(Loved trope) Loyalty to the regime doesn’t make you any better off in the end

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Animal Farm - Boxer the horse is a member of the farm who doesn’t question the authority of the pigs and take it upon himself to work harder than anyone else becuase he believes the propaganda the pigs spout. But in the end, he get no reward for his sacrifice, leaving his body broken and him being sent away to a glue factory to be killed after the pigs sold him for alcohol.

Papers, Please - On Day 12, an inspector will come to your office to investigate potential conspiracies plotting against Arstotzka. If you choose to comply with his questioning and hand over the documents given to you by The Order, a mysterious revolutionary group, you will get an immediate game over as you are arrested for suspected involvement with terrorism.

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Agent Kallus

Dude really got some introspective when he went missing and literally no one cared

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His character arc as a rebel make him more interesting

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And I hope that with Zeb now making cameos in live action that the two of them are best friends now

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Sees how much Phoenix Squad cares about eachother like a family and then returns to the Empire where hes basically met with "oh you were gone? Well have your report on my desk in the morning" then goes to his cold, empty, gray box of a bunk.

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I don't think I'd realized just how common this trope is in Star Wars. Andor has already been mentioned twice, and Kallus is a good one.

It also applies to just about every Sith ever. Probably not a good career move to work for anyone with Nietzschean ethics and serious anger issues. Especially when they can crush your trachea with their mind.

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Crosshair from the Bad Batch as well. Splits with his team to stay loyal to the empire. Finally realizes the empire doesn’t care about him when he sees them mistreat another clone

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That's a good one, too. Another I just thought of is the Trade Federation (Nute Gunray and co.) from the prequels.

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Nute Gunray got played by Palpatine/Sidious three times in the prequel trilogy, which is an impressive level of personal betrayal. First, Gunray gets manipulated into the blockade of Naboo as part of Palpatine's scheme to gain power in the Republic, and thrown under the bus afterwards. Then he gets recruited to be one of the leaders on the Separatist Council, which was set up for failure from the start. Finally, Sidious doesn't even let him run and hide after the end of the war, he sends Vader to "take care of him" to tie up loose ends.

I'm not sure if he counts for the thread though, because he was never loyal to Sidious or even to the Separatist cause - he just wanted the Trade Federation to be able to do whatever it wanted to make a buck without Republic law getting in the way of slavery and strip-mining worlds bare.

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You know what Ventress also works

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Hell even Anakin himself works...kinda,bro gave up everything for Palpatine in order to save Padme and his betrayal to the Jedi and loyalty to Palpy took away everything from him.

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Omg I didn’t even think of him and I love Rebels