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Line 23: * This is almost exactly what happens to NERV in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', except that Shinji, Misato and other initially-clueless-but-generally-good members do ''not'' prevent the higher-ups from completing their plans of questionable morality (well, at least Ritsuko tried to). * In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', we eventually learn that {{spoiler\|the entire state military is in fact a tool for the evil Homunculi, one of whom is in fact the ''head'' of the military. [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast\|Though really,]] he is called ''[[Putting on the Reich\|the Führer]]''.}} In both the manga and the anime adaptation, idealistic members try to stop them from succeeding. * A somewhat darker variant appears in ''[[Darker ~~Than~~than Black]]'' -- [[The Syndicate]] employs Contractors, but it ruthlessly uses those under its control to do all manner of dirty work for its own inscrutable benefit (and the Contractors are under no illusions concerning their work). Ultimately, the syndicate turns out {{spoiler\|to have an agenda involving exterminating the contractors as a whole by closing Hell's Gate ([[La Résistance\|Evening Primrose]] beat them to Heaven's Gate). Both Hei, his [[True Companions]], and November 11 become examples of this trope when they find out, and in the latter cases Conspiracy [[Redemption Equals Death]].}} ** The Syndicate is an interesting play on this trope, as on the surface it appears to be merely a criminal organization, while in reality it's [[The Man Behind the Man\|controlled by]] {{spoiler\|the UN, as are most of the supposedly opposing groups}}. * In the ''[[Sonic X]]'' continuity, the military organization G.U.N (Guardian Unit of Nations) was responsible for the attack on Space Colony Ark fifty years ago, during which twelve year old Maria Robotnik, amongst many others, were killed: the incident was fobbed off as an accident and everyone who was connected or suspected of connection was either killed or discredited. Leaping forward to present day however, and we find the current members of GUN (including Agent Topaz) taking in their own past agents for their fifty year old Crimes. I guess this is a case of them not being responsible for the [[Sins of Our Fathers\|crimes of their predecessors]]. Line 35: == [[Live Action Television]] == * Happened in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' in Season 4 with Riley and the Initiative. Riley was a loyal soldier for the organisation and attempted to recruit Buffy as well, but eventually learned that the Initiative was using [[Mad Scientist~~\|Mad Scientists~~]]s (particularly Walsh), [[Super Soldier\|boosting its soldiers' performances]] with [[Government Drug Enforcement\|drugs]] and [[Hollywood Cyborg\|cybernetic implants]], and creating a cyborg [[Super Soldier]] using [[Biological Mashup\|demon body tissue]]. After Walsh tries to kill Buffy, and the Initiative captures and experiments on Oz, Riley deserts and joins the Scoobies. After the demise of the Initiative Riley is [[Put on a Bus\|headhunted by a military demon-killing unit]] that's less morally ambiguous. * SD-6 from ''[[Alias (TV series)\|Alias]]'' plays this card with its very first episode: a criminal organization masquerading as a black-ops unit of the CIA, wherein several of its recruits (Sydney, Dixon, and Marshall) are unaware of its true nature, and who are allowed to join the CIA once SD-6 is taken down. Granted, to many outside the USA, CIA Black Ops '''are''' bad, but SD-6 [[Eviler Than Thou\|is even worse.]] * ''[[Millennium (TV series)\|Millennium]]''. Line 47: * Gabriel Logan from ''[[Syphon Filter]]'' ends up killing half the top brass of the Agency, witnesses the deaths of the other half, and becomes the new head honcho, giving him authority to reform it into the more benign International Presidential Consulting Agency. * Happens to Balamb Garden in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''. Well, when your higher-ups are trying to sell you to [[Obviously Evil]] Sorceress Edea to save their own arses after a failed assassination attempt against her, it's only right that you kick their sorry butts. * In ''[[Dawn of War]] 2: Chaos Rising'', it turns out the Blood Ravens' Chapter Master and Chief Librarian is tainted, and has spread his rot through much of the chapter. Third and fourth companies, who are untainted, officially rebel against him in the expansion pack's ~~ending -- depending~~ending—depending on the party's purity level, this can be with the player's squad as the rebellion's most fervent supporters, or as another enemy for them to defeat. * In ''[[Tactics Ogre]]'', [[La Résistance\|the Walsta Liberation Army]] that recruits you in the beginning engages in a lot of morally questionable deeds, including massacring civilians to put the blame on Gargastan, which leads the Army to split into factions after the first chapter. If you stay with them and take orders (the Lawful route), then when {{spoiler\|Leonard kills Duke Ronway and tries to kill you, you defeat him, use him as a scapegoat for all of the Walsta Liberation Army's crimes, and unite the Walsta Liberation Army and Neo Walsta Liberation Army into a single mostly-good resistance force.}} * In ''[[Honkai Impact 3rd]]'' it is eventually revealed that {{spoiler\|Schicksal's Overseer Otto Apocalypse is the one responsible for the return of the Herrscher of the Void and all the harm resulting from that. This leads to St. Freya breaking off to join with Anti-Entropy in battling him.}} == [[Web Comics]] ==