History Main / WavingSignsAround

* ''ComicBook/TheImmortalThor:'' In "[[ShowWithinAShow Roxxon Presents: Thor]]", a group of angry environmental protestors are waving around astonishingly generic placards saying things like "down with stuff!" and "grrr!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E3MrGriffinGoesToWashington Mr. Griffin Goes to Washington]]", there's a guy holding a John 3:16 sign on a baseball game. Brian looks it up, and it turns out that it means: "And the Lord said, 'Go, Sox.'"

** [[spoiler: These same signs make a cameo along with a small section of Rapture in the sequel ''Videogame/BioShockInfinite'' towards the end of the game.]]
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The Smissmass update comic has an angry civilian with the sign "[[http://www.teamfortress.com/asmissmasstory/?p=3 RED & BLUE OUT OF TEUFORT]]" as part of a FunnyBackgroundEvent.
** There is also a melee item called the [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Conscientious_Objector Conscientious Objector]] that now allows players to wave signs around...and also kill each other with them.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', you may see bystanders walking around waving signs with stuff like "Shaundi is a whore" and "No Saints in Steelport" written on them. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential Nothing's stopping you]] from killing them in a variety of nasty ways, of course.
* In ''VideoGame/SimCity'', one "disaster" shows a crowd of protesters waving signs and destroying property.

* In the ''[[VideoGame/{{Bionicle}} Mata Nui Online Game]]'', before you unlock the entrance to the lightstone cavern, you can see some miners protesting in the dark with signs that say "No can see no can dig" and "You can't dig what you can't see".
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': Late in the Pastamancer Nemesis quest, on your nemesis's secret volcano lair, you encounter one (1) protestor who is trying to spread the word of the Spaghetti Cult's evilness, by standing on the edge of the island waving around a sign that says "THE SPAGHETTI CULT IS A CULT". Also, a second, smaller sign saying "And it sucks!"
* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': Outside of Vault 101, there are skeletons of people who tried to get entrance into the vault after the Great War, holding signs begging for their lives.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout76'': In various industrial areas around West Virginia, you can find abandoned protest camps with signs protesting the rise of automation and subsequent loss of jobs. Additionally, you can equip these signs yourself and use them as weapons.

* ''Literature/AQuantumMurder'' by Creator/PeterFHamilton. [[HonestCorporateExecutive Julia Evans]] sees a rent-a-crowd of students who've been bussed out to her rollout of Britain's first SpacePlane, and asks where they get the money for transport and [[ApatheticCitizens attendance fees]]. Her chief of security says only, [[DirtyCommunists "We're looking into it."]] She regards one sign saying ''Julia already owns the Earth, don't let her own the stars as well'' as ActuallyPrettyFunny.

* On ''Series/TheDailyShow'', when Jon Stewart announced his "Rally to Restore Sanity", he showed some toned-down protest signs he produced for the rally, including, [[GodwinsLaw "I Disagree With You, but I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler"]], "Got Competence?", "9/11 Was an Outside Job!" and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers "Legalize Pot"]].

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942': One Golden Age cover depicts a crowd waving signs saying "Wonder Woman for President" and variations thereof.

* The opening of ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' features a news report of people marching on Washington D.C. when Monarch are on trial in the U.S. senate for keeping the {{Kaiju}} secret, with signs demanding that the military kill off the hibernating creatures around the world.

* In the aftermath of ''ComicBook/FearItself'', protesters gathered around ''ComicBook/{{Avengers}}'' Mansion, holding up signs that said "Avenging your own interests" and "What have you done for me lately?"
* ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'' is seen carrying protest signs about the ComicBook/CivilWar (and the fact that they're not involved).
* ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'' Vol 1: There are a bunch of protesters all over the place holding signs protesting something about ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'', which while vile is rather pointless as at this point the Amazons--besides Franchise/WonderWoman who had been fighting the invaders--had been wiped from the face of the earth. The most common is "Blunder Girl," which makes sense as Cassie and Kara grabbed such a potent IdiotBall during ''Amazons Attack'' that they though attacking Air Force One and kidnapping the president would somehow help matters.

* In a ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive NP'' storyline parodying ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', the pro- and anti-augmentation factions are represented by two people holding signs saying "''Film/RoboCop1987'' was cool" and "''Robocop'' was not an ideal to aspire to".

