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** Navigating the bureaucracy is the InUniverse reason behind the TechTree, and ReinventingTheWheel and/or YouHaveResearchedBreathing upgrades it unlocks.
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* '''Played For Horror''': Bob utilizes his expertise of rule-fu to turn Alice's life into a hell fraught with terrors: losing her work, her home, all of her life savings, her family, and maybe even her freedom.
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* '''Played For Horror''': Bob utilizes his expertise of rule-fu to turn Alice's life into a hell fraught with terrors: terrors that [[RealismInducedHorror are close to the audience's homes]]: losing her work, her home, all of her life savings, her friends and family, and maybe even her freedom.
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* '''Played For Horror''': Bob utilizes his expertise of rule-fu to turn Alice's life into a hell fraught with AdultFear terrors: losing her work, her home, all of her life savings, her family, and maybe even her freedom.
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* '''Played For Horror''': Bob utilizes his expertise of rule-fu to turn Alice's life into a hell fraught with AdultFear terrors: losing her work, her home, all of her life savings, her family, and maybe even her freedom.
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* '''Defied''': Alice quits the organization and works for it as an independent contractor to avoid Bob's bureaucracy.
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** Alice kills or brutalizes anybody who tries to prevent her from saving lives by means of paperwork. [[TheDreaded People learn to get out of her way... eventually]].
** Alice quits the organization and works for it as an independent contractor to avoid Bob's
** Alice kills or brutalizes anybody who tries to prevent her from saving lives by means of paperwork. [[TheDreaded People learn to get out of her way... eventually]].
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** Bob's insistence on it turns out to be ProperlyParanoid - as "Alice" turns out to be the escaped shapeshifter Charlie who wouldn't know the information.
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* '''Subverted''': When Alice explains that she doesn't have time for filling out forms right now, Bob cooperates and gives her a weapon without the paperwork.
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** When Alice explains that she doesn't have time for filling out forms right now, Bob cooperates and gives her a weapon without the paperwork.
** When Alice explains that she doesn't have time for filling out forms right now, Bob cooperates and gives her a weapon without the paperwork.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's obsession is the only thing which holds the extremely disorganized organization together.
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** There actually are good reasons for bureaucracy, and Alice allows killers to steal weapons by attempting to bypass the forms.
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** Bob's obsession is the only thing which holds the extremely disorganized organizationtogether.together.
** The government is so dependent on its bureaucrats, they can help subvert the government themselves.
** This is a necessary risk to fight evil, so bypassing bureaucrats is still a good idea.
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** Bob's obsession is the only thing which holds the extremely disorganized organization
** The government is so dependent on its bureaucrats, they can help subvert the government themselves.
** This is a necessary risk to fight evil, so bypassing bureaucrats is still a good idea.
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** The reason Bob is so strict about the kind of pencil Alice uses is because the agency computer can't read the form unless it's filled out in #2 Yellow pencil lead.
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** The reason Bob is so strict about the kind of pencil Alice uses is because the agency computer can't read the form unless it's filled out in #2 Yellow pencil lead. TruthInTelevision, at least before TheNewTens. The computers that read standardized tests literally could not see any marks on the paper unless they were made in #2 pencil lead.
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** Bob's work is shown to have a purpose. While annoying to deal with the forms and meticulous tracking along with him spotting and reporting irregularities has resulted in the discovery of three spies and four embezzlers in a year. He isn't quite enough to be a BadassBureaucrat but he is far from useless.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is trying to get forms to prove Charlie's innocence and save him from a wrongful execution.
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** [[UpToEleven Every few seconds, Alice has to fill out a form requesting to breathe.]]
** [[MindScrew Every time Alice wants to fill out a form, she has to fill out a form requesting to fill out the form.]]
** [[MindScrew Every time Alice wants to fill out a form, she has to fill out a form requesting to fill out the form.]]
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* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob will sometimes be pretty lenient and at other times very nitpicking about following proper procedures.
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** When Alice explains that she doesn't have time for filling out forms right now, Bob cooperates and gives her a weapon without the paperwork. But then Bob complains to Alice' boss that Alice took a weapon without permission and demands that she is punished. However, Alice's boss understood that the situation was an emergency, and punishes Bob instead. The boss then makes a change to the official guidelines of the organization to prevent this from happening again, but Betty does it anyway to Alex, using LoopholeAbuse to avoid punishment and punish Alex.
