Secret societies in popular culture
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Secret societies appear in many works of fiction. Further information is available in Conspiracy theories (fictional).
[edit] List of references to secret societies
- Freemasonry in National Treasure
- The Illuminati are referred to in many works. See Illuminati in popular culture.
- Order of the Dragon, used in Elizabeth Kostova's novel The Historian.
[edit] List of fictional secret societies
- Aes Sedai Ajahs in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, particularly the Black Ajah
- Akatsuki, in popular anime, Naruto, consisting of 9 S-ranked ninjas.
- Alias (TV Series) includes a number of secret societies, chief among them being the 'Alliance of 12' and its subsidiary groups, including 'SD-6', which were involved in the illegal trade of weapons and intelligence. Other groups include 'K-Directorate', a similar organisation made up of former KGB agents, 'FTL', another similar group based in Hong Kong, along with others that emerged as the show progressed.
- The Awakened in Omikron - The Nomad Soul
- Baroque Works from One Piece
- The Bene Gesserit and Bene Tleilax from the Dune universe by Frank Herbert
- Blue Cosmos and LOGOS from the Cosmic Era in Gundam Seed and Destiny
- The Bookhouse Boys in Twin Peaks
- The Brotherhood in the cult comic book Mister Blank.
- Brotherhood in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
- Brotherhood of the Bell from a 1970 movie of the same name.[1]
- Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
- Cabal, in the works of Robert A. Heinlein
- Central Anarchist Council in G.K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday
- Children of Lieutenant Schmidt Society in The Little Golden Calf
- Circle of the Black Thorn in the "Angel" series
- Committee to Unelect the Patrician in the Discworld series
- The Conclave of Shadows, in Conclave of Shadows Book series by Raymond E. Feist
- CONTROL in the TV series Get Smart
- Dark Angel's second season had a secret society plotline.
- Darkfriends, in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
- Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night (Discworld)
- Fight Club of the novel by Chuck Palahniuk, and film directed by David Fincher
- The Grail from the Comic book Preacher.
- Get Rid Of Slimy girlS (G.R.O.S.S.) from Calvin and Hobbes
- House Dimir from Magic: The Gathering
- House of Flying Daggers (in the movie of the same name)
- KAOS in the TV series Get Smart
- Knights of the Eastern Calculus in the anime series Serial Experiments Lain
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Les Soldats in the anime series Noir
- Meliorare Society, a eugenics organization from Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth universe.
- Millennium Group in the television show Millennium
- Nine Unknown Men, from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race
- The Order of Aurelius from the Buffyverse.
- Order of the Phoenix, the Death Eaters and Dumbledore's Army in the fictional Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.
- The Order of St. Dumas, in DC Comics' Batman series
- The Order of the Royal Protestant Knights (or Hellsing Agency) from the Hellsing manga and anime series.
- The Patriots and The Philosophers in the Metal Gear video game series
- Pentaverate, in the Mike Myers film So I Married an Axe Murderer, a character speaks of this secret organization, consisting of "the Queen, the Vatican, the Gettys, the Rothschilds and Colonel Sanders," which controls everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meets triannually at a secret location in Colorado called The Meadows.
- The Post-War Administration Bureau in the Guilty Gear video game series.
- The Puffs in the television show Gilmore Girls
- The Regal Order of the Golden Door to Good Fellowship in the TV series The Andy Griffith Show
- Rimlæth in Insurrection
- The Sabbat in the World of Darkness, also known as the Black Hand, a hidden cabal of Vampires who desire to reduce humanity to the status of cattle.
- Sapientes Gladio, in Shadow Hearts: Covenant
- Second Foundation, in The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
- The Secret Society of Super Villains in DC Comics modern and silver age continuities and in Bruce Timm's Justice League
- Section 31, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- The Seekers in The Last Rune series by Mark Anthony (writer)
- Seele (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- The Seventh Sons, a mysterious organisation that was believed to manipulate events to kill its enemies and cover up the truth at a mental hospital. Part of the Urban Hunt Alternate Reality Game.
- Sisters of the Dark in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind
- The Sith in the Star Wars film series.
- The Skulls in The Skulls.
- SPECTRE, in the works of Ian Fleming
- The Spider Society, in the Marvel Comics universe
- TRES, in the Foucault's Pendulum (book) by Umberto Eco
- The Stonecutters, from The Simpsons
- The Talamasca, in Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles
- THRUSH in the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Tribulation Force, founded by a group of post-Rapture believers in Christ in the Left Behind series
- The Tritons in the television show Veronica Mars
- The Trust in the s.f. novel series, Outlanders
- The Trust in the television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.
- The Trust, in the Vertigo/DC comics series 100 Bullets
- The Trust on the TV series Alias, a supersecret committee in the U.S. government interested in the works of Milo Rambaldi.
- The Watchers, who observe and record the activities of Immortals in Highlander: The Series
- The Watchers' Council from the Buffyverse.
- United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.) in the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- V.F.D. from a Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
- The Vigils in The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- W.A.S.T.E. in The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
