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* ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' is a modern-time setting for the ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' RPG. Not only is every possible conspiracy staged by either Nyarlatotep, Mi-Go, or some other EldritchAbomination, but the playable organization, Delta Green, is an illegal conspiracy. Why? Because official paranormal investigators are working hand-in-hand with the aliens, of course.
** What's even funnier is that, in the official setting, Delta Green doesn't believe in aliens, only monsters, magic, and ghosts. Of course, anyone who's up on the source material knows that all the monsters, aliens, and magic reside at the same address. (It's also worth mentioning that the aliens who are manipulating the official MIB aren't actually aliens, but artificial constructs created by the real aliens who wanted a weird but still recognizably human appearance.)

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* ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' is a modern-time setting for the ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' RPG. Not only is every possible conspiracy staged by either Nyarlatotep, Mi-Go, or some other EldritchAbomination, but the playable organization, Delta Green, is an illegal conspiracy. Why? Because official paranormal investigators are working hand-in-hand with the aliens, of course.
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course. What's even funnier is that, in the official setting, Delta Green doesn't believe in aliens, only monsters, magic, and ghosts. Of course, anyone who's up on the source material knows that all the monsters, aliens, and magic reside at the same address. (It's also worth mentioning that the aliens who are manipulating the official MIB aren't actually aliens, but artificial constructs created by the real aliens who wanted a weird but still recognizably human appearance.)



** Depending on how you look at it, ''TabletopGame/InNomine'' (and its offshoot, ''GURPS In Nomine'') also qualifies.
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** Depending on how you look at it, ''TabletopGame/InNomine'' (and its offshoot, ''GURPS In Nomine'') also qualifies.
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qualifies. ''In Nomine Anime'', a small and obscure supplement, definitely has one foot in this territory.



* The TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness. Everything is being manipulated by and has always been manipulated by the [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Vampire Elders]], the [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Technocracy]], [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse Pentex]], and [[TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion various]] [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming evil]] [[TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen spirits]]. At the same time. With the organizations never interacting, conflicting, or sometimes even being aware of each other.
** This is largely because early books weren't necessarily written with crossovers in mind, and gave you a world populated by one supernatural threat, later books in oWoD got better about enabling crossovers and finding niches for the various creatures.
*** The Technocracy, in particular, seemed to have a handle on vampires and werewolves better than anyone else... then it turned out the Technocracy contained several competing conspiracies.
** The TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness is getting there, too, except none of the conspiracies control ''everything'', just a specialized area. The Seers of the Throne make sure that magic stays out of the Fallen World so they get it all to themselves. They have their own phony Men in Black, Division Six... and we say "phony" because the ''real'' Men in Black, Task Force: VALKYRIE, operate out of the US Treasury. Then you have the medical corporation that performs experiments on supernatural creatures to find out how useful their parts are, the Catholic Church's crack monster-hunting squad, and the FBI bureau staffed with psychics who hunt down [[SlasherMovie supernatural serial killers]] and stick them in a Midwestern Guantanamo. And so on. (It's worth noting that all of the listed examples, excluding the Seers of the Throne but including Division Six, come from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil''.)
*** And in the Fanmade Gameline ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'', Lemuria used to be in charge of this, but now only ''thinks'' they're in charge of it. (Bizarrely, the Lemurians and the Seers of the Throne are ''unable to detect'' each other, and no one knows why.)

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* The TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness. Everything is being manipulated by and has always been manipulated by the [[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Vampire Elders]], the [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Technocracy]], [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse Pentex]], and [[TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion various]] [[TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming evil]] [[TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen spirits]]. At the same time. With the organizations never interacting, conflicting, or sometimes even being aware of each other.
** This is largely because early books weren't necessarily written with crossovers in mind, and gave you a world populated by one supernatural threat, later books in oWoD got better about enabling crossovers and finding niches for the various creatures.
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other. The Technocracy, in particular, seemed to have a handle on vampires and werewolves better than anyone else... then it turned out the Technocracy contained several competing conspiracies.
** * The TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness is getting there, too, except none of the conspiracies control ''everything'', just a specialized area. The Seers of the Throne make sure that magic stays out of the Fallen World so they get it all to themselves. They have their own phony Men in Black, Division Six... and we say "phony" because the ''real'' Men in Black, Task Force: VALKYRIE, operate out of the US Treasury. Then you have the medical corporation that performs experiments on supernatural creatures to find out how useful their parts are, the Catholic Church's crack monster-hunting squad, and the FBI bureau staffed with psychics who hunt down [[SlasherMovie supernatural serial killers]] and stick them in a Midwestern Guantanamo. And so on. (It's worth noting that all of the listed examples, excluding the Seers of the Throne but including Division Six, come from ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil''.)
*** And in * In the Fanmade Gameline ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'', Lemuria used to be in charge of this, but now only ''thinks'' they're in charge of it. (Bizarrely, the Lemurians and the Seers of the Throne are ''unable to detect'' each other, and no one knows why.)



*** Entertainingly, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight this is confirmed]] in ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' by a NPC.

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*** ** Entertainingly, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight this is confirmed]] in ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' by a NPC.



* ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'': The main characters are part of a [[EvilInc company that helps run and keep track of all of them through morally questionable means]]. This includes everything from chemtrails to cryptids to cloning celebrities to assassinations to subliminal messaging to the reptilians to Atlantis.

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The main characters are part of a [[EvilInc company that helps run and keep track of all of them through morally questionable means]]. This includes everything from chemtrails to cryptids to cloning celebrities to assassinations to subliminal messaging to the reptilians to Atlantis.
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** [[spoiler:To elaborate on the above: Majestic-12, an offshoot of the Illuminati that overthrew their parent organization (themselves a cabal of elite high-minded thinkers and wealthy investors ideologically descended from the Knights Templar and seeking to govern the world), is spreading a man-made virus via black helicopters both to kill off the surplus population and to control the government via their puppet-organization FEMA. They have engineered the Greasels and the Greys (using genes from animals, including bovines) and as [[FictionAsCoverUp a distraction for the public]] and have created augmented Men in Black to act as their enforcers. Their ultimate plan is to reroute global communications through Ares 51 and [[TakeOverTheWorld usher in a New World Order]] with themselves as the all-seeing "gods" of this world.]]

