History Main / CapeBusters

** One of the major antagonistic forces in ''Series/MsMarvel2022'' is the Department of Damage Control, which from ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' onwards has apparently taken the additional assignment of policing unknown, [[InspectorJavert allegedly]] dangerous superhumans. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Their immediate response]] to Kamala Khan revealing herself by saving someone is to deploy {{Attack Drone}}s ([[Film/SpiderManFarFromHome repurposed E.D.I.T.H. drones]], [[ContinuityNod to be specific]]) to try to capture her and gather all witnesses to [[GoodCopBadCop interrogate the crap out of them]]. [[spoiler:The season ends with them doing an all-out assault on Kamala's high school to try to capture her and her friends, an act of such overkill that it causes a severe hit to the agency's PR and leads to all of the agents who were involved to be fired]].

** One of the major antagonistic forces in ''Series/MsMarvel2022'' is the Department of Damage Control, which from ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' onwards has apparently taken the additional assignment of policing unknown, [[InspectorJavert allegedly]] dangerous superhumans. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Their immediate response]] to Kamala Khan revealing herself by saving someone is to deploy {{Attack Drone}}s ([[Film/SpiderManFarFromHome repurposed E.D.I.T.H. drones]], [[ContinuityNod to be specific]]) to try to capture her and gather all witnesses to [[GoodCopBadCop interrogate the crap out of them]].

** The HDC has since been made part of [[GeneralRipper General Lane's]] Project 7734, along with the K-Squad, a Cape Busters squad specifically aimed at ending "the Kryptonian threat" (i.e., killing Superman and all his people).
** The K-Squad appeared previously in a rather more reasonable context. Superman was mind-controlled and they showed up to contain him while the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica tried to stop the person who had control of him. Their leader mentioned that deploying them cost millions of dollars for every minute they were active due to the incredible expense of weapons capable of stopping Superman.

** One of the major antagonistic forces in ''Series/MsMarvel2022'' is the Department of Damage Control, which from ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'' onwards has apparently taken the additional assignment of policing unknown, [[InspectorJavert allegedly]] dangerous superhumans. [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Their immediate response]] to Kamala Khan revealing herself by saving someone is to deploy {{Attack Drone}}s ([[Film/SpiderManFarFromHome repurposed E.D.I.T.H. drones]], [[ContinuityNod to be specific]}) to try to capture her and gather all witnesses to [[GoodCopBadCop interrogate the crap out of them]].

* ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' lightly retcons [[Characters/MCUBaronHelmutZemo Zemo]] into this.[[note]]In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Zemo wanted to destroy the Avengers because [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron their battle against Ultron in Sokovia]] resulted in the deaths of his family.[[/note]] He honestly believes that [[BewareTheSuperman all superhumans, whether heroes or villains, are inherently dangerous]], because even the well-intentioned ones will eventually abuse their power, or else they'll be idealized and idolized until their followers can justify all manner of extreme actions -- even Sam and Bucky concede that their devotion to Steve Rogers has led them to do some very extreme and very illegal things.

* Volume 4 of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has a special Black Ops unit of the Department of Homeland Security, dubbed "[[FanNickname Nathan's Nazis]]" and led by an evil KnightTemplar type called Emile Danko, as the main threat to the Heroes. The fact that Danko and several of his men were willing to {{False Flag|Operation}} a suicide bombing in D.C. and blame it on Supers to create a credible justification for their actions firmly shows [[MoralEventHorizon which side of the moral line they're on]].

** Sentinels in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', who hunt and kill mutants.

** Also in the X-Men stories, there was [[PuttingOnTheReich Genosha]], the high-tech nation which dealt with its "mutant problem" by [[MutantDraftBoard "conscripting the mutants into government service"]] -- a fancy way of saying "enslaved them and used them as expendable, brutally treated workers". They had an unusually high mutant population (hundreds/thousands for a population of a few million) and were deadly afraid they'd go rampant and take over the country (which also [[TheExtremistWasRight actually happened]] later on, when international opinion forced them to liberalize and mutant villain Fabian Cortez came along to exploit the bad blood during the ''ComicBook/BloodTies'' event), so they employed a specially trained and equipped militarized police force to keep them in check. Enter the Magistrates, a [[BadassArmy heavily armed gendarmerie]] in [[DoomTroops cool, "evil" uniforms]] who fought the X-Men on various occasions when they tried to incite rebellion among the Genoshan mutants.

* [=ThugBoy=], ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'s'' boyfriend, used to belong to a group dedicated to destroying capes, both villains and [[BlackAndGrayMorality "heroes"]].

** And previous volumes featured Primatech Paper, or The Company, a much more morally gray group composed of both {{Differently Powered Individual}}s and {{Badass Normal}}s. They were devoted to upholding TheMasquerade, keeping tabs on all {{Differently Powered Individual}}s, and making sure that the dangerous/psychotic ones were contained. They were villainous in Volume 1 but made a kind of collective HeelFaceTurn by Volume 4.

* In ''Series/MutantX'', the main enemy in Season 1 was the GSA (Genetic Security Agency), a biotech firm's {{Private Military Contractor|s}} tasked with recapturing all the firm's [[SecretProjectRefugeeFamily escaped Mutant refugees]]. Their ranks mostly comprised of [[{{Mooks}} non-powered stormtroopers]], although they semi-regularly fielded one or two SuperpoweredMooks (who were typically [[HumanPopsicle flash-frozen]] at the end of each episode by BadBoss Mason Eckhart for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him for the last time]]).

