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->''"These men are pathetic revolutionaries who'll kill innocent Americans in the name of bonehead ideologies."''
-->-- '''Alex Krycek''', ''Series/TheXFiles''

These people are members of an underground militia which holds suspicion that TheGovernment is going to [[PoliceState declare martial law]], seize everybody's guns, and perhaps cede national sovereignty to the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations to form a OneWorldOrder, or implant everyone with microchips to make it easier to track them, and start sending patriots like them to prison camps ''[[MediaScaremongering any day now]]'' -- [[LaResistance but not on their watch!]] Particularly unsympathetic examples will have them displaying white supremacist or outright [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Neo-Nazi]] attitudes. The methods employed by the more fanatical of them may even include brazen violence and terrorism toward the government, immigrants, or minorities.

The first major wave of these characters appeared during TheNineties in American media, particularly after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ridge the Ruby Ridge incident,]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege the Waco Siege,]] the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana_Freemen Montana Freemen standoff,]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing the Oklahoma City bombing,]] which involved government confrontations with supposed RealLife versions of these characters. After about a decade and a half of ceding the favorite political bogeyman slot to MiddleEasternTerrorists, these guys have begun appearing more often again in TheNewTens and TheNewTwenties--likely due to an increase in visibility for far-right groups in RealLife. In particular, in an American context more recent examples are likely to loathe UsefulNotes/BarackObama, utterly despise UsefulNotes/JoeBiden, and worship UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.

Outside the U.S., their loyalties tend to be more complicated and context-dependent, but there is a pattern leaning toward a sort of inversion: many right-wing militias outside the U.S. itself tend to actually be hired by their host governments, as a way to extend those governments' counterinsurgency and policing powers. This was especially the case during much of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, when many, many right-wing authoritarian states—many of which were bankrolled and backed by the United States itself—hired militias wherever regular forces were lacking, to pursue and destroy any and all local opposition, leftist or otherwise.

Compare and contrast TheKlan, RedScare, TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, YellowPeril, MalcolmXerox, and EvilStatesOfAmerica. A common source of WesternTerrorists. Often a CrazySurvivalist and/or SubParSupremacist. For the left-wing version, try DirtyCommunists or BombThrowingAnarchists. If they go around enforcing the law in place of the government, they're also a VigilanteMilitia.

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* Infamously, ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' has Saya Takagi's parents, who serve as the heroic guardians of their small patch of civilization during a ZombieApocalypse.
* The PKC in ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes'' fits the bill in the case of the Free Planets Alliance. Though it's later revealed that [[spoiler:the militia was supported by Trünicht, with at least a good chunk of them members of the Earth Cult.]]
* In ''Anime/{{Obsolete}}'', the "Santa Muerte" episode introduces us to a group of militiamen that patrols the borders between the US and Mexican soil and drive technicals equipped with M2 machine guns. They are said to hunt down illegal immigrants crossing there, and the smuggler needs to hold them off so that the girl he is helping can safely cross into Arizona.
* ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', "[[Recap/SpyXFamilyMangaInusanCrisisArc Inu-san Crisis Arc]]": A group of college aged nationalists/isolationists, led by Keith Kepler, desire to bring Ostania to her former glory and end the collusion between Ostania and Westalis by starting a war; Keith's idea of carrying this out involves bombs strapped to dogs in an attempt on the life of the Westalian Foreign Minister.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/TheAccords'' has the Morticana Order, a right-wing terrorist group with elements of the [=ComicsGate=] movement added for flavoring.
* The [[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Ultimate Universe]] version of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. [[MemeticMutation You think that letter on his head stands for France?]]
* A racist hick militia from upstate New York are the villains of ''Dirtbike Manifesto'', the second ''ComicBook/TheCouriers'' book.
* The bad guys of ''ComicBook/TheCrow: Flesh and Blood'' are a group of farmers connected to an anti-government militia. Federal conservation officer Iris Shaw runs foul of them when she comes across them poisoning coyotes, and after a confrontation with them, they blow up the land management building where she works, killing her and her unborn child. When Iris comes back as the first female Crow, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge she wreaks vengeance on each and every one of them]].
%%* The Aryan Brigade in Franchise/TheDCU.
* The Free States in ''ComicBook/{{DMZ}}'' are said to be a conglomeration of militia-type groups, and are said to be more of an "idea" rather than a geographical entity, much in keeping with the guerrilla-style behavior of many militias. The hick element is also mentioned when a former Free States soldier mentions how, while serving with them, he'd never before seen as many "pissed-off rednecks".
* One of the first stories in ''ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel'' had Hawk and Grunt infiltrating a Cobra-funded militia group known as Strike First. They had all the contemporary US military equipment, a huge sprawling base, no shortage of volunteers, and a vicious DrillSergeantNasty who "taught" recruits to dodge fire by shooting at them. Cobra itself began to take on these overtones as the series continued.
** An early issue of the IDW continuation had Duke, Scarlett, and Snake-Eyes kill off a group of jerks who harassed and eventuality fired upon a border patrol unit for not turning back/arresting a group of Hispanic men (who turned out to be U.S. citizens anyway). The kicker was that said patrol unit was part of '''COBRA''', which was in the middle of a fairly successful takeover of the country the Joes were on their way to ''stop''. For their part, the snakes took the high road and looked the other way, not reporting the Joes that just saved their lives.
* The Patriots are enemies of ComicBook/GreenArrow in the ComicBook/{{New 52}} universe.
* In ''ComicBook/JonSableFreelance'' #8-9, Sable battles an especially efficent and well-funded militia group organized by a former USAF colonel. The group plans to detonate [[EmptyQuiver stolen nuke]] in New York as FalseFlagOperation intended to cause the US to launch a nuclear strike against the USSR. The group reasons that as the Soviets will not be expecting it, they will be wiped out in the first strike and the US will be returned to its rightful place as the world's sole superpower.
* Americommando & The Minutemen from DC's ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'' are Islamophobic Ultranationalists that rose to prominence in an era of [[BlackAndGreyMorality morally-bankrupt]] [[NinetiesAntiHero "heroes"]] after the absence of Superman & the other superheroes. He's the first of the new "heroes" to be brought to justice after the return of Superman & the Justice League.
** There was another character to bear the name "Americommando" in D.C. ([[AdaptationNameChange although his name was changed to American Crusader post-New 52]]), however this Americommando is an expy of ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' from an [[ComicBook/TheMultiversity alternate universe]].
** Another version of Americommando showed up in ''Uncle Sam and the ComicBook/{{Freedom Fighters|DCComics}}'', as the second leader of First Strike, President Gonzo's superhero team.
* The Watchdogs in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. It's not clear how the rank and file members would react to learning that they're bankrolled by an actual Nazi -- The Red Skull. They first appeared in ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' during the 80s', and in fact were the first opponents that John Walker, a superhero whose identity is basically "Right-wing JerkAss Captain America", faced off against. To this day, they still have a strong connection to the Captain America mythos and have even been shown working under William Burnside, the former Captain America of the 1950s and now a PoliticallyIncorrectVillain who finds them politically acceptable cannon fodder.
* ''ComicBook/{{Revival}}'' has an entire militia, but the best examples are its organizers Edmund Holt and Des: both were anti-government before the Revival but became radicalized by events over the series. This culminates in a shootout between the militia and the US military.
* In ''ComicBook/SupermanBirthright'', ComicBook/{{Superman}} busts one of these who knowingly sold guns to a pair of teenage [[AxesAtSchool school shooters]], with him [[StillFightingTheCivilWar proudly hanging a Confederate flag]] to boot. To ScareEmStraight, Superman fires a gun point-blank at him then [[BulletCatch catches the bullet]].
