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At one level this makes some sense. The sudden presence of [[PsychicPowers telepaths, telekinetics, teleporters, phasers, etc]]. could throw society into chaos as long held concepts of privacy and security might be in danger of being thrown onto the scrap heap. But the new organization will almost always [[DrunkWithPower go overboard]] as it was initially formed out of [[GullibleLemmings panic]]. The normals who control the organization will start to see the supers as [[PersonOfMassDestruction weapons or tools to be exploited]]. Eventually an organization composed mainly of superhuman mutants may [[TranshumanTreachery start looking at the normals around it as an impediment]] to their [[{{Darwinist}} natural supremacy]]. Things will [[ItGotWorse go rapidly downhill from there]].

*** "The Initiative" shows its strong arm tendencies in the very first issue. A girl (mutant?) called Cloud 9, who can fly and control a thick cloud like substance, is caught by War Machine who proceeds to tell her to join or he'll blow away the cloud she's flying on, WHILE SHE'S A THOUSAND FEET IN THE AIR!
*** Here's an idea people, don't name your evil organizations to control that which you don't understand or trust after [[TooDumbToLive evil organizations to control that]] [[ShoutOut which you don't understand or trust from ]] [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer works of fiction]].

** This was part of the point of sharing the power among thousands of Slayers, avoiding the "girl with the weight of the world thrust on her shoulders" setup of the past. With so many Slayers, some of them are bound to ''want'' to be full-time world-savers, and the rest can live more normally than Buffy did.
*** Though, when you think about it, it would make sense for some spells to be made more powerful with a Slayer sacrifice not to mention the fact that Slayer blood is said to give a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Vamp]] a sort of high. Those who don't join lack both backup and a Watcher. In other words, they disappear and nobody notices. To sum it up, don't join and you're easy pickings for a Vamp or evil Magic user.

* [[StarWars The Jedi Order]] averts this trope. Not all force users are expected to join it, and leaving is allowed, though their indoctrination from childhood means that only twenty masters have (legitimately) left over the thousand generations of the Order's existence. (Of course, Dark Jedi and Sith aren't counted as having left "legitimately", and no information is given on Knights or Padawans.)

* Averted in ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer Season Eight''. While Buffy's Slayer organization tries to persuade new Slayers to join, they don't force them to do so, and allow them to slay independently or as an extracirricular activity. They're less nice about Slayers who misuse their powers, like Simone or Gigi, of course.

** This does not stop Apostates and mercenary mages from being dreadfully common, and sometimes absurdly more powerful than mages with formal training.

* In CthulhuTech, all [[PsychicPowers parapsychics]] (people born with innate abilities, which can range from mind control to having control over gravity) have to register with the [[StateSec Office of Internal Security]], be tested, are subjected to survielence, and if their powers are deemed [[MindRape Invasive]] or Dangerous, they have to wear badges in public to inform people of it. On the other hand, looking at [[CosmicHorrorStory what kind of place]] the Cthulhutech setting is, it's fairly justified.
* WhiteWolf 's ''{{Aberrant}}'' has Project Utopia, who do this very subtly--they're just helpful folks who want to teach you how to control your superpowers and use them for good. Except that they also sterilize you so you don't make more little superhumans and (largely out of ignorance) persuade you to overuse your powers, causing bad mutations and insanity. And they're the good guys.
** Very debatably the good guys. The morality of the setting is far too [[GrayAndGreyMorality gray]] for that.

* AnneMcCaffrey's Talents (from the Pegasus and Tower series) avert this in that they don't force anyone to join if they don't want to. No one (mentioned in the books, at least) has actually refused to join when offered, although in a couple of cases, it takes either outright bribes (Jeff Raven) or an appeal to the Talent's more mercenary side (Tirla, who enticed with the promise of all the pretty things and food she wants.) The benefits of being a registered Talent outweigh any drawbacks, to the extent that many people are disappointed that they aren't Talents.

** They may be mild-mannered when it comes to recruitment, but whether the Order and its policies are benevolent is another question entirely.
*** Not in the films. This applies only in the Expanded Universe, and even then, many consider it to be DisContinuity -- including this troper.
**** And the other 99% don't.
*** Actually, Count Dukuu left the order legitimately in order to claim his place as an heir of some sort, so it IS continuity.

