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{{trope}}
When a fascist or otherwise extreme political group is investigated and busted, a member, often the leader, brags how the group is everywhere. This is a [["Fascism Is Everywhere"
He claims that his movement is everywhere and is growing and will rule supreme someday and the heroes are concerned that there will be more trouble in the future.
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Contrast [[Red Scare]] and [[Yellow Peril]].
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* ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "Ten Percent Solution", [[MacGyver]] uncovers a massive Neo-Nazi conspiracy that has infiltrated a sizeable portion of America.▼
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* On ''Law And Order Special Victims Unit'', there is often a variant where a pedophile reminds Our Hero that pedophiles are everywhere, particularly on the internet. The episodes "Chat Room" and "Pandora" used this technique.▼
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''Law And Order'' episode "Charm City", a white supremacist convicted of planting a poison gas bomb on a subway car angrily hisses that “My country is growing, yours is shrinking!” as the credits roll.▼
▲* ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "Ten Percent Solution", [[MacGyver]] uncovers a massive Neo-Nazi conspiracy that has infiltrated a
▲* On ''[[Law
▲* ''[[Law
* Trope subverted on the ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' episode "Pirated" where the militia leader threatens how his movement is everywhere and growing. The detectives respond that they are investigating every connection he has and expect a wave of arrests of his cronies in short order, which we see happening in a flurry of images as the police swoop in to bust the terrorists. The militia leader is left stunned to hear that his organization is being smashed so quickly.
* A variation in the same vein as this trope
* At the end of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' with {{spoiler|the Patriots}} seemingly all dead and their {{spoiler|AI system destroyed}}, Drebin tells Otacon that he believes the world is not truly {{spoiler|free from the influence of the Patriots}}. To prove this, he writes the name of Meryl's unit (Rat Patrol 01) in the sand and makes the letters rearrange into {{spoiler|1=PATR10T}}. ▼
== Video Games ==
** It's actually a bit of odd [[Fridge Logic]] in that the letters don't actually form an anagram at all unless patrol is shortened to "PT" as Drebin does. PT isn't an accepted shortening of the world "patrol".▼
▲* At the end of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' with {{spoiler|the Patriots}} seemingly all dead and their
*** And the fact that a {{spoiler|Patriot-sponsored}} unit like Rat Patrol 01 would hide the name of the organization doesn't prove Drebin's point that {{spoiler|the Patriots are still controlling things}}.▼
▲** It's actually a bit of odd [[Fridge Logic]] in that the letters don't actually form an anagram at all unless "patrol" is shortened to "PT" as Drebin does. PT isn't an accepted shortening of the world "patrol".
▲*** And the fact that a
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