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** In ''Literature/GoshawkSquadron'', an officious senior officer is humbled by Wooley and forced to provide the sort of luxuries only issued to General Staff officers far behind the front lines.
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** In ''Literature/GoshawkSquadron'', an officious senior officer is humbled by Wooley and forced to provide the sort of luxuries only issued to General Staff officers far behind the front lines.lines (though he gets his revenge later on).
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** And there is the vexing issue of the pilots' pay... (See under Creator/DerekRobinson)
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* InvokedTrope in ''Film/AtomicBlonde''. The cover story of British agent Lorraine Broughton is that she's a lawyer sent to bring the body of a British citizen ([[PlotTriggeringDeath another agent]]) back home from East Berlin. However she has no reason to be in East Berlin after having done this, so she makes a minor error in her paperwork knowing that the Communist bureaucracy will refuse to let her remove the body until they've spent a week sorting it out.
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** In the original ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' film minor EPA official Walter Peck (played to perfection by Creator/WilliamAtherton) had the unmitigated gall to arrest the Ghostbusters for causing an explosion that he himself was responsible for when he ordered, in front of multiple witnesses, that the ghost-containment grid be shut down, despite repeated warnings that would be disastrous. In a deleted scene, as Gozer the Gozerian was wreaking havoc, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man was smashing up the city and the End Of The World was quite seriously nigh, Peck's response was to grab a fleeing police officer and order him to go up to arrest the Ghostbusters for "going too far". The officer's response, not unreasonably, was "''You'' go and arrest them!"
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** In the original ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' ''[[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} Ghostbusters]]'' film minor EPA official Walter Peck (played to perfection by Creator/WilliamAtherton) had the unmitigated gall to arrest the Ghostbusters for causing an explosion that he himself was responsible for when he ordered, in front of multiple witnesses, that the ghost-containment grid be shut down, despite repeated warnings that would be disastrous. In a deleted scene, as Gozer the Gozerian was wreaking havoc, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man was smashing up the city and the End Of The World was quite seriously nigh, Peck's response was to grab a fleeing police officer and order him to go up to arrest the Ghostbusters for "going too far". The officer's response, not unreasonably, was "''You'' go and arrest them!"
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* ''Franchise/Ghostbusters'':
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* ''Franchise/Ghostbusters'':''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'':
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* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'': Minor EPA official Walter Peck (played to perfection by Creator/WilliamAtherton) had the unmitigated gall to arrest the Ghostbusters for causing an explosion that he himself was responsible for when he ordered, in front of multiple witnesses, that the ghost-containment grid be shut down, despite repeated warnings that would be disastrous. In a deleted scene, as Gozer the Gozerian was wreaking havoc, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man was smashing up the city and the End Of The World was quite seriously nigh, Peck's response was to grab a fleeing police officer and order him to go up to arrest the Ghostbusters for "going too far". The officer's response, not unreasonably, was "''You'' go and arrest them!"
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* ''Franchise/Ghostbusters'':
** In the original ''Film/{{Ghostbusters1984}}'': Minor 1984}}'' film minor EPA official Walter Peck (played to perfection by Creator/WilliamAtherton) had the unmitigated gall to arrest the Ghostbusters for causing an explosion that he himself was responsible for when he ordered, in front of multiple witnesses, that the ghost-containment grid be shut down, despite repeated warnings that would be disastrous. In a deleted scene, as Gozer the Gozerian was wreaking havoc, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man was smashing up the city and the End Of The World was quite seriously nigh, Peck's response was to grab a fleeing police officer and order him to go up to arrest the Ghostbusters for "going too far". The officer's response, not unreasonably, was "''You'' go and arrest them!"them!"
** ''Film/GhostbustersFrozenEmpire'': And of course NYC Mayor Walter Peck continues to harass the Ghostbusters over the course of the film, and is prepared to shut them down once and for all until he realizes how low long his political career would last in that case.
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** ''Film/GhostbustersFrozenEmpire'': And of course NYC Mayor Walter Peck continues to harass the Ghostbusters over the course of the film, and is prepared to shut them down once and for all until he realizes how low long his political career would last in that case.
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* A heroic example (at least for those opposed to absolutist monarchy) was William Lenthall, who in 1642 was Speaker of the English House of Commons when King Charles I personally led troops into the building to arrest five members accused of treason. Unable to pick them out by sight (as it happens, all five had escaped a short time earlier), he demanded that Lenthall tell him where they were. Confronted by his King, and a large contingent of armed men, Lenthall responded in almost excessively polite terms that Parliamentary rules forbade him from answering that question. The King, luckily for the Speaker, accepted defeat.
-->'''Lenthall:''' May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as this House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here; and I humbly beg your majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your majesty is pleased to demand of me.
-->'''Lenthall:''' May it please your majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as this House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here; and I humbly beg your majesty's pardon that I cannot give any other answer than this to what your majesty is pleased to demand of me.
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* ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'': The DHP, or Department of Hermit Permits in Season 10 is a parody of bureaucratic offices where the staff uses the bureaucracy to avoid having to do any work. The first task is finding the office, which is located in the middle of the forest. The only door doesn't work (and has a sign that says, "please use other door"). Once you finally get inside, you're faced with monsterously long forms that force you do do nonsensical things like run laps around a lighthouse or place a live salmon in your neighbor's basement. If anything is even the slightest bit wrong, your paperwork is rejected outright.
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* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', almost all of the staff of the Laundry except field agents are obstructive bureaucrats that are more concerned with matrix management, powerpoint presentations and paperclip audits than with the things the Laundry is supposed to do, like saving the world from {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. The only aversion is Angleton, who stands at a weird position between AffablyEvil and ReasonableAuthorityFigure [[spoiler:and that is because he secretly is an extremely powerful demon. It seems nothing short of being the Eater of Souls can prevent the Laundry bureaucracy from turning you into a mindless cubicle drone.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', almost all of the staff of the Laundry except field agents are obstructive bureaucrats that are more concerned with matrix management, powerpoint presentations and paperclip audits than with the things the Laundry is supposed to do, like saving the world from {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. This is justified for two reasons: first, TheMasquerade is upheld by recruiting people that find out about it, rather than killing them (the Laundry ''used'' to employ MurderIsTheBestSolution, but they've moved away from that), so the people that work for the Laundry aren't necessarily qualified for any position of power or access, resulting in scores of "busywork" positions, usually middle management. The other reason is that [[spoiler: those paperclips ''could'' be infused with demonic power. They need to know where all of them are at all times.]] The only aversion is Angleton, who stands at a weird position between AffablyEvil and ReasonableAuthorityFigure [[spoiler:and that is because he secretly is an extremely powerful demon. It seems nothing short of being the Eater of Souls can prevent the Laundry bureaucracy from turning you into a mindless cubicle drone.]]]]
