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* Happens in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' when [[The Mafiya|Mafiya]] boss Noah Zark reveals his plan to [[Animal Wrongs Group|help animals by wiping out humanity]].
{{quote|'''Noah Zark:''' I will use your telecommunications satellites to broadcast my signal all over the vorld! ''Destroying humanity so zat only my beloved animals vill remain!''
'''Zoe:''' [[You're Insane!|You're mad!]]
'''Yuri:''' ''Ve are not mad! Ve just love animals! Ven humanity ees destroyed, only ve vill be left to eat ze tasty animals!'' Boy do ve love eatink tasty animals.
'''Noah Zark:''' Ve'll talk later, Yuri. }}
* The premise of the webcomic ''Watchdogs'' hinges on this trope. An honest man living in a city overrun by crime and vice is sick of living in fear and wants to fight back, Batman-style. He finds a neighbor with similar ideal and access to the necessary gadgets, and they become vigilantes. Soon after, the man finds out that his partner is actually a white supremacist and wants to use their team to attack minorities. When confronted, the neighbor's excuse is ''that he forgot to tell his partner he was racist.''
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* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', the founding of Springfield and Shelbyville, as well as the feud between the two towns that followed, is based on this trope. Originally the town founders, Jebediah Springfield and Shelbyville Manhattan were allies who led a group of pioneers in pursuit of new lands to settle. Once they found the site for their settlement, however ...
{{quote|'''Jebediah:''' People, our search is over. On this site we shall build a new town, where we can worship freely, govern justly and grow vast fields of hemp for making ropes and blankets.
'''Shelbyville:''' Yes, and [[Kissing Cousins|marry our cousins]].
'''Jebediah:''' I was - wha ... what are you talking about, Shelbyville? Why would we want to marry our cousins?
'''Shelbyville:''' Because they're so attractive. I thought that was the whole point of this journey? }}
* In ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', Gorilla Grodd assembles a new Legion of Doom, but, aside from opposing the Justice League, keeps their long term goals largely to himself. When it's revealed that his master plan is {{spoiler|to turn everyone on Earth into apes, [[Justice League (film)/Awesome|Lex Luthor shoots him in the chest]], takes over the Legion, and redirects their efforts to more sensible endeavors (well, sensible for ''[[A God Am I|him]]'', at least).}}
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