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4	->'''Angela''': God, you people work just like the mob! There’s no difference!\
5	'''FBI Agent''': Oh, there’s a big difference, Mrs. de Marco. The mob is run by murdering, thieving, lying, cheating psychopaths. We work for the President of the United States.
6	-->-- ''Film/MarriedToTheMob''
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8	An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or one of its fictional counterparts. The FBI is the investigative branch of the United States of America's Department of Justice. See UsefulNotes/AmericanLawEnforcement for information about the agency. This is about the agents in fiction.
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10	From the late 1920s through the 1950s; "G-Men" (Government Men) were seen in fiction as incorruptible forces for law and order and American values, with very rare exceptions. However, J. Edgar Hoover's suspicion of the politics and motivations of prominent civil rights activists, and growing paranoia about the social changes in America, caused the FBI's activities to become increasingly out of step with the times (serious legal violations occurred in spying on activists). Mishandled cases and other scandals, some decades old, were talked about more publicly. After Hoover died in 1972, a law previously passed to limit the tenure of FBI directors came into effect. Scurrilous rumors of J. Edgar's sexual peccadillos or connection to organized crime figures got a lot more play once he couldn't sic his agents on those reporting them.
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12	Media portrayals of the FBI since then have generally depicted a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold flawed but usually]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning organization]], some of whose agents may have friction with other law enforcement agencies. More rarely, some may be corrupt or evil. Works of fiction will often use a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of the FBI and Hoover. They have [[CIAEvilFBIGood a better public image than the CIA]], of course, Hoover's machinations notwithstanding.
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14	FBI agents during the majority of the Hoover period were AlwaysMale (there had been female agents before he took office, but he felt that women were unsuited for the work) and agents of color were rare to non-existent, which made working in certain communities, especially infiltration of them, difficult. Indeed, during the Hoover years the FBI rarely had its agents infiltrate the organizations they investigated, preferring to recruit paid informants who were already on the inside. Special agents must have a 4-year ("bachelor's") college degree, with a preference given to Law and Accounting.
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16	Sometimes overlaps with TheMenInBlack. If the FBI isn't the only law enforcement agency involved, there may be JurisdictionFriction. For agents of other government agencies without their own entry, including fictional ones, see GovernmentAgencyOfFiction.
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18	!!Works that feature the FBI or its agents include:
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23	* ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'''s Victor Talbot is part of the FBI, [[spoiler: head of a special division dealing with immortal affairs]].
24	* ''Manga/CaseClosed'': The FBI is one of the major forces that investigate the Black Organization. The most prominent agents are Shuichi Akai, Jodie Starling, Andre Camel and James Black. Akai is notably one of the few characters to be on par with Shinichi himself.
25	* Appears in ''Manga/DeathNote'', where they are trying to find Kira. The [=FBI=] were brought in because the Japanese police were having no luck in tracking Kira down, plus L correctly susses that Kira was related to one of the investigating officers and thus the investigation itself may have been compromised (which it was, since Light was spying on his dad, the leader of said investigation). Besides that, L was hired by the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations because Kira was killing on a global scale and the only reason the Japanese were assigned to the case was that L just figured out that Kira was based in Japan.
26	* Asuna Kisaki from ''Literature/OcculticNine'' is a high school student and an FBI agent.
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30	* Flashbacks to her training in ''Batwoman: Elegy'' show [[ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} Kate Kane]] taking part in (and presumably completing) the FBI's New Agent Training program.
31	* The second Mister America, Trey Thompson, was an FBI agent. After his murder, his partner, Agent Jeffrey Graves, took up the mantle.
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35	* Tsui Hark plays a minor character in ''Film/AcesGoPlaces 2'' who pretends to be an FBI agent, and he loves to claim that a siren soon to be heard belongs to the police. People tend to believe him--that is, until it turns out that the siren actually belongs to the men in white who come to take him back to the asylum he keeps breaking out of. HilariousInHindsight because Tsui Hark directed ''Film/AcesGoPlaces 3''.
