Osama Bin Laden/Sandbox

Osama bin Laden was a Saudi Arabian noble and the leader of the international Sunni Muslim terrorist organization al Qaeda. He was responsible for both major terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, as well as the bombing of the USS Cole.

He was eventually located in a fortified compound in Pakistan. He was killed at the compound on May 1, 2011 during a U.S. Special Forces operation, closing a chapter in the war on terrorism.

Osama provides examples of numerous tropes

 * Aristocrats Are Evil: He is a Saudi noble. On the other hand, his family has effectively disowned him.
 * Supposedly, even though he still had access to the Bin Laden family fortune...
 * Be Careful What You Wish For: Vowed to die a martyr.
 * Boom! Headshot!: The manner of his death.
 * The Chessmaster
 * Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are: Encyclopedia Dramatica notes that "he is the world's reigning hide-and-seek champion."
 * Conspiracy Theory: The fact that he was buried at sea only a day after he was killed with no released pictures is only fanning the flames.
 * Dark Messiah
 * Dead All Along: Some believe that he has been dead for a long time before government claims.
 * Deadpan Snarker: One of his tapes responded to the USA's propaganda about "freedom" with him saying "if I was doing this because I hated freedom, I'd be bombing Sweden, not America".
 * Double Standard: For decrying all of Bin Laden's evil deeds and monstrosities, the Western world is certainly rather disturbingly enthusiastic about his death. Especially considering Bin Laden caused less deaths than the invasion of Iraq alone.
 * Bin Laden slaughtered thousands of innocent civilians, which was met with And the Fandom Rejoiced in Palestine. The people of America were celebrating the death of a mass murdering scumbag responsible for the most heinous terrorist attack in American History.
 * For Bin Laden, decrying American oppression when he was an out and out tyrant in Afghanistan.
 * Dragon Their Feet: If Osama is really dead, then Zawahiri would most likely be in charge of Al-Qaeda.
 * Elite Mooks: Osama has them in the form of These guys.
 * The Starscream: He fought against the Soviets as a Mujahadeen commander in Afghanistan in the 80s.
 * Hidden in Plain Sight: His final hide-out was located right next to Pakistan's largest military training compound.
 * Human Shield: He allegedly tried this with one of his wives before he died. It didn't work.
 * Knight Templar: The trope name is a bit ironic here...
 * Large and In Charge: An intimidating 6' 5".
 * Lean and Mean: The FBI describes bin Laden as having a thin build.
 * Middle-Eastern Coalition: He and his organization desire to restore the medieval Islamic caliphate to its former glory.
 * Mission from Allah
 * Multinational Team: His army of fanatics is said to consist of Arabs, Afghans, Pakistanis, Uzbeks, Chechens, Somalis, converted Western citizens, and others.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He rose to his current position, unintentionally, with U.S. help to mujahideen against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
 * Noble Fugitive: Inverted, or something; besides the status of his family, his occupation as a terrorist leader means he cannot be described as "noble". At all.
 * Occupiers Out of Our Country!: Except he regards his country as the Islamic world, in general, and Palestine, specifically.
 * Porn Stash: Apparantly, a massive one was found on the computers at his compound.

Anime and Manga

 * Osama is the only guy the H-Doujinshi Viva Freedom who doesn't get to have sex. (And serve him right!) Specifically, his men kill him for interrupting their orgy.

Film - Live Action

 * Osama -- the first film to come out of Afghanistan since the Taliban banned films in 1996 -- is actually not about that Osama. Well, not explicitly about him.
 * A Captain Ersatz version of Bin Laden turns up in the James Bond film The Living Daylights as one of the good guys. This was before The Great Politics Mess-Up when Bin Laden was one of our stalwart allies whose band of brave freedom fighters were nobly trying to get the evil Soviet occupiers out of their countries.
 * Mentioned in Planet Terror as having been found and killed by Bruce Willis' character.
 * The 2008 Morgan Spurlock documentary Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden.

Literature

 * An absolutely bizarre book entitled Where's Bin Laden? parodies the Where's Waldo series with bin Laden and his minions hiding around the globe, in the midst of their own terrorist plots.

Live Action TV

 * Appeared in Dead Ringers, particularly in one memorable sketch where he went on a Blind Date-style show.
 * Brazilian comedy group Casseta & Planeta has a sketch in their TV show depicting Osama living in Rio de Janeiro with an abusing wife.

Music

 * Eminem plays him in the video for the D 12 song "Without Me".

Newspaper Comics

 * A controversial series in Pearls Before Swine had Osama hiding out in the Family Circus universe. Since it's a 50's type universe, they have no idea who he is.

Theatre

 * Osama the Hero is a play about a youth being outcast after he writes a school report on Bin Laden standing up against American oppression.

Video Games

 * Fugitive Hunter, a Play Station 2 first-person shooter/fighting game, has Osama bin Laden as the final boss. You kickbox him to a gangsta rap about...beating up Osama bin Laden.

Web Original

 * Homage: Broken Saints features an aging, bearded middle-eastern man of a fearsome disposition who speaks in quotations from the Qu'ran. His name is Osama. Coincidence? The character's first involvement in the series occurred before 9/11, his identity (as father of Iraqi Anti-Hero Oran) was revealed well afterwards, and his canon name is never mentioned in the series itself at all. Make of that what you will.
 * A Brazilian comedy website, Charges.com.br, have Osama (and sidekick "Zuanta", pun on "sua anta", "you ass") as frequent characters.

Web Comics

 * He appears in a strange context as the villain of a storyline presently going on in Sore Thumbs.
 * He appears in a Bob the Angry Flower - Space Cat crossover strip from way back in 1998

Western Animation

 * bin Laden is beaten up by Stewie Griffin in the opening sequence of the Family Guy episode PTV, after being prevented from sending a hostile message to the United States. In a Funny Aneurysm Moment, he also appears in an earlier episode attempting to sneak past airport security.
 * Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants, needless to say.
 * There was a "Bin Laden in a Blender" web site on The Simpsons. Implied in one episode (where Homer and Marge met each other as kids) that he was Homer's pen pal.
 * American Dad did one episode where Osama is already in the US working undercover as an accountant.
 * Appears in 2DTV, usually in sketches where he gets annoyed by the Taliban's lack of high-tech weapons to fight the Americans with.