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When a fascist or otherwise extreme political group is investigated and busted, a member, often the leader, brags how the group is everywhere. The group member will further claim that their movement is growing, and will rule supreme someday, leaving the heroes concerned that there will be more trouble in the future.

Currently often associated with right-wing militia movements, which became a [[Western Terrorists|trope of their own]] following the [[Right -Wing Militia Fanatic|militia scare]] in the media after the Oklahoma City bombing.

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{{quote| '''Agito:''' ''"You probably thought Chronos was simply a secret organization, but we are very public. Classmates, politicians, ambassadors. It is an international community all linked through the clandestine operations of the Chronos Corporation. A simple matter like the attack on the school is easily covered with key positions in the media, and the police are controlled by us. We're everywhere. We're everyone. The Earth is now within our grasp... a possession of Chronos."''}}

* Reasonably early on in ''[[Twentieth20th Century Boys]]'', Kenji learns that the cult lead by mysterious [[Big Bad]] Friend has members in high places, making his fight against them harder.

* Quite early in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', Yuki and Ryoko tells Kyon that her fellow interfaces have long infiltrated the school, and that quite a few of them are like [[Ax Crazy|R]][[Well -Intentioned Extremist|yo]][[Knife Nut|ko]]. Later, Koizumi tells Kyon that other members from the Organization are everywhere, and are in high places, like the president of the [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]].

* Showed rather than said, but The Dollars in ''[[Durarara!!]]'' definitely count. One of the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments of Awesome]] comes when {{spoiler|Mikado Ryugame}} is in a tense stand-off with [[Smug Snake|Namie]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Yagiri]]. When she threatens him, and basically claims to be powerful enough to squash him like a bug, he replies that if she won't listen to reason, he'll have to rely on numbers. He pushes a button on his cellphone, and suddenly the cell phones of ''everybody'' in the vicinity start going off. The look of horror on the faces of Namie and her bodyguards is priceless as the formerly faceless masses are all revealed to be members of the enigmatic Dollars, including several important characters.

* Done in ''[[Fight Club (Filmfilm)|Fight Club]]'', especially noteworthy because it's delivered to the man charged with taking them down at his own reception.

* The Night Slasher's speech at the end of ''[[Cobra (Film)|Cobra]]'' follows this trope to the letter, but it's more of a crazed final rant than a accurate estimate of his actual following.

* ''[[Quantum of Solace (Film)|Quantum of Solace]]'' has this exchange:

{{quote| '''Bond''': Are you going to tell us who you work for?<br />

{{quote| '''M''': When someone says "We've got people everywhere", you expect it to be hyperbole! Lots of people say that. ''Florists'' use that expression. {{spoiler|It doesn't mean that they've got somebody working for them ''inside the bloody room!''}}}}

* The Scholastic book series ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'' featured this trope as its very premise, with the main characters fighting an invasion of alien mind-controllers.

{{quote| '''James''' to Phillip: "The Night people. We're all around you, Phil. Anybody you know could be one--including the mayor. So keep your mouth shut."}}

* ''[[Law and Order]]'' episode ''Charm City'', a white supremacist convicted of planting a poison gas bomb on a subway car angrily hisses that "My country is growing, yours is shrinking!" as the credits roll.

{{quote| Let us know when you're coming and we'll bung on a cup of tea for you.}}

* A variation in the same vein as this trope occurred on ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' in the season three finale "The Adversary" where a defeated [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|changeling]] who has been sneaking around the ship trying to sabotage it tells Odo that the Changelings are Everywhere. [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in a later episode, where a Changeling informs Captain Sisko that there are only four Changelings operating on Earth, and that they find the Federation's fear of being infiltrated more effective than actually doing it.

