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| 14 | ->'''INS Agent:''' You ever heard of Division 6?\ |
| 15 | '''Police Officer:''' There is no Division 6. This is bullshit.\ |
| 16 | '''INS Agent:''' Yeah. |
| 17 | -->-- ''Film/MenInBlack'' |
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| 19 | This trope covers two kinds of [[TheGovernment government agencies]], those that are entirely fictional, and current, genuine agencies described in a fictional way. |
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| 21 | They are often shown in the same way, either as {{obstructive bureaucrat}}s, or the GovernmentConspiracy. Many of these will only be seen as the [[HeroesRUs organization behind our heroes]], paying their wages and HeroInsurance and assigning them missions (such as the first few on this list), providing occasional [[TheCavalry backup]] (such as ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse), or hunting for our unusual heroes (because they're aliens secretly operating on Earth, say). Sometimes they'll just be inventing [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus silly walks]]. |
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| 23 | By some odd quirk (reflecting a similar tendency in RealLife), any randomly selected GAF has a high chance of having its name reduced to a Three-Letter Acronym. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | This organization may employ TheMenInBlack, or barring that, the CovertGroupWithMundaneFront. Or there may just be NoSuchAgency on the books. |
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| 27 | Compare HeroesRUs, LawEnforcementInc, and EliteAgentsAboveTheLaw. Government Agencies of Fiction sometimes have FunWithAcronyms. See also CIAEvilFBIGood. |
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| 29 | See NonGovernmentalOrganization or NGOSuperpower for when such organizations are not affiliated with the government. |
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| 31 | '''Not to be confused''' with its broader SisterTrope, FictionalCombatTroop, which concerns itself with fictional military, law enforcement and emergency units serving RealLife organisations. |
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| 34 | !!Examples: |
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| 36 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[AC:Fictional Agencies]] |
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| 40 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 41 | * ''Manga/Acca13TerritoryInspectionDept'': The titular Acca is a government agency independent of the Crown and the [[MultipleGovernmentPolity thirteen]] [[TheFederation district’s]] leaders that manages the Dowa Kingdom’s police, fire departments, and other services. TheProtagonist, Jean Otus, is the deputy chief for the titular Inspection Department, which serves as InternalAffairs for the various branches found in the aforementioned districts of TheGoodKingdom, thereby rooting out any [[AllowedInternalWar corruption from political factions and others who want to affect the kingdom]]. |
| 42 | * ''Anime/BurstAngel'': The RAPT (Recently Armed Police Taskforce). |
| 43 | * ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': The Public Safety [[DemonSlaying Devil Hunters]] Bureau, later known as the National Devil Extermination Public Safety Commission, is a CreatureHunterOrganization created and operated by the Japanese government for Devil Hunters who wish to work in the public sector, similar to the fire department and police force, instead of the private sector. Benefits for working in the public sector include healthcare that can reattach limbs, paid day offs, and a regular salary instead of earning money through [[BountyHunter bounties]] or selling bodies on the BlackMarket, while some downsides include receiving more dangerous assignments and having to do detailed reports after missions. |
| 44 | * ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Both Hypnos and DATS, or Digital Accident Tactics Squad/Digimon Data Squad, are TheMenInBlack agencies. |
| 45 | * ''Anime/FairyGone'': Dorothea, a government office that reports directly to the Prime Minister and is tasked with investigating crimes involving the illegal usage of fairies. |
| 46 | * ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'': The ''brave heroes'' of the Gutsy Galaxy Guard ("3G BANZAI!") and their American and Chinese branches and French sister organization, Chasseur, all with their own contingent of Brave Robots. |
| 47 | * ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'': Public Security Section 9, as well as the Cabinet Intelligence Agency in ''[[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Stand Alone Complex]] 2nd GIG''. They're intended to be more like fictional branches of the very real (although less than widely publicized) Japanese intelligence establishment. It isn't a monolithic entity but is more like an umbrella organization coordinating various semi-independent sections, so a couple of fictional ones would fit the structure just fine. |
| 48 | * ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'': The Social Welfare Agency is an Italian government agency created to seek out traumatized or abandoned little girls and give them a second chance in life. In actuality, however, they subjects the girls to brainwashing, drugs, and cyberization with the girls being forced to do the dirty work of the government. In addition, all of the girls are given a male handler who controls the amount of drugs they are given as well as overseeing both their training and missions. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/{{Heroman}}'': The NIA (National Intelligence Agency), a domestic surveillance/law enforcement (?) agency that works closely with the military and seems to take its orders directly from the President. |
| 50 | * ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': The Time-Space Administration Bureau. Granted, it serves an ''alien'' government, but in ''[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers StrikerS]]'', the focus is on the Bureau's homeworld, so it isn't quite so alien anymore. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/MissionYozakuraFamily'': Hinagiku is a special intelligence branch of the Japanese government founded and run by Rin Fudo. They handle under-the-table work for the Japanese government beyond the scope of regular law enforcement, such as tackling terrorists and rogue spies. |
| 52 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': NERV, SEELE and GEHIRN, although NERV is the one that gets 95% of the screen time. |
| 53 | * ''Anime/NightRaid1931'': The Sakura Kikan. |
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| 55 | * The {{hentai}} Spy Of Darkness has the Special Security Services Cabinet, which gives the spies of Q-section their marching orders. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/SpyXFamily'': Twilight works for WISE, Westalis's intelligence agency, while Yuri works for the Ostanian [[SecretPolice State Security Service]]. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'': The ''Commission of Counter Ghoul'' (CCG), a Japanese law enforcement agency responsible for handling all matters related to Ghouls. They are shown to have the authority to give orders to local Police, and particularly talented Investigators may spend time loaned out to similar organizations in other countries. The German organization ''Ghoul Forschung Gesellschaft'' is mentioned numerous times, suggesting some significance that hasn't been revealed yet. |
| 58 | [[/folder]] |
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| 60 | [[folder:Audio Play]] |
| 61 | * ''AudioPlay/TheCartographersHandbook'': The titular handbook was created by the fiction National Intelligence Agency. |
| 62 | [[/folder]] |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 65 | * ''ComicBook/BigfootAndGrayOnTheRun'': As stated by the narrator during their introductory scene, Agents Knight and Daye are members of an US government agency known simply by the acronym of FBO. The agency's goal is unknown, but given the agents' mission to capture Bigfoot and Gray (a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti bigfoot monster]] and an extraterrestial alien, respectively), it seems to be along the lines of a [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black organization]] that searches for unusual living beings. |
| 66 | * The 13th Bureau of the Yellow Empire in ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer''. |
| 67 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU'': |
| 68 | ** DC also has a fictional version of the OSS; in the modern era, it has ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} (later handed over to the United Nations), [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Project Cadmus]], the D.E.O. (Department of Extra-Normal Operations, the current page image), the D.M.A. (Department of Metahuman Affairs), [[ComicBook/FrankensteinAgentOfSHADE S.H.A.D.E.]] (Super-Human Advanced Defense Executive), and [[ComicBook/{{OMAC}} the Global Peace Agency]]. |
| 69 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}'': During "[[AudienceAlienatingEra The New Blackhawk Era]]" (in which the Blackhawks were {{retool}}ed into superheroes), the Blackhawks worked for the Group for Extermination of Organizations of Revenge, Greed, and Evil (or [[FunWithAcronyms G.E.O.R.G.E.]]) with Mr. Delta (a guy with a sheet of paper over his face) acting as DaChief. When Dick Giordano succeeded George Kashdan as editor in the last two issues of the comic, his first act was to have G.E.O.R.G.E. get nuked to kingdom come, taking the Blackhawks' superhero costumes along with it. |
| 70 | ** ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' and the ''ComicBook/New52'' has given us Spyral. We don't know terribly much about them. Their agents have technology that makes their faces impossible to perceive, they use a finishing school to train attractive female agents, and they have a disturbing number of double agents. |
| 71 | ** ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' {{parodie|dTrope}}s this with A.P.E.S (All-Purpose Enforcement Squad), whose agents, [[PunnyName Fite n' Maad]], are considered membered of ''every'' government agency, from ones listed above like the DEO to real agencies like the CIA and [=MI6=]. |
| 72 | ** ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Creator/GrantMorrison introduces the Agency, a sub division of the FBI dedicated to removing weirdness and chaos, and had agents like the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E. or Yankee Doodle. Rachel Pollack's following run introduces a second one, the Builders, who seek to rebuild the Tower of Babel. |
| 73 | ** The ridiculous number of secret organizations leads to virtually all of them being obliterated by the group Leviathan. Initially an anti-capitalist group created by Talia al Ghul, it's later taken over by [[spoiler:the Mark Shaw Manhunter]], who eliminates all of these groups, absorbing the personnel though persuasion or brainwashing. |
| 74 | ** The Bureau of Amplified Animals makes its (surprisingly only) appearance in a ''Comicbook/GreenLantern''/''Comicbook/TheFlash'' crossover called "Gorilla Warfare". Comicbook/RexTheWonderDog is their top agent, and his old buddy Comicbook/DetectiveChimp is the boss. |
| 75 | ** The Comicbook/New52 heavily featured A.R.G.U.S., the Advanced Research Group Uniting Superhumans, supposedly the US government agency created to keep tabs on metas, but eventually revealed to be a possibly-benevolent conspiracy that ''predates the United States'', changing what the acronym stood for depending on the current paradigm (they were originally the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Armed Revolutionaries]] Governing Under Secrecy). |
| 76 | * ''ComicBook/TheDepartmentOfTruth'' features an agency of the same name that controls and contains conspiracy theories, in a world where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve too many people believing in a thing will make it come true]]. |
| 77 | * ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' gives us the ComicBook/{{BPRD}}, the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense which is an international agency that, as the name implies, deals with paranormal activities. Unlike most examples, the organization operates out in the open. |
| 78 | * ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' has the Global Defense Agency (GDA), a ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} {{expy}} operating under the United States government that provides backup and medical care for the world's superheroes. |
| 79 | * This is the entire basis for almost all incarnations of ''Franchise/GIJoe''. They go as far as to fake their members' deaths in the latest comic series. |
| 80 | * ''ComicBook/{{Madman}}'' has Tri-Eye. Its true intentions are pretty vague, but they seem to have a hand in everything that happens. |
| 81 | * ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': |
| 82 | ** Marvel has various UsefulNotes/UnitedNations agencies with [[FunWithAcronyms fun acronyms]]: ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division/Strategic, Hazard Intervention, Espionage Logistics Directorate), S.W.O.R.D. (Sentient World Observation and Response Department), and A.R.M.O.R. (Altered-Reality Monitoring and Operational Response). An ''evil'' multinational agency called Operation Zero Tolerance briefly existed to stomp on mutants, and Weapon Plus does the same thing. |
| 83 | ** The United States has [[ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} HATE]] (Highest Anti-Terrorism Effort) [[CanonDiscontinuity sometimes]], the CSA (Commission of Superhuman Activities), and O*N*E (Office of National Emergency). During ''ComicBook/DarkReign'', S.H.I.E.L.D. is replaced by dodgy organization HAMMER (which ''doesn't'' have a ready-made acronym). |
| 84 | ** The United Kingdom has [[ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13 MI13]], the metahuman/supernatural/extra-terrestrial branch of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (the designation has not been used in reality since it was dissolved in 1964). Previous British agencies were (deep breath): S.T.R.I.K.E. (Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies, a UK S.H.I.E.L.D.), W.H.O. (the Weird Happenings Organization, a ShoutOut to [[Series/DoctorWho UNIT]]), Black Air, R.C.X. (the Resource Control eXecutive) and D.U.C.K. (yes, really -- Department of Unknown and Covert Knowledge). Some of these organizations turn out to be evil, and the exact jurisdiction boundaries (or even which ones, if any, existed at the same time) are never clearly established -- Black Air ends up more as a group of CloakAndDagger PrivateMilitaryContractors, while WHO, RCX and DUCK seem to have been absorbed into [=MI13=]. A ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'' story {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this by having an [[UsefulNotes/SecretIntelligenceService MI6]] officer remark that none of these agencies will ever last. |
