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When [[The Government]] or [[Mega Corp]] is a bastion of corruption, it's time to call in [[La Résistance]] to topple it, right? Well, these people had a different idea.
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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.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* 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.
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* The members of the Six Houses of Kyoto of ''[[Code Geass]]'' secretly fund resistance groups, making them a Type 1.
** ''[[Code Geass]]'' also has Suzaku, who works for the [[The Empire]] but refuses to do things like shoot his friend who [[He Knows Too Much|saw too much]]. He initially doesn't really have a plausible plan for how he is actually going to cause the empire to be reformed from the inside, but eventually comes up with some: allying with Princess Euphemia and trying to get promoted to a position where he can make changes.
*** Unfortunately when certain um... events happen, he kind of goes of the deep end and forgets about this. He ends up as a flat out [[The Quisling]].
== [[Film]] ==
* 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??}}
* ''[[I
== [[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.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** In ''[[
** Ironically, in ''[[
== [[Live
* ''[[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.
* During late stages of the arc revolving around trying to depose [[President Evil|President Clarke]] in ''[[Babylon 5]]'', we meet one or two of these.
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* {{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.
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* Paz from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In a [[Deleted Scene]] from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer claims to do this when his [[New Age Retro Hippie|hippie]] mother Mona resurfaces.
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'''Homer:''' No, I work at the nuclear power plant.
'''Mother:''' Oh, Homer.
'''Homer:''' Well, you'll be happy to know I don't work very hard. ''quietly'' Actually, I'm bringing the plant down from the inside. ''[[Nose Tapping]]'' }}
** But he's really just incompetent.
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