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Starship Troopers

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Starship Troopers	comment	Starship Troopers is a 1997 Military Science Fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Loosely based on Robert A. Heinlein's novel of the same name, the film is generally considered to be the biggest middle finger the original source material will ever receive, and that is no accident.A co-production between TriStar Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, the film is a satire of militarism, the Cold War, dehumanization of the enemy, War Movies, propaganda and Military Science Fiction in general. It originally started out as an unrelated script called Bug Hunt before the studio acquired the rights to the novel and Verhoeven, disgusted by what little he was able to stomach of Heinlein's book, had the script rewritten to deepen the satire.The film was intentionally designed as the polar opposite of the book in terms of message, characterization, and themes — an attack on the idea that War Is Glorious. Rather than be a literal adaptation of Heinlein's plot, the movie is structured in the style of a pro-war propaganda film from the universe it portrays, with all of the bad acting, empty platitudes, and craven jingoism that such films typically contain. A fairly detailed exploration of the film's themes can be found on The AV Club. The film was also riffed by RiffTrax. (It should be noted that some people missed the satire, perceiving a simple gung-ho action flick instead; to Verhoeven's credit, the film is his most action-packed.)There were two live-action Direct to Video sequels, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation, which had puppeteer parasites in the form of brain-eating Control Bugs, and Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, with the introduction of Powered Armor and religious subtext.In addition, an All-CGI Cartoon was released in 1999, called Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles, which takes place in its own continuity and incorporates the Powered Armor from the book. Years later came the CGI movie Starship Troopers: Invasion, made largely by fans of the book Running the Asylum. Invasion is set several years after the third movie. As such it does reference other movies, and acts as a Spiritual Adaptation of the book, in a colossal Tone Shift from the previous movies, with the end result been it feeling very similar to a certain other adaptation of the book with a helping of Fanservice and Technology Porn added in. Of note are its Japanese influences, and the fact that Rico now looks like Big Boss IN SPACE! It was followed in 2017 by Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars.A Real-Time Strategy game based on the movie, Starship Troopers: Terran Command, was released in 2022.
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Starship Troopers / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Starship Troopers / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: As thoroughly analyzed on the Internet Movie Firearms Database, the live-fire exercise was a fatal accident just waiting to happen, with the fact that just one person died being nothing short of miraculous. To say nothing of the propaganda reel where two soldiers pass out guns to kids and then start handing out bullets. This is entirely deliberate, as a demonstration of how eerily comfortable the Federation is with the risk of death and violence (not least because that gives it an excuse to hurt people in retaliation).
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Starship Troopers / int_117b3429	type	A Taste of the Lash
Starship Troopers / int_117b3429	comment	A Taste of the Lash: Rico's punishment after his actions during a training exercise lead to a soldier being killed is to receive 10 lashes across the back.
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Starship Troopers / int_1230e19e	type	Overranked Soldier
Starship Troopers / int_1230e19e	comment	Overranked Soldier: Rico rockets up the ranks because his superior officers keep dying. "Fresh meat for the grinder" indeed. Carmen and Zander are watch officers within a year of their joining the fleet. Carl is the only one who seems suited to his rank after going through Military Intelligence training, though his young age still stands out among the older Psi-Corps officers.
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Starship Troopers / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Starship Troopers / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Most of those close to Rico are slaughtered brutally.
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Starship Troopers / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Starship Troopers / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Screenwriter Ed Neumeier makes an appearance in one of the news segment as a murderer sentenced to death with his execution to be broadcast live.
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Starship Troopers / int_1290b446	type	Whoosh in Front of the Camera
Starship Troopers / int_1290b446	comment	Whoosh in Front of the Camera: When the soldiers explore the alien planet we see one of the Insectoid Aliens rush by in the foreground, alerting the audience of the dangers to come.
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Starship Troopers / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Starship Troopers / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: There is a mixed-sex shower. As the camera pans around we see naked young men and women showering, chatting and walking about. But somehow a bit of plumbing always manages to be between the camera and any genitals. The boobs do show up, though. There is also Dizzy and Johnny's sex scene which cuts away before they get farther than removing their shirts.
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Starship Troopers / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Starship Troopers / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Ace is shutting down mentally during the nocturnal raid on the alien planet.
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Starship Troopers / int_1542e3c6	type	Themed Tattoos
Starship Troopers / int_1542e3c6	comment	Themed Tattoos: Johnny, Dizzy, Ace, and Kitten are shown getting the same "Death From Above" tattoo on their right bicep after completing basic training.
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Starship Troopers / int_1722aaf	type	Hitler Ate Sugar
Starship Troopers / int_1722aaf	comment	Hitler Ate Sugar: The movie heavily leans into this, being a stern condemnation of militarism, nationalism, and propaganda dressed up as a mindless action flick. Problem is, the movie runs with the idea that those things are all evil because they were used by Nazi Germany, to the point that some of our "heroes" are decked out in what amounts to SS uniforms. What director Paul Verhoeven seems to have missed in all this is that not only were such concepts not invented by the Nazis, but they were in fact the very same things the Allies in part relied on to defeat the forces of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
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Starship Troopers / int_17fe889f	type	Goal-Oriented Evolution
Starship Troopers / int_17fe889f	comment	Goal-Oriented Evolution: The biology teacher in the beginning thought the Bugs were more evolved than humans.
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Starship Troopers / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Starship Troopers / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: The bugs are referred to both as "insects" and "arachnids" throughout the movie. Apart from those being mutually exclusive terms, it's unlikely that alien creatures from across the galaxy would belong to any terrestrial animal class. The film also ignores the square-cube law that would make those giant bugs collapse under their own weight.
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Starship Troopers / int_19c92081	type	Tear Up the Contract
Starship Troopers / int_19c92081	comment	Tear Up the Contract: Following an accident in boot camp that kills a fellow trainee, Rico signs his discharge papers and prepares to leave in disgrace until he learns that a Bug attack has destroyed his hometown and tells Sgt. Zim he wants to stay in the Mobile Infantry. Zim points out Rico signed the forms, then says, "Doesn't look like it to me," before ripping the papers up and ordering Rico to get in his gear.
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Starship Troopers / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Starship Troopers / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: The Bugs supposedly use this by (somehow using plasma) shooting asteroids at Earth, but the humans seem to have trouble with the concept. Yes, this makes so little sense that it's implied it's bull anyway; the more likely explanation is that the government did it themselves or used a natural disaster as a Pretext for War.
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Starship Troopers / int_1c8e73ef	type	Shooting the Swarm
Starship Troopers / int_1c8e73ef	comment	Shooting the Swarm: The Roughnecks are firing at a massive Zerg Rush of Space Bugs. When Lt. Racszak sees just how many bugs there are, he gives a stoic Oh, Crap! look and calls for an evacuation. Few make it out, including Racszak.
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Starship Troopers / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
Starship Troopers / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Rasczak's entire History & Moral Philosophy lecture about why only veterans have the right to vote (one of the few ideals directly taken from Heinlein's novel that saw the light of day in this film).
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Starship Troopers / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
Starship Troopers / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: All the viral messages in the movies are a pastiche of propaganda recruitment tools, split with newsreels VERY reminiscent of today's 24-hour news services; prescient considering the original film is from the mid-1990s.
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Starship Troopers / int_1f137e42	type	Artificial Limbs
Starship Troopers / int_1f137e42	comment	Artificial Limbs: Rasczak's mechanical left hand. In his first scene he just has a stump, so it seems that he got it fixed when he signed back up with the Mobile Infantry. The recruitment officer also has one. Though he's also missing some legs, which makes you wonder if artificial legs even existnote In the book Rico meets him again later and he has a full set; he explains his disability is deliberately played up on the job so any potential recruits that it would scare off don't waste the corps' time.
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Starship Troopers / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
Starship Troopers / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: "Come on, you apes! Do you wanna live forever?!"
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Starship Troopers / int_207046bd	type	Deadly Training Area
Starship Troopers / int_207046bd	comment	Deadly Training Area: Not only do the ground troops go into a training course with live rounds, the training area directly abuts other parts of the base—for example, a running course—with almost no walls between them!
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Starship Troopers / int_222df7f7	type	Lowered Recruiting Standards
Starship Troopers / int_222df7f7	comment	Lowered Recruiting Standards: Early on, we see a cheesy "I'm doing my part!" Federation propaganda clip where a little kid wearing junior-sized combat armor gets a laugh from a regiment of Mobile Infantry. It's less funny later in the movie, when Johnny Rico is given his own command and a lot of his New Meat consists of terrified Child Soldiers, indicating that the Bug War is going badly.
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Starship Troopers / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Starship Troopers / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: "Who needs a knife in a nuke fight anyway?"
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Starship Troopers / int_23561f0d	type	Tactical Reminiscence
Starship Troopers / int_23561f0d	comment	Tactical Reminiscence: During the Capture the Flag training mission, Dizzy suggests Rico do the flip he used to perform during their indoor football games. First he doesn't get the reference but then it clicks.
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Starship Troopers / int_23a37bb9	type	So Happy Together
Starship Troopers / int_23a37bb9	comment	So Happy Together: Dizzy's dream of a Relationship Upgrade with Rico came true right before her death. As she says in her Last Words:
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Starship Troopers / int_23f80ecd	type	Devoured by the Horde
Starship Troopers / int_23f80ecd	comment	Devoured by the Horde: After pulling a Leeroy Jenkins, Shujumi is torn apart by a horde of Arachnids.
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Starship Troopers / int_2469cff4	type	Oblivious Astronomers
Starship Troopers / int_2469cff4	comment	Oblivious Astronomers: The Bug Meteor isn't spotted by anyone before it crashes into Buenos Aires, despite the Federation's highly-advanced technology and orbital defences. Which lends credence to the idea that the strike was a False Flag Operation to justify a war against the Bugs.
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Starship Troopers / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Starship Troopers / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Rico and Ace, with Ace initially starting out as The Rival, but he is eventually humbled and becomes Rico's friend.
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Starship Troopers / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Starship Troopers / int_2534ee67	comment	The usual result of someone getting caught in a Warrior Bug's mandibles, including Kitten Smith and the FedNet Correspondentnote Which is seen twice, once during the In Medias Res opening and again when the film eventually works its way back to that point.
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Starship Troopers / int_261bfbfc	type	Pummeling the Corpse
Starship Troopers / int_261bfbfc	comment	Pummeling the Corpse: Sugar Watkins curses continually while repeatedly shooting a dead bug. Even after Dizzy pushes him off he fires a few more rounds into the bug.
