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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.

 

 

Note also that the exact same claim may be made by the heroes when they are the resistance to a despotic regime. Naturally, the message is inverted this way.

Contrast [[Red Scare]] and [[Yellow Peril]]. [[The Syndicate]] is very fond of this line, as is [[The Conspiracy]].

 

 

== [[Anime]] ==

* ''[[Grappler Baki]]'', possibly inspired by ''[[Fight Club]]'', pulls a similar stunt after a guy in a fighting club got killed. The waiter, the police, the owner of the amusement park, all of them are part of the club.

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

* 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.

 

== [[Film]] ==

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

'''Mr. White''': The first thing you should know about us is that we have people everywhere. {{spoiler|''[Turns to M's bodyguard]'' Am I right? ''[The bodyguard opens fire on M and Bond]''}} }}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** And interestingly, the main characters also convinced their enemies that this was the case with them as well (their powers were ideal for infiltration, sabotage and subterfuge).

* In the first [[Night World]] book, ''Secret Vampire'':

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

* Trope subverted on the ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' episode "Pirated" where the white supremacist militia leader threatens how his movement is everywhere and growing. The detectives, particularly Delko, respond that they are investigating every connection he has and expect a wave of arrests of his cronies in short order, which we see happening in [[Montages|a flurry of images]] as the police swoop in to bust the terrorists. The militia leader is left stunned to hear that his organization is being smashed so quickly.

** 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 -- and then dealing with it when it ''does'' get out of hand -- 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.

** Considering they constantly thwart the heroes' plans, usually with suicide bombers, it shows that their reach is worldwide. Hell, one of their people is {{spoiler|working directly for a senior CIA official and kills him with a bomb when he's onto her}}. What's amazing is that they've managed to {{spoiler|grow from three groups of street thugs to this in under a century}}.

 

== [[Music]] ==

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** And thanks to the warp Demons are literally everywhere.

** Also, although they can't really make claim of it, Tyranids use Genestealers to infest the population of a target world, slowly infiltrating important positions. They literately have people everywhere.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* "We are formless. We are the very discipline Americans invoke so often." -- {{spoiler|Patriot Colonel}}, ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2''.

* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has Cerberus, the shadowy pro-human organisation with apparently bottomless funds and influence at every level of the Alliance. Rogue operatives tend not to live long, ''especially'' if they get picked up by the Alliance.

{{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."}}

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

== Real Life ==

* A real-life (well, as real as the internet community can be considered) example is Anonymous, their mantra being: "We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us." Anonymous's influence has most recently been seen in their protest attacks against the Church of Scientology.

** Anonymous has actually used that quote from Fight Club in some of their copypasta. Well, the bits about "we cook your food etc. DO NOT FUCK WITH US", anyway.

** In late July 2010, the Tea Party tried to [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/28/888292/-Anonymous-1,-Oregon-Tea-Party-0 use Anonymous' slogan for their own ends.] Anonymous responded...rather sharply.

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

* Ted Bundy apparently once stated, "We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere! And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow!"

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