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Sometimes, even the cops have to dial 911. One of the more iconic, recognizable, and dramatic images of law enforcement, a Special Weapons And Tactics Team cuts an immediate and dramatic figure in any crime drama, police serial, or other story that immediately tells everyone present that the situation is deadly serious. They are usually called in for hostage scenarios, fortified and armed suspects, high-risk warrant raids, riot control, and terrorist threats. SWAT teams are easily recognizable, clad in black/blue clothing, helmets, body armor, and wielding heavy weaponry, such as assault rifles or shotguns. They also use special tactical gear like flashbang grenades, and travel in armored vehicles. They usually wear masks, be they balaclavas or gas masks, both for practical reasons (most balaclavas are fireproof, and gas masks help when dealing with tear gas) and to help keep them anonymous and impossible to read. The role of the SWAT team in fiction varies depending on the work in question. If they're on the heroes' side, they can be either elite, well-equipped problem solvers, the rescue party who bursts in to save the day, or inept or ill-fated mooks who die to show how dangerous the villains are. In other works, a SWAT team can serve as a Hero Antagonist if they oppose a protagonist who is falsely accused or otherwise principled but on the wrong side of the law. If the protagonists are criminals, a SWAT team is often the Gas Mask Mooks that exist to get gunned down, or a major threat to the protagonists. In very cynical works involving a Crapsack World or dystopia, the SWAT team can be State Sec made up of Dirty Cops. Effectiveness and role generally depends on the Sliding Scale of Law Enforcement. SWAT teams in fiction are often inaccurately portrayed as opening fire immediately on suspects, or otherwise being Trigger-Happy, or even deliberately killing suspects who present no immediate threat. In reality, as the page quote shows, SWAT serves as a life-saving police unit with Thou Shalt Not Kill rules. The ideal objective when a SWAT team is sent in is that everyone — hostage, bystander, operator, and suspect — comes out alive. SWAT officers have very specific procedures they usually have to follow; for example, a SWAT officer is supposed to clearly identify himself to a suspect, and can only open fire if the suspect raises a weapon or otherwise presents a threat to the life or safety of another. Of course, police procedures in a fictional setting may also deliberately diverge from real life, and even in reality, not all jurisdictions have the same standards. In recent years, the deployment of SWAT teams in real life has been increasingly called into question. Originally intended to respond to situations that, typically, would be unlikely to be encountered even once in any given officer's entire career, the vast majority of SWAT deployments are now to execute arrest and search warrants, often against non-violent offenders. Radley Balko's non-fiction book Rise of the Warrior Cop covers a lot of the history of SWAT, noting that in the LAPD standoff with the Symbionese Liberation Army, the SWAT team asked for a grenade launcher and were told in no uncertain terms that they did not have permission to obtain or use one. Fastforward to the present day, and hundreds of surplus grenade launchers, armoured vehicles, and even fifty-caliber machine guns have been given to police forces across America — despite the fact that violent crime has been declining for decades. Indeed, in the late 2010s, "SWATting" attacks (where a hoax call is used to try and bait a SWAT team into raiding someone's house — leading to a fatality shortly after the Christmas in 2017) have become a serious issue, especially amongst YouTubers, livestreamers, and other online celebrities. On the other hand, proponents argue that the heavy equipment being distributed to SWAT is more necessary now more than ever. A major catalyst for this argument was the 2008 Mumbai attacks, where Indian police were completely outmatched against the attackers and led to a SWAT team being formed after the fact, as well as the raid on al-Qaeda terrorists after the 2004 Madrid train bombings, in which the terrorists blew themselves up in midst of the assault and several GEO officers saved their lives only thanks to their protective gear. With the establishment of ISIS as well as al-Qaeda shifting to a more decentralized operating structure, terrorist attacks involving multiple attackers armed with heavy weapons and body armor have become increasingly commonplace, such as the attacks in Paris in January and November 2015 followed by the December 2015 San Bernardino attack. During the Bataclan siege in Paris, RAID officers credited their equipment with saving their lives. May also be referred to as ESU (Emergency Service Unit) in the many shows about New York City Cops. |
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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.) Or as the director said in an interview "SWAT teams are trained to rescue. BOPE are trained to kill." | |
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In 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. | |
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In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, an LAPD SWAT team responds to the break-in at Cyberdyne. They fatally wound Miles Dyson, but are utterly helpless against a cyborg like the T-800, who casually incapacitates most of them without killing them. | |