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Starship Troopers / int_26d18908	type	Puny Earthlings
Starship Troopers / int_26d18908	comment	Puny Earthlings: The Bugs can take a full magazine of ammo (or more as drama demands) and still fight. During the battle of Klendathu it took three people all their ammo to kill one Bug, which killed two of them in the process. The only person who had an effective weapon only used it after the Bugs had torn him in half. This is (almost) consistent with the book, as warrior Bugs have no sense of self preservation and may not even feel pain: if your torrent of bullets fails to hit a vital organ but only chops away at limbs, the Bug will keep coming so long as it has a limb left. But in the book, and later in the film, they realized this and aimed for the braincase on the back to disable them quickly. Subverted whenever they need a heroic stand, at which point the Bugs start dropping like... well, bugs.
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Starship Troopers / int_27d00b28	type	Same Content, Different Rating
Starship Troopers / int_27d00b28	comment	Same Content, Different Rating: In 1997 in the UK, Touchstone Pictures released two films, one of them being this one (and the other being Con Air) with '15' ratings for their cinema release. However, the BBFC felt that their decisions were too lenient and so they upgraded them to '18' for the video releases, where they remain to this day.
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Starship Troopers / int_285b66d7	type	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
Starship Troopers / int_285b66d7	comment	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That: Rico resigns from the military (which precludes ever being allowed to re-enlist). The same day, his hometown is destroyed in an alien attack, so he begs to be allowed to fight for revenge.
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Starship Troopers / int_292d1ccd	type	Everyone Went to School Together
Starship Troopers / int_292d1ccd	comment	Everyone Went to School Together: We learn that the human troop strength is well in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Nonetheless, Rico ends up in the same unit as Dizzy. Later Rasczak joins them. Also Carmen winds up on the same ship as Zander, though he arranged for that to happen.
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Starship Troopers / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Starship Troopers / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Any character that needs to survive a Bug attacking them for the purposes of plot gets stabbed in the shoulder or leg. Anyone else gets it right through the chest multiple times or is torn in half.
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Starship Troopers / int_2ae247a4	type	Auto-Doc
Starship Troopers / int_2ae247a4	comment	Auto-Doc: An injured Rico is placed in a nutrient tank with automated metal hands mending his thigh wound.
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Starship Troopers / int_2aff6a25	type	Death of the Hypotenuse
Starship Troopers / int_2aff6a25	comment	Death of the Hypotenuse: Dizzy. Also, [[spoiler:the male fleet pilot who was trying to hook up with Carmen the whole time (Zander).
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Starship Troopers / int_2b9cf587	type	Back in the Saddle
Starship Troopers / int_2b9cf587	comment	Back in the Saddle: Rico's teacher Mr. Rasczak returns to duty as lieutenant in the MI. Drill Sergeant Zim is so eager to get back on the front lines that he deliberately gets himself demoted to private to do so.
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Starship Troopers / int_2c62c9f0	type	You Would Do the Same for Me
Starship Troopers / int_2c62c9f0	comment	You Would Do the Same for Me: A marine is snatched by a flying Arachnid, which begins to dismember him alive. Rasczak grabs a sniper rifle and shoots him through the heart. He then turns to the remaining marines and says gravely: "And I expect anyone to do the same for me." Rico later does.. It's worth noting that this is exactly the opposite of the book's philosophy, which is all about No One Gets Left Behind. The lieutenant's death, in fact, comes when he's making sure every last one of his troopers, dead or alive, is evacuated from a battle.
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Starship Troopers / int_2cb29dd7	type	Standard Human Spaceship
Starship Troopers / int_2cb29dd7	comment	Standard Human Spaceship: The movie seems to follow this school of design, with big blocky ships which launch transports by extending them out the sides on davits and releasing them. Interestingly, several models were built in different sizes (smaller, less detailed ones for background shots), including two different designs (a transport and a carrier), in three different tones to show it was a fleet of different ships, rather than a bunch of identical ones.
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Starship Troopers / int_2cb9b1a9	comment	Cool, but Inefficient The standard-issue assault rifle of the Mobile Infantry is the Morita. It fires a hefty round that can punch through two inches of solid titanium and the carapace of a Bug creature with ease, and it can even blow a limb clean off with one shot. It also features an underslung pump shotgun, for close encounters. However between the bulk of the rifle and the sheer power of the rounds it fires, troopers fire like graduates of the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy, and the guns still have little effect because Arachnids Feel No Pain and will keep fighting even as automatic fire is pumped into them. Later, the knowledge that troopers can kill an Arachnid with a single aimed shot to a specific nerve cluster is frustrated because the Morita lacks any sights. In Real Life, the trend for military rifles is towards smaller, lighter weapons that have superior handling, cause less fatigue on the soldiers and allow them to carry more ammunition (modern western-style military thinking says the army that can put more lead in the air is the one that will win). Rasczak uses a compact carbine version of the Morita that looks just as powerful and has sights, raising the question why they don't equip all the soldiers with that weapon, but again, it's probably keeping with the Federation's theme of style over practicality.
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Starship Troopers / int_2d2e3275	type	Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!
Starship Troopers / int_2d2e3275	comment	Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: At the Battle of Klendathu, the Mobile Infantry go from spraying Arachnids to a complete and disorderly rout back to the dropships in a span of about half a minute.
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Starship Troopers / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Starship Troopers / int_2dddd99d	comment	One very common interpretation is that the asteroid attack was a False Flag Operation to serve as a Pretext for War, and the stuff about them being stupid and poorly defended is what the Federation thinks is the truth. The existence of an intelligent leadership caste is only introduced in the movie after the battle of Klendathu, as an explanation for behavior that nobody saw coming.
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Starship Troopers / int_2ecf6052	type	Newsreel
Starship Troopers / int_2ecf6052	comment	Newsreel: "Would you like to know more?"
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Starship Troopers / int_2ef833e7	type	Burial in Space
Starship Troopers / int_2ef833e7	comment	Burial in Space: Dizzy Flores' gets a Meaningful Funeral during which her casket is sent into space. Mostly because she's a main character; none of the thousands of unnamed soldiers who die onscreen are ever seen getting such a lavish service. Her funeral serves mainly as a vehicle for Rico's Character Development by demonstrating that he finally understands the concept of sacrifice during war.
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Starship Troopers / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Starship Troopers / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: After the death of Rasczak (rad-chak), Rico takes lead of the Roughnecks and recites each of the former's phrases nearly verbatim perhaps to honor his legacy. Its almost as if he was becoming a Legacy Character.
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Starship Troopers / int_2f69c343	type	Resigned in Disgrace
Starship Troopers / int_2f69c343	comment	Resigned in Disgrace: Sky Marshall Dienes resigns after the full frontal assault he ordered on the planet Klendatu ends in failure, with the invasion force forced to retreat and several hundred thousand soldiers dead in the operation (a propaganda clip says 100,000 died in one hour, but the casualty list on a hospital bay aboard a space station lists the total at over 300,000). His successor, Sky Marshall Maru, changes to a more cautious strategy by targeting the outlying Klendathu colonies first and to investigate Arachnid intelligence.
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Starship Troopers / int_30b7cee8	type	Post-Injury Desk Job
Starship Troopers / int_30b7cee8	comment	Post-Injury Desk Job: A serviceman who has lost both legs and one arm in the Mobile Infantry has been reassigned to processing the application papers of new recruits.
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Starship Troopers / int_30dff15f	type	Physical Fitness Punishment
Starship Troopers / int_30dff15f	comment	Physical Fitness Punishment: One of several methods of punishment used by the instructors in boot camp. One trooper is sent running around a distance armory (with a Corporal swatting him with a cane to keep pace) as punishment for failing to address his instructor as "Sir".
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Starship Troopers / int_3133d1d7	type	Hollywood Acid
Starship Troopers / int_3133d1d7	comment	Hollywood Acid: Tanker bugs spray, what looks to be, a extremely corrosive orange fluid, it simply touching you dissolves through everything within seconds, it also seems to be semi plasma as it's clear you aren't just dissolving, you are burning.
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Starship Troopers / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Starship Troopers / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Racszak encourages Johnny to not pass up on Dizzyâ€™s advances. When they finally do dance together, Ace plays the violin specifically for them. When Dizzy and Johnny do finally hook up, Racszak gives them some extra time to seal the deal.
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Starship Troopers / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Starship Troopers / int_336c1a31	comment	Kinda Busy Here: While inside the cave, Carmen talks to Rico on the intercom all while Bugs start attacking.
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Starship Troopers / int_33b4e7f	type	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
Starship Troopers / int_33b4e7f	comment	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Oddly averted. In every battle scene, more or less everyone is seen wearing their helmet at all times. In fact, the one time a trooper removes his helmet, it's during a training exercise and it doesn't end well for him.
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Starship Troopers / int_33c99c49	type	Might Makes Right
Starship Troopers / int_33c99c49	comment	Might Makes Right: The entire point of Mr. Rasczak's Federal History class. He argues that voting is exercising authority, and authority is violence, the supreme directive from which all other authority is derived. When a student protests that violence doesn't always solve everything, he points to how violence was successfully used against Hiroshima, and that it has solved more problems in history than any other factor.
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Starship Troopers / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Starship Troopers / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: In the book, the Mobile Infantry were also fighting a war against the Skinnies: A tall, green, humanoid species who were initially allied with the Arachnids, but later joined with humanity. The original text also included the Cap Troopers wearing Powered Armor (in fact, the novel is the Trope Codifier for this particular Trope). The film Mobile Infantry has nothing of the sort until the third film, Marauder (and even then, they are experimental Mini-Mecha). Needless to say, this is one of the biggest reasons why people decry the film as an In Name Only adaptation.
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Starship Troopers / int_34077cb2	type	Warfare Regression
Starship Troopers / int_34077cb2	comment	In the third film, set eleven years after the events of the first one, MI infantry tactics have interestingly regressed yet improved; 19th Century-style "fire by rank" has made a comeback (think if the British soldiers from Zulu had automatics and you have an idea) and troop discipline is better too.
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Starship Troopers / int_3456f3c5	type	Good Thing You Can Heal
Starship Troopers / int_3456f3c5	comment	Good Thing You Can Heal: Played with, in that it's not a Healing Factor, but medical technology that lets boot camp be more brutal than in the real world. Zim visibly breaks a recruit's arm to the point the bone is sticking out and impales Ace's hand with a knife. The first recruit is wearing a futuristic cast with a blue liquid in the next scene, and appears totally healed thereafter, and Ace's injury is shown covered by a bandage then not at all after that. Further shown with Rico's Auto-Doc scene, where he's back in fighting shape within a couple of weeks when such a real-life injury would've, at best, been months of healing and rehabilitation (most likely he'd have been disabled for life). The advanced prosthetics also allow the characters to get back into action after losing whole limbs.
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Starship Troopers / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Starship Troopers / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Dizzy Flores, mostly to add a Love Triangle and a Squadette.