'''Franchise/{{Superman}}:''' What are you talking about? Humanity doesn't need protection from us!\\
'''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 next game in the series, ''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', introduces the Department of Unified Protection, a new branch of the military created in the wake of the Beast's rampage specifically to capture or kill Conduits. Ironically, [[WellIntentionedExtremist their leader]] is a Conduit with [[DishingUpDirt powers over concrete]] who's capable of [[SuperEmpowering imbuing her soldiers with weaker variations of her powers]], making them even tougher.

** The next game in the series, ''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', introduces the Department of Unified Protection, a new branch of the military created in the wake of the Beast's rampage specifically to capture or kill Conduits. Ironically, [[WellIntentionedExtremist their leader]] is a Conduit who's capable of [[SuperEmpowering imbuing her soldiers with weaker variations of her powers]], making them even tougher.

* The Public Security Bureau from ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', especially the Foreign Affairs Section 4 that Kirihara leads, whose job it is to deal with Contractor-related crime. Since the Contractors themselves [[TheMasquerade are a public secret]], so is this role of the PBS. [[spoiler:The UN itself is another example of this trope, head of a vast conspiracy of several Cape Busters and MutantDraftBoard across the globe.]]

* The Hellsing Organization of [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} the eponymous series]] clearly fits into this category. Despite deploying more exotic means of combating the Undead (such as two vampires of their own), good ol' military men with bulletproof vests and automatic rifles make up the bulk of the organization. The normal members of the organization are wiped out nearly to a man when the Valentine Brothers come calling, so Hellsing has to draft a band of mercenaries called the Wild Geese, whose unconventional tactics do a good job at keeping Millennium's vampires at bay when they besiege the Hellsing building [[spoiler:until Zorin Blitz busts out her illusion powers to overcome their defenses and they are nearly wiped out as well]].
* Tsumugu Kinagase in ''Anime/KillLaKill'', a BadassNormal who goes after Ryuko because of her [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Kamui]]. By extension, the whole Nudist Beach organisation can be considered as this. Although, their problem is not specifically the superpowers Life Fibers clothes grant, but more the fact that [[spoiler:said clothes are actually hostile aliens.]] Their effectiveness at it varies, Tsumugu is able to take Ryuko down fairly easily early on, but later the power levels start escalating far out of their league, and by the end, compared to everyone else he (and Nudist Beach as a whole) is little more than comic relief.

*** For that matter, the Human Reform League built the [[AceCustom Tieren Taozi]] for the same purpose. And it was mostly effective until the inception of the [[EleventhHourSuperpower GN-X]] which is kinda conflicting in this regard: it was made to combat Gundams but the reason it could do that is because it used an inferior version of the very same [[MinovskyPhysics GN Drive]] technology that made Gundams nigh-invincible to conventional mobile suits so far. By the second season, every single {{Mook}} has this tech, and the A-LAWS like to pass themselves off as this trope. In reality, the Gundams usually mow them down by the truckload; the ''real'' Cape Busters of the second season are the Innovators and they don't miss a single chance to lord it over everyone. That is, whenever the good guys don't happen to have the [[MechaExpansionPack 0-Raiser]] nearby.

* E.A.G.L.E. troops in ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' are normally called in for support and cleanup after super-hero incidents. During the "Confession" story arc, however, they became Cape Busters when directed by the mayor to enforce the SuperRegistrationAct. [[spoiler: It turned out to be all part of a plot by shape-shifting aliens to neutralize the supers ahead of a planetary invasion.]]
* Post-''ComicBook/New52'', from the pages of ''[[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman Incorporated]]'', Franchise/TheDCU now has Spyral. At least one of their ploys was to create the FemmeFatale Batwoman, hoping she'd get close enough to Bats to uncover his identity (instead she pulled a HeelFaceTurn). They know full well how unpopular this agenda would make them, so they prefer to recruit rebels, rogues and washouts over genuine patriots, and operate heavily in secrecy.

* The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense from ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' and of course ''[[ComicBook/{{BPRD}} B.P.R.D.]]'' are a government organization founded to combat supernatural threats to national security. However, although most of the organization is made up of mundane human {{Red Shirt}}s, most stories focus on the BPRD's handful of occult-magic-wielding or downright non-human members, including the titular demon "Hellboy". The Red Shirts later [[TookALevelInBadass take a level in badass]], killing whole armies of Frogs (the same ones that Hellboy had a hard time with in volume 1) with ease: sadly, it's not enough when the Frogs now have [[HumongousMecha mechs]] from the first age of Man.
* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has a lot of groups like this. Some are mostly focused on a single, extremely powerful super (e.g. the Hulkbusters), some are essentially government-sanctioned hate groups/extermination squads (e.g. Zero Tolerance), and some are general homeland security organizations who (due to how common powers seem to be in the Marvel universe) simply end up spending most of their time dealing with Super-related crime (e.g. SHIELD).
** Most notably, during the Civil War arc, when [=SHIELD's=] primary mission was to hunt down heroes who refused to comply with the Superhuman Registration Act. SHIELD agents were then given the derogatory nickname "Cape Killers" at first, but it has since been adopted (especially under Norman Osborn's HAMMER organization) as their official designation. They operate as a SWAT-esque subdivision of regular agents, backing up any government-backed metahuman operatives (Thunderbolts, now the Dark Avengers) when confronting non-registered metahumans or metahuman criminals (which SHIELD/HAMMER never seemed to make any distinction between).
** The Sentinels are [[GiantRobot Giant]] {{Killer Robot}}s equipped with gene-scanning equipment created to track down and fight mutants. They vary between being intended as "police", being programmed to track and capture mutants so they can be imprisoned for life in internment camps, or just being anti-mutant soldiers for a foreseen war, but they have a bad tendency to [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters go rogue and attempt to wipe out all humans as well]]. Eventually, the US government go smart and the latest generation of Sentinels became HumongousMecha with ordinary human pilots. Ironically, at this point the piloted Sentinels became ''allies'' of the mutant superhero team the X-Men.