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** [[spoiler:To elaborate on the above: Majestic-12, an offshoot of the Illuminati that overthrew their parent organization (themselves a cabal of elite high-minded thinkers and wealthy investors ideologically descended from the Knights Templar and seeking to govern the world), is spreading a man-made virus via black helicopters both to kill off the surplus population and to control the government via their puppet-organization FEMA. They have engineered the Greasels and the Greys (using genes from animals, including bovines) and as [[FictionAsCoverUp a distraction for the public]] and have created augmented Men in Black to act as their enforcers. Their ultimate plan is to reroute global communications through Ares Area 51 and [[TakeOverTheWorld usher in a New World Order]] with themselves as the all-seeing "gods" of this world.]]
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** One example is a small ball that seems to be similar to rubber except that it gains energy with each bounce, making it incredibly destructive. Apparently it caused a massive New York blackout. The alien diplomat who did it [[ForTheLulz thought it was funny as hell]].

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** One example is a small ball that seems to be similar to rubber except that it gains energy with each bounce, making it incredibly destructive. Apparently it caused a massive New York blackout. The alien diplomat who did it [[ForTheLulz [[ItAmusedMe thought it was funny as hell]].
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* Music/NanowarOfSteel: {{Parodied}} by "Protocols (of the Elders of Zion) of Love", a love song which tells how the singer immediately felt a connection to his LoveInterest... through the computer chips implanted in them both by Bill Gates, which along with StockFootage from ''[=InfoWars=]'' pretty much sets the tone for the rest of the song, which namedrops conspiracy theories from chemtrails to reptilians and is named after a rather infamous anti-Semitic hoax.
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* The world of ''Literature/ConstanceVerity'' has so many secret societies -- both [[NebulousEvilOrganisation evil]] and [[BenevolentConspiracy benign]] -- that it's a wonder that they aren't all busy going to war with each other instead of Constance. And that's not even going into Area51, mind-controlling fungus, androids, the Loch Ness Monster (which Connie had to save four times), The Great Engine that regulates the universe, supervillains, etc.
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* ''Manga/BillyBat'': The manga is a historical fiction series in which a cartoon bat and the artists that become obsessed with it become entangled in several strange historical events and conspiracy theories. Among the events that happen in the series, [[spoiler:the moon landing was faked in 1961 and Lee Harvey Oswald was the fall guy, not the actual killer of JFK]].
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** Also ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS IOU}}''. The "I" does stand for "Illuminati" after all. (The "U" stands for "University", and [[TheUnreveal the "O" stands for]] [[spoiler:YOU'RE NOT CLEARED FOR THAT INFORMATION! ...seriously speaking, it's never explained.]])

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** Also ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS IOU}}''.''TabletopGame/GURPSIlluminatiUniversity''. The "I" does stand for "Illuminati" after all. (The "U" stands for "University", and [[TheUnreveal the "O" stands for]] [[spoiler:YOU'RE NOT CLEARED FOR THAT INFORMATION! ...seriously speaking, it's never explained.]])
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* ''ComicBook/BlackDynamite'': Discussed. [[TheIlluminati Illuminati]] leader The Man confirms that ''all'' the different rumors about shadowy cabals controlling world events are true, to which Black Dynamite simply replies, "I knew it."

