History Main / ConspiracyKitchenSink

* Website/CollegeHumor does a marvelous [[ParodiedTrope parody of the trope]] in '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbl-vMN2gzo Deceptive Deceptions]]'. Among the things "uncovered" as part of a massive conspiracy embracing all of humanity in this "truthumentary" are events that ''include'': the shooting of Music/TupacShakur being arranged by the government, Dan Akroyd's role in ''Film/{{Caddyshack}} 2'' and ''Film/NothingButTrouble'' being the obvious link, the late John Candy also being in on it, Music/PaulMcCartney's replacement by a doppelgänger so he could compose "Helter Skelter" and possess UsefulNotes/CharlesManson with the spirit of the Anti-Christ: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, who is actually a cyberganic demon created by Nazi scientists, who then created a faux-space agency called UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} to fake the moon landings on a special stage, the UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy assassination ([[CriticalResearchFailure which is described as "Tupac-esque"]]) was because he boasted about putting a man on the moon in 10 years, which is actually a prehistoric hologram hiding a gigantic spaceship, ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' being made to cover this up by Dick Cheney and a pentagram of corporations that control our world (comprised of Nabisco, AOL, CITGO, Atkins, Adidas, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the New York Knicks]]), Hooters, and Website/{{Google}}. And the identity of the secret cabal that is more powerful than [[TheGovernment the American government]], the Freemasons, and TheIlluminati: [[spoiler:The College Humor staff]].

* Website/CollegeHumor does a marvelous [[ParodiedTrope parody of the trope]] in '[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbl-vMN2gzo Deceptive Deceptions]]'. Among the things "uncovered" as part of a massive conspiracy embracing all of humanity in this "truthumentary" are events that ''include'': the shooting of Music/TupacShakur being arranged by the government, Dan Akroyd's role in ''Film/{{Caddyshack}} 2'' and ''Film/NothingButTrouble'' being the obvious link, the late John Candy also being in on it, Music/PaulMcCartney's replacement by a doppelgänger so he could compose "Helter Skelter" and possess UsefulNotes/CharlesManson with the spirit of the Anti-Christ: UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, who is actually a cyberganic demon created by Nazi scientists, who then created a faux-space agency called UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} to fake the moon landings on a special stage, the UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy assassination ([[CriticalResearchFailure which is described as "Tupac-esque"]]), the moon being a prehistoric hologram hiding a gigantic spaceship, ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' being made to cover this up by Dick Cheney and a pentagram of corporations that control our world (comprised of Nabisco, AOL, CITGO, Atkins, Adidas, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and the New York Knicks]]), Hooters, and Website/{{Google}}. And the identity of the secret cabal that is more powerful than [[TheGovernment the American government]], the Freemasons, and TheIlluminati: [[spoiler:The College Humor staff]].

* [=QAnon=] is the Conspiracy Kitchen Sink ''du jour'' of the late 2010s and early '20s. It started in 2017 with a post on Website/FourChan by somebody claiming to be an anonymous government whistleblower with "Q-level" security clearance who alleged that UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton was about to be arrested on charges of [[PaedoHunt child sex trafficking and pedophilia]]. That prediction failing to pan out did not stop the conspiracy theory from rapidly growing, turning into a KudzuPlot concerning a massive child trafficking operation run by a [[TheIlluminati cabal of liberal elites]] for the purposes of {{sex slave}}ry and the extraction of a [[FantasticDrug drug called adrenochrome]] that allegedly [[LifeDrinker restores youth]] (loosely based on one of Creator/HunterSThompson's many tall tales). It wasn't until the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, however, that it became a kitchen sink that overtook conspiracy culture to the point of resembling a religion, as conspiracy theories about everything from the pandemic's origins to [[CloningGambit human cloning]] to [[HollywoodSatanism Satanism]] to [[NewTechnologyIsEvil 5G cell phone signals]] to [[WhoShotJFK the Kennedy family]] all got rolled into the [=QAnon=] memeset.

* Creator/DavidIcke will tell you that the Anunnaki, ancient Babylonian gods, were in fact [[TheReptilians Reptilian]] aliens who are still among us, among them the Windsors, Bushes, and Habsburgs, and are behind every conspiracy ever alleged, including Kennedy, 9/11, the Pyramids, anything involving Illuminati, etc. (especially the antisemitic ones), authors of the past using then-acceptable antisemitism to pass coded references to Reptilians to others "in the know."

