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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The PKC in ''[[Legend of the Galactic Heroes]]'' fits the bill in the case of the Free Planets Alliance. Though it's later revealed that {{spoiler|the militia was supported by Trünicht, with at least a good chunk of them members of the Earth Cult.}}
* Infamously, ''[[Highschool of the Dead|High School of the Dead]]'' has Saya Takagi's parents, who serve as the heroic guardians of their small patch of civilisation during a [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Aryan Brigade in [[The DCU]].
* The Watchdogs in the [[Marvel Universe]]. It's not clear how the rank and file members would react to learning that they're bankrolled by an actual
* One of the first stories in the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic had the Joes infiltrating a non-Cobra-affiliated militia group. Cobra itself began to take on these overtones as the series continued.
* An issue of the first ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series featured the [[Fun with Acronyms|Committee to Restore American Patriotism]], a militia group which intended to use a nuclear weapon to begin a war with Russia.
* The Free States in ''[[DMZ]]'' are said to be a conglomeration of militia-type groups, and are said to be more of an "idea" rather than a geographical entity, much in keeping with the guerilla-style behavior of many militias. The hick element is also mentioned when a former Free States soldier mentions how, while serving with them, he'd never before seen as many "pissed-off rednecks".
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* Von Jackson and his border vigilantes in ''[[Machete]]'', even though they're secretly patsies to a Mexican drug lord.
* The antagonists in ''[[The Postman]]'', which takes place in a United States that collapsed after a civil war.
** The novel the film is based on makes clear that the government survived and was restoring basic order until the militias broke its back, resulting in the hellhole the story takes place in.
* A right wing militia group is one of the one the bad guys in ''[[Blues Brothers]] 2000'' (more or less filling the role the [[Those Wacky Nazis|neo-Nazis]] played in the original film).
* The bad guys in the 1998 [[Steven Seagal]] film ''The Patriot'' (in which Seagal plays an ''immunologist''!).
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* Averted in ''The Survivalist'', a 1980's action-adventure series by Jerry Ahern, set in a post-[[World War III]] United States occupied by the Soviets. The author goes to great lengths to avert the popular strawman of survivalists being paranoid, fascistic racists.
* ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'' has the extreme, [[Strawman Political]] version of these guys as the ''[[Villain Protagonist|heroes]]'', and was written for exactly this audience by a white supremacist leader.
* ''[[Arthur C. Clarke|The Trigger]]'' shows one of these on the defensive. The premise of the book is that the U.S. has invented a way to sabotage guns from a distance, and they think this only makes sense if the U.S. is no longer going to rely on its advantages in gun
* The ''USA vs. Militia'' series by Ian Slater deals with a full-scale militia rebellion in America, and it was a ''very'' well-equipped militia complete with tanks and jet fighters. And to make matters worse, the war is set while [[World War Three]] is still raging.
* [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''The Guns of the South'' has one of these<ref>The real-life ''Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging'' (AWB, or Afrikaner Resistance Movement); see below</ref> traveling back in time to [[The American Civil War]] to [[Alternate History|supply the South]] [[Giving Radio to the Romans|with modern weaponry]].
* In ''[[The Stand]]'' Randall Flagg was a member of some groups like this, though he'll join ''any'' organization that he can egg on into causing trouble.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Parodied by ''[[Mr. Show]]'' with the character of Mountain Dougie, who tries to secede from the United
* When the crew of [[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]] travel back to the past, they run afoul of a few paranoid survivalists who they think they are government agents. They get taken out by the Doctor, who stuns them with his phaser after their bullets [[Immune to Bullets|pass right through him]].
** One irony, intended or not, is that the crew members they capture are Chakotay and Torres, who themselves worked with the militia-esque Maquis before the series began.
* Jim Backus (in what must have been a career lowlight for him) appears as the leader of one of these militias in the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode ''[[Angels Revenge]]''.
* Another trope fully embraced by ''[[Law and Order]]''
** The first ''[[Law and Order]]'' / ''[[Homicide: Life
* ''[[The X-Files]]''. When Mulder publically renounces his previous belief in UFO's, saying that it's all part of a [[Government Conspiracy]], he's approached by a radical militia group to work for them. It turns out he's acting as a [[Fake Defector]]. But Mulder is [[Reverse Mole|not the only one]], as one of the group is using them to carry out his own [[Government Conspiracy]].
* A group of these kidnap [[The President's Daughter]] in the 1999 made-for-TV movie ''First Daughter''.
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** Similarly, although the militia in another episode are portrayed as racist and antagonistic, they also ran the killer out of town for abusing his wife and it's one of them who shoots the killer in the end.
* After Kim Bauer escapes [[Trapped by Mountain Lions|a random cougar]] on ''[[24]]'', she runs into one of these, who takes her prisoner.
* One episode of ''[[Diagnosis: Murder]]'' featured a militia group trying to separate the US West Coast into a state for whites, complete with the [[We Are Everywhere]] threat and a stolen nuke.
* ''[[Leverage]]'': "The Gone-Fishin' Job" features as its mark a debt collector using a list from the IRS to scam people out of cash that he's using to finance his own private revolution {{spoiler|complete with possible truck bomb}}.
* Team Gibbs from ''[[NCIS]]'' finger a militia group for the theft of military weapons ("Split Decision") in the first season.
* Jim Rockford goes against a group of these in ''[[The Rockford Files]].'' When they are arrested for murder at the end of the episode, they behave as though they are prisoners of war.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
* The NSF in ''[[Deus Ex]]'' were this originally, but by the time of the game the organisation has expanded and attracted representatives of every group hostile to the current US government and/or UNATCO, and as a result, their political stance has drifted quite a bit to the left.
* ''[[Counter-Strike]]'' features the map CS_Militia and the Militia skin, which is only available by chance on the random skin button.
* ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'' features the Spartan Federation as a major faction based on this ideology. Yes, of the seven factions (twelve in the expansion) representing what's left of humanity in the future, one is explicitly described as a group of right-wing survivalist fanatics. In a minor subversion, however, their leader is a Latina rather than the stereotypical "angry white man" often associated with the trope.
* Subverted in ''[[Syphon Filter]] 3''. Teresa's first assignment was to retrieve stolen satellite data taken by a militia, but the NSA team Teresa helps plans to sell it to terrorists and the militia are just unlucky witnesses.
* The "America Now" terrorist group in the 11th mission of the career mode in the original ''[[SWAT 4]]''.
* A group of these appears as enemies in ''[[Dead Rising]] 2''. One of them mentions working in border patrol, and they blame the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] on liberals, socialists and foreigners (the last one is actually pretty accurate, although it's not like America was completely innocent).
* ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]] 2'' has [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the Militia]], a group of right-wing extremists who take over [[The Big Easy|New Marais]] to purge it of [[Fantastic Racism|mutants]] (including Cole) and "deviants". They serve as the chief villains for the first half of the game.
* The upcoming ''[[Rainbow Six]]: Patriots'' will have these as the villains.
* ''[[Left Behind]]: Eternal Forces'' has you leading a group of these battling [[The Antichrist]] and the [[United Nations Is a Super Power|Global]] [[One World Order|Community]] in the middle of [[Big Applesauce|New York]]. There was a fair bit of controversy over this, with some critics claiming that it was promoting [[Church Militant|religious violence]] (notably, Jack Thompson cut his ties to Tyndale House, ''[[Left Behind]]'''s publisher, over the game), though to be fair the game rewards players for pursuing non-violent means of
* The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Conservative Crime Squad (or CCS for short)]] in ''[[Liberal Crime Squad]]'' is exactly this.
* ''[[Homefront (video game)|Homefront]]'' has you meeting a group of these guys in the fifth level, where you and your group are trying to get a helicopter from them. They're probably the only people in the world who can match the [[
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Remus]]'' has one of these [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|fly a plane into the White House]] [[R-Rated Opening|on page 1.]] That's actually one of the ''less'' horrific things that happens in this comic.
== [[Web Original]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Dale Gribble from ''[[King of the Hill]]'' drifts between this, a [[Cloudcuckoolander]], and an [[Agent Mulder]]. His Gun-Club buddies definitely qualify though.
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]], of all people, shows signs of this in one episode when he hands Bart money printed by 'the Montana Militia', saying 'It'll be real soon enough'. This is, naturally, a throw away joke which is never, ever referenced again.
** Herman, an occasionally recurring character who sells military antiques, comes close to playing this trope straight. At times.
* What with his talk of the New World Order and trying to secure the [[MacGuffin]] for a future war, Silas and MECH of ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' may be this.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[wikipedia:The Order (group)|The Order]] was a white nationalist militia group that became notorious due to their role in the murder of Jewish radio talk-show host Alan Berg.
* The [[wikipedia:Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging|Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging]] (AWB, or Afrikaner Resistance Movement) is a [[
* [[wikipedia:Linda Thompson (attorney)|Linda Thompson]], an ex-lawyer who jumped onto the militia bandwagon in the early '90s. She produced multiple conspiracy videos about Waco, the Clintons and American concentration camps, and eventually proclaimed herself "Acting Adjutant General of the Unorganized Militia of the United States", calling for an armed march on Washington on September 19, 1994 in which she and "all militia units" would arrest the entire US Congress for treason unless they repealed NAFTA and [[
* The Ku Klux Klan is arguably the [[Ur Example]] within the US, and may be part of the reason why this trope is so associated with racists in the popular imagination. After [[The American Civil War]], they launched a campaign of what would now be described as terrorism against freed slaves and white Northern "carpetbaggers" in an effort to reclaim the Southern US from "Yankee" domination and restore white supremacy. The most frightening/depressing part is that ''it worked''
:The Klan was reborn in the 1910s, this time becoming a nationwide force (they effectively controlled Indiana at one point) and targeting Catholics, Jews and other immigrant groups in addition to blacks, before falling apart in the late 1920s due to a series of violent scandals. A third iteration was born in [[The Fifties]] in reaction to the [[Civil Rights Movement]], and is notable for having been villain fodder for [[The Adventures of Superman (radio)|the Superman radio show]], which reportedly used their actual secret code words and some of their more ridiculous rituals (which they got from [[FBI]] informants within the organization). Since then, the name has been used by a whole bunch of separate white supremacist groups of varying degrees of civility, nearly all of them declaring themselves the "true" Klan.
* The ''[[wikipedia:Freikorps|Freikorps]]'' were paramilitary groups in Germany and German-speaking lands that first emerged in the 18th century and later became symbols of resistance and German nationalism during the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. They re-emerged during the post-[[World War I]] period in a manner much in keeping with this trope, feeling themselves to be fighters against those who had "stabbed Germany in the back" (specifically, [[Dirty Communists|communists]]), and many had a militantly anti-Slavic ideology, as evidenced by their behavior in the Baltic states and in Silesia. While many ''Freikorps'' leaders opposed the Nazis (and were subsequently purged in the Night of the Long Knives), many more supported them and became important members of the notorious ''Schutzstaffel'' (the SS).
* These people have been showing up in Hungary recently as a response to the former socialist government ignoring criminal activity among certain ethnic minorities in the name of Political Correctness. The fact that every now and then they actually save people from organized gangs and gain increasing sympathy led to the formation of a slowly growing extreme nationalist wing with neo-Nazi leanings. To make things worse, many socialist politicians were of Jewish origin, which sparked strong anti-Semitic sentiments.
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