* An issue of the first ''[[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series featured the [[FunWithAcronyms Committee to Restore American Patriotism]], a militia group which intended to use a nuclear weapon to begin a war with Russia. Interestingly, the group was depicted as being multi-racial, with its leader even being an African-American man named Skonk.
* The Comicbook/UltimateMarvel {{crossover}} ''Divided We Fall'' reinvents HYDRA as one of these (despite the fact they were previously portrayed as similar to the 616 Hydra in ''Ultimate Spider-Man: Requium''). During the [[DividedStatesOfAmerica temporary collapse of the United States]], they briefly succeed in taking over Wyoming with the aid of mind control.
* In ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'' are the Sons of Arizona (a group that ironically now is only composed of women), they think that the Gendercide was the work of the federal government, and therefore they have decided to rebel violently, economically suffocating the west coast of the United States blocking an important highway.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' has The Sons Of Booth, who want to wrest Mega City One from the judges' rule. Despite the story occurring years after President Booth's death, they believe that Booth is actually still alive and the truth is being covered up by Justice Department. [[spoiler: Their leader turns out to be the actual son of Booth.]]
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* The ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/455809 Children's Work]]'' ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[{{Mundanization}} real-world AU]] reimagines the First Order as this kind of organization.
* The Human Liberation Front, who are usually the heroic go-to anti-pony LaResistance in anti-[[FanFic/TheConversionBureau Conversion Bureau]] fanfiction, have devolved into this in ''FanFic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum''. There's likely an element of {{deconstruction}} in this, pointed at both traditional TCB tropes (for example, most of them likely wouldn't get along well with ponies) and showing that it's pretty unlikely that most military forces would fall under their umbrella. It's also worth mentioning that the group originally wasn't intended as this in-universe - this HLF had its roots in a support group designed for helping the friends and family members of people that took the ponification serum deal with the radical personality changes their loved ones went through. However, it quickly attracted a multitude of unsavory characters when the war began. They're also absurdly ineffective and considered to be downright suicidal and dangerous, given that their rabidly anti-pony stance does more harm than good.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Jim Backus (in what must have been a career lowlight for him) appears as the leader of one of these militias in ''Film/AngelsRevenge''.
* ''Film/ArlingtonRoad'': The nice middle-class suburban family next door turn out to be part of an organization like this, and very dangerous ones, as they're actual terrorists.
* The bad guys of the Creator/MichaelDudikoff action movie ''Film/AvengingForce'' are a group of white supremacist militia fanatics who take to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting people]].
* ''Film/{{Betrayed}}'': The unnamed far-right group which Gary is a part of believe Jews run the US government with black people as their foot soldiers and are waging war on white gentiles. For countering this they've armed themselves, coordinated across the country, trained and rob banks to get funds in preparation for many attacks that will double as {{false flag operation}}s in several cases. Their opening crime was to assassinate a Jewish radio host in Chicago. Although its crimes weren't this extensive, they're loosely based on The Order, an actual group in turn inspired by the infamous Neo-Nazi book ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries''.
* A right-wing militia group is one of the bad guys in ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'' (more or less filling the role the [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-Nazis]] played in the original film).
* The [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist unsympathetic comedy protagonists]] in ''Film/CanadianBacon'' form one of these to oppose the relentless advance of the godless Canadian hordes. Ironically, the militia leader is played by John Candy, himself a Canadian.
* ''Film/DejaVu2006'': Carroll is a one-man militia (it is explicitly said that he tried to join the Army, but aside from passing with flying colors on all fields, he was rejected because his psych profile came back as "too damn crazy") who believes that America is nowhere near ready in terms of preparedness and security to avoid a second 9/11... so he decides that blowing up a ferry with 300 passengers smack in the middle of Mardi Gras is the best way to make America understand this. His MotiveRant is equal parts "they (the people I blew up) were a sacrifice for American safety" and "it was fate".
* ''Film/FallingDown'': Bill Foster (Michael Douglas) runs into one as a part of his long walk through L.A. stereotypes, namely a Neo-Nazi who runs an army surplus store who also keeps military-grade weaponry in the back (including a rocket launcher, which Bill steals). He appears to be one himself at first, threatening some Chicano gang members and [[AsianStoreOwner a Korean-American store owner]]... but then it becomes clear that he HatesEveryoneEqually, including the employees at a fast-food restaurant who [[FelonyMisdemeanor won't serve him breakfast at 11:33]].
* A group of these kidnap the President's daughter in the 1999 made-for-TV movie ''Film/FirstDaughter''.
* The unfinished film ''Gray State'' was to have featured a heroic version of this trope, set in a FallenStatesOfAmerica that's been taken over by a dystopic OneWorldOrder and is now on the brink of a second American Revolution. However, the film's creator, David Crowley, would go on to kill his family and himself in a case of PaterFamilicide. A Creator/WernerHerzog-produced documentary, ''A Gray State'', was later made about the tragedy, and how it attracted the attention of real-life versions of this trope who thought that he and his family had been killed by the government.
* ''Film/TheHappening''. When a news report claims that the events of the film are the result of a CIA bioweapon test gone wrong, a group of obvious militia types with KnewItAllAlong expressions are seen loading an arsenal of weaponry in their garage.
* Von Jackson and his border vigilantes in ''Film/{{Machete}}'', even though they're secretly patsies to a Mexican drug lord.
* The 2000 movie ''Film/{{Militia}}'' features a fascist militia stealing anthrax missiles. Except their goal [[InvertedTrope was the opposite of this trope]]. They ''want'' the government to declare martial law and kick out all foreign nationals.
* The bad guys in the 1998 Creator/StevenSeagal film ''Film/ThePatriot1998'' (in which Seagal plays an ''immunologist''!).
* The Clint Eastwood vehicle ''Film/PinkCadillac'' features a white supremacist militia group who are chasing after the wife of one group member who stole her husband's car, which unbeknownst to her is full of evidence that could indict the militia. Eastwood plays bounty hunter Tommy Nowak who's chasing her down while avoiding the militia.
* ''Film/ThePostman'': The Holnists appear to have started as a group of these, before the war or during its aftermath. A radio broadcast that plays over the opening scenes blames them for a past rise in hate crimes. Now, with no government left, they have taken over at least part of Oregon.
* ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'' sees the NFFA hire a group of neo-Nazis to murder a senator who is running for president on a pledge to repeal the Purge.
** ''Film/TheForeverPurge'' has the Ever After Purgers, who are part of the surge in white supremacy and nativism that have come as the Purge returned.
* The heroes of ''Film/RedDawn1984'' are this; their fathers are shown to have trained them in various survivalist skills such as using guns, and one of them is able to supply them with copious amounts of ammunition and survival equipment near the beginning when they head for the hills. From there, they form LaResistance against the Soviet invaders with the Commie invasion playing out... pretty much the way militia types expect it to.
* ''Film/TheStandoffAtSparrowCreek'': Is a {{Whodunit}} with a bunch of members of one of these gathering together and trying to figure out which one of them stole one of the groups' rifles and shot up a police funeral. Unusually, their anti-government views are given some sympathy and while there is an ex-Aryan among their number, the group as a whole isn’t necessarily racist.
* Parodied in ''Film/TheStuff'', with a group of these guys help the heroes (or rather, they get tricked into helping the heroes after being told the Stuff is a Communist plot).