* In a ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive NP'' storyline parodying ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'', the pro- and anti-augmentation factions are represented by two people holding signs saying "''Film/{{Robocop}}'' was cool" and "''Robocop'' was not an ideal to aspire to".

Often accompanied by a SloganYellingMegaphoneGuy. Usually a component of a StrikeEpisode, as disgruntled workers are known to march in a picket line. See also TorchesAndPitchforks, for when the crowd gets too rowdy. Also TheEndIsNigh.

* ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' - Many of the signs have FunWithAcronyms, using the letters MNF to spell something humorous. Sometimes pops up on other networks, where their network abbreviation (ABC, CBS, NBC) are used to similar purpose. (Rarer with FOX, thanks to the last letter making such a sign awkward.)

[[folder:Live Action Television and Radio]]

* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' has the radio episode "Cafeteria Boycott" and its [[SoundToScreenAdaptation television remake]] "The Cafeteria Strike". Walter Denton and the other students make signs protesting the food in the cafeteria, such as "Remember PTO-MAINE" and, in the radio version, "Remember the saying what goes up must come down? In our cafeteria, what goes down must come up!"

* In one ''Literature/HardyBoys'' story, the boys and their friend (Chester, I think his name was) are investigating a massive protest against a boat, and get handed signs (which makes for a difficult moment when the boys' employer turns out to be the owner of the boat). Chester brings his own sign reading "FRANK HARDY FOR MAYOR".

* The Montana IPB base in ''Literature/TheInfected'' is picketed against several times, despite being in the wilderness thirty miles from the nearest town. More often than not, this is a cover for an attack. Though when a handful of people show up to picket the IPB's Fourth of July cookout, they're invited in and help themselves to burgers and hot dogs.
** Also there is a riot squad formed specifically to keep a number of anti-Infected demonstrations from getting out of hand.
* In Creator/LarryNiven's short story "Literature/CloakOfAnarchy", one character joins a protest group and holds up a blank sign. He intends this as a sociological experiment to see what people read into the sign; the protesters see him as [[TakeThat mocking them and their cause]], as they make painfully clear to him when a hacker crashes all the police robots that were the only thing preventing visitors from committing acts of violence on other visitors.
* In [[Creator/MoWillems Mo Willems]]'s ''Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct'', when Reginald's [[PuffOfLogic first plan]] to convince people that there is no Edwina because dinosaurs are extinct fails, he stands around, waving a sign in red letters reading "[[ThisCannotBe This is not happening]]". It doesn't work either.

** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'' Vimes sees a sign that reads GREASY FORANE HANDS OFF LESHP.

* ''Series/FatherTed'' and Dougal protesting outside a cinema (see the MoralGuardians page image). "Down with this sort of thing!" "Careful now!"

Often accompanied by a SloganYellingMegaphoneGuy. Usually a component of a StrikeEpisode, as disgruntled workers usually march in a picket line. See also TorchesAndPitchforks, for when the crowd gets too rowdy. Also TheEndIsNigh.

Often accompanied by a SloganYellingMegaphoneGuy. See also TorchesAndPitchforks, for when the crowd gets too rowdy. Also TheEndIsNigh.

* A picture doing the rounds on Twitter shows a respectable middle-class man at a UK protest with a sign that read "[[StiffUpperLip I must admit, I too am not overly fond of the present government]]." Additionally, in the wake of UsefulNotes/ElizabethII's, UsefulNotes/CharlesIII and other members of UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily have been greeted with signs reading "Not My King" and/or "Abolish The Monarchy" at many public events.

* A picture doing the rounds on Twitter shows a respectable middle-class man at a UK protest with a sign that read "[[StiffUpperLip I must admit, I too am not overly fond of the present government]]."

* In ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'', an audience member at a politician's speech holds up the sign "[[AC:[[[Website/{{Wikipedia}} citation needed]]]]]". Another strip talks about showing up with "contented" signs at rallies ("THINGS ARE PRETTY OKAY!")

* At the end of ''Film/TheMuppets'', all the Muppets' fans have gathered outside the Muppet Theatre waving signs about how awesome the Muppets are. In ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'', [[spoiler: they turn out to be paid extras]].

* The Montana IPB base in ''Literature/{{TheInfected}}'' is picketed against several times, despite being in the wilderness thirty miles from the nearest town. More often than not, this is a cover for an attack. Though when a handful of people show up to picket the IPB's Fourth of July cookout, they're invited in and help themselves to burgers and hot dogs.