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* The [[http://www.subgenius.com/ Church of the Subgenius]] (a tongue-in-cheek parody of both New Age mysticism and Fundamentalist Christianity, fused together) includes a deliberately mixmastered hodgepodge of conspiracy theories in its whacked-out "cosmology". Take two shots UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}}, three ounces of unadulterated conspiracy theory, shake together with a splash of Bay Rum, a pinch of Dianetics, and a heaping helping of LSD, and you might be able to approximate it. Drink straight from a Klein bottle for maximum effect.
* Creator/DavidIcke will tell you that the Anunnaki, ancient Babylonian gods, were in fact [[ReptilianConspiracy Reptilian]] aliens who are still among us, among them the Windsors, Bushes, and Habsburgs, and are behind every conspiracy ever alleged, including Kennedy, 9/11, the Pyramids, anything involving Illuminati, etc. (especially the antisemitic ones), authors of the past using then-acceptable antisemitism to pass coded references to Reptilians to others "in the know."
** {{Website/Cracked}} summed him up best:
---> This is David Icke. He is a fucking loon.
** His theories are so well-known and crazy that ''Lost Tapes'' did an episode concerning Reptilians that's basically a loving homage to his kookiest and craziest theories. It also ends with a slight twist. The Reptilians aren't here to rule and manipulate us, [[spoiler: they're here to '''harvest''' us.]]
** Most "unified conspiracy theories" are deliberate examples of this, being attempts to shoehorn every conspiracy theory that the writer believes into a coherent narrative.
*** Icke has been sometimes suspected that his claims about "Reptilians" are veiled antisemitic slanders (his occasional references to ''Literature/TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion'' certainly [[NotHelpingYourCase didn't help]] much to dispel these suspicions), but according to people who discussed his theories with him personally (on his "Babylonian Brotherhood" conspiracy and so on), when he says Lizards[[note]]Technically speaking, he says [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot "interdimensional shape-shifting lizard-people from a rift in the space-time continuum near the constellation Draco"]], which is rather long.[[/note]] ''[[CloudCuckooLander he really means]]'' Lizards. He even claimed that some traditional antisemitic libels were actually "revealing the truth about reptilians", only [[CrossesTheLineTwice substituting]] Jews as formerly acceptable targets.
* Website/AboveTopSecret is a massive example of this trope, being a large website and forum devoted entirely to conspiracy theories.
* Michael Barkun, a political scientist who studies conspiracy theories, came up with three classifications for such in his book ''A Culture of Conspiracy''. The first, the event conspiracy, attempts to explain lone, one-off events (e.g. the 9/11 attacks, [[WhoShotJFK the JFK assassination]]), while the second, the systemic conspiracy, posits the existence of a shadowy organization manipulating events from behind the scenes (e.g. the Freemasons, the military-industrial complex). The third, the super-conspiracy, is this trope in a nutshell, claiming that this secret organization and its lackeys and puppets control the entire world through a series of interlocking conspiracies.
* [=QAnon=] is the Conspiracy Kitchen Sink ''du jour'' of the late 2010s and early '20s. It started in 2017 with a post on Website/FourChan by somebody claiming to be an anonymous government whistleblower (known as “Q)” with "Q-level" security clearance[[note]]Which is actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_clearance a real thing]], albeit used by the Department Of Energy rather than, say, the Department of Justice[[/note]] who alleged that UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton was about to be arrested on charges of [[PaedoHunt child sex trafficking and pedophilia]]. That prediction (along with basically ''every other prediction ever made by Q'') failing to pan out did not stop the conspiracy theory from rapidly growing, turning into a KudzuPlot concerning a massive child trafficking operation run by a [[TheIlluminati cabal of liberal elites]] for the purposes of {{sex slave}}ry and the extraction of a [[FantasticDrug drug called adrenochrome]] that allegedly [[LifeDrinker restores youth]] (loosely based on one of Creator/HunterSThompson's many tall tales - if you actually ''did'' want to obtain adrenochrome, which you wouldn't because it doesn't do anything, you could get it from expired [=EpiPens=] with no risky mass kidnapping and torture required). It wasn't until the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, however, that it became a kitchen sink that overtook conspiracy culture to the point of resembling a religion, as conspiracy theories about everything from the pandemic's origins to [[CloningGambit human cloning]] to [[HollywoodSatanism Satanism]] to [[NewTechnologyIsEvil 5G cell phone signals]] to [[WhoShotJFK the Kennedy family]] to anti-vaccination medical woo all got rolled into the [=QAnon=] memeset. “Q” had long been speculated to be one or both of Jim and Ron Watkins, the father/son owners of 8chan, but was more or less confirmed to be at least Ron when he slipped up in an interview and admitted to part of it. The very earliest Q posts might not have been their work, although that doesn't make them any more credible.
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* The [[http://www.subgenius.com/ Church of the Subgenius]] (a tongue-in-cheek parody of both New Age mysticism and Fundamentalist Christianity, fused together) includes a deliberately mixmastered hodgepodge of conspiracy theories in its whacked-out "cosmology". Take two shots UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}}, three ounces of unadulterated conspiracy theory, shake together with a splash of Bay Rum, a pinch of Dianetics, and a heaping helping of LSD, and you might be able to approximate it. Drink straight from a Klein bottle for maximum effect.
* Creator/DavidIcke will tell you that the Anunnaki, ancient Babylonian gods, were in fact [[ReptilianConspiracy Reptilian]] aliens who are still among us, among them the Windsors, Bushes, and Habsburgs, and are behind every conspiracy ever alleged, including Kennedy, 9/11, the Pyramids, anything involving Illuminati, etc. (especially the antisemitic ones), authors of the past using then-acceptable antisemitism to pass coded references to Reptilians to others "in the know."
** {{Website/Cracked}} summed him up best:
---> This is David Icke. He is a fucking loon.
** His theories are so well-known and crazy that ''Lost Tapes'' did an episode concerning Reptilians that's basically a loving homage to his kookiest and craziest theories. It also ends with a slight twist. The Reptilians aren't here to rule and manipulate us, [[spoiler: they're here to '''harvest''' us.]]
** Most "unified conspiracy theories" are deliberate examples of this, being attempts to shoehorn every conspiracy theory that the writer believes into a coherent narrative.
*** Icke has been sometimes suspected that his claims about "Reptilians" are veiled antisemitic slanders (his occasional references to ''Literature/TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion'' certainly [[NotHelpingYourCase didn't help]] much to dispel these suspicions), but according to people who discussed his theories with him personally (on his "Babylonian Brotherhood" conspiracy and so on), when he says Lizards[[note]]Technically speaking, he says [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot "interdimensional shape-shifting lizard-people from a rift in the space-time continuum near the constellation Draco"]], which is rather long.[[/note]] ''[[CloudCuckooLander he really means]]'' Lizards. He even claimed that some traditional antisemitic libels were actually "revealing the truth about reptilians", only [[CrossesTheLineTwice substituting]] Jews as formerly acceptable targets.
* Website/AboveTopSecret is a massive example of this trope, being a large website and forum devoted entirely to conspiracy theories.
* Michael Barkun, a political scientist who studies conspiracy theories, came up with three classifications for such in his book ''A Culture of Conspiracy''. The first, the event conspiracy, attempts to explain lone, one-off events (e.g. the 9/11 attacks, [[WhoShotJFK the JFK assassination]]), while the second, the systemic conspiracy, posits the existence of a shadowy organization manipulating events from behind the scenes (e.g. the Freemasons, the military-industrial complex). The third, the super-conspiracy, is this trope in a nutshell, claiming that this secret organization and its lackeys and puppets control the entire world through a series of interlocking conspiracies.
* [=QAnon=] is the Conspiracy Kitchen Sink ''du jour'' of the late 2010s and early '20s. It started in 2017 with a post on Website/FourChan by somebody claiming to be an anonymous government whistleblower (known as “Q)” with "Q-level" security clearance[[note]]Which is actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_clearance a real thing]], albeit used by the Department Of Energy rather than, say, the Department of Justice[[/note]] who alleged that UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton was about to be arrested on charges of [[PaedoHunt child sex trafficking and pedophilia]]. That prediction (along with basically ''every other prediction ever made by Q'') failing to pan out did not stop the conspiracy theory from rapidly growing, turning into a KudzuPlot concerning a massive child trafficking operation run by a [[TheIlluminati cabal of liberal elites]] for the purposes of {{sex slave}}ry and the extraction of a [[FantasticDrug drug called adrenochrome]] that allegedly [[LifeDrinker restores youth]] (loosely based on one of Creator/HunterSThompson's many tall tales - if you actually ''did'' want to obtain adrenochrome, which you wouldn't because it doesn't do anything, you could get it from expired [=EpiPens=] with no risky mass kidnapping and torture required). It wasn't until the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, however, that it became a kitchen sink that overtook conspiracy culture to the point of resembling a religion, as conspiracy theories about everything from the pandemic's origins to [[CloningGambit human cloning]] to [[HollywoodSatanism Satanism]] to [[NewTechnologyIsEvil 5G cell phone signals]] to [[WhoShotJFK the Kennedy family]] to anti-vaccination medical woo all got rolled into the [=QAnon=] memeset. “Q” had long been speculated to be one or both of Jim and Ron Watkins, the father/son owners of 8chan, but was more or less confirmed to be at least Ron when he slipped up in an interview and admitted to part of it. The very earliest Q posts might not have been their work, although that doesn't make them any more credible.
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* The following example has been deemed classification level Viridian Gamma by [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} The Holy Inquisition of the Imperium of Man]]: [[spoiler:You know too much. *BLAM*]]
* ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'' is this trope; includes dimension-traveling lizard people, Atlantis, the Illuminati, ModernMagic, alien bigfoot, and of course government conspiracies.

