History UsefulNotes / NavySEALs

* Surprisingly averted for most of the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' series. The [=SEALs=] don't show up onscreen until ''Modern Warfare 2'' (where their slogan provides a level name), and you don't play one until ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2''.

* Wrestling/JesseVentura, in the lead up to SummerSlam, said this.

** There was also the episode ''Rogue'' detailing a SEAL Captain launching mock terrorist attacks to expose weaknesses in military installations. Despite the disclaimer the story is fiction it is clearly based on RogueWarrior.

* Another drama that debuted in September 2017, ''Series/SEALTeam'', stars Creator/DavidBoreanaz as head of DEVGRU a.k.a. SEAL Team 6.

* The Navy Seal is the Americans' special unit in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV''

* SEAL Team Ten is featured in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'' as a RedshirtArmy that quickly gets wiped out on the Big Shell after a failed attempt to rescue the President.

* Another drama that debuted in September 2017, ''Series/SEALTeam'', stars Creator/DavidBoreanaz as head of SEAL Team 3.

* Another drama that debuted in September 2017, ''SEAL Team'', stars Creator/DavidBoreanaz as head of SEAL Team 3.

* ''Jarhead 2: Field of Fire'' (which is an InNameOnly sequel to 2005's ''Film/{{Jarhead}}'') has its plot move into gear when a SEAL Team 10 Senior Chief flags down the main characters, who are a Marine squad simply running a supply convoy, to escort a VIP to safety (a fictional equivalent of [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Malala Yousafzai]]). The Senior Chief [[TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled gets taken out shortly after]], and as he was the SoleSurvivor of his unit, the Marines find themselves in charge of a high-risk mission they are completely unprepared for.

* When Creator/ElizaDushku is hit on and asked out on a date when she plays an FBI agent in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', she asks if her Navy SEAL husband is also invited. Dushku is known for playing Faith in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Echo in ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', and Rubi in ''{{Wet}}'', in other words badasses. So she’s matched up with the ultimate badass for one hell of a cockblock.

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* ''Film/UnderSeige'' and its sequel ''Film/UnderSeige2DarkTerritory'' feature Creator/StevenSeagal as ex-SEAL Chief Petty Officer Casey Ryback.

* In ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'', Sam Fisher was a former Navy SEAL before he became an NSA agent. This is [[AlternateContinuity in contrast to]] the ''Splinter Cell'' novels, where he was a former CIA agent instead.

* UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar: At the behest of [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy]] Navy divers and swimmers were formed into the elite team they are known as today, with the creation of [=SEAL=] Team One and [=SEAL=] Team Two. Utilizing the lessons learned from the success of World War Two and Korea prospects were put through TrainingFromHell to become not just maritime commandos, but land based scouts and raiders, infiltrators, saboteurs and assassins. The two platoons would be sent to Vietnam but there was a problem: [=SEALS=] had a good grasp of what they could do and what their mission capabilities were, where the regular chain of command thought they knew their tactics and how best to deploy, leading to a degree of JurisdictionFriction. Many used the war as a testing bed to develop new ideas and test out exactly how far, how dark, and how tough they could push themselves, whether it be relying on their skills and instincts to survive or throw out the rules that didn't make sense in favor of better ones. One in particular would be then Lieutenant Richard Marcinko, the Literature/RogueWarrior, who would go on to command Team Two and whip them into shape and the lessons learned would lead to the formation of a new counterterrorist team.

* The Navy SEAL is one of the many Counter-Terrorist Units in ''[[VideoGame/RainbowSix Rainbow Six Siege]]'', their two operators are Blackbeard and Valkyrie.

* 2017's big new drama ''Series/{{Six}}'' is the first ever TV drama to be based on real SEAL Team missions of the Navy (the name based on just one of these, Team Six, which featured in many special forces missions on behalf of the Navy and the armed forces). Its main characters are a squad of SEALs on a mission to rescue their commander.

* 2017's big new drama ''Series/Six'' is the first ever TV drama to be based on real SEAL Team missions of the Navy (the name based on just one of these, Team Six, which featured in many special forces missions on behalf of the Navy and the armed forces). Its main characters are a squad of SEALs on a mission to rescue their commander.

