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Usually this comes as a shock to the member who first met and recruited the hero, as s/he and most of the junior officers are earnestly good people. Usually the organization as a whole are not really evil, there are only a few corrupt members [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|(usually higher ups)]] who try to abuse their power, only to be defeated by the hero, of course. After that problem has been cleaned up (often with an astonishing lack of the organization falling to infighting in the wake of such an obvious coup) he is then accepted as a legitimate member with full rights to their powers.
Minor and major variations of this plot can be found in many different media, for all it seems to be a pretty new convention. Contrast [[Good All Along]], [[Villain
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** It should be noted though that ''because'' it is [[Deadman Wonderland]], any organization that doesn't involve actively torturing someone can be considered a good thing. I'm really not kidding. No, seriously. Even use of anaesthetic puts you on 'the good guys' side.
* ''[[Claymore]]'': most of the Warriors of the Organization believe that they are trained to defend humanity from the yoma. They generally run the gamut from the more idealistic (like Jean and Deneve) to those who simply regard it as a job (Galatea and Theresa) with a few psychopaths like Ophelia in the mix. {{spoiler|Most Warriors are ignorant of the fact that they are essentially a biological weapons experiment and that the Organization itself creates the yoma. Some of them who find out decide to take the Organization down for this and other personal reasons.}}
* Chronos in ''[[Black Cat (
* ''[[Witch Hunter Robin]]'' does it. Solomon has national branches all over the world, and as a whole is fairly draconian since it kills witches, rather than capturing them like the Japanese branch (SNT-J). {{spoiler|However, Solomon will not use inhumane experiments or genetic engineering, both of which the Japanese branch is heavily involved in. This is particularly subversive, since it seemed more humane, but its experiments on the witches it captures are [[Aesoptinum|cruel and madness inducing.]] In a variation, Robin is never truly acquitted by the organizations, but her father figure and leader of Solomon does forgive her, while asking for her forgiveness.}}
* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', in which the Nadesico crew gets jerked around by factions within both Nergal and the UEDF.
* 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
* A somewhat darker variant appears in ''[[Darker 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]].
* [[
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== Literature ==
* {{spoiler|President Coin's District Thirteen}} in ''[[The Hunger Games (
== [[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]] (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
* 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]]''.
* In the ''[[House of the Night]]'' series, {{spoiler|Neferet is eventually revealed to be evil and using the school for her own ends.}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
* UNATCO in ''[[
* 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.
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