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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The following example has been deemed classification level Viridian Gamma by [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} The the Holy Inquisition of the Imperium of Man]]: Man: [[spoiler:You know too much. *BLAM*]]
* ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter'' is this trope; ''TabletopGame/DarkMatter1999'' includes dimension-traveling lizard people, Atlantis, the Illuminati, ModernMagic, PostModernMagik, alien bigfoot, and of course government conspiracies.
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->''"In the mid 1980s I was asked to compile a comic book detailing the murky history of the CIA. What I learned during the frankly horrifying research was that, yes: there is a conspiracy. In fact, there are a great number of conspiracies, all tripping each other up."''

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->''"In the mid 1980s 1980s, I was asked to compile a comic book detailing the murky history of the CIA. What I learned during the frankly horrifying research was that, yes: there is a conspiracy. In fact, there are a great number of conspiracies, all tripping each other up."''



Occasionally leads to a GambitPileup, but not nearly as often as it should. Naturally, in all of these conspiracies there are NoDelaysForTheWicked.

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Occasionally leads to a GambitPileup, but not nearly as often as it should. Naturally, in all of these conspiracies conspiracies, there are NoDelaysForTheWicked.



* The main protagonist of ''Hunter-killer'' (written by Creator/MarkWaid) has been home schooled, and what he's been taught (as far as recent history is concerned) is all conspiracy theories. [[spoiler:And not surprisingly, all he's been taught is true, except the part about the week having six days.]] One major turning point, as it turns out, was indeed the Cuban missile crisis.

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* The main protagonist of ''Hunter-killer'' (written by Creator/MarkWaid) has been home schooled, home-schooled, and what he's been taught (as far as recent history is concerned) is all conspiracy theories. [[spoiler:And not surprisingly, all he's been taught is true, except the part about the week having six days.]] One major turning point, as it turns out, was indeed the Cuban missile crisis.



* DC Comics did release two books, ''The Big Book of Conspiracies'' and ''The Big Book of the Unexplained'', and yes, not only did all of the conpsiracies get inextricably jumbled together through references, but the two ''books'' managed to get intertwined as well.

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* DC Comics did release two books, ''The Big Book of Conspiracies'' and ''The Big Book of the Unexplained'', and yes, not only did all of the conpsiracies conspiracies get inextricably jumbled together through references, but the two ''books'' managed to get intertwined as well.



* In a world where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve collective belief warps reality]], conspiracy theories in ''ComicBook/TheDepartmentOfTruth'' manifest as real-life monsters, selective memories and other anomalous activity, things that only grown more and more dangerous the more sense they make to people. One of the Department of Truth's jobs is to decentralize conspiracies so that not too many people can latch onto the same idea. Oswald gives an example of various inane theories -- citing theories like Obama being from Kenya, that 9/11 was an inside job and everything [=QAnon=] ever says -- and asks Cole to put them all together. Cole is able to weave a linear, ongoing narrative based around these facts where the world is being controlled by a globalist Shadow Government, Obama is the Antichrist and the War on Terror was all a plot to destroy America, a "big picture" that the Department is trying to prevent.

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* In a world where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve collective belief warps reality]], conspiracy theories in ''ComicBook/TheDepartmentOfTruth'' manifest as real-life monsters, selective memories memories, and other anomalous activity, things that only grown more and more dangerous the more sense they make to people. One of the Department of Truth's jobs is to decentralize conspiracies so that not too many people can latch onto the same idea. Oswald gives an example of various inane theories -- citing theories like Obama being from Kenya, that 9/11 was an inside job job, and everything [=QAnon=] ever says -- and asks Cole to put them all together. Cole is able to weave a linear, ongoing narrative based around these facts where the world is being controlled by a globalist Shadow Government, Obama is the Antichrist and the War on Terror was all a plot to destroy America, a "big picture" that the Department is trying to prevent.



* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} are the TheMenInBlack hiding weird phenomena and creatures from the general public (particularly in [[Series/AgentsOfShield the television]] [[Series/AgentCarter spinoffs]]), even once the events of the movies (particularly [[Film/TheAvengers2012 an alien horde attacking New York City]]) turn it into TheUnmasquedWorld. And ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' reveals [[spoiler:hidden within the agency is HYDRA, [[ANaziByAnyOtherName an offshoot of the Nazi army]] which managed to stay in the shadows for 70 years while orchestrating every war, evil government and such.]]

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* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} are the TheMenInBlack hiding weird phenomena and creatures from the general public (particularly in [[Series/AgentsOfShield the television]] [[Series/AgentCarter spinoffs]]), even once the events of the movies (particularly [[Film/TheAvengers2012 an alien horde attacking New York City]]) turn it into TheUnmasquedWorld. And ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' reveals [[spoiler:hidden within the agency is HYDRA, [[ANaziByAnyOtherName an offshoot of the Nazi army]] which managed to stay in the shadows for 70 years while orchestrating every war, evil government government, and such.]]



* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''. The Oracle tells Neo that the Matrix is full of programs controlling its individual elements, which are the source of myths and conspiracy theories about ghosts, angels, vampires, werewolves, aliens and the like.

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* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''. The Oracle tells Neo that the Matrix is full of programs controlling its individual elements, which are the source of myths and conspiracy theories about ghosts, angels, vampires, werewolves, aliens aliens, and the like.



* Parodied in ''Film/UndercoverBrother'', as this spy comedy centers on a mysterious caucasian BigBad who plans on subliminally ruining the image of the black community, and once the protagonist joins the organization that fights against The Man's efforts, he learns that all the anti-black conspiracies are true, but it's for funny/mundane matters such as "The [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] really did institute the three point shot to give white boys a chance" and "The entertainment industry really is out to get Creator/SpikeLee" because even Music/{{Cher}} won an Oscar, but when it gets to a more serious topic:

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* Parodied in ''Film/UndercoverBrother'', as this spy comedy centers on a mysterious caucasian Caucasian BigBad who plans on subliminally ruining the image of the black community, and once the protagonist joins the organization that fights against The Man's efforts, he learns that all the anti-black conspiracies are true, but it's for funny/mundane matters such as "The [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] really did institute the three point three-point shot to give white boys a chance" and "The entertainment industry really is out to get Creator/SpikeLee" because even Music/{{Cher}} won an Oscar, but when it gets to a more serious topic:



* ''Literature/Area51'': The series manages to involve ''tons'' of popular conspiracy theories within its mythos (the author claims most are true), starting of course with Area 51. Yes, there is a secret base on the site, and the US government (or part of it anyway) is hiding alien craft they've been flying since the late 40's there. Also, they're behind alien abductions and crop circles (as disinformation confusing people). We later also learn most of what's believed about human history was wrong. The craft are from an alien species who colonized Earth millennia ago, and ruled ancient humans on {{Atlantis}}. Since it was destroyed, two different factions have been fighting each other behind the scenes, and numerous mythical figures were aliens in disguise or just influenced by them. Also, lots of mythical artifacts were real, but alien technology. There have also been many human (or part-human) stooges serving these aliens secretly, with them having infiltrated many world governments. Oh, and one faction was the force behind the Nazis. Plus, biggest of all: [[spoiler:they created humans to begin with.]]

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* ''Literature/Area51'': The series manages to involve ''tons'' of popular conspiracy theories within its mythos (the author claims most are true), starting of course with Area 51. Yes, there is a secret base on the site, and the US government (or part of it anyway) is hiding alien craft they've been flying since the late 40's '40s there. Also, they're behind alien abductions and crop circles (as disinformation confusing people). We later also learn most of what's believed about human history was wrong. The craft are from an alien species who colonized Earth millennia ago, and ruled ancient humans on {{Atlantis}}. Since it was destroyed, two different factions have been fighting each other behind the scenes, and numerous mythical figures were aliens in disguise or just influenced by them. Also, lots of mythical artifacts were real, but alien technology. There have also been many human (or part-human) stooges serving these aliens secretly, with them having infiltrated many world governments. Oh, and one faction was the force behind the Nazis. Plus, biggest of all: [[spoiler:they created humans to begin with.]]



** What's even funnier is that, in the official setting, Delta Green doesn't believe in aliens, only monsters, magic, and ghosts. Of course, anyone who's up on the source material know that all the monsters, aliens, and magic reside at the same address. (It's also worth mentioning that the aliens who are manipulating the official MIB aren't actually aliens, but artificial constructs created by the real aliens who wanted a weird but still recognizably human appearance.)

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** What's even funnier is that, in the official setting, Delta Green doesn't believe in aliens, only monsters, magic, and ghosts. Of course, anyone who's up on the source material know knows that all the monsters, aliens, and magic reside at the same address. (It's also worth mentioning that the aliens who are manipulating the official MIB aren't actually aliens, but artificial constructs created by the real aliens who wanted a weird but still recognizably human appearance.)



*** And in the Fanmade Gameline ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'', Lemuria used to be in charge of this, but now only ''thinks'' they're in charge of it. (Bizarrely, the Lemurians and the Seers of the Throne are ''unable to detect'' each other, and no-one knows why.)

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*** And in the Fanmade Gameline ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'', Lemuria used to be in charge of this, but now only ''thinks'' they're in charge of it. (Bizarrely, the Lemurians and the Seers of the Throne are ''unable to detect'' each other, and no-one no one knows why.)



* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' rapidly became an amalgamation of all sorts of conspiracy theories, incorporating everything from the Tunguska Event to JFK's assassination to ''the entirety of World War II'' and tracing them all back to the Templars, the Assassins or both trying to cover up or seize something or other. It's not exactly necessary to understand how it all fits together to make any sense of the plot, fortunately, because any attempt to do so is doomed to failure, particularly when [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien time travelling god aliens]] get involved. Generally it's best to simply accept that the Assassins and Templars have been at each other's throats for a really long time and move on. Gets especially crazy and paranoia-inducing in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood''. Alan Turing? Murdered to prevent him from inventing too powerful computers. Cable TV? A method for transmitting brainwave altering signals and monitoring citizens. Cell tower surveillance? Tracking all communication. These conspiracy tropes are largely used as metaphor and window dressing, and the crux of the games are mostly a skewed retelling of historical facts. Indeed the point of these games is to show how difficult and damn near impossible behind-the-scenes control over history actually is. At times the Assassins and the Templars don't have a lot to do with why certain things happened (in ''Brotherhood''. the two fight a proxy war that gets out of both of their control and tears Italy apart; in ''III'', they both back the same side in the American Revolution and mostly just fight each other as the war rages in the background so their influence over the new nation pretty much cancels out).
* Though it's not essential to play the game, the hidden messages in ''VideoGame/TheConduit'' meshes together just about every conspiracy theory under the sun. Especially [[VideoGame/{{Conduit 2}} the sequel.]]

