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* ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]''. Ellen Ripley quotes "24 hours for decontamination" regulations rather than allow Kane to enter the ''Nostromo'' for treatment. Of course, she turns out to be right, but by making her appear unsympathetic the movie conceals her eventual role as the hero. A more straight-up application of the trope is the board of inquiry in ''Aliens''. Again this is used to mislead the audience, as the only member who expresses sympathy towards Ripley is Carter Burke, hiding his role as the villain.
* ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' had one per film. Not as evident in the first film, where he is mostly just chewed out for his methods, Lt. Briggs in ''[[Magnum Force]]'' {{spoiler|is the [[Big Bad]]}}, Captain McKay in ''[[The Enforcer]]'' is portrayed as completely incompetent (leading to an ending where he pleads with the terrorists to release the mayor after Harry has dealt with them) and in later films, they want him to ouright retire.
* In the first ''[[Die Hard]]'' movie, the LA police are shown to be mostly made up of this, with an operator who refuses to let John report an emergency because he's on an ''emergency channel'' without authorization, and a police chief who refuses to deal with John because he doesn't have obvious proof he's a cop and authorized to be there. Then the bureaucrats of the police are upstaged by the bureaucrat of the FBI who start obstructing ''them'' (and who the [[Big Bad]] was counting on running things "by the book").
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