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* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' also has The Syndicate.
* ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' also has The Syndicate.

* ''ComicBook/TheAuthority''.
* ''ComicBook/TheBoys''.

* The Division in ''Film/{{Push}}''.

* The Organization from ''Literature/{{Fearless}}''.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' has both The Others and the Dharma Initiative.
* The Committee from ''VR5''.

* The Centre, of ''ThePretender''.
* ''Series/WildPalms'': The Fathers.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}''. The Company.
* ''Series/TheXFiles''. The Syndicate.

** And later, the Trust.

* ''Series/{{Alias}}'' had the Alliance and later the Covenant.

* The Ring from ''{{Chuck}}''.
* DSD (Defense Security Division)/Bradenhurst Corporation in ''Series/{{JAG}}''.

* The Agency in ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}''.

* ''VideoGame/TheClub''.
* ''TheConduit'' has The Trust.
* The Enclave from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}''
* The Exchange from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes / Villains'' has The Family.
** And the Council, the Cabal, the Banished Pantheon, the Lost, the Minions of Igneous and the Midnight Squad.

* ''TheGuild''.
* In the Wiki/SCPFoundation universe, the titular organization is often referred to as simply "The Foundation."
** One of the groups opposing them is called The Factory.

It's also entirely possible to have ''two'' Groups in the world. Often, they will be fighting a war in the shadows, this will be the basis for an {{Arc}} (story or myth), typically with one fighting behind the scenes to protect the world, and the other secretly trying to destroy or corrupt it. The Group may be several decades old (for example, formed around WorldWarII or the ColdWar), several hundred years old (for example, dating from around the time of the [[{{Steampunk}} Industrial Revolution]] and the [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution American]] and [[TheFrenchRevolution French Revolutions]]), several thousand years old (originating in AncientRome, AncientGreece, or AncientEgypt), as old as human civilization itself (as soon as one cavemen invented fire, two others got together on the other side of the cave and whispered to eachother that they had better keep an eye on this, and thus The Group was born), or [[TimeAbyss older than time itself]] (humans may serve The Group, but some very definitely ''[[EldritchAbomination non-humans]]'' founded, and control, it).

* ''TheXFiles''. The Syndicate.
* The N.I.D. in ''Series/StargateSG1''. According to [[AllThereInTheManual the RPG sourcebook]] it stands for National Intelligence Department.

* Arguably parodied by the Agency from the SciFiChannel's series ''Series/TheInvisibleMan''. It's a secret government agency that [[OddlySmallOrganization consists of about five (visible on-screen) people]], and because of this is prone to being transferred around between various departments of the US Government, as well as suffering from budget cuts. About the only thing they have going for them is that the titular invisible man works for them.

* BentleyLittle has a whole slew of novels like this. The Store, The Association, etc. They are all horror.

* The Majestic 12 from ''[[MatthewReilly Scarecrow]]'', the 12 richest men who secretly run the world for their own profit.
** An earlier MatthewReilly book ''Area 7'' had Die Organisasie (The Organisation in Afrikaans), a group of South African leftovers from Apartheid.

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* ''TheAuthority''.
* ''Comicbook/TheBoys''.
* The Enclave: A group of criminal scientists in the MarvelUniverse.

* The Fraternity from ''{{Wanted}}''; while the movie has an organization of AntiHero JerkAss assassins, the original comicbook has full on amoral supervillains.
* ''SinCity'' has "The Guild", a group of assassins who also deal in the Black Market.

* The Division in ''{{Push}}''.

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* The Exchange from ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''.
* The Order in ''{{Freelancer}}''. [[spoiler:Subverted in that they're actually the good guys, fighting off a race of shapeshifting aliens called the Nomads.]]

* The ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' videogames have the International Contract Agency, which is usually known as just The Agency. Although they're the organization the protagonist works for, they're morally ambiguous enough to count. A competing group is The Franchise. In the movie the group is called The Organization.

* The Agency from the ''SyphonFilter'' series of games, which served under The Consortium. After [[spoiler:the protagonist becomes the new leader at the end of the third game]], it gets [[ConspiracyRedemption reorganised]] into the International Presidential Consulting Agency... which still doesn't have any proper nouns.
* The Foundation in ''TheSuffering II: Ties That Bind'', which seems to be a paramilitary organization hell-bent on [[spoiler:capturing Malefactors and supposedly researching them]]. They also have an unhealthy interest in [[AntiHero Torque]], [[spoiler:because they work for [[EnemyWithin Blackmore]]]].

* TheCompany (referring to the CIA) and TheBureau (referring to the FBI). Of course, only used when their motives are ''secret''...

* On ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', the organization Perry the Platypus works for is known simply as The Agency. WordOfGod has it that it's actually called O.W.C.A., the [[FunWithAcronyms Organization Without a Cool Acronym]].

