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* ''WesternAnimation/WallyGator'': [[https://youtu.be/2NecSMjqtA4 In one of several shorts produced for Boomerang]], Wally gets kidnapped by a group of animal rights activists and taken to a swamp (and they rather hypocritically run over a snake in the process). The joke's on them, though; [[spoiler:Wally thinking about his "terrible" life in captivity [[ImagineSpotting ends up]] convincing the two gators already in the swamp to take the activists' jeep and Wally and head back to the zoo. The last shot shows the three gators living in luxury and the activists stranded in the swamp, with an animal of prey [[WhatTheHellHero yelling at them for messing up the natural order,]][[HitMeDammit demanding that they eat it]].]]

* ''WesternAnimation/WallyGator'': [[https://youtu.be/2NecSMjqtA4 In one of several shorts produced for Boomerang]], Wally gets kidnapped by a group of animal rights activists and taken to a swamp (and they rather hypocritically run over a snake in the process). The joke's on them, though; [[spoiler:Wally thinking about his "terrible" life in captivity [[ImagineSpotting ends up]] convincing the two gators already in the swamp to take the activists' jeep and Wally and head back to the zoo. The last shot shows the three gators living in luxury and the activists stranded in the swamp, with an animal of prey [[WhatTheHellHero yelling at them for messing up the natural order]].]]

* The Space Warriors from the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' episode "[[Recap/CowboyBebopSession4GatewayShuffle Gateway Shuffle]]" ''were'' once a legitimate environmentalist group but were taken over by a more radical leader. They wanted to save a "rare" Ganymede sea rat and were willing to turn everyone on Ganymede into monkeys to do so (and an orbiting restaurant into little more than bullet holes).
* A group of protesters in ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' believe that ''they'' are still Human, and that the government is committing murder every time they kill ''them'' off. They also believe the government is responsible for turning ''them'' in the first place. One of the main character's rich parents were using their estate as a safe haven and refuge zone, where the protesters set up tents. Eventually, though, even the estate's defenses were broken through and it was overrun. The other civilians listened to instructions on how to escape, while the leader of the protesters [[TooDumbToLive stayed behind and tried to reason with]] ''them''. It was only when they finally knock her over and start biting her that she reaches for a nearby machete to fight back, but it was already too late.

** The ''Black and White'' chapter involves Team Plasma, which was already an Animal Wrongs Group in the games. ''Black 2 and White 2'' also has a former Team Plasma member as one of the protagonists, and while she's no longer active in "Pokémon liberation" since the group broke up, she still believes in its ideals, viewing things like Pokéballs and Pokédexes as tools of enslavement (but keeping such views to herself). It's implied that her extremist beliefs are due to being indoctrinated in the group's rhetoric at an early age (she was in Team Plasma at age 10 and the story is set when she's 12) and hasn't completely thought through the implications yet.[[/folder]]

* Subverted in Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan''. Although Buddy Baker devotes his career to collaborating with like-minded individuals in disrupting fox hunts and freeing laboratory animals, he himself avoids the use of violence (except against a whaler and dolphin-hunter who dared him to do so). When one of his collaborators on a lab rescue mission blows it up with an incendiary bomb, putting a firefighter in critical condition in the process, Buddy hangs up his costume and resigns from the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}. Conversely, Animal Man's [[CorruptCorporateExecutive big-business enemies]], far from being the put-upon victims normally found in this trope, are ''far'' more brutal and lawless.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} has ComicBook/RasAlGhul, who, in the comics and animated series based on them, has tried multiple times to wipe out more than eighty percent of Earth's population, because it would allegedly return Earth to a more stable ecosystem. However, the moments at which he really shows his Animal Wrongs side are when dealing with the menagerie of endangered animals he collects and keeps. In one comic in particular, he was shown to have had a henchman murdered because he accidentally killed a rare sort of tiger cub by feeding it chocolate, dooming its species to extinction according to Ra's. His daughter ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul also shares his environmentalist goals, but it's usually less genocidal than him. At one point her alliance with ComicBook/LexLuthor started to fall apart due to all the environmental crimes [=LexCorp=] committed.
* In one issue of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' (as in the original comics), ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} once spotted a diver spearing a whale. In a fit of rage, he struck him, and as is to be expected with a guy with SuperStrength, killed him. Turns out he was a marine scientist tagging the whale for research purposes. Whoops. The incident was used by his evil half-brother to spur a full-on HeroicBreakdown (Batman later snapped Aquaman out of it by claiming that the scientist was still alive and the whole thing was faked by Ocean Master, but this may or may not have been true).
* Downplayed in ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' vol. 2 #6. Selina is working with the "Friends of the Earth Nature Magic Alliance" to prevent an ecological disaster. She sees them as "a pretty level headed bunch", although when one of them shows slight signs of this, she privately reflects that "animal rights activists fantasising about killing makes about as much sense as 'right to life' murders".