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One appears in All-New Ultimates, led by Paul "The Crippler" Dennis. | |
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In Mosul (2020), the Nineveh Province SWAT team has spent a better part of the ISIS occupation of Iraq resisting the forces of Daesh with unparalleled brutality and commitment. By the events of the film, Daesh considers their ilk to be labelled "unforgivable" and will not take any SWAT member prisoner. The SWAT returns that sentiment to Daesh tenfold. | |
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Anti-Skill in A Certain Magical Index is the non-powered portion of city law enforcement, and most frequently shows up as SWAT teams. They're fairly competent, but out of their league against the more powerful Espers and sorcerers. | |
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Door Kickers has the player controlling a SWAT unit to clear buildings of various armed criminals. The sequel, Door Kickers 2, which is set in the Middle East against insurgents and terrorists, features the Nowheraki SWAT, which is a unit of soldiers and police native to the country. They have less advanced equipment compared with the Army Rangers and CIA squads, but can use shields, Molotov cocktails, various types of Kalasnikov and NATO weapons, and large numbers of light militia. | |
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The Defenders (2017): An ESU team is summoned to Midland Circle in the climax and is responsible for evacuating Misty Knight after her right arm is cut off fighting Bakuto. | |
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In Monsters, Inc., the Child Detection Agency acts as the Home of Monsters equivalent of a SWAT team or a Hazmat team. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: In Sugar Rush, King Candy's enforcers include a C.L.A.W team who accompany him, Wynchell and Duncan when they try to apprehend Vanellope and Ralph at the Kart Bakery minigame. | |
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The titular characters of SWAT Kats are implied to have been this before Commander Feral kicked them out of the Enforcers and demoted them to a salvage yard, hence their names as vigilantes. Indeed, they function as the SWAT equivalent because they're the ones to beat the villains after the Enforcers have failed, but they typically dress in flight suits, not typical SWAT gear, and tend to use non-lethal weaponry along the lines of Abnormal Ammo, though they will kill if necessary. | |
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In Rocko's Modern Life, a SWAT team arrests a squirrel for stealing a gas cap from Rocko. They all consist of koalas with flyswatters. | |
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Homicide: Life on the Street: Detective Tim Bayliss was a former member of a SWAT unit. Shortly after joining Homicide, he tries to brag about his previous position only to be mocked by his colleagues when they pinpoint that he's never actually been out in the field. | |
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24 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 bad guys are already escaping". When the tactical teams do manage to contain the bad guys, however, the resulting gunfight is usually a Curb-Stomp Battle in favor of the good guys. | |
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S.W.A.T. (1975), which the above-mentioned film was based on, was one of the earliest examples on TV. Generally, what happens goes as follows: a crisis goes down that requires SWAT attention, the SWAT team gears up and piles into its infamous "War Wagon", and the criminals give up the second they see SWAT on the scene. | |
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S.W.A.T. (2017), an adaptation of both the original 1975 series and the 2003 film, is likewise about the members of an LAPD SWAT unit. | |
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Luke Cage (2016): ESU officers are shown escorting Cottonmouth as he's perp-walked out of his club for killing Misty Knight's partner Rafael Scarfe. With Luke posing problems for the Harlem gangs, Councilwoman Mariah Dillard and Willis "Diamondback" Stryker use Mariah's connections to manipulate the NYPD into bulk-purchasing Judas bullets, with ESU naturally being where they end up. Their plan involves Diamondback murdering a random police officer and pinning it on Luke. During Diamondback's Hostage Situation at Harlem's Paradise, ADA Blake Tower expresses his reservations about this move to Inspector Priscilla Ridley, and wants to stall the possibility of a violent confrontation between Luke Cage and the Judas-armed ESU team because he knows it's only a matter of time before these kind of bullets end up on the street and in the hands of criminals. |
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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 Olympus. | |
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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 GTA IV, the SWAT team is replaced by a Homeland Security stand-in known as NOOSE, the National Office of Security Enforcement. | |
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As a show that revolves around the NYPD, ESU teams are a regular feature of Blue Bloods, responding to a variety of situations (including guarding Frank after he's been shot). | |
