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== [[Film|Films]] -- Live-Action ==
* In ''[[Harold
* ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]''; the jewel thieves set Jay and Bob up as [[Animal Wrongs Group|animal rights terrorists]].
* ''[[My Name Is Khan]]'' features a main character named Rizwan Khan, a Muslim American with Asperger's Syndrome living in post 9-11 America. He says to another character that he wants to tell the President, and the people, of the United States that his "name is Khan and that [he] is not a terrorist." When he repeats this to himself in a crowd gathered to meet President Bush, he is arrested, imprisoned, and tortured as a terrorist suspect. A [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] occurred when Shahrukh Khan, the actor who played Rizwan was detained by Immigration offers at Newark Airport on August 14, 2009 and questioned for two hours.
* Invoked in ''[[
* In the 2008 film of ''[[Get Smart (
* In ''[[Flight Plan]]'', Kyle Pratt mistakenly accuses a Middle Eastern man of kidnapping her daughter (although to be fair, his being Middle Eastern wasn't the only reason she thought he was guilty). He is later shown to have nothing to do with the girl's disappearance.
* In ''[[The Dictator]]'', Admiral-General Aladeen and his minion have an innocuous conversation while on a helicopter tour of New York, but the various snippets of English words they use (like miming the explosion of fireworks while talking about the Statue of Liberty) convince the tourists that they're terrorists. Which raises the question: Can a character be "mistaken" for a terrorist if he does actively aid and abet terrorists?
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** Another episode had two detectives invoke this trope intentionally on a pair of uncooperative Iranian nationals who refuse to cooperate with an investigation ([[Diplomatic Immunity|they happen to work for the Embassy]] and can't be forced to answer questions or charged for impeding). The police resort to basically planting a camera filled with what would appear to be photos scouting a target for a terrorist attack in NYC. The District Attorney is not amused when he has to deal with the fallout from the State Department over the matter, but he and the police officers involved never face any lasting consequences over the incident.
* There was a ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' episode where [[Girl Posse|Hazel]] was harrassing a Muslim girl, even going and telling her to her face "Terrorist chic? ''So'' not in," in reference to her hijab. [[Even Evil Has Standards|Paige calls her out on it]], and she ends up prime suspect when someone vandalizes the Muslim girl's locker. Turns out Hazel is herself Somali ''and'' Muslim, and she was doing it precisely for this reason.
* ''[[
* An episode of ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'' had a few of the guys taking a plane for a trip only to end up landing in the middle of a cornfield. At one point Antonio goes exploring the field to look for help and comes back with the farmer behind him... with his hands raised while a shotgun is pointed at him.
{{quote| '''Antonio:''' "Joe, would you tell this man I am *not* a Libyan terrorist?"}}
* From the first episode of ''[[Little Mosque
{{quote| "I don't care if dad thinks this is suicide. I'm on a mission from god. It's not like a dropped a bomb on him"}}
* ''[[
* ''[[24
* In an episode of ''[[Titus]]'' the titular character was on a plane with his family after his mother's funeral. Mimicking a [[Truth in Television|real life epiphany]] Christopher had years earlier, he caused a commotion that worried the other passengers. It didn't help when over-indulgent Dave came out of the bathroom [[Unfortunate Implications|with a towel wrapped around his head]] and Tommy on his knees shouting <s> "Allah"</s> "a la king" (he was correcting a steward's grammer regarding a chicken dish).
* Cami from ''[[Bones]]'' has freaked out over the suspicion that Arastoo is a terrorist ''twice.'' Despite knowing he has served as a translator for the US Military in Iraq. The first time her fear was a ''little'' understandable, but the second after she supposedly learned her lesson from the first?
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
* Torg from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' gets sent to Guantanamo Bay after he [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20030817 runs past airport security shouting], "Riff! Wait! [[It Makes Sense in Context|You don't have to blow them up! You don't have to kill everyone! You can just quit!]]" All the security guards hear is "''... bla, bla, bla'' '''Blow them up!''' ''bla, bla, bla'' '''Kill everyone!''' ..."
** Fortunately he was released when their caucasometer picked up his Viking heritage.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[South Park]]'' episode "The Snuke." Were Cartman automatically assumes that a new boy at school is a terrorist because he's Muslim. {{spoiler|While there does turn out to be a terrorist plot going on in town, it is in fact it's a Russian working for the British.}}
* ''[[The Simpsons (
* One episode of ''[[Minoriteam]]'' featured the group going on a trip in their civilian identities. The Indian Dave Raj, however, slept in, and was forced to transform into his super-powered self, Nonstop, and hop on his flying carpet to get to the airport on time. Nonstop wears a turban and has a long beard. You can probably figure out the rest on your own.
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