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Starship Troopers / int_34c3144b	type	Lured into a Trap
Starship Troopers / int_34c3144b	comment	Lured into a Trap: The Arachnids' initial attack on the Mormon base was part of their plan to lure more soldiers into the same trap.
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Starship Troopers / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Starship Troopers / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: It would make more sense to have a trooper or a Fleet rating loading troopers into the rescue boat on Planet P (this is, in fact, how it typically works on military helicopters in Real Life), but it was so much cooler to see Fleet officer Zander heroically jump out with an assault rifle to get Rico's men aboard. This is explicitly stated to be because nobody else is crazy enough to try the landing. The massed infantry charge during the first assault on Klendathu. You'd think with a fleet of spaceships and bombers, they'd carpet bomb the Bugs a bit first before landing boots on the ground to secure the planet. Interestingly enough, they do this on the second planet they attack, and the MI faces much less resistance, initially at least.
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Starship Troopers / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
Starship Troopers / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!: Said by Zander during his and Rico's fight scene.
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Starship Troopers / int_37b5c1b0	type	Big Badass Battle Sequence
Starship Troopers / int_37b5c1b0	comment	Big Badass Battle Sequence. There are at least three with many tropes, including Bloody Hilarious, Curb-Stomp Battle, and Hollywood Tactics.
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Starship Troopers / int_3931557e	type	Storming the Beaches
Starship Troopers / int_3931557e	comment	Storming the Beaches: Unlike the original novel, the movie features the Mobile Infantry landing on Klendathu in dropships which are very much inspired by World War II landing craft.
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Starship Troopers / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
Starship Troopers / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: Unlike in the book, CRT monitors are prominent despite flat-panel monitors already having been invented and in production by the time the movie was made.
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Starship Troopers / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Starship Troopers / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: After being mortally wounded Rasczak doesn't hesitate to order Rico to perform a mercy kill on him and not lose any more precious time during their retreat.
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Starship Troopers / int_39cee4cc	type	Team Power Walk
Starship Troopers / int_39cee4cc	comment	Team Power Walk: Not a slo-mo one, but Rico, Ace and Sugar have a meaningful one on their return to Planet P, being the last of their old squad, coming to review some new recruits.
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Starship Troopers / int_3a153596	type	Dead Guy Puppet
Starship Troopers / int_3a153596	comment	Dead Guy Puppet: It's heavily implied that the Brain Bug did this with radio operator Farley, making him send a Distress Call that lures the Roughnecks into a trap at the Whisky Outpost on Planet P.
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Starship Troopers / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Starship Troopers / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Watkins after he gets too injured to move. He insists that Rico leave a tactical grenade/nuke to kill as many Bugs as he can before he dies.
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Starship Troopers / int_3b41dde5	type	Eat Brain for Memories
Starship Troopers / int_3b41dde5	comment	Eat Brain for Memories: The Brain Bugs, who use a rather straw-like proboscis to stab through the skull and suck out the juicy brainmeats within.
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Starship Troopers / int_3bc27275	type	Bubblegum Popping
Starship Troopers / int_3bc27275	comment	Bubblegum Popping: The animation Carmen sends back to Rico at class has her popping a bubble into his face.
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Starship Troopers / int_3c7d0418	type	Doom Magnet
Starship Troopers / int_3c7d0418	comment	Doom Magnet: Rico, to almost Walking Disaster Area degrees. Anyone in his squad should have a counter ticking down on their head. By the end of the movie, he and Ace are the only surviving members of his main squad, his initial squad is whittled down to just himself, Ace and Dizzy by the initial attempt at invasion gone horrifically wrong, then his new squad is killed (including Diz, who had just completed a Relationship Upgrade with Rico) in their third outing as well his commanding officer (also his high school teacher). By the end of the movie, the only surviving named members of the initial group are himself, Carmen, Ace and Carl.
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Starship Troopers / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
Starship Troopers / int_3d59c9a0	comment	The original text also included the Cap Troopers wearing Powered Armor (in fact, the novel is the Trope Codifier for this particular Trope). The film Mobile Infantry has nothing of the sort until the third film, Marauder (and even then, they are experimental Mini-Mecha). Needless to say, this is one of the biggest reasons why people decry the film as an In Name Only adaptation.
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Starship Troopers / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Starship Troopers / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: The attempted invasion of Klendathu to end the war right away ends up putting a critical dent in the Federation and takes at least 100,000 Mobile Infantry soldiers including some of Johnny's boot camp buddies when they stumble into the Arachnids' defensive swarms; it doesn't take long before the Zerg Rush tilts in the Bugs' favor and an order to abort the mission is given. The propaganda clip after the battle states "100,000 dead in one hour," but the casualty list on the hospital ship shows a number above 300,000. Another communication broadcast during the battle mentions the Bugs are actually overrunning the dropships as they're picking up the retreating troops.
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Starship Troopers / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Starship Troopers / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Lots of this, usually in ways that result in the Humans getting handed a pile of bloody ass-chunks: The Humans' xenophobia and jingoism lead them to seriously underestimate the capabilities of the Bug forces. Mobile Infantry training consists of team-building exercises, slapdash drills treated like sporting events, and casual brutality intended more to weed out those with weak stomachs than anything else (thanks to their medical tech, even compound fractures can be healed in a day, so they can get away with a lot). This results in a force with terrible discipline, morale so bad they break at the first casualties, and no tactics beyond waves of disposable meat shields. For all the Hollywood Tactics displayed, the film is actually pretty realistic when it comes to the importance of helmets. The only time someone deliberately removes their helmet during a live-fire scenario, he is almost instantly shot in the head by accident. The Hollywood Tactics employed by the human forces don't work at all well. The very basic tactics used by the Bugs completely massacre them.
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Starship Troopers / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Starship Troopers / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: It probably doesn't take a man with Psychic Powers to tell you that your prisoner is afraid.
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Starship Troopers / int_3f064a0d	type	Humans Are Morons
Starship Troopers / int_3f064a0d	comment	Humans Are Morons: It's less "Humans are Morons" and more "Humans Are Absolutely Too Dumb to Live". The overwhelming majority of human characters underestimate the Bugs as mindless animals in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. For example, early on in the film, the city of Buenos Aires is annihilated by an asteroid knocked from the Asteroid Belt into Earth, by Bug plasma from Klendathu, thousands of light years away. Something like this was far beyond anything humanity can do without trillions of dollars worth of supercomputers, and the Bugs are doing these calculations in their heads. The humans insist that the Bugs just managed a lucky hit ("Bug plasma is random and light"), and retaliate with an invasion of Klendathu that ends in abysmal failure with thousands of humans dead and wounded, all due to massive tactical blunders on the human's part. Even after all this, the majority of humans are adamant that the Bugs are just unthinking beasts that can be easily crushed by human superiority. To quote one expert, "I find the idea of an intelligent bug offensive!" With the humans constantly underestimating the Bugs, paying dearly for it, and never once learning their lesson, one has to wonder if the Bugs find the idea of intelligent monkeys offensive as well... One very common interpretation is that the asteroid attack was a False Flag Operation to serve as a Pretext for War, and the stuff about them being stupid and poorly defended is what the Federation thinks is the truth. The existence of an intelligent leadership caste is only introduced in the movie after the battle of Klendathu, as an explanation for behavior that nobody saw coming.
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Starship Troopers / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Starship Troopers / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: The information spread by the Propaganda Machine. But because it plays its satire with such a straight face, you have to be paying attention to catch it. Pay particular note to casualty numbers in the newsreel on the Battle of Klendathu and then the numbers displayed in Rico's Federation hospital. The media are underreporting the deaths by a factor of ten.
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Starship Troopers / int_40d15d7a	type	Spoiler Cover
Starship Troopers / int_40d15d7a	comment	Spoiler Cover: The Ghanese poster◊ spoils the fact that Zander ends up getting his brains sucked out of his skull by the Brain Bug.
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Starship Troopers / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Starship Troopers / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Rico was just leaving the academy when he finds out about the asteroid destroying his home of Buenos Aires. He goes and convinces the commanding officer and Zim to tear up his resignation and allow him to stay.
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Starship Troopers / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Starship Troopers / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: By both sides, but as humanity learns the hard way, the quick-breeding, highly expendable warrior Bugs are much better at it.
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Starship Troopers / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Starship Troopers / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: There are three day moons visible in the sky over Dantana and Planet P.
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Starship Troopers / int_42d3be0b	type	Population Control
Starship Troopers / int_42d3be0b	comment	Population Control: Implied by one woman saying she joined the military because she'd like to have babies, and it's easier to get a license after you serve.
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Starship Troopers / int_430ae566	type	Ankle Drag
Starship Troopers / int_430ae566	comment	Ankle Drag: One soldier loses her nerve after seeing another soldier torn apart by several Bugs and flees for her life. As she runs, the ground collapses beneath her and she lands in one of the Bugs' tunnels and is confronted by one. She tries to crawl away but the Bug grabs her ankle and drags her deeper into the tunnels to an undoubtedly grisly end.
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Starship Troopers / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Starship Troopers / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: A ton of characters die pointless, inglorious deaths and are never mentioned again, most notably Kitten, who is killed by a Bug during the Klendathu invasion in a quick, blink-and-you-miss-it manner, and is never mentioned again. This was almost certainly intentional.
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Starship Troopers / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Starship Troopers / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: You'd be forgiven if you thought Rico and the rest of the "Argentinian" characters went through Adaptational Nationality, since no one even bothers to modify their American accents while portraying Argentinian characters.
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Starship Troopers / int_44106359	type	Last-Second Villain Recovery
Starship Troopers / int_44106359	comment	Last-Second Villain Recovery: During the invasion of Klendathu, Johnny Rico guns down one of the attacking Warrior Bugs, killing it... only for the Bug to use the last of its strength to briefly get back up and skewer Rico in the leg, before finally collapsing onto the ground for the last time. Because of this injury, Rico is unable to retreat and seemingly meets his demise. Though he somehow survives, recovers, and takes advantage of mistaken reports of his death to join an off-the-books elite unit.
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Starship Troopers / int_442a6995	type	Stupid Sacrifice
Starship Troopers / int_442a6995	comment	Stupid Sacrifice: When Carmen and Zander find themselves surrounded by aliens and with the big brain-eating alien readying to do just that. Zander has a knife hidden, but he doesn't use it himself. No, he gives it to Carmen and promptly gets his brain eaten. The girl then uses it to wound the brain-eating alien and escape. No clear reason is given why the Zander didn't use the knife himself, other than to conveniently Murder the Hypotenuse.
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Starship Troopers / int_44a65728	type	Hospital Surprise
Starship Troopers / int_44a65728	comment	Hospital Surprise: Played for Laughs when Rico wakes up in a rejuvenation tank to see his buddies holding his death certificate.