* The villains in TheMovie of Creator/TomClancy's ''Film/TheSumOfAllFears'' were changed from Islamic radicals to neo-Nazi militia members, as the producers believed that "Arab terrorists" was cliche.[[note]]Filming had finished in June 2001, before the 9/11 attacks.[[/note]]
* ''Film/ToCatchAKiller2023'':
** These end up causing a bunch of trouble after the corporate press get involved in ID-ing the suspect, as a group of neo-Nazis call into the show claiming responsibility for the attacks and use their airtime to spread outlandish claims of having a [[WeAreEverywhere hidden army ready to strike against the government]]. It's really just a prank by a group of about five guys with no wider support base that ends with four of the men being killed in a pointless shoot-out with the police.
** Subverted with regards to the actual shooter. Lammark warns against assuming that the subject of their manhunt has a political agenda. Indeed, he turns out to be a solitary, broken man driven by personal tragedy and circumstance.
* "The Voice" in the [[MadeForTVMovie made-for-TV]] [[TheRemake remake]] of ''Film/VanishingPoint''.
* ''Film/VHS94'': The main characters in the segment "Terror" are a group of these who have captured a vampire, whose blood they regularly drain before shooting him in the head, a process that they repeat every time he comes BackFromTheDead. In this universe, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire blood combusts when exposed to direct sunlight]], and they seek to [[PostModernMagik exploit that fact]] in order to build a bomb with which to blow up a federal building.
* At first the terrorists who seize control of the White House in ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'' come off as these, and some of them do fit the profile. However, they are actually a motley bunch with diverse motives - and they are ultimately taking orders from a [[TheManBehindTheMan Man Behind The Man]].
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In the epilogue of the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' series it's revealed in an aside that since aliens have become public knowledge a number of these groups have sprung in the world. Disappointingly, they're not explored in great detail due to the Animorphs quickly leaving for space.
* ''Literature/AnnaPigeon'': In ''Liberty Falling'', Anna uncovers a plot by a right-wing anti-government movement to destroy the Statue of Liberty.
* These are the main villains of the Lee Child novel ''[[Literature/JackReacher Die Trying]]''.
* Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/TheGunsOfTheSouth'' has one of these[[note]]The real-life ''Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging'' (AWB, or Afrikaner Resistance Movement)[[/note]] traveling back in time to UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar to [[AlternateHistory supply the South]] [[GivingRadioToTheRomans with modern weaponry]], so that Apartheid South Africa can have a racist ally in the future.
* ''Literature/JackRyan'':
** In ''Literature/ExecutiveOrders'', two members of a militia group decide to assassinate President Ryan with a cement trunk bomb. They make their way across the country, hindered by the virus outbreak caused by the real BigBad, until they are [[ShaggyDogStory arrested with no consequence]] before they even reach Washington. Being generous to Clancy, they might well have succeeded had the Iranian bioterrorism plot not forced them to stop at a motel for days while their bomb "ripened".
** Similarly, in ''Literature/TheSumOfAllFears'', the Arab terrorists are aided in their plot to detonate a nuclear bomb in Denver by a member of a radical Native American group. They don't tell him it's a nuke, and they [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness kill him once he's no longer useful]].
* In ''Night Passage'', the first ''Literature/JesseStone'' novel, the town of Paradise, Massachusetts has a group of these called the Horsemen, whose members include several people on the local Board of Selectmen.[[note]]The executive body in a New England town-meeting government[[/note]] They wind up murdering the former Chief of Police when he catches on to their plan to stockpile weapons and take on the US Government. Then they hire Jesse after he shows up drunk to his job interview, thinking he'll be too incompetent to figure out what they're up to and/or be too much of a pushover to do anything to oppose them. [[SpringtimeForHitler They're wrong]].
* ''Literature/JoePickett'': In ''Winterkill'', a travelling caravan of right-wing militia fanatics - made up of survivors from other destroyed militias - arrives in Twelve Sleeps County and sets up camp; sparking an armed stand-off with the federal government.
* In the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book ''Tribulation Force'', President Gerald Fitzhugh finds himself allying with some of these groups who basically agree that having the United States join a OneWorldOrder was a bad idea.
* In ''Flashfire'', Literature/{{Parker}} is saved from a pair of hitmen when they run across the Christian Renewal Defense Force on maneuvers in the Everglades. The hitmen try to kill the CRDF to eliminate the witnesses and get gunned down.
* In ''[[Literature/DavidIsaaksShockAndAwe Shock And Awe]]'', one of the protagonists is an FBI agent undercover with one of these whose group gets roped into the BigGood's plot.
* ''Literature/{{Presidential}}'': The men who attempt to kill Connie are described as members of violent antigovernment groups and fanatical about gun rights, which is the motive for their attack since she was about to sign a bill into law that bans some types of guns.
* ''Literature/SpaceAcademy'': A rare villainous sci-fi example. Humans who couldn’t adapt to the cosmopolitan tolerant nature of the Community found themselves making isolationist Cult Colony settlements in Contested Space. The protagonist has to deal with a number of SpacePirates Neo-Confederates for example.
* In ''Literature/TheStand'', Randall Flagg was a member of some groups like this, though he'll join ''any'' organization that he can egg on into causing trouble.
* One of the superhumans from ''Literature/StarTrekTheEugenicsWars'' forms one to fight the New World Order. Randy "Hawkeye" Morrison is willing to do whatever it takes to fight the imaginary NWO [[spoiler:including killing all his followers and himself]].
* Averted in ''Literature/TheSurvivalist'', a 1980s action-adventure series by Jerry Ahern, set in a post-WorldWarIII United States occupied by the Soviets. The author goes to great lengths to avert the popular strawman of survivalists being paranoid, fascistic racists.
* These are the villains of the Creator/DaleBrown book ''A Time for Patriots''.
* Creator/ArthurCClarke's ''The Trigger'' shows one of these on the defensive. The premise of the book is that the U.S. has invented a way to sabotage guns from a distance, and they think this only makes sense if the U.S. is no longer going to rely on its advantages in gun development -- [[ImproperlyParanoid which means to them that the U.S. is about to hand over sovereignty to the United Nations]]. They're portrayed as somewhat pathetic, but still dangerous to everyone around them as they try to keep their "freedom."
* ''Literature/TheTurnerDiaries'' has a particularly extreme version of these guys as the ''[[VillainProtagonist heroes]]'', and was written for exactly this audience by white supremacist leader William Luther Pierce. On the other hand, it also gives a negative portrayal of such groups, though not for the same reasons as most depictions. In the story, the anti-government [[RedScare John Birch Society]] types who take over northern California turn against the Order, claiming that its goals are ultimately communist. This was intended as a warning by Pierce, saying that white supremacists shouldn't ally with anyone other than their fellow white supremacists even if they have sympathetic politics. Not that it matters considering that the heroes of the book want everyone who isn't as fanatical/racist as they are dead.
* The ''USA vs. Militia'' series by Ian Slater deals with a full-scale militia rebellion in America, and it was a ''very'' well-equipped militia complete with tanks and jet fighters. And to make matters worse, the war is set while WorldWarIII is still raging.
* In ''Literature/VictoriaANovelOf4thGenerationWar'', these guys are the ''heroes.'' As the US groans under the weight of its own multiculturalism, love, and acceptance, [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality one group stands up to fight for a Traditional, White, Christian America by any means necessary]].
* ''Literature/WalkersCrossing'': Mr. Sheldon, Gil, and Gil's friends are camo-wearing thugs who "patrol" the territory. They can't go through a conversation without expressing venomous, poorly reasoned hatred and distrust for the government, immigrants, and African Americans. Gil even has Hitler's birthday marked on his calendar.
