History Main / WeAreEverywhere

* The federation Ring of Honor used this trope as part of its "Project 161" storyline, in a fashion fairly similar to the ''Fight Club'' example. Posts on the official ROH messageboard, the occasional hack, interruptions in [=DVDs=] with the 161 logo as well as the lowering of the harness to hang Jay Briscoe at the Age of the Fall's debut leads one to believe that messageboard members, a computer programmer, someone who worked on the [=DVDs=] in the final stage and someone dealing with the running of the show were all involved.
** Not to mention the NWO in WCW. At their height of popularity, one of the "good guys" from WCW was turning heel and joining the NWO on a weekly basis. They took over the company, and anyone not in the NWO or fighting against the NWO rarely got any TV time. They took this trope so far that it actually helped destroy the company [[TruthInTelevision in real life]].

-->There are millions of Russians. You cannot hang all of us.

* ''GrapplerBaki'', possibly inspired by ''FightClub'', pulls a similar stunt after a guy in a fighting club got killed. The waiter, the police, the owner of the amusement park, all of them are part of the club.

* In the trailers at least, the BigBad of ''EagleEye'' claimed this. [[spoiler:It turns out it's both true and false. The BigBad is a supercomputer that really is everywhere; at least everywhere with a networked computer. The "We" part isn't technically true; it has assumed itself to be "We the people" from the Constitution. It does more or less have people everywhere though, since it threatens anybody it wants to into doing exactly what it says to do.]]

* This is a popular saying among anarchists, as put to music by [[David Rovics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8j8BmgeYLA]].

* This is a popular saying among anarchists, as put to music by David Rovics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8j8BmgeYLA

* Likewise with devotees of the [[EldritchAbomination assorted horrors]] in ''CthulhuTech''.

->''"Hi! You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or we are going to [[GroinAttack take your balls]]. Look. The people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. [[[DramaticPause pause]]] Do not fuck with us."''

->''"Hi! You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or we are going to take your balls. Look. The people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. [[[DramaticPause pause]]] Do not fuck with us."''

When a malicious group (often political) is investigated and busted, a member (often TheLeader) brags how the group is everywhere. The group member will further claim that their movement is growing, and will rule supreme someday, leaving the heroes concerned that there will be more trouble in the future.

* ''Series/TheFollowing'' has [[BigBad Carroll]]'s cult (the titular following), which is made up of completely ordinary people from all walks of life, meaning ''anyone'' [[ParanoiaFuel could be part of it]]. A captured cult member gives a speech about it (including paraphrasing the trope name) in episode 8 [[spoiler: before taking a CyanidePill sown into ''[[{{Fingore}} his thumb]]''.]]

** Before that, a semi-early 2-episode-arc of [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration TNG]] featured a paranoid captain warning Picard of "strange happenings" with Starfleet Command. It turned out to be caused by a race of mind-controlling parasites that had already infiltrated every level of SFC's upper echelons, and was spreading out through the most prominant captains to be able to spread even further. Picard and Riker end up blasting what looks like a queen, spend the last five minutes of the show wondering how bad things have become... [[CanonDiscontinuity and then the entire situation is never brought up again.]]

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode "Charm City", a white supremacist convicted of planting a poison gas bomb on a subway car angrily hisses that "My country is growing, yours is shrinking!" as the credits roll.

* Deconstructed by JorgeLuisBorges at ''The Lottery in Babylon'': The Company is TheConspiracy continually trying to introduce chaos at Babylon, and everyone knows they have infiltrated all the city. Given The Company goal, it is a true NebulousEvilOrganization, and given anyone could work for them, those who aren’t working for them are ProperlyParanoid about being manipulated into being their {{UnwittingPawn}}s. See the quotes page.

* At the end of ''Infiltrator'', a neo-Nazi attempts to assassinate Oliver Platt's character, Yaron Svoray, boasts to Svoray that "I am one of millions." Svoray has a great response though: "So am I."

* Deconstructed by JorgeLuisBorges at ''The Lottery in Babylon'': The Company is TheConspiracy continually trying to introduce chaos at Babylon, and everyone knows they have infiltrated all the city. Given The Company goal, it is a true NebulousEvilOrganization, and given anyone could work for them, those who aren’t working for them are ProperlyParanoid about being manipulated into being their [[UnwittingPawn]]s. See the quotes page.

* Deconstructed by JoseLuisBorges at ''The Lottery in Babylon'': The Company is TheConspiracy continually trying to introduce chaos at Babylon, and everyone knows they have infiltrated all the city. Given The Company goal, it is a true NebulousEvilOrganization, and given anyone could work for them, those who aren’t working for them are ProperlyParanoid about being manipulated into being their [[UnwittingPawn]]s. See the quotes page.

