Assault of Detained People Depicted as Acceptable

2 Tropes 2 Movies
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Conservative Trope Examples

  • Unthinkable (2010) | Torture Justified to Stop Terrorist Attacks
    Clandestine officer H (Samuel L Jackson) brutally tortured suspected terrorist Yusuf Atta Mohammed (Michael Sheen) and even slashed his wife's throat right in front of him because Yusuf is threatening to detonate nuclear bombs he hid in three different cities.
  • Patriot Games (1992) | Torture Justified to Stop Terrorist Attacks
    Harrison Ford throws the IRA mole inside the British government down his basement stairs and shoots him in the leg so that he tells him about IRA terrorists coming for his family and British royals.
    Staff Aside
    You can't write many scenarios better justifying torture than to help terrorists from killing your wife and daughter.