Terrorism is a Threat

5 Tropes 4 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.
  • Unthinkable (2010) | Nuclear Terrorism is a Threat
    A former Delta Force soldier and bomb expert placed three nuclear bombs in three American cities and then sends a videotaped confession to the government saying that the bombs will detonate within a week.
  • Right at Your Door (2006) | Nuclear Terrorism is a Threat
    Terrorists detonate three dirty bombs in different parts of Los Angeles, destroying large swaths of downtown and filling the air with a toxic ash.
  • True Lies (1994) | Nuclear Terrorism is a Threat
    Muslim terrorists trying to detonate a nuclear bomb in the United States is the plot.
  • 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.