* The 17th issue of ''ComicBook/CartoonNetworkActionPack'' had a ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' story where Jack was tricked into freeing a bunch of vicious beasts by a trio of animal rights activists so that the creatures would end up killing everyone in the city, as the beasts were caged so that they wouldn't endanger anyone. In the end, Jack slays all the beasts and has the three locked up in the cage used to imprison the animals.

* OlderThanTelevision. A memorable scene from ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInAmerica Tintin in America]]'' features an elderly woman pull the emergency break of a train (inadvertently [[ChainedToARailway saving Tintins life]] in the process) and demand the conductor intervene after [[PredatorsAreMean she saw a puma attack a deer]]. Said conductor predictably fines the self proclaimed "Member of the American Association of Animal Admires" instead for pulling the break without a valid reason.
* In the first ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'' volume, a SHIELD soldier standing guard over the Venom symbiote asks a coworker who in their right mind would let Eddie Brock and Mac Gargan remain bonded to it while in jail. His co-worker's answer? [=PETA=].
* ComicBook/WonderGirl had to deal with an animal rights group who thought that ''hydras'' were nice friendly critters.

* ''Webcomic/PvP Online'' had a guy trying to capture the panda living in the PvP building so that he could release him back into the wild. Said panda was not only legally allowed to be there (he couldn't return to the wild and WWF deemed the PvP building to be his new habitat,even paying Cole a hefty annual sum for the privilege),but would later move to Seattle with the crew and have a family of his own within PvP. Needless to say,it did not go well for the animal rights guy.

Animal rights groups in television shows are frequently portrayed as complete lunatics, often with [[EmbarrassingInitials names that form]] [[FunWithAcronyms silly acronyms]](Specifically, it is common for them to parody PETA). In many cases, [[KnightTemplar they don't seem to care how many people get hurt – often by their own actions – as long as animals are okay]]. Sometimes even animals may be sacrificed for the cause. They're more likely to fight {{Windmill}}s rather than ''actual'' cruelty to animals.

A common role in fiction is to break into the lab of a MadScientist and release his genetic aberration or terrible virus or upset his delicate experiments, with catastrophic results. In some cases, this will be accidental or the activists well-meaning but misinformed, but in some, they will know they're releasing a monster, and do it anyway. Expect particularly clueless members of these organizations to react to these beasties (or, indeed, standard dangerous animals such as tigers) with fawning coos and an apparent [[AllAnimalsAreDomesticated belief that the animal will somehow recognize them as an Animal Rights activist and not harm them]]. [[TooDumbToLive This belief]] will inevitably be rewarded with a very painful death moments later. To some extent, TruthInTelevision: extremist animal rights groups ''do'' exist and have committed crimes ranging from the horrific to the merely petty in service of their views.

* The 17th issue of ''Cartoon Network Action Pack'' had a ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' story where Jack was tricked into freeing a bunch of vicious beasts by a trio of animal rights activists so that the creatures would end up killing everyone in the city, as the beasts were caged so that they wouldn't endanger anyone. In the end, Jack slays all the beasts and has the three locked up in the cage used to imprison the animals.

Animal rights groups in television shows are frequently portrayed as complete lunatics, often with [[EmbarrassingInitials names that form silly acronyms]]. In many cases, [[KnightTemplar they don't seem to care how many people get hurt – often by their own actions – as long as animals are okay]]. Sometimes even animals may be sacrificed for the cause. They're more likely to fight {{Windmill}}s rather than ''actual'' cruelty to animals.

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}':

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' has the Free Pal Alliance, a {{cult}} that worships the titular {{mons}} at the expense of humans. Their "commandments" essentially boil down to "be nice to your Pals" but they put this into practice by shooting everyone who isn't with them. Furthermore, their {{mooks}} act like a reskin of the EvilPoacher gang and are frequently seen violating everything they supposedly believe. They have a major presence around a place called "Hypocrite Hill" and drop Pal meat despite supposedly being vegetarians, so [[StrawHypocrite this may be entirely intended]]. TheOnlyBeliever is their leader Lily, a MisanthropeSupreme who sees Pals as superior to people and is completely unaware of how her grunts really raise the money for her conservation efforts.

[[caption-width-right:350:Sure, you had free it, but now you're wondering how to make it to its home ''alive and safe.'']]

