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* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' features a support group for video game {{Punch Clock Villain}}s, basically to affirm that they're all good people despite the fact that their games [[NecessarilyEvil need villains for players to fight]].

** In ''Discworld/ReaperMan'', Windle Poons (a zombie) attends a group on Elm Street of reformed undead who are trying to lead a normal existence. This includes another zombie (Reg Shoe), a vampire, a sort of inverse-werewolf (an intelligent wolf who turns into a wolfman at full moon), and an agoraphobic boogeyman.

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* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' features a support group for sharks trying to [[VegetarianCarnivore swear off eating other fish]]. "Fish are friends, not food!"

* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' features a support group for sharks trying to [[VegetarianCarnivore quit eating other fish]]. "Fish are friends, not food!"

* The sharks' support group in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. "Fish are friends, not food!"

** The Uberwald Temerapnce League are a strong example of the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire type. The "Black Ribboners" are vampires who have sworn off human blood and [[AddictionDisplacement try to find an outlet]] for their urge to indulge in vampire tropes such as constantly wearing formal-wear, waxing philosophical about "the children of the night", and menacing young women who wear underwired night-gowns.

Subtrope of TropaholicsAnonymous. Contrast FullyEmbracedFiend.

** The Black Ribboners are a strong example of the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire type.

* The villains' support group in ''Disney/WreckItRalph''.

* The Department of Integration on ''WesternAnimation/UglyAmericans'', a government agency that prepares monsters (and human immigrants) for life in New York City. The main character, Mark Lilly, is a human social worker employed by the Department; his co-worker Leonard is a wizard, and his superiors are demons.

** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'', Windle Poons (a zombie) attends a group on Elm Street of reformed undead who are trying to lead a normal existence. This includes another zombie (Reg Shoe), a vampire, a sort of inverse-werewolf (an intelligent wolf who turns into a wolfman at full moon), and an agoraphobic boogeyman.

** In ''Literature/ReaperMan'', Windle Poons (a zombie) attends a group on Elm Street of reformed undead who are trying to lead a normal existence. This includes another zombie (Reg Shoe), a vampire, a sort of inverse werewolf (a wolf who turns into a wolfman), and an agoraphobic boogeyman.

** The Black Ribboners on are a strong example of the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire type.
** Also, in ''Reaper Man'' Windle Poons attends a group on Elm Street of reformed undead who are trying to lead a normal existence.

* In ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', Yokai Academy teaches monster children to hide themselves from humans, and helps them live alongside {{muggle}}s by remaining in human form and attending a school designed to resemble a human boarding school.

* The Family in ''VideoGame/FallOut3'' look and act like a clan of blooddrinkers. They're a cannibal support group who drink blood to keep under control their urge to kill and eat people. If offered a cooperative alternative to raiding for blood, they will accept peacefully.

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* In ''RosarioToVampire'', Yokai Academy teaches monster children to hide themselves from humans, and helps them live alongside {{muggle}}s by remaining in human form and attending a school designed to resemble a human boarding school.

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* The Black Ribboners on the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' are a strong example of the FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire type.

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* In the Creator/{{NBC}} show ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' Monroe, Nick's monster friend, has gone through a "program" so as not to be a Big Bad Wolf anymore. He had at least one friend we've met who went through the program with him.

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* The TabletopGame/D20Modern Urban Arcana setting has a number of such organizations for the Shadowkind (the setting's term for beings and creatures brought to our world from a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' type realm):

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* The Department of Integration on ''UglyAmericans'', a government agency that prepares monsters (and human immigrants) for life in New York City. The main character, Mark Lilly, is a human social worker employed by the Department; his co-worker Leonard is a wizard, and his superiors are demons.

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* The web sitcom ''Monsters Anonymous'' is pretty much the embodiment of this trope.

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* The ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' {{spinoff}} comic miniseries ''Spike: Asylum'' takes it further with Mosaic Wellness Center, a mental hospital/rehabilitation center for supernatural creatures to get help. Subverted in that it's actually a prison to keep supernatural beings locked up. Spike, who is taken there against his will, meets Beck who is there because she had trouble controlling [[PlayingWithFire her powers]]; with the help of other inmates overthrow and change the system so that Mosaic becomes what it was masquerading as.
** In the ''[[Series/{{Angel}} Angel: After The Fall]]'' spinoff ''Spike'', [[TheOphelia Drusilla]] (after breaking out of a regular mental hospital) agrees to let Willow admit her to Mosaic in hopes that it will actually help her.

* In the Creator/{{NBC}} show ''{{Grimm}}'' Monroe, Nick's monster friend, has gone through a "program" so as not to be a Big Bad Wolf anymore. He had at least one friend we've met who went through the program with him.

* In ''TheMiddleman'', Roxy Wasserman is a reformed succubus who runs a halfway house for not-quite-reformed succubi, disguised as a fashion boutique.

* The ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' {{spinoff}} comic miniseries ''Spike: Asylum'' takes it further with Mosaic Wellness Center, a mental hospital/rehabilitation center for supernatural creatures to get help. Subverted in that it's actually a prison to keep supernatural beings locked up. Spike, who is taken there against his will, meets Beck who is there because she had controlling [[PlayingWithFire her powers]]; with the help of other inmates overthrow and change the system so that Mosaic becomes what it was masquerading as.

* The living fairy tales in the comic ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'' establish a regimented and regulated community to prevent their discovery while living in New York city.
* The real movie monsters of ''{{Screamland}}'' are a twisted version of this.
* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' {{spinoff}} comic miniseries ''Spike: Asylum'' takes it further with Mosaic Wellness Center, a mental hospital/rehabilitation center for supernatural creatures to get help. Subverted in that it's actually a prison to keep supernatural beings locked up. Spike, who is taken there against his will, meets Beck who is there because she had controlling [[PlayingWithFire her powers]]; with the help of other inmates overthrow and change the system so that Mosaic becomes what it was masquerading as.

* Mitchell in ''BeingHuman'' very explicitly uses the Support Group strategy to convince all the vampires in the city to stop drinking human blood (and killing to keep it quiet) and go clean. (In this setting, vampires don't need to drink blood, but abstaining causes incredible hunger pains akin to drug withdrawal until they can psychologically adjust). Amazingly, it works! Of course, [[spoiler: some {{Vampire Hunter}}s decide it's a good time to bomb their celebratory party.]]