** Before that, a semi-early 2-episode-arc of [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation|TNG]] featured a paranoid captain warning Picard of "strange happenings" with Starfleet Command. It turned out to be caused by a race of mind-controlling parasites that had already infiltrated every level of SFC's upper echelons, and was spreading out through the most prominant captains to be able to spread even further. Picard and Riker end up blasting what looks like a queen, spend the last five minutes of the show wondering how bad things have become... [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity|and then the entire situation is never brought up again.]]

* In ''[[Babylon Five|Babylon 5]]'', when Garibaldi interrogates [[The Mole]] who shot him in the back, he is met with arrogant self-assurance: "There's a new order coming back home, Garibaldi. You can either be part of it, or you can be stepped on. A winner or a loser. I'm with the side that's gonna win." {{spoiler|The prisoner's confidence is borne out when friends in high places arrange his disappearance on his way back to Earth for trial.}}

** The very scene which leads to him getting shot in the back while trying to arrest a terrorist is a veiled [[We Are Everywhere]] moment.

** The slogan "We're everywhere... for your convenience" in the [[Super Registration Act|PsiCorps]] commercial carries a definite overtone of this.

* Trying to keep this from happening -- andhappening—and then dealing with it when it ''does'' get out of hand -- drovehand—drove most of the plot for the unfortunately short-lived science fiction series ''[[Threshold]]'', where the aliens sought to conquer Earth by mutating us into them.

* In ''[[Torchwood Miracle Day (TV)|Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'', the shadowy [[Ancient Conspiracy]] apparently behind the Miracle claim to be "everywhere and always".

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has the Silence, who appear to embody the trope, even if they don't outright lay claim to it.

* The anti globalization song well [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8j8BmgeYLA&feature=BFa&list=PL03305A4AAFA91B0A&lf=mh_lolz&shuffle=106358 we are everywhere]

* In ''[[Warhammer 40 K,000]]'', the Inquisition (who are humanity's [[Designated Hero|Designated Heroes]]es) and the Alpha Legion (for whom it's a long story), both tend to make this claim, and they're more than likely telling the truth. The Deceiver and its agents would also have grounds to say this truthfully, if they deigned to talk to anyone at all outside of their cover identities.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. The vampire mooks like to taunt Buffy about how she is one, they are many. It's possible to [[Talk to Thethe Fist|stake them mid-rant]] for the humour.

* In ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'':

{{quote| '''Icarus''': "I am right behind you, Mr. Denton. Soon, I will be ahead of you, beside you - I will be a part of everything in your world."}}

* In ''[[Prototype 2 (Video Game)|Prototype 2]]'', Alex makes such a claim.

* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer is watching a movie in which a biker, when arrested, says "You can put me away, but you'll never defeat the Cobras!" Homer later says this exact line to Chief Wiggum, despite the fact that his gang has a different name.

* In ''[[Sev Trek]]: "[[Squick|Pus]]" in Boots'' (an Australian spoof of ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]'') the evil alien grows from a zit on Commander Piker's face. After it's defeated Councillor Troi says she picked up a final telepathic message from the alien: We. Are. Everywhere. The show then concludes on [[The End - or Is It?|a turbolift full of expendable ensigns with zits]].

* [[Villain of the Week|The Every]][[MesMe's a Crowd|where Man]] drops the trope name in his self titled episode of ''[[The Batman (Animation)|The Batman]]''. At the same time as all his copies all over the building.

* Done in one episode of ''[[Kid VSvs. Kat]]'' where an evil alien hamster warns Kat before making his getaway that his kind are everywhere.

* This is unfortunately, a [[Truth in Television]], as we can see with [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Je_suis_partoutJe suis partout|this newspaper]].

** [[Church of Happyology|Scientology]] actually falls under this as well. The members have a tendency to take jobs that would allow them to spy on any enemies of the cult. One notable example being [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_WhiteOperation Snow White|the IRS.]]

* Russian partisan girl Zoya Kocmodemianskaya, caught by Nazis and cruelly tortured before execution, [[Defiant to Thethe End|said from under the gallows:]]

{{quote| There are millions of Russians. You cannot hang all of us.}}

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