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Starship Troopers / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
Starship Troopers / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: Parodied - or at least they tried to, anyway. Sweaty bulging muscles, a faceless implacable enemy guilty of genocidal war crimes, big guns and comradeship. And if you don't fight you are a nonperson. The troopers are also alarmingly blase about the horrible deaths happening around them sometimes. When the panicked general during the trap is crushed by a Bug, Ace has this big grin on his face like "Hey, that was really cool!" And even during a panicked evacuation, killing one big Bug is enough to get at least a couple of them cheering like they're at a football game, even while they're supposed to be running for their lives. It is heavily implied throughout the first film however that beneath the shiny veneer, humanity is ultimately losing the Guilt-Free Extermination War against the Bugs, and badly at that. All the main characters end up in command positions with the deaths of every senior officer despite barely being out of training, suggesting nobody better for the role was available. The deranged general in the outpost trap is hysterically screaming "We're ALL going to DIE!" because he is high up enough to know the real strategic situation. Finally, at the end of the film, Rico's fresh troops are clearly Child Soldiers. The sequels make this more explicitly the case.
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Starship Troopers / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
Starship Troopers / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: Generally averted. In general, if you're promoted and can't handle it, you're bumped back down to where you were. When Johnny is stripped of his squad leader status after getting another recruit killed in a live-fire exercise, Ace is given the position in his place. Come Klendathu, he panics and has no idea what to do until Rico snaps the squad out of it. Later, Ace makes reference to this when he refuses Johnny's offer of a squad leader position when Johnny becomes a Corporal. Even at the end of the film, he's still a Private. After the disasterous invasion of Klendathu, Sky Marshal Dienes accepts responsibility and resigns his position and is replaced by Sky Marshal Meru who takes the Arachnid threat far more seriously. Career Sergeant Zim plays this the other way; he deliberately demonstrates incompetence (or implies that he will) and is "busted to private," which is what he wants so that he can serve in the field rather than at a training base.
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Starship Troopers / int_470980a7	type	Fetish-Fuel Future
Starship Troopers / int_470980a7	comment	Fetish-Fuel Future: There are co-ed showers. Also, getting fitted for a mecha unit requires that you stand naked in front of a small device which is only high enough, and large enough, to cover your crotch. Notably, these scenes (from the first and third movies) aren't played like typical Fanservice. All the characters, male and female, have a reasonable, non-sexual discussion. Meanwhile, the camera does not focus on the sexy bits. It simply films everyone talking and interacting, exactly as if they were still wearing clothes.
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Starship Troopers / int_4856ac40	type	Stock Footage
Starship Troopers / int_4856ac40	comment	Stock Footage: The scenes involving explosions and fire after the destruction of Buenos Aires were actually videos taken from the Oakland Hills fire in October of 1991.
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Starship Troopers / int_489ce93a	type	Capital Offensive
Starship Troopers / int_489ce93a	comment	Capital Offensive: The Federation shows what a bunch of geniuses they are by invading Arachnid territory and going straight for their homeworld Klendathu, the most heavily populated and fortified planet of the Arachnid's interstellar empire. The human assault force is routed within the hour and they are forced to retreat with embarassing casualties. The next Sky Marshal goes for the somewhat more sane strategy of attacking the outlying colonies first.
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Starship Troopers / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Starship Troopers / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Johnny's father. In the book, only his mother is in Buenos Aires when it's destroyed; his father was meant to join her there later and survives as a result, joining the military and going on to become Johnny's second-in-command. In the movie, he dies along with her.
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Starship Troopers / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Starship Troopers / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: Buenos Aires burning and the look of its remains after getting hit by the Bug Meteor and Tango Urilla's smoking and dead Warrior Bug-ridden surface after the clean-up bombing operation.
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Starship Troopers / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
Starship Troopers / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Since the movie is a satire of the gung-ho jingoism of the novel, they use the Nazi-like symbolism to portray the humans as an evil invading race by Putting on the Reich, and occasionally showing a propaganda commercial. This is capped by Neil Patrick Harris (at the time, best known for Doogie Howser, M.D.) as a Dr. Mengele Expy. One fan theory is that the humans faked the asteroid attack to justify the invasion. Either that, or used the opportunity provided by the otherwise natural asteroid strike to start a war. Just like the Nazis, the Federation is forced to have child soldiers as well. As the RiffTrax guys put it: "In case you're not getting it yet, all the rest of his lines will be in German."
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Starship Troopers / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Starship Troopers / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Zander (Carmen's boyfriend) to the Brain Bug just before it sucks out his brain.
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Starship Troopers / int_4c1e47cb	type	War Comes Home
Starship Troopers / int_4c1e47cb	comment	War Comes Home: John "Johnny" Rico has submitted his resignation from the military before hearing of an attack on his hometown, after which he returns and asks to rescind his resignation.
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Starship Troopers / int_4ce20451	type	Rhetorical Request Blunder
Starship Troopers / int_4ce20451	comment	Rhetorical Request Blunder: Subverted (barely). When General Owen says, â€œI wish you would just shoot me,â€� Racszak is happy to oblige and cocks his gun. Rico stops him at the last second, but then Owen is killed in a Bug attack anyway.
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Starship Troopers / int_4e0444f2	type	No Guy Wants to Be Chased
Starship Troopers / int_4e0444f2	comment	No Guy Wants to Be Chased: During the first part of the film, Dizzy makes her interest in Rico extremely obvious, but Rico continually finds her interest irritating and pushes her away in favor of Carmen. It takes Carmen outright dumping him before Rico starts reciprocating Dizzy's affections.
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Starship Troopers / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Starship Troopers / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: By the film's end, Rico's parents, his mentor, and a woman who truly loved him are all dead. Only two of his friends survive and he will see neither of them in the same light again. It's implied that despite their technology and new insights into the Bugs, humanity is losing the war because they can't replace their losses quick enough due to their opponents being R-selected bugs that breed fast— which explains the Child Soldiers and the fact all the main characters have found themselves in senior command positions despite their near-total inexperience. And worst of all, Rico has gone the way of Winston Smith and been so thoroughly indoctrinated into the ideals of his brutal society, that he doesn't see this as a horrible outcome.
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Starship Troopers / int_4e8b83a	type	That's an Order!
Starship Troopers / int_4e8b83a	comment	That's an Order!: Rasczak says this after telling his troops to have fun during their party celebrating their victory.
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Starship Troopers / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
Starship Troopers / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: The film is one, in a way diametrically opposed to the original book.
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Starship Troopers / int_4ebb6a0	type	Insert Grenade Here
Starship Troopers / int_4ebb6a0	comment	Insert Grenade Here: Johnny Rico jumps onto the back of a giant Bug, blows a hole in its carapace with his gun, and then tosses in a grenade. Much orange and green paint ensues.
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Starship Troopers / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
Starship Troopers / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: All of the adults have horrible injuries. Rasczak is missing his arm, Rico's biology teacher is blind with massive burn scars all over her face, the recruiter is missing his legs and one forearm, and so on.
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Starship Troopers / int_4fb9a00b	type	Get a Room!
Starship Troopers / int_4fb9a00b	comment	Get a Room!: Carl teases Rico and Carmen this way when the latter two share a patient kiss at the school dance.
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Starship Troopers / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Starship Troopers / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: After spending over half of the movie pining, the day after Dizzy and Rico have sex, she dies.
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Starship Troopers / int_50c7749f	type	Dead Man's Trigger Finger
Starship Troopers / int_50c7749f	comment	Dead Man's Trigger Finger: During a (remarkably unsafe) live-fire training exercise, one recruit is hit in the back by a Static Stun Gun as she turns to bicker with another recruit who was trying to fix his helmet (on Rico's orders) by taking it off. She ends up inadvertently firing a burst that takes part of his head off.
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Starship Troopers / int_515189ab	type	Single-Biome Planet
Starship Troopers / int_515189ab	comment	Single-Biome Planet: There is an entirely single biome solar system. Even the moons are deserts. Apparently, they all look like Wyoming's Hell's Half Acre or the Badlands of South Dakota. Rasczak mentions that the Fleet glasses each planet before the Mobile Infantry is sent in so it explains why they all look like a wasteland.
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Starship Troopers / int_519c2e3a	type	Trashcan Bonfire
Starship Troopers / int_519c2e3a	comment	Trashcan Bonfire: Rasczak's Roughnecks are having a party on the planet Tango Urilla after escaping the Bug-besieged outpost. A barrel with flames coming out can be seen in the middle of the mass of soldiers.
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Starship Troopers / int_51c7574c	type	Abandon Ship
Starship Troopers / int_51c7574c	comment	Abandon Ship: After the Rodger Young is split in two by a plasma blast.
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Starship Troopers / int_53dc1e7	type	Throw-Away Country
Starship Troopers / int_53dc1e7	comment	Throw-Away Country: Buenos Aires is destroyed at the beginning of Starship Troopers, providing a pretext for the war against the bugs and the main character (who is from there) to sign up for the Army.
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Starship Troopers / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
Starship Troopers / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: "Hey, Rico! Congratulations—you're dead!" Said to Rico while he's in a stasis tank, getting his various battle wounds repaired. Of course, nobody thought to tell Carmen that Rico had actually survived. Ironically enough, it's Zander who informs Carmen that Rico is still alive, immediately after seeing him among the troopers they just picked up on Planet P.
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Starship Troopers / int_5526b660	type	Humans Are White
Starship Troopers / int_5526b660	comment	Humans Are White: The cast is significantly whiter than in the book it's supposedly based on. The protagonist Johnny Rico, a Filipino in the novel, is given a Race Lift in order to make the human society look more Nazi. Granted they're supposed to be future Argentinians (Argentina is the most European Latin American country, though still not that white in terms of looks).
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Starship Troopers / int_559d1202	type	Improbable Parking Skills
Starship Troopers / int_559d1202	comment	Improbable Parking Skills: It is implied that Carmen Ibanez has to have Improbable Parking Skills to land her shuttle in the middle of a besieged Mobile Infantry outpost during a fierce battle. Of course, she had already been established as the Ace Pilot. That is less a case of being skilled enough to land in the middle of the area (considering the shuttles are virtually VTOL craft to begin with) as it is she is the only one insane enough to actually do it in the middle of a millions-strong wave of incoming Arachnids.
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Starship Troopers / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Starship Troopers / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: Rico tries to quit after he is demoted (due to getting a fellow trainee killed because of his desire to win), but just as he is walking out of the base, the Bugs supposedly Colony Drop his hometown and he promptly forces his way back into the Infantry.
