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== Anime ==

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== Film ==

* ''[[Witch Hunt]]'', a TV movie set in the 1950s (a sequel to ''Cast A Deadly Spell''), with the caveat that magic was real and wide spread, had as the orchestrating villain a politician who planned to use a [[Super Registration Act]] and later more fascist means to control the "magic problem" for the [[Muggles|non-magical]]. Once he double crosses a magician accomplice, [[The Dog Bites Back|the magician casts a spell]] that makes him [[Engineered Public Confession|vomit his dark side out]], which happily and angrily details his disgust for the non-magical voters being so easily swayed by fear, and how he'd slowly shift his fearmongering to other groups to keep and gain political power. In front of a live campaign speech audience. Both he and his evil vomit twin are arrested.

* ''Witch Hunt'', a TV movie set in the 1950s (a sequel to ''[[Cast A Deadly Spell]]''), with the caveat that magic was real and wide spread, had as the orchestrating villain a politician who planned to use a [[Super Registration Act]] and later more fascist means to control the "magic problem" for the [[Muggles|non-magical]]. Once he double crosses a magician accomplice, [[The Dog Bites Back|the magician casts a spell]] that makes him [[Engineered Public Confession|vomit his dark side out]], which happily and angrily details his disgust for the non-magical voters being so easily swayed by fear, and how he'd slowly shift his fearmongering to other groups to keep and gain political power. In front of a live campaign speech audience. Both he and his evil vomit twin are arrested.

* The leaders of Libria in ''[[Equilibrium]]'' preach that Prozium, an emotion-inhibiting drug, would save humanity from having another World War. ''They'' aren't on it, however. The head of the government is revealed to indulge in art and literature that would get regular citizens executed.

* ''[[Ultraviolet (film)|Ultraviolet]]'' had the [[Evil Overlord|Evil Surgeon General]] who hunted all vampires to near extinction with active genocide, be not just a vampire... but ''the first one!'' He manipulated public fear and hysteria to rise to power. However, he was too effective; with most of the vampires killed off, he needed something to keep people in-line. So he was working on an anti-human virus that would require constant treatment that only he could provide.