Scandal (TV series)/Nightmare Fuel


 * The corrupt politicians ruling the country, and the well-intentionned president an his generous chessmastering mistress being outsmarted and unable to protect any innocent menacing the reputation of the corrupt politicians from undergoing public humiliation and denigrement camapigns at the hands of said corrupt chiefs.
 * The CIA trying to turn its agents into hyperskilled sociopaths and kidnapping an innocent woman, who just menaced the reputation of someone the man who sent them wanted to protect and promote.
 * Down to the angelic first lady and the president's wholesome chief of staff and his kind advisor, EVERYONE IS A MANIPULATIVE BASTARD who may think Utopia Justifies the Means, or that It's All About Me, or cry Crocodile Tears.