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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 the 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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* In ''[[Watchmen (comics)|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.
* Superman's home city of Metropolis also has a similar team known as the Special Crimes Unit.
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== Film ==
* SWAT units appear in both ''[[Batman Begins]]'' and ''[[The Dark Knight]]''. In the former, they're little more than a [[Redshirt Army]] who can't stop either Batman or the villains, but in the latter they are actually pretty competent and effective, once {{spoiler|they realize the Joker has switched the hostages and his minions.}}
* In ''[[Terminator]] 2'', an LAPD SWAT team responds to the break-in at Cyberdyne. They fatally wound Miles Dyson, but are utterly helpless against the Terminator, who casually incapacitates most of them without killing them.
* In ''[[The Negotiator]]'', a SWAT unit attacks the protagonist when a couple of [[Dirty Cop|Dirty Cops]] try to take him out when he gets too close to the truth behind his friend's murder. The SWAT team is driven back without anyone getting killed, though one of them is captured in the process.
* The FBI's SWAT team appears in ''[[The Siege]]'' during a raid on a terrorist hideout.
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* 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|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 (2010 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]]'', usually forcing Team Westen the additional challenge of avoiding shootouts they can't win.
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