36	* ''Film/{{Alto}}'': Two of them, a man and woman, are investigating the Mafia family in the film, but they never get anywhere.
37	* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': Willem Dafoe plays the FBI agent investigating the titular vigilantes.
38	* ''Film/BrooklynTide'': Special Agent Jonathan Corbin and Agent Samantha Vera are sent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate the death of another Federal Agent, as well as the disappearance of a supposed cyber weapon.
39	* ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' features Tom Hanks as FBI agent Carl Hanratty, who spends the movie trying to track down and arrest serial imposter Frank Abegnale, Jr.
40	* ''Film/DieHard''. Two FBI agents take over the law enforcement response to the takeover and, as Al Powell says, "They've got the universal terrorist playbook and they're running it step by step." This plays right into the hands of Hans Gruber, who [[BatmanGambit takes advantage of their tactics]] to break into the vault. The agents then try to slaughter the terrorists while risking the hostages' lives and get blown up by a terrorist trap.
41	* ''Film/DonnieBrasco'' is based on the RealLife infiltration of UsefulNotes/TheMafia by FBI agent Joe Pistone, who posed as the titular wannabe Italian mafioso seeking information about the mob's inner workings. Prior to this, the FBI relied on mob informants to get leads, but the intel was generally unreliable as the FBI knew that the informants could be providing them with hearsay or false info.
42	* ''Film/DogDayAfternoon''. FBI Agent Sheldon is portrayed as being tough, unflappable and in charge, and the bank robber Sonny clearly respects him.
43	* Sean Archer, TheHero of ''Film/FaceOff'', is an FBI agent who is looking to get revenge on a notorious terrorist named Castor Troy, who was responsible for the death of his son years ago. The two eventually switch faces when Castor and his brother Pollux refuse to give the location of the bomb.
44	* ''Film/TheFBIStory'', a 1959 movie starring James Stewart that depicts the history of the organisation from the mid 20's until the late 50's through the life of FBI Agent Chip Hardesty. As Hoover had approval over every shot and had a pair of special agents stick with the director during filming the movie shows the FBI in a rather idealised light.
45	* The James Cagney movie ''Film/GMen'', was released in 1935, and was the first movie about the renamed FBI.
46	* ''Film/HomeAlone3'': Creator/ChristopherCurry plays FBI Agent Stuckey, who is on the trail of four internationally wanted spies working for a North Korean terrorist organization who stole a top-secret missile cloaking microchip from a defense department contractor. The spies hide out in the Chicagoland area due to the chip having been misplaced due to a baggage mixup and search the neighborhood of eight-year-old Alex Pruitt for it, but the eight-year-old, bedridden with the chickenpox, knows what they're up to and has tipped off the Air Force about the chip, who in turn, tip off Stuckey of the spies' current location, not to mention he has loaded his house with painful booby traps should the spies target his home next.
47	* ''Film/JEdgar'', the biopic of J. Edgar Hoover, naturally. Portrayal of Hoover's influence on the kind of people who are accepted into the F.B.I. over the years is shown.
48	* In ''Film/JudasKiss'', Creator/EmmaThompson plays FBI Agent Sadie Hawkins, the lead agent in charge of investigating the abduction of tech entrepreneur Ben Dyson. Various lesser agents buzz around her doing her bidding. In an aversion of JurisdictionFriction, she actually gets on well and collaborates with Detective David Friedman (Creator/AlanRickman), the New Orleans police detective in charge of investigating the homicide that occurred at the same time as the kidnapping.
49	* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse features Creator/RandallPark as [[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Jimmy Woo]], a former SHIELD agent who joined the FBI. He first debuts in ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' where he assigned to oversee Scott Lang's house arrest in the aftermath of Scott's actions in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''. He then appears in ''Series/WandaVision'', where the whole discovery that Wanda Maximoff has encompassed Westview in a sitcom reality happens because a witness in one of Jimmy's cases happened to be in Westview when she created the Hex. He spends most of the show acting as a voice of reason, collaborating with Darcy Lewis and Monica Rambeau to figure out the truth of what's going on, and ultimately gets to arrest SWORD Director Tyler Hayward for trying to revive Vision for use as a living weapon (in violation of the Sokovia Accords) and trying to kill Wanda to cover up his abuses of power.