It's also entirely possible to have ''two'' Groups in the world. Often, they will be fighting a war in the shadows, this will be the basis for an {{Arc}} (story or myth), typically with one fighting behind the scenes to protect the world, and the other secretly trying to destroy or corrupt it. The Group may be several decades old (for example, formed around WorldWarII or the ColdWar), several hundred years old (for example, dating from around the time of the [[{{Steampunk}} Industrial Revolution]] and the [[TheAmericanRevolution American]] and [[TheFrenchRevolution French Revolutions]]), several thousand years old (originating in AncientRome, AncientGreece, or AncientEgypt), as old as human civilization itself (as soon as one cavemen invented fire, two others got together on the other side of the cave and whispered to eachother that they had better keep an eye on this, and thus The Group was born), or [[TimeAbyss older than time itself]] (humans may serve The Group, but some very definitely ''[[EldritchAbomination non-humans]]'' founded, and control, it).

* The Agency in ''{{Deadlands}}''.
* The Directive, a shadowy intelligence organisation from the ''{{Aberrant}}'' role playing game.

* RealLife musical groups The Group and The Band.
** More meta: The The.

* WildPalms: The Fathers.

* ''TheBoys''.

* The Cabal in ''{{Blood}}''. Known more properly as the Cult of Tchernobog, but more often called just Cabal.

* The Centre from ''MartinMystery'' is a clear cut [[HeroesRUs heroic example]].

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* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' also has The Syndicate.
* Les Soldats from ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' technically counts, since it's just [[GratuitousFrench French]] for "The Soldiers". It's also a textbook AncientConspiracy.

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* The Shop, from Creator/StephenKing's CanonWelding crossover-verse which ties all of his fiction into the DarkTower [[TheVerse universe]].

* On ''{{Ben 10}}'', the Forever Knights were originally called The Organization.

* Les Soldats from ''{{Noir}}'' technically counts, since it's just [[GratuitousFrench French]] for "The Soldiers". It's also a textbook AncientConspiracy.

* ''CityOfHeroes / Villains'' has The Family.

* The ''{{Hitman}}'' videogames have the International Contract Agency, which is usually known as just The Agency. Although they're the organization the protagonist works for, they're morally ambiguous enough to count. A competing group is The Franchise. In the movie the group is called The Organization.

* The N.I.D. in ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}''. According to [[AllThereInTheManual the RPG sourcebook]] it stands for National Intelligence Department.

** Magento's organization was just called The Brotherhood for a while. After it abandoned [[ObviouslyEvil The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants]]

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' has both The Others and The Initiative.

* ''The Dominion'' from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has the right sort of name (although, so does ''The Federation'', come to think of it), and they were definitely a mysterious powerful organization in the first few seasons. ''Section 31'' is the clandestine intelligence agency in the Federation that has been around from the beginning. ''The Circle'' was a short-lived Bajoran political party/terrorist organization/Cardassian front.

* Bently Little has a whole slew of novels like this. The Store, The Association, etc. They are all horror.

* Arguably parodied by the Agency from the SciFiChannel's series ''The Invisible Man''. It's a secret government agency that [[OddlySmallOrganization consists of about five (visible on-screen) people]], and because of this is prone to being transferred around between various departments of the US Government, as well as suffering from budget cuts. About the only thing they have going for them is that the titular invisible man works for them.

* On ''Ben10'', the Forever Knights were originally called The Organization.

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* The Shop, from StephenKing's CanonWelding crossover-verse which ties all of his fiction into the DarkTower [[TheVerse universe]].

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* The N.I.D. in ''StargateSG1''. According to [[AllThereInTheManual the RPG sourcebook]] it stands for National Intelligence Department.

* Bureau Thirteen in ''BabylonFive''. Heard of once in the episode ''Spider In The Web'', then never heard from again.

* ''CowboyBebop'' also has The Syndicate.

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* The Organization from ''StreetFighter III'', a strange, powerful cult that has produced the superhuman Gill, is never really given a name in the Japanese, though it is sometimes referred to as the Illuminati in English.

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* On ''PhineasAndFerb'', the organization Perry the Platypus works for is known simply as The Agency. WordOfGod has it that it's actually called O.W.C.A., the [[FunWithAcronyms Organization Without a Cool Acronym]].

* ''{{Lost}}'' has both The Others and The Initiative.

* ''The Dominion'' from DeepSpaceNine has the right sort of name (although, so does ''The Federation'', come to think of it), and they were definitely a mysterious powerful organization in the first few seasons. ''Section 31'' is the clandestine intelligence agency in the Federation that has been around from the beginning. ''The Circle'' was a short-lived Bajoran political party/terrorist organization/Cardassian front.

* The Enclave from ''{{Fallout}}''