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Resident Evil: S.T.A.R.S. (Special Tactics and Rescue Service) are the Raccoon Police Department's elite unit, brought in for the most dangerous missions. Each member wears a Custom Uniform, many of them are either ex-military personnel or have unique specialist skills, they have use of their own helicopters and carry weapons that are unique among the police force, such as their customised "Samurai Edge" pistols. Raccoon City's SWAT team appear in the intro cutscene in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis to showcase how powerful and dangerous the zombies have become by having the entire team slaughtered by them. The SWAT officers use submachine guns and shotguns while the regular police officers use pistols, but even the extra firepower were no match against the zombie horde. |
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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. Other Tom Clancy novels have included appearances by the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team. An HRT sniper is a recurring character. | |
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Jessica Jones (2015): The police detail guarding Trish's hospital room in season 2 gets an ESU team after Jessica's mom kills Detective Costa's partner in the midst of escaping after a failed attempt to kill Trish. Some ESU accompany Costa when they catch up to Jessica at the ferris wheel right after her mom has been shot dead by Trish. | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, the NCR's Veteran Rangers utilize gear custom-made from Pre-War SWAT and Riot Police gear. Joshua Graham also wears a Salt Lake City P.D SWAT tactical vest as part of his custom armor, which the player gets a variant of after completing the Honest Hearts DLC. | |
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The titular Chimera Squad of XCOM: Chimera Squad is set up like this, being limited in jurisdiction to a single city, a role based around taking down criminal and terrorist threats, a focus on breaching tactics, and travelling around in an wheeled APC. | |
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The WWE alternate universe story The Horsewomen Of Las Vegas occasionally will show the SWAT team in action, led by Sergeant Bill Goldberg. The team also includes Bobby Lashley and Chris Masters. | |
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In Batman: Year One, Gotham City's Police Dept.'s SWAT team is a murderous goon squad gleefully following the orders of the corrupt Commission Loeb. When they tried to corner and kill Batman, they are no match for him. | |
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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. One appears in All-New Ultimates, led by Paul "The Crippler" Dennis. SWAT's effectiveness varies in The Punisher. They're generally portrayed as reasonably competent, but not as skilled, experienced, or especially as ruthless and violent as Frank Castle. |
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SWAT units appear in all three installments of The Dark Knight Trilogy. In Batman Begins, they're little more than a Redshirt Army who can't stop either Batman or the villains, but in The Dark Knight, they are actually pretty competent and effective once they realize the Joker has switched the hostages and his minions. SWAT appears again early on in The Dark Knight Rises; in the initial engagement with Daggett's men, they hold their own, but a number of them are easily sniped by Barsad, Bane's right-hand man. Many of the cops sent to search the sewers are also SWAT. | |
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The Special Assault Team eventually gets deployed in Parasyte against the titular monsters. They're far more trigger-happy than in reality, due to being up against inhuman monsters and led by a soldier who orders them to shoot on sight. | |
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In Parasite Eve 2, the Los Angeles Police Department's SWAT unit is called into action to deal with a Neo-Mitochondrion Monster outbreak at the Akropolis skyscraper. By the time Aya Brea shows up on-scene, they're pretty much all dead. | |
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SWAT Team Leader is a high-level job in the Law Enforcement career in The Sims and The Sims 2. Curiously, there is no actual job for SWAT cop, only SWAT leader. | |
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department deploys the Special Assault Team in Terror in Resonance to locate the bombs Sphinx planted in Episode 3. The SAT is again deployed in Episode 6 to secure Haneda Airport against a terrorist attack. | |
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Halo may take place in the 2500s, but SWAT teams are still in use on most human worlds. They've only shown up in the games once, namely a brief appearance in the Halo 3: ODST audio logs where they take down an ex-cop who went postal. | |
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S.W.A.T. (2003) is centered on a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team. The movie starts with Street and Gamble getting thrown off one, then about a third of the way in Sgt. Hondo Harrelson comes in and handpicks a new one, including Street. | |