50	* ''Film/MississippiBurning'' is all about two (Played by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) FBI agents investigating the murder of several civil rights workers in Mississippi during the civil rights movement of the 60s.
51	* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico'' features Jorge Ramirez, a [[RetiredBadass retired]] FBI agent living in Mexico. After being recruited by [[TheChessmaster Agent Sands]], he ends up dusting off his old skills and tools to find out what Barillo is up to.
52	* The protagonist of ''Film/TheRock'', Dr. Stanley Goodspeed, is an FBI scientist who, along with a former Alcatraz inmate John Mason (played by Creator/SeanConnery) must infiltrate Alcatraz to defeat a group of rogue Marines, defuse missiles loaded with VX gas, and rescue the hostages.
53	* ''Film/RushHour'' has FBI agents and Detective Carter (Chris Tucker) apparently wants to join the FBI early in the film. He decides to stick with the LAPD in the end.
54	* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': From ''Film/SawIV'' to ''Film/SawVI'', there are various FBI agents and personnel involved in the Jigsaw case.
55	%%* Will Graham and Clarice Starling of ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''.
56	* ''{{Film/Switchback}}'': Frank [=LaCrosse=], who has been hunting the serial killer and headed the taskforce formed to catch him. However, the FBI has suspended him as he's gone rogue to keep up the hunt after they ruled the case is closed. A higher FBI official is trying to arrest him during the film for this.
57	* ''Film/TowerHeist'': Creator/TeaLeoni plays FBI Special Agent Claire Denham, who was assigned to the case of Wall Street kingpin Arthur Shaw, who is an {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/BernardMadoff.
58	* Zeke Kelso and assorted other agents in ''Film/ThatDarnCat''.
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62	* FBI agent Lemmy Caution appeared in Peter Chaney's novels ''This Man Is Dangerous'' (1936) and ''Can Ladies Kill?'' (1938).
63	* ''Literature/TheNaturals'' is centered around a group of teens who were recruited by the FBI for their natural talents at investigating crime.
64	* Will Graham and Clarice Starling of ''Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' are both FBI agents.
65	* The FBI is an important part of the plot in the Literature/NeroWolfe novel ''The Doorbell Rang''. Rex Stout (the author) really hated J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, so the novel is pretty much entirely a TakeThat against them.
66	* The FBI are all over the place in [[Creator/TomClancy Tom Clancy's]] ''Literature/JackRyan'' novels. Several FBI agents are major characters, including one who saves the life of Ryan's daughter during a terrorist attack in ''Executive Orders''.
67	* In [[Creator/KimNewman Kim Newman's]] ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' stories, the heroes' American counterparts are FBI agents. "Moon Moon Moon" explains that they're agents of ''a'' federal bureau of investigation, which is not ''the'' Federal Bureau of Investigation.
68	* In the ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Dresden Files]]'' book ''Literature/FoolMoon'', the FBI shows up to investigate a series of killings with a wolf element. One of Murphy's exes is also an FBI agent.
69	* [[Creator/JohnRingo John Ringo's]] ''Literature/SpecialCircumstances'' group is a secret group of agents within the FBI that deal in crimes involving the supernatural/paranormal, and are often paired up with "mundane" agents to assist with the non-supernatural tasks.
70	* FBI agents frequently appear in the ''Literature/LeaphornAndChee'' series by Creator/TonyHillerman, which is about the Navajo Tribal Police. Homicides committed on Indian Reservations are FBI jurisdiction, so expect JurisdictionFriction whenever a murder occurs.
71	* The plot of Creator/ElmoreLeonard's ''Pronto'' starts off because an FBI agent wants to build a racketeering case against a Miami mobster. He tries to pressure a local bookie into testifying against the mobster by making it seem like the bookie was stealing from the mob. However, by the time people start getting killed because of this scheme, the FBI agent had decided that the mobster is too small-time and abandons the investigation. It is up to US Marshal Raylan Givens to clean up the mess the FBI has created.
