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A cult-like cabal is often at the center of an [[Ancient Conspiracy]].
Many aspects of the standard depiction are [[Ripped
Don't confuse with the horror [[Role Playing Game]] '''[[KULT]]''', the [[Freeware Games]] [[Cult (Video Game)|Cult]], or with the [[The Eighties|80s]] rock band, '''[[Spell My Name With a "The"|The]]''' [[Music/The Cult|Cult]].
Even the most well-regarded cults should not be confused with [[Cult Classic|Cult Classics]], which are almost always entirely different.
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
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* The Lemures of ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano]]!'', who worship the immortal [[Mad Scientist]] Huey Laforet. They believe that if they serve him, they may obtain eternal life for themselves. {{spoiler|Huey is not actually capable of making others immortal, and regards them with amusement and scorn for believing this.}}
* ''[[Ai Kora (Manga)|Ai Kora]]'' has a truly bizarre example, the Church of Bluish-Purple, run by a loony with a fetish for bloomers (as in ''buruma'', super-short girl's gym shorts).
* An example appears in ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]: Tokyo,'' but it's hard to tell if it's a straight example or subversion. In one of the stories, a teenage delinquent is accepted into a group led by a woman claiming to be an Angel. None of the girls do anything ''wrong,'' as everyone says: they do community work, farming, visit the sick and elderly...the only law seems to be that the girls must give up their cellphones and never eat a bird. Suddenly, all of the girls drop dead, seemingly at the exact same time, and their leader is nowhere to be found. However, it turns out that {{spoiler|they all died of grief after learning the food they ate was contaminated and accidentally mixed with chicken meat. They were so horrified that they ate bird, they all dropped dead at once. [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|Count D says he firmly believes the leader was an angel who took the girls to Heaven.]]}}
* One drives the plot of a [[Franken Fran]] chapter. A man comes looking for his missing daughter, having gotten a lead suggesting they might know something about what happened to her. It eventually turns out that she was kidnapped and ended up becoming their messiah figure, but she fell ill, so they brought in the eponymous experimental surgeon. Fran saved the girl's life by {{spoiler|converting her into an enormous factory, with her physical body reconfigured to be hooked up to the facilities. The stereotypical low-pay work the cultists were doing was running the machines that stood in for her digestive, endocrine, respiratory, and reproductive systems. Yeah, reproductive. She's pregnant, [[Squick|at age ten]], on top of everything else}}.
* The Cult of the Sacred Eye plays a major role in ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'', as the Sixth Diary Holder is the leader of said cult. She is worshipped by them as an oracle, and has lived in the temple complex for almost all her life (she herself is well aware that she isn't an oracle, but plays the part because that's what she's done all her life). {{spoiler|Revealed later to be a hoax started by her parents when she was a young child, and after her parents were killed in a car crash, the other leaders of the cult imprisoned her and used her as a [[Sex Slave]]. It's not made clear exactly how she regained control of her followers since then.}}
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* When you get closer to its core membership, The Sharing in ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' is constructed much more like a cult than the all-ages scouting program it pretends to be.
* Subverted in ''Maggody and the Moonbeams'', where a reclusive all-female Christian sect is actually {{spoiler|a front for a group of battered women in hiding, whose members are being exploited for cheap manual labor by their corrupt leader}}.
* All over the place in [[Kraken (Literature)|Kraken]], ranging from the Lovecraftian-but-relatively-benign [[
* [[Petaybee]]: Shepherd Howling leads a doomsday cult that encourages pedophilia and other interesting forms of child abuse.
* [[The Subject Steve]]: The Center for Nondenominational Recovery and Redemption could be described as a cult and a rest home, combined.
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* ''[[Home and Away]]'' has had a couple of cult stories. The one from more recent memory involved Tash getting involved with The Believers, whose leader had a prophetic dream involving her and her then-unconceived child. Which meant that the plan involved the leader's son getting Tash pregnant with her daughter Ella.
* On ''Community'' Pierce insists that he is a Buddist but the rest of the group keeps telling him that he is actually in a cult.
* In Volume Five of ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'', we are introduced to Samuel Sullivan, who runs a carnival that is essentially a cult for "[[Differently
* "The Ugly Ducklings" are the focus in two episodes on ''Kamen Rider Fourze'' lead by a ballerina who worships a Zodiarts known as Cygnus and where other students do good deeds which is valued on a point system. {{spoiler|One of those members actually ''is'' Zodiarts and the cult--being stupid--forces him to transform into Cygnus. They disband after that.}}
* In the ''[[Starsky and Hutch]]'' episode "Bloodbath", Starsky is abducted by the followers of the memorably creepy Simon Marcus.
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* In ''[[Templar Arizona]]'' there is a cult of people founded by 'Jake', whose core beliefs revolve around theft, polygamy, and breeding, and refer to themselves as 'Jakes' or 'Jakeskin' (Jake's kin).
* The demon K'Z'K has its own cult in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', complete with a leader who plays fast and loose with her interpretation of scripture. Very much a [[Religion of Evil]].
* A group of cultists shows up on a couple of occassions in direct opposition to the Light Warriors in ''[[
* In [[Our Little Adventure]], the group comes across a poster for 'Angelo's Kids', and since [[Exposition Fairy|Julie wasn't there]], Rocky had to explain to the others that 'Angelo's Kids' is both a youth cult and a pyramid scheme.
* Nutritionists form a cult around a “Lemonade” soda sticker in ''[[Romantically Apocalyptic (Webcomic)|Romantically Apocalyptic]]''.
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== Web Original ==
* The Hymn of One in ''[[Lonely Girl 15]]'', which was [[Path of Inspiration|actually a front]] for an evil organisation. The Hymn of One also appears in ''[[Kate Modern]]'', which portrays it in a slightly more sympathetic (though still villainous) light.
* [http://www.featherlessbiped.com/filk/evilfilk.htm Here] one more sinister assembly is revealed in the best tradition of Cult Investigation (and they [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|use the dandelion as their symbol]]!).
* [[Homestar Runner|Marzipan]] runs a kindergarten program she calls "LURN": "Life-blossoms Undergoing Re-programming Naturally". The "children" (actually dimwitted grown men Homestar, Homsar, and Strong Mad) are referred to as "life-blossoms", the crayons all have politically correct names ("dermal discoveries" instead of "skin flesh", or "blue" instead of "black") and can't color ("so that no one life-blossom outshines the others. That way, they're ''all'' special!"), and the grades are renamed things like roots and grass to give an eco-friendly image even though they still map to letter grades in concept. Strong Bad is somewhat incredulous.
{{quote| '''Strong Bad''': Marzipan, what kinda cult you runnin' here?<br />
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* ''Metalocalypse'' had one posing as a P.R. firm, whose founder had already created several other different cults, all of them destructive.
* [[G.I. Joe Renegades]] has one being led by Tomax and Xamot, with some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] [[Brainwashed|brainwashing]].
* In ''[[Ben 10 Ultimate Alien]]'', the Flamekeepers' Circle is a cult that worships an alien named Dagon, whom they believe uplifted early humanity. The Circle believes that Dagon will return to Earth one day and bequeath more alien technology to humans and transform Earth into a paradise. In the meantime, the Circle promotes the use of alien technology to improve life on Earth via modernization of schools, hospitals, etc. -- this aspect of the Circle is what draws in Julie. All in all, a fairly benevolent cult. {{spoiler|Too bad [[Arch Enemy|Vilgax's]] [[One
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