| 85 | ** Canada has Department H in the ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' comics. |
| 86 | ** In the mini-series ''Pryde and Wisdom'', [[ComicBook/ExcaliburMarvelComics Pete Wisdom and Kitty Pryde]] work for a police agency called Dept F.66, The Department of Unusual Deaths. FridgeBrilliance: "F" is the sixth letter in the Roman alphabet, making it department [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]]. |
| 87 | * ''ComicBook/PowerAndGlory'' has the National Intelligence Agency, the folks who created the all-American A-Pex hero. |
| 88 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics have had a few, starting with the Intelligence and Information Institute (III), which is meant to handle the Transformers for the U.S. government (i.e., give a fake story about where they came from and refuse to notice that the Autobots are goodies). ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'' has Skywatch, which is eventually eliminated and replaced by [[ComicBook/GIJoeIDW G.I. Joe]] as part of Creator/IDWPublishing's SharedUniverse. |
| 89 | * Creator/ValiantComics has the Domestic Operations Authority, or DOA. Usually the good guys in ''ComicBook/{{Turok}}'', not so much in ''ComicBook/{{Bloodshot}}''. |
| 90 | * The Culper Ring in ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan''. [[TruthInTelevision In reality]], it was George Washington's spy network. Here, they still exist as a "covert arm of the executive branch". |
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| 93 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 94 | * ''Fanfic/TheChosenSix'': MI-X is a government agency dedicated to keeping an eye on the magical said of the United Kingdom for potential threats, [[spoiler:as well as prepare for an eventual take over should the {{Masquerade}} be impossible to maintain]]. |
| 95 | * ''Fanfic/LokiAgentOfDoomgard'' has the title character working for the "inquiries and investigations department of the Doomstadt Ministry of Sorcery". |
| 96 | * ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': The Agency of Supernatural Investigation, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Then there's FALCON, which is fighting an offscreen war against Cyber Hell. By the way, the secret agencies don't know about the existence of the other secret agencies so in one chapter the Supernatural Agency and FALCON start an all-out battle until somebody called the higher-ups and they were informed of the situation. |
| 97 | * ''Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls'' has the Special Task and Evaluation Command, an agency handling [[MoeAnthropomorphism ship girls]] that operates under the auspices of the US Navy using the cover of research and development. The British and Soviets have similar agencies as well, in the form of RN-STEC and ARC (Abyssal Response Command). |
| 98 | * ''Fanfic/SevenDaysInSunnyJune'' Books III and IV features the [=SIRENs=] (the Strategic Intervention, Reconnaissance and Execution Network), a Royal Canadian Navy special operations force usually tasked to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Of course, as far as the Canadian Parliament or the public know, there's NoSuchAgency, because the [=SIRENs=] are (illegally) composed of ChildSoldiers with a cradle-to-the-grave loyalty to the organization. Eventually [[GoneHorriblyWrong something bad happens]] and the [=SIRENs=] turn into an army of [[LaserGuidedTykebomb laser-guided tykebombs]] bent on revenge. |
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| 101 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 102 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'': Mansley mentions that he "works for the government" when he flashes his badge for the 'Bureau of Unexplained Phenomena'. |
| 103 | [[/folder]] |
| 104 | |
| 105 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 106 | * The Ministry of Information and the Information Retrieval Department from ''Film/{{Brazil}}''. |
| 107 | * The House Committee of Racial Identity in ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica''. |
| 108 | * Towards the end of ''Film/TheDayAfter'', the United States establishes NERA, the National Emergency Recovery Administration. It is meant to administer the reconstruction of the country in the aftermath of nuclear war, something they are completely unable to do. |
| 109 | * ''Film/DeadRisingWatchtower'' adapts the ZDC from ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'' as FEZA, the Federal Emergency Zombie Agency. |
| 110 | * As noted above under Comic Books, ''Film/Hellboy2004'' has the BPRD, which is a secret at least throughout the first movie. |
| 111 | * The Bureau of National Security from ''Film/ISpy'', which collaborates with the CIA. |
| 112 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': |
| 113 | ** S.H.I.E.L.D. naturally makes a few appearances. There's also the Strategic Scientific Reserve, as seen in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', heavily implied to be the predecessor to the modern-day SHIELD organization. |
| 114 | ** H.Y.D.R.A. was a special division in the Nazi government, researching the occult and supernatural, that eventually attempted to break free and become its own world power. [[spoiler:''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' reveals that after S.H.I.E.L.D. took in H.Y.D.R.A. scientists after the war, those scientists proceed to subvert the organization and continue working for their goals of world domination from within.]] |
| 115 | ** TheStinger of ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'' reveals that S.W.O.R.D. exists in the MCU as well, which is expanded on in ''Series/WandaVision''. |
| 116 | ** Damage Control is first established in ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'' as a government agency tasked with cleaning up the aftermath of [[Film/TheAvengers2012 the Battle of New York]], as well as inadvertently [[SmallRoleBigImpact forcing Adrian Toomes into crime when they kick his crew off the job]]. Their role is greatly expanded in Phase 4 as the premier government CapeBusters, causing problems for the protagonists in ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', ''Series/MsMarvel2022'', and ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw''. |
| 117 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} by the Agency of the ''Film/MenInBlack'', a.k.a. the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Division 6. They outright state that they do not represent any branch of the government (because that would involve "too much paperwork"). As a result, they are 100% privately funded, though that isn't a problem because they own the patents for Velcro and microwave ovens (which were actually invented by aliens). |
| 118 | * The IMF, or Impossible Missions Force, from the ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries''. |
| 119 | * The Multiverse Authority from ''Film/TheOne'' is basically an [[TheMultiverse interdimensional]] FBI that hunts down and arrests people who kill their counterparts. (It's not all they do, but everything else is [[AllThereInTheManual on a now-defunct website]].) |
| 120 | * ''Film/ThePresidentsAnalyst'' features the Central Enquiries Agency (CEA) and the Federal Board of Regulation (FBR). They're ostensibly on the same side, but it's hardly apparent. |
| 121 | * ''Film/{{Push}}'' has the Division, a government agency dedicated to hunting down and training {{psychic|Powers}}s (remote viewers, telekinetics, empaths, etc.) for the purposes of espionage and covert ops. There was, apparently, a Chinese version, which has been disbanded and absorbed by the [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triads]]. The Division bears many similarities to the Psi Corps from ''Series/BabylonFive'' in that they have a hidden agenda, conduct secret research, and attempt to create an army of super-psychics. |
| 122 | * In ''Film/ShandraTheJungleGirl'', Ian Abercrombie works for (or possibly heads) something called the Department of Species Control. Exactly what this department does isn't clear, but as he is seeking to develop assassins who are living biological weapons, it seems safe to assume that it isn't anything good. |
| 123 | * ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'': The events of [[Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020 the previous movie]] propmt the United States to create a new department to deal with extraterrestial affairs, dubbed the [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Guardian Units of Nations]]. Aka GUN. [[spoiler:Rachel]] is at pure disbelief that they don't realize what a bad idea naming the organization "gun" is. |
| 124 | * The OSS in the ''Film/SpyKids'' trilogy. In {{real|Life}}ity, it was the predecessor of the CIA and is now defunct. In their world, it is still active. |
| 125 | * ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'': Sector 7 from ''Film/Transformers2007'' ("Never heard of it." "Never will."), followed by NEST in ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' (which has Autobots and various militaries cooperating to bring down Decepticon stragglers), Cemetery Wind in ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' (a CIA operation which is tasked with tracking down the Autobots and eliminating them after public opinion of them drops), and the Transformers Reactionary Force in ''Film/TransformersTheLastKnight''. |
| 126 | * The Omega Sector in ''Film/TrueLies''. |
| 127 | * The Central Security Agency from ''Film/TheTuxedo'', which justifies TuxedoAndMartini by manufacturing [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman ultra high-tech spy tuxedos]] that they issue to their field agents. |
| 128 | * The Department of Mutant Affairs from ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', headed by Hank [=McCoy=] (the mutant formerly known as the Beast). |
| 129 | * ''Film/ZoomAcademyForSuperheroes'' has the Zenith Program, a program under the Department of Defense responsible for working with [[SuperheroSchool training and supporting superheroes]]. They also try to further improve the might of superheroes and operate out of Area 52. |
| 130 | [[/folder]] |
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| 132 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 133 | * The [[BigBrotherIsWatching Thought Police]] in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', as well as the Ministries of Truth, Peace, Love, and Plenty. |
| 134 | * ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfFoxTayle'': The [=BioCon=] corporation worked under the government creating genetic experiments, but one escaped and now the FBI has to chase him. |
| 135 | * In ''Literature/TheCaseOfTheToxicSpellDump'', the protagonist works for the Environmental '''Perfection''' Agency. |
| 136 | * The ESS in both ''Literature/ChronoHustle'' and ''Literature/SimpleComplications''. |
| 137 | * The Aellisar, a race of fairy-like beings, have A.I. to protect it in ''Literature/ClandestineDaze''. It is an evil, corrupt, and controlling organization which treats its agents like disposable commodities. Our hero works for it. |
| 138 | * ''Literature/CoDominium'' has a large number of fictional bureaus that deal with various areas as colonization, technology, correction, forced relocation, etc. -- there's even an anti-tech SecretPolice. |
| 139 | * In Christopher Anvil's ''Colonization'' future, the Federation of Humanity has lots of agencies which keep tripping over each other, including the Space Force, the Planetary Development Authority and the Space Scouts. The Interstellar Patrol is a contrasting picture of efficiency -- because they [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight don't bother following the rules]]. |
| 140 | * ''Literature/TheCompleteAdventuresOfLuckyStarr'': David "Lucky" Starr, his deceased father, Lawrence Starr, and both of his surrogate parents, Augustus Henree and Dr Hector Conway, are members of Earth's Council of Science. This gives them the privilege to go into most areas of the solar system and order people around. Lucky Starr operates as a mix between a secret agent and federal official, while Dr Hector Conway is DaChief. |
| 141 | * Bureau of Sabotage ([=BuSab=]) from ''Literature/ConSentiency''. |
| 142 | * CURE, a secret U.S. government agency in ''Literature/TheDestroyer''. It was created by President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy to destroy threats to United States by working outside the U.S. Constitution. |
| 143 | * ''Literature/DiogenesClub'': |
| 144 | ** Creator/KimNewman is one of several writers who've taken Literature/SherlockHolmes's statement that, on occasion, brother Mycroft ''is'' the British Government to portray the Diogenes Club as a secret government agency under his control. |
| 145 | ** The same series has the Undertaking, an agency that captures, imprisons, and studies supernatural threats (and blatantly parodying the MIB of [[Film/MenInBlack the titular film]], down to the smoked glasses and initial names), and the Unnameables from America, a spoof of ''Film/TheUntouchables'' who [[LovecraftLite deal with Lovecraftian threats]]. |
| 146 | * ''Literature/DirtyPair'': The Worlds Welfare Work Association (3WA), with ''troublesome'' agents Kei and Yuri. |
| 147 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 148 | ** All of Discworld's governments are obviously fictional, but the only one organized enough to have actual ''agencies'' (beyond "a bunch of soldiers hired by the feudal ruler") is Ankh-Morpork. The Dark Clerks seem to be the organization that deals with situations Vetinari feels might be dangerous, but which it would be inappropriate for the Watch to deal with. They're Assassins' Guild graduates, often scholarship boys (i.e., they entered the Guild because they were ''already'' really good at killing, not because their family had money). |
| 149 | ** The former Patricians had a SecretPolice called the Cable Street Particulars, now reinvented as the Watch's investigative and undercover arm. |
| 150 | ** The Kingdom of Lancre has several governmental agencies, departments and bodies. It's just that [[OddlySmallOrganization they're all run entirely by (and consist entirely of) Shawn Ogg]]. |
| 151 | ** The FantasyCounterpartCulture of... Asia... on the Counterweight Continent also has all the formal trappings of imperial China, cradle of bureaucracy, and so presumably has massive numbers of intricately named departments. We just don't meet them, because Rincewind spends all his time running and Cohen spends all his time stabbing people. A vignette in the second edition ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRoleplayingGame'' suggests that foreign affairs (i.e., spying on the bloodsucking ghosts) is the purview of the Department of Despicable Necessities. |
