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Sheep are extremely docile, live together in flocks, and always follow the directions of a leader, either their shepherd or another sheep in the flock. Because of those traits, fictional sheep tend to mindlessly follow the orders of a leader or crowd, unable or unwilling to think for themselves (there's a reason "sheep" is used as an insult toward people who don't question authority and base their decisions on whatever other people say). Sometimes this extends to ostracizing those who don't conform, and stick out from the flock too much.
Related tropes:
Blind Obedience: A character or group that obeys their superior unquestioningly.
Good Shepherd: A benevolent religious leader who looks out for his flock's best interests.
Hive Mind: One mind, many bodies.
Suicidal Lemmings: Another animal known for herd mentality.
Sweet Sheep: Sheep are portrayed as gentle and docile, which can easily overlap with them being obedient followers.
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In the fourth Thursday Next novel, Mycroft's mysterious 'Ovinator' invention is named after the term "ovine", meaning "sheep-like". It turns out to be a mind control device, which is being used by the Goliath Corporation in an attempt to control the British population during an election year.
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There's a The Far Side cartoon where a sheep stands up in the middle of a herd of other sheep and shouts "Wait! We don't have to be just sheep!" The other sheep don't listen and continue grazing.
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In Grimm, the first introduction we get to a species of sheep-like Wesen known as Seelengut (German for "kindhearted" or "good soul") seemingly involves them being manipulated by a Sinister Minister into covering up embezzlement from his church... however, it's Zig-Zagged, as it turns out that a pair of Seelenguter acted independently after being spurned by said minister, and stole from him with the help of the Victim of the Week; the episode ends with the two of them on a beach in the Caribbean with their ill-gotten gains.
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Smash Up: The Sheep faction is mechanically themed around moving to bases that other minions move to, and repeating other minions' actions.
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Discworld:
Used as a metaphor in Small Gods to explain the unfortunate state of the Church of Om, which could be described as Dark Shepherds at best and more accurately as totalitarian fundamentalists.
In the first book of the Tiffany Aching series, Tiffany is a shepherd from a long line of shepherds. As she comes into her own as a witch, she draws off of this life experience; she will protect her flock and defend them against intruders. Later books emphasize that Tiffany works with foolish, thoughtless, ungrateful people, but the work needs to be done, and done with genuine care.
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Total Drama: For most of the first season, Lindsay is a Kindhearted Simpleton who does whatever Heather tells her to. In the confessional, Heather makes her opinion of Lindsay's intelligence clear.
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How the Marquis Got His Coat Back: A sequel of sorts to Neverwhere, the Marquis, having been restored to life, is on a quest to find and retrieve his rather stylish and signature coat. His quest takes him to Shepherd's Bush, where he falls under the thrall of the Shepherds. There he and his fellow "sheep" do some sort of unsavory work that is only alluded to in terms of removing hair, separating limbs, and turning the fat to tallow. It's implied that the bodies they're working on are their own fellow "sheep". Fortunately, when the Marquis sees that the head Shepherd is wearing his coat, it snaps him out of the spell and he quickly devises a plan to remove the coat and himself from Shepherd's Bush.
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For Honor: The main antagonist of the campaign, the warlord Apollyon, plans to start a war between the three factions in the game. While she admires the three factions, she is disgusted that they have chosen to cease fighting one another in favor of peace. She views those who are willing to fight as wolves and those who will not as sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
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Overlord: The first level brings you to a flock of sheep, to serve as the tutorial for collecting lifeforce and recruiting more minions. Your advisor, Gnarl, has a few disparaging comments:
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xkcd:
In "Sheeple", five people sharing a subway car have the same thought: "Look at these people. Glassy-eyed automatons going about their daily lives, never stopping to look around and think! I'm the only conscious human in a world of sheep."
This backfires in "Wake Up, Sheeple", when a Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy calls on the "sheeple" to wake up. It turns out that this phrase awakens the actual "sheeple," a horrifying race of underground sheep-man monsters, who vow judgment on humanity when they find out we coined such phrases as "like lambs to the slaughter."
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Charlotte's Web: Most of the sheep are copycats, mimicking everyone they see. However one of them, Samuel, refuses to copy like his friends since he considers that "following", which he refuses to do just because he's a sheep.
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Milo Murphy's Law: Played for Laughs in the episode "A Clockwork Origin". After Victor Verliezer is caught referring to people as "sheep" while ranting about how easy it is to control them, a few disgruntled stockholders see the Engineered Public Confession and decide to sell their V-Co stock, with one proclaiming "Yeah, I'm not a sheep. I'm going to do exactly what she was doing." Another stockholder starts baa-ing like a sheep before clarifying that he was trying to say "We have a baaaad connection", and promptly decides to sell his V-Co stock as well.
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In Myth Alliances, the Wuhses (natives of the dimension Wuh) are self-conscious, timid pushovers temperamentally incapable of saying "No" to anything. They have woolly hair, thick hooflike nails, and sheep's eyes.
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Animal Farm: The sheep mindlessly conform to the rules enforced by Napoleon and the other pigs. In contrast to the other animals, they never question what is going on, and never think for themselves. Like everything else in the book, they are an allegory for the blind proletarian followers of Stalinism who weren't educated enough to question it and as such were extremely malleable to the Party's will and susceptible to Doublethink.
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Neopets: In one of the April Fool's pranks, Nick Neopia refers to people who reject his conspiracy theories as "Babaas" (a sheep-like Petpet) to imply they're close-minded.
