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== Music ==
* Music example: Punk rockers often invoked this trope, posing as [[Bomb
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I am an [[Painful Rhyme|anarchist]]<br />
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* [[The Tick|"Yeah, baby, yeah!]] [[Department of Redundancy Department|I'm the Evil Midnight Bomber what bombs at midnight!"]]
* Verminous Skum from ''[[Captain Planet]]'' was one of these a lot. Trying to spread panic through inaccurate AIDS information and getting everyone in Washington DC hooked on a drug called Bliss to create his own zombie army are a few examples.
* The Blow Out, a [[Looney Tunes]] cartoon, had [[Cross
== Real Life ==
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** That must have been when they were still only blowing up department stores instead of people (which they resorted to in their later years).
* The Weather Underground fell into the same trope; despite consciously attempting to avoid being portrayed as crazed bombers, they assumed that "bringing the Vietnam War home" would radicalize America. Instead, several of them ended up blowing themselves up in Greenwich Village (although most of the Weathermen merely dropped out, and the former leadership were mostly pardoned) and had a similar film, ''[[The Weather Underground]]'' made about them.
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*** It's important to note that Anarchism and Communism started out as extremely similar ideologies. The anarchist movement has been leftist and 'red' (For example, the anarchist Emma Goldman was referred to as Red Emma) for most of their history, with the least communistic strain being individualist anarchism and mutualism, which is still essentially a libertarian socialist thread, albeit one that also supports an unfettered free market. It does this by replacing 'property' with 'possession' of capital. Not until recently have there been 'anarcho-capitalists', and a large part of the anarchist movement does not consider them to be anarchists at all.
* The [[Trope Namer]] came from an incident on May 4, 1886 called the Haymarket <s>Riot</s> <s>Massacre</s> Affair where during a rally in support of striking workers recently gunned down by police and [[Pinkerton Detective|Pinkertons]], someone threw a bomb at police, killing one of them. Eight anarchists were put on trial for this and the internationally publicized trials led to the caricature of the Bomb Throwing Anarchist.
** Four of the anarchist leaders were sentenced to death, and one killed himself in prison. Interestingly, no one actually knows who did it, and it seems like they never will - however, one of the main theories is that it was [[False
** A statue of the officer killed by the bomb, erected in the square, has been defaced and repeatedly blown up as recently as the 1970s. Its current incarnation is installed in the Chicago police station.
** At the time, "mad bombers" were all assumed to be anarchists, and vice versa, based on the notoriety of the assassination attempts, hence the origin of the stereotype. Ironically, in reality, most anarchists at the time were basically [
** The 1910 Los Angeles Times Bombing was linked to attempts to unionize the iron workers, but were commonly called Bomb throwing anarchists.
* Italian anarchists and revolutionaries of the Turn-of-the-Century seemed to be particularly [[Ax Crazy]] when compared to others, and it wasn't rare for them to attack rulers from [
* Late 19th-early 20th century terrorists in the Russian Empire were and still are popularly known as "bombists" due to their love for home-made explosives. Of course, far from all of them were anarchists (the Socialist Revolutionaries - eSeRs - outnumbered them as time went on), but then again, many of them were pretty nihilistic in character if not in their party ideology and otherwise fit this stereotype quite well.
* Not to mention that one of the revolutionary movements active in Russia at that time actually was the [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Nihilists]], who considered all authority and hierarchy to stand in the way of free choice.
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* In Ancient Rome, it was those dastardly Christians who were held to be fervently wishing for the demise of the state, and blamed for the [[While Rome Burns|fire that destroyed Rome]], along with promoting class mixing and attacking the state-sponsored religion; resulting in centuries of persecution. They were also called ''atheists'', as they rejected the civic gods of the state religion, including the "divine" Emperors.
** In fact, many Biblical scholars interpret the Book of Revelations as an anarchistic screed foretelling the fall of the Roman Empire.
** Somewhat more plausibly in the 14-16th century, when some of the [[Torches and Pitchforks|peasant revolts]] during the Reformation ''were'' anarchist. The leader of the Anabaptists was drawn and quartered for proclaiming that he would rather the Turks invade Germany ([[Values Dissonance|a realistic proposition at the time]]) instead of having self-proclaimed Christians [[Technical Pacifist|rule by force]]. In England in the 1300s, [
* Anarchists were blamed by most of the media for turning the relatively peaceful 1999 WTO protests into a riot.
** Have also been blamed for frenzying the police during the more recent Occupy Movements on the West Coast area.
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