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Iron Fist (2017): Once Danny Rand has driven the Hand out of Rand Enterprises, Harold Meachum backstabs him by framing him for the Hand's activities and sends a DEA SWAT team after them. Danny and Colleen overpower the SWAT team and escape. After Danny, Colleen and Ward defeat Harold, Jeri Hogarth gets the assault charges against Danny and Colleen dropped thanks to a generous contribution to the DEA Widows and Children's Fund. | |
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Japan's Special Assault Team is featured in Persona 4: Arena in the introduction to several characters' story modes foiling an attempted hijacking of an airliner. Naoto's story mode begins with the hijacking, but the SAT members are not actually seen as she isn't out on the runway. Aigis's story mode also begins with the hijacking, and it is only in her mode that we see the SAT operation as it unfolds. They are completely useless compared to the Shadow Operatives. | |
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The Mass Effect games have a sci-fi equivalent in the form of Citadel Security's Special Response division. Aside from the usual SWAT-style duties, they also serve as the front-line defense of the Citadel if it is attacked. According to the second game, they suffered heavy losses while fighting off the geth incursion in the first game, and in the third, they take a hefty beating when a major Cerberus force attacks the Citadel in an attempt to assassinate the Council. | |
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Superman's home city of Metropolis has a similar team to Code: Blue above known as the Special Crimes Unit. | |
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Law & Order features the NYPD Emergency Service Unit. They wear heavy vests and riot helmets and tend to carry Ithaca 37s and M16s. The Season 4 episode "Kids" even shows a female ESU officer being first through the door in a raid. | |
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Germany has the GSG-9 (Grenzschutzgruppe 9 — Border Protection Group 9) a highly successful anti-terror group which was formed after the 1972 Olympic Games Massacre, which saw common riot police and beat cops advancing on the terrorists in stahlhelms and colourful tracksuits (in a botched attampt at 'disguise') with military-grade rifles they had never used before. In recent years, the SEKs and MEKs fulfill the SWAT role while the GSG-9 functions similarly to the Hostage Rescue Team when federal police resources are used. | |
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In Phoenix (1992), thanks to several real-life scandals at the time, the Major Crime squad has to show they have reasonable cause to believe the criminals are armed before they can even deploy the Special Operations Group — and this while they're investigating a case involving a car bomb set off outside a police station. After they do a raid, find that the crooks have an Uzi on the premises (fortunately not used) and Lochie nearly gets shot with an elephant gun, they eventually get permission. | |
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In GURPS Technomancer, SWAT stands for Special Weapons and Talismans, and they're meant to deal with criminals who have high-powered magic. | |
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In Hard Boiled, HKPF Special Duties Unit operators show Big Damn Heroics in the hospital siege by helping to evacuate the maternity ward. | |
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Daredevil (2015): In "Condemned", an ESU squad is summoned to a hostage situation where Matt Murdock has overpowered a rookie police officer who stumbled upon him and Vladimir Ranskahov in an abandoned building. This ESU squad is working for Wilson Fisk and have been tasked with murdering several cops at the scene. A sniper on the team splits off from the others, goes to a nearby rooftop, and, when given the green light by James Wesley, guns down Detective Christian Blake (who has become a liability to Fisk) and two uniformed cops (to make it look random), while the rest of the team storm the building, kill the police officer that Matt overpowered, and then kill off Vladimir as he takes one last stand holding them off so Matt can escape. The season 1 finale sees an FBI SWAT team escorting Fisk under guard to Rikers, until mercs working for Fisk ambush the convoy and try to free him (with season 3 implying that Tammy Hattley tipped them off). Then it turns out that one of the officers in the truck has been paid off by Fisk. In "Dogs to a Gunfight", ESU is shown using Grotto as bait to lure the Punisher into a trap. They later try to shoot at the Punisher while he and Matt Murdock are engaged in fisticuffs on the rooftop. In "Penny and Dime", ESU are shown on scene when Frank Castle is arrested in the cemetery. While he's recovering in the hospital from being tortured by the Kitchen Irish, he's considered a high enough risk prisoner (both to himself and other people) that an entire floor is cordoned off for him and guarded by an ESU squad overseen by Brett Mahoney. ESU are later shown standing outside the courthouse after Frank Castle escapes from prison and DA Reyes gets killed. In season 3, Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter is an FBI SWAT sniper assigned to bodyguarding Fisk as he's being transferred from Rikers to the Presidential Hotel. When the convoy is attacked by an Albanian hit squad trying to assassinate Fisk for snitching, Dex leaps into action and singlehandedly kills all of the assassins, ricocheting bullets to hit men hiding around corners, shooting two assassins in the head while they're clearly surrendering, and when his pistol runs out of bullets, hurls the gun and empty magazine at the last two assassins hard enough that the latter impales its target in the throat. Fisk subsequently takes Dex under his wing, and grooms the mentally unstable agent into becoming his new personal assassin. In "Aftermath", Fisk anticipates that Matt will visit Melvin Potter upon noticing the fake Daredevil suit on Dex and sends an FBI SWAT team there to pick him up. Matt and Melvin fight off the SWAT team, though Melvin gets captured and Matt ends up having to flee empty-handed. |