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World's End Club: The Big Bad's plan is to strip away emotions from humanity so they will never be a threat to Earth, effectively turning them all into "sheep". They want the Go-Getters Club to be humanity's "Shepards" to guide humanity in the event something happens to them. The alternative is killing humanity if the Go-Getters Club refuses to be the "Shepards".
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In The Four Gospels, we read that when Jesus "saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd" (Matthew 9:36). This correlates to Jesus' own self-identification as "the Good Shepherd".
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Them's Fightin' Herds: Sheep are Extreme Doormats. Pom got volunteered as the Champion of the Meadow because she was the only sheep brave enough to have an opinion.
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: In the episode "Reptilicus", Crow makes a bunch of Tom Servo clones but makes sure to program them with a "Sheep Mode" which, when active, makes them all obey him without question. This mostly comes up when Crow gets bored with the clones and melts them all down to scrap: they literally bleat like sheep as they walk off-screen to their deaths.
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The album Animals by Pink Floyd uses sheep as an Animal Motif for people who are unable to think for themselves. However, in the song "Sheep", it becomes a case of The Sheep Bites Back as they overthrow their oppressors.
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Bob's Burgers: In "Mother Daughter Laser Razor", Tina becomes self-conscious about her leg hairs and gets them waxed when she hears two girls mocking someone else for having hairy legs. She later comes to regret it and calls herself a "hairless sheep".
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Maesters are the doctors and scholars of Westeros, but their order is not really interested in pursuing new knowledge or improving technology, only immersing themselves in what knowledge already exists. They also firmly believe that magic does not exist and are implied to be involved in a conspiracy to suppress all knowledge of it. Archmaester Marwyn, one of the few people who believes in magic and studies it extensively, calls them "the grey sheep."
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Big City Greens: In "Animal Farm", rebellious rooster Cogburn complains that he should lead the farm animals instead of Phoenix the dog, calling them all sheep, "especially the sheep!"
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Futurama: In "Future Stock", when '80s-style CEO Steve Castle takes over Planet Express, he starts out by separating the company into "sheep" and "sharks" — insisting that, "Sharks are winners, and they don't look back, 'cause they don't have necks. Necks are for sheep." He threatens to fire anybody who's a "sheep," and Zoidberg asks, "Which is the one people like to hug?" which prompts Steve to declare Zoidberg a shark (despite Zoidberg continuing to act like a total mindless bootlicker towards his new boss).
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Pack Street: Becomes a point of embarrassment for the ram Remmy. At a meeting he gathered with residents of Pack Street to educate them on facts about sheep, he admits he mostly pulled facts off the same website without really checking them over. This leads him at one point to read a fact that claims sheep are natural followers, good at doing what they're told without asking questions. He quickly tries to move on from this, but several other facts reinforce similar negative stereotypes about his species.
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In the Torah and The Bible, Isaiah 53 and Psalm 44 use the metaphor of "sheep to the slaughter", making this trope Older Than Dirt. The exact meaning of these verses is a subject of debate, both within Judaism and Christianity, and between the two.
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Bioshock 2: This seems to be the logic behind Dr. Sofia Lamb's Meaningful Name. A Totalitarian Utilitarian to the extreme, Dr. Lamb is a diehard collectivist whose main goal is to eliminate all forms of individuality and free will on the genetic level with the aid of DNA splicing. In the meantime, she builds up a cult whose members surrender entirely to her and follow her orders without thinking, making them "lambs"—or sheep—themselves.
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Babe: Zig-zagged. The dogs wholeheartedly believe in this trope and that aggressively berating and wrangling the sheep is the only way to get them to do anything, but Babe discovers that the sheep are merely Kindhearted Simpletons who are bad at listening unless spooked, and that Babe actually can get them to listen to his polite requests by using their secret Trust Password.
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BitLife: In the Cult expansion, opportunities related to your loyal followers are marked with a sheep emoji.
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Cult of the Lamb:
Inverted. The titular Lamb starts a cult and has to imprint and reinforce conformist beliefs in all of his followers. He is also doing this all on the direct orders of an Eldritch Abomination which at the end of the game, you can choose to stay faithful to, or betray at the last second.
The Naturally Obedient trait is represented by an icon of a sheep. Recruiting a Worshiper with this trait gets you 10 Faith.
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The Sheep Look Up. In this dystopian novel by John Brunner, the Green Aesop is how the world is doomed unless the "sheep" start paying attention to environmental issues.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: One sketch in the first series features a businessman (played by Terry Jones) meeting a shepherd (played by Graham Chapman) and observing the unusual behaviour of his sheep — some of them are nesting in trees, some of them are travelling the field by hopping on two legs, and some of them are trying to fly from tree to tree — and, being sheep, miserably failing and plummeting to the ground instead. The shepherd reveals that the sheep think they're birds, and even the ewes are trying — unsuccessfully — to teach their lambs to fly.
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Codename: Kids Next Door: During "Operation: G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S.", when the Delightful Children from Down the Lane fall victim to the Animalization Ray, they get turned into a flock of sheep, symbolizing how they follow Father's orders without protest and rarely, if ever, actually think for themselves. It later turns out that they were once operatives of the Kids Next Door, who were permanently brainwashed into becoming "delightful."
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Used as a metaphor in Small Gods to explain the unfortunate state of the Church of Om, which could be described as Dark Shepherds at best and more accurately as totalitarian fundamentalists.
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