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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 2889989" data-attributes="member: 7177">The protagonists of these TV shows aren't usually horribly, horribly doomed, however.Delta Green agents face the prospect that sooner or later they will loose most things they cared about. If they are lucky, they will just loose their jobs. But they can also loose their family - not because they are eaten by monsters, but because their spouse divorces them and takes the kids with her because the agent had one nervous breakdown too many. Many agents loose most of their sanity, struggling to keep functioning. And many just die during their missions.But they also know that if they fail to do all those things, lots of innocent people, their country, and maybe even the whole world as they know it will be destroyed. And eventually, they realize that this doom is inevitable - that all they can do is stave it off for a few more years. Some commit suicide at this realization, while others struggle on.Heroic? Certainly. But a different heroism than in the action and detective shows where you know that the good guys are going to win...</blockquote>