History Main / BigBrotherIsEmployingYou

* ''{{X-Com}}'' has you playing as the top-secret transnational GovernmentConspiracy attempting to cover up an alien invasion, with secret labs full of [[JustThinkOfThePotential captured technology and space monsters]], and squads of heavily armed commandos and psychic [[{{MIB}} MIBs]] delivered around the world via BlackHelicopter… [[WithThisHerring Or at least that's what you]] ''[[WithThisHerring aspire]]'' [[WithThisHerring to]].

* Played with in ''BraveNewWorld'': Bernard Marx works for the government like everyone else... except for the Savage, who [[DecoyProtagonist becomes the protagonist for the second half of the book]].

* In ''TheLivesOfOthers'', the main character is a [[SecretPolice Stasi agent]], keeping the people of East Germany under surveillance.

Hello worker drone number 54234. You are the perfect viewpoint into our [[CardCarryingVillain insanely oppressive]] dystopian society, because you ''are'' our dystopian society. Or at least powering it.

* The government of earth in ''EndersGame'' may qualify as a mild dystopia (population restrictions, child soldiers, etc.) and most of the main characters are either child soldiers in training or their state-employed trainers.
** They don't use child soldiers in the modern sense, but rather they train genius children in war who will theoretically grow up to be great military commanders. The children in the book are used while still young because Ender trusts them; he is still young [[spoiler:when he wipes out the Buggers]] because the military ran out of time. Given a few more years, he would have been older. Plenty of other battleschool recruits grew up and went into 'normal' military life in the fleet.
*** Actually, they specifically wanted kids in command. There's an often forgotten couple lines of dialogue, right after the big battle, where one of the military characters explains that they did it they way they did on purpose. Real commanders understand the potential consequences of their actions and when faced with the loss of life among those they command, had hesitated for crucial seconds during the first and second wars, costing thousands if not millions of human lives because the Buggers never hesitated.

* In TerryGilliam's ''{{Brazil}}'', Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) works for the Ministry of Information Processing. God help him when he gets unavoidably tangled in the toils of Information ''Retrieval''...
** It's strongly implied that everyone works for ''central services'' i.e. the state.

** Sounds a bit worse than it was. [[CrapSackWorld I mean, everyone was poor, so...]] [[OhCrap wait...]]

** Debatable. Firstly, he was not a drone but the deputy director of the entire Precrime division. Secondly, while the TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture setting certainly had it's problems, the civil rights violations and isolated corrupt incidents perpetrated by Precrime itself were not shown or suggested to have anything to do with it. It's actually implied that people went along with the morally questionable Precrime agenda because things had gotten so bad that it seemed like anything that could reduce the violence would be worth it, even if people who hadn't done anything wrong YET had to pay the price.

RedvsBlue: The Reds, the Blues, the Freelancers [[AndZoidberg and Doc]] are working for Project Freelancer, at least until ''Reconstruction'' where the Project and its Director are brought down by some of them.

* While Kirihara of ''DarkerThanBlack'' is very much LawfulGood, her bosses [[TheManBehindTheMan certainly aren't]], and several episodes indicate she has at least some awareness of this.

* In ''DeusEx'', JC Denton begins the game working for the puppet organization of the Secret Masters.

* Does Gordon Freeman of the ''HalfLife'' (from 2 onwards) series count? He's 'employed' by the G-man, willingly or not, and it seems, to this troper, at least, that the G-man could be some sort of source to all the madness being perpetrated, given that[[spoiler: the G-man gave Eli the crystals in Half Life 1 that caused the Resonance Cascade!]].

* In ''MassEffect2'', [[MagnificentBastard the Illusive Man,]] a radical pro human entity, employs you to fulfill his plan to build a human ruled galaxy.
** To be more accurate, he employs Shepard to stop the Collectors, who are agents of the [[SapientShip Rea]][[EldritchAbomination pers]], from abducting human colonies, and to stop the Reapers in general from wiping out advanced organic life. Though he does get pissed if s/he doesn't aid him in making sure humans come out on top in the end.

* D-503 in ''{{We}}''.

* CharltonHeston's character in ''Film/SoylentGreen'' was a police detective, so he technically worked for the oppressive state that was feeding poor people to poor people.

* The cast of ''SilentRunning'' all worked for the government that ordered them to destroy the last preserved ecosystems.

* Fatebane in ''AssociatedSpace'' is a government agent of the Terran Associated States.

* The protagonist of the RobertAHeinlein novella ''If This Goes On'' (also known as ''Revolt in 2100'') is one of the guards at the HQ of the CorruptChurch that rules a dystopian future America.

* In ''MassEffect2'', the Illusive Man, a radical pro human entity, employs you to fulfill his plan to build a human ruled galaxy.

* ''[[{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40,000]]''. To serve the Imperium is to be a servant of the ''the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable.'' It says to right on the box.

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* ''[[{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40,000,]]''. To serve the Imperium is to be a servant of the ''the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable.'' It says to right on the box.

* ''Warhammer 40,000''. To serve the Imperium is to be a servant of the ''the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable.'' It says to right on the box.

* ''[[Warhammer40000]]''. To serve the Imperium is to be a servant of the ''the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable.'' It says to right on the box.

* ''Warhammer40000''. To serve the Imperium is to be a servant of the ''the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable.'' It says to right on the box.