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** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': Snake can receive intel on other fighters in the game from Col. Campbell, Mei Ling, and Otacon. Parodied when [[VideoGame/StarFox Slippy Toad unexpectedly shows up to proffer advice on fighting Falco Lombardi]]. The feature returns in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Ultimate]]'' but, due to the passing of Otacon's Japanese voice actor, it wasn't updated with new conversations for the sake of respect.

* ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic:'' Never referred to by anything else other than Mission Control, he gives you important information both right before and during your missions, directs you around important details, and gets utterly frustrated whenever you start misbehaving at the base between missions, never able to act on any threats to cut your paycheck even if you mess with the gravity controls and stuff the boarding pod full of barrels before heading to work drunk. The profile picture makes it uncertain if he's human or dwarf, however.

* [[OlderAndWiser Original Batman]] Bruce Wayne in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' serves as one to Terry, the current Batman. Bruce hangs back in the Batcave, using the Bat-Computer and the cameras in Terry's suit to help provide exposition and combat advice.

* Barbara Gordon, alias ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, helped out many of the superheroes in Gotham City and around the world when she was ComicBook/{{Oracle}}, since she was shot and paralyzed by the Joker in ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''. However, she most often served as actual Mission Control for ComicBook/BlackCanary, ComicBook/{{Huntress}}, and even ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} in the ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'' comic. She also served as Mission Control for other heroes like ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] and [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown]].
* The Marvel superhero group ComicBook/{{Exiles}} always has one of these in their ranks. In ''Exiles'', the Mission Control figure was the Timebroker, and then Dr. Heather Hudson. In ''New Exiles'', the Mission Control character is Cat Pryde, an alternate reality version of the X-Man [[ComicBook/KittyPryde Shadowcat]].
** Speaking of X-Men Charles Xavier himself often acts like this for the team through Cerebro as alongside with keeping in contact with the team with Cerebro boosting his powers he's also able to provide support such as controlling others.
* As the liaison between his fellow Lanterns and their higher-ups, the Guardians of the Universe, the four-armed bug-headed alien Salaak fills this role for the Franchise/GreenLantern Corps.
* Aleph from ''ComicBook/GlobalFrequency''. She was born to be the ultimate Mission Control; she's a "superprocessor" -- someone who can "handle any number of separate input processes while performing multiple complex tasks and running deductive strings." A "Baddies Invade Base" moment happened in the original comic.
* Since the CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004'', The Calculator is the villain equivalent of Oracle.
* A truly awesome/terrifying variant occurs in the ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'' crossover, where Captain America, whose group-tactics abilities allow him to tell guys like [[PhysicalGod Thor]] what to do in a fight, teams up with Martian Manhunter, who's a very powerful telepath.
* In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', Dyrk Magz [[NonActionGuy loses his magnetic powers]] in a fight with Mordu. However, he can't bring himself to stay in civilian life and comes back to work as Mission Control -- though he did serve a crucial role in a battle with the Fatal Five.
-->'''ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} 5:''' You forgot about Dyrk Magz, and all because he has no superpowers. And now -- neither do you.
* In ''Lex'', the action team is very strongly supported by a remote mission control hub and extra field assets if needed, even though they don't really need it because they're good at what they do.
* The Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica has this as a rotating position known as monitor duty. Whoever is on monitor duty is suppose to sit in the monitor womb and watch all the news reports occurring over the world and coordinate different teams to different disasters. It is considered a very boring job, ComicBook/{{Batman}} tries to weasel out of it whenever he can, and ComicBook/MartianManhunter often volunteers to do it because his telepathic abilities make the job easier.
* In ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' this role is fulfilled by [[BenevolentAI One]], the resident AI and {{genius loci}} of the Ducklair Tower, who serves as gadgeteer, information collector, physical base of operation and even chef. It could be said that the encounter with One is what brings Duck Avenger to the next level as a superhero.
* ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}} III (Tim Drake) started out his career as Batman's mission control rather than being dumped straight into the streets of Gotham like preceding Robins. Tim later gained his own mission control in the form of a temporarily paralyzed Lonnie Machen[=/=]ComicBook/{{Anarky}} after Tim lost the Robin mantle and became ComicBook/RedRobin.
* In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'', [=NASA=]'s personal who oversaw satellite Comlab's launch. Comicbook/LexLuthor specificlly called them "Mission Control".

* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel: They are usually Nick Fury, Carol Danvers and Monica Chang for ComicBook/TheUltimates, Charles Xavier for the ComicBook/UltimateXMen, and Franklin Storm for ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour. Spider-Man largely managed without one, but in the brief period that the Parker house became a foster home of sorts for teenage superheroes Aunt May stepped in to the role (yes, it's as comical as it sounds).

* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':

* In ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'', there are eight different characters who can fill this role. Three of them mandatory, the rest are optional. Each has their own perk that they confer on Mike when they act as his handler (which changes, depending on how much they like or dislike him). They are:

* Since the 2004 CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'', The Calculator is the villain equivalent of Oracle.