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* [[Dead All Along]]: Some people believed that was dead for a long time, before he was found and killed.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: One of his tapes responded to the USA's propaganda about "freedom" with him saying "if I was doing this because I hated freedom, I'd be bombing Sweden, not America".
* [[The Dragon]]: [[Morally
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Osama had them in the form of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/055_Brigade These guys].
* [[Eye Scream]]: News reports over the May 2 assassination of Bin Laden reveal that Bin Laden was either shot in the left eye when he refused to surrender, or the bullet went high and blew away part of Osama's skull. [[Stephen Colbert]] [[Squee|squeed]] quite a bit at this particular detail.
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* [[Mission From God]]: From Allah.
* [[Multinational Team]]: His army of fanatics was said to consist of Arabs, Afghans, Pakistanis, Uzbeks, Chechens, Somalis, converted Western citizens, and others.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: He rose to his current position, unintentionally, with U.S. help to mujahideen against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
* [[Occupiers Out of Our Country]]: Except he regarded his country as the Islamic world, in general, and Palestine, specifically.
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* ''Fugitive Hunter,'' a [[PS 2]] first-person shooter/fighting game, has Osama bin Laden as the final boss. You kickbox him to a gangsta rap about...beating up Osama bin Laden.
* There was a "Bin Laden in a Blender" web site on ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Implied in one episode (where Homer and Marge met each other as kids) that he was Homer's pen pal.
* [[Homage]]: ''[[Broken Saints]]'' features an aging, bearded middle-eastern man of a fearsome disposition who speaks in quotations from the Qu'ran. His name is Osama. Coincidence? The character's first involvement in the series occurred ''before'' 9/11, his identity (as father of Iraqi [[Anti
* Osama is the only guy the H-[[Doujinshi]] ''Viva Freedom'' who doesn't get to have sex. (And serve him right!) Specifically, his men kill him for interrupting their orgy.
* Appears in ''[[Two DTV]]'', usually in sketches where he gets annoyed by the Taliban's lack of high-tech weapons to fight the Americans with.
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* Brazilian comedy group Casseta & Planeta has a sketch in their TV show depicting Osama living in Rio de Janeiro with an abusing wife.
* A Brazilian comedy website, Charges.com.br, have Osama (and sidekick "Zuanta", pun on "sua [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapir anta]", "you ass") as frequent characters.
* Mentioned in [[Planet Terror]] as having been found and killed by [[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]' character.
* ''[[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]'': A [[Captain Ersatz]] version of Bin Laden turns up in ''The Living Daylights'' as one of the good guys. This was before [[The Great Politics Mess Up]] when Bin Laden was one of our stalwart allies whose band of brave freedom fighters were nobly trying to get the evil Soviet occupiers out of their countries.
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