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' has the Free Pal Alliance, a {{cult}} that worships the titular {{mons}} at the expense of humans. Their "commandments" essentially boil down to "be nice to your Pals" but they put this into practice by shooting everyone who isn't with them. Furthermore, their {{mooks}} act like a reskin of the EvilPoacher gang and are frequently seen violating everything they supposedly believe. They have a major presence around a place called "Hypocrite Hill" and drop Pal meat despite supposedly being vegetarians, so [[StrawHypocrite this may be entirely intended]]. The only one who actually seems to follow their rules is their leader Lily, the one who wrote them and a MisanthropeSupreme who sees Pals as superior to people.

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' has the Free Pal Alliance, a quasi-religious ancient society that worships the titular {{mons}} at the expense of humans. Their "commandments" essentially boil down to "be nice to your Pals" but they put this into practice by shooting everyone who isn't with them. Furthermore, their {{mooks}} act like a reskin of the EvilPoacher gang and are frequently seen violating everything they supposedly believe. They have a major presence around a place called "Hypocrite Hill", so [[StrawHypocrite this may be entirely intended]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' has the Free Pal Alliance, a quasi-religious ancient society that worships the titular {{mons}} at the expense of humans. Their "commandments" essentially boil down to "be nice to your Pals" but they put this into practice by shooting everyone who isn't with them. Furthermore, GameplayAndStorySegregation is heavily in effect (possibly due to the game's Early Access nature), as their {{mooks}} act like a reskin of the EvilPoacher gang and are frequently seen violating everything they supposedly believe.

[[caption-width-right:350:Sure, you had free it, but now you're wondering how to make it home ''alive and safe.'']]

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'' has the Free Pal Alliance, a quasi-religious ancient society that worships the titular {{mons}} at the expense of humans. Their "commandments" essentially boil down to "be nice to your Pals" but they put this into practice by shooting everyone who isn't with them. Furthermore, GameplayAndStorySegregation is heavily in effect (possibly due to the game's Early Access nature), as their {{mooks}} act like a reskin of the EvilPoacher gang and are frequently seen violating everything they supposedly believe.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' has a downplayed example in the form of [[spoiler:the Aether Foundation.]] Though they occupy a villainous role, most of the organization is legitimately well-intentioned, it's just their boss that has gone a bit wrong in the head (for example, the only reason its personnel attacks you when you invade is that they were falsely told that you had come to steal Pokémon). Once it comes under new management at the end of the games, the personnel are clearly working to atone for the organization's misdeeds.

[[caption-width-right:298:Sure, you had free it, but now you're wondering how to make it home ''alive and safe.'']]

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
** Hagrid arguably falls under this trope. He is unable to accept that the vicious monsters he likes are not really just friendly, misunderstood animals but are, in fact, vicious monsters. While he doesn't actively campaign for them, he does regularly break the law and put children, himself, and anyone nearby in serious danger, and is very lucky no one has ever died due to his actions.
** Hermione could also fit a milder form with SPEW (Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare). She is determined to free house elves no matter what, to the point of trying to trick them into being free (by hiding clothes in piles of rubbish — house elves are freed if they're given clothes), even though they really don't want it. At the point SPEW was formed, the only house elves Hermione has met had been abused by their masters; once she learns that there are house elves who are treated well and enjoy being part of the family, she backs off a bit, shifting the organization's purpose to giving them better working conditions and only freeing abused ones. This is not an exact example as they aren't really animals, but sapients similar to humans (making it more "{{happiness in slavery}}" for most of them).

* Subverted in Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan''. Although Buddy Baker devotes his career to collaborating with like-minded individuals in disrupting fox hunts and freeing laboratory animals, he himself avoids the use of violence (except against a whaler and dolphin-hunter who dared him to do so). When one of his collaborators on a lab rescue mission blows it up with an incendiary bomb, killing a firefighter in the process, Buddy hangs up his costume and resigns from the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}}. Conversely, Animal Man's [[CorruptCorporateExecutive big-business enemies]], far from being the put-upon victims normally found in this trope, are ''far'' more brutal and lawless.

* ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'' gives us [[AIIsACrapshoot The Malevolent Force]], who are a set of Artificial Intelligences programmed to protect the worlds they're found on... "Protect" meaning, among other things, [[DisproportionateRetribution violently killing anyone who harms the local fauna, even in self-defense.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout Tactics|BrotherhoodOfSteel}}'', releases ''deathclaws''. No points for guessing what happens to her.

--->''''Homer:''' [[DumbassHasAPoint Are you sure God doesn't want it to be dead]]?

