Knight Templar / Web Original

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• The Greater Terran Union in Stellaris Invicta is a totalitarian regime that emerged from the ashes of an Alien Invasion that devastated civilization and killed a significant portion of humanity. A strong undercurrent of xenophobia, militarism and brutal cynicism underlies much of the GTU's political ideology, and the leadership take very extreme methods to ensure humanity will Never Be Hurt Again by aliens.
• By the end of The Anglo/American – Nazi War, the victorious post-war Allies are so horrified by the death and destruction caused that they enact a policy of using any tactic to stop anything that might balloon out into World War III. Unsanctioned space launch? That means you might have access to ICBMs, and the A4 can't have that. Sectarian violence in the third world? Send in the troops and attack both sides. One of the fifteen Administrative Regions which make up what was once the Reich try to push for the reunification of Germany? Nuke the place from orbit and kill everyone in it.
• Don Cheadle's funny and yet at the same time creepy take-on of Captain Planet in Funny or Die.
• In The Gamer's Alliance, the Clergy of Cardia and later the Church of the Memory of Cardia who follow the God of Order show signs of being knight templar in their quest to hunt down anyone who is worshipping Mardük the God of Chaos or collaborating with demons whom they see as abominations to be purged.
• Dr. Hax in The Gmod Idiot Box punishes hacking with a monitor to the face. Any kind of hacking, no matter how benign or well-intentioned. One skit eventually has Chuckles the Cheat (a frequent victim of his) team up with him to take down another hacker, and after Dr. Hax bans him with a banhammer made of monitors, he eventually uses it on Chuckles as well for hacking during the confrontation (though with a reduced ban sentence.)
• Hero House has Kratos, who seems to have taken his God-slaying mission across multiple dimensions, targeting even Superheroes in his quest.
• In Mahu's "Second Chance", the Zracon are an alien example of Knight Templars. Focused on their crusade to rid the whole galaxy of the influence of the dreaded "Shadow", they will brainwash, conquer and slaughter without a single doubt in their minds. After all, no matter how cruel their actions that, they believe the second coming of the shadow will be far, far worse.
• The nation of Wreathe in Mortasheen is basically the Enclave turned up to eleven. They are so obsessed with a "pure" humanity that they launch unprovoked attacks on anything even slightly unhuman, and are more than willing to murder other humans who refuse to bow down to their totalitarian regime. The fact that they're secretly led by a batshit insane computer program doesn't exactly help either.
• Most worshippers of Khersis in Tales of MU come off this way towards the main character as a result of Fantastic Racism, owing to the fact that she's a half-demon and their god's portfolio includes protecting humanity from demons.
  • The incipient paladin Gloria from her mixed melee class comes off as this, as well. Her characterization starts off painting her as just another run-of-the-mill fundamentalist, but when she starts to engage in activities that might seriously harm Mack, like sanctifying herself before battle and uttering prayers as Mack goes to meditate, which may indicate a slippage towards Black-and-White Insanity, she becomes this.
  • The emancipated golem Two also comes off as this in a much less malicious way. She has a pathological desire to do as she is told, and so she takes rules very seriously, sometimes to such a degree that she causes problems for herself and her friends.
• In Void Domain, when it comes to anything they consider a possible enemy, the Elysium nuns tend to shoot holy lightning first and ask questions never. Sister Cross thinks nothing of surprise-attacking a blind girl in her bedroom, then attacking a teacher who comes to her defense.
• SCP Foundation:
  • SCP-2128 ("The Liars' Cradle") is a stone furnace that incinerates anyone who says anything untrue while inside it. Its cultist creators abandoned it after they found it couldn't tell whether someone was truly lying or simply mistaken about a fact.
  • The Foundation becomes this in their attempts to "protect" humanity from SCP-3396, an infectious agent that grants its hosts godlike powers. Despite the Foundation's best efforts, SCP-3396 becomes widespread, and eventually almost everyone on Earth is affected. Does the Foundation accept this as the new normal? Nope. They classify humanity as an SCP and take action to neutralize it. They ultimately destroy themselves and the Earth, all the while humanity continues to thrive, no longer having any need for the Earth.
• Spaceships and Psychics: In the Actual Play Ironsworn: Starforged campaign, the Keepers, upholders of the Covenant, from the gamebook are flavoured as this. In the Player Character's backstory, they send her to eliminate a settlement that was conducting AI research due to believing A.I. Is a Crapshoot and she goes rogue after realizing that completing her mission would involve destroying the Benevolent A.I. they created, who is essentially a child.

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