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* In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy (ComicBook/UltimateXMen) and the Liberators (ComicBook/TheUltimates) are not just villain teams, but actual terrorist groups. The former consists of {{Mutants}} who are trying to rule over human society and the latter is an international group of superpowered anti-American terrorists.

* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': Season Five involves Nick facing the Wesen[[note]]a collective term used to describe the creatures visible to the Grimms; they are the basis not only of the fairy tales that the Brothers Grimm have compiled but also of the many legends and folklore from many cultures[[/note]] Supremacist group Black Claw. Already responsible for much upheaval in the Middle East, South America, Africa, and Europe, their now planning to take over America staring in Portland. Black Claw holds the belief that the world should belong to Wesen, forcing them to come out of hiding and to re-embrace the barbaric traditions most have left in the past (such as hunting humans for food, human sacrifice rituals, etc.). Their methodology involves positioning their operatives in key positions through corruption and assassination, radicalizing peaceful Wesen, brainwashing children, and terrorizing any Wesen who don't join or oppose them.

* Inverted in ''Comicbook/XMen'' with the various anti-mutant terrorist groups, such as Humanity First.

Despite existing in speculative fiction world for SF reasons, there might be [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything veiled references to actual terrorism]] or [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed real life terrorist groups.]]

** In ''Literature/RaisingSteam'', the dwarfish fundamentalists mentioned in previous books have coalesced into a terrorist organisation called The Only True Dwarfs, who burn semaphore towers and attack the locomotive (because they symbolise modernity, which they associate with dwarfs forgetting their traditions and becoming humanified) and have also killed dwarfs they suspect of being "undwarfish".

* ''Fanfic/EbottsWake'': The Guardians of the Legacy of the Magi were convinced there were monsters under Mount Ebott waiting to take over the world. They became convinced it'd happen soon when Asriel appeared with Chara's body. In order to prepare unfettered, they basically held the titular town of Ebott's Wake at gunpoint until they were finally taken down. In the present day, the Anti-Monster League, which was being manipulated by surviving members of the Guardians, eventually decide to try and siege the town once it becomes clear that loud, angry words won't make any headway.
* ''Fanfic/InnocenceOnceLost'': In the side story "Luna Aeternal" Princess Luna and Twilight Sparkle have to help stop a terrorist attack on a human moonbase caused by two terrorist groups, one human and one pony, who are pulling an EnemyMine to prevent a peace treaty.

* ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' features both expies of real life militant groups with more grounded motives, but also groups that are fighting for more esoteric goals. Towards the end, the Discordians [[HarsherInHindsight blow a hole through a wing of the Pentagon]] to [[spoiler:release Cthulhu who has been trapped by the occult shape of the building]]. When they call in a warning about the attack, the officials scoff assuming they are dealing with some small left wing group planting a small pipe bomb by the wall.

** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': The end of the fourth and final season has the ''Enterprise'' encounter a highly-xenophobic terrorist group called "Terra Prime", which wants to end all contact with aliens and kick them all out of the solar system. They do this by [[ArtificialHuman cloning a hybrid Human-Vulcan child]] using Trip and T'Pol's DNA to demonstrate the "perversion" of intermingling with non-humans, and later hijacking an asteroid-deflecting system on Mars with the intent to use it to vaporize Starfleet Headquarters if their demands aren't met.

* In ''TabletopGame/TheEsoterrorists'', as the agents of a benevolent ancient conspiracy known as the Ordo Veritatis, the players fight to save the world from the eponymous Esoterrorists, any number of cults and other organizations bent on breaching the fabric of reality on behalf of the various horrors of the Outer Dark.

** The Dead Brigade is a group of vampires and atomic liches with a philosophy of "making more mundanes undead - or dead".

* Chaos cults from ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' follow a ReligionOfEvil that worship [[EldritchAbomination dark gods from beyond]] and conspire against the Empire/Imperium. In ''Fantasy'' this includes the Warriors of Chaos from Norsca; HornyVikings who raid the various peoples to the south of them, often taking captives to make [[HumanSacrifice offerings to the dark gods]]. In ''40,000'' this includes the Chaos {{Space Marine}}s, who are renegade splinters of the Imperium who act much like the Warriors of Chaos [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]]; the Word Bearers legion are heavy on the "fantastic" part, while the Night Lords legion are heavy on the "terrorists" part.

* In ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', Meruka Kuramitsu is a "bomber for hire" who takes money for blowing things up. That said, he has never targeted people (just structures that his [[{{Yakuza}} employers]] want out of the way), at least until his identity was discovered by Shiki, whom he tries to kill in-story. The fantastic aspect comes from Meruka's ability to see the future -- in fact, this is why his bombings are always successful and leave neither collateral damage, nor any traces to lead the police back to him.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': The Space Warriors are basically [[AnimalWrongsGroup PETA]] [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]], but their primary goal is to protect the Ganymede sea rat, and their ultimate plan is to use a virus that turns people into monkeys to get their way. It's... interesting.

* Zig-zagged in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': Even though [[spoiler:Anders]] is a mage in a world where demons and spirits are very real and active power players when he decides to assassinate the last ReasonableAuthorityFigure left in Kirkwall in order to plunge the city into chaos, he just builds a big-ass bomb out of common chemicals and blows up her workplace to smithereens, but the resulting explosion is clearly magical, given that it fires a beam of light into the air that sucks the debris upward into a ring.

Will overlap in many instances with ScaryDogmaticAliens, the use of antagonistic aliens to depict thinly veiled RealLife ideologies. May overlap with WeirdHistoricalWar, if the trope is used in a real life historical setting. Compare {{Ghostapo}} and StupidJetpackHitler for when the Nazis get to use fantastic or science fiction element(s) in their crusades. Not to be confused with terrorists being considered fantastic people, which falls under YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters. In case it isn't obvious, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease.