A common role in fiction is to break into the lab of a MadScientist and release his genetic aberration or terrible virus or upset his delicate experiments, with catastrophic results. In some cases, this will be accidental or the activists well-meaning but misinformed, but in some, they will know they're releasing a monster, and do it anyway. Expect particularly clueless members of these organizations to react to these beasties (or, indeed, standard dangerous animals such as tigers) with fawning coos and an apparent [[AllAnimalsAreDomesticated belief that the animal will somehow recognize them as an Animal Rights activist and not harm them]]. [[TooDumbToLive This belief]] will inevitably be rewarded with [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome a very painful death moments later]]. To some extent, TruthInTelevision: extremist animal rights groups ''do'' exist and have committed crimes ranging from the horrific to the merely petty in service of their views.

* In ''Series/{{Castle}}'', a victim owned a male body-products company which was coming under fire from animal rights activists, and the crime scene contains the word 'murderer' written in the victim's blood on a mirror. [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}; most of the activists are just 'average everyday tree-hugging vegetarians', the 'violent' one they get in as a suspect comes off as just being an otherwise ordinary guy (albeit one with a fondness for attacking the property and people he was protesting against with fake blood) and it turns out he didn't do it anyway, the suspect having a concrete alibi, and the actual murderer having staged the crime scene to throw the police on the wrong scent.]]

* This is invoked to cover up the murder of a scientist in the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode "Animal Instinct." As the scientist is involved with animal testing, the murderer makes it appear that radical animal rights activists killed her, spraying graffiti to this effect. However, the police see through it fairly quickly and zero in on the real culprit.

* Greenwar from ''TabletopGame/{{Aberrant}}'' is the nightmarish result of answering the question "what happens if you let one of these groups have access to super-powered agents?". One of their most notorious signature "tricks" is using a telepathic member to MindRape a target of their ire by imprinting the mind of a tortured/dying animal over their own. Whether this leads to the victim undergoing a change of heart or a homicidal mental breakdown is no concern to them. That said, they're perfectly okay with just straight-up murdering "oppressors".
* The only possible way to describe the Ashbound in the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' setting, overlapping with WellIntentionedExtremist. These are people who believe anything other than living in a cave is inherently evil. Because one of their early members turned into a lich to aid their agencies, and after she was destroyed there was a bumper season, they concluded ''all'' arcane magic was equally evil. The ''Faiths of Eberron'' supplement points out that slightly [[strike:less monomaniacal]] more flexible individuals might have considered that after said lich caused ''severe ecological damage'', the bumper season may have been a result of the balance reasserting rather than a sign that all wizards are using powers that risk severely crippling nature (you have to be at least level 17 to access that kind of thing).
* ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' has the Shadow Druids, a sect of extremist druids who hate civilization and want to destroy it. They tend to go around siccing large, dangerous animals on anyone they perceive is "defiling" the natural world (in other words, anyone who's not another Shadow Druid). Other druid sects regard them as dangerous lunatics.

* A more humorous example is the "Sierra Club" secret society in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', who don't let themselves be stopped by the fact that the only animals to protect in Alpha Complex are a few cockroaches. The fact that it shares a name with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club an actual environmental group]] may be the reason why it's called the "Seal Club" in later editions.
* Quite a few of these exist in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', some of them with connections to toxic shamans.
** Notable is Deborah Bailey, who rambles about animal rights in virtually every entry of sapient critters in the Paranormal Animals of North America sourcebook. Her input is more often than not cut short by the [=SysOp=], who habitually deletes half of her posts [[BlatantLies in order to save precious megapulses of virtual storage space]].
* Subverted in ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', where the characters are expected to ''play'' environmental/animal rights warriors. For example, some characters rescue young lupus Garou and wolf kinfolk from zoos or exact brutal revenge on wolf hunters. In-game, this is justified because [[TheWarOnStraw every evil strawman stereotype]] is true in this {{crapsack world}}, and their grand goal is quite literally, "Aid our [[EldritchAbomination terrible master]] in not only ruining Earth but destroying her soul and claiming her corpse."

** The line eventually introduces an actual Animal Wrongs Group in the form of F. E. A. R. Itself, an eco-terrorist group aimed at radical action towards saving the environment... or so they think. In truth, the whole thing is a scam by the Black Spiral Dancers (fallen werewolves) to make a mockery of the Garou's concern for the Earth by driving young activists towards tactics that have a high body count, don't really stop projects that threaten the environment, bring heightened scrutiny down on the more benevolent ecological sabotage measures of the Garou, and risk making environmentalism a dirty word.