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* ''[[Tombstone]]''. Not literally pitchforks, but pickaxes. A lynch mob, including miners with pickaxes, appears after Curly Bill kills the town marshal. Wyatt disperses the mob by saying there will be a trial.
* Subverted in ''[[Cthulhu (film)|Cthulhu]]'' (2007). When the gay protagonist is wrongly arrested for raping and murdering a boy, he naturally assumes the shouting, torch-carrying crowd is a lynch mob and desperately holds onto the door of the cell to keep it shut. In the morning, he discovers the crowd (presumably Dagon cultists) have unlocked the cell door, and driven off the police so he can escape.
* In the movie ''[[The Elephant Man]]'', there was a brief moment aboard a ship that the eponymous character was on... even though some bad little boys started the trouble.
* Rob Schneider's ''[[The Animal]]'' features a torches, pitchforks and shotgun-wielding mob, organized by [[Hey, It's That Guy!|Dr. Cox from ''Scrubs'']], starting at 1:40 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxhOzdXACNQ&feature=related here]. Featuring Norm MacDonald as a guy asking stuff like "when do we get to light our torches" and other pesky questions:
{{quote|'''Norm Macdonald''': [[Lampshade Hanging|Hey, doesn't this guy get a fair trial? I mean...]]<br />
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* [[Red Rider]]'s "Lunatic Fringe".
* [[Rush]]'s "Witch Hunt".
* "they came with torches and pitchforks..." from the Titus Andronicus song "No Future part II: The Day After No Future"
== Tabletop Games ==
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* In ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'', when Kain teleports into the future after killing the William the Just, he is confronted by angry mobsters with torches and pitchforks, led by Moebius, who are bent on killing all vampires.
* In ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'', Marge's superpower is a megaphone that lets her incite non-police civilians into an angry mob, and the sic them on everything from the police, to busting down walls. Depending on the person you convert, you get torches, pitchforks, clubs, pipes and other things.
* In ''[[Command
** [[Most Wonderful Sound|"AK-47s, for]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQdaEFa_60 EVERYONE!"]
* In the third installment of the ''[[Anno Domini]]'' series, the population can go nuts for three reasons;
** either when being roused by a revolutionary,
** when the taxes get too high,
** or when your tiny island(s) run out of vital resources, such as clothing, basic nutrition, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|alcohol, tobacco, or chocolates]].
*** Then they will get out their torches, pitchforks and placards (with nothing written on them) and rampage through your towns, to lapidate statues of yourself, and to burn down all buildings they encounter, including vital public institutions, firms, and their own houses. While the [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|Fire Brigade never intervenes]]. After the crisis is settled, they start revolting, because vital public institutions, firms, and their own houses(!) are amiss ''[[Sarcasm Mode|all of a sudden]]''. It should be noted, that the higher your population is in the public order, the more they are prone to revolt. While Citizens, Merchants and [[Aristocrats Are Evil|Aristocrats]] are the most aggressive, the Pioneers and Settlers are almost always content.
** In such cases, this troper would wish to simply put down these revolts with his soldiers. Unfortunately, there is no such option in these games.
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* ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]'': [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2010/10/08 Homeowners' association at it again]
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', [http://endstone.net/2011/05/16/5-35/ coming after Kyri], [http://endstone.net/2011/05/19/5-36/ blaming her for everything.] [[It Got Worse]]... for the [[Powder Keg Crowd]], that is.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'',
** [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3491 Satan stirs up one.]
** [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3223 And Death is targetted.]
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* And ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987]]'' was no exception to the rule.
** It was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the debut episode in Hamato Yoshi/Master Splinter's [[[[Flash Back]] autobiograpical story].
** In "Turtles On Trial", even though they had neither torches or pitchforks, an angry mob chased the Turtles off after the green quartet had caught a couple of jewel thieves.
*** To this troper, this episode follows the "[[What the Hell, Townspeople?]]" category in that part as well as the obvious [[Stealth Pun]] about Clayton Kellerman himself, {{spoiler|who was a parody after the late Morton Downey, Jr, who was a real-life talk show host with his own show at the time}}.
** And in the episode, ''Splinter No More'', after Donatello's creation of a batch of retro-mutagen returns Master Splinter back into Hamato Yoshi began to revert him back to his previous rat form, Splinter is pursued by a frightened mob after {{spoiler|his failed attempt to escape down a manhole and into a sewer}}.
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