History Main / UnderlingWithAnFInPR

* [[TropeInversion Inverted]] in Creator/FrederickForsyth's ''Icon'' (i.e., "overlords with an F in PR"): When [[TheMole Aldrich Ames]] betrays the names of 13 Russians working for the CIA, the KGB decides to arrest them all, simultaneously. The lower-ranking agents running the operation practically weep with despair, saying the KGB might as well have taken out an ad in ''The New York Times'', informing the CIA that ''"we have a high-ranking mole in your agency and here's a list of the people he's given us."'' Fortunately for the KGB, and Ames, the CIA is [[IdiotBall too thick to take the hint]], instead deciding that all 13 agents must have made some kind of careless mistake, at more or less the same time.

* Creator/DaveBarry's ''Literature/TrickyBusiness'': The BigBadWannabe's BrainlessBeauty secretary (hired on the basis of her bra size) is ordered to inform the MediaScrum outside that he's not here. She does this by announcing "He says he's not here!"
* Creator/FrederickForsyth's ''Icon'': When [[TheMole Aldrich Ames]] betrays the names of 13 Russians working for the CIA, the KGB decides to arrest them all, simultaneously. The lower-ranking agents running the operation practically weep with despair, saying the KGB might as well have taken out an ad in ''The New York Times'', informing the CIA that ''"we have a high-ranking mole in your agency and here's a list of the people he's given us."'' Fortunately for the KGB, and Ames, the CIA is [[IdiotBall too thick to take the hint]], instead deciding that all 13 agents must have made some kind of careless mistake, at more or less the same time.

* ''Film/ThePentagonWars'': When a member of the House Armed Services Committee asks General Partridge for a bottom-line figure on how much has been spent developing the Bradley Fighting Vehicle to date, Partridge hems and haws and shuffles through the papers on the table, until his lieutenant helpfully picks out the correct paper for him, getting a Death Glare as thanks.

* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'', while Kuze and his underlings are attempting to [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogate Tachibana]] as to Makoto's whereabouts, Kuze realizes that [[MadeOfIron Tachibana is too tough a nut to crack with torture]] and orders his right-hand man Yoneda to stop so that they can try something else, figuring that they won't be able to get any information out of Tachibana if he's too dead to talk. Yoneda, however, [[StupidEvil is too stupid to think of something else]], [[{{Sadist}} too violent and sadistic to try]] and has grown too insubordinate after [[HumiliationConga Kuze's failures throughout the game.]] When Tachibana subtly taunts Yoneda over this, [[HairTriggerTemper Yoneda snaps]] and smashes his face with a sledgehammer, which gets Tachibana killed not long after and [[YouHaveFailedMe Yoneda immediately after.]] [[FromBadToWorse Oh, and Kiryu arrives right after this]] and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge mops the floor with Kuze after he sees the state Tachibana is in.]]

* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'', while Kuze and his underlings are attempting to [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogate Tachibana]] as to Makoto's whereabouts, Kuze realizes that [[MadeOfIron Tachibana is too tough a nut to crack with torture]] and orders his right-hand man Yoneda to stop so that they can try something else, figuring that they won't be able to get any information out of Tachibana if he's too dead to talk. Yoneda, however, [[StupidEvil is too stupid to think of something else]], [[{{Sadist}} too violent and sadistic to try]] and has grown too insubordinate after [[HumiliationConga Kuze's failures throughout the game.]] When Tachibana subtly taunts Yoneda over this, [[HairTriggerTemper Yoneda snaps]] and smashes his face with a [[DropTheHammer sledgehammer]], which gets Tachibana killed not long after and [[YouHaveFailedMe Yoneda immediately after.]] [[FromBadToWorse Oh, and Kiryu arrives right after this]] and [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge mops the floor with Kuze after he sees the state Tachibana is in.]]

* ''Series/BlackadderGoesForth'': At the end of Recap/BlackadderS4E5GeneralHospital (which centers around a spy hunt in a hospital), Nurse Mary has been arrested as a German spy. Lt. George mentions this is going to make for a very interesting letter to his uncle Hermann. In Munich.

* ''Film/ThePatriot2000'': Colonel Tavington, the field commander of the British dragoons, adopts extremely harsh policies towards the Americans, having wounded enemy soldiers gunned down and setting fire to the homes of non-combatants who sheltered them. General Cornwallis berates Tavington for his savagery, calling it unbecoming of OfficerAndAGentleman and reminding him of the King's wishes that there will be a reconciliation with the colonists (their fellow countrymen) after the rebellion is put down. He later rightfully points out that [[CreateYourOwnHero Tavington's cruelty has directly motivated men like Benjamin Martin to take up arms]].

* ''Film/ThePatriot'': Colonel Tavington, the field commander of the British dragoons, adopts extremely harsh policies towards the Americans, having wounded enemy soldiers gunned down and setting fire to the homes of non-combatants who sheltered them. General Cornwallis berates Tavington for his savagery, calling it unbecoming of OfficerAndAGentleman and reminding him of the King's wishes that there will be a reconciliation with the colonists (their fellow countrymen) after the rebellion is put down. He later rightfully points out that [[CreateYourOwnHero Tavington's cruelty has directly motivated men like Benjamin Martin to take up arms]].

'''Black Heron''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Well, I suppose you'd rather fly in an]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint un]]''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint marked helicopter!]]\\

'''FOWL Operative''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Well, I suppose you'd rather fly in an]] ''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint un]]''[[ComicallyMissingThePoint marked helicopter!]]\\

-->[''[[spoiler:Bradford]] gets ready to escape the [=McDuck=] family with a helicopter, but they stop and notices that the copter has the FOWL emblem painted on the side where everybody can see it (revealing to the family for the first time who they are dealing with). They immediately do a FacePalm.'']\\
'''FOWL Operative''': Well, we weren't going to use an ''un''marked helicopter!