* The Website/SCPFoundation opposes several groups who don't hesitate to use [=SCPs=] for their own gain, notably the Serpent's Hand and the Chaos Insurgency. Less openly-hostile groups include Marshall, Carter, and Dark, who merely sell [=SCPs=] to the highest bidder with [[EvenEvilHasStandards almost]] no regard to the consequences, the Manna Charitable Foundation who use [=SCPs=] for good (again, without considering side-effects), while Are We Cool Yet? is a collective of {{Mad Artist}}s whose art installations take TrueArtIsIncomprehensible to lethal levels (including an invisible shark or a painting of an atomic bomb that turns the viewer into a caveman).

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation opposes several groups who don't hesitate to use [=SCPs=] for their own gain, notably the Serpent's Hand and the Chaos Insurgency. Less openly-hostile groups include Marshall, Carter, and Dark, who merely sell [=SCPs=] to the highest bidder with [[EvenEvilHasStandards almost]] no regard to the consequences, the Manna Charitable Foundation who use [=SCPs=] for good (again, without considering side-effects), while Are We Cool Yet? is a collective of {{Mad Artist}}s whose art installations take TrueArtIsIncomprehensible to lethal levels (including an invisible shark or a painting of an atomic bomb that turns the viewer into a caveman).

* The Death Eaters of ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' are WizardsAndWitches who terrorize {{Muggles}} and fellow magic users alike. [[TheFilmOfTheBook The film series]] takes it even further by having Death Eaters [[MonumentalDamage destroy the Millennium Bridge]] in [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince the sixth movie]].

** Although of course, from the Death Eaters' point of view, Dumbledore's Army and the Order of the Phoenix would've been the terrorists.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has the White Fang, a [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] civil rights group that, through a complicated sequence of events in the background, steadily fall into this. They used to be a peaceful Faunus rights activist group, but as the effectiveness of their initially pacifistic methods diminished overtime (and a peaceful transition from [[ActualPacifist Ghira Belladonna]] to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Sienna Khan)]], their methods became more and more radical and more willing to use violence and fear in order to force the human society who [[FantasticRacism ostracized and persecuted them]] to actually respect them as people. However, under Sienna's leadership they still had not escalated too far out of necessity due to the White Fang's small size, as well as still trying to hold to their principles of fighting for equality... until [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Adam Taurus]] began to make a grab for power, with his own goal of subjugating the human race for the sake of satiating his own bloodlust. Blake Belladonna used to be part of the group back, even staying on during Sienna's leadership, but broke off with them when she found herself at odds with Adam's increasing subversion of the organization, especially as he began to undermine Sienna Khan's leadership.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has the White Fang, a [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] civil rights group that, through a complicated sequence of events in the background, steadily fall into this. They used to be a peaceful Faunus rights activist group, but as the effectiveness of their initially pacifistic methods diminished overtime (and a peaceful transition from [[ActualPacifist Ghira Belladonna]] to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Sienna Khan)]], their methods became more and more radical and more willing to use violence and fear in order to force the human society who [[FantasticRacism ostracized and persecuted them]] to actually respect them as people. However, under Sienna's leadership they still had not escalated too far out of necessity due to the White Fang's small size, as well as still trying to hold to their principles of fighting for equality... until [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Adam Taurus]] began to make a grab for power, with his own goal of subjugating the human race for the sake of satiating his own bloodlust. Blake Belladonna used to be part of the group back when their methods were more peaceful, but broke off with them when she found herself increasingly at odds with Adam's intended direction for the organization, especially as he began to undermine Sienna Khan's leadership to achieve his selfish goals.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has the White Fang, a [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] civil rights group that, through a complicated sequence of events in the background, steadily fall into this. They used to be a peaceful Faunus rights activist group, but as the effectiveness of their initially pacifistic methods diminished overtime (and a peaceful transition from [[ActualPacifist Ghira Belladonna]] to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Sienna Khan)]], their methods became more and more radical and more willing to use violence and fear in order to force the human society who [[FantasticRacism ostracized and persecuted them]] to actually respect them as people. However, under Sienna's leadership they still had not escalated too far out of necessity due to the White Fang's relatively small size and holding to their principles of fighting for equality... until [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Adam Taurus]] began to make a grab for power, with the intended culmination of subjugating the human race for the sake of satiating his own bloodlust. Blake Belladonna used to be part of the group back when their methods were more peaceful, but broke off with them when she found herself increasingly at odds with Adam's intended direction for the organization, especially as he began to undermine Sienna Khan's leadership to achieve his selfish goals.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has the White Fang, a [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] civil rights group that, through a complicated sequence of events in the background, steadily fall into this. They used to be a peaceful Faunus rights activist group, but as the effectiveness of their initially pacifistic methods diminished overtime (and a peaceful transition from [[ActualPacifist Ghira Belladonna]] to [[WellIntentionedExtremist Sienna Khan)]], their methods became more and more radical and more willing to use violence and fear in order to force the human society who [[FantasticRacism ostracized and persecuted them]] to actually respect them. However, under Sienna's leadership they still had not escalated too far out of necessity due to the White Fang's relatively small size... until [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Adam Taurus]] began to make a grab for power, with the intended culmination of subjugating the human race for the sake of satiating his own bloodlust. Blake Belladonna used to be part of the group back when their methods were more peaceful, but broke off with them when she found herself increasingly at odds with Adam's intended direction for the organization, especially as he began to undermine Sienna Khan's leadership to achieve his selfish goals.