* A SecretWar between TheIlluminati, UsefulNotes/TheKnightsTemplar, UsefulNotes/TheHashshashin, the [[CouncilOfVampires Vampire Courts]], TheFairFolk, Freemasons, [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] holdouts (the [[{{Ghostapo}} Thule Society]], [[ArgentinaIsNaziland Argentinian Nazis]]), the {{Girl Scouts|AreEvil}}, Opus Dei, TheMafia, [[CIAEvilFBIGood CIA]] and {{KGB}}, [[AIIsACrapshoot Rogue AIs]], [[CosmicHorrorStory Lovecraftian]] and [[HollywoodSatanism Satanic]] {{cult}}s, UsefulNotes/ThePentagon, TheMenInBlack, Bilderberg Group, Majestic-12, TheGreys, and TheReptilians. Yes, all at once in one merry free-for-all that no {{Gullible Lemming|s}} ever notices.

* According to letters associated with [[http://fondationscp.wikidot.com/scp-281-fr SCP-281-fr]], all societies that have been accused of ruling in the shadows [[labelnote:Note]] Including Majestic 12, TheIlluminati and the Freemasons [[/labelnote]] are members of the Global Occult Coalition.

* According to letters associated with [[http://fondationscp.wikidot.com/scp-281-fr SCP-281-fr]], all societies that have been accused of ruling in the shadows [[labelnote:Note]] Including Majestic 12, TheIlluminati and the Freemasons [[/labelnote]] are members of the global occult coalition.

** Let's see... [[spoiler: Area 51, Majestic 12, the Illuminati, lab-designed plague to cull the lower classes, the Greys, black helicopters, Men in Black (much closer to the original concept than the ones in the above movie), Chupacabras (called "greasels" in the game), FEMA as a black organization, New World Order, corporate takeover of government...]]

* The ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy of novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. [[spoiler:FNORD]]

*** That's what they WANT you to think.

* In ''Conspiracies'', Literature/RepairmanJack attends a ConspiracyTheorist '''convention'''. Subverted in that [[spoiler: there really is a conspiracy happening behind the scenes ... but it's against Jack himself, not anything the convention's attendees dreamed up.]]
* ''Literature/IClaudius'' is a hodgepodge of pretty much every half baked conspiracy theory about the time of the Julio-Claudian Emperors, both then and since.

* This is the entire purpose of ''Literature/MrBlank'' and its sequel ''Literature/GetBlank'', a detective story in which the hero works for literally every conspiracy there is, so when someone tries to murder him, there's no shortage of suspects. One of his most reliable tactics is playing off one conspiracy against another such as pitting the Little Green Men against the Assassins and the Russian Mob in order to rescue his girlfriend.

* In ''Literature/StielaugeDerUrkrebs'', at least the Welteislehre und Atlantis are real. The author even provides a list of books about both topics at the end of the book, but none about paleontology, the main inspiration for the book.

* The ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' movies. The BPRD are clearly TheMenInBlack, and started out as a military attaché to a squad handling Hitler's occult plans.

* The TV adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' has quite a few conspiracies shown over it's run, many of which have Dogbert involved in some way.

** Also ''GURPS IOU''. The "I" does stand for "Illuminati" after all. (The "U" stands for "University", and [[TheUnreveal the "O" stands for]] [[spoiler:YOU'RE NOT CLEARED FOR THAT INFORMATION! ...seriously speaking, it's never explained.]])

** In [[Series/AgentsOfShield Agents of SHIELD]], [[spoiler: HYDRA is revealed to be descended from a long, ''long'' line of one single conspiracy centered around an ancient Inhuman named Hive.]]

** In [[Series/AgentsOfShield]], [[spoiler: HYDRA is revealed to be descended from a long, ''long'' line of one single conspiracy centered around an ancient Inhuman named Hive.]]

Compare CrossoverCosmology, the mythological version of this trope.

* ''Franchise/MetalGear'' has sentient AI, top-secret government black projects, the FBI and CIA, clones, zombie cyborgs, [=UMAs=], psychics, ghosts, Communists, coverups around every corner, and also references sillier content like aliens building the pyramids and the fate of a man who went into a cave and emerged a decade later not having aged. ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Metal Gear Solid 2]]'' parodied itself at one point by having one of the on-disc [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary story recaps]] being a book written by the [[UnreliableNarrator most hilariously deranged conspiracy theorist]] you could possibly imagine. (To give you an idea; we don't get to read it, but the title of his previous book was ''Rays From The Loch Ness Monster -- The True Power Source Of [=UFOs=]''.) To his credit, he was extremely good at ''identifying'' conspiracies -- unfortunately, he never blamed the events on the ''right'' conspiracies, attributing TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness-caused disaster of the previous game to the island it was on being "an Ellis Island for the Greys". The whole farce ends with him being rescued by an invisible man whom he proudly, loudly declares is a noble SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who had taken pity on him, when it's clear to the reader that it's Solid Snake in [[InvisibilityCloak active camo]].