* It's hinted in ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' that militia groups caused trouble for the US during the Zombie War, feeling that America had become tyrannical as a result of the wartime measures imposed to fight the ZombieApocalypse. The government was forced to clamp down hard; one group that had taken over the Black Hills was met with the only use of tanks by the US military during its push east.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* After Kim Bauer escapes [[TrappedByMountainLions a random cougar]] on ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'', she runs into one of these, who takes her prisoner.
* ''Series/Accused2023'': In "Esme's Story" Esme infiltrates a White Supremacist Neo-Nazi group after their leader, Shaggy, runs over one of their friends. Shaggy espouses rhetoric about "his people" being run out of the nation and treated as terrorists while people of color are "taking over", and tries to justify himself to his followers by saying he has [[BlatantLies no issues]] with people of color, just so long as they stay in ''their'' home nations. They all have a grungy appearance, and appear to come from rural, poor backgrounds like Esme.
* Season 3 of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' adapts the Watchdogs from the comics into the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. In this continuity, they're formed as a result of the worldwide outbreak of Inhumans, [[FantasticRacism who they see as a threat to humanity]], and organize to hunt down and kill, blaming the government for protecting them (though it's quickly established that they're patsies of HYDRA). By Season 4, they've gone international.
* ''Series/AmericanGods2017'': The self-appointed border patrol who gun down undocumented Mexican immigrants, and the Nazi-esque group in Vulcan, Virginia (who may be connected-they have the same bullets at least).
* ''Series/BabylonBerlin'', being set in UsefulNotes/TheWeimarRepublic, depicts the RealLife "Black Reichswehr" - a motley group of ultranationalist, proto-fascist military detachments, and militias who were bent on overthrowing the slowly decaying German democracy.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019'' has Gunpowder, a [[Characters/MarvelComicsBuckyBarnes Winter Soldier]] {{expy}} whose EstablishingCharacterMoment is him giving a speech at a gun show about the government wanting to disarm people. After that he seemed more or less innocuous until he [[HeKnowsTooMuch tries to silence Butcher after he blackmailed him]] with evidence of the abuse he suffered at [[FakeUltimateHero Soldier Boy]]'s hands. He's shown to be a {{hypocrite}} as well, as he gets paid to rant about government abuses but neglects to mention that he helped the CIA smuggle cocaine into black neighborhoods during the [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Iran-Contra affair]].
* ''Series/BreakingBad'' has Jack Welker's neo-Nazi gang, who are heavily armed and live in a desert compound. They're involved in the local drug trade and have extensive contacts in the New Mexico state prison system, enough that Jack is able to organize ten prison murders to occur within minutes of each other when Walt pays him to get rid of people who could testify against them. Despite their symbols, they're perfectly willing to work with the Juarez Cartel for cash. This is all TruthInTelevision: the real-world Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist prison gang and crime syndicate, is allied with the Mexican Mafia, gets up to murder-for-hire and meth dealing outside of prison, and is responsible for 18-25% of prison murders despite constituting less than 0.1% of the prison population. Despite having swastika tattoos, Jack's ideology isn't really elaborated upon, aside from a conversation with Kenny where he laments the softness of the current generation and him scornfully referring to Hank as "Fed" [[spoiler:before executing him.]]
* In ''Series/BreakoutKings'', the runner in the episode "Like Father, Like Son" is a member of a militia, the Patriotic Front.
* ''Series/BurnNotice'':
** Michael, Sam, Fi, and Jesse have to rescue an ailing boy from a militia compound run by a PhonyVeteran in the episode "Besieged".
** An earlier episode has Michael (under duress from Gilroy) negotiating the purchase of a {{BFG}} at a [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-Nazi]] compound. Michael poses as an apolitical ArmsDealer so as to not give the racist scum any ideas that he was supporting their evil cause.
--->'''Michael''': "The only color I care about is green."
* ''Series/{{Clarice}}'': In the second episode, VICAP travels to Tennessee to try and defuse a hostage situation involving a secessionist group called the Statesmen. While leader Lucas Novak has some beliefs less common on the American right (he's an anti-capitalist, for one), the group's general beliefs seem to be right-wing.
* ''Series/ClassOf09'': In The Present (2023) Tayo investigated a group of these, which grew into a shootout while only he and Nunez were visiting their compound. After escaping, the group also tries to murder Tayo's wife Vivienne and commit a bombing, both of which he foils. However, they later do succeed in [[spoiler:getting a mass shooter into Quantico who guns down several trainees and also bring down FBI headquarters through undermining its foundations]].
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
** Although the militia in season 3 episode "Identity" are portrayed as racist and antagonistic, they also ran the killer out of town for abusing his wife and it's one of them who shoots the killer in the end.
** In season 4 episode "Minimal Loss", when they go after one of these groups it turns out that a cult has taken over their compound and when the track down the original leader he's much more reasonable than expected. It helps that he leaned libertarian, in contrast to the very dictatorial cult leader.
** Season 9 episode "Final Shot" has the imprisoned leader of one of these as the RedHerring. When a sniper starts rampaging through Dallas, the BAU thinks at first that it's a statement by the militia group, or at the least some kind of political message (because the rampage starts on the eve of the anniversary of Kennedy's assassination). [[spoiler:Turns out that the ColdSniper responsible for the rampage is a mercenary hired by a {{Domestic Abuse}}r PrivateMilitaryContractor CEO to kill his runaway wife]].
* Music/JustinBieber plays one of these in ''{{Series/CSI}}''. The second episode he appears in is rather popular amongst his {{hatedom}} [[spoiler:because of a scene in which his character is killed in a hail of gunfire.]]
* One episode of ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'' featured a militia group trying to separate the US West Coast into a state for whites, complete with the WeAreEverywhere threat and a stolen nuke.
* ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'': In the 1967 episode "[[Recap/Dragnet1967S1E02TheBigExplosion The Big Explosion]]" [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Neo-Nazi]] Donald Chapman implies that he's part of a larger group as he's being taken off to jail for the various crimes he committed.
* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'':
** In "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS01E03 Hairtrigger]]", Mike Kellerman is what Jess describes a typical homegrown anti-government domestic terrorist. He recruits Doug Timmons by pretending to support his [[ConspiracyTheorist conspiracy theory]] about government support of [[AxesAtSchool school shootings]], and then primes him to commit a massacre in a government building in Albany.
** In "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS04E18 Rangeland]]", the team is called to Wyoming after two Bureau of Land Management agents go missing after trying to execute a cattle seizure warrant against a rancher who hasn't paid the land fees. The rancher, Will, killed the agents claiming that he thought were going for their guns. His brother Cole is involved in an anti-government rancher association and previously ran for Sheriff. The brothers kidnap the Bureau's chief and the Sheriff and put them in a [[JokerJury mock trial before his association's ranchers]].
* ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'': In "Follow the Leader", the SRU bust a white supremacist organisation, then have to stage a desperate search when they learn that three members have escaped with bombs.
* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': In one episode, Niles accompanies his father to the shooting range and befriends some of the regulars. When they invite him to visit their compound, Martin and Daphne realize Niles' new friends are actually "those militia people". Niles is skeptical until his "friends" tell him they're choosing a generator so they'll be prepared for when the New World Order takes over. Cue Niles, Martin, and Daphne excusing themselves and leaving as fast as possible.
* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'': In Season 7, an {{expy}} of Alex Jones hides out with a group of right-wing survivalists, provoking an armed stand-off with FBI agents. Certain events during the siege are modeled after the Ruby Ridge incident.