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Starship Troopers / int_579d50de	type	Monster Threat Expiration
Starship Troopers / int_579d50de	comment	Monster Threat Expiration: The Arachnids. In the first major battle scene it takes a fire team of soldiers blasting away on full auto to put down one. In the final battle scene, a trio of heroes with the exact same weapons mow them down by the dozens, and other soldiers do so as well. Justified, as the Arachnid Warriors can take a lot of damage but go down easily once you hit their nerve stem: at the start the still green troopers were just firing at them at random, but later they learned where to hit.
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Starship Troopers / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Starship Troopers / int_57b80b45	comment	Humanity in general has elements of this. In the first movie, the Bugs (supposedly) attack Earth by using plasma to send an asteroid from Klendathu all the way to Earth, across three quarters of the galaxy. Something like that would take genius surpassing anything humanity is capable of without a couple trillion dollars worth of supercomputers backing them up. And the Bugs (or at least their leaders) can do those kinds of calculations in their heads. The humans assume that the Bugs are unintelligent, and that their plasma attacks when they try to land will be "random and light". They're neither. Even after the horrible slaughter at Klandathu, there are more than a few humans who insist that the Bugs can't be intelligent. In the words of one pundit, "Frankly, I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive!" One wonders, do the Bugs find the idea of intelligent monkeys offensive as well?
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Starship Troopers / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
Starship Troopers / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: The movie Bugs come in varying breeds for battle, instead of being tool-using like the novel.
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Starship Troopers / int_588d6b3e	type	Vasquez Always Dies
Starship Troopers / int_588d6b3e	comment	Vasquez Always Dies: Dizzy and Rake. Corporal Birdie subverts this. Despite fitting the trope, she merely loses an arm to a Tanker Bug on Tango Urilla and is removed from the action.
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Starship Troopers / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Starship Troopers / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: The film presents the conflict between the human race and the Bugs as Black-and-White Morality, but it has the tone of an in-universe propaganda movie and it's quite clear to most viewers that the humans are meant to be the real monsters of the movie. The sequels are better described as Evil Versus Evil.
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Starship Troopers / int_59c0c00	type	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech
Starship Troopers / int_59c0c00	comment	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech: The basic Morita rifle lacks any sort of sighting system, save for the large scope attached specifically to Pvt. "Sugar" Watkins' weapon, and even the Mk II variation briefly demonstrated later on only has a front sight.
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Starship Troopers / int_5a8f3057	type	Hand Signals
Starship Troopers / int_5a8f3057	comment	Hand Signals: Lieutenant Rascak uses them while approaching the outpost on Planet P.
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Starship Troopers / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Starship Troopers / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: When Rico first signs up, the recruiter boasts that the Mobile Infantry made him the man he is today... as he shakes Rico's hand with an artificial arm and rolls his chair back to reveal he's had both legs amputated.
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Starship Troopers / int_5bad2ab4	type	Military Maverick
Starship Troopers / int_5bad2ab4	comment	Military Maverick: Everyone! The Federation seems to encourage recklessness and lack of discipline among the military. As long as they're killing Bugs, it seems nobody cares if they're putting themselves in needless jeopardy. We see soldiers express contempt for perceived cowardice, but the only time one of them is actually punished is when Rico gets a squadmate killed during a training exercise (even then, he's shown sympathy for explaining his actions with "I wanted to win!")
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Starship Troopers / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
Starship Troopers / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: The first city to be attacked by the aliens is Buenos Aires, which happens to be our hero's hometown.
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Starship Troopers / int_5d414804	type	Just Friends
Starship Troopers / int_5d414804	comment	Just Friends: This happens to Johnny Rico after his girlfriend Carmen decides to go career as a federation pilot. However, they still remain friends. Ace lampshades it immediately after the video message ends.
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Starship Troopers / int_5eca52dc	type	Distress Call
Starship Troopers / int_5eca52dc	comment	Distress Call: A fake Distress Call is sent out on Planet P. While the grunts never saw it coming, it was in fact, an Obvious Trap to Intelligence, who tripped it with aforementioned grunts to see if there was a Brain Bug on the planet.
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Starship Troopers / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
Starship Troopers / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: During the mixed-gender Shower Scene, nobody seems terribly aroused, and instead simply carries on completely normal conversations with their comrades just as they would as if they were fully clothed. An amusing backstage anecdote: while shooting the scene, the actors gently ribbed Verhoeven by suggesting that he should be naked too while filming them. To their amusement, he was not only a good enough sport to agree, but his cameraman and director of photography stripped down too (Verhoeven is Dutch, a culture which has far less nudity taboos).
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Starship Troopers / int_6023a9bc	type	Bloody Hilarious
Starship Troopers / int_6023a9bc	comment	Bloody Hilarious: Several examples, most notably General Owen getting crushed by a Flying Bug that had already been killed because he didnâ€™t move out of the way in the absurdly long time it took to crash and instead screamed his head off. Ace is clearly struggling not to grin at this.
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Starship Troopers / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Starship Troopers / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Both the Bugs and the humans apparently follow this philosophy, with the former obviously benefitting more from this tactic. Carl actually points out how stupid this is; "It's simple numbers. They have more." Special mention goes to the attack on Whisky Outpost. Though the Mobile Infantry is firing from raised walls, the Bugs are able to overrun the compound because the expendable Bugs leave so many piled-up corpses in their wake that the next wave can simply walk right over the walls.
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Starship Troopers / int_61e43473	type	Dramatic Space Drifting
Starship Troopers / int_61e43473	comment	Dramatic Space Drifting: On their escape route from the collapsing spaceship, Carmen and Zander pass by a field of debris and bodies floating in space.
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Starship Troopers / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
Starship Troopers / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": When Sergeant Zim breaks the arm of one of the new recruits.
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Starship Troopers / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Starship Troopers / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: The MI's heavy body armor doesn't do shit against anything, least of all the Bugs. There's not a single instance in the movie where it actually provides protection. It's possible that it's simply flak armor designed to protect against shrapnel, but we don't see it perform this function either. As Advanced Sci-Fi Civilisations Too Stupid to Exist notes, the armor is actually a detriment because it restricts movement and the Bugs don't use human weapons which it was built to protect against.
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Starship Troopers / int_63f22889	type	Insectoid Aliens
Starship Troopers / int_63f22889	comment	Insectoid Aliens: The Arachnids come in various shapes and sizes — the common "infantry", so to speak, consists of pretty large (taller than humans, but not by much), four-legged, shrieking horrors, but there are also giant fire-breathing beetles, dragonfly-wasp-fly-like flyers big enough to grab and lift a man from the ground and, best of all, enormous brain-eaters that resemble bloated larvae. They seem to have a hive mind system.
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Starship Troopers / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Starship Troopers / int_658f7193	comment	"It's afraid. IT'S AFRAID!" (the gathered soldiers cheer triumphantly)
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Starship Troopers / int_66bee5ea	type	Shooting Gallery
Starship Troopers / int_66bee5ea	comment	Shooting Gallery: Used when the aftermath of a mistake while using live rounds on the hazard course leaves one soldier dead and his commanding officer stripped of rank and given ten strikes with a whip.
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Starship Troopers / int_66ff4a54	type	We Will Wear Armor in the Future
Starship Troopers / int_66ff4a54	comment	We Will Wear Armor in the Future: Rather noticeably by fans of the novel, not Powered Armour. Here the armor is more like modern GI flak armor in terms of bulk and coverage.
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Starship Troopers / int_68333a8b	type	Elite Army
Starship Troopers / int_68333a8b	comment	Elite Army: Averted for the most part due to the Mobile Infantryâ€™s questionable tactics. However it was noted that the Roughnecks were the ones to record the highest kills during the Klendathu invasion.
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Starship Troopers / int_68a5e1c3	type	Humans Are Psychic in the Future
Starship Troopers / int_68a5e1c3	comment	Humans Are Psychic in the Future: In the 22nd century, some humans are displaying latent psychic abilities and demographic tests are conducted to find people for the Federation's Psy-Corps division. To quote an ad that's shown on the TV: "If you think you're psychic ... maybe you are!"
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Starship Troopers / int_6b00879d	type	Disconnected by Death
Starship Troopers / int_6b00879d	comment	Disconnected by Death: Video Phone example in the first movie. Rico is talking with his mother and father, who live in Buenos Aires. As they're talking, a shadow comes across the parents' end of the line. The screen then dissolves into static and a short time later the news shows the destruction of the city.
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Starship Troopers / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Starship Troopers / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: When Carl meets with Carmen and Rico again before the climax, he rightfully points out that he has to make decisions based on numbers that give humanity the best chance at survival that will kill people.
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Starship Troopers / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
Starship Troopers / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Rico's father is adamant that he attend Harvard rather than join the infantry. Since Rico is outright shown to be a dim bulb, it seems the trope name has come true. More than possibly justified, however, in that Johnny's family is rich (as in the novel), and historically children of wealthy families can more easily gain admission to prestigious universities than the children of poorer families. One of the other recruits mentions he got into Harvard, and joined the MI so he could afford it. A more worrying possibility, and one that is backed up by the relative lack of intelligence demonstrated by humankind in general throughout the movie, is that the standards of human intellectual excellence have degenerated to the point that Rico, who isn't too bright by modern standards, is actually much more intelligent than the average human of the future.
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Starship Troopers / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
Starship Troopers / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: Whenever the Arachnids are riddled with bullets up close, and especially when Rico blows up the Tank bug, the characters tend to get drenched in their bright green and orange Alien Blood.
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Starship Troopers / int_6dcbe9aa	type	Deconstructive Parody
Starship Troopers / int_6dcbe9aa	comment	Deconstructive Parody: The film started out as a satirical story called Bug Hunt before it was tied to the novel. Paul Verhoeven, who grew up in the Netherlands under German occupation, tried to read the novel and found what little he could stomach of it disgusting in a very familiar way, so he made the film specifically parody the novel, the Why We Fight WWII propaganda films, and jingoistic warmongering and fascism in general through deconstructing the entire premise. The inhuman enemy that is "Othered" is literally inhuman monsters, even more so than in the novel. The militaristic society makes the humans so complacent in their superiority that they refuse to even consider the enemy to be intelligent after the Bugs attack them with a Colony Drop from across the galaxy. They try to use horrendous military tactics and their forces are completely slaughtered. The humans only seem like heroes because of the propaganda-like tone of the film itself. They accomplish a (in retrospect) small victory and are clearly still having problems with the Bugs by the end, but the viewer is encouraged to join the Mobile Infantry because every soldier is needed. Yet despite all that, it's done in such an over-the-top fashion that most viewers don't even realize the parodic intent and cheer the humans on as if it were a straight-up action movie.
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Starship Troopers / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Starship Troopers / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: All over the place, but one that stands out is Carmen revealing that she'd altered the course of the spaceship they were on in order to save time and fuel...putting them directly in the path of the asteroid. In reality, a helmsman who altered a ship's course on their own would be facing court-martial, demotion, and jail time.
