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** Ironically, this happened to the Hunters themselves in ''The Sentinels'', when T.R. Edwards managed to get them both (and their supporters like Max and Miyria) sent off with the Sentinels.

* Done in the [[Mirror Universe]] novel [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Dark Mirror]] to mirror![[Doomed by Canon|Jack Crusher]] by Evil!Picard to take possession of Beverly. Original!Picard is horrified to learn this.

* [[Andre Norton]]'s ''Star Rangers'' (alternate title ''The Last Planet'') begins with a would-be dictator getting rid of the local [[Space Police|Stellar Patrol]] by sending them on missions to map long-forgotten border systems, with a vague promise of turning these systems into bases from which the Patrol can be reborn. "Undermanned, poorly supplied, without real hope, but determined to carry out orders to the last," they go....

* The events of the ''[[Saga of the Forgotten Warrior]]'' series are set in motion when the Vadal family's [[Ancestral Weapon|ancestor blade]] accidentally winds up bonded to the mere [[Fantastic Caste System|casteless]] child Fall they can't kill for fear of destroying the blade. To get around this they have the child magically brainwashed into thinking he was a proper member of the Vadal family that literally has no fear (on the idea it will get him killed faster), then dedicate him to to the fading ''[[Judge Dread]]''-esque Protectors of the Law, who have a high fatality rate ''in training'' even before they have to face Lok's horrifying demons they're dedicated to destroying, on the condition they get the blade back to find a new owner when he falls. This doesn't work, and the child winds up an explicit [[One-Man Army]] instead. When the child finds out decades later, he slaughters the heads of the Vadal clan for breaking the law then turns himself in, which the continent's head [[The Inquisition|Inquisitor]] decides is the ''perfect'' chance to launch his schemes to get him made king in all but name.