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While they're a lot of fun and badass it's kind of creepy to look at shows like Mission Impossible, James Bond, Jason Bourne, etc. or even novels like *literally everything Tom Clancy ever wrote* and how they normalize the idea of functionally extrajudicial, unaccountable, limitless behaviors on behalf of government agents to basically go anywhere and kill or destroy anything they want anywhere in the world on the sole basis that "well they're bad".

I'll stop short of saying it was intentional - in the case of Tom Clancy and Ian Fleming they probably just wanted to write cool stories of spies and intrigue and nobody wants to read a story about political bickering and laws of war (well unless you're also Tom Clancy with books like The Bear and the Dragon which was a good story but it's like 6,000 pages long and mostly political bickering). And Ian Fleming didnt really focus on real world politics too much (some exceptions involving the USSR in one or two novels) instead inventing villainous characters who were operating outside any government or: Blofeld.

But it all definitely becomes a form of propaganda in its own way.

I've heard of gait recognition technology many years ago but I suspect it entered common knowledge because it started showing up in TV shows and movies. I think I only saw it in one of the Punisher series on Netflix (I think the guy in hiding tracks Frank Castle that way) and I believe one of the Mission Impossibles (an old guy is walking into a secure area and they have a display tracking his movement).

But Mission Impossible also had a projector you could put up in a hallway that renders a perfect parallax of the hall by tracking eye movement, forming an invisibility field, which is another "yes, but also no" technology.