** In a more humorous vein, in 1989, the female members of the Uncanny X-Men faced off against the "M-Squad" ({{Expy}}s for the Ghostbusters), a group of purported mutant hunters who ended up being catastrophically inept at their mission (which was actually just to catch Jubilee because she had pissed off a mall guard).
** The five original ComicBook/XMen masqueraded as a Cape Buster squad that rounded up mutants under the name Comicbook/XFactor for a few years (Beast wasn't furry at the time, and Angel wore a large metal backpack over his wings). The idea was that anti-mutant bigots would call them in rather than taking matters into their own hands when they discovered their neighbor was a mutant, and X-Factor would whisk the mutants away to give them a safe place where they could learn to use their powers, while claiming to have killed or imprisoned the mutant. And then making the anti-mutant bigots pay them an exorbitant fee for their "services". They gave it up when they realized they were doing more harm than good (the whole thing was the idea of a "friend" of Angel's who secretly hated mutants).

* In the {{Elseworld}}s comic ''Comicbook/NightwingTheNewOrder'' Nightwing leads a government task force that ruthlessly tracks down and depowers meta-humans, and those their devices can't yet depower are put into stasis. It's eventually revealed that the technology that powers the devices in question is from [[spoiler:Apokolips and was originally designed to depower meta-humans in order to weaken the planet's defenses against an invasion by ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} and his forces]].
* The {{ComicBook/OMAC}}s in the ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' DCU continuum. While Franchise/{{Batman}} had programmed a spy satellite to keep tabs over the metahuman community, an unfortunate combination of external tampering, hostile takeover and [[AIIsACrapshoot inherent programming flaws]] led the satellite to rechristen itself ''Brother Eye'' and turn millions of individuals, pre-infected with a special nanovirus, into an army of Cape Busters, [[PeoplePuppets devoid of free will but physically enhanced with armor and stock superpowers]], remotely controlled by Brother Eye itself to wage its battle against metahumans.

** [[ComicBook/MarvelUniverseVsThePunisher Later still]] Frank is killing off Marvel superheroes again... except they're all zombies now.
* The main protagonists of Ennis' ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' are a group of CIA-affiliated Cape Busters. Unlike other groups however, they actually have superpowers (albeit mainly super strength, to be able to fight on par with the resident "[[SmugSuper Superheroes]]").
* In ''[[ComicBook/RatMan1989 Rat-Man]]'', this is essentially Janus Walker's government job: murder any superhero the government finds inconvenient. He's tremendously effective at his job thanks to his immense combat pragmatism, utter lack of fear or respect for superheroes (he once mentioned he divides superheroes in two categories, the ones who think they can stop bullets with their hands and the ones who thinks he won't shoot. He then showed off his collection of bullet-pierced superhero gloves and masks), and being generally very good at killing anything and anyone. In fact the only creature who ever survived getting on his wrong side without him being recalled was Rat-Man, and that's because, in a rare moment of cunning, he ''stole his gun before he decided to kill him''. On the other hand, in the GrandFinale he killed [[spoiler:''[[BigBad the Shadow incarnated as Topin]]'']] by stomping on his head while he was weak, [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork neatly solving the problem that Rat-Man would never kill anyone]].

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' has the Metropolis Special Crimes Unit, a heroic version of this trope (RedshirtArmy variation). Gotham's Police Department has also had to deal with a few rogue capes in its day, but most of Batman's RoguesGallery is relatively BadassNormal in their power conceptions.

