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* MiddleEasternTerrorists: Kassar is an rare non-Islamic example of this trope, since he is an Lebanese Maronite Catholic mercenary as an veteran from the Lebanese Civil War. He also happens to command [[FarEastAsianTerrorists Indonesian terrorists on Sadak's payroll in Hong Kong and Irian Jaya]].

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* MiddleEasternTerrorists: Kassar is an rare non-Islamic example of this trope, since he is an Lebanese Maronite Catholic mercenary as an veteran from the Lebanese Civil War. He also happens to command [[FarEastAsianTerrorists Indonesian terrorists on Sadak's payroll in Hong Kong and Irian Jaya]].Indonesia]].
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* MiddleEasternTerrorists: Kassar is an rare non-Islamic example of this trope, since he is an Lebanese Maronite Catholic mercenary as an veteran from the Lebanese Civil War.

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* MiddleEasternTerrorists: Kassar is an rare non-Islamic example of this trope, since he is an Lebanese Maronite Catholic mercenary as an veteran from the Lebanese Civil War. He also happens to command [[FarEastAsianTerrorists Indonesian terrorists on Sadak's payroll in Hong Kong and Irian Jaya]].
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* ¨TrialRunCrime: Sadak turned a Chinese nuclear reactor into Chernobyl Two just to see if his worm would affect a specific type of computer-controlled water pump to manipulate the tin market.

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* ¨TrialRunCrime: TrialRunCrime: Sadak turned a Chinese nuclear reactor into Chernobyl Two just to see if his worm would affect a specific type of computer-controlled water pump to manipulate the tin market.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Anime/GhostInTheShell.'' A print review in ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Telegraph]]'' says "Mann's film often feels like a live-action reimagining of that classic of cerebral melancholy."
* SWATTeam: The [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous Special Duties Unit]] is brought in to help the good guys after a [=OCTB=] teams gets wiped out by Kassar's men. [[CombatPragmatist They also ambush them in the storm drains by using mines to take them out.]]

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Anime/GhostInTheShell.'' A print review in ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Telegraph]]'' says "Mann's film often feels like a live-action reimagining of that classic of cerebral melancholy."
* SWATTeam: The [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous Special Duties Unit]] is brought in to help the good guys after a [=OCTB=] teams team gets wiped out by Kassar's men. [[CombatPragmatist They also ambush them in the storm drains by using mines to take them out.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Hathaway and Lien foil Sadak's evil plans (he even manages to kill [[BigBad Sadak]] and [[TheDragon Kassar]] and live to tell about it ''and'' keep the 74 million USD he took from Sadak), but Chen is dead--as are Carol Barrett and Mark Jessup, the FBI agents who would vouch for him. As such, he has to live in hiding from the NSA and China's agents for possibly the rest of his life, for hacking into [=BlackWidow=] and the death of Chen, who was a Chinese high-rank military official. And Lien also shares his fate, due to the fact that she was witness of the hack and part of the plan to kill Sadak and company. At least he's not back in prison.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Hathaway and Lien foil Sadak's evil plans (he even manages to kill [[BigBad Sadak]] and [[TheDragon Kassar]] and live to tell about it ''and'' keep the 74 million USD he took from Sadak), but Chen is dead--as are Carol Barrett and Mark Jessup, the FBI agents who would vouch for him. As such, he has to live in hiding from the NSA and China's agents the Ministry of State Security (MSS) for possibly the rest of his life, for hacking into [=BlackWidow=] and the death of Chen, who was a Chinese high-rank military official. And Lien also shares his fate, due to the fact that she was witness of the hack and part of the plan to kill Sadak and company. At least he's not back in prison.]]

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Hathaway is based on real-life hacker-turned-consultant [[https://www.wired.com/2013/04/stephen-watt-stalked-by-past/ Stephen Huntley Watt]].

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