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{{quote|''Not "conspiracies". ''Conspiracy''. Singular.''
|'''[[The Question]]''', ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''}}
The most basic definition of '''The Conspiracy''' is "a [[Man Behind the Man|secretive]] [[villain]]ous group with an [[Evil Plan]]". Let's break it down:
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{{examples|Examples of works/series featuring conspiracies of more than one type:}}
== [[Anime]]
* The less known thing about [[Bee Train]]'s ''[[Girls with Guns]]'' trilogy is that in addition to playing into three distinct action movie genres (see [[Bee Train/Trivia]]), they also each center on a different type of conspiracies:
** ''[[Noir]]'' pits the protagonists against a [[Cult]]-like [[Ancient Conspiracy]] of [[Gratuitous French|Les Soldats]], a secret society formed (probably) by the [[The Heretic|Cathar]] survivors after the [[Kill'Em All|Albigensian Crusade]] to oppose the rule of the [[The Church|Roman Catholic Church]]. Their ({{spoiler|or rather, Altena's}}) [[Evil Plan]], ''Le Grand Retour'', involves reverting the Western society to [[The Middle Ages|Medieval]] norms.
** ''[[Madlax]]'' revolves around a [[Nebulous Criminal Conspiracy]] between [[The Syndicate]] of Enfant,
** ''[[El Cazador de la Bruja]]'' deals with the aftermath of a [[Government Conspiracy]] called Project Leviathan, a top-secret [[CIA Evil, FBI Good|CIA]] project to produce [[Psychic Powers|Psychic]] [[Child Soldiers]]. More specifically, CIA attempts to [[Revealing Coverup|cover the whole thing up]], which includes killing the few surviving test subjects, one of whom is the amnesiac protagonist.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[The Illuminatus Trilogy]]'', the original [[Conspiracy Kitchen Sink]] novel(s).▼
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▲* ''[[The Illuminatus Trilogy]]'', the original [[Conspiracy Kitchen Sink]] novel.
== Tabletop Games ==▼
* ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' has Firewall, a "heroic" (well, anti-heroic) conspiracy that does not work for any government or criminal organization, and is devoted to the survival of transhumanity at all costs. Though there's also Project Ozma, {{spoiler|SETI turned MIB}}.
** Oh, and Firewall is descended from a fusion of three real world groups {{spoiler|[[wikipedia:JASON (advisory group)|JASON]], the [[wikipedia:Lifeboat Foundation|Lifeboat Foundation]], and the [[wikipedia:Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence|Singularity Institute]]}}
* ''[[GURPS
* From [[Steve Jackson Games|the same publisher]], ''[[Illuminati (card game)|Illuminati]]'', a light-hearted card game of world domination. Comes in basic, [[Illuminati: New World Order|collectible]] and (eventually) video game versions. Each player is one of the great grand Conspiracies, building webs of influence and control in the unsuspecting world.
* ''[[The Longest Journey]]'' series loves to have conspiracies for villains:
** The original game had the [[Ancient Conspiracy]] of the Vanguard, a twelve thousand years old [[Cult]] led by {{spoiler|a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|DraicKin]]}} and aiming to forcibly reunite the [[Cyberpunk|technological world]] of Stark and the magical [[Arcadia]], disregarding the enormous risks to both worlds' existence.
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* ''[[Deus Ex]]'' and it's follow up games (''[[Deus Ex: Invisible War|Deus Ex Invisible War]]'' and ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'') have these in spades.
* Suburban Redevelopment Fund in ''[[L.A. Noire]]''.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', after [
== Other ==
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