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Working Title: Government Agency of Fiction: From YKTTW

This Trope Covers two Situations. One: A Fictional Agency of A Government (any level), or a current agency described in a fictional way.

This Troper isn't sure if they should be two sepreate tropes, if they already exist, or what? what do you think?

Examples of First Situation:

• Bureau of Paranormal Research - Hell Boy
• Section 6 - Transformers
• The Agency the Mi B work for - Mi B
• The Agency, Crackdown
• SHIELD, of the Marvel Universe
• Stargate SG-1 had various government organizations that fit more of an Alphabet Soup role. Acronyms are scary!
• The NID (National Intelligence Department) later replaced with the IOA (International Oversight Advisory)
• Section 31, the Starfleet black ops agency in Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
• Section 13 - Jackie Chan Adventures.
• The 13th Bureau of the Yellow Empire on Blake & Mortimer Comics
• Basically any Ruritania can't be complete without their Zekrett Politzs
• In the movie Brazil there was The Minister of Information and the Retrive Department
• Checkmate in The DCU.
• The OSS in the Spy Kids trilogy. In Real Life , it is now defunct. In heir world, it is still the US Spy agency.
• The Department Of Metahuman Affairs from Soon I Will Be Invincible.
• MI 13 is the metahuman/supernatural/extra terrestrial branch of the Directorate of Military Intelligence in the Marvel Universe. It's not used in Real Life.
• Ministry of Silly Walks
• The DC Universe also had The DEO (Department of Extra-Normal Operations) plus Cadmus was a government branch in the Justice League Unlimited cartoon.
• Marvel also had their CSA (Commission of Superhuman Activities)
• UNIT in the Doctor Who universe.
• There was also a fictional version of OSS in The DCU..
• Also, The Venture Brothers' Office of Secret Intelligence. The main branch operates much like SHIELD, but apparently a splinter group is a Captain Ersatz for GI Joe.

Examples of the Second Situation:

• DMV -
  • Family Guy, see: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2494443066906086178&q=family%20guy%20dmv&hl=en
  • On The Simpsons, Patty and Selma work at the DMV.
• INS Division 6 - Mi B
• Chuck is pressganged into working for both the CIA and NSA.
• MI 6 - Jame Bond Franchise

Smapti: Isn't this the same thing as Fictional Counterpart?

bud0011: could be, specifically the second situation. However, we could say that this focuses on government agencies, and then remove MIB.

Question: Lawrence Block has a series with a globehopping adventurer character named Evan Tanner. In Tanner's first book, The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep, he was trying to spirit millions of dollars in gold out of a foreign country (for himself, but he would let people think he was a spy if it suited his interests.) At the end, he is successful but gets detained in Washington DC and thrown into an anonymous CIA "holding cell." They know he's guilty of something, and that he is a spy for someone, but he ain't talking, and decides to stonewall them for as long as possible, saying he is waiting for word from "his superiors." (His position is bolstered by the fact that he is a medical anomaly — he doesn't need to sleep (hence the title) — and since the CIA's preferred interrogation method is to wake up the suspect suddenly in the night and throw questions at him while he's still half-asleep, Tanner stands up well against interrogation.) So, the CIA handlers are getting antsier, they are on the edge of beating him for information (though they don't, as they still don't "know who he's working for") when another agent type springs him, claiming Tanner to be "one of ours." Tanner is introduced to a man at a desk, who offers him a job in his "organization" as a freelance agent, though no one will say for what agency, or even if an agency is involved. (Through other novels Tanner only deals with the "Old Man", who gives him remarkable freedom in accomplishing his missions, and never reveals who he is really working for.) Would such an agency fit here — an "anonymous, generic spy agency" — or somewhere else? Is there an entry for this concept? (Example — were the spy agencies in Mr. and Mrs. Smith ever mentioned by name?)

Psyclone Corrected:

The Department of Fish and Game, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Department of Health and Human Services and the Bureau of Weights and Measures served as covers for The Agency in the Sci-Fi Channel The Invisible Man series.

Those weren't "covers": those were the departments that "absorbed" The Agency thought the series.

Bud0011:Should this be reorganized? Like this, i'm thinking:

Examples

Fictional Agencies

• Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense, employers of Hellboy.

Aliens & space in general

• Sector 7, from Transformers.
• The Agency of the Men In Black. Although the original term 'Men in Black' referred to just unknown men in suits. (typically associated with the government or aliens.)

• Stargate SG 1 had various government organizations that fit more of an Alphabet Soup role, such as the NID (National Intelligence Department), later replaced with the IOA (International Oversight Advisory).
• Section 31, the Starfleet black ops agency in Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
  • Of course, the entire government in Star Trek is fictional, not just Section 31.

Zombies

• The AMS in House Of The Dead
• The Agency, employing cyborgs to bring peace to Pacific City today and the world later, in the XBox's Crackdown.

Espionage

• SHIELD (Supreme Headquarters International Espionage Law-enforcement Division), SWORD (Sentient World Observation and Response Department), STRIKE (Special Tactical Reserve for International Key Emergencies), and the CSA (Commission of Superhuman Activities) of the Marvel Universe.
• Also, The Venture Brothers' Office of Secret Intelligence. The main branch operates much like SHIELD, but apparently a splinter group is a Captain Ersatz for GI Joe.

Cyber Crimes

• Public Security Section 9 in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and the Cabinet Intelligence Agency in 2nd GIG.

Spy

• The OSS in the Spy Kids trilogy. In reality, it was the predecessor of the CIA and is now defunct. In their world, it is still active.

Mutants & Supers

• The Department Of Metahuman Affairs in Soon I Will Be Invincible.
• MI13 is the metahuman/supernatural/extra terrestrial branch of the UK Directorate of Military Intelligence in the Marvel Universe. The designation is not used in reality.
• The DCU also had a fictional version of the OSS], as well as Checkmate, Cadmuss the DEO (Department of Extra-Normal Operations) of Justice League Unlimited.

Other

• The 13th Bureau of the Yellow Empire on Blake & Mortimer Comics.
• Any Ruritania wouldn't be complete without their Zekrett Politzs.
• The Ministry of Information and the Retrive Department from Brazil.
• Section 13 - Jackie Chan Adventures.

Real Agencies In Fiction

• The DMV (US Department of Motor Vehicles), employers of Patty and Selma. Also seen in Family Guy.
  • Technically, there is no country-wide Federal DMV. Each state has its own DMV. To be fair, however, since no one knows where in the US The Simpsons takes place, it would be hard to say which state's DMV it is.

• INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) Division 6, one of J's cover stories in Men In Black.
• Chuck is pressganged into working for both the CIA and NSA.

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Johnny E: So I'm thinking the operatives of an organsation called the GAF would be referred to as "The GAFfers". Unfortunately I can't find any way to work this joke into the description...