History Main / GovernmentAgencyofFiction

* {{Subverted|Trope}} by the Agency of the ''Film/MenInBlack'', a.k.a. the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Division 6. They outright state that they do not represent any branch of the government (because that would involve "too much paperwork"). As a result, they are 100% privately funded, though that isn't a problem because they own the patents for Velcro and microwave ovens (which were actually invented by aliens).

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Global Justice is a top secret worldwide espionage organization, that handles any threats that normal law enforcement agency can't handle themselves, who sometimes call on the titular heroine through unorthodox methods such as staging a hoax crime for her to appear at. Their personnel include their leader Dr. Betty, an AffectionateParody and GenderFlip version of Nick Fury with an EvilTwin brother, [[MrFanservice Will Du]], a stoic young AffectionateParody of Spock, Flynn Cognito, a QuintessentialBritishGentleman and MasterOfDisguise, as well as various unnamed scientists and pilots. Additionally, the episode "Team Impossible" has the [[MrFanservice titular team]] stated to have joined Global Justice at the end of the episode.

* A StoryArc in ''Series/LoisAndClark'' had the Planet trying to expose the secrets of the National Intelligence Agency, a mashup of the CIA and the NSA.

This trope covers two kinds of [[TheGovernment government agency]], those that are entirely fictional, and current genuine agencies described in a fictional way.

* ''VideoGame/SilentStorm'': The PlayerCharacter takes on the role of a leader for a commando squad during the final two years of World War II, i.e. 1943-45, and depending upon the players choice can side with either the Allies and be apart of the Special Operations-[=SE2=] or Axis and be apart of Abwehr Section 2. Regardless of whichever side the player picks, however, they both still carry out operations behind the frontlines of whichever side the player did not chose before finding themselves investigating a third faction, known as Thor’s Hammer Organization/THO, who plan to TakeOverTheWorld once the world superpowers destroy each other. The two expansion packs that follow have the war end with the remnants of both sides merging together to form the Sentinels, which does not answer to one government and as such are forced to buy their own weapons and ammo, whose goal is to prevent the rise of more terrorists as well as dealing with the remnants of THO, who has infiltrated Sentinel as personnel in an effort to get revenge on those who killed their leader and ruined their plans.

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Section 13 are TheMenInBlack who help [[MrFanservice Jackie]] and his allies in dealing with the various supernatural threats. However, in an interesting twist, they originally were just a normal {{Muggle}} law enforcement agency who recruited [[MrFanservice Jackie]] for his archaeological expertise when the criminal organization that they were investigating were collecting and selling valuable artifacts. Unfortunately, for them one of the artifacts they obtained was a statue that [[SealedEvilInACan housed the draconic fire demon]] [[MrFanservice Shendu]] and would soon realize that they are in over their heads when they stopped [[AgentMulder scoffing at the existence of magic]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'': While the U.S. government organization Intelligence One, (I-1), only appears in one or two episodes early on in the series, it plays an important role in that they are ones who brought together three of the four main cast. They accomplished this through their main goal, as revealed in the episode “Riddle of the Gold”, of protecting scientists and their families from being compromised by foreign agents, with Race Bannon being assigned to Dr. Benton Quest, a OmnidisciplinaryScientist who occasionally works with Intelligence One, and his son Jonny Quest after the death of the former’s wife and the latter’s mother.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Global Justice is an international crimefighting agency who sometimes call on the titular heroine. Their personnel include their leader Dr. Betty, a GenderFlip version of Nick Fury with an EvilTwin brother, top young agent [[MrFanservice Will Du]], Flynn Cognito, a QuintessentialBritishGentleman and MasterOfDisguise, as well as various unnamed scientists and pilots, with [[MrFanservice Team Impossible]] joining them later.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'':
** Civil Protection.
** HECU (Hazardous Environment Combat Unit).

** The International Intelligence Agency (IIA)
** The International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) is the main PrivateIntelligenceAgency, located in New York City underneath a laundromat that can be accessed through a secret elevator, with it being the main employer of the main cast including [[MrFanservice Algernop Krieger, Barry Dylan, Bryan, Conway Stern, Cyril Figgis, Lucas Troy, Ray Gilette, and Sterling Archer]].
** The Organization of Democratic Intelligence Networks (ODIN) is the main rival PrivateIntelligenceAgency located in Paris, France.
** Malory Archer was forced to surrender the former after the FBI arrested everyone as an unsanctioned agency.

* International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), and Organization of Democratic Intelligence Networks (ODIN) in ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}''. Malory Archer was forced to surrender the former after the FBI arrested everyone as an unsanctioned agency.

* ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'': Due to the titular Nelson Tethers being an agent for the government, several agencies, both real and fictional, appear in the game. For the latter, TheProtagonist is the only agent of the Puzzle Research Division, under the FBI, whose main job is to investigate cases that involve complex puzzles, such as the field assignment in Scoggins, Minnesota dealing with an eraser factory, that produces erasers which the White House uses, mysteriously stopping with the government only ever getting back a puzzle when they try to make an enquiry. Outside the Department of Puzzle Research, the FBI directory shows, in a FreezeFrameBonus, other bureaus such as reasonable sounding one like the Bureau of Words to downright strange ones like the Bureau of Naval Lint.

* ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Due to the titular Nelson Tethers being an agent for the government, several agencies, both real and fictional appear in the game. For the former, TheProtagonist works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with it being a VastBureaucracy in the game made up of various subdivisions focusing on implausible subjects. However, while most of the listed divisions are fictional, a few are real such as the laboratory division listed on the directory, which is based on a real division under the Science and Technology Branch of the FBI, as well as counterintelligence and counterterrorism, which are both being based on real divisions that are both under the National Security Branch. The Department of Justice is also shown frequently on the real life U.S. government seal, but they do not play a major part in the plot outside of the FBI being an agency under it. The CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency, is also [[FreezeFrameBonus briefly shown on the directory]] showing that “CIA” is “at the FBI” and are also mentioned again in the second game, when several characters wonder if they are apart of the sudden disappearance of six people in Scoggins, Minnesota. Other real agencies mentioned when the characters are discussing government involvement include the [[NoSuchAgency NSA]] and NASA, with the latter being involved to their creation of a madness inducing machine, but as it turns out the ones most like involved are the [[spoiler:Secret Service]], as their agents appear at the end of the game with the director of the FBI.

* ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'': The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the employer of the titular Nelson as well as one of Nelson’s friends, with the FBI in the game being a VastBureaucracy that has many divisions which focus on implausible subjects. Nelson’s friend, for example, works in the Vegetable Division of the agency, while Nelson works in the Puzzle Research Division as it’s only agent of the division. Before the start of the game, Nelson had never recieved any field assignements until a factory in Minnesota mysteriously stops making erasers that the White House uses. However, the case soon becomes a lot bigger and stranger when an employee of the factory goes missing and strange creatures appear in the town.

* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': The title character is pressganged into working for both the CIA and NSA.

* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'': The events of [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 the previous movie]] propmt the United States to create a new department to deal with extraterrestial affairs, dubbed the [[VidedoGame/SonicAdventure2 Guardian Units of Nations]]. Aka GUN. [[spoiler:Rachel]] is at pure disbelief that they don't realize what a bad idea naming the organization "gun" is.

* ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'': Nelson works for the FBI, Puzzle Division. In fact, he's the division's only agent. A friend of his works for their Vegetable Division. Not that the game [[RuleOfFunny takes itself very seriously]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StreetFighter'': In contrast with the game, the cartoon has Cammy and her team as part of MI''5'', rather than MI''6''/SIS.

* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'': The Federal Bureau of Control, or FBC, is a secret government agency, with the mission of protecting the nation from otherworldly forces. They do this by finding paranatural phenomena such as "Objects of Power" and containing them in their headquarters in Manhattan. By removing these threats and keeping their existence a secret, the Bureau protects the public from the impact these Objects of Power have as well as keeping them out of the hands of those who would abuse their power, all the while scientists, such as the Bureau’s Head of Research [[MrFanservice Casper Darling]], study them in the hopes of [[{{Pun}} controlling]] them.

* The five nation alliances in ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'': [[FunWithAcronyms P.A.T.R.I.O.T., S.A.B.E.R., S.M.A.S.H., H.A.M.M.E.R., and A.N.V.I.L.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Section 13 are TheMenInBlack who help [[MrFanservice Jackie]] and his allies in dealing with the various supernatural threats. However, in an interesting twist, they originally were just a normal {{Muggle}} law enforcement agency who recruited [[MrFanservice Jackie]] for his archaeological expertise when the criminal organization that they were investigating were collecting and selling valuable artifacts. Unfortunately, for them one of the artifacts they obtained was a statue that [[SealedEvilInACan housed the draconic fire demon Shendu]] and would soon realize that they are in over their heads when they stopped [[AgentMulder scoffing at the existence of magic]].

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': The main character, [[MrFanservice Stan Smith]], works for the CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency, and it is mostly through the independent government agency that makes the series interesting, as most of the characters, gadgets, and plots originate through it, with both Roger the alien and Klaus the human-turned-goldfish being both major examples who became part of the Smith family.

* ''Manga/Acca13TerritoryInspectionDept'': The titular organization is an agency that manages the police, fire departments, and various other services in the 13 districts of Dowa Kingdom.

* ''VideoGame/TheDivision'': Features a number of them. There's obviously the namesake Strategic Homeland Division in addition to the Catastrophic Emergency Response Agency (an expy of FEMA), the Disease Control Division (an expy of the CDC, although the CDC itself is mentioned in the first game), and the Hunter Program, [[spoiler: an agency with the Department of Homeland Security formed as a failsafe should the aforementioned SDH go rogue as a whole.]]

* ''VideoGame/DaysGone'' features NERO (the National Emergency Response Organization). They are the only functioning remnant of the pre-outbreak U.S. government and rule over their territories with an iron fist.