History Main / SigilSpam

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': The Dragon's Fang (the black half of a yin-yang) appears spontaneously a few times: In episode 1, while scouting the Two Rivers, Lan finds a number of sheep that have been slaughtered and their bodies arranged into the symbol. And in the flashback in episode 3, when Nynaeve kills a trolloc in the village's sacred spring, its blood forms the symbol in the water.

--->'''Adam:''' I only drink [=MythBusters=] brand cola!

---> '''Syd''': In this brilliant little piece of animation, two kids come across a car with not one but TWO big obvious Autobot logos. [[TooDumbToLive One of the kids decides they should "borrow" the car and proceeds to try and jimmy one of the doors open.]]

** Actually, this is a pretty common thing for Hastur cultists to do, now that I think of it...

** The "Three Virtues" symbol crops up everywhere. Every faction uses it, both in and outside of the Matoran Universe. There is a species of burrowing animal that dig all their tunnels in this shape, and even the fragments of the planet Spherus Magna took up this shape when it exploded.

* ''Manga/SoulEater'': The Shiningami mask in Death City.

** Taken UpToEleven with HYDRA in the second season; for an organization that's supposed to be ''completely'' covert, they don't have any problems wearing HYDRA lapel pins on their HYDRA jackets, carrying precious cargo in HYDRA-branded crates, or painting three-feet-tall logos all over their secret laboratories. Taken ''even further'' now that it's been revealed that [[spoiler:HYDRA has been around ''[[Really700YearsOld for millennia]].'' They left a trail for thousands of years that [=FitzSimmons=] manage to pick up on from an old NASA mission patch combined with copious research. Since S.H.I.E.L.D. was corrupted from the start by HYDRA, maybe [[NotSoDifferent that's where they got into the habit]]]].

* [[BigBad Hawk Moth]] from ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' makes heavy use of butterfly symbols, courtesy of his akumas and the butterfly-shaped masks that appear on many of the akumas. [[spoiler:This, however, ''really'' applies to his civilian identity, as Hawk Moth (actually Gabriel Agreste) spams his home and even his brand with stylized butterflies. Some are obvious, like the logo of his clothing brand, while some are subtly integrated into other designs.]] [[RealityEnsues It nearly bites him in the ass]] when Ladybug starts to catch on to his butterfly symbol resembling [[spoiler:a logo from his design]], and he ends up needing to pull a FalseFlagOperation to divert suspicion.

* ''Literature/LivInTheFuture'': Red eyes, associated with the government, appear ''everywhere'' except the motel Liv briefly stays at and inside Alix's house.

* In ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'', the cartoon image of Dickey Dragon is inescapable at [[SouvenirLand Serutanland]].

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''

* In ''Anime/MawaruPenguindrum'', several unrelated companies use [[https://i.imgur.com/Ab8ue5C.png a certain penguin symbol]], which is also repersentitive of the series itself. A [[https://i.imgur.com/H445jVh.png similar logo]] appears in various locations and represents [[spoiler:the Kiga terrorist group]].

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''

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* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'': By Series 9, Clark Kent takes to burning his family crest on the scene of every save he performs, as both a CallingCard and to inspire the disenfranchised population of of Metropolis that they ''do'' have someone protecting them.

* ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'' Bolas's symbol is his horns, as a result the plane he controls amonkhet is absolutly littered with them, including a set of horns taller then most skyscrappers to serve as an oversized monument too him, many spears on this plane are bidents with two points shaped like his horns too, his dread horde carry on this tradion too.

* The Sereg castle and knight training grounds in ''Manga/AkagamiNoShirayukihime'' is absolutely covered in the knight group's emblem, an anchor like bottom topped with a diamond shape with concave sides around the crest of the country. It's incorporated in repeating patterns carved into the stonework, carved in large relief over doorways, and on banners and flags. In some places it is set in a shield and in others on its own.

* ''Webcomic/{{Magellan}}'': Every official member of the Magellan organization sports the same symbol somewhere on their uniform: a black septagram in a yellow circle. Even if their personal costumes already have some sort of insignia. The various Magellan branches have their own, separate team logos, but they all incorporate the seven-sided star.

* Even worse is a secret organisation called The Dawn, from a short-lived mid-[[TheNineties Nineties]] series about a "Federal Bio-Crisis Unit". Since their plans to wipe out humanity were so secret, they could be identified by elaborate tattoos on the palm of their hands.

Note that this trope is not limited to {{Villains}} or [[EvilTropes Evilness]]. [[TheHero Good guys]] love branding, too.

Also see HighlyConspicuousUniform (when the sigil is overused on the {{mooks}}' clothing), MalevolentMugshot (when a {{Villain}} puts their own image everywhere) and ConspiracyPlacement (when the AncientConspiracy hides clues among the {{Muggles}}). MayContainEvil.

Some groups, however, carry this to a ridiculous extreme, especially if a megalomaniac {{Villain}} is in charge. When this trope is in play, the design will be wantonly slapped on ''everything'' in sight, down to the most mundane items and meaningless locations. Bathroom doors, coffee mugs, staplers, golf carts, {{Highly Conspicuous Uniform}}s -- nothing is out of the question, no matter how trivial or impractical it may be. This reaches its fullest expression when entire vehicles and even bases are constructed in the very shape of the logo.

* The Nazis in ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'' seem to put swastikas everywhere, from shelve layouts to [[ComputerEqualsTapedrive tape drives]]. [[spoiler: They even melt down the Liberty Bell and turn it into yet another swastika.]]

* The Nazis in ''Series/TheManInTheHighCastle'' seem to put swastikas everywhere, from shelve layouts to [[ComputerEqualsTapedrive tape drives]]. They even melt down the Liberty Bell and turn it into yet another swastika.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': They put the name on everything from the SUV to their ''guns''. Suffice it to say, Torchwood's existence is [[OpenSecret not a very well-kept secret]]. Although Torchwood One seems to have been far more discreet, as no-one knew they secretly operated out of Canary Wharf. Torchwood Three meanwhile are a small group in ''[[AliensInCardiff Cardiff]]'', apparently operating under the (correct) belief that the Welsh will neither [[WeirdnessCensor notice]] or ''[[CityOfWeirdos care]]'' about all the weird stuff going on all around them, making this something of RefugeInAudacity.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': The Terran Empire put their symbol not only on the uniforms, but also in seemingly every corridor on their 23d-century starships. Compare that to their Federation counterpart across the mirror, who are so frugal about it at the time that it took until the movies to show us what the Federation's symbol actually ''is''.
** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' takes this trope UpToEleven, with the uniforms sporting hundreds, potentially thousands, of [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d3/6e/80/d36e80646e7cabc0952747cd3f70d2ec.jpg tiny Starfleet deltas]].

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* The monolithic "secret" criminal organization TAROT, from the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', slaps their tarot-card logo on pretty much every piece of equipment their agents use. Rifles, helmets, uniforms, armored assault vehicles, aircraft, radios, gym clothes... even the ''beer'' served to the agents in their bases has a TAROT logo on the cans.
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