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* In the Mob comedy ''The Freshman'', the young student played by Matthew Broderick is unwittingly drawn into the schemes of a mobster played by [[Marlon Brando]], and soon finds himself pursued by two agents of "Department of Justice, Fish and Wildlife Division." Eventually, it is revealed that these agents are actually in the pay of a rival Mob family, and plan on killing both the student and the gangster and stealing the proceeds of their crimes.

* The DEA agents in ''[[The Professional]]'' are hard-pressed to explain the brutal gun fight that stirred the plot into action, but nobody ever questions why they were there in the first place, and they are never seen pursuing actual police work throughout the film.

** This trope is inverted later in the same movie where cops actually arrive '''too quickly'' to the scene of the crime in Marv's story, clueing him in that they work for the [[Big Bad]] and are trying to frame him. He's right, too.