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{{quote|"It's stitched on your colorful new uniform and you don't even know. Well, here's what blind faith will get you."}}
:* Then there's '''HYDRA''', which doesn't actually stand for anything. Or rather, it seems it just stands for the mythologic monster itself, known for being (almost) impossible to destroy, reflecting their thoughts on their own organization. It's just that, despite always being written in ALL CAPS, HYDRA is not actually an acronym.
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:* S.H.I.E.L.D. also had a (now disbanded) splinter group called W.A.N.D., the Wizardry Alchemy Necromancy Department, which is in charge handling of magic-related threats to national security.
* Parodied in Jim Valentino's ''normalman'', which had a superspy organization dubbed '''S.C.H.M.U.C.K.''', but as the footnotes claim, the name "Stands for Nothing in Particular."
* In DC Comics' ''Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.'', the writers didn't bother to figure out what '''S.T.R.I.P.E.''' stood for. A fan suggested '''S'''pecial '''T'''actics '''R'''obotic '''I'''ntegrated '''P'''ower '''E'''nhancer, which DC adopted.
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