United Nations in Popular Culture - in Anime and Comics

In Anime and Comics

• S.H.I.E.L.D., a planetary defense/intelligence service often depicted as UN-affiliated in the Marvel Universe line of comic books.
• During the Bronze Age, Wonder Woman worked for a short time as a secretary at the UN.
• Checkmate began filling a similar role in the DC Universe line of comic books in 2006.
• U.N.C.L.E., the fictional organisation featured in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. was based in New York with an international staff, and has often been presumed to be at least UN-related, in spite of objections made by the series' production company on legal grounds.
• U.N. Spacy, a fictional military arm of the Earth U.N. Government (地球統合政府 Chikyuu Tougou Seifu) from the Japanese anime series Macross.
• The Gutsy Galaxy Guard (A.K.A. "GGG"; pronounced "Three-G"), a branch of the United Nations Earth Defense Force in The King of Braves GaoGaiGar. (The Secretary General of the UN in this show's universe is identified by name and visage as the character Rose Approval)
• The United Nations Special Agency NERV has a significant role in the Neon Genesis Evangelion. The United Nations in the series is extremely powerful and has a very strong standing army (unlike in the real world, where UN Peacekeepers are small numbers of troops donated by countries).
• In the Wildstorm universe the UN, through its top-secret Special Security Council, has taken an active role in monitoring and dealing with posthumans and, to this end, formed both the superpowered Stormwatch - overseen from a satellite by their director, "The Weatherman" - and the largely unenhanced Stormwatch: Team Achilles. The on-and-off leader Jackson King is often portrayed in the UN buildings in New York and when he walks out and forms The Monarchy the UN assign special agent Morro to monitor his activities.
• FLAG, a documentary-style anime series from 2006, is about a fictional war in central Asia and the UN flag that is raised above the battlefield which may be the key to peace. UN peacekeepers involved in the anime are known as UNF (United Nations Forces) peacekeepers.
• UN peacekeepers had participated in the Central/South American wars and in the Second Korean War in Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG. However, they have white ballistic helmets instead of blue helmets.
• In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the United Nations leads a large-scale UN Peacekeeping Army those formed by World Economic Union, Human Reform Alliance, and Advanced European Union, to defeat the paramilitary organization Celestial Being. In the series' second season, the UN is reformed as the Earth Sphere Federation, designed to unite all countries as one real entity. The UN General Assembly hall was shown in the last episode of the first season.
• In several episodes of Superman, he is mentioned as having coordinated his activities with the United Nations and got the permission of UN member-states to fly through their airspace.