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Starship Troopers / int_6f619fab	type	Let's Split Up, Gang!
Starship Troopers / int_6f619fab	comment	Let's Split Up, Gang!: Rico gets a feeling that Carmen is down a separate tunnel than the one his platoon has been ordered to explore. Knowing the severe penalties for disobeying orders during a battle (what he's doing could be considered desertion, plus abandoning his command), he places the platoon under a subordinate's command, takes a small handful of volunteers (coincidentally the entire surviving main cast) and goes off on his rescue mission after Carmen.
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Starship Troopers / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
Starship Troopers / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: In the original book, the Arachnids were high-tech imperialists using artificial weaponry, making their war with humanity a simple clash of empires. In this one, they're territorial isolationists with a significantly less human-like culture and mindset that (along with their reliance on advanced Organic Technology) allows humanity to (falsely) dismiss them as tough but mindless animals.
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Starship Troopers / int_713d994b	type	Token Romance
Starship Troopers / int_713d994b	comment	Token Romance: In this case, a whole-cloth token Love Triangle gets tacked on.
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Starship Troopers / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Starship Troopers / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The movie ends with Johnny Rico in charge of the Roughnecks and a Federation propaganda spot, enticing civilians to enlist for the war effort.
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Starship Troopers / int_7225232	type	Self-Punishment Over Failure
Starship Troopers / int_7225232	comment	Self-Punishment Over Failure: After getting a fellow trainee killed, Rico quits Mobile Infantry boot camp... but quickly joins back up when the Bugs drop an asteroid on his home town.
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Starship Troopers / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
Starship Troopers / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: Most troopers seen are White, though a couple at boot camp are Black (the woman is kicked out after accidentally killing a fellow trainee). There's another that might be a mestiza as well (since they're all supposed to be Argentinians, and thus Latin American), since she has olive skin.
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Starship Troopers / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Starship Troopers / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Carl, who gets an anticlimactic off-screen death in the book when the research base he's stationed on is destroyed, makes it to the end of the movie. And then some when you take Invasion into account.
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Starship Troopers / int_74cd99f8	type	See the Whites of Their Eyes
Starship Troopers / int_74cd99f8	comment	See the Whites of Their Eyes: Futuristic humanity, in possession of portable small-yield nuclear weapons, prefers to send footsoldiers en masse into battle with weaponry largely incapable of hitting a target other than at point blank or very short range. On the other hand, this is only to be expected when you're employing the Redshirt Army, all of whom are equipped with Cool, but Inefficient weaponry.
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Starship Troopers / int_76340146	type	Underequipped Charge
Starship Troopers / int_76340146	comment	Underequipped Charge: Carmen pulls a knife at a Brain Bug during the climax of the film and actually manages to fend it off until Rico's squad arrives to extract her.
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Starship Troopers / int_773b0523	type	Impaled Palm
Starship Troopers / int_773b0523	comment	Impaled Palm: The main characters are in basic training, learning how to throw knives. After blowing his throw, Ace asks Sergeant Zim why throwing knives is important in an age when pressing a button can unleash nuclear weapons with far more power. Zim orders him to lay his hand against a wall, and throws a knife through his palm, pinning it. He explains (while Ace moans painfully in the background) that by disabling a hand, you can prevent that button from being pressed.
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Starship Troopers / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Starship Troopers / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The opening starts with the initial landing on Klendathu, then cuts away as it starts to get bad and Rico is seen getting attacked by Bugs on the camera.
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Starship Troopers / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Starship Troopers / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The Mobile Infantry operating without armor or artillery support was actually lampshaded and justified in the novel because the MI-powered armor suits let them provide their own support (making aircraft, tanks, and artillery useless). When the movie eliminated the powered armor, it failed to account for this, making the MI's tactics look very silly. Lampshaded: After the initial attack on Klendathu failed miserably, everyone acknowledged that the MI's tactics were moronic. In later operations they're seen operating with heavy air support. Also, the scene when the soldiers were practicing throwing knives at targets. In the book, when Ted Hendrik (Ace Levey in the film) questioned Sergeant Zim on the purpose of this training exercise when the enemy uses more advanced and deadly weapons, Sergeant Zim responded by saying there are no such thing as dangerous weapons; only dangerous men. He explained that he is training his soldiers to be dangerous with any weapon in battle even if they only have one arm and one leg left. The movie changed this scene by having Sergeant Zim throw a knife at the questioning soldier's hand without even explaining the purpose of the training, which is doubly silly when you remember that the Bugs aren't tool users so throwing the knife would do precisely squat. A more minor example that is easy to miss: In the movie, the soldiers are occasionally referred to as "Cap Troopers". In the book, this referred to the capsules they dropped in, but in the film the nickname becomes orphaned.
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Starship Troopers / int_798e72aa	type	Just Hit Him
Starship Troopers / int_798e72aa	comment	Just Hit Him: In the cave, Carmen and Zander are being kept alive by the Arachnids. Apparently, this was needed by the Brain Bug for its Eat Brain for Memories procedure. Naturally, this creates a chance for Carmen to escape.
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Starship Troopers / int_7994c93a	type	Violence Really Is the Answer
Starship Troopers / int_7994c93a	comment	Violence Really Is the Answer: Zigzagged. The teacher, Mr. Rasczak, lectures his class on how all political power ultimately derives from the threat of violence; but, he is a representative of an overtly fascist system of government that is being satirized to high heaven. The characters in the film, by and large, believe this; the filmmakers have a different view.
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Starship Troopers / int_79c2062e	type	Inappropriately Close Comrades
Starship Troopers / int_79c2062e	comment	Inappropriately Close Comrades: There's quite a lot of fraternization in the military. Rico even turns down an offer from a squadmate only for the CO to tacitly encourage him to take her up on it. But that's merely one of many symptoms of discipline that the Federation military is clearly shown to be lacking in.
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Starship Troopers / int_7a2b8057	type	Government-Exploited Crisis
Starship Troopers / int_7a2b8057	comment	Government-Exploited Crisis: The asteroid that destroyed Buenos Aires is said to have been sent towards earth by Bug plasma from the Klendathu system. A visual representation shows that Klendathu and Earth are literally on opposite sides of the Galaxy, and seeing as the Terran Federation is secretly a fascist government (showing public executions on TV, glorification of the military, military uniforms that took inspiration from the Third Reich), it's heavily implied that the Terran Federation used the coincidental asteroid impact as an excuse to expand their dominions by invading the Arachnid's territory. To ensure public support, the Federal Network is putting on a very positive spin on the fact that the war has ground down to a quagmire.
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Starship Troopers / int_7b0fddcd	type	Battle Cry
Starship Troopers / int_7b0fddcd	comment	Battle Cry:
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Starship Troopers / int_7cb9e33	type	Dying Declaration of Hate
Starship Troopers / int_7cb9e33	comment	Dying Declaration of Hate: a human soldier is about to be killed by a "brain bug" which controls the seemingly mindless insects in the Bug War and he uses his last words to tell it, "One day, someone like me is gonna kill you... and your whole fucking race!"
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Starship Troopers / int_7d260070	type	Corporal Punishment
Starship Troopers / int_7d260070	comment	Corporal Punishment: Rico is publicly whipped after he tells Breckinridge to take off his helmet during a live firing exercise, and Breckinridge gets killed. Johnny's father mentions that it happens to civilians too.
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Starship Troopers / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
Starship Troopers / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Parodied in one television story, as soldiers hand out automatic weapons to kids to play with - then to make it more ridiculous, hand out live ammo. The fact that only one person died while Rico was leading a live-fire exercise in the middle of a military installation buzzing with activity is nothing short of miraculous.
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Starship Troopers / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Starship Troopers / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: What the in-universe Federation presents itself as. Subverted in that it's The Empire pretending to be The Federation (something which a lot of audience members totally never picked up on).
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Starship Troopers / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
Starship Troopers / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: The flying Hopper Bugs are able to swoop down and decapitate humans with their claws mid-flight. At least two unfortunate troopers meet their demise this way.
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Starship Troopers / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Starship Troopers / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Between Carmen and Zander just before the asteroid appears.
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Starship Troopers / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
Starship Troopers / int_7eccbb3d	comment	Shower Scene: One of the most famous in 90s cinema, in that it's communal, unisex and features full frontal nudity from many of them; the characters casually walk in, strip off and start showering while having a conversation and teasing each other.note Dina Meyer noted that she and the other actors told Verhoeven, only half-joking, that it wasn't fair they were all naked and he wasn't, and they were all highly amused and impressed when he agreed with them and took off his own clothes, as did cinematographer Jost Vacano.
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Starship Troopers / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Starship Troopers / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: The shower scene gives us a name, backstory, and motivation for all the soldiers in Rico's unit. You'd believe this to be the film's Ragtag Bunch of Misfits protagonist group, and in a standard sci-fi movie, they likely would be. All of them die quick, gruesome deaths in the very first battle, with the exceptions of Ace, Diz, Djana'D (who dropped out during training), and Rico himself.
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Starship Troopers / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Starship Troopers / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: During the live-fire exercise, Breckinridge's helmet begins slanting and obstructing his view, leading to him running into someone else's line of fire. Rico stops what he's doing, runs over and takes Breckinridge's helmet off on the field right away. An alien statue rises up out of of the ground and zaps another soldier, causing her to fall over and fire, and one of the bullets blows the top of Breckinridge's skull clear off his head. The exercise ends immediately along with Rico's command over the unit, and he earns himself ten lashes from a whip in view of the whole camp; he nearly resigns before the meteor that destroys his hometown convinces him to stick around as a lowly private.
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Starship Troopers / int_7fff034b	type	Kent Brockman News
Starship Troopers / int_7fff034b	comment	Kent Brockman News: The media are owned by the Federation, so the line between "news" and propaganda is non-existent.
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Starship Troopers / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Starship Troopers / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The opening newsreel takes place during the initial invasion of Klendathu, before the movie jumps back a few months, then catches up about half-way through.
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Starship Troopers / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Starship Troopers / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Johnny can't help but smile when Ace and Dizzy show him a notice declaring him KIA.
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Starship Troopers / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Starship Troopers / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Michael Ironside and Clancy Brown needed to look down to see where "over the top" stood. Later, Casper Van Dien tries to replicate their Large Ham performance as a hard-ass officer, only to come off as a small slice of baloney.
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Starship Troopers / int_8252652c	type	All Planets Are Earth-Like
Starship Troopers / int_8252652c	comment	All Planets Are Earthlike: And they all look like the same stretch of desert, too. Maybe the Bugs thrive best in dry, mountainous environments?