* When ComicBook/LexLuthor was [[PresidentEvil president]], one of the only good things he did was form the Human Defense Corps, sadly they only were in a Miniseries where in the last issue, they fought ''the invading forces of Hell and won''.
** The HDC has since been made part of [[GeneralRipper General Lane's]] Project 7734, along with the K-Squad, a Cape Busters squad specifically aimed at ending "the Kryptonian threat" (ie, killing Superman and all his people).
** The K-Squad appeared previously in a rather more reasonable context. Superman was mind controlled and they showed up to contain him while the Justice League tried to stop the person who had control of him. Their leader mentioned that deploying them cost millions of dollars for every minute they were active due to the incredible expense of weapons capable of stopping Superman.
** The Superman/Batman arc "K" featured "Last Line" a team made by Amanda Waller equipped with Kryptonite weapons by Lex Luthor. She made the questionable decision to fill it with people who had psychological problems and a personal grudge against Superman. They also had a Kryptonite Doomsday as the ultimate anti-Superman weapon.
** The Department of Extranormal Operations is supposed to be safeguard the world and employs various metahumans. However, a short story in a "Secret Files" special has a whistleblower relating how the DEO spends billions to find measures to take down any metahuman. This includes a team who will swallow pills to make them faster than the Flash for one minute before their bodies burn out, weapons that can melt robots like the Metal Men and more. The man thinks this is wrong and so decides to hand the only disc with the information to one person he thinks can be trusted: ComicBook/LexLuthor.
* ComicBook/MarshalLaw has the titular protagonist, who predates ''[[ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}} Stormwatch: Team Achilles]]'' and ''ComicBook/TheBoys'', and is also a super being himself. He was initially conceptualized as a parody of ComicBook/JudgeDredd, before to becoming a "hero hunter". This concept would later on be VindicatedByHistory.

[[folder:Film]]
* ''Film/{{Glass}}'' has [[spoiler:the unnamed organization that appears in the final act. Denoted by a three-leaf clover insignia, they have been suppressing the knowledge of the existence of superhumans, both good and evil, for over 10,000 years. Though their methods have been typically fatal, the film features an experiment by one of their operatives, Dr. Ellie Staple, to gaslight three superhumans into believing they had imagined their powers as the result of mental illness. The experiment is technically a success, though footage of a superpowered battle in the film's climax is uploaded to the internet, effectively destroying millennia of progress.]]
* ''Film/{{Jumper}}'' presents us with the Paladins, a group of individuals with training and equipment to hunt down and kill any [[{{Teleportation}} Jumper]]. Their reasoning for this is because they believe only God has the right to be capable of going anywhere and thus view the Jumpers as an abhorence. This is deconstructed to a frightening degree as they do not care about civilian casualties and while some Jumpers have committed crimes, this does not justify the actions done. In fact, the Paladins' actions have led to some Jumpers becoming criminals out of necessity to survive. The protagonist himself falls under this by proxy; [[spoiler: we learn the reason why his mother left him and his father. She was part of the Paladins and upon discovering her child'a ability, left rather than be forced into a confrontation. However, this left her husband a broken man and a very lousy parent. This would prompt the main character to turn to theft to escape his poor homeline in the first place.]]
* The [[Film/SuicideSquad2016 Suicide Squad]] was partially created as a response to Superman, more specifically [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice his recent death]], with Amanda Waller gathering a group of [[BoxedCrook dangerous criminals]] to form a black ops unit for the purpose of dealing with supernatural threat. The team itself consisted of people with unusual abilities and outright metahumans as a test to see how well they could be controlled, [[spoiler: which actually proved to be motivation for Enchantress to go rogue, summoning a demon army and creating a threat the project was designed to stop in the first place]].
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
** The military in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' is eventually equipped with "cure weapons", firearms and indirect fire weapons that contain a serum which disables mutant powers on contact. [[spoiler:Or does it?]] They even manufacture plastic and glass versions of the weapons to fight Magneto. As appropriate for the themes of the movie, the serum ''permanently'' disables mutant powers and its use as a weapon is highly controversial.
** Sentinels in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', who hunt and kill mutants.

* The hazekillers in ''Franchise/{{Mistborn}}'' are ordinary soldiers trained specifically to fight [[WhateverMancy Allomancers]].

* ''[[Creator/JohnRidley Those Who Walk In Darkness]]'' has the "villainous" type of cape busters used as [[VillainProtagonist Villain Protagonists]]. This overlaps to a surprising degree with NobleBigotWithABadge, and to a more predictable degree with HeWhoFightsMonsters.
* All police officers in the world of ''Literature/{{Vicious}}'' have some trained to deal with [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals [=EOs=]]], while officers Stell and Dane specialize in cases involving [=EOs=].
* In ''Literature/WearingTheCape'', the Department of Superhuman Affairs is the federal agency tasked with assessing superhuman threats to national security and assisting local authorities who can't deal with their superhuman problems. The DSA, with ties to the Secret Service, FBI, and US Marshals Service, and run by former US President Kayle--the man who created it--has a shadowy reputation and is every conspiracy theorist's Holy Grail.
* In the first book of the shared-anthology series ''Literature/WildCards'', when the Four Aces are testifying before the HUAC Committee, soldiers are waiting outside with poison gas to prevent any superheroic antics.

* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' has the Parahuman Response Teams, or PRT: an organization of [[BadassNormal non-powered humans]] equipped and trained to fight supervillains, either alone or alongside the superheroes. Squads are commonly equipped with reverse engineered [[HomemadeInventions tinkertech]] made by [[MadScientist Tinker capes.]] Their armory comes from associated heroes, purchases, or recovered materials from villains.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* Volume 4 of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' has a special Black Ops unit of the Department of Homeland Security, dubbed "[[FanNickname Nathan's Nazis]]" and led by an evil Jack Bauer CaptainErsatz called Emile Danko, as the main threat to the Heroes. The fact that Danko and several of his men were willing to [[FalseFlagOperation False Flag]] a suicide bombing in D.C. and blame it on Supers to create a credible justification for their actions firmly shows [[MoralEventHorizon which side of the moral line they're on]].

