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14	Sometimes, the villainous organization doesn't go out and call itself TheEmpire or TheSyndicate. Instead, they prefer to give themselves a feeling of unity in their nefarious and evil purposes. Calling yourselves "The Brotherhood" doesn't ''sound'' that evil, but nevertheless it seems to be a popular name among evildoers in fiction. Though the name indicates an organization of equals, there still tends to be one [[BigBad "big brother"]] in charge regardless.
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16	The Brotherhood of Evil may function like TheMafia, or as a secret society with shadowy rituals and complex codes of honor, and are much less likely to invoke WeHaveReserves on their "brothers" unless [[TheChessmaster their sinister leader]] [[UnwittingPawn is just using them]] for their own purposes. If they're [[CardCarryingVillain Card Carrying Villains]], they might put a "Dark" or "Evil" in their name just to be clear that they're not [[TrueCompanions the good kind of brotherhood]].
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24	* The Brotherhood of Evil from ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', which started out as an international crime syndicate, but we only ever see their top people. In the Creator/GrantMorrison run, they're succeeded by the Brotherhood of Dada, a more... well, MediaNotes/{{Dada}} take on the idea.
25	%%* The Assembly of Evil from ''ComicBook/LessThanThreeComics''' Brat Pack, although, to be fair, they are supposed to be used as a propaganda tool for when their boss runs for President.
26	* ''ComicBook/RedRobin'': The Daughters of Acheron are a group of unrelated villains who usually work alone but will come to the aid of their "sisters" when asked and are willing to die for each other's plots. One of them is the biological sister of Ra's al Ghul, and the Demon's Head is able to turn her attention to Tim.
27	%%* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
28	%%** {{Inverted\|Trope}} with The Brotherhood of Guardians from ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''.
29	%%** The Brotherhood of Metallix from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic''.
30	* ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'': The Fraternity, a group uniting the world's supervillains. After killing all the superheroes, they divided up the world between their ruling Council of Five, with each members getting control over organized crime on a continent. They're now so powerful they've gained complete impunity, with displaying Fraternity pins or license plates being enough to get away with ''any'' crime (including [[CopKiller killing cops]]. However, they still hide from the general public for their own convenience.
31	* The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Magneto's supporters in ''ComicBook/XMen'', which [[CardCarryingVillain keeps the "evil" in its name]] despite often having sympathetic motives. In early comics (where they were less sympathetic) this was played completely straight and without irony; later comics retconned this to have them using "evil" ironically in order to mock the way mutants are viewed. Most adaptations avert it entirely, with the name generally being streamlined to just "[[Characters/XMenBrotherhoodOfMutants the Brotherhood of Mutants]]". Even in the comics they very rarely call themselves the Brotherhood of ''Evil'' Mutants anymore, due to comics shifting away from obvious CardCarryingEvil type villains.
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35	* Played with by the Brothers in ''Film/PerfectCreature'', a [[ReligiousVampire Christian vampire order]] which teaches their members they are [[SuperiorSpecies superior to mankind]], but are also sworn to serve, educate and guide them as well. Sure enough, they are considered [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire heroic]] by the population... [[spoiler:except they are revealed to be extremely corrupt, hypocritical and responsible for the movie's crisis]].
36	%%* In ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', [[NebulousEvilOrganisation SPECTRE]] has "The International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons" as one of its covers.
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40	%%* The Grail Brotherhood from the ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'' series.
41	%%* ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'': The dark elves of Midkemia are known as the Brotherhood of the Dark Path.
42	* As elaborated on in the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' books, the predecessor of the modern [[Franchise/StarWars Sith Order]] was the Brotherhood of Darkness. Founded by a Jedi Master turned Sith Lord, they essentially mimicked the Jedi Order, arising from the ashes of the Sith Empire in the Republic's Dark Age. They waged war on the Jedi and Republic until both side's armies slaughtered each other at Rusaan. Their infighting weakened them, so that {{sole survivor}} Darth Bane decided to institute the RuleOfTwo in the Sith Order he founded afterward, with only a master and apprentice operating from the shadows against the Republic/Jedi instead of openly fighting them. The new ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' has indicated that they were the same, though with less detail.
43	* A {{gender flip}}ped example: the Sisters of the Dark in ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'', an organization of {{evil sorcerer}}s within the Sisters of the Light secretly serving [[GodOfEvil the Keeper]].
