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Compare [[Velvet Revolution]], [[Outside Man, Inside Man]] and [[Reverse Mole]]. Contrast [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]. A subtrope of [[My Country, Right or Wrong]], in this case, a loyalist who intends to make things right.

 

* Public Safety Section 9 from ''[[Ghost in the Shell (manga)|Ghost in The Shell]]'', when not taking care of terrorists and other criminals, is a type 2 with a healthy mixing of type 1. They uncover corruption within the government, forcing it in the open where the public outcry means it will get addressed.

* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Colonel Mustang and his allies within the military who are trying to make him the Führer are an example of a type 1.

* Until his fall from grace, Harvey Dent/Two-Face from ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' is a type 1, using his position as District Attorney to bring criminals to justice. Bruce wanted him to be a Type 3 as well, but yeah, we know how well that turned out. Also, Gordon, who is a type 1 and 3, doing the best he can in the existing system and refusing to participate in the corruption that other dirty cops in Gotham do even if it would mean he was safer.

* In ''[[The Informant (film)|The Informant]]'', Mark Whitaker starts the movie as a type 2. {{spoiler|By the end of the movie his web of lies has become ridiculously tangled and as it turns out he had been embezzling money from the company for years. WHAT??}}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Julia in ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' is a Type 1; She works for the Party to survive, but does things considered illegal when she is not being monitored.

* In the ''[[Deryni]]'' novels, Denis Arilan functions as a Type 1 in contrast with a mixed Type 1/3 and a full Type 3: his human colleague Thomas Cardiel and his Deryni subordinate/eventual colleague Duncan McLain. Arilan is all about the rise-through-the-ranks and the secrecy all the time. Cardiel rises within the ranks (Type 1) but then leads the schism (Type 3) which helps him rise further so he goes back to working within the system (hence the cussing quotation). Duncan tries the secrecy for a while, but events and his other roles quickly prompt him to go more completely the Type 3 Icon.

 

* ''[[That '70s Show]]'': Hyde meets a girl as rebellious and anti-establishment as he is, but she leaves because she wants to go to college so she can get a job in the government to do this. She's a Type 1.

* In the fifth season of ''[[Angel]]'', Angel Investigations take over the LA branch of Wolfram & Hart and attempt to do a Type 1 and use the firm for good purposes.

* {{spoiler|Citan Uzuki}} from [[Xenogears]] is type 2: he's clearly worldly and well-travelled with connections to [[The Empire|Solaris]], but firmly on the heroes' side in trying to bring it down.

 

* Paz from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''.

{{quote|'''[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID{{=}}756 Paz]:''' The Court isn't a big monster that does as it pleases. Es a collection of ''people''. Working to do what they think is right. And, over time, other people see what is wrong, what mistakes were made, and work hard to fix them. I cry too, when I find this place. But I ask to help. To change things and make them better.}}

 

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