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Gabriel Law from The One 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. | |
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In The Siege, the FBI SWAT team leads the raid on a safehouse where co-conspirators in the bombing of an MTA bus are holed up. During both bus hostage situations, the NYPD Emergency Services Unit makes appearances. | |
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Last Man Standing is about FBI Agent Web London, the Sole Survivor of an FBI HRT raid that spectacularly failed with the entire team except Web being taken out by an auto-turret. Web spends the novel dealing with the trauma, the guilt and eventually investigating the circumstances behind the failed raid. | |
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In Dawn of the Dead (1978), 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. | |
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In Daemon, an FBI Hostage Rescue Team attempts to assault Sobol's booby-trapped mansion. Most are driven back, but one of them, Roy "Tripwire" Merritt, manages to get in, becoming a Hero Antagonist and Famed In-Story. | |
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A Detroit SWAT unit appears early on in 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 team leader. In the sequel, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Jensen is now part of an Interpol SWAT unit called Task Force 29, which is comprised of ex-SAS and other Special Forces types. | |
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In Underbelly, the Victoria Police equivalent Special Operations Group appears as black suited super-soldiers. They work with detectives to entrap and barricade Jason Moran before using sledgehammers to break him out of his car, and Steven Owen uses them to arrest Carl Williams after he makes death threats (Owen claims that he's armed and extremely dangerous, so they rough him up) as well as planting listening and monitoring devices. | |
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The Raid follows an Indonesian SWAT Team called Detachment 88 going into an apartment building filled to the rafters with the worst thugs in the city. At the end of the movie, only two D88 cops survive. Out of twenty. | |
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In The Town, both Boston Police Department and FBI SWAT teams appear in the Fenway Park shootout, with the deaths of criminals Desmond Elden, James Coughlin and Albert Magloan all coming at the hands of SWAT team bullets. | |
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Crisis (2017) focuses on an "unofficial" unit of the Special Investigation Team as they covertly dispose of terrorist threats to the state. The Special Assault Team also has a Big Damn Heroes moment in Episode 8. | |
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Both SWAT teams and FBI Hostage Rescue Teams appear in Terminator: 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. Their usage here falls under Wrong Genre Savvy in that Ellison knows he's against a serious threat and calls out the HRT, assuming they can deal with any reasonable enemy. Unfortunately, he's dealing with a Terminator, and SWAT teams don't bring anti-tank weapons. | |
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In Freedom City, the equivalent of DC's Special Crimes Unit is STAR Squad, standing for Superhuman Tactics and Regulation. | |
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SWAT's effectiveness varies in The Punisher. They're generally portrayed as reasonably competent, but not as skilled, experienced, or especially as ruthless and violent as Frank Castle. | |
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Money Heist prominently features the actual real-life Spain equivalent to the SWAT: the GEO, or "Grupo Especial de Operaciones" ("Special Operations Group"). They have a very active role in both story lines. | |
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Person of Interest: In "The Devil's Share", the US Marshals have a SWAT Team guarding Alonzo Quinn. They prove to be ineffective against John Reese, who (while bleeding to death from barely treated gunshots) nonlethally curb-stomps them to get to Quinn. In "Aletheia", a Northern Lights assassination team adopts the guise of an FBI SWAT Team to eliminate a Vigilance terrorist group that's holed up in a bank. |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: The Allied Peacekeeper is the basic infantry unit, essentially a SWAT member with military-grade armor and a shotgun with low range but high knockback. They also get a riot shield that lets them tank ridiculous amounts of damage, but its main use is to clear out garrisoned buildings (at the cost of the unit). | |
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In The Cape, the local city's SWAT units are actually Private Military Contractors that serve as the Faceless Goons for the Ark Corporation. | |
