Right-Wing Militia Fanatic: Difference between revisions

* 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 Nazi—The Red Skull.

* ''[[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 development—which [[Conspiracy Theory|of course]] means to them that the U.S. is about to hand over sovereignty to the United Nations. They're portrayed as somewhat pathetic, but still dangerous to everyone around them as they try to keep their "freedom."

* Parodied by ''[[Mr. Show]]'' with the character of Mountain Dougie, who tries to secede from the United States—and succeeds. He then creates a flag and currency for his new nation of 'New Freeland,' but is enticed by the wonders of America (they have food there) and emigrates to the US.

* Another trope fully embraced by ''[[Law and Order]]''—especially during the late 90s. One episode called "Nullification" had a group of so called "American Patriots" claim an armored car heist (in which a guard was killed) was an act of civil disobedience akin to the Boston Tea Party. They managed a mistrial because of one disaffected juror whom McCoy had sniffed out, but refused to dismiss [[Honor Before Reason|because he didn't want to win by working the system like the defendants were doing]].

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas|Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' features one mission where CJ must sneak on a farm owned by a Waco-esque group in order to steal their combine harvester for The Truth. They shoot at him on sight—although CJ ''is'' trespassing with the intention of committing theft, he barely steps foot on his property before they start firing. Also, they shout racial slurs at CJ and clearly enjoy hunting him down. [[Chunky Salsa Rule|But once you actually get to the harvester...]]

* ''[[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 victory—after all, killing your enemies means that you can't convert them, and it also decreases the morale, or "spirit", of your own units ([[As the Good Book Says...|"thou shalt not kill"]] and all).

* ''[[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 [[North Korea]]n [[Invaded States of America|invaders]] in [[Complete Monster|pure nastiness]]—they torture and enslave captured enemy soldiers for sport before lynching them and putting their heads on pikes, they try to kidnap your group's female member for "entertainment", and they're not above [[Les Collaborateurs|collaborating with the enemy]] and turning over resistance members [[Money, Dear Boy|for money]].

* The [[wikipedia:Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging|Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging]] (AWB, or Afrikaner Resistance Movement) is a [[South Africa]]n version of this. They had their greatest prominence during the tail end of [[The Apartheid Era]], once it became clear that the system was on life support. During that time, they engaged in a campaign of violence against anti-apartheid politicians, and when negotiations to end apartheid began they threatened to go to war with the government, even storming the building where said negotiations were being held. Oh, and [[Putting on the Reich|take a look at]] [[wikipedia:File:Three sevens.svg|their flag.]]

* 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''—despite government crackdowns against the Klan, the "Reconstruction" period of reforming postbellum Southern society came to an end just twelve years after the fall of the Confederacy.

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.