History Main / TheKlan

Related tropes are ANaziByAnyOtherName, ThoseWackyNazis, TheSocialDarwinist, WhiteGangbangers, MalevolentMaskedMen, and UsefulNotes/RebelsWithRepeaters.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' villain, the Hate-Monger, has a purple costume with an "H" on it, but his hood is suspiciously cone-shaped, and he spreads bigotry wherever he goes, using a combination of rhetoric and mind-control rays. Only natural, since he's (a clone of) Adolf Hitler.

* The Klan make a minor but still significant appearance in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'', where they are accepted by the Nazi's in [[spoiler: a post-WW2 America where the Nazis won]]. Notably, they aren't treated with any special privaleges by the Nazi's, and instead are just as scared of them as pretty much everyone else.

* ''Jungle Action'' has the ComicBook/BlackPanther face off against the KKK in a memorable storyline.

* The ''Radio/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' example cited in "Radio" below was mentioned in ''Series/{{QI}}'', in the fourth series episode "Descendants".

* An episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' had Sam leap into a white man secretly assisting black voting registration in 1950s Alabama. The man's father-in-law and several of his friends were all Klan memmbers. The episode ended with Sam (with Al's help) foiling a church bombing that would have killed several innocent children. Then, when the Klan is about to lynch one of the local black leaders anyway, Sam manages to [[ShamingTheMob shame the Klan]] into standing down.

* Music/{{Genesis|Band}}: "Ku Klux Klan serve hot soul food]] / [[Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway and the band plays 'In The Mood']]."

* In the ''[[{{ComicBook/Shazam}} Captain Marvel Adventures]]'' story, "Captain Marvel and Mr. Tawny's New Home", big game hunter and general wealthy malcontent J.Q. Harsch isn't willing to let Tawky Tawny move into his exclusive suburban neighborhood, so he tries to start a smear campaign against the tiger in the hopes that he'll be frightened away. When that fails, he [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V40qw_7QTGw/SVHylseO59I/AAAAAAAAAis/Ohv8uBO1ZZ0/s1600/8-12-24cap11.jpg organizes a hooded mob]] of himself and a few hired goons, aiming to terrorize Tawny with clubs and firebrands. Not only does he get arrested for arson when the fire spreads to nearby homes, but Tawny ends up being appointed honorary mayor of the community for his heroism in saving his neighbors.

* In the ''[[ComicBook/Shazam Captain Marvel Adventures]]'' story, "Captain Marvel and Mr. Tawny's New Home", big game hunter and general wealthy malcontent J.Q. Harsch isn't willing to let Tawky Tawny move into his exclusive suburban neighborhood, so he tries to start a smear campaign against the tiger in the hopes that he'll be frightened away. When that fails, he [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V40qw_7QTGw/SVHylseO59I/AAAAAAAAAis/Ohv8uBO1ZZ0/s1600/8-12-24cap11.jpg organizes a hooded mob]] of himself and a few hired goons, aiming to terrorize Tawny with clubs and firebrands. Not only does he get arrested for arson when the fire spreads to nearby homes, but Tawny ends up being appointed honorary mayor of the community for his heroism in saving his neighbors.

* In the ''ComicBook/Shazam Captain Marvel Adventures'' story, "Captain Marvel and Mr. Tawny's New Home", big game hunter and general wealthy malcontent J.Q. Harsch isn't willing to let Tawky Tawny move into his exclusive suburban neighborhood, so he tries to start a smear campaign against the tiger in the hopes that he'll be frightened away. When that fails, he [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_V40qw_7QTGw/SVHylseO59I/AAAAAAAAAis/Ohv8uBO1ZZ0/s1600/8-12-24cap11.jpg organizes a hooded mob]] of himself and a few hired goons, aiming to terrorize Tawny with clubs and firebrands. Not only does he get arrested for arson when the fire spreads to nearby homes, but Tawny ends up being appointed honorary mayor of the community for his heroism in saving his neighbors.

* The Ku Klux Klan plays a pretty big role in ''Film/ATimeToKill''. They support Carl's conviction (he murdered two white rapists who were likely to get off scot-free for molesting his daughter), and Freddie Lee Cobb (whose grandfather was a Klansmen) enlists their help to sow mayhem. They protest in front of the courthouse, starting a riot with a black crowd, which interupts the court's proceedings. The Grand Wizard is killed, but Freddie and the remaining Klan members continue to intimidate and send death threats to Jake to make him step down as Carl's defense attorney. He doesn't.

* Music/{{Genesis}}: "Ku Klux Klan serve hot soul food]] / [[Music/TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway and the band plays 'In The Mood']]."

Not to be confused with TheClan.

* The ''WebAnimation/QueerDUck'' episode "Ku Klux Klan & Ollie" has Queer Duck attacked by a group of Klansmen led by Jerry Falwell.

--> '''Captain Hero''': Your kind ain't welcome here no more.

--> '''Edith''': Archie, I can't see through my sheet!
--> '''Archie''': Edith, would you stifle yourself? We're supposed to be incognitus!

* ''Series/TheXFiles''. In the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E19TheUnnatural The Unnatural]]", set in 1947, the Klan is trying to assasinate a talented black baseball player. Eventually it's revealed that the player in question is a shape-shifting alien who decided to stay on Earth and live his life as a human because he fell in love with the game of baseball, and the leader of the Klan is an alien BountyHunter who seeks to kill the "[[CategoryTraitor renegade]]".

* The Fraternal Order of the Raven in ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'' is a [[NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed Klan-like]] group that wear blue robes and hoods and revere John Wilkes Booth as a hero and patron saint, referring to Abraham Lincoln as a traitor for freeing the Blacks.
** What makes them worse, is that they're sanctioned by the government of Columbia.

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* In ''[[FrancoBelgianComics Sammy]]'' tells the story of two bodyguards for hire, Sammy and Jack, during the prohibition era. In ''Ku-Klux-Klan'', the duo get lost up in rural South of the USA. When arriving in a town, they come across a racist innkeeper and his friends who desperately wants to join the Klan, but are repeatedly rebuffed by the Klan's leader because of their unworthiness. In a bid to prove his undying loyalty to their cause, [[MadBomber the innkeeper]] blow up his inn, a house, another house and... [[TrashTheSet eventually the whole town]]. [[spoiler:TheReveal shows that the regional Klan are actually all black people posing as Klan members to trail off any would-be members. Sammy and jack promise to keep their secret safe.]]

* In ''[[FrancoBelgianComics Sammy]]'' tells the story of two bodyguards for hire, Smmay and Jack, during the prohibition era. In ''Ku-Klux-Klan'', the duo get lost up in rural South of the USA. When arriving in a town, they come across a racist innkeeper and his friends who desperately wants to join the Klan, but are repeatedly rebuffed by the Klan's leader because of their unworthiness. In a bid to prove his undying loyalty to their cause, [[MadBomber the innkeeper]] blow up his inn, a house, another house and... [[TrashTheSet eventually the whole town]]. [[spoiler:TheReveal shows that the regional Klan are actually all black people posing as Klan members to trail off any would-be members. Sammy and jack promise to keep their secret safe.]]

They almost always will have [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents drawling accents]], [[HairTriggerTemper be hot-tempered]], drop plenty of {{Cluster F Bomb}}s, chanting "KillThePoor!" and -- ironically -- be [[DumbMuscle as dumb as bricks]] [[UpperClassTwit even if they're upper-class]] (ironic because its earliest members had been classically educated, and "Ku Klux" itself was inspired by the ancient Greek word for "circle").