History Main / WesternTerrorists

Another good source of Euro-villainy is the post-Soviet weaponmonger. This person may be a fascist, but usually they [[TerroristsWithoutACause serve no cause other than the creation of chaos]], a [[WarForFunAndProfit self-sustaining market]] for their endless supplies of nukes, viruses, and other deadly toys for [[FriendToPsychos their more ideologically minded customers to use on each other]]. In series where such black-market dealers and {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s exist, they inevitably prove to be ''more'' dangerous than the Islamists/neo-Nazis/''revolucionistas''/etc. to whom they're selling weaponry. Newer ones however prefer to [[MakeTheBearAngryAgain reinstall the old Soviet Regime]] without the communist ideals and instead aim for a rule resembling more that of Ivan the Terrible.

Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up. Many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture -- coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Mesopotamian foods, respectively -- have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim. Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} and UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up. Many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture -- coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Mesopotamian foods, respectively -- have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim. Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} and UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up. Many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture -- coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Turkish foods, respectively -- have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim. Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

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Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up. Many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture -- coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Turkish foods, respectively -- have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim. Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} and UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up. Many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture -- coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Turkish foods, respectively -- have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim. Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

* Fan favorite [[TerroristsWithoutACause Sark]] from ''Series/{{Alias}}''

Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up. Many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture -- coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Turkish foods, respectively -- have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim. Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} and UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up. Many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture -- coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Turkish foods, respectively -- have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim. Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

* ''Film/JusticeLeague2017''. The hostage takers that Franchise/WonderWoman takes down in her BatmanColdOpen.
-->'''Black Clad Beta:''' ''(in Lasso of Truth)'' We're a small group of reactionary terrorists. We know that sin has brought on this plague of aliens.

Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up. Many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture -- coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Turkish foods, respectively -- have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim. Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

* The BigBad of ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' is a band of fanatical eco-terrorists who attack Monarch and steal an experimental device -- the Orca -- that enables communication with {{Kaiju}}, hoping to wake up and release all of the dozen-plus kaiju on Earth to devastate humanity and wipe out human civilization, all in the names of stopping/undoing humanity's destructive influence on the planet. [[spoiler:It turns out that the plan was concocted by the Monarch scientist who built the Orca, as she had become radicalized from her own boss's "kaiju are vital for the health of Earth" beliefs.]] By doing this, they unleash Ghidorah. [[spoiler:When he turns out to be engaged in HostileTerraforming that will probably result in humanity's complete extinction, rather than decimation, the Monarch scientist who concocted the plot [[WhatHaveIDone is horrified]] -- only to be called out by the terrorist leader, who points out that they were basically committing genocide anyway, and this is an equally acceptable extension of their goals.]]

* ''Series/TheFalconAndTheWinterSoldier'': The Flag Smashers are WellIntentionedExtremist radical anarchists who sprang up in Eastern Europe the wake of the events of ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. Their slogan is "One World, One People" and their ethos is that they don't want "the same assholes" who ran the world before the Blip picking up where they left off. Claiming that the Global Repatriation Committee is prioritizing the needs of Blipped people at the expense of people who weren't, they're shown robbing banks and medicine shipments to deliver the proceeds to refugee camps.

* In the AlternateHistory ''Literature/LadyAstronaut'' series, a meteorite hits Cheapaseake Bay in 1952, causing a [[GlobalWarming runaway greenhouse effect]] which will render Earth inhospitable in about fifty years. Nations come together and radically accelerate the efforts to colonize space, but before they even set foot on the moon, a bomber straps himself to a rocket due to launch, trying to stop the plans to "abandon God's creation."

* One episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' involves a white supremacist group. They at first insist that they're a non-violent ideological group whose actions are protected by the First Amendment, but the leader turns out to have engineered a playground shooting that killed an African-American child, and the leader's son and another group member later carry out a courtroom shooting in protest of the leader being on trial.

Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up (many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture - coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Turkish foods, respectively - have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim). Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

** In ''Film/IronMan3'', Ben Kingsley's "Mandarin" turns out to be a totally stoned British thespian named Trevor Slattery, playing an in-universe caricature. The real mastermind is Aldrich Killian, who wants to [[WarForFunAndProfit play both sides of the War on Terror from behind the scenes]] by disguising accidents involving former soldiers treated with Extremis as terrorist attacks, to coerce the government into using Extremis. To make things more confusing, ''Film/AllHailTheKing'' reveals there ''is'' a real Mandarin out there... but we're not likely to see him any time soon.

* The Vox Populli in ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'' has elements of militant communism, anarchism and some traits of Occupy Wall Street and the Red Khmer (like targeting people for wearing glasses because they are learned) and they are in opposition against a Christian fundamentalistic, xenophobic, jingoistic regime, but noted to not be different in barbarism and violence.

** ''Literature/PatriotGames'' featured the fictional Ulster Liberation Army, a Marxist splinter faction of the Provisional IRA, who were assisted in the US by Alex Dobbins and his group of terrorists (who roughly resemble the Black Panthers in general purpose), and assist the ULA in an attack [[spoiler:on Ryan's house, where the Prince Charles {{Expy}} and his wife are visiting.]]

Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} and UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up (many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture - coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Turkish foods, respectively - have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim). Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

Basically, a group of terrorists who are mostly from the West (typically defined as the continents of UsefulNotes/NorthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Europe}}, though UsefulNotes/SouthAmerica and UsefulNotes/{{Oceania}} can also be included), and who are mainly influenced by cultural, political or religious ideas of Western origin. The trope may also cover a single individual. What makes someone "Western" can be rather hazy and difficult to define, since it is not simply a matter of where the person was born or grew up (many Islamic terrorists, generally regarded as non-Western, lived the majority of their lives in the West, and for that matter many elements of Islamic culture - coffee, cookies and yogurt, for instance, were originally Yemeni, Persian and Turkish foods, respectively - have profoundly influenced Western society and vice versa, making it tough to ascertain who is "Western" and who is not. Many countries in the Americas, especially in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean, have notable West and Central African and South Asian influences due to many of the inhabitants of those countries being descendants of African slaves and Indian laborers brought there by European colonists during the Atlantic slave trade, the United Kingdom has South Asian influences in it's culture due to the large amount of diaspora from the Indian subcontinent, and many Southern and Eastern European countries have Islamic influences due to the Moors, Arabs, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, notable Turkic minorities and the regions' close proximity to North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia, with Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan even being predominately Muslim). Furthermore, several culturally and/or politically European countries (Turkey, Cyprus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Russia) have the majority of or all their land in Asia, and thus terrorists from those countries could be considered either Western or Eastern, depending on what part of the country they are from and/or whether you consider them European or Asian.

* Though they don't appear in the canon ''Videgame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'', in the GameMod ''Videogame/RiseOfTheReds'', the Global Liberation Army's ranks include a number of unspecified western terrorists, mostly in the form of anarchists. According to the lore for the mod, a terrorist cell of anarchists attacked Wall Street at some point in the interim between the events of ''Zero Hour'' and the start of the mod's storyline.

* The Emancipators from ''[[Series/SWAT2017 S.W.A.T.]]'' are a group inspired by the real-life Symbionese Liberation Army, whose crimes they copycatted in their debut episode "Inheritance."

!!Usually radical Christians or {{Apocalypse Cult}}s, but converted Islamic terrorists of Western origin also qualify