72	* In ''Literature/TheLeonardRegime'', the Department of Economic Regulation and Social Order is the result of the FBI's merge with the IRS. This makes every DERSO agent an FBI agent as well.
73	* In ''{{Literature/Relic}}'' (Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child) [[ActionGirl Margo Green]] teams up with S.A. Pendergast, the only one with knowledge of the mysterious being killing people in the NY Museum of Natural History.
74	* In ''Literature/TheGenesisCode'', FBI agent Tom Drabowski is brought in to investigate a carjacking linked to a murderer [[spoiler:and help the murderer escape]].
75	* ''Literature/CutAndRun'' follows the FBI partners Special Agents [[CowboyCop Ty]] [[SemperFi Grady]] and [[ByTheBookCop Zane]] [[FunctionalAddict Garrett]]. A number of the books follow their work on various cases and/or working around the various professional constraints that force them to hide their relationship. The rest of their FBI team, their boss, and the Assistant Director of the FBI are recurring characters as well.
76	* ''Literature/WetDesertTrackingDownATerroristOnTheColoradoRiver'': Susan Williams is a FBI agent sent to investigate the bombing at Davis Dam.
77	* ''Literature/LockIn'': Since a Haden's physical body and threep/integrator could easily be in different states, the FBI has been assigned responsibility for Haden-connected crime as an extrapolation of their responsibility for interstate crime. Chris Shayne, the narrator and main character, is a newbie FBI agent assigned to the Haden section.
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81	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': FBI Agents appear at the end of "Postage Due".
82	* ''Series/TheFBI'', a television show with fictionalized versions of real FBI cases, starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
83	* ''Series/TwinPeaks'' featured FBI agent Dale Cooper.
84	* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has a fictitious two-person "department" of the FBI that investigates possibly paranormal connections to federal cases.
85	* The final season of ''Series/{{Charmed\|1998}}'' featured FBI Agent [[LastNameBasis Murphy]].
86	* The FBI is highly prominent in the seventh season of ''Series/TwentyFour'', at least the Washington D.C. branch. Agents include LoveInterest [[ToBeLawfulOrGood Renee Walker]] and her boss Larry Moss. Eventually, the D.C. branch is overrun by the events of the day (not to mention [[spoiler: the nationwide inteligence infiltration by African militia no less]]) and has to be saved by merging with "CTU Lite" (ie.: [[BadassBookworm Chloe]] [[PurposelyOverpowered O'Brian]]).
87	* ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'': Before he started working with the Taleons, Agent Sandoval was with the FBI. He still maintains connections with the agency. Agent Tate also works for the FBI and Sandoval often has Tate carry out operations for him.
88	* Agents of the FBI appear regularly on all of the ''NCIS'' series.
89	** On the original ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', FBI agents appear often, with Agent Tobias Fornell being a semi-regular; he shows up at least a couple of times a season. Sometimes the FBI agents are friendly, sometimes not. They even play InternalAffairs on the NCIS ''Main Yard'' in one episode.
90	** On ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'', FBI agents are sometimes hostile and sometimes allies. Tammy Gregorio, who was an NCIS agent for a couple of seasons, came to NCIS from the FBI. Her ex-boss, Assistant Director Raymond Isler, is enerally friendly to the NCIS team but always remembers he has his own job to do.
91	** On ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', FBI agents are rare. When they do appear, they tend to be hostile.
92	* ''Series/VeronicaMars'':
93	** In "Donut Run", Two FBI agents come to Neptune to investigate Duncan's disappearance, but they spend most of their time snarking about backwater Neptune and belittling Sheriff Lamb.
94	** The Season Four teaser showed that, had the series continued, it would have portrayed Veronica's FBI Academy career.
95	** Also Deputy Director Cullen, Director Hacker, and for a while, Anget Sullivan. A guy named Agent Kenton was a corrupt one in one episode.
96	* In ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}'', Beckett has an ex in the FBI who she occasionally hits up for favors.