| 152 | * Years before the plot begins in ''Literature/TheDreamsideRoad'', the IHSA was tasking with explaining and controlling all 'high strangeness' anomalies that occurred in member nations, including various forms of [[FunctionalMagic magic]], [[FantasyKitchenSink mutations]], U.F.O.s, and rapidly developing weaponizable technologies. Many of the items they confiscated were stolen away by [[ExtranormalInstitute the Dreamthought Project]] and became [[ArchaeologicalArmsRace the Dreamside Road]] artifact trove, central to the story. |
| 153 | * The Silean Seekers from ''Literature/FieldsOfForeboding''. |
| 154 | * Creator/StephenKing's Department of Scientific Intelligence ("The Shop") in ''Literature/{{Firestarter}}'' and other stories. |
| 155 | * ''Literature/ForWantOfANail'' is an AlternateHistory in which [[AmericaIsStillAColony the American Revolution was quelled by the British]], and in place of the United States is the Confederacy of North America (CNA), which features the Confederation Bureau of Investigation as a counterpart to the original timeline's Federal Bureau of Investigation. |
| 156 | * ''Literature/{{Galactiquest}}'': The Interstellar Forces, a space-focused US military branch that [[{{Nerf}} technically isn't a military]]. |
| 157 | * ''Literature/TheHardyBoys: Casefiles'' has the Network, employing the boys' occasional ally Mr. Grey. |
| 158 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': There is a British Ministry of Magic, which often surprises the {{Muggle|s}} Prime Ministers. Presumably, other nations have their own arrangements, but it's not expounded upon. |
| 159 | * ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'': The Organization presents itself as possibly being one of these, but later information seems to indicate that it's more of a small group of individuals who happen to be well-connected. |
| 160 | * ''Literature/TheHauntingOfTramCar015'' follows Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner Agent Onsi Youssef of The Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities as they investigate a specter haunting an aerial tram car. The ministry is responsible for regulating magical practices and investigating crimes committed by or against supernatural creatures like Djinn, "Angels," ghosts, and the like. |
| 161 | * ''Literature/HelenAndTroysEpicRoadQuest'': The National Questing Bureau is a government agency that's called in whenever someone is tasked with the CallToAdventure. Or in Helen and Troy's case, KidnappedByTheCall. |
| 162 | * The World Security Board from "Literature/{{Hostess}}", which employs Mr. Smollett as "a minor government official" but is more often described as a policeman. This implies that his job is actually a secret agent, possibly an intelligence analyst. |
| 163 | * The main character of "Literature/ImInMarsportWithoutHilda" works for the Galactic Service and has a Class A rank within the organization. They operate as federal agents rather than a police force. |
| 164 | * ARM (originally Amalgamated Regional Militia) of ''Literature/KnownSpace'', basically the UN police force, quite possibly led by [[Literature/{{Protector}} a psychopathic, overprotective, super-intelligent posthuman]] and quite definitely consisting entirely of paranoid schizophrenics. Before you read ''too'' much into that, pretty much everyone alive today would be a "paranoid schizophrenic" by the definitions of the future. The ones employed by the ARM are medicated carefully to keep them sheep-like ''enough'' to not indiscriminately kill everyone they meet, but not ''so'' sheep-like they can't bring themselves to use violence against the truly dangerous enemies of society. Not enough paranoid schizophrenics to fill out the force? No problem, they have medications for that too. |
| 165 | * ''Literature/LaszloHadronAndTheWargodsTomb'': The Department of Operations serves as the intelligence service of the Solar Commonwealth. |
| 166 | * ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' has the Laundry, the UK's EldritchAbomination response team -- supposedly the last surviving section of the defunct real-world [[UsefulNotes/{{SOE}} Special Operations Executive]]. There's also their American counterparts, the Black Chamber (for history nerds: the original version of the NSA). In ''The Apocalypse Codex'', they're jokingly referred to as the [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Nazgûl]], and ''perhaps'' officially known as the Operational Phenomenology Agency. Their German counterparts are the Geheime Sicherheit Abteilung (Secret Security Department, also known as the "Faust Force"). |
| 167 | * In ''Literature/LockwoodAndCo'', the AlternateUniverse British government's response to the Problem -- a sudden epidemic of ghost hauntings -- is to establish the DEPRAC, the Department of Psychical Research and Control. |
| 168 | * ''Literature/MagicMetahumansMartiansAndMushroomCloudsAnAlternateColdWar'': The various organizations established to deal with paranormal (or "Fortean", as they’re officially dubbed) phenomena. |
| 169 | ** The earliest on record is the Department of Transcendent Research established by Fascist Italy. |
| 170 | ** The Allied Occult Initiative, a joint operation by the Allies to counter the Axis' occult efforts. It was eventually dissolved after the war when the Western powers and Soviets went their separate ways. |
| 171 | ** The Special Projects Division (or OSP using its Russian spelling) was established by Stalin at the end of WWII to handle Soviet supernatural studies. |
| 172 | ** The Fortean Studies Bureau is formed by the American government after the AOI falls apart. |
| 173 | ** The British develop a full Ministry of Science (in OTL, British scientific matters are organized as various departments under other ministries), which is tasked with handling unusual matters, primarily being focused on studying the time travel abilities of the Loch Ness Monster. |
| 174 | ** Romania develops the Bureau of Esoteric Research and Development (BCDE in Romanian) as part of Ceausescu's efforts to give his country more autonomy from the Soviets in regard to paranormal matters. |
| 175 | * ''Literature/AMasterOfDjinn'': The Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities, the Egyptian agency in charge of dealing with all things magic. |
| 176 | * Matt Helm belongs to a fictional, unnamed organization that specializes in "counterassassination" -- i.e., killing enemy agents who other organizations cannot deal with. |
| 177 | * ''Literature/MonsterHunterInternational'' has the USA-based Monster Control Bureau. |
| 178 | * Michael Gilbert wrote a number of short stories about two middle-aged spies, Mr. Calder and Mr. Behrens, who after twenty-some years each in [=MI6=] joined another agency, the Joint Services Standing Intelligence Committee's External Branch. "If there's a job which is so disreputable that none of the departments will handle it, we give it to the 'E' Branch." |
| 179 | * ''Literature/{{Newshound}}'' has Federal Aviation Security, an AlternateHistory version of the TSA, with similar duties and levels of (in)competence. |
| 180 | * Much of the plot of ''Literature/TheNexusSeries'' involves the actions of the Emerging Risks Directorate (ERD), an agency created to fight all forms of transhuman technology and those who would exploit it. The agency came into being after Neo-Nazi cloned children tried to kill an entire town with an engineered virus, only failing in killing millions because they released it too early. For reference, neither the DHS nor the CIA trust the ERD. |
| 181 | * In the ''Literature/NoonUniverse'', there's the 22nd century Earth government's COMCON-1 and COMCON-2. The first one ("Committee for Contacts") is a fairly standard diplomatic institution for dealing with contacts and political relations between Earthlings and aliens. The second one ("Committee for Control") is a more shady organization, more akin to a professional secret service, and is dedicated to monitoring any research deemed as potentially dangerous. In the last [[Literature/BeetleInTheAnthill two]] [[Literature/TheTimeWanderers novels]] set there it ends up acting almost as an unofficial counter-intelligence unit. COMCON-2 might have been inspired heavily by the KGB. |
| 182 | * Section R in ''Literature/TheNovemberMan''. |
| 183 | * The Bureau, the British intelligence agency of the ''Literature/{{Quiller}}'' novels. |
| 184 | * In ''Literature/RedRoom'', the titular organization is a TheMenInBlack-esque organization which suppresses the supernatural and negotiates with their peoples. {{Subverted|Trope}} in they're not actually subordinate to the government and just use their influence to keep them from interfering in their activities. |
| 185 | * The Department of Metahuman Affairs in ''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible''. |
| 186 | * In ''Literature/TheSorcerersReceptionist'', the kingdom's [[AdventureGuild Guild]] is essentially an employment agency. Its work is mostly innocuous stuff like hiring contractors, scouting wilderness areas, investigating suspected non-violent crimes, or odd jobs that only require small amounts of magic. However, stumbling onto demonic incursions is common enough that all Guild members must be [[MilitaryMage certified sorcerers]] who [[ClassifiedInformation take client confidentiality very seriously]]. |
| 187 | -->''She steps away from me to go open Harré's backdoor, then beckons for me to follow her inside.\ |
| 188 | "I haven't told you yet, have I?" she says, then lifts her index finger up in the air. "Here at Harré, whenever we get a request that deals with... something that could pose a threat to the kingdom, like a demon, we have to let the King and the Knight's Order know about it. I suppose you might call it an agreement that we have with them. We need to keep the information between us flowing freely, for peace."'' |
| 189 | * The UK Department of Paranormal Resources in ''Literature/{{Temps}}'', which oversees the SuperRegistrationAct. |
| 190 | * Of course, in ''Literature/ThursdayNext'', there is an actual Government Agency of Fiction, the [=SO27 LiteraTec=] division... |
| 191 | * In his ''United Planet'' series, Creator/MackReynolds gives us Section G of the Department of Interplanetary Justice, Commissariat of Interplanetary Affairs. Spying, covert destabilization of stagnant cultures, and pushing human advancement are among their less 'official' activities. Officially, they're about peace and interplanetary relations. |
| 192 | * ''Literature/{{Unsong}}'' has UNSONG, the United Nations Subcommittee on the Names of God, which enforces metaphysical copyright law. |
| 193 | * ''Literature/TheUpgrade'' has the Unit as a US black ops government task force existing for the purposes of protecting the government from the {{corporate conspirac|y}}ies. It also has the International Crimes Unit as a subdivision of Interpol with more far-reaching powers. |
| 194 | * The Uncle Ira Group and Special Forces Warrant Agency from ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr'' -- in a future United States which has been demilitarized by force, they serve as the country's (illegal) intelligence and black ops units. |
| 195 | * ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': The dreaded Mutant Commission Office or as the mutants often call it the 'Mutant ''Control'' Office'. |
| 196 | * The Parahuman Response Team or PRT from ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' is a law enforcement agency similar to the FBI that handles threats by superpowered people. It works closely with but is separate from the official government SuperTeam, [[HeroesRUs The Protectorate]]. [[spoiler:In theory, anyway... it turns out the director of the PRT is actually the secret identity of the leader of the Protectorate]]. |
| 197 | [[/folder]] |
| 198 | |
| 199 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 200 | * It is commonplace on British television to use fictional police services to avoid potential issues with script clearances for real ones. A very common one is the Greater London Police used in place of [[UsefulNotes/ScotlandYard the Metropolitan Police Service]]. However, it is common for dialogue to still refer to "the Met", resulting in an odd disconnect for British audiences. |
| 201 | * The Public Control Department (PCD) in the 1970s BBC dystopian drama ''1990'', in which [[DayOfTheJackboot the United Kingdom is a bureaucratic dictatorship]]. |
| 202 | * ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'' has NTAC (National Threat Assessment Command), a division of Homeland Security. |
| 203 | * CTU (Counter-Terrorist Unit) in ''Series/TwentyFour''. The original DVD release of Day One does refer to it on the back of the box as ''the CIA's'' Counter-Terrorist Unit -- apparently, it got {{retcon}}ned once the show got picked up for a second season. |
| 204 | * ''Series/Annika2021'': Scotland Police doesn't exist. It's merely a counterpart of Police Scotland. Meanwhile, the MHU is supposedly based on the actual Major Investigation Team. |
| 205 | * The Initiative from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. |
| 206 | * The titular agents in ''Series/TheChampions1968'' work for an UN-backed organization named Nemesis, based in Geneva. |
| 207 | * The Office of Interchange in ''Series/Counterpart2018'', formed thirty years prior to the events of the series, acts under United Nations aegis. |
| 208 | * ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' has several characters working for the ISA (International Security Agency). |
| 209 | * ''Series/DempseyAndMakepeace'' has [=SI10=], which fulfils a similar role to [[Series/TheProfessionals CI5]], though it has a more rigid hierarchy and appears to be an actual police unit. |
| 210 | * ''Series/EerieIndiana'' (and the book series based upon it) has the Bureau of Lost, whose job is to make sure that certain items are "lost" so that people will buy new items and support the economy. |
| 211 | * ''Series/TheEqualizer'': Robert [=McCall's=] former employer is only referred to as "The Agency" or "The Company", both well-known nicknames for the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}. Not actually ''calling'' it the CIA gets around the issue of how the mysterious Agency can legally operate inside the United States, which it does in quite a few episodes. |
| 212 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' had IASA (International Aeronautics and Space Administration), an International Agency of Fiction. |
| 213 | * ''Series/LaFemmeNikita'' has Section 1, which is one of the many Sections under the control of Oversight, which in turn is under the control of Center. |