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** When Alice explains that she doesn't have time for filling out forms right now, Bob cooperates and gives her a weapon without the paperwork. But then Bob complains to Alice' boss that Alice took a weapon without permission and demands that she is punished. However, Alice's boss understood that the situation was an emergency, and punishes Bob instead. The boss then makes a change to the official guidelines of the organization to prevent this from happening again, but Betty does it anyway to Alex, using LoopholeAbuse to avoid punishment and punish Alex.
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* '''Conversed''': ???"Geez, Alice could've stopped the aliens years ago if Bob wasn't so strict."
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** Bob knows Alice is actually a traitor, TheMole, and is BotheringByTheBook to buy time.
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-->"I'll put them through so much red tape, they'll come out looking like {{Deadpool}}."
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* '''Exaggerated''': Even though there is currently an EldritchAbomination rampaging in the headquarters, Bob insists that Alice fills out a weapon requisition form before she takes a gun and shoots it.
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** Even though there is currently an EldritchAbomination rampaging in the headquarters, Bob insists that Alice fills out a weapon requisition form before she takes a gun and shoots it.
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* '''Justified''': The organization is very big and its supply of weapons is severely limited. The bureaucracy has to make sure that agents only carry weapons when they have a good reason to do so.
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** The organization is very big and its supply of weapons is severely limited. The bureaucracy has to make sure that agents only carry weapons when they have a good reason to do so.
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** The organization is very big and its supply of weapons is severely limited. The bureaucracy has to make sure that agents only carry weapons when they have a good reason to do so.
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* '''Parodied''': Bob puts his big red DENIED stamp on Alice' weapon requisition form with an EvilLaugh.
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** Bob puts his big red DENIED stamp on Alice' weapon requisition form with an EvilLaugh.
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* '''Deconstructed''': Bob has obsessive compulsive disorder. It causes him severe emotional pain when something isn't in order.
** The oppressive government requires paperwork for everything to help keep citizens under control.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's obsession is the only thing which holds the extremely disorganized organization together.
** The oppressive government requires paperwork for everything to help keep citizens under control.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's obsession is the only thing which holds the extremely disorganized organization together.
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* '''Invoked''': Bob is hired when the organization notices that it needs more stringent management to deal with Alice' abuse of resources.
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** Bob is hired when the organization notices that it needs more stringent management to deal with Alice' abuse of resources.
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** Bob has obsessive compulsive disorder. It causes him severe emotional pain when something isn't in order.
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-->"I'll put them through so much red tape, they'll come out looking like {{Deadpool}}."
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** Paperwork is required for every activity and use of resources. Bob stops Alice outside the restroom to ask if she's got the proper papers.
** People have been stealing/not returning supplies, so they need to keep careful track of where everything is.
** Bob is actually helpful most of the time, but Alice is furious when he asks for her quick signature on a form.
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* '''Averted''': The organization avoids to waste wasting the time of their agents with unnecessary paperwork and tries their best to provide them with everything they request without asking questions.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Even though there is currently an EldritchAbomination rampaging in the headquarter, headquarters, Bob insists that Alice fills out a weapon requisition form before she takes a gun and shoots it.
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'''Basic Trope''': A bureaucrat who is an asshole attempting to hinder things that people don't like.
* '''Straight''': Ken attempts to stop Chihaya and Sayaka from their MagicalGirlWarrior activities.
* '''Exaggerated''': Ken thinks of what the two are doing is evil, so he gets them suspended for their activities.
* '''Subverted''': Through persuasion, he allows the MagicalGirlWarrior activities.
* '''Double Subverted''': But, it's just a trap so that he can call the police to arrest them.
* '''Straight''': Ken attempts to stop Chihaya and Sayaka from their MagicalGirlWarrior activities.
* '''Exaggerated''': Ken thinks of what the two are doing is evil, so he gets them suspended for their activities.
* '''Subverted''': Through persuasion, he allows the MagicalGirlWarrior activities.
* '''Double Subverted''': But, it's just a trap so that he can call the police to arrest them.
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'''Basic Trope''': A bureaucrat who is an asshole attempting to hinder things that people don't like.
hinders the protagonists with paperwork.
* '''Straight''':Ken attempts Alice is working for an alien hunting agency. When she needs a weapon, she has to stop Chihaya fill out a form and Sayaka from their MagicalGirlWarrior activities.
give it to quartermaster Bob first.