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The Wire: Baltimore Police Department SWAT teams do show up from time to time for raids. SWAT are deployed en masse to raid Barksdale stashhouses after Kima Greggs gets shot in an undercover buy gone wrong. The most notable use of the SWAT team in the show is in the antepenultimate episode of season 1, when they are about to arrest Avon Barksdale in his office. Jimmy McNulty sees the show of force as a little bit excessive, so he and Daniels do better: they just wordlessly walk up the stairs to the office like a walk in the park, put the handcuffs on Avon, then walk out — the only words being when McNulty tells Stringer "Catch you later." The season 3 finale sees Rawls deploy SWAT and lots of patrol officers as part of the show being put on to clear out Hamsterdam, the unauthorized "drug-free zone" that Major Colvin had been running. This also impacts the Major Crimes Unit, who have to borrow Western District cops like Herc and Carver to go arrest Avon Barksdale and his men at one of their stashhouses because Rawls denies them access to the SWAT unit. Season 4 sees the hostile Lt. Charles Marimow, installed in Major Crimes on Rawls' orders to scuttle investigations with major political implications, utilize SWAT teams in a failed attempt to raid some of Marlo Stanfield's stash houses, but the information is bad, and they only succeed in arresting some low-level members of Marlo's crew. In season 5, Kenneth Dozerman ends up in the tactical unit after the Major Crimes Unit is shut down due to Carcetti's cutbacks. |
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Civilian SWAT teams appear a few times in JAG. In the second season episode "The Guardian", Bud is trapped inside a church with a crazy homeless veteran who is a murder suspect and an MPD SWAT team is sent to the church and captures the suspect, but only after Harm has done his usual share of heroics. In "The Martin Baker Fan Club", an MPD SWAT team enter Harm's apartment after one of the crazy fugitive veterans grabbed a side arm from a police officer. The suspect is arrested but another veteran is shot at. The opening of "The Colonel's Wife" is of a San Diego SWAT team, while on a drug bust, discovers the origin of a drug shipment. In "Persian Gulf", an MPD SWAT team enters after Mac killed the terrorist Fadik Sahd. |
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FBI Hostage Rescue Teams show from time to time in Criminal Minds; in one episode, they deploy to protect the FBI building from an UnSub who's a retired Navy SEAL. He gets into the building before they're even deployed. Plenty of non-HRT SWAT teams show up in the series as well. Of particular note is one episode in which a SWAT team launches a raid on a heavily armed cult compound while two members of the team and a social worker are inside, which — after a gun battle — leads to the team members getting captured and the social worker killed. | |
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier: A van of SWAT officers are among the assassins who ambush Nick Fury while disguised as police officers. Their van is also carrying a tripod mounted battering ram meant to breach the bulletproof glass on Fury's SUV. | |
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Power Rangers S.P.D. (and the source series, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger) features a SWAT-themed Super Mode for the entire team; in this mode, they gain armor (including big vests), helmet add-ons (a headset and a targeting/infrared vision device), and large automatic weaponry. They also get the SWAT Megazord, composed of jets and able to turn into a Zord-sized BFG for containing criminals. | |
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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 Special Security Team operator; Aramaki holds off a corrupt 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 Cops and unsavory types, run by the Ministry of Health. Then by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - Solid State Society, Section Nine has grown large enough that it has its own dedicated SWAT Team. | |
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In Shadow Ops, a New York City ESU team is assigned to support Shadow Coven when they're called in to take down a rogue 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. | |
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The Victoria Police equivalent Special Operations Group is used several times throughout Blue Heelers. One season five episode had them wearing the Boonie hats and looking more like soldiers dressed as police or police with body armor and special weapons, much like the Heelers and other police are when they conduct high-risk operations. After the station bombing, they are played straight; black outfits, helmets and body armor, storming, raiding and searching a bombing suspect, complete with weapons at low ready as they sweep and clear for any suspects or signs of explosives. | |
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In The Negotiator, a SWAT unit attacks protagonist Danny Roman when a couple of 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. | |
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has "hit-wizards" among the Ministry of Magic law enforcement personals who arrested Sirius Black in 1981. | |
