Basic Trope: A drama or thriller that explicitly takes place during The War on Terror.
- Straight: The militaristic Action Hero protagonist battles a group of Qurac terrorists.
- Exaggerated: Everything George W. Bush said about terrorists turns out to be an understatement.
- Downplayed: A Very Special Episode of the Police Procedural involves terrorism suspicions.
- Justified: The public interest is so great, any other movie with another subject matter flops.
- Inverted: The protagonists are a group of terrorists who fight the American military.
- Subverted:
- The terrorists are set up to be the antagonists, but it turns out there's another villain...
- The thriller revolves around 911 Operator Bob as the antagonist.
- Double Subverted:
- ...who is also a terrorist.
- Bob is a terrorist that infiltrated 911.
- Parodied: It's a Black Comedy movie on the subject.
- Zig Zagged: Half of the work takes place in 2000s Qurac, and half are flashbacks to The '80s during The Cold War.
- Averted: The work is set before 9/11.
- Enforced: The work is Backed by the Pentagon.
- Lampshaded: "Oh, it's all like a stupid terrorist movie."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why are most action movies these days about terrorism?"
- Implied: A character indirectly mentions 9/11 without going into details.
- Played For Drama: The so-called "terrorists" turn to be innocent people, and 9/11 is revealed as a False Flag Operation.
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