History Main / BrotherhoodOfEvil

* 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, UsefulNotes/{{Dada}} take on the idea.

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* 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.
* The Brotherhood of Evil from ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' (which started out as an international crime syndicate, but we only ever saw their top people). They also showed up as {{Big Bad}}s of the final season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''.
%% * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
%% ** {{Inverted|Trope}} with The Brotherhood of Guardians from ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''.
%% ** The Brotherhood of Metallix from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic''.
%% * The Brotherhood of Dada in Creator/DCComics, opponents of the ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol''.
* ''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 ComicBook/RasAlGhul and the Demon's Head is able to turn her attention to Tim.
* ''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.

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* 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]].
%% * In ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE]] has "The International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons" as one of its covers.

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%% * The Grail Brotherhood from the ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'' series.
%% * The dark elves of [[Literature/TheRiftwarCycle Midkemia]] are known as the Brotherhood of the Dark Path.
* A {{gender flip}}ped example: the Sisters of the Dark in ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth'', an organization of {{evil sorcerer}}s within the Sisters of the Light secretly serving [[GodOfEvil the Keeper]].
* The predecessor of the modern [[Franchise/StarWars Sith Order]] was the Brotherhood of Darkness, elaborated on in the old ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' books. 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 ExpandedUniverse has indicated they were the same, though with less detail.

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%% * 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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%% * ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''. The Brotherhood of the Beast in the ''The Fungi from Yuggoth'' campaign (and its remake ''Day of the Beast'').

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%% * ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles'': ''The Dark Brotherhood''.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries'' has the Brotherhood of Nod, a [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Nebulous Evil]] {{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.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series has the Dark Brotherhood, which from ''Oblivion'' on[[note]]they were introduced as an enigmatic but evil cult worshipping a dark force in ''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 ''Daggerfall'', and kept that as a non-joinable opposition faction in ''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]]".
%% * The Brotherhood of the Dark Rapture from ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho''.

%% * Just about any organizations in video games that even involve the word 'brotherhood'.
%% ** Although in ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', the (relatively) good Assassins call themselves "The Brotherhood", while the Templar Order decidedly fits this trope perfectly.
* Played with in the ''{{VideoGame/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 ''Fallout 1'' 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).
* 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''.
* ''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.

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%% * The Assembly of Evil from [[ComicBook/LessThanThreeComics LessThanThree Comics']] Brat Pack, although, to be fair, they are supposed to be used as a propaganda tool for when their boss runs for President.
%% * The Sith Brotherhood and Brotherhood of the Sith in ''Roleplay/TheGunganCouncil''.

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%%* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' deters criminals from FOWL, the "Fiendish Organization of World Larceny."

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* TheMafiya is also known as "Bratva", which means, you guessed it, "Brotherhood".

* The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Magneto's supporters in the ComicBook/XMen comics, 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.
* The Brotherhood of Evil from ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' (which started out as an international crime syndicate, but we only ever saw their top people). They also showed up as {{Big Bad}}s of the final season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.

* ''{{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.

%% * The Brotherhood Of Nod from the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries''.
%% ** 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.

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* 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 guild 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]].

[[caption-width-right:300:You ''dare'' make us the TropeNamer!? You must die!]]

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* The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Magneto's supporters in the ComicBook/XMen comics, 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 views of mutants. 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.

* The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Magneto's supporters in the ComicBook/XMen comics, which [[CardCarryingVillain keeps the "evil" in its name]] despite often having sympathetic motives. They'll tell you they call themselves "evil" ironically-- bigoted humans think we're the boogeyman? [[ThenLetMeBeEvil Let's be the boogeyman]]! The irony is lost on everyone else. This is averted in most adaptations, where the name is generally 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.

* Played with in the ''{{VideoGame/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.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series has the Dark Brotherhood, 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]]".

%% * The Brotherhood is one of the rival gangs in ''Videogame/SaintsRow2''.
%% ** As are their predecessors, [[BilingualBonus Los Carnales]], from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1''.

%% ** {{Inverted|Trope}} with The Brotherhood of Guardians from ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog''.

The BrotherhoodOfEvil 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]].

* The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Magneto's supporters in the ComicBook/XMen comics, which [[CardCarryingVillain keeps the "evil" in its name]] despite often having sympathetic motives. They'll tell you they call themselves "evil" ironically-- bigoted humans think we're the boogeyman? [[ThenLetMeBeEvil Let's be the boogeyman]]! The irony is lost on everyone else.
** This is averted in most adaptations, where the name is generally 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.
* The Brotherhood of Evil from ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' (which started out as a international crime syndicate, but we only ever saw their top people.)
** Also showed up as {{Big Bad}}s of the final season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.

* Played with the Brothers in ''Film/PerfectCreature'', an [[ReligiousVampire Christian vampire order]] who teaches their members they are [[SuperiorSpecies superior to mankind]], but are also sworn to serve, educate and guild 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]].

%% * {{Gender Flip}}ped example: the Sisters of the Dark in ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth''
%% * The predecessor of the modern [[Franchise/StarWars Sith Order]] was the Brotherhood of Darkness, elaborated on in the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** {{Inverted|Trope}} with The Brotherhood of Guardians from ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog''.
** The Brotherhood of Metallix from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic''.
* The Brotherhood of Dada in Creator/DCComics, opponents of the ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol''.

* In ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE]] has "The International Brotherhood for the Assistance of Stateless Persons" as one of its covers.

* The Grail Brotherhood from the ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'' series.
* The dark elves of [[Literature/TheRiftwarCycle Midkemia]] are known as the Brotherhood of the Dark Path.
* {{Gender Flip}}ped example: the Sisters of the Dark in ''Literature/TheSwordOfTruth''
* The predecessor of the modern [[Franchise/StarWars Sith Order]] was the Brotherhood of Darkness, elaborated on in the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends''.

* The LLF PowerTrio of Polly Star, La Chacala and Lady Dinamita are known as La Hermandad, a sisterhood of {{rud|o}}as.

* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''. The Brotherhood of the Beast in the ''The Fungi from Yuggoth'' campaign (and its remake ''Day of the Beast'').

* ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles'': ''The Dark Brotherhood''.
* The Brotherhood Of Nod from the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries''.
** 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.

* The Brotherhood of the Dark Rapture from ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersJericho''.

* Just about any organizations in video games that even involve the word 'brotherhood'.
** Although in ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'', the (relatively) good Assassins call themselves "The Brotherhood", while the Templar Order decidedly fits this trope perfectly.

* The Brotherhood is one of the rival gangs in ''Videogame/SaintsRow2''.
** As are their predecessors, [[BilingualBonus Los Carnales]], from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1''.

* The Assembly of Evil from [[ComicBook/LessThanThreeComics LessThanThree Comics']] Brat Pack, although, to be fair, they are supposed to be used as a propaganda tool for when their boss runs for President.
* The Sith Brotherhood and Brotherhood of the Sith in ''Roleplay/TheGunganCouncil''.

* The Brotherhood of Metallix from ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic''.

* ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles'': ''The Dark Brotherhood''

* Played with the Brothers in ''Film/PerfectCreature'', an [[ReligiousVampire Christian vampire order]] who teaches their members they are [[SuperiorSpecies superior to mankind]], but are also sworn to serve, educate and guild them as well. Sure enough, they are viewed considered [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire heroic]] by most people... [[spoiler:Except they are revealed to be extremely corrupt, hypocritical and responsible for the movie's crisis]].