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What you are looking at here is the official flag of the Black Cross Movement, the anti-Super hate group you all love to hate!

The Black Cross Movement (BCM) was founded in late September of 1974 by Rupert Bonneville in response to the decriminalisation of superheroics by the United States federal government earlier that same month. The movement quickly gained support, and by 1978 boasted some 1.5 million members nationwide. In addition, the Black Cross Movement recruited hundreds of thousands of out-of-work young men into their strong-arm paramilitary wing, the Bonneville Guard, to use violence against liberals, socialists, communists, trade unionists, Anthros and especially Supers.

The movement's ideology was a mix of neo-fascism, ultraconservatism, anti-communism and fanatical anti-Superism. The Black Cross Movement sought to create a United States run exclusively by and for the Normals (non-Supers) and to re-criminalise superheroics. The movement emphasised the need for a “genetically pure” America, entirely free of Supers and Anthros, blaming them for every military, social and economic failure of the nation and advocating their extermination, as well as the persecution of moderate Normals. It proved extraordinarily attractive to many Americans, who had a long history of both overt and covert anti-Superism, and as a result, both the Black Cross Movement and the Bonneville Guard grew extremely rapidly, especially in the South, the Midwest and the Rust Belt. By the late 1970s, Black Cross Movement candidates had already won local elections in dozens of towns and cities across America, notably in Metroville, Municiberg, Westburg, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix and Atlanta, where they immediately began to impose their political will, including anti-Superism through terror.

Between 1974 and 1978, a series of increasingly draconian laws was passed in the areas under Black Cross control. Supers were forced to register with their local ‘Supers’ Affairs Department’, while Anthros were required to register with their local ‘Anthros’ Affairs Department’. They were subject to a curfew, denied the right to vote, blacklisted from municipal and state government jobs and banned from public places. It became a criminal offence for Supers to marry or have sexual relationships with non-Supers, and vice-versa.

In July 1978, Supers and Anthros were expelled from the public education system, forcing Super and Anthro communities to set up their own schools. Later that month, the Black Cross Movement imposed a special income tax on Supers and Anthros. In August 1978, the Black Cross Movement began to pressure Supers to sell their businesses and urged Normal-owned businesses to fire their Super and Anthro employees.

The summer of 1978 also saw a number of Black Cross-controlled cities and states move to expel Supers and Anthros from their city limits and state borders respectively. On July 8th, 1978, following a failed NSA Nazi hunt that killed sixty-eight people in Metroville, California, the Black Cross-controlled State of Missouri expelled all thirty thousand Supers and six thousand Anthros from it borders. They were rounded up by the Bonneville Guard, as well as state and local law enforcement, and marched across the state line into Illinois. Those who refused to go, tried to flee or just couldn’t keep up were shot with mercy. The Illinoisans didn’t want them either, so for weeks, thousands of Supers and Anthros were forced to live as refugees in their own country, sheltering in farms and factories, with little food or water.

Towards the end of 1978, Black Cross pressure increased still further. In the areas of the country that the Black Cross Movement controlled, Supers and Anthros were now banned from most professions and trades; they were no longer permitted to own businesses or to be landlords. Most Supers and Anthros living under Black Cross control were now beginning to sink into poverty. Even in areas that weren’t under Black Cross control, the homes and businesses of Supers, Anthros and anti-fascist Normals were regularly picketed and defaced and there was a constant threat of violence, courtesy of the Bonneville Guard, as well as like-minded members of the general public.
More info coming soon.

The Incredibles (c) Disney/Pixar.
The Black Cross Movement, the Bonneville Guard and all OCs (c) Swissair171. (ME!)

Description
What you are looking at here is the official flag of the Black Cross Movement, the anti-Super hate group you all love to hate!

The Black Cross Movement (BCM) was founded in late September of 1974 by Rupert Bonneville in response to the decriminalisation of superheroics by the United States federal government earlier that same month. The movement quickly gained support, and by 1978 boasted some 1.5 million members nationwide. In addition, the Black Cross Movement recruited hundreds of thousands of out-of-work young men into their strong-arm paramilitary wing, the Bonneville Guard, to use violence against liberals, socialists, communists, trade unionists, Anthros and especially Supers.

The movement's ideology was a mix of neo-fascism, ultraconservatism, anti-communism and fanatical anti-Superism. The Black Cross Movement sought to create a United States run exclusively by and for the Normals (non-Supers) and to re-criminalise superheroics. The movement emphasised the need for a “genetically pure” America, entirely free of Supers and Anthros, blaming them for every military, social and economic failure of the nation and advocating their extermination, as well as the persecution of moderate Normals. It proved extraordinarily attractive to many Americans, who had a long history of both overt and covert anti-Superism, and as a result, both the Black Cross Movement and the Bonneville Guard grew extremely rapidly, especially in the South, the Midwest and the Rust Belt. By the late 1970s, Black Cross Movement candidates had already won local elections in dozens of towns and cities across America, notably in Metroville, Municiberg, Westburg, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Phoenix and Atlanta, where they immediately began to impose their political will, including anti-Superism through terror.

Between 1974 and 1978, a series of increasingly draconian laws was passed in the areas under Black Cross control. Supers were forced to register with their local ‘Supers’ Affairs Department’, while Anthros were required to register with their local ‘Anthros’ Affairs Department’. They were subject to a curfew, denied the right to vote, blacklisted from municipal and state government jobs and banned from public places. It became a criminal offence for Supers to marry or have sexual relationships with non-Supers, and vice-versa.

In July 1978, Supers and Anthros were expelled from the public education system, forcing Super and Anthro communities to set up their own schools. Later that month, the Black Cross Movement imposed a special income tax on Supers and Anthros. In August 1978, the Black Cross Movement began to pressure Supers to sell their businesses and urged Normal-owned businesses to fire their Super and Anthro employees.

The summer of 1978 also saw a number of Black Cross-controlled cities and states move to expel Supers and Anthros from their city limits and state borders respectively. On July 8th, 1978, following a failed NSA Nazi hunt that killed sixty-eight people in Metroville, California, the Black Cross-controlled State of Missouri expelled all thirty thousand Supers and six thousand Anthros from it borders. They were rounded up by the Bonneville Guard, as well as state and local law enforcement, and marched across the state line into Illinois. Those who refused to go, tried to flee or just couldn’t keep up were shot with mercy. The Illinoisans didn’t want them either, so for weeks, thousands of Supers and Anthros were forced to live as refugees in their own country, sheltering in farms and factories, with little food or water.

Towards the end of 1978, Black Cross pressure increased still further. In the areas of the country that the Black Cross Movement controlled, Supers and Anthros were now banned from most professions and trades; they were no longer permitted to own businesses or to be landlords. Most Supers and Anthros living under Black Cross control were now beginning to sink into poverty. Even in areas that weren’t under Black Cross control, the homes and businesses of Supers, Anthros and anti-fascist Normals were regularly picketed and defaced and there was a constant threat of violence, courtesy of the Bonneville Guard, as well as like-minded members of the general public.
More info coming soon.

The Incredibles (c) Disney/Pixar.
The Black Cross Movement, the Bonneville Guard and all OCs (c) Swissair171. (ME!)