-->"Somewhere on Beta colony there is an institution. In one room of the institution there is a man who spends his days and nights screaming at things that only he can see. Things we planted in his mind. They have to keep him in a straight jacket 24 hours a day or he'll claw his own eyes out just to make it stop."

* TheDresdenFiles: White Council is this if you've got enough magical talent. See the White Council won't bother if you're too magically weak to do much. Magic can be stumbled into though, and if you're powerful enough you might stumble into it by breaking one of the 7 Laws. MindControl is against one of the laws and very easy to do, and very tempting for teenagers in hormones throws to do, even if they think they are doing a minor act of charity in keeping a friend off drugs. All 7 laws exist for a reason, in part that breaking one leads to breaking another due to the addictive nature of black magic. So all 7 laws have the death penalty if you're caught breaking them, even if you never knew of the White Council or anyone else who could do magic. There's not enough recruiters out there to find most potential Wizards leading the world to kinda suck.

* In ''MassEffect'', Kaidan, a member of humanity's first generation of [[MindOverMatter biotics]], reveals that when news of the BizarreBabyBoom first went public, a military corporation called Conatix "encouraged" all human biotics to go through TrainingFromHell at the hands of hired turian mercenaries. He even implies that Conatix may have deliberately engineered [[AppliedPhlebotinum element zero]] spills to expose pregnant women and create more biotics, but he admits the evidence is merely circumstantial. This practice ceased [[spoiler: when Kaidan killed a particularly sadistic instructor at Jump Zero]], and the Ascension Project was founded. While biotics are no longer required to join the Alliance military, their whereabouts are still monitored, and they're given preferential recruitment in the corps because of their rarity.

* In ''MassEffect'', Kaidan, a member of humanity's first generation of biotics, reveals that when news of the BizzareBabyBoom first went public, a military corporation called Conatix "encouraged" all human biotics to go through TrainingFromHell at the hands of hired turian mercenaries. He even implies that Conatix may have deliberately engineered [[AppliedPhlebotinum element zero]] spills to expose pregnant women and create more biotics, but he admits the evidence is merely circumstantial. This practice ceased [[spoiler: when Kaidan killed a particularly sadistic instructor at Jump Zero]], and the Ascension Project was founded. While biotics are no longer required to join the Alliance military, their whereabouts are still monitored, and they're given preferential recruitment in the corps because of their rarity.

* Talking with Kaidan in ''MassEffect'' implies that a corporation called Conatix rounded up all human biotics to go through TrainingFromHell at the hands of hired turian mercenaries, and possibly deliberately exposing pregnant women to [[AppliedPhlebotinum element zero]]. This practice ceased [[spoiler: when Kaidan killed a particularly sadistic instructor at Jump Zero]].
** MassEffect actually subverts this in that, while FantasticRacism makes it difficult for biotics to get non-military jobs, they are given preferential treatment in the military due to their rarity.

** This was part of the point of sharing the power among thousands of Slayers, avoiding the "girl with the weight of the world thrust on her shoulders" setup of the past. With so many Slayers, some of them are bound to ''want'' to slay, and the rest can do whatever.

** In this game's ''Going Rogue'' expansion, in the Praetorian Earth parallel world, all metahumans are drafted into the empire's Powers Division. All player characters who start in Praetorian Earth start as new members of Powers Division.

* AnneMcCaffrey's Talents (from the Pegasus and Tower series) operate one of the rare benevolent and righteous versions of this. It ''is'' slightly tweaked, in that they don't force anyone to join if they don't want to. No one (mentioned in the books, at least) has actually refused to join when offered, although in a couple of cases, it takes either outright bribes (Jeff Raven) or an appeal to the Talent's more mercenary side (Tirla, who enticed with the promise of all the pretty things and food she wants.) The benefits of being a registered Talent outweigh any drawbacks, to the extent that many people are disappointed that they aren't Talents.

* Psi Corps from ''BabylonFive'' was the former TropeNamer, back when the page was called TheCorpsIsMother after their expression "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father". Psi Corps controls all human telepaths and telekinetics, demanding from them Corps membership, imprisonment or a life on suppressive drugs that cause depression. Many telepaths opt to head for the depths of space.

** The attempt to control telepaths through this organization rather backfired though. Quite quickly they decided they were superior and to take over the world. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Good job on gathering them all into a convenient group so they can form conspiracies easily]].