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.
• 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.
• Batman & Robin.
• Kixeye's Battle Pirates was set after eco-terrorists detonated glaciers, raising sea levels and reducing landmass to 1 percent.
• 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.
• 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.

See also

• Environmental issues in film and television