| 214 | * The [[SchoolForScheming Academy]] in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' is a government agency that appears to conduct experiments on children to turn them in psychic {{Super Soldier}}s. There's also the Hands of Blue, or whoever they work for. |
| 215 | * In ''Series/FlashGordon1954'', Flash and company work for the Galactic Bureau of Investigation. |
| 216 | * Possibly {{parodied|Trope}} in ''Series/{{Friends}}''; Phoebe's twin sister Ursula claims to be an elementary school teacher like her fiancé, at "the Top-Secret School for the Children of Spies". |
| 217 | * The Fringe Division in, well, ''Series/{{Fringe}}''. |
| 218 | * ''Series/GeneralHospital'' has the WSB (World Security Bureau). |
| 219 | * CONTROL in ''Series/GetSmart'', and in one episode ABC, 'the Third Spy Network'. |
| 220 | * The Bureau Underground in ''Series/{{Ghosted}}'' was formed during the Truman administration to keep mankind safe from threats of a paranormal nature. |
| 221 | * Hadrian's Wall in season 5 of ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' is an anti-Wesen-terrorism taskforce that includes Wesen, Grimms and former members of the Resistance against the Royals. |
| 222 | * The agents of ''Series/{{InSecurity}}'' work for the National Intelligence and Security Agency, a fictional Canadian agency based partly on the real Canadian Security and Intelligence Service and fictional spy agencies as seen on TV. |
| 223 | * The Agency in ''Series/TheInvisibleMan''. Arguably a parody, as it seems to be an OddlySmallOrganization with only two field agents (three in the second season), [[DaChief one boss]] with one personal assistant, and one scientist, and suffers from frequently being transferred to branches of TheGovernment that have ''nothing'' to do with intelligence (Dept. of Fish and Game, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dept. of Health and Human Services, the US Postal Service...). |
| 224 | * In ''Series/ItTakesAThief1968'', Alexander Mundy is [[BoxedCrook released from jail to perform missions for]] the United States of America's S.I.A. (Secret Intelligence Agency). |
| 225 | * The Defense Security Division (DSD) in ''Series/{{JAG}}''. It's abolished in season 4, and many of its former agents go rogue. |
| 226 | * ''Series/JekyllAndHyde2015'' has MIO (Military Intelligence Other), a sort of 1930s [[Main/TheMenInBlack Men in Black]] who tackle supernatural threats around the UK, albeit with a nasty helping of HeWhoFightsMonsters at times. |
| 227 | * ''Series/Thelibrarians2014'': Season 3 gives us DOSA (Department of Statistical Anomalies), a [[TheMenInBlack Men in Black]]-like agency tasked with dealing with [[TheMagicComesBack the resurgence of magic and supernatural creatures]]. |
| 228 | * A StoryArc in ''Series/LoisAndClarkTheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' has the Planet trying to expose the secrets of the National Intelligence Agency, a mashup of the CIA and the NSA. |
| 229 | * The DXS (Department of External Services) in ''Series/MacGyver1985''. |
| 230 | * ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'': The United Network Command for Law and Enforcement -- U.N.C.L.E. -- is more of a multi-national, supra-governmental agency than an agency of one government. U.N.C.L.E. operatives are drawn from many of the nations of the world, even the (then) Soviet Bloc as well as the Free World, and it seems assumed without explicitly stating that U.N.C.L.E. is funded by various national governments and operates with their blessing and cooperation. |
| 231 | * M.I. 9 from ''Series/MIHigh''. There was an actual [=MI9=], a British intelligence service that used POW camps to gather intelligence on Germany during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, but bearing no obvious relationship to the show. |
| 232 | * The IMF from ''Series/MissionImpossible''. |
| 233 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The Ministry of Silly Walks. |
| 234 | * ''Series/{{Nikita}}'' has Division, a black-ops program that doesn't officially exist, and originally reported to a secret group of government officials known as Oversight. However, its leader, [[BigBad Percy]], has since gone rogue, and Division now works for the [[OnlyInItForTheMoney highest bidder]]. And unfortunately, Percy has [[TreacheryCoverUp taken steps]] to ensure that he can never be removed from power without bringing the ''entire US government'' down with him. Gogol is initially presented as the Russian version of Division, but Nikita quickly points out that while they employ many former government agents, they have always been just a mercenary organization. They are later revealed to be part of a Russian MegaCorp. |
| 235 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': |
| 236 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E19TheInvisibles The Invisibles]]", protagonist Luis Spain is a spy who works for the '''G'''IA ([[UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} General Intelligence Agency]]). |
| 237 | ** The Federal Bureau of Security in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E10TheInheritors The Inheritors]]". |
| 238 | ** The Federal Duplication Bureau in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E13TheDuplicateMan The Duplicate Man]]". |
| 239 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': |
| 240 | ** The Department of Alien Services in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E5TheSecondSoul The Second Soul]]". |
| 241 | ** The unnamed agency which tracks down girls and women with telekinetic powers in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E7TheChoice The Choice]]". |
| 242 | ** The Code Enforcement Agency (CEA) in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E18EssenceOfLife Essence of Life]]". |
| 243 | ** The Federal Reproductive Board in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E6DarkRain Dark Rain]]". |
| 244 | ** The Urban Conservation Authority (UCA) in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E9Stasis Stasis]]". |
| 245 | ** The Tri-Fab Commission in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E10DownToEarth Down to Earth]]". |
| 246 | ** The unnamed agency hunting the alien parasites in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E18SomethingAboutHarry Something About Harry]]". |
| 247 | ** The Department of Information Technology in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E19ZigZag Zig Zag]]". |
| 248 | ** The Agency, which is so secret that it does not have a name, in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S7E6MonaLisa Mona Lisa]]". |
| 249 | * In ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', the people who take action on the "relevant" numbers from the Machine are from an agency called Northern Lights; the people who ''receive'' the numbers are simply "Research". |
| 250 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has [[Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue Operation Lightspeed]], a demon-fighting rescue organization; [[Series/PowerRangersTimeForce Time Force]], TimePolice from the year 3000; and TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture it will have a SpacePolice group called [[Series/PowerRangersSPD Space Patrol Delta]]. In an undefined place continuity-wise is the sinister [[Series/PowerRangersRPM Alphabet Soup]], a scientific think-tank. |
| 251 | * ''Series/{{Primeval}}'': The A.R.C. (Anomaly Research Centre) investigates anomalies and fight dinosaurs, when necessary, and generally cover stuff up with BlatantLies. It's also worth noting that the ARC did not exist in the original timeline. It was an unnamed tiny branch of the Home Office with no headquarters. After Nick and Helen find themselves in the new timeline (which is never restored to the original, and [[spoiler:both Nick and Helen later die anyway]]), they find out that the ARC is a well-funded organization with a high-tech HQ and a large staff. |
| 252 | * ''Series/TheProfessionals'' has the protagonists' employers, [=CI5=], an agency devoted to fighting organized crime, terrorism and spies. |
| 253 | * An episode of ''Series/{{Punkd}}'' had Music/JustinTimberlake supposedly incur the wrath of the Tax Enforcement Agency. |
| 254 | * ''Series/{{Rubicon}}'' has the American Policy Institute, a government think tank that seems to do most of the intelligence gathering for other agencies. |
| 255 | * ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'': Colonel Steve Austin is employed by the O.S.I. (Office of Scientific Intelligence). |
| 256 | * ''Series/{{Sliders}}'': |
| 257 | ** The Bureau of Repopulation (BRP) in "[[Recap/SlidersS02E02LoveGods Love Gods]]". |
| 258 | ** The Bureau of Anti-Technology (Anti-Tech) in "[[Recap/SlidersS02E03GillianOfTheSpirits Gillian of the Spirits]]". |
| 259 | ** The Tobacco Enforcement Agency in "[[Recap/SlidersS03E22Slither Slither]]". |
| 260 | ** The Drug Empowerment Agency in "[[Recap/SlidersS04E07JustSayYes Just Say Yes]]". |
| 261 | ** The Bureau of Internal Reconstruction (BIR) in "[[Recap/SlidersS05E05NewGodsForOld New Gods for Old]]". |
| 262 | ** The Air Quality Management Department (AQMD) in "[[Recap/SlidersS05E10EasySlider Easy Sliders]]". |
| 263 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', in addition to ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} from the comics, had a [[BlandNameProduct thinly disguised]] DHS called the Department of Domestic Security. |
| 264 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'' has a few of these: |
| 265 | ** The SGC (Stargate Command) is a classified project whose purpose is to "perform reconnaissance, determine threats, and if possible, make peaceful contact" with the peoples of the planets that have just become available through the Stargate. While operated by the U.S. Defense Department (mostly Air Force), it has a very wide purview and is essentially a scientific, diplomatic, and military organization all at once. It answers directly to the President of the United States and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at least for the first seven seasons, after which it's integrated into the newly formed... |
| 266 | ** Homeworld Command, a Unified Combatant Command under the U.S. Defense Department charged with all matters relating to planetary defense. In addition to the SGC, it also controls the United States' budding fleet of [[SpaceFighter Space Fighters]] and [[TheBattlestar Battle Carriers]], as well as the military command at Area51 that analyzes and builds off of the technology brought back by the SGC. |
| 267 | ** Also featuring prominently in the series is the NID (National Intelligence Division), a combination StateSec, InternalAffairs, and TheMenInBlack. Officially, its main function is to provide oversight of top-secret military projects like the SGC but is frequently seen operating as an intelligence and/or law enforcement agency. It was plagued by corruption for the first six seasons, with numerous {{Rogue Agent}}s who eventually turned out to be working for a CorporateConspiracy looking to acquire and exploit alien technology for commercial gain. Tracking and bringing down the remnants of this conspiracy has been the NID's main job ever since the agency was purged of its corrupt elements. |
| 268 | ** Finally, there's the IOA (International Oversight Advisory), an ''Intergovernmental'' Agency of Fiction. Once the existence of the Stargate program was revealed to various other nations who were invited to cooperate in it, the IOA was set up as the main forum for the international alliance and the governing entity for several projects related to the Earth's defense and galactic exploration (most notably the Atlantis Expedition and the Ancient weapons platform in Antarctica). As time goes by, it also slowly begins to acquire a more hands-on capacity, including a Field Operations Division to combat alien threats on Earth, and at least one former CIA agent that's seen accompanying an SG-team and representing the IOA's interests. However, the lion's share of the field work is still left to other agencies, with the IOA remaining mostly an administrative body. |
| 269 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'' creates several of these. Occasionally mentioned are the Bajoran, Vulcan and Klingon intelligence agencies. However, three do get a more significant exploration: |
| 270 | ** Section 31 (Federation), a black ops agency so secret it doesn't even have a headquarters. Most of the Federation doesn't know exists. Those that do turn a blind eye to its existence. Its status as an actual government ''agency'' (rather than a secret society operating within the government) is a bit vague, as is its relation to the publicly acknowledged and sometimes-mentioned Starfleet Intelligence. |
| 271 | ** The Tal Shiar (Romulan) has a reputation for being one of the most efficient organisations in the entire Alpha/Beta Quadrants. Not many organisations have a better reputation. It's considered dangerous enough for the Dominion to target for being wiped out as a prelude to invading the Alpha Quadrant. |
| 272 | ** The Obsidian Order (Cardassian), the only organisation with a better reputation for efficiency and success than the Tal Shiar. Like the Tal Shiar, the Dominion views it as such a big threat that it wipes out the Order as a prelude to invading the Alpha Quadrant. The Obsidian Order is eventually replaced by the Cardassian Bureau of Intelligence which also very quickly gains a reputation for skill and efficiency at what it does. |
| 273 | * One sketch in ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' has the "All-Party Committee to Combat Footling Social Misunderstandings" introduce their proposal for a standardized method to ask for an extra chair in noisy bars. This is followed by their guidance not to flush when an overnight guest and risk waking your host... unless it was a poo, in which case you should, and follow up by shouting "IT WAS A POO! IT WAS A POO!" |
| 274 | * The Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship ([=DoSAC=]) in ''Series/TheThickOfIt'', created on account of the Prime Minister's preference for "joined-up government" (a sly reference to some of the weirder departments cooked up by UsefulNotes/TonyBlair and UsefulNotes/PeterMandelson). |
| 275 | * The Science Patrol in ''Series/{{Ultraman}}''. |
| 276 | * The [[SecretGovernmentWarehouse warehouses]] in ''Series/Warehouse13'' are an interesting example, because they aren't really a real part of the government. Warehouse 1, however, was built by UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat. It was only starting with Warehouse 2 that the Regents were formed to be independent of any government. |
| 277 | * ''Franchise/{{Whoniverse}}'': |
