![]() Note that this is not the same as the Knight Templar, another type of Well-Intentioned Extremist. In short, he is a Well-Intentioned Extremist whose overriding motivation is being Employee of the Month. He is likely to be a murderer and/or a torturer who defends himself by saying "I'm just doing my job". This trope also has a darker version, where the character is still a government employee concerned with the bottom line, but what he does in daily work probably violates the Geneva Convention. They then turn into the Obstructive Bureaucrat and use Bothering by the Book to slow down the workload or get revenge on the people who make unreasonable demands. ![]() The employees are often overworked, underpaid, lack resources, and suffer the publics wrath. The tropes: Beleaguered Bureaucrat, Department of Child Disservices, and Social Services Does Not Exist overlap since they all involve the same problems. He may actively devise regulations to impede and hinder him, and then, with the same mindless fervor as any other bureaucrat, insist on their being followed to the letter. Rarely, in a Matter of Life and Death, a benevolent Obstructive Bureaucrat will go and obstruct the villain.
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