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* ''[[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).

* 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 [[~~Useful Notes/~~North Korea|North Korean]] [[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]].

* ''[[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|North Korean]] [[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]].

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== [[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 [[~~Useful Notes/~~South Africa|South African]] 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 [[wikipedia:Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging|Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging]] (AWB, or Afrikaner Resistance Movement) is a [[South Africa|South African]] 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.]]

* [[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 [[~~Useful Notes/~~American Gun Politics|the Brady Bill]]. She later backed off and claimed that the whole thing was just [[Parody Retcon|a publicity stunt]] after even other militia groups [[You're Insane!|called her insane]].

* [[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 [[American Gun Politics|the Brady Bill]]. She later backed off and claimed that the whole thing was just [[Parody Retcon|a publicity stunt]] after even other militia groups [[You're Insane!|called her insane]].

* 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.<br /><br />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).