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* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' rapidly became an amalgamation of all sorts of conspiracy theories, incorporating everything from the Tunguska Event to JFK's assassination to ''the entirety of World War II'' and tracing them all back to the Templars, the Assassins Assassins, or both trying to cover up or seize something or other. It's not exactly necessary to understand how it all fits together to make any sense of the plot, fortunately, because any attempt to do so is doomed to failure, particularly when [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien time travelling time-travelling god aliens]] get involved. Generally it's best to simply accept that the Assassins and Templars have been at each other's throats for a really long time and move on. Gets especially crazy and paranoia-inducing in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood''. Alan Turing? Murdered to prevent him from inventing too powerful computers. Cable TV? A method for transmitting brainwave altering brainwave-altering signals and monitoring citizens. Cell tower surveillance? Tracking all communication. These conspiracy tropes are largely used as metaphor and window dressing, and the crux of the games are mostly a skewed retelling of historical facts. Indeed the point of these games is to show how difficult and damn near impossible behind-the-scenes control over history actually is. At times the Assassins and the Templars don't have a lot to do with why certain things happened (in ''Brotherhood''. the two fight a proxy war that gets out of both of their control and tears Italy apart; in ''III'', they both back the same side in the American Revolution and mostly just fight each other as the war rages in the background so their influence over the new nation pretty much cancels out).
* Though it's not essential to play the game, the hidden messages in ''VideoGame/TheConduit'' meshes mesh together just about every conspiracy theory under the sun. Especially [[VideoGame/{{Conduit 2}} the sequel.]]



* The Website/SCPFoundation features articles based on a wide range of conspiracies, as well as an abundance of hidden conspiracies, secret societies and mysterious cults, with the titular Foundation trying to keep it all covered up. For just one example, according to letters associated with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-281-fr SCP-281-FR]], all societies that have been accused of ruling in the shadows [[labelnote:Including]] Majestic 12, TheIlluminati and the Freemasons [[/labelnote]] are members of the Global Occult Coalition (the paranormal counterpart to the United Nations, one of the Foundation's many rivals).

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* The Website/SCPFoundation features articles based on a wide range of conspiracies, as well as an abundance of hidden conspiracies, secret societies societies, and mysterious cults, with the titular Foundation trying to keep it all covered up. For just one example, according to letters associated with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-281-fr SCP-281-FR]], all societies that have been accused of ruling in the shadows [[labelnote:Including]] Majestic 12, TheIlluminati and the Freemasons [[/labelnote]] are members of the Global Occult Coalition (the paranormal counterpart to the United Nations, one of the Foundation's many rivals).



* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has no end of conspiracies, many of them orchestrated by the KND themselves to keep their organization secret from the average adult. "Operation: M.O.O.N." revolves around that fact that one of these is the moon landing (in order to keep their moonbase from being discovered) and that they now have to fake it again after learning the American government is sending a family there to begin colonizing it.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has no end of conspiracies, many of them orchestrated by the KND themselves to keep their organization secret from the average adult. "Operation: M.O.O.N." revolves around that the fact that one of these is the moon landing (in order to keep their moonbase from being discovered) and that they now have to fake it again after learning the American government is sending a family there to begin colonizing it.



*** Icke has been sometimes suspected that his claims about "Reptilians" are veiled antisemitic slanders (his occasional referrences to ''Literature/TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion'' certainly [[NotHelpingYourCase didn't help]] much to dispel these suspicions), but according to people who discussed his theories with him personally (on his "Babylonian Brotherhood" conspiracy and so on), when he says Lizards[[note]]Technically speaking, he says [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot "interdimensional shape-shifting lizard-people from a rift in the space-time continuum near the constellation Draco"]], which is rather long.[[/note]] ''[[CloudCuckooLander he really means]]'' Lizards. He even claimed that some traditional antisemitic libels were actually "revealing the truth about reptilians", only [[CrossesTheLineTwice substituting]] Jews as formerly acceptable targets.

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*** Icke has been sometimes suspected that his claims about "Reptilians" are veiled antisemitic slanders (his occasional referrences references to ''Literature/TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion'' certainly [[NotHelpingYourCase didn't help]] much to dispel these suspicions), but according to people who discussed his theories with him personally (on his "Babylonian Brotherhood" conspiracy and so on), when he says Lizards[[note]]Technically speaking, he says [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot "interdimensional shape-shifting lizard-people from a rift in the space-time continuum near the constellation Draco"]], which is rather long.[[/note]] ''[[CloudCuckooLander he really means]]'' Lizards. He even claimed that some traditional antisemitic libels were actually "revealing the truth about reptilians", only [[CrossesTheLineTwice substituting]] Jews as formerly acceptable targets.
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* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' runs through the list of stereotypical black conspiracy theories, with each and every one being true. Until it finally culminates in:
-->'''Undercover Brother:''' And O.J. ''really didn't do it.''\\

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* ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' runs through Parodied in ''Film/UndercoverBrother'', as this spy comedy centers on a mysterious caucasian BigBad who plans on subliminally ruining the list image of stereotypical the black conspiracy theories, with each community, and every one being true. Until once the protagonist joins the organization that fights against The Man's efforts, he learns that all the anti-black conspiracies are true, but it's for funny/mundane matters such as "The [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] really did institute the three point shot to give white boys a chance" and "The entertainment industry really is out to get Creator/SpikeLee" because even Music/{{Cher}} won an Oscar, but when it finally culminates in:
gets to a more serious topic:
-->'''Undercover Brother:''' And [[Creator/OJSimpson O.J. ]] ''really didn't do it.''\\



'''Chief:''' Let's move on...

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'''Chief:''' Let's move on...We... we ain't got time for this!
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* ''Film/IronSkyTheComingrace'' features a race of Precursors who created humanity and are also reptilian shapeshifting aliens who live in the HollowEarth in the mythical city of Agartha, where the HolyGrail is the main source of power. Dinosaurs also still live inside the Hollow Earth. Also, many historical figures (including Caligula, Margaret Thatcher, Osama bin Laden and... Mark Zuckerberg) are members of said reptilian race.