97	* Fitz from ''Series/TheWire''. He's friendly with [=McNulty=]; as a rule, he genuinely wants to help the Baltimore police department with whatever problem they have that needs federal resources, but is constrained by the department's post-9/11 focus on counterterrorism.
98	* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' has FBI Special Agents Taggart and [=McSweeten=] as recurring characters. They believe that Parker and Hardison are also FBI agents specializing in secret undercover assignments and thus more than willing to help them out. In exchange they get all the credit for catching the bad guys at the end of an episode. They're portrayed as well-meaning but incompetent; it's a RunningGag that the scams in all their episodes have the side effect of giving them a gift-wrapped high-profile arrest (in one case literally -- Parker tapes a bow on the guy before locking him in [=McSweeten=]'s trunk).
99	* ''Series/TheInside'': The FBI allows [[MagnificentBastard Special Agent Virgil Webster]] to operate an elite team out of the Los Angeles field office, called the VCU.
100	* ''Series/TheNightAgent'': Peter, one of the protagonists, is an FBI agent who works in the White House answering a phone as part of a covert operation when the story starts. Many fellow FBI agents are supporting characters.
101	* ''Series/{{Numb3rs}}'' focuses on the cases handled by the FBI's UsefulNotes/LosAngeles office. Lead agent Don Epps brings in his brother, genius mathematician Charlie Epps, as a consultant, and sees his success rate go way up.
102	* ''Series/SueThomasFBEye'': Based on a real deaf FBI employee.
103	* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' focuses on the fictional Fringe Division of the FBI, which is tasked with investigating paranormal criminal cases.
104	* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' has Paul Ballard [[spoiler:who gets kicked out and ends up working for the company he was investigating.]]
105	* ''Series/{{Bones}}'':
106	** Special Agent In Charge Seeley Booth is the FBI agent assigned to the Jeffersonian.
107	** And in one episode, Creator/AdamBaldwin plays a fellow FBI agent who helps Booth investigate a gruesome murder and agrees to protect Bones when Booth is injured. [[spoiler: He is secretly working for the Mafia and nearly tortures Brennan to death before Booth’s BigDamnHeroes rescue.]]
108	** Special Agent James Aubrey joined the cast after Sweets died.
109	** Agent Flynn, Agent Tim “Sully” Sullivan and Agent Perotta were short term recurring special agents.
110	* ''Series/BurnNotice'': In the first season, Sam informs on Michael to the FBI (though Michael knows he's doing it), who are curious as to why a known spook has washed up in Miami. In later seasons, [[ThoseTwoGuys Agents Lane and Harris]] pop up from time to time to reluctantly help Team Westen.
111	* ''Series/WhiteCollar'': All but two major characters are based in the WhiteCollarCrime division of the FBI's [[BigApplesauce New York]] office.
112	* ''Series/CriminalMinds''
113	** ''Series/CriminalMinds'': The main characters are Special Agents from the FBI Behavorial Analysis Unit.
114	** Its spinoff, ''Series/CriminalMindsSuspectBehavior'', also involves characters from the FBI, but with a slight twist- they're a rogue unit that operates covertly as a "quick response" unit, answering directly to the Director of the FBI.
115	* In ''Series/{{Justified}}'' the US Marshals are shown to be getting along fine with the FBI until season 3 when a serious case of JurisdictionFriction occurs when Raylan interferes in their investigation into the Theo Tonin mob family. The FBI agent in charge goes as far as trying to have Raylan arrested on corruption charges. Season 4 reveals that [[spoiler: the FBI agent was actually working for Theo Tonin all along]].
116	* Season 4 of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' introduces the Bureau of Investigation (the "Federal" part would be added a decade later) with J. Edgar Hoover just beginning his tenure as director. It takes over investigations of bootleggers from the corrupt Bureau of Internal Revenue and quickly poses a significant threat to Nucky Thompson and the other gangsters. However, Hoover decides to instead refocus the [=BoI=]'s resources into investigating and prosecuting civil rights advocates and prominent socialists since he sees them as a bigger threat to America.