* In ''Series/MutantX'', the main enemy in Season 1 was the GSA (Genetic Security Agency), a biotech firm's [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Private Military Contractor]] tasked with recapturing all the firm's [[SecretProjectRefugeeFamily escaped Mutant refugees]]. Their ranks mostly comprised of [[RedShirt non-powered stormtroopers]], although they semi-regularly fielded one or two SuperpoweredMooks (who were typically [[HumanPopsicle flash-frozen]] at the end of each episode by BadBoss Mason Eckhart for [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him for the last time]]).
* The organization in ''Series/PainkillerJane'' is dedicated to finding and "chipping" (basically [[PowerNullifier power-castrating]]) all [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Neuros]] (humans with superpowers derived from [[EvolutionaryLevels evolved]] [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain brains]]), even non-hostile civilian Neuros who've never used their powers in a harmful manner. The main character, Jane, also has a superpower (a HealingFactor), but she's not technically a Neuro (she lacks the gene), which is the only reason she's tolerated. [[spoiler:Near the end of the series, it's revealed that the company investigated in the pilot has been experimenting with enhancing human abilities. The Neuros are actually failed experiments. Jane is a successful one, as is the Chameleon. They cannot be "chipped" but can be killed with sufficient explosives]].
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has Luthorcorp's "Level 3/ Project 33.1", an ongoing effort to produce SuperSoldiers to defend humanity from Meteor Freaks and aliens (and incidentally to help ComicBook/LexLuthor secure his power base).
** Season 9 introduced ComicBook/{{Checkmate}} who wanted all the metahumans either dead or under the control of the US government. Season 10 introduced the Smallville version of Deathstroke the Terminator, an army colonel who wanted to use the [[SuperRegistrationAct Vigilante Registration Act]] as a justification to capture and experiment on metahumans.
* The [[Creator/{{Syfy}} Sci-Fi Channel]] program ''Series/Warehouse13'' is basically The Wiki/SCPFoundation (see below) the series, set in ''Franchise/IndianaJones''' huge-ass warehouse. The only operatives are a pair of tough but bewildered government agents and their eccentric supervisor.
* Like the original comic books, ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'' series is focused on a RagtagBunchOfMisfits tired of Supes and their bullshit and seeking to destroy them. Unlike the comics, most of The Boys are {{Badass Normal}}s, with only The Female having SuperStrength and a HealingFactor [[spoiler:due to being injected with [[SuperSerum Compound V]]]]. Also unlike the comics, The Boys are not affiliated with any government entity, with [[Creator/KarlUrban Butcher]] only having limited contact with the Deputy Director of the CIA. [[spoiler:They used to be affiliated, but the murder of Mallory's grandkids by the Lamplighter put an end to that.]] At least two of The Boys have a personal score to settle with The Seven, the most famous SuperTeam in the world. [[spoiler:A-Train accidentally killed Hughie's girlfriend by running through her at SuperSpeed, turning her into [[ChunkySalsaRule bloody paste]], while The Homelander raped Butcher's wife, after which she went missing and is presumed dead.]]
* ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'' lightly retcons ComicBook/BaronZemo into this.[[note]]In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Zemo wanted to destroy the Avengers because [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron their battle against Ultron in Sokovia]] resulted in the deaths of his family.[[/note]] He honestly believes that [[BewareTheSuperman all superhumans, whether heroes or villains, are inherently dangerous]], because even the well-intentioned ones will eventually abuse their power, or else they'll be idealised and idolised until their followers can justify all manner of extreme actions -- even [[ComicBook/TheFalcon Sam]] and [[ComicBook/BuckyBarnes Bucky]] concede that their devotion to [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] has led them to do some very extreme and very illegal things.
-->'''Zemo''': The desire to become superhuman cannot be seperated from supremacist ideals.

* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'' features the Post-Human Division, shown in Finn's [[{{Flashforward}} glimpses of the future]] to be an FBI-created organisation dedicated to capturing and detaining all of the kids who obtained superpowers. In the present, this role is performed by Sarah Travers, a mysterious government agent who is not only [[BadassNormal physically capable]], but in possession of technology that can [[PowerNullifier nullify the powers]].

** While the above agencies are presented in a generally positive light, Freedom City's [[UsefulNotes/TheIronAgeOfComicBooks Iron Age]] had the brutish POF (Price of Freedom)-SWAT, courtesy of the oppressive policies of [[CorruptPolitician mob-affiliated Mayor Moore]].

** One of the goals of the [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Technocracy]] in the same setting is to eliminate all other supernatural beings. The Technocracy are MagiTek-using mages who, depending on which edition of the game, either know they're mages and hide behind superscience to control the ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve reality, or are kept from the truth of their powers by their hidden masters and believe they're using "Enlightened Science" that [[{{Muggles}} the unEnlightened]] can't understand yet.
** In the TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness, there is also a government run organisation by the name of [[TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil Task Force: VALKYRIE]] whose main goal is to [[TheMenInBlack police supernaturals and hide their existence from muggles]]. They're not out to destroy all supernaturals, but rather stop the troublemakers and leave the law abiding ones alone. After all, [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampire vampires are tax paying citizens too.]]
** One of the most heroic examples of this in all the Chronicles Of Darkness is [[TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil The Reckoning]], dedicated to killing [[TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial Heroes]]- Heroes usually being {{Tautological Templar}}s with no regard for collateral damage or the guilt of their quarry.

* ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'': Expatriette started her career on the American mainland as a hired gun specialising in killing superhumans - an understandable specialisation given that her SuperSupremacist [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] burned out her eye when she was twelve. She drifts away from it after CharacterDevelopment leads to her realising that superhumans aren't inherently evil, eventually developing a very close relationship with extremely strong and durable superhero Setback.

** The [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Arkham Knight's]] militia are a massive army brought into Gotham City and specially trained for the sole purpose of killing Batman. But not even thousands of heavily armed soldiers, elite thugs, armed drones, snipers, armoured jeeps, tanks, helicopters, and sentries can defeat Batman.

** The [[GovernmentConspiracy Malta Group]] is a villainous organization of [[BadassNormal Badass Normals]] employing SWAT tactics with some advanced technology in order to oppress all meta-humans the world over. They were formed by people who were angry when their [[SuperRegistrationAct "Might for Right" act]] was ruled unconstitutional.
** [[RedshirtArmy Longbow]], the enforcement arm of the United Nations-sponsored organization [[GlobalPolice Freedom Corps]], has teams of specially-trained and equipped anti-superpowered teams called "Nullifiers." This is not a perfect example, however: though Longbow's rank-and-file are made up of humans with guns and body armor, they are usually led by mutants, psychics, and other [[SuperSoldier super-powered soldiers.]]

* The Brotherhood in ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'' II are an ancient organization zealously devoted to the titular Darkness; more specifically, they intend to steal it from the current host. To counter the tremendous powers of The Darkness, they deploy giant flashlights which nullify your powers, whip-wielding soldiers who can steal your guns, and even Darkness-enchanted soldiers who can move with super speed.

** In the introductory briefing, one of your coworkers responds to the report of psychically-controlled clones by [[LampshadeHanging noting that "this is why nobody takes us seriously".]]
* In ''VideoGame/InFamous2'', gives us the Militia, a bunch of FantasticRacism TriggerHappy mooks that wish to keep their city clean of any Conduits.
** The next game in the series, ''VideoGame/InFamousSecondSon'', introduces the Department of Unified Protection, a new branch of the military created in the wake of the Beast's rampage specifically to capture or kill Conduits. Ironically, [[WellIntentionedExtremist their leader]] is a Conduit who's capable of [[SuperEmpowering imbuing her soldiers with weaker variations of her powers]], making them even tougher.

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* ''[[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/610837/ Dangerous Lunatics]]'', a furry original story by Alex Reynard, features such an agency with a really insidious approach: Convince the world that the supers are crazy, get the supers while they're still young, and put them in institutions [[spoiler: to warehouse the supers out of sight until they can be quietly disposed of.]] The approach works because the supers in the story often have other problems[[spoiler:, i.e. an immortal with a HealingFactor discovers the ability through repeated suicide attempts, another constantly wakes up from nightmares, one with extreme durability uses his power by constantly getting into fights, etc.]] CursedWithAwesome and BlessedWithSuck apply here.

** The government decides that Powers are too dangerous and start working on killing them when they're alone. The first one is killed by [[spoiler: bolting him to a ceiling in a room with light fixtures on the floor. When he wakes up he thinks he's upside-down, and tries to break out by flying through the ceiling. This plunges him straight into the Earth's superheated core.]]
** After a few years of this, the government [[spoiler: discovers how to artificially create Powers.]] This is necessary because of the Powers' accelerated reaction speeds, but the [[spoiler: artificial Powers still can't quite keep up with the faster ones. Trusted soldiers are given the upgrade and assigned to the Cape Busters squads.]] The first chapter that describes a Power-versus-Government fight is appropriately called, "Capekiller". The soldiers use sniper rifles with supersonic armor-piercing rounds, diamond-tipped hypodermic needles, and sticky bombs.

* ''Literature/LegionOfNothing'' has Syndicate L, a shadowy organization opposed to supers and destined to do appear more and more often, with cooler and cooler anti-hero weaponry.
* The Wiki/SCPFoundation deals with and keeps imprisoned many strange people, but enough about the staff: Notable charges include a BigBadWannabe PsychopathicWomanchild with {{Plaguemaster}} powers, a shape-shifter that becomes a [[TwentyPercentMoreAwesome 30 percent better version]] of anyone/thing else it encounters, [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Cactusman]], [[PsychicChildren Cameron]] The [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Crusader]], Cain and Abel themselves [[note]]Cain is a gentle man who happens to be a WalkingWasteland, while Abel is a BloodKnight with ResurrectiveImmortality. Site lore generally has it that Cain has had a few dozen millennia to come to regret the deed on which the Biblical event was based, while Able CameBackWrong and rather pissed off about the whole "murder" thing.[[/note]], and [[{{Sentai}} The Black Rabbit Company]] [[note]]a team of cybernetically enhanced genetically engineered CatGirl commandos and their slightly less competently enhanced but [[TheHeart good-hearted]] [[TheOneGuy token boy]][=/=][[TheFace party face]] tormented by his own lack of self confidence and an eldritch parasite[[/note]].