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* ''Film/IronSkyTheComingrace'' ''Film/IronSkyTheComingRace'' features a race of Precursors who created humanity and are also reptilian shapeshifting aliens who live in the HollowEarth in the mythical city of Agartha, where the HolyGrail is the main source of power. Dinosaurs also still live inside the Hollow Earth. Also, many historical figures (including Caligula, Margaret Thatcher, Osama bin Laden and... Mark Zuckerberg) are members of said reptilian race.
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* [=QAnon=] is the Conspiracy Kitchen Sink ''du jour'' of the late 2010s and early '20s. It started in 2017 with a post on Website/FourChan by somebody claiming to be an anonymous government whistleblower (known as “Q)” with "Q-level" security clearance who alleged that UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton was about to be arrested on charges of [[PaedoHunt child sex trafficking and pedophilia]]. That prediction (along with basically ''every other prediction ever made by Q'') failing to pan out did not stop the conspiracy theory from rapidly growing, turning into a KudzuPlot concerning a massive child trafficking operation run by a [[TheIlluminati cabal of liberal elites]] for the purposes of {{sex slave}}ry and the extraction of a [[FantasticDrug drug called adrenochrome]] that allegedly [[LifeDrinker restores youth]] (loosely based on one of Creator/HunterSThompson's many tall tales - if you actually ''did'' want to obtain adrenochrome, which you wouldn't because it doesn't do anything, you could get it from expired [=EpiPens=] with no risky mass kidnapping and torture required). It wasn't until the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, however, that it became a kitchen sink that overtook conspiracy culture to the point of resembling a religion, as conspiracy theories about everything from the pandemic's origins to [[CloningGambit human cloning]] to [[HollywoodSatanism Satanism]] to [[NewTechnologyIsEvil 5G cell phone signals]] to [[WhoShotJFK the Kennedy family]] to anti-vaccination medical woo all got rolled into the [=QAnon=] memeset. “Q” had long been speculated to be one or both Jim and Ron Watkins, the father/son owners of 8chan but was more or less confirmed to be at least Ron when he slipped up in an interview and admitted to part of it.

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* [=QAnon=] is the Conspiracy Kitchen Sink ''du jour'' of the late 2010s and early '20s. It started in 2017 with a post on Website/FourChan by somebody claiming to be an anonymous government whistleblower (known as “Q)” with "Q-level" security clearance clearance[[note]]Which is actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_clearance a real thing]], albeit used by the Department Of Energy rather than, say, the Department of Justice[[/note]] who alleged that UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton was about to be arrested on charges of [[PaedoHunt child sex trafficking and pedophilia]]. That prediction (along with basically ''every other prediction ever made by Q'') failing to pan out did not stop the conspiracy theory from rapidly growing, turning into a KudzuPlot concerning a massive child trafficking operation run by a [[TheIlluminati cabal of liberal elites]] for the purposes of {{sex slave}}ry and the extraction of a [[FantasticDrug drug called adrenochrome]] that allegedly [[LifeDrinker restores youth]] (loosely based on one of Creator/HunterSThompson's many tall tales - if you actually ''did'' want to obtain adrenochrome, which you wouldn't because it doesn't do anything, you could get it from expired [=EpiPens=] with no risky mass kidnapping and torture required). It wasn't until the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, however, that it became a kitchen sink that overtook conspiracy culture to the point of resembling a religion, as conspiracy theories about everything from the pandemic's origins to [[CloningGambit human cloning]] to [[HollywoodSatanism Satanism]] to [[NewTechnologyIsEvil 5G cell phone signals]] to [[WhoShotJFK the Kennedy family]] to anti-vaccination medical woo all got rolled into the [=QAnon=] memeset. “Q” had long been speculated to be one or both of Jim and Ron Watkins, the father/son owners of 8chan 8chan, but was more or less confirmed to be at least Ron when he slipped up in an interview and admitted to part of it. The very earliest Q posts might not have been their work, although that doesn't make them any more credible.
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* In a world where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve collective belief warps reality]], conspiracy theories in ''ComicBook/TheDepartmentOfTruth'' manifest as real-life monsters, selective memories and other anomalous activity, things that only grown more and more dangerous the more sense they make to people. One of the Department of Truth's jobs is to decentralized conspiracies in a way so that not too many people can latch onto the same idea in a "too many cooks spoils the pot" kind of way. Oswald gives an example of various inane theories -- citing theories like Obama being from Kenya, that 9/11 was an inside job and everything [=QAnon=] ever says -- and asks Cole to put them all together. Cole is able to weave a linear, ongoing narrative based around these facts where the world is being controlled by a globalist Shadow Government, Obama is the Antichrist and the War on Terror was all a plot to destroy America, a "big picture" that the Department is trying to prevent.

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* In a world where [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve collective belief warps reality]], conspiracy theories in ''ComicBook/TheDepartmentOfTruth'' manifest as real-life monsters, selective memories and other anomalous activity, things that only grown more and more dangerous the more sense they make to people. One of the Department of Truth's jobs is to decentralized decentralize conspiracies in a way so that not too many people can latch onto the same idea in a "too many cooks spoils the pot" kind of way.idea. Oswald gives an example of various inane theories -- citing theories like Obama being from Kenya, that 9/11 was an inside job and everything [=QAnon=] ever says -- and asks Cole to put them all together. Cole is able to weave a linear, ongoing narrative based around these facts where the world is being controlled by a globalist Shadow Government, Obama is the Antichrist and the War on Terror was all a plot to destroy America, a "big picture" that the Department is trying to prevent.
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* [=QAnon=] is the Conspiracy Kitchen Sink ''du jour'' of the late 2010s and early '20s. It started in 2017 with a post on Website/FourChan by somebody claiming to be an anonymous government whistleblower (known as “Q)” with "Q-level" security clearance who alleged that UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton was about to be arrested on charges of [[PaedoHunt child sex trafficking and pedophilia]]. That prediction failing to pan out did not stop the conspiracy theory from rapidly growing, turning into a KudzuPlot concerning a massive child trafficking operation run by a [[TheIlluminati cabal of liberal elites]] for the purposes of {{sex slave}}ry and the extraction of a [[FantasticDrug drug called adrenochrome]] that allegedly [[LifeDrinker restores youth]] (loosely based on one of Creator/HunterSThompson's many tall tales). It wasn't until the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, however, that it became a kitchen sink that overtook conspiracy culture to the point of resembling a religion, as conspiracy theories about everything from the pandemic's origins to [[CloningGambit human cloning]] to [[HollywoodSatanism Satanism]] to [[NewTechnologyIsEvil 5G cell phone signals]] to [[WhoShotJFK the Kennedy family]] all got rolled into the [=QAnon=] memeset. “Q” had long been speculated to be one or both Jim and Ron Watkins, the father/son owners of 8chan but was more or less confirmed to be at least Ron when he slipped up in an interview and admitted to part of it.

