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
• 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
• Edge of Darkness, a BBC television series written by Troy Kennedy Martin
• Final Fantasy VII - The organisation AVALANCHE launch attacks on the Shinra Company's Mako Reactors to save the planet.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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

See also

• Environmental issues in film and television