| 278 | ** UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, later the [=UNified=] Intelligence Taskforce), [[Series/BBVProbe PROBE]] and the [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Torchwood Institute]]. (The latter is only initially associated with the British government, having been created by UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria to fight extraterrestrial threats. After UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, they update their mandate to restore the empire to its former glory using ImportedAlienPhlebotinum. After the destruction of Torchwood One, the main branch, in the Battle of Canary Wharf, the remaining two branches -- Torchwood Two in Glasgow and Torchwood Three in Cardiff -- are pretty tiny by comparison. They are also implied to have cut off ties with the British government.) |
| 279 | ** [[Series/DoctorWho Gallifrey]] has the Celestial Intervention Agency ([[FunWithAcronyms CIA]]), who are briefly mentioned in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]" and much expanded by Word of God and Expanded Universe material, and [[NoSuchAgency the Division]] from Creator/ChrisChibnall's era, a black ops interventionist group who appear to have been active early in Time Lord history. |
| 280 | ** The Department in ''Series/{{K9}}'', who seem to have started out as a Torchwood/UNIT type organization and have extended their mandate until they're in charge of ''everything''. |
| 281 | * Starting in the second season of ''Series/WonderWoman1975'', Wonder Woman's alter ego Diana Prince is employed by the Inter-Agency Defense Command (IADC). |
| 282 | * The Ministry of Administrative Affairs in ''Series/YesMinister''. The ultimate government bureaucracy, it's in charge of organizing all the other government bureaucracies. |
| 283 | [[/folder]] |
| 284 | |
| 285 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 286 | * ''Podcast/TheBrightSessions'': The [[MutantDraftBoard Atypical Monitors]] (A.M.). |
| 287 | * ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': Characters include agents from the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named]] Vague Yet Menacing Government Agency. |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 291 | * ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'': HM's Let Just Keep This Between Us department. Exactly what they do is unclear, but at least one thing involves removing monarchial brains with spoons at the point of death. They are not at liberty to divulge the ''size'' of the spoons. |
| 292 | * ''Radio/PleasantGreenUniverse'': The British occult agency known as the Department of Works or simply "the Department" plays a prominent role, most notably the ''Mythos'' miniseries. |
| 293 | * ''[[Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook That Mitchell and Webb Sound]]'': The Ministry of Things Which Are Apparently True, who spread rumours about things which are apparently true, until you think about them for more than five seconds. Budget cutbacks mean they've had to downgrade the quality of their lies and have been merged with the Department of Things Which Are Suddenly Everywhere. |
| 294 | [[/folder]] |
| 295 | |
| 296 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 297 | * ''Roleplay/LeagueOfIntergalacticCosmicChampions'': The League operate under the Department of Superheroics. |
| 298 | * ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'': Two government agencies featured includes [[TheEmpire Avelia]]'s Office of Strategic Services and [[ThoseWackyNazis Sirene]]'s Reichsnachrichten. |
| 299 | [[/folder]] |
| 300 | |
| 301 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 302 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_13 Bureau 13]] in Tri Tac Games' ''Bureau 13: Stalking the Night Fantastic''. They're a top-secret U.S. government agency dedicated to defending the world against supernatural threats. |
| 303 | * Department 7, the all-purpose government agency tasked with investigating whatever the Gamemaster wants them to, from ''TabletopGame/D20Modern''. |
| 304 | * The secret, unofficial (and illegal) ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' which is dedicated to stopping Franchise/CthulhuMythos threats. Its British counterpart is PISCES (Paranormal Intelligence Section for Counter-intelligence, Espionage and Sabotage). |
| 305 | * ''TabletopGame/FreedomCity'' has several: the US has A.E.G.I.S. (which is basically ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} when it's an American agency); the UN has U.N.I.S.O.N. (which is international S.H.I.E.L.D., [[Series/TheManFromUncle U.N.C.L.E.]] or [[Series/DoctorWho U.N.I.T.]], depending on how you play it); NATO has S.W.O.R.D. (another international S.H.I.E.L.D.); Canada has the Metahuman Affairs Department ([[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Department H]]); the UK has the Ministry of Powers ([[ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13 MI-13]]) and so on. |
| 306 | * ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' has three -- Task Force: VALKYRIE, TheMenInBlack who came together after hiring an actor to cover up the fact that some ''thing'' [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy had eaten President Lincoln]]; the Barrett Commission, a political coalition that works to keep vampiric influence out of the halls of power; and the Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit, a branch of the FBI trained in PsychicPowers and specializing in the pursuit of [[SlasherMovie slashers]]. Division Six ''thinks'' it's this, but it's really just a well-supplied pawn of [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening the Seers of the Throne]]. |
| 307 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', the Computer has a number of organizations carrying out its orders, such as Armed Forces, CPU and Internal Security. |
| 308 | * ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' mostly uses existing agencies, but the US has the National Technical Intelligence Bureau (futuristic NSA) and the Space Intelligence Agency; the EU has the Genetic Regulatory Agency; and Indonesia (one of the main players in the Transpacific Socialist Alliance) has BAKORSTAPAS. There's even a ''fictional'' fictional government agency; S.P.I.D.E.R., who fight the eco-terrorists of K.H.A.O.S. in a series of popular kids' shows. |
| 309 | * ''TabletopGame/TrinityUniverseWhiteWolf'': |
| 310 | ** In ''TabletopGame/{{Trinity}}'', one of the psi orders is China's Ministry of Psionic Affairs, which specializes in the practice of telepathy; as such, the Ministry has a number of functions in the Chinese government. Its relationship with its home country, and with the rest of the world, is understandably complex. |
| 311 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Adventure}}'' has the U.S. Branch 9, and its international counterparts, which exist to deal with situations beyond the scope of other intelligence agencies, and answer to their respective heads of state. |
| 312 | * ''TabletopGame/VillainsAndVigilantes'' has C.H.E.S.S. (Central Headquarters of Espionage for the Secret Service), a U.S. government agency that fights super menaces. |
| 313 | [[/folder]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 316 | * ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' in the game of the same name. |
| 317 | * The Strategic Tactical Advanced Alien Response (STAAR) in ''VideoGame/Area51''. |
| 318 | * Task Force 141 in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' is a multinational anti-terrorist special operations group that was formed in response to the detonation of a rogue nuclear weapon during [[VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare the first game]] (helmed under the command of US General Hershel Shepherd). [[spoiler:By ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare3'', due to Shepherd betraying them and killing the vast majority of their agents, they are all but eradicated and the remaining members are disavowed as terrorists themselves.]] |
| 319 | * The Ministry of Occultism in the ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos''. |
| 320 | * ''VideoGame/TheConduit'' has the Trust. |
| 321 | * ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'': The Federal Bureau of Control, or FBC, is a secret law enforcement agency, of the federal government, with the added twist of enforcing the laws of physics, by protecting the nation from otherworldly forces. They do this by finding paranatural phenomena such as "Objects of Power" and containing them in their headquarters in Manhattan. By removing these threats and keeping their existence a secret, the Bureau protects the public from the impact these Objects of Power have, such as the high morality rate that they cause, as well as keeping them out of the hands of those who would abuse their power, all the while scientists, such as the Bureau’s Head of Research [[MrFanservice Casper Darling]], study them in the hopes of [[{{Pun}} controlling]] them. |
| 322 | * The Agency, employing cyborgs to bring peace to Pacific City today and ''[[TakeOverTheWorld the world]]'' later, in ''VideoGame/{{Crackdown}}''. |
| 323 | * ''VideoGame/DanceCentral'' has DCI (Dance Central Intelligence) who are basically a secret agency dedicated to protecting the world from "dance crimes". |
| 324 | * ''VideoGame/DaysGone'' features NERO (the National Emergency Response Organization, an expy of FEMA with elements of the CIA thrown in, according to WordOfGod). They are the only functioning remnant of the pre-outbreak U.S. government. |
| 325 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising3'' has the Federal Bureau of Zombie Defense and Control or ZDC for short. Described as a 'zombie FBI' by producer Josh Bridges. |
| 326 | %%* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'' has the ''Majestic''. |
| 327 | * {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', as UNATCO appears to be a legitimate world law-enforcement body [[spoiler:but is just an arm of a more shadowy organization that has been manipulating member nations' laws to stage legal coups in every country.]] |
| 328 | * ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'': JP's, short for Japan Meteorological Agency, Prescribed Geomagnetism Research Department, is an organization founded by the Hotsuin family, with a member of the family always being the director of the agency, and dedicated to investigating geomagnetism. However, when an AlienInvasion occurs, they begin to take on several other duties that make their [[NonIndicativeName name non-indicative]] like gather resources, combating StarfishAliens, checking on the seals and barriers, tackling rioters who can command demons, and giving orders to the SDF. Outside TheProtagonist and his friends, prominent staff members in both arcs include Makoto Sako, the right hand woman of the current director and Tokyo Branch Clerk, Otome Yanagiya, the physician in charge of medical care and Osaka Branch Clerk, and Fumi Kanno, the head scientist of the agency and Nagoya Branch Clerk. |
| 329 | * ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'': The Forces of Justice, or the Global Defense Alliances, are an [[TheAlliance alliance]] of five different counter-terrorist agencies, whose members are all made of themselves [[TheAlliance different allied countries]] of Earth, with all of them sharing the same goal of combating the titular VillainProtagonist. Each of the organizations and their member territories include: |
| 330 | ** [[FunWithAcronyms A.N.V.I.L.]] (North China, North Korea, Southeast Asia, Indochina, Polynesia, Central Asia). |
| 331 | ** [[FunWithAcronyms H.A.M.M.E.R.]] (Eastern Bloc, Central Russia, Siberia, Cuba). |
| 332 | ** [[FunWithAcronyms P.A.T.R.I.O.T.]] (West Coast, Mid-West, East Coast, North America, Central America, Pacific Allies). |
| 333 | ** [[FunWithAcronyms S.A.B.E.R.]] (Europe, Southern Africa, The Indian Subcontinent, Australasia). |
| 334 | ** [[FunWithAcronyms S.M.A.S.H.]] (Antarctica, South America, North Africa, Middle East). |
| 335 | * Counter Intelligence Group 9, as well as various military units, in ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}''. |
| 336 | * ''VideoGame/TheDivision'': Features a number of them. There's obviously the namesake Strategic Homeland Division in addition to the Catastrophic Emergency Response Agency (an expy of FEMA), the Disease Control Division (an expy of the CDC, although the CDC itself is mentioned in the first game), and the Hunter Program, [[spoiler: an agency within the Department of Homeland Security formed as a failsafe should the aforementioned SDH go rogue as a whole.]] |
| 337 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'': |
| 338 | ** Mike Toreno's "government agency" in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', plus at least one (probably two) rival agencies. |
| 339 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' features the FIB and IAA, expies of the FBI and CIA. Both are deeply corrupt agencies full of self-serving homicidal spies who pursue their own interests and inter-agency rivalries over their actual job of fighting terrorism, with the latter plotting to hook the senate on drugs (as seen in GTAIV) and cooking up mysterious vials of liquid (presumably to sell). Half the game revolves around their gang war and the bank robbers they rope into working as proxies. |
| 340 | * The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. |
| 341 | * The AMS in ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead''. Despite featuring prominently in every game, it's never explained what they do (besides shooting zombies) or even what the acronym stands for. |
| 342 | * The Department of Unified Protection from ''VideoGame/InFamous2''. |
| 343 | * The Civil Emergency and Defense Agency (CEDA) in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', which functions as a hybrid of FEMA and the CDC. |
| 344 | * The Regular Army from ''VideoGame/MetalSlug''. |
| 345 | * Shinra from ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' and ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone''. |
