History Main / BigBrotherIsEmployingYou

** In this case, Miles is also literally working for his big brother, given that TheEmperor is his five-years-older foster brother.

* The main characters of the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''[=/=]''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''[=/=]''[[VideoGame/{{XCOM}} X-COM: UFO Defense]]'' MegaCrossover fic ''Fanfic/ReflectionsLostOnADarkRoad'' are on the inside of one such organisation.

* ''VideoGame/XCom'' 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 [[TheMenInBlack MIBs]] delivered around the world via BlackHelicopter… [[WithThisHerring Or at least that's what you]] ''[[PerpetualPoverty aspire]]'' [[HopelessWar to]].

* ''VideoGame/NotTheRobots'' Solar Group spies on its own employees and keeps logs on those that seem to be dissatisfied with their job.

* Happens on occasion in Franchise/FinalFantasy.

** Terra and Celes start out VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI as generals for TheEmpire, though the former was brainwashed.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'': The protagonist, Gordon Freeman, is revealed at the end to have been little more than a pawn of the mysterious G-Man, who appears to be engineering most of the plot as part of an inscrutable cosmic scheme. Freeman is not ([[HeroicMime as far as we know]]) a willing participant, but the G-Man has the apparent ability to manipulate time and space in such a way as to effectively {{railroad|ing}} him into doing what he wants. in ''Half-Life 2: Episode 1'', the G-Man's control of Freeman is, at least temporarily, interrupted by the Vortigaunts.

* The protagonists of ''Anime/PsychoPass'' are the law enforcement arm for a government that arrests people based on their judged psychological criminal tendency (instead of actual crimes) and [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou has scanners and cameras everywhere]].

* In fact, lots of Creator/PhilipKDick books and stories can work for this one. ''The Penultimate Truth'' (maybe, depending on how you interpret the crazy, drugged-out second half), ''The MinorityReport'' and ''We Can Remember It For You Wholesale'' which became the movie ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' and the [[Film/TotalRecall2012 2012 remake]].

* Stanley Tweedle of ''{{Lexx}}'' is a lowly Class 4 Security Guard whose own selfishness in the past actually helped build a foothold [[NiceJobBreakingItHero for the nightmarish theocracy he works for.]]

* ''Film/EagleEye'' the two protagonists are forcefully recruited by a renegade A.I. to help it kill the President, and replace him with the Secretary of Defense.

* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Zack Allan joins the Nightwatch, an SA-type organisation for the fascists who are plotting to take over the Earth government, because he needs the money. He eventually has a HeelRealisation at the point when the coup starts, and betrays the group.

* The main character in ''TheGiver'' is being trained to take a role in perpetuating the dystopia they all live in.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'': The protagonist, Gordon Freeman, is revealed at the end to have been little more than a pawn of the mysterious G-Man, who appears to be engineering most of the plot as part of an inscrutable cosmic scheme. Freeman is not ([[HeroicMime as far as we know]]) a willing participant, but the G-Man has the apparent ability to manipulate time and space in such a way as to effectively {{railroad|ing}} him into doing what he wants. in ''Half-Life 2: Episode 2'', the G-Man's control of Freeman is, at least temporarily, interrupted by the Vortigaunts.

* Stanley Tweedle of ''{{Lexx}}'' is a lowly Class 4 Security Guard whose own selfishness in the past actually helped build a foothold [[NiceJobBreakingItHero for the nightmarish theocracy he works for.]]

* Stanley Tweedle of ''{{Lexx}}'' is a lowly Class 4 Security Guard whose own selfishness in the past actually helped build a foothold [[NiceJobBreakingItHero for the hellish Divine Shadow theocracy.]]

* Stanley Tweedle of ''Series/Lexx'' is a lowly Class 4 Security Guard whose own selfishness in the past actually helped build a foothold [[NiceJobBreakingItHero for the hellish Divine Shadow theocracy.

* In ''{{Equilibrium}}'', John Preston is the top Grammaton Cleric, responsible for tracking down and bringing to justice "sense offenders," the opponents of the Tetragrammaton Council, the government of Libria.

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

* In fact, lots of PhilipKDick books and stories can work for this one. ''The Penultimate Truth'' (maybe, depending on how you interpret the crazy, drugged-out second half), ''The MinorityReport'' and ''We Can Remember It For You Wholesale'' which became the movie ''Film/TotalRecall1990'' and the [[Film/TotalRecall2012 2012 remake]].

* ''SLAIndustries''. The PC's are Operatives who work for some branch of the eponymous company, which is the brutal, corrupt government of the Worlds of Progress.

* ''RedFaction'' is about a rebellion of Martian miners oppressed by the corrupt MegaCorp Ultor Mining.

* ''{{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 [[TheMenInBlack MIBs]] delivered around the world via BlackHelicopter… [[WithThisHerring Or at least that's what you]] ''[[PerpetualPoverty aspire]]'' [[HopelessWar to]].

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

* 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.

* ''Blind Faith'' by Creator/BenElton features, as its hero, Trafford, who works for NatDat, the National Data Bank, which knows everything about everyone. Almost everyone works for NatDat in one way or another.

* The ''Literature/WarchildSeries'' by Karin Lowachee. While Captain Azarcon isn't the narrator in any of the books, he can undoubtedly be considered the protagonist. And he's a captain of a large space carrier for a government which invaded an alien lunar colony, started a war, and then re-started the war out of prejudice and bigotry when he tried to end it. Needless to stay, he [[spoiler: stops working for the government by the end of the second book.]]

* The protagonist of the Creator/RobertAHeinlein novella ''If This Goes On'' (also known as ''RevoltIn2100'') is one of the guards at the HQ of the CorruptChurch that rules a dystopian future America.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', [[MagnificentBastard the Illusive Man,]] brings Commander Shepard back from death and equips him with everything he needs to help him defeat the lackeys of [[EldritchAbomination the Reapers]], who want to destroy all organic life in the galaxy. Once the Collectors are defeated [[spoiler:he wants you to not destroy their technology, but to salvage it to make mankind stronger than any other species. But that's pretty much the same thing every other slaves of the Reapers have believed to be doing.]]

Don't think that makes you important though. Get the least bit uppity with us, and [[WeHaveReserves we can and will easily replace you]], and don't think anyone would care to remember you if that happened, we have already taken the liberty of [[{{Unperson}} erasing you from the few publicly available databases]]. Now, now, don't look so upset, it just came with the job. Granted, it is a bit hard knowing exactly what you are signing up for, when you are eager to get out there and take your boot to the face of the numerous enemies of our glorious state, or if you are volunteered at gunpoint.