* ''Series/{{In Justice|2006}}'': In one episode it turns out that an informant from a far-right militia is the real perpetrator. He killed someone during a bank robbery, and his FBI handlers actually helped to frame someone so they could keep him as a source.
* Three occurrences in ''Series/{{JAG}}'':
** In "Brig Break", the Gunnery Sergeant in charge of the brig uses a right-wing militia group as a decoy to keep base security busy while steals weapons for UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein's {{UsefulNotes/Iraq}}.
** In "Vanished", a right-wing militia group called ''Freedom Brethren'' kidnaps the wife and child of an F-14 pilot, and convinces the aviator to bring them the aircraft and to shoot down a certain civilian airliner. If demands are not fulfilled, the wife and child will die.
** In "Rivers' Run" Harm and Mac defends Navy [=SEAL=] Lt. Curtis Rivers in a KangarooCourt under the common law, as interpreted by anti-government separatists in West Virginia.
* An episode of ''Series/{{Jake 20}}'' had one such group kidnap the titular character's younger brother by accident. Unfortunately, the group's leader's fanaticism causes [[spoiler:the death of his son]].
** Said leader is also a big fan of YouHaveFailedMe tactics, although he lets a loyal soldier live, after the latter hands the leader his gun for punishment.
* In the ''Series/KraftSuspenseTheatre'' episode "A Lion Amongst Men", Major Will Stanton is a paranoid bigot who's trying to start a militia, although his only "recruit" is a friend who's clearly just indulging him.
* This trope was fully embraced by ''Series/LawAndOrder'' -- especially during the late '90s. One episode called "Nullification" had a group of so-called "American Patriots" claim an armored car heist (in which a guard was killed) was an act of civil disobedience akin to the Boston Tea Party. They managed a mistrial because of one disaffected juror whom [=McCoy=] had sniffed out but refused to dismiss [[HonorBeforeReason because he didn't want to win by working the system like the defendants were doing]].
* The first ''Series/LawAndOrder'' / ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' {{crossover}} focused on these types, based in Baltimore, gassing a New York subway station in Harlem.
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Legends}}'' Martin Odum has infiltrated a militia group which is planning a major terrorist attack. While most are fanatical True Believers, Martin realizes that the group's Founding Father is not actually willing to die for his beliefs and thus would surrender to the FBI rather than blow himself up.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': "[[Recap/LeverageS03E07TheGoneFishinJob The Gone-Fishin' Job]]" features a debt collector using a list from the IRS to scam people out of cash that he's using to finance his own private revolution [[spoiler:complete with possible truck bomb]]. When Hardison and Eliot pretend to be government agents, they are captured by the militia and sentenced to be shot as enemy combatants (for reference, neither carries weapons).
* On ''Series/{{Longmire}}'' when Walt compiles a list of people who might have ordered the murder of Walt's wife, one of the prime suspects is a local militia leader whom Walt once arrested. The guy did not do it but he did [[spoiler:murder a federal census taker]] so Walt's investigation makes him extremely paranoid. Then Vic, Walt's deputy, happens to be driving near his compound when she has a car accident so she goes there to get help. The militia members think this is a pretext for her to spy on them and they take her and her husband prisoner.
* ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'': Mac takes on a neo-Nazi group in "The Seven Per Cent Solution".
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': The Christian Way in "Foreign Relations" is a right-wing white supremacist group. The VictimOfTheWeek is initially thought to have been murdered by them, but he later turns out to have been a member.
* Parodied by ''Series/MrShow'' with the character of Mountain Dougie, who tries to secede from the United States -- and succeeds. He then creates a flag and currency for his new nation of 'New Freeland,' but is enticed by the wonders of America (they have food there) and emigrates to the US.
* Team Gibbs from ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' finger a militia group for the theft of military weapons ("Split Decision") in the first season.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E14TheHeist The Heist]]", the militia group Lightning Dawn is preparing for the "inevitable" resumption of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. To that end, it hijacks what it believes to be a US Army missile shipment which was being sent to UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} in order to keep the Russian President in power (they're convinced Russia is still a communist state). It instead turned out to be an alien organism.
* ''Series/Peacemaker2022'' downplays this with Christopher Smith/Peacemaker. He believes multiple conspiracy theories he learned through questionable online sources wholeheartedly and he's a brutal vigilante, but in spite of holding some sexist views he's a fairly reasonable guy who tries to distance himself from the far right and semi-reluctantly works with the government. Much of this stems from the fact that his father Auggie Smith - a straight example of this trope - is a vicious white supremacist leader and supervillain who subjected Peacemaker to horrific abuse from birth to turn him into an elite killer who would target minorities, something Peacemaker very much doesn't want to do.
* ''Series/ThePunisher2017'' has Lewis Wilson, a veteran with severe PTSD who after failing to find work with PrivateMilitaryContractors due to Curtis warning Billy Russo about Lewis's instability, gets swayed by far-right rhetoric from a bigoted NRA member and ends up becoming a domestic terrorist who plans on assassinating a politician with pro-gun control policies.
* Jim Rockford goes against a group of these in ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' episode "The Battle of Canoga Park." When they are arrested for murder at the end of the episode, they behave as though they are prisoners of war, althoguh hte younger son [[IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou still talks too much]].
* Rick Flag of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has definite shades of this, believing the government is out to round up and kill superheroes and masked vigilantes. The comparison is made even more obvious by his constant placement of the American flag on his weaponry, his [[LargeHam recitation of the ''Star-Spangled Banner'']] as he prepares to blow up Lois' father, and the huge flag blowing behind his head when he declares war on the government.
** The sad thing, however? His fears are turning out to be justified.
* When the crew of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' travel back to the past, [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters ex-Maquis freedom fighters]] Chakotay and B'Elanna Torres [[CaptainCrash crash their shuttle]] in Arizona, where they're captured by paranoid survivalists convinced that these uniformed strangers in an apparent stealth aircraft are part of some GovernmentConspiracy ([[TimeTravel it's not like the truth is any more believable]]). Chakotay is just starting his peaceful warrior speech when said government forces turn up, demanding they hand over the shuttle and whoever was piloting it. Unsurprisingly bullets start flying, but fortunately Tuvok and the Doctor intervene with a BigDamnHeroes. The Doctor's ability to be ImmuneToBullets (he's a hologram, so they pass right through him) and stun them with a ray gun would hardly make them less paranoid and disbelieving of nutty conspiracy theories in future.
* ''Series/SWAT2017'': The Imperial Dukes are a violent white supremacist, homophobic militia group hoping to start a race war who [[CopKiller kill multiple cops]].
* ''Series/{{Waco}}'' depicts [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege the Waco siege]], one of the turning points for the movement. As early as the Ruby Ridge incident, depicted in the first episode, there are already right-wing gun owners decrying the FBI's actions. The ATF orders a raid on Mount Carmel because they believe the Branch Dravidians to be illegally moving and modifying arms (i.e. as a group of these).
* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' has dealt with plenty of these, and a few of these cases involve these villains going FromCamouflageToCriminal:
** The Freedom Brigade in Season 5's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS5E2Patriot Patriot]]", led by Bart Hawkins, who was once a United States Army Sergeant Major who had been stealing munitions from his base, until his lieutenant, Trivette's cousin, [[AlliterativeName Jeffrey "JJ" Jordan]], caught on to the scheme and was killed as a result. Hawkins' men then took over a minority-owned television station in retaliation for this arrest and to broadcast their racist propaganda.