* '''Exaggerated''':Ken thinks of what Even though there is currently an EldritchAbomination rampaging in the two are doing headquarter, Bob insists that Alice fills out a weapon requisition form before she takes a gun and shoots it.
* '''Justified''': The organization isevil, so he gets them suspended for their activities.
very big and its supply of weapons is severely limited. The bureaucracy has to make sure that agents only carry weapons when they have a good reason to do so.
* '''Inverted''': Bob is frequently bending the rules and uses his influence to make Alice' job easier.
* '''Subverted''':Through persuasion, he allows When Alice explains that she doesn't have time for filling out forms right now, Bob cooperates and gives her a weapon without the MagicalGirlWarrior activities.
paperwork.
* '''Double Subverted''':But, it's just a trap so But then Bob complains to Alice' boss that he can call Alice took a weapon without permission and demands that she is punished.
* '''Parodied''': Bob puts his big red DENIED stamp on Alice' weapon requisition form with an EvilLaugh.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob has obsessive compulsive disorder. It causes him severe emotional pain when something isn't in order.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's obsession is thepolice only thing which holds the extremely disorganized organization together.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob will sometimes be pretty lenient and at other times very nitpicking about following proper procedures.
* '''Averted''': The organization avoids toarrest them.waste the time of their agents with unnecessary paperwork and tries their best to provide them with everything they request without asking questions.
* '''Enforced''': Due to a restricted special effect budget the writers have to find a way to make the characters use their flashy equipment less often. So they introduce an obstructive bureaucrat who stops them from using it.
* '''Lampshaded''': Alice complains that Bob's obstructive bureaucracy is a bigger danger for the organization than all the ScaryDogmaticAliens who try to destroy it. Nobody listens to her.
* '''Invoked''': Bob is hired when the organization notices that it needs more stringent management to deal with Alice' abuse of resources.
* '''Exploited''': After the villain broke out of prison he takes his time, because he knows that it will take days before Alice gets the authorization from Bob to pursue him.
* '''Defied''': Alice quits the organization and works for it as an independent contractor to avoid Bob's bureaucracy.
* '''Discussed''': While the organization grows bigger and bigger, Alice fears that she will soon be unable to do her job because of the red tape involved.
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* '''Exaggerated''':
* '''Justified''': The organization is
* '''Inverted''': Bob is frequently bending the rules and uses his influence to make Alice' job easier.
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* '''Double Subverted''':
* '''Parodied''': Bob puts his big red DENIED stamp on Alice' weapon requisition form with an EvilLaugh.
* '''Deconstructed''': Bob has obsessive compulsive disorder. It causes him severe emotional pain when something isn't in order.
* '''Reconstructed''': Bob's obsession is the
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob will sometimes be pretty lenient and at other times very nitpicking about following proper procedures.
* '''Averted''': The organization avoids to
* '''Enforced''': Due to a restricted special effect budget the writers have to find a way to make the characters use their flashy equipment less often. So they introduce an obstructive bureaucrat who stops them from using it.
* '''Lampshaded''': Alice complains that Bob's obstructive bureaucracy is a bigger danger for the organization than all the ScaryDogmaticAliens who try to destroy it. Nobody listens to her.
* '''Invoked''': Bob is hired when the organization notices that it needs more stringent management to deal with Alice' abuse of resources.
* '''Exploited''': After the villain broke out of prison he takes his time, because he knows that it will take days before Alice gets the authorization from Bob to pursue him.
* '''Defied''': Alice quits the organization and works for it as an independent contractor to avoid Bob's bureaucracy.
* '''Discussed''': While the organization grows bigger and bigger, Alice fears that she will soon be unable to do her job because of the red tape involved.
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'''Basic Trope''': A bureaucrat who is an asshole attempting to hinder things.
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'''Basic Trope''': A bureaucrat who is an asshole attempting to hinder things.
things that people don't like.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Ken thinks of what thesuperheroes' job, thinking two are doing is evil, so he gets them suspended for their activities.
* '''Subverted''': Through persuasion, he allows the MagicalWarrior activities.
* '''Double Subverted''': But, it's just athreat.trap so that he can call the police to arrest them.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Ken thinks of what the
* '''Subverted''': Through persuasion, he allows the MagicalWarrior activities.
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