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* This was mentioned as a common habit of Isane Isard in the ''[[X Wing Series]]''. If one of her agents continually succeeds, he would eventually suffer from You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. If her agents ''fail'', however, they will either face [[You Have Failed Me...]] or be killed by the people they were acting against. This caused loyalty issues in those subordinates smart enough to figure this out. |
* This was mentioned as a common habit of Isane Isard in the ''[[X Wing Series]]''. If one of her agents continually succeeds, he would eventually suffer from You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. If her agents ''fail'', however, they will either face [[You Have Failed Me...]] or be killed by the people they were acting against. This caused loyalty issues in those subordinates smart enough to figure this out. |
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* In ''Blonde Genius'' by [[J. T. Edson]], cat burglar Gus Saunders is ejected from a plane without a parachute when after he has served [[The Syndicate]]'s purpose by robbing Bekinsop's Academy. |
* In ''Blonde Genius'' by [[J. T. Edson]], cat burglar Gus Saunders is ejected from a plane without a parachute when after he has served [[The Syndicate]]'s purpose by robbing Bekinsop's Academy. |
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* ''Not This August'' (1955) by C.M. Kornbluth is about a Soviet conquest of the United States in [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|1965]]. Before occupation troops arrive in a small town, two of the main character's friends proudly admit to him that they're Communists who were spies for the Soviet Union. Shortly after arriving, the Soviet troops take these two into a basement and execute them. Skilled subversives are not people the new regime wants to have in the area it rules. |
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