanders of the Whitebeard Pirates, or hell, close to the strength of one of the Four Emperors, flee the immediate vicinity (as in, the island they're on, and probably the two nearest ones as well). Talk about Disproportionate Retribution. The World Government has government-sanctioned pirates known as the Seven Warlords of the Sea, they ignore their laws as they please (such as the abolition of slavery), they try to cover up every major incident, such as a massive breakout of highly dangerous criminals, that would reflect badly on them, and support the doctrine of "Absolute Justice", which is basically just an excuse to murder criminals regardless of whoever is in the way, such as innocent civilians. Coupled with the fact that they allow the World Nobles run around and do whatever the hell they please, and that's when people begin to realize how corrupt "the world" of One Piece is, even by today's standards. |
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Neo Arcadia from the Mega Man Zero games, which started out as a peaceful city-state where humans and robots lived in peace until it became fascist and genocidal after the death of its leader. Nearly dead, anyways, using his body as a Sealed Evil in a Can, and his lingering consciousness was one of the closest things the series has to a ghost. | |
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Up until Civil War, when this trope really went to town, the embodiment of this trope in the Marvel Universe was the insufferable Henry Peter Gyrich, the Avengers' official liason in the government. For a short, blissful time in the Busiek/Perez years, the job was filled by Dwayne Freeman, who actually liked the Avengers and wanted to make their lives easier. Of course Dwayne died making a heroic sacrifice to stop Kang the Conqueror, and the Avengers wound up with ol' Gyrich again. Geoff Johns at least tried to make Gyrich more sympathetic during the "Red Zone" arc, in which he secretly works with Falcon (his old nemesis from back in the "You're going to be on the team because I say they need a Token Minority!" days) to discover the plots of the corrupt Secretary of Defense (who's actually the Red Skull in disguise). Once Johns was off the title, however, Gyrich not only went back to his old ways, he got worse. |
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The U.S. Government in Heroman are turning into the secondary antagonists of the series. | |
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At the end of Cube, one character declares that the eponymous deathtrap was built by the government, but no one in the government really knows why; it just sort of organically grew out of too much red tape and "boundless human stupidity". | |
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In Suffragette, the government consists of rich men who think that poor women, who are daily at risk of being killed in a work accident involving a kettle of boiling soap water, should not have the right to vote ... or to keep the money they earn, or to get custody of their own children ... really, any right at all, period. And that's not even mentioning the fact that the protagonist's employer routinely rapes his underage employees. The film even tries to portray some of the men in charge as sympathetic, but one can do only so much with grandfatherly smiles and token utterances about being opposed to Police Brutality when the government considers half of the population subhuman despite having been explained patiently why this view is wrong. | |
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In Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future, the title character specifically says "the Democracy isn't truly evil, or even especially corrupt." But he's not willing to accept that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. So when the Democracy pushes against the people of the Frontier, Santiago pushes back. | |
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The Wire, from season 3 onwards, has a very substantial subplot focusing on City Hall and how the whims and rivalries of politicians affect the War on Drugs in Baltimore. The general conclusion is that the office politics that already exist within the police department and its ability to tackle crime are only made worse because of the impossible demands of the mayor's office, who aren't willing to commit any resources that could damage their own career paths but do want to benefit from the PR of "reducing" the crime rates. Even an Obstructive Bureaucrat like Burrell is clearly frustrated by it: | |
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JAG is largely an aversion of this trope; as the protagonists work for Uncle Sam, the creator and show runner is a veteran, and the show was supported by the Pentagon; not surprisingly the portrayal of the government at large (excluding the actions of certain individual characters), and the military justice system is overall very favorable. However the CIA (mostly through the character Clayton Webb) is often portrayed, in contrast to the benign U.S. military, as either (depending on the story) ruthless, inept and/or shortsighted. | |
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The Capitol government in The Hunger Games. The titular Hunger Games involve children from the districts that are governed by the Capitol fighting each other to the death, as punishment for the districts that tried to rebel against the Capitol and as entertainment for the Capitol citizens. | |
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In The Dreamside Road, The governments of the world enabled the IHSA to explain and conquer the anomalies in the universe. This backfired, but their survivors are still attempting to rebuild the old world. | |
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The Governing Agency and The Safeguard from Blame!. The former is a benevolent yet mostly impotent system that requires regular humans with a extremely rare genetic marker to tell them what to do, while the latter acts like an anti-virus system that happens to see all humans without said gene as viruses. | |
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The US government in The 4400. | |
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In David Wingrove's Chung Kuo series, the seven T'ang Lords even seriously discuss wiring the brains of the world's population (all 36 billion of them) in order to achieve total control: track anyone who is present at a riot or rebel attack for example, and send out pain signals as crowd control. Now that's state power. | |
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The mysterious "them" in Nowhere Man certainly included the Government. | |
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Represented in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! by Agent Ben and Agent Jerry. | |
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The Alliance in Firefly has many of the cinematic connotations of the Evil Empire, while they appear in the text more like The Federation. They appear first as a massive monolithic craft, staffed with a bit of Reich, casting a shadow over the protagonists. While much of their activity involves the enforcement of reasonable laws that the protagonists break, it's generally implied, and eventually confirmed, that they have something of a tendency to overstep their bounds. There are only a few characters ever shown on screen who could be called sinister, and indeed no more within the Alliance (blue hands) than outside of it (Niska), but patterns and dialogue would seem to suggest that it's not infrequent for the Alliance to mobilize its vast resources, which amplifies the effects of their plans. And in the end, a Well-Intentioned Extremist who does what he feels he must turns out to have been misled by problems Inherent in the System, making his personal moral sacrifice a complete waste. | |
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The crew in Martian Successor Nadesico finds themselves fighting on every side of a three-way brawl between The Government, Corrupt Corporate Executives and an Alien Invasion. | |
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President Clark's corrupt, whitewashing, Psi-corps controlled government in Babylon 5 certainly fit this trope to a T, especially in the third and fourth seasons. | |
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Inverted in Oracle of Tao. The Council effectively is a world government built to ensure centralized government do not form. They do this by preventing armies from becoming too large, and restricting kings from controlling more than one town, or at most, one island. | |
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The government (specifically, a black ops group known as The Cadmus Project) was the major antagonist for Justice League Unlimited's second season Story Arc, which placed Superman, Mr. "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" in the difficult position of having to fight against the government of the country he loved so much. Fortunately, the head heavy of this organization, Amanda Waller, eventually realizes her main financial backer, Lex Luthor, is manipulating her to destroy the League. As a result, she becomes an ally of the superheroes, although that doesn't mean she wasn't prepared to kill them along with Luthor and herself as well in the climactic episode if they weren't able to defeat him on their own in the final battle to save the planet. | |
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