* Creator/CharlieSheen's movie ''Navy SEALS'' has a reporter who has contacts among terrorists but refuses to divulge information to Michael Biehn's character about terrorist possessing surface-to-air missiles. He takes her into a kill house (where the teams practice fighting inside buildings) and has a team actually engage around them, to give the reporter an idea of how it feels being helpless around a bunch of armed attackers, to get her to divulge the information needed to rescue the captured US personnel.

* JesseVentura, in the lead up to SummerSlam, said this.

* When Creator/ElizaDushku is hit on and asked out on a date when she plays an FBI agent in ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', she asks if her Navy SEAL husband is also invited. Dushku is known for playing Faith in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Echo in ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', and Rubi in ''{{Wet}}'', in other words badasses. So she’s matched up with the ultimate BadAss for one hell of a cockblock.
* Admiral Chegwidden in ''Series/{{JAG}}'' was a SEAL before he transferred to surface warfare (rising to command a destroyer) and then going to law school to join the JAG Corps and becoming JAG himself. This was initially depicted as being career calculation as Chegwidden was introduced with aspiration towards becoming Chief of Naval Operations. On the odd occasion he is involved in a incident he shows he can still be BadAss into his sixties.

* TheWarOnTerror: After the 9/11 attacks, [=SEALs=] were deployed to the Persian Gulf to intercept suspected Taliban vessels, before moving in on Afghanistan to perform recon and help escort [[SemperFi Marines]] to launch the attack, no doubt the mother of all bodyguards. They would continue to work in country over the following weeks and months, specifically when they themselves were captured and had to be rescued by other elite, {{badass}} special forces. They would later secure Iraqi oil when the country was invaded, [[BigDamnHeroes saved a hijacked ship from Somali pirates]], and on May 1, 2011, were sent on a covert operation into Pakistan at the behest of UsefulNotes/BarackObama. This was the mission every SEAL writer dreams of: a high-stakes infiltration and strike that could potentially result in World War III. That dream was realized when, with the aid of intelligence agencies, the [=SEALs=] were able to track down and kill UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden, with the news a RealLife example of AndThereWasMuchRejoicing, with sports events interrupted by the news and the legendary [=SEALs=] writing themselves into the history books in the process.

* {{Determinator}}: [=SEALs=] are taught to be this, with trainees who gut it out more valued than those who might be more skilled or find the training easier. Richard Marcinko tells a story of a guy Roy Bohem trained, who had to dive for buckets and swim as far as he can before surfacing. Instead he ''walked the length of the pool without coming up for air.'' When asked what the hell he was doing he explain, "I can't swim," and thus was taught how to because he Did. Not. Quit.

* {{Determinator}}: [=SEALs=] are taught to be this, with trainees who gut it out more valued than those who might be more skilled or find the training easier. Richard Marcinko tells a story of a guy Roy Bohem trained, who had to dive for buckets and swim as far as he can before surfacing. Instead he ''walked the length of the pool without coming up for air.'' When asked what the hell he was doing he explain, "I can't swim," and thus was taught how to because despite he he Did. Not. Quit.

However, the first concept of [=SEALs=] came with the OSS Operational Swimmers, who would be dropped behind enemy lines to spy and conduct raids. The Navy Underwater Demolitions Team, who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin were teams of demolitions experts blowing up underwater obstacles]], would later adopt the idea and form the Navy [=SEALs=].
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* Admiral Chegwidden in ''Series/{{JAG}}'' is a retired Navy SEAL, and on the odd occasion he is involved in a incident he shows he can still be BadAss into his sixties.

* Admiral Chegwidden in {{JAG}} is a retired Navy SEAL, and on the odd occasion he is involved in a incident he shows he can still be BadAss into his sixties.

* Obviously, Sony's ''VideoGame/SOCOMUSNavySeals'' series.

* Seal Team Six was the first counter-terrorist faction to be implemented into VideoGame/CounterStrike, and Navy Seals have appeared in every game since.