Right-Wing Militia Fanatic/Playing With

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Basic Trope: Domestic armed extremist groups on the far right wing of the political spectrum are presented as villains.

  • Straight: The Vanguard is a homegrown, ultra-nationalist paramilitary outfit that aims to overthrow the US government and install one in line with their ideals, which include xenophobia, conspiracy theories, a rural-oriented mindset and a basket of populist economic ideas of varying sanity.
  • Exaggerated: The Vanguard is an NGO Superpower that engages in ethnic cleansing against non-whites and clashes with the US military in vicious and destructive combined arms warfare. Even worse, a a large segment of the populace supports the Vanguard's goals, and they have informants and sympathizers planted throughout the government, armed forces, and media.
  • Justified: In this setting, America's unstable political climate and lax law enforcement enable radical militias to do a lot of damage.
  • Inverted: The United People's Front is a vicious left-wing, anti-capitalist terrorist organization behind several deadly attacks.
  • Subverted:
    • The Vanguard is really just a few loudmouth gun owners who don't have the guts to put their ideals into action.
    • The Vanguard is a pacifistic emergency preparedness organization that only believes in violence in self-defense, but has been lumped in with the nuts by association.
  • Double Subverted: Only that was just one group. The other guys, the Freedom Front, actually walk the walk, and are far more dangerous.
  • Parodied: The Vanguard's targets are a ridiculously petty list of people and businesses, such as the pizzeria for putting anchovies on their pie or the record store for selling that bestial Gangsta Rap. And when they try to take action, they can't even get that part right.
  • Deconstructed: The Vanguard's propensity for violence and racism alienates those who would normally sympathize with their anti-government aims. The more moderate members either leave the group or become informants for law enforcement, and the group falls apart under a wave of arrests, shootouts and bad publicity.
  • Reconstructed: As the moderates abandon the Vanguard, it shrinks down to the hardcore fringe. Freed of the inhibitions of those not committed to "the revolution", they engage on a spree of violence.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: In an environment where government, law and order have collapsed, right-wing militia terrorists don't crop up.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Defied: The Vanguard makes a point of purging those members who are inclined to terrorism and radicalism in order to maintain their respectability.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
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