117	* ''Series/TheBlacklist'' centres around a wanted criminal turning himself in to the FBI in order to help them track down other criminals that the FBI wasn't even aware of.
118	* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'' had Nicholas Donnelly, an FBI agent investigating the vigilante actions of the "man in the suit" (Reese). He eventually caught Reese, only to be killed by one of the show's other antagonists before anything could come of it.
119	* ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'' focuses on an FBI team led by Special Agent Kurt Weller, who is brought in on the case of a woman with IdentityAmnesia known as Jane Doe; for unknown reasons, his name has been tattooed on her back. As the team tries to solve the mystery of her identity, they realize that her other tattoos provide clues to terrorist plots and other such cases.
120	* On ''Series/{{Graceland}}'' the titular mansion serves as home to agents from three different agencies who work and liaise together, (the agencies in question being the Drug Enforcement Agency, Customs, and the FBI) but the FBI absolutely dominate the roster, with four of the six agents being FBI, including the ones who get the most focus.
121	* ''Series/TheDefenders2017'': The FBI and DHS take involvement in the NYPD investigation of the Hand after Jessica Jones uncovers explosives that John Raymond had stolen from the Hand for blowing up Midland Circle.
122	* ''Series/ThePunisher2017'': Dinah Madani and Sam Stein are from the Department of Homeland Security, but they fill this trope in spirit. Madani is trying to get justice for the death of her partner in Afghanistan, who was killed by Frank Castle on the orders of William Rawlins after discovering that fellow members of Frank's unit were smuggling heroin in the corpses of [=KIA=]s.
123	* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In season 3, [[Characters/MCUWilsonFisk Wilson Fisk]] manipulates his way out of prison by turning informant for the FBI on an Albanian gang, ostesnsibly to protect his fiancee Vanessa Marianna from criminal prosecution. After [[FalseFlagOperation paying Jasper Evans to shank him]] and make it seem like he's being targeted for snitching, Fisk gets the FBI to move him to a Manhattan hotel that he secretly owns through a series of shell companies. He's able to pull this all off because he's bribed/manipulated/blackmail almost every agent on the detail into working for him. This allows him to use the FBI agents as his glorified enforcers in a new {{protection racket}} where he strongarms other major gangs into paying him a tax in exchange for the freedom to operate in New York City, as well as harass and hound his enemies who trying to investigate him. Three of the agents in particular become major pawns in Fisk's schemes during the season:
124	** Ray Nadeem is a married family man and field agent who has been driven into debt to pay for his sister-in-law's cancer treatments [[spoiler:due to Fisk cutting off her insurance, to make him desperate enough for this deal to work]]. Nadeem's pride and reluctance to see how predatory Fisk is make it easy for Fisk to manipulate him into going after Nelson & Murdock for ostensibly doing Fisk's dirty work. While he eventually realizes he's been played after Jasper Evans is killed in Dex's attack on the ''Bulletin'', it's too late for him to back out and he ends up being blackmailed by SAC Hattley into working for Fisk, goes along as Fisk rounds up other gangsters to extort into paying him a protection tax, and serves as Dex's getaway driver when Fisk order Dex to kill Karen as revenge for the murder of James Wesley. A conversation with Sister Maggie after Dex's failed attack on the church gets Nadeem to grow a spine and stand up to Dex, by arranging with Foggy and Brett Mahoney for Karen to be "apprehended" by the NYPD to get her away from him. Fisk attempts to kill him and his family right away, but Matt and Foggy rescue him and convince him to testify before a grand jury convened by Blake Tower. Fisk foils their efforts by intimidating the grand jury. Nadeem flees back home and makes a video confession to everything he's witnessed, which, after he's murdered by Dex on Vanessa's orders, ends up being what puts Fisk back behind bars thanks to a loophole in the heresy rules.
