* TheMenInBlack: Task Force: VALKYRIE. Division Six wants to be, but they're the puppets of [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Seers of the Throne]].
** Task Force: VALKYRIE is not TheMenInBlack. TheMenInBlack, in the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', is [[EldritchAbomination much]], much, ''[[{{Determinator}} much]]'' [[MindRape worse]]. Fortunately, they're mostly [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening a problem for the mages]], but if you're close by and admit that you've seen a supernatural experience, well... [[ExactTimeToFailure 44 hours, 26 minutes, 17 seconds]].
* MilkmanConspiracy: The Men in Black operates out of the Department of the Treasury. A group of New Age hippies hunts down mages because they believe they drain life from the earth. There's a sorority whose chapters are secretly dedicated to keeping vampires off campus. And so on and so forth...
** For bonus points, it's outright stated in ''Compacts and Conspiracies'' that Network Zero in in the latter stages of evolving into a full Tier Three conspiracy, meaning you now can add [=YouTubers=] with equipment designed to get around TheMasquerade to that list as well.

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* TheMenInBlack: 
** Task Force: VALKYRIE. 
** Division Six wants to be this, but they're puppets of the [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Seers of the Throne]].
** Neither of them, though, are MIB in the original occult meaning. Those are [[EldritchAbomination much]], much, ''[[{{Determinator}} much]]'' [[MindRape worse]]. Fortunately, they're mostly [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening a problem for the mages]], but if you're close by and admit that you've seen a supernatural experience, well... [[ExactTimeToFailure 44 hours, 26 minutes, 17 seconds]].
* MilkmanConspiracy: The Men in Black operates out of the Department of the Treasury. A group of New Age hippies hunts down mages because they believe they drain life from the earth. There's a sorority whose chapters are secretly dedicated to keeping vampires off campus. And so on and so forth. For bonus points, it's outright stated in ''Compacts and Conspiracies'' that Network Zero in in the latter stages of evolving into a full Tier Three conspiracy, meaning you now can add [=YouTubers=] with equipment designed to get around TheMasquerade to that list as well.

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* ShoutOut: In the corebook, several archetypal hunters are described for each compact and conspiracy. One of the archetypes given for the Cheiron Group is clearly [[AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]].
** The introduction for Task Force: VALKYRIE contains a remark about some coastal towns in Massachusetts whose inhabitants suddenly vanished after an army raid. [[Creator/HPLovecraft Innsmouth, anyone?]]
*** The guy who founded them was named [[WildWildWest Artemis Gordon]].
** Not to mention the compacts and conspiracies themselves. Let's see, a group of TheMenInBlack calling themselves [[Film/MenInBlack Division Six]], a FBI unit [[Series/{{Millennium}} that uses psychic flashes to hunt serial killers]], [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer sorority girls hunting vampires]], a therapy group that deals with "troubled" (possibly lycanthropic) teens named [[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Talbot Group]]...
** In the sourcebook ''Slasher'', one of the rumored origins for the Subtle Collectors Association, an organization of serial killers, is that it was founded by a wealthy Englishman who enjoyed abducting art students. There is a movie, starring Terence Stamp, called ''The Collector'', which is about a wealthy Englishman who abducts an art student.
*** The same sourcebook features an entomologist-turned-serial-killer named Michael Elliot, likely a reference to Dr. Robert Elliot, played by Michael Caine in BrianDePalma's movie ''Dressed To Kill''.

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* ShoutOut: 
** In the corebook, several archetypal hunters are described for each compact and conspiracy. One of the archetypes given for the Cheiron Group is clearly [[AmericanPsycho Patrick Bateman]].
** The introduction for Task Force: VALKYRIE contains a remark about some coastal towns in Massachusetts whose inhabitants suddenly vanished after an army raid. [[Creator/HPLovecraft Innsmouth, anyone?]] Also, the guy who founded them was named [[WildWildWest Artemis Gordon]].
** The compacts and conspiracies themselves. Let's see, a group of TheMenInBlack calling themselves [[Film/MenInBlack Division Six]], a FBI unit [[Series/{{Millennium}} that uses psychic flashes to hunt serial killers]], [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer sorority girls hunting vampires]], a therapy group that deals with "troubled" (possibly lycanthropic) teens named [[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Talbot Group]]...
** In the sourcebook ''Slasher'', one of the rumored origins for the Subtle Collectors Association, an organization of serial killers, is that it was founded by a wealthy Englishman who enjoyed abducting art students. There is a movie, starring Terence Stamp, called ''The Collector'', which is about a wealthy Englishman who abducts an art student. The same sourcebook features an entomologist-turned-serial-killer named Michael Elliot, likely a reference to Dr. Robert Elliot, played by Michael Caine in BrianDePalma's movie ''Dressed To Kill''.

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* SociopathicHero: Ashwood Abbey.
** Although the "heroic" part is debatable, seeing as they're essentially thrill-killers who are smart enough not to target normal humans.
** The books make a point of noting that this label could probably be applied to a lot of hunters - the Vigil is not conducive to your mental and emotional health. For instance, hunters can easily rewrite their Morality to better reflect the Vigil, but this makes it harder for them to relate to other humans and forces them to pick up some... unique quirks.
** Also, it's entirely possible to play an Abbey hunter who is not a complete loony. Maybe you just participate in their activities because thinking of it as just another hunting trip makes what you do a little easier on your mind. Maybe you see going after dangerous hunts as a way to hone your skills to get strong enough to make a serious dent in the darkness. Or maybe you just want [[TheMentor Daddy]] to be proud of you, and you think bringing in a few dozen Changeling hides (they have the Changelings mixed up with the True Fae, unfortunately) is the best way to do this. You don't HAVE to be an amoral killer to be in the Abbey. Of course, this being an organization that manipulated Jack the Ripper into working for them for a while, it's not really a negative to have that trait if you don't start killing humans. They tolerated it a bit at first with Jack, but eventually just offed him when he was doing more harm then good.

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* BadassNormal: Most hunters. Hunters at the Conspiracy level have the option of purchasing ''Endowments'', hypertech or mystical equipment or abilities that even the playing field somewhat at the cost of this trope.
** Though not always, mind you: Task Force VALKYRIE just gets {{BFG}}s and the like. Those guys are still perfectly normal, if now a bigger threat to Supernaturals.
*** If you consider people armed with FrickinLaserBeams and decked out in PowerArmor normal.
**** The person who came up with TFV's Advanced Armory had to keep showing his superiors articles showing that most of this stuff is, in fact, based on real bleeding-edge technology, just slightly more advanced, portable, and useful in game than the prototypes currently existing.
*** Yep. No {{Magitek}} here, just a bunch of {{Badass Normal}}s with an axe to grind ([[AnAxeToGrind no, not that way]]) and a whole lot of equipment.
** This is in contrast to ''HunterTheReckoning'', where the Hunters were all supernaturally empowered themselves.

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