** A group of conspirators bent on world domination in Season 6's "Warriors" [[KidnappedScientist kidnap the Rangers' old friend, Dr. Susan Lee]], and later, her son, Davey, to use her research and both their DNA to create and clone a species of [[NoSell powerful]] {{Super Soldier}}s strong enough to withstand bullets to the chest and even Walker's trademark RoundhouseKick. After the group is arrested during the final confrontation, Lee eventually helps Walker gain the upper hand against the prototype, setting him ablaze with kerosene and [[KillItWithFire a blowtorch]], giving Walker an opening to [[DestinationDefenestration kick him out the window]] into a storage bay of gasoline barrels, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill where he meets an]] [[StuffBlowingUp explosive end]].
** The [[ThoseWackyNazis Sons of]] [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Reich]] from "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E22TheSoulOfWinter The Soul of Winter]]" (also in Season 6), led by Stan Gorman, who was imprisoned by a black preacher (whom he tried to murder, and also became the new pastor of the First Christian Church since the death of Trent's father) several years earlier and sought revenge by wanting to get that preacher to resign. He attempted to kill his son, but [[MurderByMistake killed the wrong kid]] in a case of MistakenIdentity.
** The Freedom Brigade appears again, this time, led by Cliff Eagleton, in Season 8's "The Day of Cleansing", which serves as a two-part {{crossover}} with the ''Series/MartialLaw'' episode "[[Recap/MartialLawS2E16HonorAmongStrangers Honor Among Strangers]]". Eagleton was a [[UsefulNotes/OklahomaCityBombing Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols]] copycat who sought to bomb police stations, banks, churches, courthouses and other government and diverse locations across the country with trucks loaded with deadly explosive chemicals, set off within four minutes once the driver pulls the loop.
** "Soldiers of Hate" (also in Season 8) has the Soldiers of the New Millennium led by Travis Braxton. Originally based out of Idaho, he joined his followers in Dallas and planned on bombing the Community Center at Fair Park and St. Mathew's Children's Hospital, which both serve as the sites for the Metroplex Unity Day.
** Season 9's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS9E21BloodDiamonds Blood Diamonds]]" had the Revolutionary United Front, a rebel group in Sierra Leone. Its leader was General Nelson Abu and among those working for him was Joseph Ileka, a diamond smuggler who came to Dallas for a tradeoff of diamonds in exchange for weapons for his people. Ileka is killed by a pimp during a one-night stand with a prostitute, and to make things go FromBadToWorse, the Medical Examiner's office reveals he was [[PlagueEpisode a carrier of a deadly variant of Ebola virus]], having transferred it to the prostitute and her pimp the night he was murdered. Trivette assumes Ileka's identity in order for him and Walker to lure an arms dealer named Victor Drake into a trap. Meanwhile, Gage, Sydney and Alex, after questioning the prostitute, are feared to have caught Ebola themselves when she begins exhibiting the early symptoms, but they luckily come out negative, but some, such as the pimp and those on Ileka's flights from Uganda to Europe and eventually to Dallas, weren't so lucky. After the Ebola scare, the Rangers decide to take down Abu right away, upon which Drake catches on to Walker and Trivette's cover. [[spoiler:Though Walker and Trivette end up killed as a result, it was {{all just a|Dream}} {{nightmare|sequence}} Alex was having, but that morning, [[OrWasItADream Walker and Trivette were actually on the case from her dream]].]]
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has several examples, usually as a smokescreen for whatever conspiracy is ''really'' going on.
** The page quote comes from "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E08Tunguska Tunguska]]", in which Krycek allies with a terrorist group who help him escape an abandoned silo where he'd been imprisoned. Krycek uses them as part of a convoluted BatmanGambit, betraying them to the FBI at the earliest opportunity.
** "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E16Unrequited Unrequited]]" has a paramilitary group of Vietnam vets whom Mulder and Scully suspect in the murder of several Pentagon officials. They turn out to be a RedHerring.
** "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E18ThePineBluffVariant The Pine Bluff Variant]]" plays it straight. When Mulder publicly renounces his previous belief in [=UFOs=], saying that it's all part of a GovernmentConspiracy, he's approached by a radical militia group to work for them. It turns out he's acting as a FakeDefector. But Mulder is [[TheMole not the only one]], as one of the group is using them to carry out his own GovernmentConspiracy.
** And ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture'' opens with a terrorist attack clearly modeled on the Oklahoma City bombing, which is blamed on a right-wing group. In reality, it's a coverup by [[GovernmentConspiracy the Syndicate]] for a reappearance of the alien black oil.
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* The Music/EricBogle song "Keeper of the Flame" is about the paranoid rantings of a right-wing militia fanatic.
* In Leslie Fish's "Gamers", the FBI [[MistakenForTerrorist mistakes her for this]] due to her {{LARP}}ing activities:
--> They [[MistakenForTerrorist told the press I was a terrorist]] who planned to blow up half the town\\
They called me a right-wing militia nut and a neo-Nazi clown.
* "Goddamn White Trash" by Music/{{Ministry}} depicts far-right terrorists as HillbillyHorrors, albeit in a way that's PlayedForLaughs in the music video. The song itself depicts such people as {{Boisterous Weakling}}s who are "uneducated and ready for war" and "manipulated into civil war". The music video, meanwhile, depicts a group of far-right racist terrorists as pathetic losers who act tougher than they really are. They dress in tactical gear while riding hobby horses, pretend to knife fight imaginary enemies in their underwear, and act tough while using a mobility scooter just to get anywhere.
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* ''Podcast/BehindTheBastards'' (by the same creator as ''It Could Happen Here'') has featured several bastards who influenced, infiltrated, or used militia movements to do some pretty horrible things.
* ''Podcast/ItCouldHappenHere'' speculates a scenario where the United States is embroiled in a new civil war between several different right and left-wing militant groups, with Christian Dominionists seizing a large chunk of the southern states.
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* In the TabletopGame/D20Modern ''Urban Arcana'' setting, there is the Fraternal Order of Vigilance, a militia with a legal front engaging in acts of violence motivated by FantasticRacism against shadowkinds (i.e. everyone who is not human, including perfectly peaceful elves or blue-collar dwarfs.)
** The Menace Manual sourcebook has a potentially non-villainous example with the ostensibly anti-fascist 25th Freedom Brigade, who can be either a help or a hindrance to the player characters. As with many other examples, they are very anti-government, comprised mostly of disenfranchised patriotic veterans, and dangerously hostile to those that trespass on their land.
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%%* Daxter Fleet in ''VideoGame/AolaStar''.
* In ''VideoGame/BatenKaitosOrigins'', this is pretty much Baelheit's Machina conspiracy group in a nutshell. They're hell-bent on overthrowing what they see as the corrupt magical system that rules the world and don't even care if they start a war by doing it. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, however, as Baelheit turned out to have sympathetic motives - namely the fact that losing his wife and being ForcedToWatch as his daughter was savaged by a feral remnant of the PhysicalGod Malpercio led him to despise everything connected to the old gods and their magic.]]
* ''VideoGame/CounterStrike'' features the map CS_Militia and the Militia skin, which is only available by chance on the random skin button. ''Condition Zero'' gives them a laconic backstory: they're a domestic terrorist group from the Midwest who took up a campaign of murder and bombings in response to the Waco siege of 1993.
* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': The 6th Street Gunners. Maybe. It's kind of complicated. The gang is made up of American veterans, and have the aesthetic down pat, with lots of American flags and camo. They express their love for the 2nd amendment, are embroiled in a turf war with the proudly Latino Valentinos gang, and declare their love for the USA, which in this setting is so deeply embroiled with [[MegaCorp Militech]] that it's impossible to tell [[OneNationUnderCopyright where one ends and the other begins]]. However, they are also racially diverse (in a "In the Army, the only color is green!"-sort of way), support the left-liberal mayoral candidate Jefferson Peralez for his anti-corporate stance, and are generally anti-MegaCorp and anti-corpofascist and pro-small business and pro-grassroots democracy. Most importantly, though, any political stance they might have beyond 'more money for us, fuck you' is rapidly being worn away as [[MotiveDecay they devolve into an extremely violent drug cartel.]]
* A group of these appears as enemies in ''VideoGame/DeadRising2''. One of them mentions working in border patrol, and they blame the ZombieApocalypse on liberals, socialists, and foreigners (the last one is actually pretty accurate, although it's not like America was completely innocent). They even blame people who are not true conservatives like them.
* The NSF in ''VideoGame/DeusEx''.
** They were this originally, but by the time of the game the organisation has expanded and attracted representatives of every group hostile to the current US government and/or UNATCO, and as a result, their political stance has drifted quite a bit to the left. A couple supporters of them spout off some lines that wouldn't sound out of place in an Occupy protest.
** The trick is, the government ''really is'' using extreme clandestine methods to achieve totalitarian influence. As the player learns throughout the game, the level of corruption and greed surpasses even the most haphazard theories of NSF members. You know you live in a CrapsackWorld if the Right-Wing Militia Fanatic is your good guy.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' heavily implies that the subterranean "Ghost Farm" inhabitants (near Modoc) are descended from some of these. Other than having a hard time adapting to going outside after living so long underground, they're a pretty level-headed bunch.
** [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas The Boomer]] tribe originated from Vault 34 near Las Vegas, which, as part of the Vault experiment, had an armory overfilled with guns with a door that couldn't lock. When the Overseer tried to implement gun control measures, the Boomers' ancestors stole some guns and escaped into the Wasteland, setting up their new home at the Nellis Air Force Base. There every Boomer carries some kind of gun, with one ''farmer'' packing a ''[[{{BFG}} Fat Man]]''. They're fiercely isolationist and also have a bunch of howitzers to shell anyone trying to enter their territory. If you manage to somehow reach their gate with your limbs intact, they won't confiscate your weapons, since the right to keep and bear arms is sacred to them.
* Deacon from ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' apparently views The Minutemen (an army modelled after America's colonial and revolutionary war era Minutemen) as being in this category, if the player takes him as a companion to their headquarters, the Castle, Deacon would say that whilst he's happy that The Minutemen are returning, he also perceives them as too "redneck".
** ''VideoGame/Fallout76'': Features The Free States, a secessionist faction of libertarian conspiracy theorists with little real organization. They get some sympathy due to the U.S. government having arguably warranted resistance against by the time they broke away. They did alright in the immediate aftermath of the war but were eventually [[spoiler:killed or driven out of the Appalachian Mountains by the Scorch Beasts]].
* The antagonists of ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' are a militia[=/=]{{Cult}} hybrid called the Project at Eden's Gate who are effectively the Branch Davidians as an NGOSuperpower. The Whitetail Militia are a rare heroic version of this trope in that they are one of the factions fighting against the cult.
* Portrayed heroically in ''VideoGame/FreedomFighters2003''. Even before the invasion, Isabella Angelina was the head of a group like this. Afterwards, they become LaResistance against the Soviet occupiers.
* Shows up several times in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series.
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' features one mission where CJ must sneak on a farm owned by a Waco-esque group in order to steal their combine harvester for The Truth. They shoot at him on sight -- although CJ ''is'' trespassing with the intention of committing theft, he barely steps foot on his property before they start firing. Also, they shout racial slurs at CJ and clearly enjoy hunting him down. [[ChunkySalsaRule But once you actually get to the harvester...]]
** In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'''s DLC episodes, [[Radio/GTARadio talk radio host]] "John Smith" on WKTT (a parody of Alex Jones) is one of these, spouting exaggerated versions of conspiracy theories popular on the radical right. A good number of his callers also fit this mold -- in one instance, he hangs up on a man who is praising UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler not because he disagrees with him, but because he doesn't want to get fined again (implying that this isn't the first time that such people have called in). There's also his guest at the end of the show, Abigail Grayson, a CrazySurvivalist soccer mom with [[CloudCuckoolander extra emphasis on the "Crazy"]].
** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has Joe and Josef of the Civil Border Patrol, aka the "Minute Men", a parody of anti-immigrant border militias like the Minuteman Project and Ranch Rescue. While Joe fits the mold to a tee, Josef is [[ImmigrantPatriotism a Russian immigrant]] who [[BoomerangBigot barely speaks English]], and has a bit of trouble distinguishing between American sayings and British ones; at one point he says he's fighting "for King and Country". It's also implied that Josef is a neo-Nazi as well.
* ''VideoGame/Hitman2016'' features an inversion during the mission "Freedom Fighters", where Agent 47 is tasked with infiltrating the hideout of a gang of EcoTerrorist ''Left Wing'' Militia Fanatics situated on a farm in Colorado and assassinating their leaders. The truth, however, is a bit more complicated than that: the militia was in fact [[spoiler:set up by Lucas Grey to fight [[TheIlluminati Providence]] rather than to serve a specific political agenda]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}'' has you meeting a group of these guys in the fifth level, where you and your group are trying to get a helicopter from them. They're probably the only people in the world who can match the UsefulNotes/{{North Korea}}n [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica invaders]] in pure [[AxCrazy nastiness]] -- they torture and enslave captured enemy soldiers for sport before lynching them and putting their heads (or bodies) on pikes, they try to kidnap your group's female member for "entertainment", and they're not above [[LesCollaborateurs collaborating with the enemy]] and turning over resistance members [[OnlyInItForTheMoney for money]]. They are also implied to be white-supremacists, seeing as none of them have any black members on their ranks at all.
* ''VideoGame/{{inFAMOUS 2}}'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Militia]], a group of right-wing extremists who take over [[TheBigEasy New Marais]] to purge it of [[FantasticRacism mutants and meta-humans]] (including Cole) and "deviants". They serve as the chief villains for the first half of the game.
* ''Literature/LeftBehind: Eternal Forces'' has you leading a group of these battling TheAntichrist and the [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower Global]] [[OneWorldOrder Community]] in the middle of [[BigApplesauce New York]]. There was a fair bit of controversy over this, with some critics claiming that it was promoting [[ChurchMilitant religious violence]] (notably, Jack Thompson cut his ties to Tyndale House, ''Literature/LeftBehind'''s publisher, over the game), though to be fair, the game rewards players for pursuing non-violent means of victory -- after all, killing your enemies means that you can't convert them, and it also decreases the morale, or "spirit", of your own units ([[AsTheGoodBookSays "thou shalt not kill"]] and all).
%%* The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Conservative Crime Squad (or CCS for short)]] in ''VideoGame/LiberalCrimeSquad'' is exactly this.
%%* The cancelled ''VideoGame/RainbowSix: Patriots'' was going to have these as the villains.
* ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' features the Spartan Federation as a major faction, based on a mix of this ideology and Latin American guerrillas (their leader Corazón Santiago is a Puerto Rican woman). Yes, of the seven factions (twelve in the expansion) representing what's left of humanity in the future, one is explicitly described as a group of right-wing survivalist fanatics. That said, the Spartans are fairly non-ideological beyond their belief in the supremacy of the military, and are pretty collectivist and hierarchical rather than libertarian.
