History Main / CapeBusters

'''Dr. Hamilton:''' I used to believe that. I thought you were a guardian angel, come to answer our prayers. But [[ArchangelLucifer Lucifer was an angel too]], [[FallenHero wasn't he?]]

* The upcoming [[strike: Sci-Fi]] SyFyChannel program ''Warehouse 13'' is basically The SCPFoundation (see below) the series set in ''IndianaJones''' huge-ass warehouse. The only operatives are a pair of tough but bewildered government agents and their eccentric supervisor.

* In the first book of the shared-anthology series {{Wild Cards}}, when the Four Aces are testifying before the HUAC Committee, soldiers are waiting outside with poison gas to prevent any superheroic antics.

* [[TheDisneyAfternoon Disney's]] {{Gargoyles}} added a group of these in it's last season. The thinly-veiled [[FantasticRacism KKK knockoff]] known as the Quarrymen had the sole purpose of eliminating all gargoyles for [[ObviouslyEvil at any cost]].

** The Sentinels are [[KillerRobot giant robots built by the government to identify and kill mutants]]. Who votes to give money to the "genocidal robot taskforce" is a bit of a mystery.
*** It's likely listed under some budget item like 'miscellaneous equipment' or the like. Intelligence agencies and their kin are notorious for finding ways to disguise money. That's pretty close to realistic.

* The titular organization in ''FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'' is a small group of U.S. soldiers dedicated to combating paranormal threats to national security. However, the F.E.A.R. organization actually plays very little role in the game, as they prove laughably ineffective against both Fettel's army of clone soldiers and the apcalyptically-powerful psychic ghost Alma. The game's main focus is the player character, the super-powered Point Man (who has BulletTime reflexes and turns out to be not so much a member of F.E.A.R. and more like [[spoiler: a personality-less engineered weapon that was loaned to them just a few days ago]]).

'''Dr. Hamilton:''' I used to believe that. I thought you were a guardian angel, come to answer our prayers. But [[ArchangelLucifer Lucifer was an angel too]], wasn't he?

* [=ThugBoy=], ''{{Empowered}}'s'' boyfriend, used to belong to a group dedicated to destroying capes, both villains and [[BlackAndGrayMorality "heroes"]]. The trauma naturally resulting from trying to [[ShootingSuperman take a sociopathic Superman out with a pistol]] has left no small amount of psychological scars, and the Cape Busters unit [[BadassDecay eventually ended up]] merely tricking villains and taking the villain's stuff.
** Actually, the Witless Minions - the group that tricked super-villains and stole their "office supplies" - wasn't the same group that took part in the San Antonio capekillings, although ThugBoy was a member of both.

* Long before ''The Boys'', one of GarthEnnis' first jobs for Marvel was the "What If?" comic ''Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe''. Instead of mobsters, Frank Castle's family is killed in the crossfire of a brawl between superheroes and supervillains, and he reacts violently. A SecretSociety of similar survivors and casualties of superpowered violence use their immense wealth and influence to keep Castle out of jail and killing all the supers he can. [[spoiler:He kills them all, then himself.]]

* ''{{The Boys}}'' is the absolute epitome of this idea. Five normal humans are dosed up on combat stimulants, giving them superpowers, in order to occasionally remind 'the supes' who's boss.

* The anti-Kira Taskforces in ''DeathNote'' fit this trope.

'''Dr. Hamilton:''' I used to believe that. I thought you were a guardian angel, come to answer our prayers. But [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] was an angel too, wasn't he?

** In the first briefing you get, one of your coworkers responds to the report of physic clones by saying "No wonder no one takes us seriously!".

• Providence from GeneratorRex counts, as the sole reason for its formation was to combat the threat of Evos and related problems stemming from the series' ongoing MassSuperEmpoweringEvent.

** One series featured a team made by Amanda Waller equipped with Kyrptonite weapons. She made the...questionable decision to fill it with people who had psychological problems and a personal grudge against Superman.

** [[spoiler: After a few years of this, they discover how to artificially create Powers.]] The first chapter that describes a Power-versus-Government fight is appropriately called, "Capekiller". The government uses snipers with supersonic armor-piercing rounds, diamond-tipped hypodermic needles, and sticky bombs.

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'''[[spoiler:Dr. Hamilton]]:''' Power brokers, politicians, criminals and black ops mercenaries, with one thing in common besides: They're humanity's last hope against [[BewareTheSuperman your kind]].\\

'''[[spoiler:Dr. Hamilton]]:''' I used to believe that. I thought you were a guardian angel, come to answer our prayers. But [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] was an angel too, wasn't he?

* The WhateleyUniverse had the Dragonslayers, a group which shot to fame when they [[spoiler:put down a mutant rager who had killed dozens of people and done a whole lot of damage to the city of Darwin]]. The Dragonslayers had pretty much retired until they [[spoiler:mixed it up with the Lamplighter when said super"hero" decided to pick on a bunch of teenagers]]. They seem to have been replaced by the Knights of Purity, a bunch of baselines in powered armour who hate mutants. SoYeah...