125	** [[Characters/MCUBenjaminPoindexter Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter]] is a SWAT sharpshooter initially assigned to protect Fisk as he's being transferred from prison to the hotel. he saves Fisk from an assassination attempt by the Albanians. Fisk takes interest in his amazing shooting skills, and uses a string of manipulations to make him into Fisk's main assassin. For Dex's first assignment, Fisk puts him in a Daredevil costume and has him attack the ''Bulletin'' to kill Karen's coworkers as well as Jasper Evans, so that Evans can't tell the media about what Fisk did. Later, upon learning from Karen that she killed James Wesley, Fisk tasks Dex with killing her, which he gladly obliges (with a blackmailed Nadeem as his getaway driver). Matt foils this attempt, but Father Lantom and two bystanders are killed in the process. Dex later is the one sent to kill Nadeem on Vanessa's orders after the failed grand jury, and is taken down when Matt manipulates him into turning against Fisk by revealing that Fisk killed Julie Barnes, a woman Dex has a crush on. In the subsequent three-way between Matt, Fisk, and Dex, Dex ends up being crippled when Fisk breaks his back.
126	** Tammy Hattley is the [[MoleInCharge Special Agent in Charge]] on the detail. Fisk has blackmailed her into working for him by killing one of her kids in a "[[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident hit and run]]" and threatening the life of her daughter. It's also strongly implied that Hattley had a role in Fisk's attempted jailbreak from custody in the season 1 finale, when he is being transported to jail after Nelson & Murdock get Detective Carl Hoffman to testify that Fisk blackmailed him into killing his own partner Christian Blake. Fisk is arrested and put into the back of armored truck guarded by an FBI SWAT team. Unfortunately, it turns out that one of the FBI agents in the truck is on Fisk's payroll, and kills the other agents in the truck when the convoy is ambushed by mercenaries working for Fisk, tipped off by inside information that most likely came from Hattley.
127	* In Series/{{Mindhunter}} Holden and Tench are Special Agents who begin interviewing convicted serial killers to learn more about how they think.
128	* ''Series/WithoutATrace'' features the fictional Missing Persons Squad.
129	* ''Series/{{FBI}}'' and its spinoffs, ''Series/FBIMostWanted'' and ''Series/FBIInternational''. The former is centered on agents of the FBI's New York office, while the latter two focuses on the agency's Fugitive Task Force and agency's International Fly Team.
130	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
131	** FBI Agents offer their assistance and phone tracing equipment when a billionaire's son is kidnapped in "Brooklyn Til I Die."
132	** Jo Danville is a former FBI agent, and her ex-husband, Russ Josephson who is also an agent, appears in two season 7 episodes. He provides intel that helps with cases in both.
133	* ''Series/ClassOf09'': The whole series is about a large group of them, going from 2009 as trainees in the Academy across twenty five years up to 2034.
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137	* The Untouchables' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHItHKfzW7A&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=Aussiebattlervideos2 I Spy For the FBI]]".
138	* Arlo Guthrie's "The Pause of Mr. Claus" opens with a long monologue about FBI agents and how much their job must suck.
139	-->''I mean, the job that they have to do is a drag. I mean, they have to follow people around, you know. That's part of their job. Follow me around. I'm out on the highway and I'm drivin' down the road and I run out of gasoline. I pull over to the side of the road. They gotta pull over too - make believe that they ran out, you know. I go to get some gasoline. They have to figure out whether they should stick with the car or follow me''.
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143	* The quintessential TabletopGame/DeltaGreen agent is a FBI Agent. The group loves to employ FBI agents due their deep training, speciliazed skills, forensics and jurisdiction in not only in the United States but overseas as well.
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147	* In ''Theatre/DeadEnd'', gangster "Baby-Face" Martin is finally caught by three G-Men. Martin shoots one of them, but receives twelve bullets from the other two.
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151	* Midway through ''VideoGame/AlanWake'', FBI Agent Robert Nightingale shows up to detain Wake, assuming him to be responsible for the games events due to the manuscript. He's not entirely wrong, but his [[{{Jerkass}} personality]] and [[RabidCop methods]] make him not particularly sympathetic. [[spoiler:He also turns out to be a RogueAgent after Wake for personal reasons, and has no capacity to handle the situation in Bright Falls, meaning he accomplishes very little but leading other cops to their death before he himself is taken by the Dark Presence.]]