* The Literature/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 armor who fight mutants. We have seen from various points of view that some seem to help mutants (one protected Chaka and offered medical assistance), while others seem to hate mutants (Knight Commander Vernon Swive not only hates mutants but has made it his personal mission to kill all the Loose Cannons before anyone can find out that he shot one of them in the back).

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' had the [[TheMenInBlack Guys in White]], a laughably ill-informed and ineffective pair of government-sponsored paranormal investigators whose main role was to get beaten up by the ghost of the week so Danny and/or his ghostbusting family could come in later to save the day. That was until they TookALevelInBadass and became a serious threat to Danny.

** One episode introduced them among several [[WhoYouGonnaCall ghost hunting teams]], including parodies of ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' and ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters''.
* [[WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon Disney's]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' added a group of these in its last season. The thinly-veiled [[FantasticRacism KKK knockoff]] known as the Quarrymen had the sole purpose of eliminating all gargoyles [[ObviouslyEvil at any cost]].

** There was also a group of self-appointed "Hunters" who believed Providence wasn't doing enough and, even worse, was keeping an Evo (Rex) on staff. These Hunters didn't try to restrain or restore any Evos they met, staged battles to build their own reputation, and when they got the chance tried to destroy Rex through character assassination in the media and then literal assassination.
* Syndrome from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' is a villainous version. The Omnidroid may be just OmnicidalManiac, but the zero field is clearly designed against supers.
* The U.S. government's anti-superhuman organization, Cadmus, became the primary enemies for a decent-sized portion of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'''s run, but they're really a Deconstruction of the whole concept. Despite their noble stated goals, they cause as many problems as they solve to the point where they're indistiguishable from the supervillains the League usually fights. [[spoiler:Considering they're really being controlled by Lex Luthor and Braniac, this isn't an accident.]]
* This is the goal of the Equalists in ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', though they are fighting against [[ElementalPowers benders]] rather than supers. Though, considering that benders are born with said ability, it makes them closer to this than [[MageKiller Mage Killers]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' had Tim the Witch Smeller, a MuggleBornOfMages with a ridiculous motive who hunted witches due to being bullied by them for not having any powers. Unfortunately for the witches, the guy is [[BewareTheSillyOnes actually a very serious threat]] as he can track witches anywhere [[ScarilyCompetentTracker thanks to his pet aardvark's scent tracking]] and tends to attack when they're in crowds because he knows they won't use their powers out of fear of breaking TheMasquerade.
* The ARC Troopers in the 2003 version of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' were a borderline case of this. They were genetically engineered super-soldiers who, using squad tactics (and heavy supporting firepower and air support), were able to at least hold their own against [[TheDragon General Grevious]] to rescue a group of wounded Jedi knights. Although they were super-soldiers, against Force-users like the Jedi Knights or the Sith, even their genetic augments wouldn't be enough to qualify them as supers in their own rights.
* The WesternAnimation/SWATKats were, when you ultimately boiled it down, two mechanics in a SuperPrototype jet who held down a second job dogfighting the assorted homicidal mutant freaks that would regularly attack their city.
** And just in case you think a [[SwissArmyGun Swiss Army Jet]] with [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys All These Wonderful Toys]] is close enough to a superpower, the [[RedShirtArmy Enforcers]] are charged with taking down both the aformentioned homicidal mutant freaks ''and'' the SWAT Kats.
* MECH from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' arguably functions as a villainous version of this trope. Though they started out as simply a terrorist syndicate with a lust for advanced technology, as soon as they encountered Cybertronians for the first time, they immediately began tailoring their tactics toward specifically combating the robots. They make use of EMP-like weapons to instantly incapacitate Transformers, giving them a chance to slice them open and gain knowledge of how they work. This culminated in the creation of their very own Transformer, Nemesis Prime, whom they promptly put to work fighting the Autobots.
* The main foes in ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009'' are a government-sanctioned, anti-mutant military force known as the Mutant Response Division (MRD, aka 'the Mardies.')

* In ''ComicBook/RatMan'', this is essentially Janus Walker's government job: murder any superhero the government finds inconvenient. He's tremendously effective at his job thanks to his immense combat pragmatism, utter lack of fear or respect for superheroes (he once mentioned he divides superheroes in two categories, the ones who think they can stop bullets with their hands and the ones who thinks he won't shoot. He then showed off his collection of bullet-pierced superhero gloves and masks), and being generally very good at killing anything and anyone. In fact the only creature who ever survived getting on his wrong side without him being recalled was Rat-Man, and that's because, in a rare moment of cunning, he ''stole his gun before he decided to kill him''. On the other hand, in the GrandFinale he killed [[spoiler:''[[BigBad the Shadow incarnated as Topin]]'']] by stomping on his head while he was weak, [[BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork neatly solving the problem that Rat-Man would never kill anyone]].

* The main foes in ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen'' are a government-sanctioned, anti-mutant military force known as the Mutant Response Division (MRD, aka 'the Mardies.')

** In the final arc the superheroes are outlawed, and with Valker [[spoiler:being currently dead]] the job falls to the normal police. [[RealityEnsues They quickly find out they cannot compete with people with superpowers]].