* ComicBooks/{{SHIELD}} dips its toes into this. For starters, both it and HYDRA are a lot older than the governments they currently serve [[spoiler: as in, back to Egypt. And SHIELD has had Tesla and da Vinci amongst its ranks]]. There's also a throwaway line about how the Skrulls (shapeshifing reptilians, by the way) were involved with JFK's death.

* In ''Literature/StielaugeDerUrkrebs'', at least the Welteislehre und Atlantis are real. The author even provides a list of books about both topics at the end of the book, but none about paleontology, the main inspiration for the book.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'', an RPG originally by West End Games, though it's set in a futuristic dystopia and not the present day, definitely falls under this trope.

* The ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} and especially ComicBook/{{BPRD}} comics are a combination of this and FantasyKitchenSink / AllMythsAreTrue, with [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], HumanoidAliens, {{Ghostapo}} and StupidJetpackHitler in [[ArgentinaIsNaziland South America]], TheFairFolk, AdvancedAncientHumans, the HollowWorld, {{EldritchAbomination}}s, AngelsDevilsAndSquid all being real and covered up by the [[TheMenInBlack BPRD]].

* The ComicBook/Hellboy and especially ComicBook/BPRD comics are a combination of this and FantasyKitchenSink / AllMythsAreTrue, with [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], HumanoidAliens, {{Ghostapo}} and StupidJetpackHitler in [[ArgentinaIsNaziland South America]], TheFairFolk, AdvancedAncientHumans, the HollowWorld, {{EldritchAbomination}}s, AngelsDevilsAndSquid all being real and covered up by the [[TheMenInBlack BPRD]].

* The ComicBook/Hellboy and especially ComicBook/BPRD comics are a combination of this and FantasyKitchenSink / AllMythsAreTrue, with [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]], [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], HumanoidAliens, {{Ghostapo}} and StupidJetpackHitler in [[ArgentinaIsNaziland South America]], TheFairFolk, {{EldritchAbomination}}s, AngelsDevilsAndSquid all being real.

* ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Metal Gear Solid 2]]'' parodied itself at one point by having one of the on-disc [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary story recaps]] being a book written by the [[UnreliableNarrator most hilariously deranged conspiracy theorist]] you could possibly imagine. (To give you an idea; we don't get to read it, but the title of his previous book was ''Rays From The Loch Ness Monster -- The True Power Source Of [=UFOs=]''.) To his credit, he was extremely good at ''identifying'' conspiracies -- unfortunately, he never blamed the events on the ''right'' conspiracies, attributing TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness-caused disaster of the previous game to the island it was on being "an Ellis Island for the Greys". The whole farce ends with him being rescued by an invisible man whom he proudly, loudly declares is a noble SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who had taken pity on him, when it's clear to the reader that it's Solid Snake in [[InvisibilityCloak active camo]].

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' rapidly became an amalgamation of all sorts of conspiracy theories, incorporating everything from the Tunguska Event to JFK's assassination to ''the entirety of World War II'' and tracing them all back to the Templars, the Assassins or both trying to cover up or seize something or other. It's not exactly necessary to understand how it all fits together to make any sense of the plot, fortunately, because any attempt to do so is doomed to failure, particularly when [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien time travelling god aliens]] get involved. Generally it's best to simply accept that the Assassins and Templars have been at each other's throats for a really long time and move on. Gets especially crazy and paranoia-inducing in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood''. Alan Turing? Murdered to prevent him from inventing too powerful computers. Cable TV? A method for transmitting brainwave altering signals and monitoring citizens. Cell tower surveillance? Tracking all communication.
** These conspiracy tropes are largely used as metaphor and window dressing, and the crux of the games are mostly a skewed retelling of historical facts. Indeed the point of these games is to show how difficult and damn near impossible behind-the-scenes control over history actually is. At times the Assassins and the Templars don't have a lot to do with why certain things happened (in Brotherhood the two fight a proxy war that gets out of both of their control and tears Italy apart; in III they both back the same side in the American Revolution and mostly just fight each other as the war rages in the background so their influence over the new nation pretty much cancels out).