History Main / WavingSignsAround

* ''A Quantum Murder'' by Creator/PeterFHamilton. [[HonestCorporateExecutive Julia Evans]] sees a rent-a-crowd of students who've been bussed out to her rollout of Britain's first SpacePlane, and asks where they get the money for transport and [[ApatheticCitizens attendance fees]]. Her chief of security says only, [[DirtyCommunists "We're looking into it."]] She regards one sign saying ''Julia already owns the Earth, don't let her own the stars as well'' as ActuallyPrettyFunny.

* ''A Quantum Murder'' by Creator/PeterFHamilton. [[HonestCorporateExecutive Julia Evans]] sees a rent-a-crowd of students who've been bussed out to her rollout of Britain's first SpacePlane in front of the assembled press, and asks where they get the money for transport and [[ApatheticCitizens attendance fees]]. Her chief of security says only, [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou "We're looking into it."]] She regards one sign saying ''Julia already owns the Earth, don't let her own the stars as well'' as ActuallyPrettyFunny.

* ''ComicBook/TheF1rstHero'': Anti-Extrahuman protesters can usually be seen waving around signs that express their hatred for extrahumans.

* ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} is seen carrying protest signs about the ComicBook/CivilWar (and the fact that they're not involved).

* ''ComicBook/WonderGirl'' Vol 1: There are a bunch of protesters all over the place holding signs protesting something about ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'', which while vile is rather pointless as at this point the Amazons--besides Franchise/WonderWoman who had been fighting the invaders--had been wiped from the face of the earth. The most common is "Blunder Girl," which makes sense as Cassie and Kara grabbed such a potent IdiotBall during ''Amazons Attack'' that they though attacking Air Force One and kidnapping the president would somehow help matters.

** When they protested one of the Comic-Cons, they were met by a large group of counter-protesters bearing signs that said things like "God Hates [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi]]" (being carried by a Darth Vader cosplayer).

* Westboro Baptist Church is infamous for their picketing of celebrity/military funerals, popular events, or anything remotely associated with homosexuality. Inevitably, there are people who will counter-protest with signs of their own, some of which play with Westoboro's message (instead of "God Hates Fags," some will say something like "God Hates Figs"), or it'd be something completely unrelated to either Westboro's or the event's purpose ("Germany for the World Cup!")
** When they protested one of the Comic-Cons, there were counter-protest signs that said things like "God Hates [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi]]" being carried by a Darth Vader cosplayer.

* In the ''Series/AdamTwelve'' episode "O'Brien's Stand," Malloy's titular elderly landlady feels the police aren't working hard enough to find her stolen purse, so she gets a group of old women whose purses have also been stolen to march outside the police station waving signs like "Protect Our Purses" and "We might be senior, not senile."

* The first two protest groups encountered in ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} 2'' are of this variety - the first are protesting the [[CreatorCameo Running With Scissors dev team moving into town]], the second are protesting against books at the library. Going into those respective areas and doing the errand there causes them to ditch the signs and go for straight-up violence (shooting up the offices and setting the library on fire).

* ''Videogame/Fallout3'': Outside of Vault 101, there are skeletons of people who tried to get entrance into the vault after the Great War, holding signs begging for their lives.

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* In Webcomic/{{xkcd}}, an audience member at a politician's speech holds up the sign "[[AC:[[[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} citation needed]]]]]". Another strip talks about showing up with "contented" signs at rallies ("THINGS ARE PRETTY OKAY!")

* Some candidates took to using the national costume competition [[ArtifactTitle 2020]] [[BeautyContest Miss Universe]] to voice their grievances towards sociopolitical issues such as anti-Asian hate crimes, LGBTQ+ rights and the 2021 Myanmar protests by either incorporating messages in their costumes, or in the case of Miss Myanmar Thuzar Wint Lwin, holding a rather modest placard calling on people to pray for Myanmar as things have become chaotic in the country no thanks to its military junta.

* At Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Sanity', one sign read "What Do We Want? Time Travel! When Do Want It? It's Irrelevant."[[/folder]]

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-->-- '''Buffalo Springfield''', "For What It's Worth"

* ''For What It's Worth'' by Buffalo Springfield mentions this.

* In ''Film/GodToldMeTo'', some Christians respond to news of the killers' religious motivation by declaring a new religious order. They take to the streets waving signs that say things like "Thy will be done" and "[[TheEndIsNight The End of the World!]]"