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== Anime and Manga ==
* Not content with just SWAT, ''[[Appleseed]]'' introduces ESWAT -- Extra-Special Weapons and Tactics teams. These guys are definitely on the [[Badass Army]] side of the scale; they're almost a military in [[Land of One City|Olympus]].
* SWAT teams are featured throughout [[Ghost in Thethe Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]; on three occasions, Section Nine deploys to resolve hostage situations Niihama SWAT can't handle; Batou and Saito rescue a Japanese Coast Guard [[wikipedia:Special Security Team|Special Security Team]] operator; Aramaki holds off a CO19 team in London with a grenade, an alarm clock, and clever thinking; and there's the Narcotics Suppression Squad, a [[SWAT Team]] made of [[Dirty Cop|dirty cops]] and unsavory types, run by the ''Ministry of Health''.
 
 
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== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[Watchmen (Comic Bookcomics)|Watchmen]]'', a NYPD ESU team goes after Rorschach midway through the comic and subdues him, though not without him kicking some serious ass in the process.
* In the ''[[Punisher]]'' comics, SWAT's effectiveness varies. they're generally portrayed as reasonably competent, but not ''as'' skilled, experienced, or especially as ruthless and violent as Frank Castle.
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], a New York city ESU team named Code: Blue, composed of [[Badass]] cops equipped with above-average technology occasionally helps the local heroes deal with supervillains.
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* The FBI's SWAT team appears in ''[[The Siege]]'' during a raid on a terrorist hideout.
* ''[[SWAT]]'', quite naturally.
* Show up as antagonists at the end of ''[[The Town (Film)|The Town]]'', where they manage to kill all but one of the bank robbers.
* In ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'', the Child Detection Agency acts as the [[Monster World]] equivalent of a SWAT team or a Hazmat team.
* In ''[[The One (Filmfilm)|The One]]'', Jet Li's character Gabriel Law is a member of the Los Angeles County SWAT. An alternate-universe SWAT unit is also featured at the beginning of the movie, and a multiversal SWAT equivalent appears throughout the movie.
* SWAT serve as a [[Redshirt Army]] in the first two ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' films. The LAPD SWAT team [[Curb Stomp Battle|doesn't even get to fire a shot]], whereas the five-man airport SWAT unit, when ambushed by four of Colonel Stuart's henchmen, only is able to kill one of the mercenaries before being entirely wiped out. It takes McClane to take out the remaining three soldiers.
* In ''[[Hard Boiled (Filmfilm)|Hard Boiled]]'', HKPD Special Duties Unit operators show [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Heroics]] in the hospital siege by helping to evacuate the maternity ward.
* ESU teams appear at times throughout [[Blue Bloods]], responding to a variety of situations (including guarding Frank after he's been shot).
* In ''[[Dawn of the Dead (Filmfilm)|Dawn of the Dead]]'', a SWAT team, including two of the main characters, raid a Zombie-infested apartment building in the beginning. They sport the usual early-era black bulletproof vests and caps as well as M16 rifles.
* BOPE, the protagonists of [[The Elite Squad]], were originally a conventional hostage rescue [[SWAT Team]]. Now they're a [[Badass Army]] that fights fire with fire. (At best.)
 
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== Literature ==
* The ''[[Rainbow Six]]'' novel and games focus on an international version of this composed of special forces troops and police officers recruited from various nations who work as a counter-terror and hostage rescue unit.
* In ''[[Shadow Ops (Literature)|Shadow Ops]]'', a New York City ESU team is assigned to support [[Mage Killer|Shadow Coven]] when they're called in to take down a rogue [[Body Horror|Physiomancer]] loose in the sewers underneath the city. Being [[Muggles]] in a setting where said Physiomancer can literally reshape human flesh at will (both others and its own), most of the unit gets horribly massacred in the ensuing encounter.
 
 
== Live Action TV ==
* Both SWAT teams and FBI Hostage Rescue Teams appear in ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' frequently, when police and the FBI close in on either the Connors or the machines hunting them. It almost always ends ''badly'' for them.
* ''[[24 (TV)|Twenty Four]]'' features numerous variations of SWAT teams and federal response units, and CTU has their tactical teams. They generally serve as a [[Redshirt Army]], as the phrase "we're setting up a perimeter" is synonymous with "the badguys are already escaping." When the tactical teams ''do'' manage to contain the badguys, however, the resulting gunfight is usually a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] in favor of the good guys.
* In ''[[The Cape (TV series)|The Cape]]'', the local city's SWAT units are actually [[Private Military Contractors]] that serve as the [[Faceless Goons]] for the [[Mega Corp|Ark Corporation]].
* ''Series/Flashpoint'' is about a Canadian SWAT team.
* SWAT teams have appeared from time to time on ''[[Burn Notice (TV)|Burn Notice]]'', usually forcing Team Westen the additional challenge of avoiding shootouts they can't win.
* FBI Hostage Rescue Teams also show from time to time on ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]''; in one episode they deploy to protect the FBI building from an UnSub who's a [[Retired Badass|retired Navy SEAL]]. {{spoiler|He gets into the building before they're even deployed.}}
 
 
== Video Games ==
* SWAT serves as an enemy throughout the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games, generally as an antagonist in different missions, and as one of the grades of police response called in as more crimes are committed. By ''4'', the SWAT team is replaced by a Homeland Security [[Expy]] known as NOOSE.
* The SWAT installments of the ''[[Police Quest]]'' games obviously involve this, eventually progressing from a point-and-click adventure game to a top-down tactical simulator to [[SWAT 4|a first-person shooter]]. The ''SWAT'' games heavily emphasize the use of proper police procedure: cuff every enemy, collect evidence, report all injured or dead people, always announce your presence and demand surrender before firing, and ''especially'' emphasis on trying to take down suspects alive. So far, the latest game in the series is ''[[SWAT 4]]'', made by Irrational Games (the team behind ''[[Bio ShockBioshock]]'' and ''[[System Shock]]'').
* A Detroit SWAT unit appears early on in ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'', containing the hostage situation at the Sarif factory. They eventually go in after Adam Jensen enters the facility and recovers the top secret prototype he's after. Jensen himself is also ex-SWAT.
 
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