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* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: [[Zig Zagged]]. He's not above indulging in it or sanctioning others to do so, but the man is not a sadist about it, genuinely believing he is helping the party he subjects the torture to, comparing it to cruel but necessary mental health therapy.
* [[Double Agent]]: Left unclear. He at one point seems to work against the Party, but even when he's shown doing quite the opposite, his potential to have been a deep-cover agent against them is never entirely discounted, and he deliberately refuses to confirm if he truly lying about the subject at any point.
* [[Expy]]: Of [[Brave New World|Mustapha Mond]]. Both are somewhat foreign in their names and appearances compared to the other cast members, both are quite erudite and polite while still backing horrific regimes, and both give [[Breaking Speech]]es concerning [[The Evils of Free Will]] to the protagonist at the climax of the book.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: [[Inverted]]. O'Brien points out to Winston in the final act of the story the Party does not pretend they are this trope at all, their purpose is NEVER to release their power over people like all their predecessors pretended. If anything, they want the exact opposite of this trope and bluntly informs Winston he will need to accept that fact.
** Ironically, O'Brien (in {{spoiler|his guise of agent of the Brotherhood and as a Party torturer in the Ministry of Love}} sincerely believes all the terrible things he is doing is for a greater benefit. Weirdly, he makes these statements in total sincerity in the same scenes he later scorns such sentiments.
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