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47	%%* The LLF PowerTrio of Polly Star, La Chacala and Lady Dinamita are known as La Hermandad, a sisterhood of {{rud\|o}}as.
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51	%%* The Sith Brotherhood and Brotherhood of the Sith in ''Roleplay/TheGunganCouncil''.
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55	%%* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'': The Brotherhood of the Beast in the campaign ''The Fungi from Yuggoth'' (and its remake ''Day of the Beast'').
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59	* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': The Brotherhood of Makuta under Teridax's rule, mostly because he killed most of the Makuta who actually still had functioning moral compasses, with the exception of [[TragicVillain Krika]].
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63	%%* Inverted in ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed''; the (relatively) good Assassins call themselves "The Brotherhood", while the Templar Order decidedly fits this trope perfectly.
64	%%* The Brotherhood of the Dark Rapture from ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho''.
65	* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries'' has the Brotherhood of Nod, a {{Nebulous Evil\|Organisation}} {{Cult}}[=/=]NGOSuperpower with an army strong enough to go toe-to-toe with the [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower Global Defense Initiative]]. Their leader is a DarkMessiah [[VillainWithGoodPublicity with Good Publicity]] named [[NameOfCain Kane]], who constantly preaches that the GreenRocks that are [[HostileTerraforming slowly xenoforming the Earth]] are humanity's key to ascension. Despite the organization's name, the series would often show that [[EnemyCivilWar not everyone in the Brotherhood are completely loyal to Kane or his ideas]]. The [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars third]] and [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianTwilight fourth]] games subvert this a lot; they are still quite dark but have become the sole source of stability, welfare and support for many people around the world.
66	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' has the Dark Brotherhood, which from ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' on[[note]]they were introduced as an enigmatic but evil cult worshipping a dark force in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]'', but did not have much of a presence to actually show that characterisation, became a joinable assassin's guild without any real religious tendencies in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'', and kept that as a non-joinable opposition faction in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]''[[/note]] hit a consistent identity as an illegal [[MurderInc assassin's guild]] who practices a ReligionOfEvil, serving Sithis, their "Dread Father", who is an [[TheAntiGod Anti-God]] personification of the primordial force of [[OrderVersusChaos chaos]] and is represented by a "[[PowerOfTheVoid great void]]".
67	* Played with in the ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' series with the Brotherhood of Steel. They're not evil, per se, but they've made many enemies due to their aggressive hoarding of pre-war technology, and have been known to murder people to preserve their secrecy. On the other hand, they have wiped out troublesome raider groups such as the Vipers, and have played a major role in the defeats of the Enclave and the Super Mutants. This is one of the main narrative tensions of the Brotherhood ever since the first game -- they almost always seem to teeter on the brink of either degenerating towards this trope or into becoming something better (for example, the two endings for the Brotherhood in [[VideoGame/Fallout1 the first game]] are them rejoining greater society and the reconstruction of New California as a scientific powerhouse, or becoming so aggressive in their technological acquisition and hoarding that they throw New California back into chaos and become known to outsiders as the Steel Plague).
68	* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' ([[AdaptationExpansion and to a larger extent]], its spinoff ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'') features a faction known as the Navori Brotherhood, an aggressive ultra-nationalist group from the island nation of Ionia. It was originally formed to ''protect'' Ionia as it was being invaded by [[TheEmpire Noxus]], but following Ionia's victory, the brotherhood sought to reunite the now-splintered Ionia under their control, [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope becoming akin to domestic terrorists to those unwilling to submit]]. Their biggest atrocity was [[PsychoForHire enlisting Jhin]] -- a long-imprisoned MadArtist and SerialKiller -- to commit mass-killings across Ionia [[FalseFlagOperation and blame them on foreigners]] in an attempt to unite Ionia through fear and jingoistic revenge.
69	* The Brotherhood, a bunch of monster truck-driving tattooed metalheads, is one of the rival gangs in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' -- as are their predecessors, [[BilingualBonus Los Carnales]], from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1''.
70	%%* ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles'': The Dark Brotherhood.
71	* The Brotherhood of the Ninth Circle, a doomsday cult led by an insane vampire, from ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines''.
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75	%%* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' deters criminals from FOWL, the "Fiendish Organization of World Larceny".
76	%%* The Brotherhood of Evil show up as {{Big Bad}}s of the final season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''.
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80	* TheMafiya is also known as "Bratva", which means -- you guessed it -- "Brotherhood".
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