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* Averted in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] Season Eight''. While Buffy's Slayer organization tries to persuade new Slayers to join, they don't force them to do so, and allow them to slay independently or as an extracurricular activity. They're less nice about Slayers who misuse their powers, like Simone or Gigi, of course.
* A relatively benevolent form appears in ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' - any and all psychics found are rounded up and enrolled in the Academy of Law so that their powers can be used to fight crime. Those that fail to qualify are allowed to live as normal citizens, but must register as psychics.
* Defied in ''[[PS238]]''. The title is the name of Public School 238—a super-hero-run school, devoted entirely towards raising metahuman children. When the school's representatives are dragged in front of Senate, at least one senator raises his doubts about how the school won't end up like this, and the representative takes time to explain how that's not the case. It's repeatedly shown over the course of the comic that [[PS238]] is no more indoctrinating than most normal public schools (if anything it's even less so).
** Later on, Praetorian Academy {{Spoiler|is revealed to actually be a government-controlled facility intended for at-risk superpowered youth, making its "draft board" nature more like reform school or juvie. As part of its strategy for actually getting would-be juvenile supervillains to stay there, it doesn't actually ''admit'' its a reform school and instead pretends to be a supervillain-controlled facility.}}
** The series also introduces two kid heroes, American Eagle and USA Patriot Act, who are both being raised from infancy (by rival political parties) as the intended replacement to the setting's Captain America [[Expy]], who is anticipated to be retiring within a decade. Both of those kids are indoctrinated so heavily that they start out almost entirely incapable of ''not'' talking in sound-bites and cliches, and its strongly implied that the only reason PS238 accepted them as students is because that is the only way they can gain any influence at all over these two kids' upbringing, get them at least partly away from their handlers, and inject some actual ''sanity''. So 'we hate the Mutant Draft Board' is definitely a consistent theme of PS238.
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