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* [=QAnon=] is the Conspiracy Kitchen Sink ''du jour'' of the late 2010s and early '20s. It started in 2017 with a post on Website/FourChan by somebody claiming to be an anonymous government whistleblower (known as “Q)” with "Q-level" security clearance who alleged that UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton was about to be arrested on charges of [[PaedoHunt child sex trafficking and pedophilia]]. That prediction (along with basically ''every other prediction ever made by Q'') failing to pan out did not stop the conspiracy theory from rapidly growing, turning into a KudzuPlot concerning a massive child trafficking operation run by a [[TheIlluminati cabal of liberal elites]] for the purposes of {{sex slave}}ry and the extraction of a [[FantasticDrug drug called adrenochrome]] that allegedly [[LifeDrinker restores youth]] (loosely based on one of Creator/HunterSThompson's many tall tales). tales - if you actually ''did'' want to obtain adrenochrome, which you wouldn't because it doesn't do anything, you could get it from expired [=EpiPens=] with no risky mass kidnapping and torture required). It wasn't until the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, however, that it became a kitchen sink that overtook conspiracy culture to the point of resembling a religion, as conspiracy theories about everything from the pandemic's origins to [[CloningGambit human cloning]] to [[HollywoodSatanism Satanism]] to [[NewTechnologyIsEvil 5G cell phone signals]] to [[WhoShotJFK the Kennedy family]] to anti-vaccination medical woo all got rolled into the [=QAnon=] memeset. “Q” had long been speculated to be one or both Jim and Ron Watkins, the father/son owners of 8chan but was more or less confirmed to be at least Ron when he slipped up in an interview and admitted to part of it.
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Yes, that's right: In this setting, every [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories conspiracy theory]] you've ever heard of is true. And some you haven't. A closely related subtrope to FantasyKitchenSink, but conspiracy-minded, rather than fantastic; like its parent, there is a certain tendency towards self-contradiction, but given the source of the trope (paranoid conspiracy theories), not that surprising, and sometimes not even that damaging.

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Yes, that's right: In this setting, every [[UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheories conspiracy theory]] theory you've ever heard of is true. And some you haven't. A closely related subtrope to FantasyKitchenSink, but conspiracy-minded, rather than fantastic; like its parent, there is a certain tendency towards self-contradiction, but given the source of the trope (paranoid conspiracy theories), not that surprising, and sometimes not even that damaging.
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*** Icke has been sometimes suspected that his claims about "Reptilians" are veiled antisemitic slanders (his occasional referrences to ''Literature/TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion'' certainly [[NotHelpingYourCase didn't help]] much to dispel these suspicions), but according to people who discussed his theories with him personally (on his "Babylonian Brotherhood" conspiracy and so on), when he says Lizards[[note]]Technically speaking, he says [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot "interdimensional shape-shifting lizard-people from a rift in the space-time continuum near the constellation Draco"]], which is rather long.[[/note]] ''[[CloudCuckooLander he really means]]'' Lizards. He even claimed that some traditional antisemitic libels were actually "revealing the truth about reptilians", only [[CrossesTheLineTwice substituting]] Jews as [[OnceAcceptableTargets formerly acceptable targets]].

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*** Icke has been sometimes suspected that his claims about "Reptilians" are veiled antisemitic slanders (his occasional referrences to ''Literature/TheProtocolsOfTheEldersOfZion'' certainly [[NotHelpingYourCase didn't help]] much to dispel these suspicions), but according to people who discussed his theories with him personally (on his "Babylonian Brotherhood" conspiracy and so on), when he says Lizards[[note]]Technically speaking, he says [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot "interdimensional shape-shifting lizard-people from a rift in the space-time continuum near the constellation Draco"]], which is rather long.[[/note]] ''[[CloudCuckooLander he really means]]'' Lizards. He even claimed that some traditional antisemitic libels were actually "revealing the truth about reptilians", only [[CrossesTheLineTwice substituting]] Jews as [[OnceAcceptableTargets formerly acceptable targets]].targets.
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* The ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy of novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson.

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* The ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' trilogy of novels by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. Wilson is arguably the UrExample.
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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation features articles based on a wide range of conspiracies, as well as an abundance of hidden conspiracies, secret societies and mysterious cults, with the titular Foundation trying to keep it all covered up. For just one example, according to letters associated with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-281-fr SCP-281-FR]], all societies that have been accused of ruling in the shadows [[labelnote:Including]] Majestic 12, TheIlluminati and the Freemasons [[/labelnote]] are members of the Global Occult Coalition (the paranormal counterpart to the United Nations, one of the Foundation's many rivals).

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* The Wiki/SCPFoundation Website/SCPFoundation features articles based on a wide range of conspiracies, as well as an abundance of hidden conspiracies, secret societies and mysterious cults, with the titular Foundation trying to keep it all covered up. For just one example, according to letters associated with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-281-fr SCP-281-FR]], all societies that have been accused of ruling in the shadows [[labelnote:Including]] Majestic 12, TheIlluminati and the Freemasons [[/labelnote]] are members of the Global Occult Coalition (the paranormal counterpart to the United Nations, one of the Foundation's many rivals).

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