| 346 | * ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'': Due to the titular Nelson Tethers being an agent for the government, several agencies, both real and fictional, appear in the game. For the latter, TheProtagonist is the only agent of the Puzzle Research Division, under the FBI, whose main job is to investigate cases that involve complex puzzles, such as the field assignment in Scoggins, Minnesota dealing with an eraser factory, that produces erasers which the White House uses, mysteriously stopping with the government only ever getting back a puzzle when they try to make an enquiry. Outside the Department of Puzzle Research, the FBI directory shows, in a FreezeFrameBonus, other bureaus such as reasonable sounding one like the Bureau of Words to downright strange ones like the Bureau of Naval Lint, with additional departments covering subjects like cheese, fish, lists, seamstresses, signage, suits, surveillance, and wizardry. However, the only other agency with plot relevance is Sasquatch Research, and even then it is only due to the appearance of [[spoiler:Sasquatch at the end of the second game to break the frozen lake and send the insanity-inducing machine to the bottom of it]]. On the topic of the second game, the titular character is revealed to have a coworker friend named Agent Jim Ingraham, who works in the Department of Vegetable Crimes, that has two sub-divisions centered around leafy greens as well as roots and tubers, and assists him by filing his paperwork through Vegetable Crimes when he uses vacation time to finish the Scoggins case. The end of the second game also reveals that there exists a Tundra Division for agents that have broken protocol, such as when Agent Ingraham warns Agent Tethers that agents were on the way, and sends them to the Arctic Circle Outpost. Finally, the Department of Case Processing and Verification exists in both games, with them judging how well the PlayerCharacter does in the [[MiniGame puzzle minigames]], with the in-game justification of them reviewing agents’ performance in their cases. |
| 347 | * ''VideoGame/Nocturne1999'': The PlayerCharacter, known as the Stranger, is an operative for Spookhouse, or officially known as the Domestic Supernatural Research and Defense League, during both the Prohibition and Great Depression eras. The secret organization was founded by President Theodore Roosevelt during his presidency after he killed a werewolf while in Cuba during the Spanish-American War in the year 1902. Due to being a secret organization, they operate under the cover of the “Department of Biological and Wildlife Research’ with the goal of defending humanity by fighting monsters and to that the end they research cases that could possibly involve classic Hollywood monsters such as vampires, werewolves, and zombies. |
| 348 | * In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', the Pokémon League is the foremost authority regarding the titular {{mons}} and is responsible for [[SolarPunk conserving their habitats]] and [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness licensing]] [[KidWithTheRemoteControl Trainers]]. |
| 349 | * ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' has several of these, all specializing in dealing with bioterrorism. |
| 350 | ** The Department of Security Operations ([=DSO=]), an elite agency working directly for the President of the United States. [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 Leon S. Kennedy and Sherry Birkin]] are both employed by the agency. |
| 351 | ** The Federal Bioterrorism Commission ([=FBC=]) was the predecessor of the DSO and dissolved after a number of scandals. |
| 352 | ** On the international level is the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance ([=BSAA=]), an organization overseen by NATO. [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil Chris Redfield, Jill Valentine, and Barry Burton]] were founding members of the organization. |
| 353 | * The OSA (Office of Strategic Actions) from ''VideoGame/ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'', a joint British-American agency for which series protagonist B.J. Blazkowicz works. |
| 354 | * The National Security Executive in ''VideoGame/SecondSight''. PretentiousLatinMotto: ''Silent Leges Inter Arma''.[[note]]lit. "Laws fall silent in times of arms" or more accurately "The laws are meaningless in times of war".[[/note]] |
| 355 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has the Guardian Units of Nations or G.U.N., a global military and law enforcement organization dedicated to protecting humanity from high-level threats like [[BigBad Dr. Eggman]] and {{Alien Invasion}}s, as well as the CIA (Central ''Information'' Agency). |
| 356 | * ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has Imperial Intelligence for the Empire and the SIS for the Republic. |
| 357 | * ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'': |
| 358 | ** The Agency and its [[ConspiracyRedemption more benign]] successor. |
| 359 | ** The International Presidential Consulting Agency. |
| 360 | ** The Chemical Biological Defense Command. |
| 361 | * In the world of ''VideoGame/TexMurphy'', NSA has been turned into the National ''Surveillance'' Agency, which is perfectly willing to make people disappear if they don't cooperate or happen to be snarky private eyes. They're also [[spoiler:searching for a UFO in order to grab its stores of {{Antimatter}}]]. |
| 362 | %%* The VSSE from ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis''. |
| 363 | %%* ''VideoGame/VampireRain'' gives us the American Information Bureau. |
| 364 | * ''VideoGame/XCom'': |
| 365 | ** ''VideoGame/TheBureauXCOMDeclassified'': A ZigZaggingTrope as the eponymous X-COM was originally a U.S. agency originally formed during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar as a contingency in case of a Soviet invasion, but instead find themselves the most prepared to deal with the Outsider invasion. However, later chronological games has them become an autonomous agency that, while not being affiliated with any government, does answer to the Council of Nations. |
| 366 | ** ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'': EXALT, on the other hand, is not originally a government agency, but does successfully infiltrate one of the member states of the Council of Nations so that they can infiltrate it, which starts the plot of X-COM having to figure out which member government they infiltrated before they can accomplish their goal. |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 370 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': The cartoon has two major government agencies featured in the story. |
| 371 | ** Project: Freelancer is presented as a UNSC sponsored SuperSoldier program, dedicated to creating enhanced agents to fight the Covenant, partnered with ArtificialIntelligence in suits of advanced suits of armor with varying armor abilities. As time went on, however, the Project became more and more involved in shady activities, and the Freelancer Agents found themselves fighting humans more often than aliens. |
| 372 | ** The UNSC Oversight Subcommittee was formed in response to reports of ''multiple'' of the aformentioned Freelancer agents in the field at once equipped with AI at any given time, when the program was only ever given a single AI unit. [[spoiler:It turns out that the chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee is engaged in even ''worse'' activities than Freelancer was.]] |
| 373 | [[/folder]] |
| 374 | |
| 375 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 376 | %%* ''Webcomic/CodeNameHunter'' gives us the '''R'''oyal '''C'''enter for '''S'''pecial '''I'''nvestigations. |
| 377 | * ''Webcomic/TheFarSideOfUtopia'': The comic has the IDS (Interdimensional Security), the Bureau, and the MSB (Magic Security Branch), which all seem to be different flavors of this. |
| 378 | * ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'' has a secret spy agency referred to as UGA, which is short for... ''Undisclosed Government Agency.'' |
| 379 | %%* The Templar from ''Webcomic/ParallelDementia''. |
| 380 | %%* The Quad from ''Webcomic/{{Spy6teen}}''. |
| 381 | * ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'' centers around the activities of Project Skin Horse, a US government agency dedicated to handling the affairs of "nonhuman sapients," several of whom (including a Frankensteinian construct and a bureaucratic talking dog) serve on its staff. Other fictional government agencies make appearances (stupid [[IWantMyJetPack Department of Jetpack Suppression]]). |
| 382 | * ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'' has the Board of Magical Girls, which seems to deal with the affairs of the {{magical girl}}s who defend the city from monsters. Specifically, they encourage all magical girls to [[SuperRegistrationAct register with them]] in order to take advantage of the many benefits they offer -- including [[MagicalGirlGenreDeconstruction a 70% lower risk of serious injury or death]]. |
| 383 | * The Royal Enforcement Division from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', a group that is supposed to take out enemies of the kingdom of Jahad, especially [[RebelliousPrincess rogue princesses]] and [[RankScalesWithAsskicking Rankers]], [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters FUG members]] and [[TheDreaded Irregulars]]. [[SecretPolice Nasty bunch]], those guys. |
| 384 | [[/folder]] |
| 385 | |
| 386 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 387 | * ''Franchise/TheFearMythos'' features STAB (the Supernatural Threat Analysis Bureau), with notable branches including the SMSC (Special Monitoring and Study Commission) and the Lonely Hearts (also called Sgt. Pepper's). STAB and its respective branches deal with the Fears and other supernatural beings, but [[CrapsackWorld they tend to be ineffective at actually dealing with them]]; the SMSC, for example, is mostly focused on cleaning up messes and making sure that the {{Masquerade}} is maintained. |
| 388 | * The ''United Liberators Coalition'' roleplay universe has the United States Department of Magical Affairs, and of course, the the Liberators themselves as a daughter agency of the Department of Homeland Security, specializing in stopping [[RealityWarper Type III]], [[EvilSorcerer magical,]] and mystical threats in the US. |
| 389 | [[/folder]] |
| 390 | |
| 391 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 392 | * ''Website/TheFederalVampireAndZombieAgency'': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. They also deal with werewolves. |
| 393 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The titular organization is a (mostly) private [[NGOSuperpower non-governmental]] organisation, but among the numerous Groups of Interest that exist within the lore of the multiple branches, many are state agencies such as the Unusual Incidents Unit in America, the Department of Abnormal Threats in Ukraine or the Gendastrerie in France. |
| 394 | [[/folder]] |
| 395 | |
| 396 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 397 | * ''WebVideo/Local58'': The Department for the Preservation of American Dignity, a government agency created sometime during Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, with the purpose of inciting mass suicide in the event that the United States is forced to surrender to a foreign enemy, ''or worse'', with its reasons to do so currently being up to speculation. |
| 398 | [[/folder]] |
| 399 | |
| 400 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 401 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': A SubvertedTrope with all of the fictional agencies that appear in the show, as all of them are [[NonGovernmentalOrganization not connected to any government]], with all of them being merely conglomerate or [[PrivateIntelligenceAgency private intelligence agencies]]. |
| 402 | ** The International Intelligence Agency (IIA) is a [[PrivateIntelligenceAgency conglomerate intelligence agency]] located in Singapore, that buys out all the of other [[PrivateIntelligenceAgency private intelligence agencies]], such as the two examples below, with [[MrFanservice Fabian Kingsworth]] as the head of the agency until he is arrested by Interpol with the agency being dismantled. |
| 403 | ** The International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) is the main PrivateIntelligenceAgency, located in New York City underneath a laundromat that can be accessed through a secret elevator, with it being the main employer of the main cast including [[MrFanservice Algernop Krieger, Barry Dylan, Bryan, Conway Stern, Cyril Figgis, Lucas Troy, Ray Gilette, and finally the titular Sterling Archer himself]]. Throughout the entire series, it has been shut down by the FBI/CIA, restored, rebranded as a small detective agency, resurged when the titular character was in a coma, bought out by two different people including by the head of the above mentioned IIA, and currently restructuring under Lana’s leadership. |
| 404 | ** The Organization of Democratic Intelligence Networks (ODIN) is the main rival PrivateIntelligenceAgency of ISIS located in Paris, France at the beginning of the series until the disappeared for awhile until the debut of the IIA in which it was revealed that ODIN were bought out by them before ISIS. Their former personnel included people originally worked for them but started working for ISIS once it was bought out like [[MrFanservice Barry Dylan]], people who deserted ISIS to work for ODIN like [[MrFanservice Lucas Troy]], and even briefly the titular [[MrFanservice Sterling Archer]] himself when his [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] and then head of ISIS accidentally put a burn notice on him. |
| 405 | * ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The Dai Li serve as a SecretPolice force in Ba Sing Se for Grand Secretariat Long Feng [[spoiler:before the capital falls to the Fire Nation, then they go on to serve Princess Azula until she starts losing her sanity and dismisses them]] in the finale of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', and finally they return in the ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' where they know serve the tyrannical Earth Queen Hou-Ting [[spoiler:until her assassination at the hands of the Red Lotus]]. |
| 406 | * ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': The 2014 episode, “The Fog of Courage”, reveals that the United States federal government has a Department of Curses as part of it’s cabinet, with it being [[ImpliedTrope implied]] that it was created due to the DeathWorld nature of the show. |
| 407 | ** In addition to the aforementioned U.S. federal department, several federal agencies are also seen or mentioned in the show. The first being the Federal Bureau of BLAH!, under the Department of Curses, which researches cursed amulets, and possibly other things, and releases that information online to the public. The episode “Last of the Starmakers” also reveals that there are two secret agencies, being the Department of Space Squids and the Department of Military Coverups, which are both [[ImpliedTrope implied]] to be under the Department of Defense, as it is the only one with agencies under it that also have department in their titles as well as [[MrFanservice The General]] being the leader of both agencies. |
| 408 | * The organisation headed by Colonel K in ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse''. Named in TheRemake as the Danger Agency. |
| 409 | * ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' has [[TheMenInBlack the Guys in White]], a governmental agency dedicated to ghostly research/hunts. |