152	** In ''VideoGame/AlanWakeII'', FBI Agents Saga Anderson and her partner Alex Casey are main characters, who come to Bright Falls to investigate rumors of a murder cult forming thirteen years after the events of the first game. Saga is one of the [[PlayableCharacter Playable Characters]], while Casey is TheWatson.
153	* The FBI are the main {{Mook}}s of ''VideoGame/AlienHominid''. That is, in the original Flash version. In the console game specially, the FBI agents are the threat just through the first “chapter” of levels 1-1 through 1-5. They’re also the ones responsible for shooting down the player’s ship, forcing them down to Earth in the first place.
154	* J. Edgar Hoover and the Bureau of Investigation (as the game takes place before the name change) show up (and torture the player character) in ''VideoGame/CallOfCthulhuDarkCornersOfTheEarth''.
155	* Introduced as one of the new playable Counter-Terrorist group in ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' Global Offensive.
156	* Francis York Morgan from ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition''. He's pretty strongly influenced by [[Series/TwinPeaks Dale Cooper]].
157	* In the low budget SWAT series knockoff ''[[VideoGame/FBIHostageRescue FBI: Hostage Rescue]]'', you play as one.
158	* The ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' universe has the FIB, who show up once your wanted level reaches 5 stars. One of the antagonists in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', is a crooked FIB agent who wrangles the protagonists into doing various dirty work for him.
159	* One of the possible careers you can take in ''VideoGame/GrowingUp is an FBI agent, which you get if you get an A or B and specialize in police training.
160	* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'': Norman Jayden is an FBI profiler who also has access to technology that lets him be a one-man CSI team.
161	* Agent Edgar Ross from the "Bureau" in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', who uses the protagonist to wipe out a group of outlaws stifling government progress.
162	* The main opposing force of the PAYDAY gang in ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'', though it's been renamed to the "Federal Bureau of Intervention". Agents can be encountered guarding the various FBI offices and other Bureau-controlled areas in-game, and FBI Heavy Response Units are called in as the main assault force on higher difficulties, replacing normal SWAT teams. Outside of gameplay, the web series focuses on a pair of FBI agents tracking down leads on Crime.NET and the PAYDAY gang, and the ongoing "Commissioner Garrett" story arc focuses on a task force set up by the FBI, headed by the titular Commissioner, on their efforts to do the same. Finally, the FBI Files feature lets players look into Garrett's database of info to view their gameplay stats and information on characters and heists present in the game (as well as Garrett's mail).
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166	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', the FBI has a paranormal division that used to be headed by [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Mr. Verres]].
167	* When Ashley Madder "disappears" in ''Tales of Gnosis College'', a whole team of FBI agents, headed by Special Agent-in-Charge Macneil, is sent in to investigate.
168	* Agent Ben and Agent Jerry, TheMenInBlack from ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' work for the FBI.
169	* In ''Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed'' all the agents of the Pocket President program are (now-former) FBI or FBI-trained. The Fed, when he first appeared, was a stereotypical humorless, emotionless G-Man type. We found out later [[CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul there was a reason for that.]]
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173	* ''Literature/ShadowUnit'': Another fictitious FBI department that deals with superhuman serial killers.
174	* ''Literature/ShadowOfTheTemplar'' is a four-book series that revolves around one [[BunnyEarsLawyer eccentric]] and semi-crazy [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits FBI team]] ([[RecruitingTheCriminal and]] [[FriendlyEnemy their]] [[DatingCatwoman pet]] [[GentlemanThief criminal]]).
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178	* As the boys from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' are [[CowboysAndIndians playing detectives]] they get trumped by another group of boys playing FBI who [[JurisdictionFriction take over their "kidnapping" case]].
179	** Becomes a BrickJoke later in the episode, when, at an actual crime scene, the actual South Park Police Dept. have control of the scene taken over by the actual FBI almost exactly the way the boys' game was taken over, complete with both cops and agents whining like 10-year olds.
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