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Eye of Providence
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The Eye of Providence is commonly confused for (or just outright replaced with) the Eye of Horus, and thus everyone thinks that it came from Ancient Egypt. In reality, it was invented by Renaissance-era Christianity as a symbol for the Holy Trinity and their benevolent omniscience. After a while, the symbol would reach meme-status among various Christian organizations with a policy towards exclusivity, Gratuitous Latin and spooky robes like the Freemasons and The Illuminati. News of what these people did would leak out into the public and like a virus, it would spread and mutate until the idea became a brainworm of abject terror. The Eye of Providence lost its connections to a chill and loving Yahweh and became associated with Nebulous Criminal Conspiracies. Whenever there's a triangle in a painting or in the background of a screen-shot of a cartoon for elementary schoolers, expect the Conspiracy Theorists on YouTube to post hour-long videos on how the media is being controlled by the Deep State on behalf of the Illuminati, which itself is run by Satanic Lizard Men from the other side of the Flat Earth. Or something. Often Sigil Spammed as a short-hand for Big Brother Is Watching, Government Agencies, Mystery Cults, Magical Societies, Secret Societies, Shadow Governments, Wainscot Societies, etc. After all, pyramids as a symbol evoke a presence. Because the Eye of Providence is on the $1 bill, expect it to be a part of a Currency Conspiracy. |
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Civilization: Call to Power: The AI Entity, a Master Computer that rules its civilization with a rod of iron, takes the form of a gigantic pyramid topped by a single eye. | |
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Inside Job (2021) is about a group of people who wrangle the world's very real Conspiracy Kitchen Sink. Fittingly, the Eye Of Providence appears on a screen in a couple of promotional materials as one of the conspiracies Reagan is watching over. | |
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Harry Potter: The Sign of the Deathly Hallows bears a remarkable resemblance to the typical Eye of Providence, being a vertical line and a circle within a triangle. The icon represents the Deathly Hallows, Ancient Artifacts believed to possess phenomenal magical power even by Wizarding standards. While believed to be nothing more than a fairy tale in the Wizarding World, there is an ancient order of people that believe them to be real. After wizarding terrorist Gellert Grindelwald adopted the symbol (being a believer in their existence), the symbol has since been associated with him and his atrocities, making it the wizarding equivalent of a Nazi swastika or the Iron Cross. | |
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Sinfest: The small flying drones used by the Devil to survail and intimidate the populace are designed as this with a pair of wings (there's also a variant that looks like a centipede). Typically, their image on any item or location is an indicator the evil conspiracy controlling the world is present... when the artist bothers to remember they're supposed to be evil. | |
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Minoriteam: The major villain, The White Shadow has the Eye of Providence on his mask/face. He exists to oppress all American racial minorities. | |
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The titular Department from The Department of Truth has an Eye of Providence as a part of their icon, being a Government Agency that specializes in suppressing conspiracy theories. | |
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The Pentaverate: The titular organization has an Eye of Providence with a capital "V" (the Roman Numeral for 5) on the front for its insignia, The Pentaverate being a benevolent shadow government that tries to use their influence for the good of mankind with... mixed results. The Pentaverate's Master Computer Mentor is pictured as a human eye being displayed on a triangular screen. |
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The Order of the Triad from The Venture Brothers is a Supernatural Team whose team icon is an Eye of Providence surrounded by a two-headed snake with a lit flame over its eye. Ironically, they are a small organization (only three members) who are minor players in the wider world of superheroism/supervillainy, the icon based on their association with mysticism. | |
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In the What If? entry "All the Money", one of the cartoons shows someone asking the US Mint why they make so many pennies, and getting the reply "We don't know. The pyramid with the big floating eye gives the orders in there." The Alt Text reads "It keeps appearing on the money even though we never put it on the engraving plates." | |
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Shadow Hearts: Alice Elliot's final spell, Advent, summons an actual pyramid with the Eye to rain Eye Beams on the enemy party for heavy Light-elemental damage. | |
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The Hitman World of Assassination Trilogy has Providence, an illuminati-esque group that runs the world in secret. Their name is derived from the famous Eye of Providence this trope covers, commonly associated with The Illuminati. | |
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Illuminati: Almost every edition uses the eye in the pyramid as the dominant image on the cover art/box art. This has become a general symbol of Steve Jackson Games, hence the official GURPS web-magazine being called Pyramid, with the insignia as the A. The fact GURPS is known for conspiracy settings like GURPS Black Ops and GURPS Warehouse 23 helps. | |
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In the Magic: The Gathering set of Alara the white-aligned baddies of the day are the Order of the Skyward Eye, cultists who worship Nicol Bolas as an eye in the sky. Their symbol is pretty much an Eye of Providence in Bant colors: white, green and blue. | |
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Illuminatus!: The eye-in-the-pyramid is an omnipresent symbol of the world-spanning conspiracy (of which The Illuminati are just a small branch) that the heroes are fighting. Eventually, the latter even discover the (in-story) origin/inspiration of said symbol: a giant sea monster named Leviathan, slumbering in the sunken ruins of Atlantis, shaped like a pyramid with a giant glowing sphere inside it that looks like an eyenote Leviathan is actually an offspring of the very first eukaryotic cell that evolved on Earth: after its very first division, one of its halves went on to evolve into multicellular life, including humans, while the other just kept growing without dividing for billions of years, adopting the pyramid shape for structural support; the "eye" is actually its giant nucleus shining through the cell walls. | |
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The Bookkeeper from American Gods (2017) is one of the most powerful entities in America, being a God of Wealth and Money. His heralds, a trio of Ambiguously Human girl-scouts, are adorned with the Eye of Providence in the form of merit-badges. Both Mr. Wednesday (representing The Old Gods) and Mr. World (representing The New Gods) plead for his support in their war, but the Bookkeeper ultimately decides to remain neutral. | |
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Terra Invicta: The Initiative has the Eye and triangle as their emblem. | |
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In Deus Ex, the symbol is used by the Illuminati. Their daughter conspiracy-turned-competitor, the Majestic-12, goes for more Obviously Evil "hand grabbing the world" symbol instead. | |
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Mage: The Awakening: An eye on a pyramid is one of the symbols of the Eye, a malevolent quasi-divine personification of Big Brother Is Watching, and of the Ancient Conspiracy that worships it. | |
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Bravely Second: The final form of Providence resembles a black, inverted Eye of Providence pyramid with purple lines of energy going through it. Adding onto it is one of his signature attacks being called "New World Order", referencing the many conspiracy theories surrounding the Illuminati and how Providence looks like their supposed symbol. | |
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National Treasure: The Eye of Providence over an unfinished pyramid, as depicted on the United States $1 dollar bill, is used to represent the Freemasons who founded the US and secretly hid an ancient treasure trove. In the prologue, Ben's grandfather tells their origins dating back to ancient Egypt, and his face fades from view except for one eye over a pyramid missing its upper point, visually evoking the Eye of Providence. | |
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