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* The South Korean Unit 684 was composed of petty criminals and unemployed youths, brutally trained and sent to kill the North Korean leader. However, relations improved and the mission was cancelled, leading to a mutiny and the unit being exterminated.
** While the Korean version of City Hunter is explicitly NOT based of actual events, it makes a nod to this event.
** While the Korean version of City Hunter is explicitly NOT based of actual events, it makes a nod to this event.
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* The South Korean Unit 684 was composed of petty criminals and unemployed youths, brutally trained and sent to kill the leader of North Korean leader.Korea. However, relations improved and the mission was cancelled, leading to a mutiny and the unit being exterminated.
** While the Korean version ofCity Hunter ''City Hunter'' is explicitly NOT ''not'' based of on actual events, it makes made a nod reference to to this event.
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* ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' has the Spare Squadron: Osea's penal military unit, consisting of prisoners who are given the opportunity to sortie on missions. Every member is a convicted criminal, from "Scrap Queen", who flew an unauthorized aircraft during wartime and was moved into Spare Squadron for her skill at restoring mothballed jets; to [[PlayerCharacter "Trigger"]], who was convicted of assassinating a former president and was sent on sorties simply because [[AcePilot they're just that damn good at flying a jet]].
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* ''Gary Chalk's Gun Dogs'' was originally a computer game book from Tin Man Games, before it went to print. You're a captured rebel leader who's forced to become a government agent via a magical choke collar, but if you succeed this mission and ones in the future there's a promise of a pardon.
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* ''Gary Chalk's Gun Dogs'': Your character was part of the aristocracy and became a government secretary, however you were secretly the leader of a rebel group seeking to overthrow the Emperor. Once caught, your punishment is to become a Gun Dog, a criminal who's compelled to undergo near-suicidal missions for the government. To enforce this a magical collar is placed on you which will strangle you if you don't work towards your mission, additionally after completing 10 missions a Gun Dog is pardoned. So far none have survived to get that pardon.
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* ''Gary Chalk's Gun Dogs'': Your character was part of the aristocracy and became a government secretary, however you were secretly the leader of a rebel group seeking to overthrow the Emperor. Once caught, your punishment is to become a Gun Dog, a criminal who's compelled to undergo near-suicidal missions for the government. To enforce this a magical collar is placed on you which will strangle you if you don't work towards your mission, additionally after completing 10 missions a Gun Dog is pardoned. So far none have survived to get that pardon.
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* The UNACO (United Nations Anti-Crime Organization) series by Creator/AlistairMaclean (for a film series that was never made except for ''The Hostage Tower'') and which were later adapted into novels by other authors. UNACO is a UN crime-fighting force whose agents are former criminals.
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* The UNACO (United Nations Anti-Crime Organization) series by Creator/AlistairMaclean (for a film series that was never made except for ''The Hostage Tower'') Tower'', though there were later TV adaptations) and which were later adapted into novels by other authors. UNACO is a UN crime-fighting force whose agents are former criminals.
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* The ''UNACO'' series by [[strike:Alistair Maclean]] various other authors is a UN crime-fighting force whose agents are former criminals.
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* The ''UNACO'' UNACO (United Nations Anti-Crime Organization) series by [[strike:Alistair Maclean]] various Creator/AlistairMaclean (for a film series that was never made except for ''The Hostage Tower'') and which were later adapted into novels by other authors authors. UNACO is a UN crime-fighting force whose agents are former criminals.
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* In the 60s, the British comic ''Valiant'' carried a strip called "The Steel Claw" about a rogue scientist who had discovered the secret of invisibility which unfortunately also sent him mad, to the extent that he stole a nuclear weapon and attempted to destroy New York. Upon capture by the British "Shadow Squad" (a fictionalized MI5) he was given the "offer he could not refuse"; become a secret agent or spend the rest of his life in a cage, where his invisibility would be useless. No prizes for guessing what his answer was.
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* In the 60s, the British comic ''Valiant'' carried a strip called "The Steel Claw" about a rogue scientist who had discovered the secret of invisibility which unfortunately also sent him mad, to the extent that he stole a nuclear weapon and attempted to destroy New York. Upon capture by the British "Shadow Squad" (a fictionalized MI5) [=MI5=]) he was given the "offer he could not refuse"; become a secret agent or spend the rest of his life in a cage, where his invisibility would be useless. No prizes for guessing what his answer was.
