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** FBI Agents offer their assistance and phone tracing equipment when a billionaire's son is kidnapped in "Brooklyn Til I Die."
** Jo Danville is a former FBI agent, and her ex-husband, Russ Josephson who is also an agent, appears in two season 7 episodes. He provides intel that helps with cases in both.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': In season 3, Wilson Fisk manipulates his way out of prison by turning informant for the FBI on an Albanian gang. After [[FalseFlagOperation paying Jasper Evans to shank him]] and make it seem like he's being targeted for snitching, Fisk gets the FBI to move him to a Manhattan penthouse that he's bought through a series of shell companies. He's able to pull this all off because he's bribed/manipulated/blackmail almost every agent on the detail into working for him. This allows him to use the FBI agents as his glorified enforcers in a new racket where he strongarms other major gangs into paying him a protection tax, as well as harass and hound his enemies who trying to investigate him. Three of the agents in particular become major pawns in Fisk's schemes during the season:
** The first is Rahul "Ray" Nadeem, a married family man and field agent who has been driven into debt to pay for his sister-in-law's cancer treatments [[spoiler:due to Fisk cutting off her insurance, to make him desperate enough for this deal to work]]. Nadeem's pride and reluctance to see how predatory Fisk is mean that Fisk is able to easily manipulate him into going after Nelson & Murdock for ostensibly doing Fisk's dirty work. While he eventually realizes he's been played after Jasper Evans is killed in Dex's attack on the ''Bulletin'', it's too late for him to back out and he ends up being blackmailed by Hattley into working for Fisk, goes along as Fisk rounds up other gangsters to extort into paying him a protection tax, and serves as Dex's driver when Fisk hires Dex to kill Karen as revenge for her murder of James Wesley. A conversation with Sister Maggie after Dex's failed attack on the church gets Nadeem to grow a spine and stand up to Dex, by arranging with Foggy and Brett Mahoney for Karen to be "apprehended" by the NYPD to get her away from him. Fisk attempts to kill him and his family right away, but Matt and Foggy rescue him and convince him to testify before a grand jury convened by Blake Tower. Fisk foils their efforts by intimidating the grand jury. Nadeem flees back home and makes a video confession to everything he's witnessed, which, after he's murdered by Dex on Vanessa's orders, ends up being what puts Fisk back behind bars thanks to a loophole in the heresy rules.
** The second is [[ComicBook/BullseyeMarvelComics Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter]]. A SWAT sharpshooter, he saves Fisk from an assassination attempt by the Albanians. Fisk takes interest in his amazing shooting skills, and uses a string of manipulations to make him into Fisk's main assassin. For Dex's first assignment, Fisk puts him in a Daredevil costume and has him attack the ''Bulletin'' to kill Karen's coworkers as well as Jasper Evans, so that Evans can't tell the media about being paid to shank Fisk. Later, upon learning from Karen that she killed James Wesley, Fisk tasks Dex with killing her, which he gladly obliges (with a blackmailed Nadeem as his getaway driver). Matt foils this attempt, but Father Lantom is killed in the process. Dex later is the one sent to kill Nadeem on Vanessa's orders after the failed grand jury, and is taken down when Matt manipulates him into turning against Fisk by revealing that Fisk killed Julie, a woman Dex has a crush on. In the subsequent three-way between Matt, Fisk, and Dex, Dex ends up being crippled when Fisk breaks his back.
** Tammy Hattley is the Special Agent in Charge on the detail. Fisk has blackmailed her into working for him by killing one of her kids in a "hit and run" and threatening the life of her daughter. It's also strongly implied that Hattley had a role in Fisk's attempted jailbreak from custody in the season 1 finale, while he is being transported to jail after Nelson & Murdock get Detective Carl Hoffman to testify that Fisk blackmailed him into killing his own partner Christian Blake. Fisk is arrested and put into the back of armored truck guarded by an FBI SWAT team. Unfortunately, it turns out that one of the FBI agents in the truck is on Fisk's payroll, and kills the other agents in the truck when the convoy is ambushed by mercenaries working for Fisk, tipped off by inside information that most likely came from Hattley.

* In ''Series/{{Castle}}'', Beckett has an ex in the FBI who she occasionally hits up for favors.

* Tsui Hark [[TheCameo plays]] a minor character in ''Film/AcesGoPlaces 2'' who pretends to be an FBI agent, and he loves to claim that a siren soon to be heard belongs to the police. People tend to believe him--that is, until it turns out that the siren actually belongs to the men in white who come to take him back to the asylum he keeps breaking out of. HilariousInHindsight because Tsui Hark directed ''Film/AcesGoPlaces 3''.

From the late 1920s through the 1950s; "G-Men" were seen in fiction as incorruptible forces for law and America, with very rare exceptions. However, J. Edgar Hoover's suspicion of the politics and motivations of prominent civil rights activists, and growing paranoia about the social changes in America, caused the FBI's activities to become increasingly out of step with the times (serious legal violations occurred in spying on activists). Mishandled cases and other scandals, some decades old, were talked about more publicly. After Hoover died in 1972, a law previously passed to limit the tenure of FBI directors came into effect. Scurrilous rumors of J. Edgar's sexual peccadillos or connection to organized crime figures got a lot more play once he couldn't sic his agents on those reporting them.

Media portrayals of the FBI since then have generally depicted a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold flawed but usually]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning organization]], some of whose agents are corrupt or evil. Works of fiction will often use a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of the FBI and Hoover. They have [[CIAEvilFBIGood a better public image than the CIA]], of course, Hoover's machinations notwithstanding.

An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation or one of its fictional counterparts.

The FBI is the investigative branch of the United States of America's Department of Justice. See UsefulNotes/AmericanLawEnforcement for information about the agency. This is about the agents in fiction.

* Agents of the FBI are also featured in the show ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' with Tobias Fornell being somewhat a regular in the show. They even get to play InternalAffairs on the NCIS ''Main Yard'' in one episode.