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Flashpoint is about the Strategic Response Unit, which is an Emergency Response Team-type unit based in a City with No Name (filmed in Toronto, Canada). Much like S.W.A.T. (1975), nearly every episode has them responding to a major incident that in real life would be a rare event. | |
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In Police Rescue, having been involved in several real-life controversial shootings at the time, the NSW Tactical Response Group are portrayed as somewhat Trigger-Happy to contrast with our heroes, who of course are 'good' police who only want to save lives. | |
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In World War Z (2019), Tatsuo Matsumoto from the Japan chapter is a veteran policeman with years of experience in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's most prestigious special units: the Riot Control Unit, Special Assault Team, and Special Investigation Team. | |
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The S.W.A.T. games obviously involve this, eventually progressing from a point-and-click adventure game to a top-down tactical simulator to tactical squad-based first-person shooters. 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. | |
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SWAT in Batman: Arkham Origins is, for all intents and purposes, just another gang of thugs, usually seen shaking people off for protection money or violently disputing over turf with other gangs, and their chief is the single dirtiest cop in all GCPD (and that's saying something). They decide to completely ignore their police duties for the night in order to try to earn the bounty on Batman for themselves. | |
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PAYDAY: The Heist and PAYDAY 2 have the SWAT as your main enemies since you're a heavily armed robber. The SWAT team come in varying appearances, gear, and tactics. There's also special SWAT units designed to disable you quickly. | |
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The titular Anime Crimes Division maintains its own SWAT team, who are deployed multiple times in later episodes to deal with a Serial Killer, raid the Neo-Otaku City version of a Red Light District, and guard the city's fiber-optic cables. | |
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In Mafia II, Empire Bay has a SWAT unit that appears in several missions during the DLC's. This is a unique anachronism as the game is set during The '50s and the first SWAT teams didn't become operational until about 1964 or 1968. | |
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Raccoon City's SWAT team appear in the intro cutscene in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis to showcase how powerful and dangerous the zombies have become by having the entire team slaughtered by them. The SWAT officers use submachine guns and shotguns while the regular police officers use pistols, but even the extra firepower were no match against the zombie horde. | |
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SWAT teams have appeared from time to time in Burn Notice, usually forcing Team Westen the additional challenge of avoiding shootouts they can't win. | |
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In the third volume of Hellsing, a few Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais elements (Special Police Operations Battalion) are sent to raid the penthouse in Rio de Janeiro where Alucard and Seras are staying, having been told by their Millennium-backed superiors that they're terrorists. Their performance against Alucard is... typical. | |
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Jormungand: SWAT snipers are deployed by the Dubai Police Force during the Orchestra arc, but they aren't terribly effective. Among the HCLI crew, Lutz was a former SWAT sniper before he joined Koko's team. |
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Hill Street Blues is one of the few Police Procedural series to have the commander of the precinct's SWAT teamnote or rather, Emergency Action Team commander, who gets very annoyed when people make fun of the acronym as a regular character, in the form of gung-ho Noble Bigot with a Badge Lt. Howard Hunter. A few of his team also achieve Recurring Extra status. | |
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The Punisher (2017): Dinah Madani and Sam Stein feed some false information to a bug in Dinah's office to trick whoever's on the other end into thinking that Frank Castle will be making a gun buy at the second floor of an abandoned factory. Billy Russo and a couple of PMCs on his payroll show up at the location, and subsequently open fire when the SWAT team reveals themselves. Several SWAT officers are killed in the gunfight, as are all of Russo's men. Before Russo escapes, he manages to corner and stab Sam to death with a retractable knife concealed in his right sleeve. An NYPD ESU team headed by Brett Mahoney responds when Frank shows up at the hotel where Lewis Wilson tries to assassinate Karen Page and Senator Ori. They train their guns on Frank as he uses Karen as a "hostage" to escape. |
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19-2 has the Groupe tactique/Tactical Group for the Service de Police Métropolitain whenever the force needs them to go against armed criminals. Needless to say, they get into trouble when some of their elements get taken out by a bomb attack, pointing to the possibility of a rogue cop helping out organized crime in Montreal. | |
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