History UsefulNotes / BayOfPigsInvasion

* The invasion is an important background element in the movie ''Film/ThirteenDays'', which is set during the UsefulNotes/CubanMissileCrisis.

* The second story arc of ''Comicbook/FuryMyWarGoneBy'' is set in the invasion, where Fury and two associates attempt to assassinate Castro.
* ''Film/RedZoneCuba'' is set during this (or maybe shortly before it, considering that the depicted invasion consists of half-a-dozen incompetents).
* The movie ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_Man_(film) Company Man]]'' portrays a fictionalized tale that showcases the invasion as the result of a particularly odd comedy of errors involving a dim-witted rookie CIA agent who was ReassignedToAntarctica and got involved in the anti-Castro movement. The story is silly enough that the CIA review board that is interrogating him ends up preferring to sweep the agent's involvement under the rug and allow the people to believe that it was a snafu from the Company's high-ups (and the final scene shows the agent being ReassignedToAntarctica again... [[HereWeGoAgain a little place very far away from the U.S.]] [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar called Vietnam...]])

* ''Film/TheIrishman''. Frank Sheeran is told by his Mafia boss to deliver a truck full of weapons to a man implied to be CIA operative Howard Hunt. We then see him watching news reports on the failed invasion on television.
* Rafael Encizo, one of the original members of ''Literature/PhoenixForce'', was a survivor of Castro's prisons after being captured during the Bay of Pigs invasion.

->''"I want to just splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind."''

!!The Bay of Pigs invasion had the following tropes:

* InsaneTrollLogic: Sending around 1400 men to conquer an entire country with no air support. Irving Janis would later use the invasion planning as a case study in groupthink syndrome, in which the desire for conformity overcomes critical thinking.
* ItsRainingMen: The parachutists were too widely dispersed on landing, so failed to secure their objective of blocking the road, preventing reinforcements from arriving to repel the invaders.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The failed invasion made Castro a national hero and pushed the country further towards the Soviet bloc, leading to the eventual deployment of Soviet nuclear missiles right on the proverbial doorstep of the United States.
* PlausibleDeniability: President Kennedy withdrew air support to the invasion to conceal US government involvement, never mind that by the invasion stage this had become ImplausibleDeniability.
* SparkOfTheRebellion: What the invasion was supposed to trigger. Reports from inside Cuba that the government of Fidel Castro had popular support were ignored or downplayed. The CIA was also overconfident due to backing a successful coup in Guatemala in 1954, where the CIA basically bluffed the Guatemalan government into surrendering.
* StormingTheBeaches: Unfortunately they weren't able to get much further.
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* SparkOfTheRebellion: What the invasion was supposed to trigger. Reports from inside Cuba that the government of Fidel Castro had popular support were ignored or downplayed. The CIA was also overconfident due to overthrowing the government of Guatemalan in 1954, where the CIA basically bluffed the government into surrendering.

* SparkOfTheRebellion: What the invasion was supposed to trigger. Reports from inside Cuba that the government of Fidel Castro had popular support were ignored or downplayed.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Sending just over a thousand men to conquer an entire country with no air support. Irving Janis would later use the invasion planning as a case study in groupthink syndrome, in which the desire for conformity overcomes critical thinking.

* PlausibleDeniability: President Kennedy withheld air support to the invasion to conceal US government involvement, never mind that by the invasion stage this had become ImplausibleDeniability.

* Rafael Encizo one of the original members of ''Literature/PhoenixForce'' was a survivor of Castro's prisons after being captured during the Bay of Pigs invasion.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Sending just over a thousand men to conquer an entire country with no air support. Irving Janis would later use the invasion planning as a case study in Groupthink, in which the desire for conformity overcomes critical thinking.

* PlausiblyDeniability: President Kennedy withheld air support to the invasion to conceal US government involvement, never mind that by the invasion stage this had become ImplausibleDeniability.

* ''Film/TheTrpi1967'' has [[LittlePeopleAreSurreal a dwarf on a carousel]] who yells "Bay of Pigs!"

-->--'''[[UsefulNotes/{{John F Kennedy}} President John F. Kennedy]]'''

The Bay of Pigs Invasion (known as La Batalla de Girón or Playa Girón Cuba) was an unsuccessful attempt by a {{CIA}}-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from US government armed forces, to overthrow the Cuban government of UsefulNotes/FidelCastro. Launched shortly after UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy assumed presidency in 1961, the operation intended to employ similar tactics as those used in the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état.

The failure indirectly led to the CubanMissileCrisis. The Soviet Union under Usefulnotes/NikitaKhrushchev had been pursuing closer relations with Cuba for some time, but Cuba had been wary of overt friendship with the USSR. The Bay of Pigs debacle caused Cuba to fear for its independence and rally around Castro, and for their part the Soviets proved very eager to prop up the only country in recent memory to pull off a successful Communist revolution (Soviet-backed Algerian nationalist rebels had in 1962-3 notably pulled off a revolution of their own in the face of heavy-handed French oppression, but it was not a ''Communist'' revolution). Within the USA itself the Bay of Pigs fiasco humiliated the Kennedy Administration. Kennedy himself was so angered with the CIA's failure he claimed he wanted to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind."

* The invasion is an important background element in the movie ''Film/ThirteenDays'', which is set during the CubanMissileCrisis.

-->--'''[[UsefulNotes/{{John F Kennedy}}President John F. Kennedy]]'''

-->--'''President John F. Kennedy'''

* The movie ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_Man_(film) Company Man]]'' portrays a fictionalized tale that showcases the invasion as the result of a particularly odd comedy of errors involving a dim-witted rookie CIA agent who was ReassignedToAntarctica and got involved in the anti-Castro movement. The story is silly enough that the CIA review board that is interrogating him ends up preferring to sweep the agent's involvement under the rug and allow the people to believe that it was a snafu from the Company's high-ups (and the final scene shows the agent being ReassignedToAntarctica again... [[HereWeGoAgain a little place very far away from the U.S.]] [[TheVietnamWar called Vietnam...]])

The failure embarrassed the Kennedy Administration and made Castro wary of future US intervention in Cuba. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero The event was also noteworthy for bolstering support for Castro in Cuba. Cuba also afterwards pursued closer ties with the Soviet Union that would lead to the]] CubanMissileCrisis. Kennedy was so angered with the CIA's failure he claimed he wanted to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind."

* The Boss mentions her involvement in the invasion as part of her backstory in ''MetalGearSolid3''.

* Cuba starts out as an American client state under Bautista in the Cold War campaign of the ''Thrones and Patriots'' expansion of ''RiseOfNations'', but eventually will drop out thanks to Castro. If you're playing as the US, at that point you have the option of launching the Bay of Pigs invasion scenario - success returns Cuba to US client state status ([[MindScrew whose leader is still Fidel Castro]]).

* RedZoneCuba is set during this (or maybe shortly before it, considering that the depicted invasion consists of half-a-dozen incompetents).