Eco-terrorism in fiction
Eco-terrorism has been a topic of fictional books, television programmes and films.
List of works
- The events of 28 Days Later are inadvertently set in motion by a group of eco-terrorists.
- Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson.
- Ark Angel, by Anthony Horowitz.
- Avatar, a film directed by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, and Stephen Lang.
- Batman & Robin.
- In The Border an eco-terrorist bombs an Albertan oil line.
- Various antagonists in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, created by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle.
- The CHERUB novel series by Robert Muchamore features a fictional eco-terrorist group named Help Earth, most prominent in The Recruit and Divine Madness.
- Concrete: Think Like a Mountain by Paul Chadwick.
- The Devouring Earth in City of Heroes.
- Space Warriors in Cowboy Bebop.
- Darkwing Duck's Bushroot (Walt Disney).
- Poison Ivy and Ra's al Ghul, foes of The Batman, from the DC Comics universe.
- The Divide by Nicholas Evans.
- The East, a 2013 film directed by Zal Batmanglij and starring Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, and Ellen Page.
- Eco Fighters, a video game by Capcom where the player controls a fishlike ship to fight a company that has polluted the earth and mined its natural resources for profit.
- Edge of Darkness, a BBC television series written by Troy Kennedy Martin.
- Final Fantasy VII - The organisation AVALANCHE launches attacks on the Shinra Company's Mako Reactors to save the planet.
- First Reformed, a 2017 film directed by Paul Schrader and starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried.
- The antagonist of Five Days in Babylon by P. L. Reiter is an agent of the Earth Liberation Front.
- A Friend of the Earth by T. Coraghessan Boyle.
- Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, an animated comedy film in the Futurama series.
- Godzilla: King of the Monsters in which an eco-terrorist group sets to free the kaijus to heal the Earth from the damages that humans have caused.
- The_Hammer_of_Eden by Ken Follett which is about a group of eco-terrorists who create earthquakes.
- Hoot by Carl Hiaasen.
- Jokerman 8, by Richard Melo.
- "Informed", an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 8).
- Lullaby a novel (2002) by Chuck Palahniuk.
- Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way a novel (2005) by Bruce Campbell.
- The Mars trilogy, novels (1993-1999) by Kim Stanley Robinson, in which a faction of Martian colonists seek to prevent terraforming of the planet.
- The Massive by Brian Wood (2013-2015) about a futuristic direct-action environmentalist group repairing a ruined earth.
- Anetta and Daisuke Hayami (aka Speedy Dave) in the Mega Man Battle Network series of games by Capcom.
- Mengele Zoo by Gert Nygårdshaug.
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty by Hideo Kojima.
- Blue Cosmos in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
- The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey.
- The NCIS season one episode "Sub Rosa" involves eco-terrorism.
- Night Moves a film (2014) by Kelly Reichardt.
- The Green Storm and the Anti-Traction League from Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet.
- On Deadly Ground, a 1998 film by and starring Steven Seagal.
- The Patlabor franchise features eco-terrorists as recurring antagonists.
- In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, Team Magma and Aqua have motives that are similar to eco-terrorism.
- Quantum of Solace, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker James Bond films.
- Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy.
- The Sheep Look Up, by John Brunner.
- Sick Puppy, by Carl Hiaasen.
- Silent Running, a 1972 science-fiction film by Douglas Trumbull.
- South Park episodes "Douche and Turd", "Fun with Veal" and "Free Willzyx".
- The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth.
- Colonel Green, a villain from the past, is described as an eco-terrorist in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Demons".
- State of Fear by Michael Crichton.
- Stormchild, by Bernard Cornwell, one of his Sea-themed thrillers. After the death of his wife a man sets out on a quest to rescue the last of his family (his daughter) from an eco-cult that have become eco-terrorists.
- In the film The Thaw, Val Kilmer plays the role of an eco-terrorist.
- Tom Clancy's EndWar and the sequel Tom Clancy's EndWar: The Hunted, in which the eco-terrorist group the Green Brigade are some of the main antagonists in both novels.
- Enrica Villablanca in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent.
- Tom Clancy's The Division and sequel Tom Clancy's The Division 2 deal with the aftermath of a genetically-engineered smallpox pandemic, which was designed and released deliberately by eco-terrorist Gordon Amherst.
- Twelve Monkeys, a 1995 film starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt.
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler is a novel that features a character who is an eco-terrorist.
- "Darkness Falls" and "Fearful Symmetry", two episodes of The X-Files.
- Zodiac by Neal Stephenson.
- Kixeye's Battle Pirates was set after eco-terrorists detonated glaciers, raising sea levels and reducing landmass to 1 percent.
- Avengers: Infinity War in which Thanos sets out on a mission to wipe out half the population of the universe in order to preserve its resources.
See also
- Environmental issues in film and television
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