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Lynch Mobs are the classical "angry mob" of popular culture, although based on very real phenomena fiction tends to empathize them as having pitch-forks, torches and other such weapons associated with medieval witch-hunts. Lynch Mobs tend to hunt down a victim in order to exact vigilante "justice", which is often fatal (though sometimes it is humiliating) - Lynch Mobs themselves are not fully evil but the result of fear, anger and ignorance but some villains deliberately use Lynch Mobs to try and gain a quick group of loyal followers (or simply to cause chaos).

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  • Lynch Mobs are the classical "angry mob" of popular culture, although based on very real phenomena fiction tends to empathize them as having pitch-forks, torches and other such weapons associated with medieval witch-hunts. Lynch Mobs tend to hunt down a victim in order to exact vigilante "justice", which is often fatal (though sometimes it is humiliating) - Lynch Mobs themselves are not fully evil but the result of fear, anger and ignorance but some villains deliberately use Lynch Mobs to try and gain a quick group of loyal followers (or simply to cause chaos).
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  • Lynch Mobs are the classical "angry mob" of popular culture, although based on very real phenomena fiction tends to empathize them as having pitch-forks, torches and other such weapons associated with medieval witch-hunts. Lynch Mobs tend to hunt down a victim in order to exact vigilante "justice", which is often fatal (though sometimes it is humiliating) - Lynch Mobs themselves are not fully evil but the result of fear, anger and ignorance but some villains deliberately use Lynch Mobs to try and gain a quick group of loyal followers (or simply to cause chaos).
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