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Starship Troopers / int_844e261e	type	Super Spit
Starship Troopers / int_844e261e	comment	Super Spit: The giant Tanker Bug can spray a flammable substance from its mouth which is ignited by an electrical spark, thus making it a living flamethrower.
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Starship Troopers / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Starship Troopers / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Many people (especially those who missed the point of the satire) have criticized the fact that for a group of characters supposedly from Buenos Aires, everyone looks rather suspiciously white and of the few exceptions (Watkins, Djana'D, Shujumi), none of them look particularly Argentinian either. This is actually one of the least ridiculous things about the Federation: While the fact that everyone uses an American accent isn't really explicable, Argentina is in fact one of the whitest countries in South America, and its population is, proportionately speaking, paler than the United States. Would you say that Lionel Messi◊ or, at the time of this writing, the Pope◊ look like people who could believably portray Argentinians?
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Starship Troopers / int_8605f0c0	type	Promoted to Love Interest
Starship Troopers / int_8605f0c0	comment	Promoted to Love Interest: Both Carmen and Dizzy (who also gets a Gender Flip and Ascended Extra status for the purpose), for Johnny. In the book, Carmen and Johnny have a mild interest in each other in high school, and later go on one date and share a kiss when they chance to meet up in training, but never exactly have a romance. In the film, it's a full-on Love Triangle.
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Starship Troopers / int_86ae1278	type	Adaptational Dumbass
Starship Troopers / int_86ae1278	comment	Adaptational Dumbass: Subtly done. Much of the Federation's policies and tactics are deliberately altered to be less logical, fair, factually correct, and reasonable, as part of how Verhoeven feels about Heinlein's pro-military politics. When arguing that Violence Really Is the Answer, the city of Hiroshima is discussed like it ceased to exist completely after it was nuked (spoiler alert: people still live in Hiroshima), whereas in the book it was Carthage being cited as an example.note It is still inaccurate, as the city of Carthage remained an important metropolitan center under the Roman Empire, leading many historians to believe that the tales of its destruction were highly exaggerated. When Ace Levy brings up the very reasonable question of why they need to practice knife-throwing when they're training to fight pickup truck-sized Bugs that shrug off heavy arms fire, in the book, Sergeant Zim actually explains that he's training his soldiers to keep fighting no matter what, while in the movie, Zim just throws a knife at Levy's hand without even properly answering his question and justifies it by saying that "the enemy can't press a button if you disable his hand" (not only is this flatly untrue, considering the enemy could presumably just press the button with his other hand or some other part of his body, the Bugs don't even use control panels and do not have hands). Rico's depiction is subtly altered to make him a dumber and less competent soldier. Most notably: in the book, he's whipped as punishment for carelessly launching a rocket during a training exercise without checking to make sure his fellow soldiers were out of the blast zone—which would have resulted in a death by friendly fire in a real combat situation. In the film, he's whipped for foolishly removing a fellow recruit's helmet during a live-fire training exercise, which leads to said recruit actually dying after he's hit in the head by a stray round. Instead of just getting a painful lesson about the dangers of carelessness in the field, he's outright court-martialed and demoted for gross incompetence.
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Starship Troopers / int_86f27af6	type	Bait-and-Switch Tyrant
Starship Troopers / int_86f27af6	comment	Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: Lt. Raschak has a reputation for being a "real nutbuster" among troops outside his unit, but Raschak's Roughnecks are fiercely loyal to their commander. He comes across as stern and demanding, not hesitant to shoot one of his own troopers to save the poor ape from being eaten alive by a nest of Bugs, and says he'd expect anyone in his unit to do the same for him. But then we see that he understands the importance of soldier morale by ordering his troops to have a party while they're in a safe zone, and even allowing Rico and Dizzy to finish up their R&R in the tent.
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Starship Troopers / int_8713e490	type	If You Taunt Him, You Will Be Just Like Him
Starship Troopers / int_8713e490	comment	If You Taunt Him, You Will Be Just Like Him: A fleet officer taunts the main character, Johnny Rico, trying to get him to fight back. When Johnny tells him that he would have to be insane to hit an officer, the man tells him to 'disregard rank'. This ends in an all-out brawl. This is an aversion because the room was full of people, including officers who outranked them both, who heard the guy loudly announce "We are disregarding rank" right before Rico beat the shit out of him.
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Starship Troopers / int_874176be	type	Psychic Powers
Starship Troopers / int_874176be	comment	Psychic Powers: Some humans have psychic powers in the future. Carl uses these on his pet ferret ("Go bug Mom!"), the Brain Bug at the end ("It's afraid!"), and to guide Rico to Carmen.
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Starship Troopers / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Starship Troopers / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: The subtext of the Starship Troopers trilogy is that the humans are the evil invading aliens. On the surface, however, you're still supposed to be rooting for the humans.
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Starship Troopers / int_8a8c7344	type	Plasma Cannon
Starship Troopers / int_8a8c7344	comment	Plasma Cannon: The Bugs combine this with their Hive Caste System. The towering Bugs that the Mobile Infantry first encounters during their initial ground invasion of Klendathu are so-called "Plasma Bugs". They shoot huge bursts of plasma from their backs to target the human space vessels in orbit around the planet. Two of them are blown up on-screen, but the rest of them end up destroying most of the Federation's Fleet.
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Starship Troopers / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
Starship Troopers / int_8aa0f76	comment	On top of all that, it is heavily implied several times throughout the film that humanity is losing the war off-screen because they're so guiltless about the war. Exhibit A: The replacements in Rico's Roughnecks are clearly fourteen-year-olds, meaning that the military will soon be sucked dry of soldiers (and possibly what's left of humanity) by the time the war ends. Exhibit B: The main characters all end up in senior command positions that they realistically don't deserve while Captain Deladier and Lieutenant Rasczak both end up as battle fatalities. Exhibit C: The deranged General Owen screaming "My God! We're ALL going to die!" could be interpreted as him knowing the real strategic outlook.
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Starship Troopers / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Starship Troopers / int_8b606a51	comment	Watkins empties roughly a hundred rounds into a Bug, even after it's clearly obvious it's dead. Instant Section Eight.
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Starship Troopers / int_8b7e2c1a	type	BBC Quarry
Starship Troopers / int_8b7e2c1a	comment	BBC Quarry: The alien planets all look like this.
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Starship Troopers / int_8c431fe4	type	Band of Brothers
Starship Troopers / int_8c431fe4	comment	Band of Brothers: Johnny, Dizzy, and Ace become this after they went through training together, got tattoos together (with Kitten), and survived Klendathu together (without Kitten). Sugar joins the band after they join the Roughnecks, and he sees them in action.
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Starship Troopers / int_8cb844c6	type	Mr. Exposition
Starship Troopers / int_8cb844c6	comment	Mr. Exposition: Rasczak and the biology teacher serve as this early in the movie. Rasczak explains how the military-fascist government came to be, and the biology teacher explains how the Bugs colonized several planets.
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Starship Troopers / int_8e803915	type	Strategy Versus Tactics
Starship Troopers / int_8e803915	comment	And perhaps worst of all, there seems to be no established ground game or grand strategy for the planetary invasion. The troops simply land on the surface and run around in a confused mass, attacking Arachnid forces as they encounter them. It's one thing to use Hollywood Tactics, but Hollywood Strategy as well?
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Starship Troopers / int_8edd1883	type	Colossus Climb
Starship Troopers / int_8edd1883	comment	Colossus Climb: The hero climbs up on top of a giant bug that's attacking his squad. He blows a hole in the bug's body, drops a large explosive in the hole, and jumps off.
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Starship Troopers / int_8ef99dbb	type	Pin-Pulling Teeth
Starship Troopers / int_8ef99dbb	comment	Pin-Pulling Teeth: In the first movie, Dizzy pulls out a grenade's pin with her teeth. Which seems entirely unnecessary, as pushing the big red button on top of the grenade is also shown to remove the pin.
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Starship Troopers / int_903e4b74	type	Healing Vat
Starship Troopers / int_903e4b74	comment	Healing Vat: Rico ends up in one after he is injured on Klendathu.
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Starship Troopers / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Starship Troopers / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: The usual result of someone getting caught in a Warrior Bug's mandibles, including Kitten Smith and the FedNet Correspondentnote Which is seen twice, once during the In Medias Res opening and again when the film eventually works its way back to that point. Captain Deladier, crushed by an emergency bulkhead door. Rasczak at the base. Rico has to kill him.
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Starship Troopers / int_91c651a1	type	Guilt-Free Extermination War
Starship Troopers / int_91c651a1	comment	It is heavily implied throughout the first film however that beneath the shiny veneer, humanity is ultimately losing the Guilt-Free Extermination War against the Bugs, and badly at that. All the main characters end up in command positions with the deaths of every senior officer despite barely being out of training, suggesting nobody better for the role was available. The deranged general in the outpost trap is hysterically screaming "We're ALL going to DIE!" because he is high up enough to know the real strategic situation. Finally, at the end of the film, Rico's fresh troops are clearly Child Soldiers. The sequels make this more explicitly the case.
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Starship Troopers / int_928e13b9	type	He's Dead, Jim
Starship Troopers / int_928e13b9	comment	He's Dead, Jim: Zander diagnoses his captain dead without checking any vital signs. Justified since they had to Abandon Ship quickly and she was crushed by a blast door.
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Starship Troopers / int_92e5b254	type	Communications Officer
Starship Troopers / int_92e5b254	comment	Communications Officer: A series of (usually short-lived) characters fulfill this role throughout the film, including Dizzy and Ace towards the end.
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Starship Troopers / int_9333df94	type	Kidnapping Bird of Prey
Starship Troopers / int_9333df94	comment	Kidnapping Bird of Prey: One of the soldiers is snatched by a flying Arachnid and has to be mercy-killed by Rasczak.
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Starship Troopers / int_934c7e38	type	Paper Tiger
Starship Troopers / int_934c7e38	comment	Paper Tiger: The Mobile Infantry are brutally xenophobic and gung-ho in a way only a Space Marine can be, but they're also spectacularly incompetent. The Klendathu invasion force descends into a panicked rout after only a few casualties.
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Starship Troopers / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
Starship Troopers / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: M.I. Rations consists of a bubblegum-pink, foamy substance (think Strawberry Mousse).
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Starship Troopers / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Starship Troopers / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: As Carmen is dissecting a Bug in one of her first scenes. Given the film's subversiveness, this was probably done to turn the audience off to her and onto Dizzy, though.
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Starship Troopers / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Starship Troopers / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Rico for Dizzy and Ibanez. Interestingly, he essentially winds up with neither as Dizzy dies and Ibanez ends their relationship to concentrate on being a career pilot.