* ''VisualNovel/{{Sunrider}} 4: The Captain's Return'' has the Hawk Faction, a militant, ultranationalist faction of the Solar Alliance military. They're not happy about the recent armistice between the Alliance and PACT, blaming the politicians for how the war ground to a halt after PACT kicked the Alliance out of the Neutral Rim, and they plan to resume hostilities after overthrowing the Alliance's legitimate government in a coup d'état. [[spoiler:Ironically, they're just pawns in a PACT plot to make the Solar Alliance destroy itself from within.]]
* ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'':
** Subverted in ''Syphon Filter 3''. Teresa's first assignment was to retrieve stolen satellite data taken by a militia, but the NSA team Teresa helps plans to sell it to terrorists and the militia are just unlucky witnesses.
** Played with in ''The Omega Strain'', where the main antagonists are Chechen Muslim terrorists, but the first group the player deals with are the French-Canadian Anarchist Libertaire Armee (ALA).
%%* The "America Now" terrorist group in the 11th mission of the career mode in the original ''VideoGame/{{SWAT 4}}''.
* The Soldier of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is a parodic semi-heroic example of this trope. He is a PoliticallyIncorrectHero, CloudCuckooLander, and fits the second {{Eagleland}} example to a T. Nonetheless, he is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold and cares about his team of mixed nationalities. Even if at times it's clear he's simply that dumb to think they're American like him.
* ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'' has the Pawnee Militia. In addition to the anti-government politics and love of guns, they're also hired by the [[TheIrishMob Chicago South Club]] to serve as armed escorts or hitmen, and by the [[MegaCorp Blume Corporation]] to guard some of their facilities. The latter brings them into conflict with T-Bone. The expansion ''Bad Blood'' reveals that, at some point after the events of the main story, they turned against Blume, presumably upon finding out [[SinisterSurveillance what the ctOS was actually used for]]. It's implied that this turn of events has caused T-Bone to sympathize with their views a bit, though he still despises their methods, and works with detective Sheila Billings to help stop them from carrying out terrorist attacks.
* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'' had Bleach Japan, a Japanese twist on the formula. They are ostensibly a group of MoralGuardians dedicated to "bleaching" grey areas of Japan, by forcing the authorities to take action against petty crimes which are otherwise largely ignored for reasons of tradition or pragmatism. However, it quickly becomes clear that the real reason this group exists is to make life intolerable for marginalized people who cannot gain redress through Japan's notoriously racist and classist justice system, such as sex workers, the homeless, illegal immigrants, their children,[[note]]Unlike most countries in the world, Japan does not have birthright citizenship. If you are born in Japan of two non-citizen parents, you are not a citizen and therefore not eligible to enroll in state schools, receive state-subsidized medical care, work in regular jobs without an extremely difficult-to-get permit, receive financial aid, etc. Needless to say, a lot of these people turn to crime to survive.[[/note]] and other non-citizens. Bleach Japan aren't as heavily armed as their American counterparts, but regularly wear helmets and carry baseball bats, and are very eager to use violence against anyone who doesn't fit into their vision of what Japan should be. [[spoiler:They are also, unbeknownst to most of their members, a front for the BigBad, who uses them to put the squeeze on small ethnic criminal groups for his allies in the Omi Alliance.]]
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* ''Webcomic/{{Remus}}'' has one of these [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything fly a plane into the White House]] [[RRatedOpening on page 1.]] That's actually one of the ''least'' horrific things that happens in this comic.
* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has an alien space naval version in Book 18 with the Uuplechan Patriot Armada, a flotilla of what barely qualify as "warships" crewed by anti-immigration bigots with a habit of preying upon ships belonging to other species, and using their political allies to avoid prosecution. [[spoiler:Proving that they're outright SpacePirates proves necessary to prevent an all-out war between Uuplech and Tagon's Toughs.]]
* In ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' Texas [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20081120.html fell]] to an alliance of these compounds, who then conquered [[DividedStatesOfAmerica most of the southeastern U.S.]] With a particular emphasis on fundamentalism.
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* In the AlternateHistory ''Literature/DecadesOfDarkness'', the Anglo-Saxon nationalist movement in Britain leads to the growth of the Gaderung (who are based around agricultural self-sufficiency) and the Fyrd (an alternate version of [[ScoutOut the Boy Scouts]]), while the government creates the Home Defence Force to protect against invasion. All of these groups rapidly turn into these, especially when [[spoiler:Germany invades Britain and law and order breaks down]].
* In the AlternateHistory ''Literature/AGiantSuckingSound'', President Ross Perot pushes [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics tough gun laws]] after the Waco Siege, creating impetus for a violent terrorist organization called Stormfront, which unites various members of the militia movements and the American far-right and proves to be the most dangerous groups of the ATL 1990s, [[spoiler:notably assassinating Paul Wellstone and Steven Spielberg]].
* Parodied in the ''Website/SomethingAwful'' article [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/guns-versus-apaches.php "Great Battles of the New American Revolution"]]. The militia groups are only able to take a Cracker Barrel in Missouri, an Old Country Buffet in the Florida Panhandle, and a strip mall in Jacksonville off I-295 before they are defeated in one CurbStompBattle after another.
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* Stanley "Mad Stan" Labowski in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' combines this with a touch of the Unabomber. It's actually unclear just what his politics are, since his rhetoric tends to be [[WordSaladPhilosophy somewhat muddled]], but he ''really hates'' the [[TheGovernment federal government]] and generally looks like one of these. Then again, his hatred of capitalism probably puts him closer to a [[BombThrowingAnarchists Bomb-Throwing Anarchist]].
* Dale Gribble from ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' drifts between this, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, and an AgentMulder. His Gun-Club buddies definitely qualify though. Especially [[MeaningfulName Mad Dog]], who thinks Dale's conspiring to kill him and takes Hank, Bill, and Boomhauer hostage.
* ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'': "Three Robots: Exit Strategies": The first pre-apocalyptic society examined by the droids is a rural community inhabited by right-wing gun nuts, who, as noted, attempted to escape governmental surveillance with bullets and venison. Cut off from government support, they went extinct through a combination of starvation/dietary deficiency-related illness (because all they had to eat was venison jerky) and turning on each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** Homer Simpson, of all people, shows signs of this in one episode when he hands Bart money printed by 'the Montana Militia', saying "It'll be real soon enough." This is, naturally, a throwaway joke which is never, ever referenced again.
** Herman, an occasionally recurring character who sells military antiques, comes close to playing this trope straight. At times.
* What with his talk of the New World Order and trying to secure the MacGuffin for a future war, Silas and MECH of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' may be this.
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' had the anti-mutant hate group "Friends of Humanity". They tried to appear like a legitimate movement who were disaffected with the anti-mutant Robert Kelly switching sides and giving Beast a presidential pardon, but considering their outfits were [[NoSwastikas a few Swastikas short]] from officially being [[PuttingOnTheReich Neo-Nazi garm]] and their "activism" included things like attacking a hospital full of blind patients, the whole VillainWithGoodPublicity thing didn't last. They also set up bases in places that they probably didn't own, kidnapped and attempted to kill multiple people just for being mutants and spread a seemingly lethal virus so they could blame it on mutants. They were initially led by Graydon Creed, son of Mystique and Sabertooth, who was personally driven out of hatred for the mutant parents who abandoned him but was also genuinely bigoted. Either way, after Wolverine revealed Creed's relation with Sabertooth, the organization abandoned him and seemingly collapsed on itself, but it eventually made a comeback, this time led by a group of masked men in Klan-like hoods.
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