| 410 | * S.H.U.S.H., the international spy organization that ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' occasionally works for. |
| 411 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'': A ParodiedTrope. In the episode “Our Bodies, Our Elves” , the Kingdom of Dreamland is revealed to have a Ministry of Health and Inhuman(e) Services, based on the U.S.’s Department of Health and Human Services, who have quarantined [[FantasticGhetto Elf Alley]] after the [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]] fall ill when they started playing in the dirty bath water that drained from the human’s, (plus Elfo), celebration of their only holiday, Bath Day. Although whether the inhuman(e) in the title comes from the fact that provides services to non-humans, a reference to the medieval treatments of the DungAges trope or a really clever word for both of them is unknown. |
| 412 | * ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Section 13 are TheMenInBlack who help [[MrFanservice Jackie]] and his allies in dealing with the various supernatural threats. However, in an interesting twist, they originally were just a normal {{Muggle}} law enforcement agency who recruited [[MrFanservice Jackie]] for his archaeological expertise when the criminal organization that they were investigating started collecting and selling valuable artifacts. Unfortunately, for them one of the artifacts said criminal organization obtained was a statue that [[SealedEvilInACan housed the draconic fire demon]] [[MrFanservice Shendu]] and would soon realize that they are in over their heads when they stopped [[AgentMulder scoffing at the existence of magic]]. |
| 413 | * ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'': While the elite covert agency of the U.S. government known as Intelligence One(I-1), or simply The Agency, only appears in one or two episodes early on in the series, it plays an important role in that they are ones who brought together three of the four main cast. They accomplished this through their main goal, as revealed in the episode “Riddle of the Gold”, of protecting scientists and their families from being compromised by foreign agents, with Race Bannon being assigned to Dr. Benton Quest, a OmnidisciplinaryScientist who occasionally works with Intelligence One, and his son Jonny Quest, after the death of the former’s wife and the latter’s mother. |
| 414 | * The Super-Secret Government Agency of ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', headed by The General, and staffed by the incompetent [[TheMenInBlack men in black]] who call themselves Black and White. |
| 415 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Global Justice is a top secret worldwide espionage organization, that handles any threats that normal law enforcement agency can’t handle themselves, who sometimes call on the titular heroine through unorthodox methods such as staging a hoax crime for her to appear at. Their personnel include their leader Dr. Betty, an AffectionateParody and GenderFlip version of Nick Fury with an EvilTwin brother, [[MrFanservice Will Du]], a stoic young AffectionateParody of Spock, Flynn Cognito, a QuintessentialBritishGentleman and MasterOfDisguise, as well as various unnamed scientists and pilots. Additionally, the episode “Team Impossible” has the [[MrFanservice titular team]] stated to have joined Global Justice at the end of the episode. |
| 416 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' has the O.W.C.A. (Organization Without a Cool Acronym), which employs [[AnimalSuperheroes Animal Secret Agents]] to fight {{Mad Scientist}}s. Of course, ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbMissionMarvel'' shows that they indeed collaborate with other large-name agencies such as ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}. |
| 417 | * The Earth Protection Force in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', which existed since the 1800s. |
| 418 | * The Office of Secret Intelligence from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros''. The main branch operates much like ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, but apparently a splinter group is a CaptainErsatz for Franchise/GIJoe. |
| 419 | [[/folder]] |
| 420 | |
| 421 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 422 | * Many scam emails have writers that purport to be from some non-existent government agency. |
| 423 | [[/folder]] |
| 424 | |
| 425 | [[AC:Real Agencies in Fiction]] |
| 426 | |
| 427 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 428 | * ''Manga/DeathNote'': The FBI is a consistent presence, although why they are suddenly investigating international cases instead of the CIA is never explained. This is TruthInFiction -- the FBI does sometimes get involved in international cases. |
| 429 | * ''Anime/GreatPretender'': Cynthia pretends to be an FBI Agent to scam [[spoiler:Eddie Cassano]]. Then they hand him over to the real FBI. |
| 430 | * ''Franchise/LupinIII'': Interpol does ''not'' operate the way [[InterpolSpecialAgent Inspector Zenigata]] makes use of it. Real Life has the International Police agency as a multinational information-sharing operation. Zenigata uses it as his authority to travel and arrest Lupin in ''any'' nation. |
| 431 | * ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'': The NPA is mentioned at least once, being the coordinating agency for police forces. |
| 432 | [[/folder]] |
| 433 | |
| 434 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 435 | * ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': The titular team of CapeBusters is backed by the UsefulNotes/{{CIA}}. |
| 436 | * ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'': Taken to the point of parody, in which the ''freaking FDA'' has a law enforcement division on par with the FBI (it's set in a dystopian future where chicken is a controlled substance). Later on, we bump into buxom female cyborg ninjas working for the USDA, and alien star children at NASA. |
| 437 | * ''ComicBook/{{Gravel}}'': William Gravel (think [[ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}} John Constantine]] meets [[Series/TwentyFour Jack Bauer]]) is a Sergeant Major in the SAS (Special Air Service). |
| 438 | * ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': The [=MI5=] and [=MI6=], where not only works every British spy and agent from fiction (from [[Series/DangerMan John Drake]], Franchise/JamesBond, [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Emma Peel]] and more), but it was also used as [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour the Ministry of Love]]. |
| 439 | * ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': The real-life MI-5, [=MI6=] and the Joint Intelligence Committee have all appeared in ''ComicBook/CaptainBritainAndMI13'' stories written by Paul Cornell. [=MI6=] previously ran superhero operations in ''ComicBook/MasterOfKungFu''. |
| 440 | * ''ComicBook/QueenAndCountry'': The comic started out referring to British domestic intelligence as "Five" (like ''Series/TheSandbaggers'' does), but Creator/GregRucka was embarrassed to discover that most people nowadays [[ShownTheirWork refer to the agency as "Box"]], a nickname derived from the agency's official address, a [=PO=] Box. He promptly corrected the error in the rest of the series. |
| 441 | [[/folder]] |
| 442 | |
| 443 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 444 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'': In a rarer non-spying example, with the '''N'''ational '''I'''nstitute of '''M'''ental '''H'''ealth (who probably weren't very happy about the depiction, let alone [[WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH2TimmyToTheRescue the sequel]]). |
| 445 | [[/folder]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 448 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'': The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense is a pain in Buckaroo's neck. He badmouths Buckarooo to other people and tries to convince the President to confiscate Buckaroo's Jet Car. |
| 449 | * ''Film/EagleEye'': The United States Department of Defense. |
| 450 | * ''Film/JamesBond'': [=MI6=] and the CIA throughout the film franchise, with many other agencies appearing in individual films, but the former is referred to as simply the British Secret Service in the [[Literature/JamesBond Fleming novels]]. |
| 451 | ** ''Film/JamesBond'': After the events of ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'', in ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', both MI-5 and [=MI6=] have been merged to form the Joint Intelligence Service, headed by Max Denbigh. |
| 452 | ** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'': SMERSH, before their role was usurped by the completely fictional [[NebulousEvilOrganisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E.]], got a similar situation to [=MI6=] barring that one mention in. |
| 453 | ** ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'': The film features the PLA Military Intelligence. |
| 454 | ** ''Film/DieAnotherDay'': The film also includes the NSA. |
| 455 | * ''Film/JohnnyEnglish'': MI-7, although the fictional one is different from the real one. It is possible that the filmmakers didn’t know that the British Military Intelligence Section 7 was in charge of propaganda and eventually transferred to the Ministry of Information in 1940. |
| 456 | * ''Film/MenInBlack'': INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Division 6, one of J's cover stories in the film. After its absorption into Department of Homeland Security, however, it was reorganized into Customs and Border Protection on border control, and US Citizenship and Immigration Service for immigration. |
| 457 | * ''Film/{{Outbreak}}'': The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) plays a fairly large role and so does USAMRIID (United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases). |
| 458 | * ''Film/{{Stargate}}'': The film portrays the United States Air Force launching a covert mission through the [[CoolGate Stargate]] to investigate the alien world of Abydos [[spoiler:and to destroy the Gate on the other side if Abydos proves to be a threat.]] The [[Series/StargateSG1 spinoff series]] would go on to portray the Stargate being operated by various Department of Defense agencies under the fictional Stargate Command. |
| 459 | * ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'': The '''N'''uclear '''E'''mergency '''S'''upport '''T'''eam appears in the film as... let's just let Website/TFWikiDotNet [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/NEST#Notes try to explain it]]. |
| 460 | * ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'': The NSA is behind the project to develop the little black box and ends up hunting the protagonists after they steal it. |
| 461 | * ''Film/XXx'': The NSA started a program to recruit Triple X. |
| 462 | [[/folder]] |
| 463 | |
| 464 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 465 | !!By creator |
| 466 | * Creator/JohnLeCarre: |
| 467 | ** [=MI6=] is featured prominently in his works. It's nicknamed "The Circus" thanks to its headquarters being on Cambridge Circus (in-universe; in real life [=MI6=] headquarters overlooks the Thames). It is called the Circus until sometime between the end of ''Smiley's People'' and the start of ''The Russia House'', when the main part of the Service, as it then becomes known, moves to an unpleasant office building on the south bank of the Thames (as it did in real life), which is stated more clearly in ''The Secret Pilgrim''. This is explained as being partly because of a desire to get rid of everything which reminds them of TheMole from ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'', especially because they know he bugged the Circus before he was caught. |
| 468 | !!By work |
| 469 | * ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfFoxTayle'': The FBI is after Tayle because he escaped from the fictional governmental [=BioCon=] corporation. |
| 470 | * ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'': The FBI (or rather its pre-1935 incarnation, the Division of Investigation) has a branch dedicated to affairs regarding immortals and alchemy headed by Victor Talbot, an immortal himself. |
| 471 | * ''Literature/TheCaseOfTheToxicSpellDump'': The CIA exists, but they use [[OurGhostsAreDifferent actual spooks]]. |
| 472 | * ''Literature/ChildOfTheHive'': The Beeks are a government organization officially known as DPNI: Department for the Protection of National Intellect. |
| 473 | * ''Literature/DirkPittAdventures'': NUMA, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is a federal institution which led to the founding of a private organization of the same name and is headed by the author. |
| 474 | * ''Literature/JamesBond'': SMERSH is figured heavily in the novels (at least till use of the organization was phased out around the time of ''Literature/{{Thunderball}})''. However, the organization was never the super spy organization depicted, and may not have been in existence by the time that the Bond novels debuted. SMERSH (from ''SMER''t ''SH''pionam, or "death to spies") was in reality a sub-branch of the NKVD/MGB that was tasked during ([[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the Great Patriotic War]]) with ferreting out ant-communist partisans, Nazi sympathizers and other enemies of the Soviet regime behind Soviet lines. They were also put in charge of the short manhunt for UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler in Berlin at the end of the war. SMERSH was officially closed down in March 1946. |
| 475 | * ''Literature/WildCards'': The real [=MI7=] was the propaganda and censorship division of the War Office, which is currently defunct. However, [=MI7=] in the novel is the branch of British Intelligence that employs the superpowered spies and assassins codenamed Silver Helix. |
| 476 | [[/folder]] |
| 477 | |
| 478 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 479 | * ''Series/TheBill'': The series is a rare case of a British cop show being allowed to use the Metropolitan Police name and authentic uniforms. The latter required special security measures to prevent them falling into the hands of criminals - on the show's cancellation in 2010, they were handed over to the Met for the same reason. |
| 480 | * ''Series/CapeTown'': The series makes references to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (a South African Police Service division tasked with combating organized crime, corruption, money laundering and drug trafficking), but consistently calls it by its SquadNickname, "Hawks". |
| 481 | * ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': The title character is pressganged into working for a joint CIA and NSA black-ops team formed in response to him having their collective databases uploaded into his brain by his former college roommate, a rogue CIA spy. |