* Deconstructed by JoseLuisBorges at ''The Lottery in Babylon'': The Company is TheConspiracy continually trying to introduce chaos at Babylon, and everyone knows they have infiltrated all the city. Given The Company goal, it is a true NebulousEvilOrganization, and given anyone could work for them, those who aren’t working for them are ProperlyParanoid about being manipulated into being their [[UnwittingPawn]]s:
--> ''The Company, [[TheConspiracy with godlike modesty, shuns all publicity. Its agents, of course, are secret; the orders it constantly (perhaps continually) imparts are no different from those spread wholesale by impostors.]]''
--> ''Besides—[[ /FridgeHorror who will boast of being a mere impostor?]] [[ParanoiaFuel The drunken man who blurts out an absurd command, the sleeping man who suddenly awakes and turns and chokes to death the woman sleeping at his side—are they not, perhaps, implementing one of the Company's secret decisions?]]''

->''Hi. You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or we are going to take your balls. Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. [[[DramaticPause pause]]] Do '''not''' fuck with us.''

* In ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'', the shadowy AncientConspiracy apparently behind the Miracle claim to be "everywhere and always".

* On ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', there is often a variant where a pedophile reminds Our Hero that pedophiles are everywhere, particularly on the [[NewMediaAreEvil internet]]. The episodes "Chat Room" and "Pandora" used this technique.
* ''LawAndOrder'' episode ''Charm City'', a white supremacist convicted of planting a poison gas bomb on a subway car angrily hisses that "My country is growing, yours is shrinking!" as the credits roll.

** ''LawAndOrderUK'' features a Neo-Nazi suspected of killing a Jewish man with a letter bomb make a speech like this to which DS Ronnie Brooks gives a truly great response:

The most common ssociations are with right-wing militia movements, which became a [[WesternTerrorists trope of their own]] following the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic militia scare]] in the media after the Oklahoma City bombing.

* In ''Sev Trek: [[{{Squick}} Pus]] in Boots'' (an Australian spoof of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'') the evil alien [[TheRiseOfZitboy grows from a zit on Commander Piker's face]]. After it's defeated Councillor Troi says she picked up a final telepathic message from the alien: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis We. Are. Everywhere.]] The show then concludes on [[TheEndOrIsIt a turbolift full of expendable ensigns with zits]].

* In ''Sev Trek: [[{{Squick}} Pus]] in Boots'' (an Australian spoof of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'') the evil alien grows from a zit on Commander Piker's face. After it's defeated Councillor Troi says she picked up a final telepathic message from the alien: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis We. Are. Everywhere.]] The show then concludes on [[TheEndOrIsIt a turbolift full of expendable ensigns with zits]].

-->-- '''Tyler Durden''', ''FightClub''

When a fascist or otherwise extreme political group is investigated and busted, a member, often the leader, brags how the group is everywhere. The group member will further claim that their movement is growing, and will rule supreme someday, leaving the heroes concerned that there will be more trouble in the future.

Currently often associated with right-wing militia movements, which became a [[WesternTerrorists trope of their own]] following the [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic militia scare]] in the media after the Oklahoma City bombing.

Note also that the exact same claim may be made by the heroes when they are the resistance to a despotic regime. Naturally, the message is inverted this way.

* Quite early in ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', Yuki and Ryoko tells Kyon that her fellow interfaces have long infiltrated the school, and that quite a few of them are like [[AxCrazy R]][[WellIntentionedExtremist yo]][[KnifeNut ko]]. Later, Koizumi tells Kyon that other members from the Organization are everywhere, and are in high places, like the president of the AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil.
* Showed rather than said, but The Dollars in ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' definitely count. One of the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]] comes when [[spoiler: Mikado Ryugame]] is in a tense stand-off with [[SmugSnake Namie]] [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Yagiri]]. When she threatens him, and basically claims to be powerful enough to squash him like a bug, he replies that if she won't listen to reason, he'll have to rely on numbers. He pushes a button on his cellphone, and suddenly the cell phones of ''everybody'' in the vicinity start going off. The look of horror on the faces of Namie and her bodyguards is priceless as the formerly faceless masses are all revealed to be members of the enigmatic Dollars, including several important characters.

* A version appears in ''[[GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman, Inc]]'' when Bruce Wayne explains that criminals will never have to wonder where Batman is... because Batman is everywhere. This as a group of Bat-bots foil an attack by some criminals on the locale where he's making the announcement to a reporter. (He knew the attack was coming).

* ''Film/FightClub'' provides the page quote. Especially noteworthy because it's delivered to the man charged with taking the underground movement down [[RefugeInAudacity at his own reception]].
* The Night Slasher's speech at the end of ''Film/{{Cobra}}'' follows this trope to the letter, but it's more of a crazed final rant than a accurate estimate of his actual following.

* In the trailers at least, the BigBad of ''EagleEye'' claimed this. [[spoiler:It turns out it's both true and false. The BigBad is a supercomputer that really is everywhere, at least everywhere with a networked computer. The "We" part isn't technically true; it has assumed itself to be "We the people" from the Constitution. It does more or less have people everywhere though, since it threatens anybody it wants to into doing exactly what it says to do.]]