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

* The MarvelUniverse has a lot of groups like this. Some are mostly focused on a single, extremely powerful super (e.g. the Hulkbusters), some are essentially government-sanctioned hate groups/extermination squads (e.g. Zero Tolerance), and some are general homeland security organizations who (due to how common powers seem to be in the Marvel universe) simply end up spending most of their time dealing with Super-related crime (e.g. SHIELD).

-->''Zemo'': The desire to become superhuman cannot be seperated from supremacist ideals.

** The main protagonists of Ennis' ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' are a group of CIA-affiliated Cape Busters. Unlike other groups however, they actually have superpowers (albeit mainly super strength, to be able to fight on par with the resident "[[SmugSuper Superheroes]]").

* In ''Literature/TheReckonersTrilogy'', where superhuman powers always and without fail [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity turn their wielders evil]], the mundanes have been reduced to little more then pawns and serfs under the tyrannical rule of the psychopathic Epics. The only ones who still try to hold the Epics accountable are the shadowy order known as the Reckoners.

* The Public Security Bureau from ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', especially the Foreign Affairs Section 4 that Kirihara leads, whose job it is to deal with Contractor-related crime. Since the Contractors themselves [[TheMasquerade are a public secret]], so is this role of the PBS. [[spoiler:The UN itself is another example of this trope, head of a vast conspiracy of several CapeBusters and MutantDraftBoard across the globe.]]

*** For that matter, the Human Reform League built the [[AceCustom Tieren Taozi]] for the same purpose. And it was mostly effective until the inception of the [[EleventhHourSuperpower GN-X]] which is kinda conflicting in this regard: it was made to combat Gundams but the reason it could do that is because it used an inferior version of the very same [[MinovskyPhysics GN Drive]] technology that made Gundams nigh-invincible to conventional mobile suits so far. By the second season, every single {{Mook}} has this tech, and the A-LAWS like to pass themselves off as this trope. In reality, the Gundams usually mow them down by the truckload; the ''real'' CapeBusters of the second season are the Innovators and they don't miss a single chance to lord it over everyone. That is, whenever the good guys don't happen to have the [[MechaExpansionPack 0-Raiser]] nearby.

* E.A.G.L.E. troops in ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' are normally called in for support and cleanup after super-hero incidents. During the "Confession" story arc, however, they became CapeBusters when directed by the mayor to enforce the SuperRegistrationAct. [[spoiler: It turned out to be all part of a plot by shape-shifting aliens to neutralize the supers ahead of a planetary invasion.]]

** The HDC has since been made part of [[GeneralRipper General Lane's]] Project 7734, along with the K-Squad, a CapeBusters squad specifically aimed at ending "the Kryptonian threat" (ie, killing Superman and all his people).

** After a few years of this, the government [[spoiler: discovers how to artificially create Powers.]] This is necessary because of the Powers' accelerated reaction speeds, but the [[spoiler: artificial Powers still can't quite keep up with the faster ones. Trusted soldiers are given the upgrade and assigned to the CapeBusters squads.]] The first chapter that describes a Power-versus-Government fight is appropriately called, "Capekiller". The soldiers use sniper rifles with supersonic armor-piercing rounds, diamond-tipped hypodermic needles, and sticky bombs.

** One of the most heroic examples of this in all the Chronicles Of Darkness is [[TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil Yuri's Group]], dedicated to killing [[TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial Heroes]]- Heroes usually being {{Tautological Templar}}s with no regard for collateral damage or the guilt of their quarry.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation deals with and keeps imprisoned many strange people, but enough about the staff: Notable charges include a BigBadWannabe PsychopathicWomanchild with {{Plaguemaster}} powers, a shape-shifter that becomes a [[TwentyPercentMoreAwesome 30 percent better version]] of anyone/thing else it encounters, [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Cactusman]], [[PsychicChildren Cameron]] The [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior Crusader]], Cain and Abel themselves [[note]]Cain is a gentle man who happens to be a WalkingWasteland, while Abel is a BloodKnight with ResurrectiveImmortality. Site lore generally has it that Cain has had a few dozen millennia to come to regret the deed on which the Biblical event was based, while Able CameBackWrong and rather pissed off about the whole "murder" thing.[[/note]], and [[{{Sentai}} The Black Rabbit Company]] [[note]]a team of cybernetically enhanced genetically engineered CatGirl commandos and their slightly less competently enhanced but [[TheHeart good-hearted]] TokenGuy[=/=][[TheFace party face]] tormented by his own lack of self confidence and an eldritch parasite[[/note]].

* ''Film/{{Jumper}}'' presents us with the Paladins, a group of individuals with training and equipment to hunt down and kill any [[{{Teleportation}} Jumper]]. Their reasoning for this is because they believe only God can be anywhere. This is deconstructed to a frightening degree as they do not care about civilian casualties and while some Jumpers have committed crimes, this does not justify the actions done (heck, some have turned to crime as a result of the Paladins). The protagonist is technically this; [[spoiler:it turns out his mother left him and his dad when she discovered he had powers and since she was affiliated with the Paladins, she couldn't bear the thought. This left the dad a broken man and made him a cruddy parent to his son. It was this unstable life that would convince the protagonist to try and steal to live.]]