| 482 | * ''Series/ColdCase'': The show, unlike ''Series/ColdSquad'' and ''Series/WakingTheDead'' that introduced fictional police Cold Case divisions before such things began to [[DeFictionalization pop up timidly]] in RealLife, itself avoids the trope portraying the characters as regular Homicide detectives, but in season 7, just as the willing suspension of disbelief was being too stretched (and the perspective of cancellation seemed sure) the writers had the two main characters be [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot offered a position]] in a projected Cold Case FBI Unit. |
| 483 | * ''Series/CriminalMinds'': The series features the members of the BAU (an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_Analysis_Unit actual]] division of the FBI). The CIA and Interpol also appear in a few episodes. |
| 484 | * ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': The series has the eponymous FBI "Fringe Division", which works out of a basement at Harvard and consists of an ActionGirl, a MadScientist, his DeadpanSnarker son, TheHeart and the TeamPet reporting to the BaldOfAuthority. In an AlternateUniverse, Fringe Division is the main investigative arm of the Department of Defense and reports directly to the Secretary of Defense. The FBI no longer exists and Homeland Security was never created (since 9/11 wasn't as disastrous) in that version of the United States. |
| 485 | * ''Series/Intelligence2014'': The series uses the U.S. Cyber Command, which is a real agency, in a fictional way. For all intents and purposes, the real CYBERCOM seems to be more of a D.O.D function through the Armed Forces. CYBERCOM on Intelligence seems to be more of a technology focused sort of CIA, despite the Armed Forces pictures located in the main hall of the fictional CYBERCOM. It seems like it's just a tick more advanced than the real thing-even using a modified version of the actual CYBERCOM's emblem. |
| 486 | * ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': Recurring HeroAntagonist James Sterling works for Interpol. The team also often impersonates FBI agents. |
| 487 | * ''Series/TheMentalist'': The characters work for the CBI (California Bureau of Investigation). The RealLife name has since been changed to simply the Bureau of Investigation (BI), but the show is keeping the original name. |
| 488 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': The British Dental Association is a bit of a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion. While the show portrays it as one of these, they're quite mundane in real life. |
| 489 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': Meyers is a secret agent working for the Canadian Department of Militia and Defense (about twenty years before it existed in RealLife). |
| 490 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': NCIS, CGIS and Mossad, though NCIS is relatively unknown to the general public... which is {{justified|Trope}} because most people only know about the organization because of the show. |
| 491 | -->'''Tony:''' Relax, quickdraw, we're Feds.\ |
| 492 | '''Security officer:''' Yeah? What agency?\ |
| 493 | '''Tony/Ziva:''' NCIS.\ |
| 494 | '''Security officer:''' Never heard of it\ |
| 495 | '''Ziva:''' Naval Criminal Investigative Service...\ |
| 496 | '''Security officer:''' Never-heard-of-it.\ |
| 497 | '''Tony:''' ''[sighs]'' You never actually get used to it. You think you will, but you never do. |
| 498 | * ''Series/PsiFactor'': The Organization for Scientific Investigation and Research (OSIR) is allegedly a genuine international non-governmental organization, though the TV show (presumably) veered off the actual organization by a pretty wide margin. |
| 499 | * ''Series/TheSandbaggers'': A more realistic take on both the [=MI6=] (although referred to as SIS, its real name) and [=MI5=] can be found in the show (although it depicts SIS using a structure reportedly closer to the real CIA). |
| 500 | * ''Series/{{Spooks}}'': The British Security Service ([=MI5=]) is depicted in the show. |
| 501 | * ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': The series depicts the Ranger Division (state investigation bureau) of the Texas Department of Public Safety. |
| 502 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': The FBI's X-Files Division. |
| 503 | [[/folder]] |
| 504 | |
| 505 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 506 | * ''VideoGame/DeusEx'': FEMA is the agency in charge of distributing the Ambrosia vaccine [[spoiler:and the Grey Death]]. [[TheDragon Walton Simons]] is the head of FEMA. |
| 507 | * ''VideoGame/DeathToSpies'': The game is named after the Soviet counterintelligence agency SMERSH (whose name is an [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] meaning just that); the player takes the role of a counterintelligence agent and spy working for them during WWII. |
| 508 | * ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}'': Gex's father used to work for NASA when he died in an incident involving eating tapioca pudding in zero gravity. After the family later became [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney rich]], Gex's mother bought 51% ownership of it, fired everybody, and turned Mission Control into a SuckECheeses. |
| 509 | * ''Franchise/{{Hitman}}'': Real life government organizations such as the FBI, [=MI6=], and the CIA are occasionally brought up in different contexts, sometimes as allies/customers of the protagonist’s own (ethically amoral but politically neutral) organization, the ICA, and sometimes as being connected to some of the antagonists (e.g., the BigBad of ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'' is a former FBI director). |
| 510 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': The CIA, KGB, GRU, DARPA, US Department of Defense, and several other real-world agencies play prominent roles in the series. |
| 511 | * ''VideoGame/NelsonTethersPuzzleAgent'': Due to the titular Nelson Tethers being an agent for the government, several agencies, both real and fictional, appear in the game. For the former, TheProtagonist works for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with it being a VastBureaucracy in the game made up of various subdivisions focusing on implausible subjects, such as Puzzle Investigation. However, while most of the listed divisions are fictional, a few are based on real divisions such as the laboratory division, which is based on a real division under the Science and Technology Branch of the FBI, as well as counterintelligence and counterterrorism, which are both based on real divisions that are both under the National Security Branch. The Department of Justice is also shown frequently on the real life U.S. government seal, but they do not play a major part in the plot outside of the FBI being an agency under it. The CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency, is also [[FreezeFrameBonus briefly shown on the directory]] showing that “CIA” is “at the FBI” and are also mentioned again in the second game, when several characters wonder if they are a part of the sudden disappearance of six people in Scoggins, Minnesota. Other real agencies mentioned when the characters are discussing government involvement with the disappearances include the [[NoSuchAgency NSA]] and NASA, with the latter being involved to their creation of a [[spoiler:madness inducing machine]], but as it turns out the ones most likely involved are the [[spoiler:Secret Service]], as their agents appear near the end of the game with the director of the FBI. |
| 512 | * ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'': Inspector Carmelita Montoya Fox, the SympatheticInspectorAntagonist and love interest of the [[MrFanservice eponymous thief]], is an InterpolSpecialAgent, with INTERPOL itself having establishments and jurisdiction in different parts of the world. |
| 513 | * ''Franchise/StreetFighter'': Chun-Li is an [[InterpolSpecialAgent INTERPOL agent]], while Cammy and her Delta Red comrades are ostensibly part of SIS. |
| 514 | [[/folder]] |
| 515 | |
| 516 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 517 | * ''Webcomic/AverageJoe'': The comic has a character from ASIO [[http://www.asio.gov.au/ (Australian Security and Intelligence Agency)]]. Although real-life ASIO agents do not carry guns, this character [[http://ajcomic.com/?p=319 uses his]] [[http://ajcomic.com/?p=435 with little provocation]]. |
| 518 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': The FBI are involved in dealing with supernatural threats and hiding magic in general. After [[TheUnmasquedWorld the masquerade breaks]], they shift from the latter to suppressing the knowledge of the accessibility of magic from the public. |
| 519 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': The FBI operate the Orsintos Labs project that studies various paranormal phenomena, including Oasis. It's explained that they do this because they're jealous of the CIA for hogging all the alien cases. |
| 520 | [[/folder]] |
| 521 | |
| 522 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 523 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': The Unusual Incidents Unit is a fictional unit to the real FBI, and acts as an equivalent to "The X-Files". However, it is also considered a dead-end job for the FBI, and they only find actual SCP items very rarely. They're also looked down upon by the other organizations that investigate anomalies. |
| 524 | [[/folder]] |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 527 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': The main character, [[MrFanservice Stan Smith]], works for the CIA, or Central Intelligence Agency, and it is mostly through the independent government agency that makes the series interesting, as most of the characters, gadgets, and plots originate through it, with both Roger the alien and Klaus the human-turned-goldfish being major examples who would both become part of the Smith family. |
| 528 | * ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': NASA, or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has appeared or been mentioned in a few episodes of the series, including the “Dial M for Monkey” shorts. In the episode “Dexter’s Debt”, it is revealed that Dexter buys all of his lab equipment from them and has amassed $200 million in debt that kicks off the plot of the episode in which Dexter has to raise the money before they come to collect. In the episode “Simion”, it is revealed that the [[MrFanservice titular character of the episode]] was just a regular test monkey on a space mission for the government administration until a horrible accident caused him to mutate into a talking humanoid simian {{Hunk}} with superpowers, spacecrafts, and [[WickedCultured money]] until [[spoiler:Monkey convinces him to give up his revenge scheme]] and [[HomeNudist live in the jungle wearing nothing]] but [[BriefsBoasting his white briefs]] giving the [[FemaleGaze audience a nice view]] before heading off deep into the jungle. |
| 529 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter’s African ancestor, Nate Griffin, decided to get one over on the white man by opening a DMV and becoming an ObstructiveBureaucrat as seen in the video examples of the trope’s page as well as [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CWPWMj9E6ZI here]]. Also, seeing as the series is set in Rhode Island, the acronym DMV mostly likely stands for the Division of Motor Vehicles under Rhode Island’s Department of Revenue. |
| 530 | * ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': [[InterpolSpecialAgent INTERPOL]]. |
| 531 | * ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': The DMV appears in the episode “DMV - Department of Mega Violations”, which can impressively impound and later boot an [[HumongousMecha 80-foot-tall war mecha]]. However, the Division of Motor Vehicles, for which it is based on, under the New Jersey Department of Transportation was reorganized in 2003, a year before the episode aired, and became the Motor Vehicle Commission, or MVC, which self-operates independently from NJDOT. |
| 532 | * ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'': TheMenInBlack identify themselves to civilians as Division 6 of whatever real governmental agency would sound appropriate to the situation. Thus, for an episode dealing with alien plants, they identify themselves as Department of Agriculture Division 6. In another episode dealing with extraterrestrial drugs, they identify themselves as Drug Enforcement Agency Division 6. Of course, this gets a little ridiculous when they are at a movie theater and identify themselves as “Ushers Division 6”. The episode “The Star System Syndrome” does reveal that TheMenInBlack are divided into different divisions with Agents J and K belonging to Division 6, but whether they are connected to any governments is unknown. |
| 533 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) employs Patty and Selma. |
| 534 | * ''WesternAnimation/StreetFighter'': Due to AdaptationalJobChange, Cammy and her team now work for MI''5''/SS instead of MI''6''/SIS, which are/were under the Directorate of Military Intelligence(U.K.) but focus on different objectives. MI''6'' focuses on international matters and liaison with the Secret Intelligence Service, with it’s main goal of collecting and analyzing data on foreign nationals and in particular focuses on monitoring arms trafficking. MI''5'', meanwhile, liaisons with the Security Service and focuses on national matters, with it acting as both a counterintelligence and a security agency that sets the counter-espionage and military policy for protecting the civilian population of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. |
| 535 | * ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'': [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. The pilot mentions a government agency called the Federal Security Agency, or FSA, that oversees the Mutant Registration Agency, a NonGovernmentalOrganization. An agency by both that name and acronym existed from 1939 to 1953 before being replaced by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. However, the two differ in the areas that they oversee, with the real one overseeing areas dealing with conservation, education, public health, social security, and several other areas, while the fictional one acts more like the [[NoSuchAgency National Security Agency, or NSA]], with some of the negative associations as they either didn’t know about, or possibly actively helped with, the Mutant Registration Agency [[NGOSuperpower and their secret Sentinel Program]] before [[PoliticallyCorrectHistory the unnamed 1990 female U.S. President]] pulled the plug on Henry Peter Gyrich. |
| 536 | [[/folder]] |
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