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Starship Troopers / int_95265081	type	Leeroy Jenkins
Starship Troopers / int_95265081	comment	Several happen in rapid succession during the invasion of Klendathu, starting with the MI's reactions to a Leeroy Jenkins getting ripped apart, then another from a girl that falls into a Bug hole does one right before she gets dragged into one, then from the rest of the MI when they see the Bugs swarming out towards them, then another from the Roughnecks on Planet P when they see the giant army of Bugs coming at them, and finally Carmen when she sees that she and Zander are surrounded by Bugs. Her reaction is probably the most telling.
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Starship Troopers / int_95bac90d	type	Subspace Ansible
Starship Troopers / int_95bac90d	comment	Subspace Ansible: The video calls from outer space to Earth take place in real-time with no noticeable delay.
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Starship Troopers / int_95f972d2	type	Nitro Boost
Starship Troopers / int_95f972d2	comment	Nitro Boost: Carmen uses the Rodger Young's emergency thrusters to boost out of the way of an oncoming Bug meteor.
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Starship Troopers / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: Carmen and Zander notice a gravity field affecting the ship, and all its advanced sensors indicate that it's probably an asteroid. The question is why they need the sensors to tell them about it when the giant asteroid about to hit them is clearly visible out the front window.
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Starship Troopers / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Starship Troopers / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Zander, moments before he gets a Brain Bug spine to the head. He tried, at least. One day, someone like me is gonna kill you, and your whole fucking race. (Cue Spiteful Spit)
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Starship Troopers / int_96cc4848	type	"Dear John" Letter
Starship Troopers / int_96cc4848	comment	"Dear John" Letter: While in MI boot camp, Johnny Rico gets a literal Dear John video from his girlfriend Carmen Ibanez, who's in training to join the Fleet (space navy), which of course he is watching on a big-screen TV in the barracks with his entire squad watching and making commentary... Until they realize what the message is about and make themselves scarce.
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Starship Troopers / int_96ecc67e	type	Shotguns Are Just Better
Starship Troopers / int_96ecc67e	comment	Shotguns Are Just Better: When Rico is pinned down by a Bug and about to get eaten, he switches to an underslung shotgun. He still empties his magazine to kill a single Bug, but the stopping power saves his life.
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Starship Troopers / int_977ab629	type	Let's Just Be Friends
Starship Troopers / int_977ab629	comment	Let's Just Be Friends: Rico suggests this to Dizzy at the school dance. Carmem says this to Rico when she breaks up with him via video message.
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Starship Troopers / int_978355c	type	Orchestral Bombing
Starship Troopers / int_978355c	comment	Orchestral Bombing: Several examples, most notably Klendathu Drop, from the scene where the Fleet and the Mobile Infantry launch their first assault on Klendathu.
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Starship Troopers / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Starship Troopers / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Inverted, where the black dude dies last holding the line for his comrades to escape, with a ticking tactical nuke in one hand.
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Starship Troopers / int_97b5e1f9	type	Bug War
Starship Troopers / int_97b5e1f9	comment	Bug War: The war is against the giant Klendathu Arachnids.
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Starship Troopers / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Starship Troopers / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: After the destruction of one of their cities, humanity declares a total war against the Bugs. When some suggested the option of retreating from the systems where Bugs lived and thus leaving them alone, the soldiers reject it immediately. Their thirst for revenge led to hundreds of thousands of deaths just in the first battle.
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Starship Troopers / int_9ace8917	type	HandWaved
Starship Troopers / int_9ace8917	comment	The attack force is light infantry (not mechanized), with no armor, air support, or any kind of artillery between hand grenades and pocket nukes. While the lack of armor support is Hand Waved by statements that the terrain is unsuitable for tanks and the like, there is no justification for a lack of air support, either for bombing or rapid deployment of troops, especially when they're shown to have such capabilities (one wave of bombers is seen wiping out some Bugs, but nothing more).
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Starship Troopers / int_9b2923bc	type	Mooning
Starship Troopers / int_9b2923bc	comment	Mooning: One of Rico's fellow recruits is talked into mooning Rico's camera when he's composing a message for Carmen.
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Starship Troopers / int_9b6e33f3	type	Death by Cameo
Starship Troopers / int_9b6e33f3	comment	Death by Cameo: In the first movie scriptwriter Edward Neumeier briefly appears as a murderer who is arrested in the morning, tried that day, found guilty and sentenced to to be executed that evening. Swift justice indeed.
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Starship Troopers / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Starship Troopers / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: When Carmen shows up at the spaceport and tells Rico why she's late, she says her dad "helped" her pack and told her he was afraid he'd never see her again. Sure enough, he's right, except HE'S the one who dies thanks to the meteor that lands on Buenos Aires. When Mr. Rico is told Johnny plans to enlist in the Federal Service, he retorts that he'd rather take ten lashes in public than let that happen. Johnny is the one to receive those lashes after he gets a man killed in a live-fire training exercise and succeeds in convincing the recruit who shot that man to resign and forgo her political goals.
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Starship Troopers / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Starship Troopers / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: During the Bug assault on the Federation outpost on Planet P, one of the Bugs gets shot in a way that its blood splatters the camera for a split second.
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Starship Troopers / int_9ebee577	type	Anaphora
Starship Troopers / int_9ebee577	comment	Anaphora: "Here's the":
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Starship Troopers / int_9f81bd21	type	Stealth Parody
Starship Troopers / int_9f81bd21	comment	Stealth Parody: This version of Starship Troopers was a satirical take both on the Robert A. Heinlein novel and jingoistic war movies in general. Not everybody got this when the film was released.
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Starship Troopers / int_a08b0736	type	Nuclear Option
Starship Troopers / int_a08b0736	comment	Nuclear Option: Lt. Racdzac sees a bug hole, and tells one of his troopers, "Rico! Nuke 'em!" Rico loads a nuclear-tipped rocket in a launcher, and fires it into the hole, vaporizing everything (bugs) near the hole. A trooper is too injured to move, so he asks Rico to give him a nuke so he can vaporize the bugs before they can eat him. Carmen and Rico run in an attempt to Outrun the Fireball.
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Starship Troopers / int_a33ff511	type	Indirect Kiss
Starship Troopers / int_a33ff511	comment	Indirect Kiss: When Ace and Dizzy visit Johnny Rico in the hospital where his wounds from the battle with the giant Bugs are being healed with a laser while he's in a rejuvenation tank, before she leaves Dizzy kisses the glass near his face.
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Starship Troopers / int_a4070b5e	type	Stripped to the Bone
Starship Troopers / int_a4070b5e	comment	Stripped to the Bone: The Tanker bugs are giant 30-foot-long beetles, spew burning corrosive fluid from their foreheads. In their first appearance, a trooper takes a hit on her arm, and the flesh quickly disentegrates, revealing glowing orange bones, before they crumble into orange goo. When the protagonists get evacuated from an outpost after being ambushed and overrun, two troopers get coverd head to toe with the fluid, and after their flesh burns off, their skeletons remain intact for a few seconds before collapsing into a puddle of burning orange liquid.
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Starship Troopers / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
Starship Troopers / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: The cowardly General Owen is treated with utter contempt by the mobile infantry who find him hiding in a supply closet. So when he gets smeared across the ground by the shot-down corpse of a flying bug landing on top of him, the response is whoops and cheers from the nearby soldiers. "It's afraid. IT'S AFRAID!" (the gathered soldiers cheer triumphantly)
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Starship Troopers / int_a5f0752f	type	Rule of Drama
Starship Troopers / int_a5f0752f	comment	Rule of Drama: A starship's emergency thruster control (presumably some sort of overclocking feature... we hope) is placed under a glass cover that must be smashed before use. Or waiting until the last second instead of firing it immediately, but that's a failure of another kind. The scene implies that they've got to get the ship rotated before firing the emergency thruster, thus the delay, which would be more forgivable.
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Starship Troopers / int_a627a930	type	Gender Is No Object
Starship Troopers / int_a627a930	comment	Gender Is No Object: Men and women serve together in all parts of the Federation military (and even shower together). In the book the Mobile Infantry is strictly male, and women do serve, but they are almost universally in the Space Navy since they make better pilots.
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Starship Troopers / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Starship Troopers / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Dizzy (who lest we forget was male) was nothing more than a Sacrificial Lamb for the first scene of the novel; Carl was killed off-screen — er, off-page. Both have more important roles in the movie.
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Starship Troopers / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
Starship Troopers / int_a6b14ee1	comment	The Hollywood Tactics employed by the human forces don't work at all well. The very basic tactics used by the Bugs completely massacre them.
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Starship Troopers / int_a6bd0685	type	Died in Your Arms Tonight
Starship Troopers / int_a6bd0685	comment	Died in Your Arms Tonight: Dizzy, in Rico's arms.
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Starship Troopers / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Starship Troopers / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Double subverted. The Bugs are so big that even hip-firing rookies can score hits. The hard part is scoring meaningful hits, as the Arachnids will keep coming even as their limbs are blown off one after another. As Carl shows during a newsreel, if you aim carefully at a nerve cluster, you can put a Bug out of action as easily as a man - and this happens at the end when 3-4 Moritas are mowing down dozens of Bugs, if in a confined space.
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Starship Troopers / int_a7ae597a	type	No New Fashions in the Future
Starship Troopers / int_a7ae597a	comment	No New Fashions in the Future: People in the future wear clothing which isn't much different from that current in the late '90s, when the film was produced.
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Starship Troopers / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Starship Troopers / int_a8559a9f	comment	Rasczak's (and later Rico's) battle cry, "C'mon, you apes, do you wanna live forever?" is a shout-out to Real Life U.S. Marine Sgt. Maj. Dan Daly, a two-time Medal of Honor recipient who yelled, â€œCome on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?â€� as he led Marines into the fight at Belleau Wood during World War I.
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Starship Troopers / int_a9fa639a	type	Interstellar Weapon
Starship Troopers / int_a9fa639a	comment	Interstellar Weapon: The movie sees intelligent insects launch an asteroid through interstellar space to take out Buenos Aires. Hitting Buenos Aires with an asteroid from a planet light-years away is the equivalent of hitting someone on the other side of the planet with a pebble.
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Starship Troopers / int_aa8fa208	type	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced
Starship Troopers / int_aa8fa208	comment	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: When the protagonists are sent out to attack the Bugs for the first time after scene after scene of professional training and pure, patriotic passion, they all immediately freeze up when faced with the overwhelming horde of bug drones. The exciting action music cuts off, some of the troopers flee and even a few are ripped apart screaming.
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Starship Troopers / int_ab3c178e	type	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer
Starship Troopers / int_ab3c178e	comment	Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer: When searching the Mormon base, Dizzy notifies Rasczak this way when she found the soldier with his brains sucked out.
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Starship Troopers / int_ac320c0e	type	Nuke 'em
Starship Troopers / int_ac320c0e	comment	Nuke 'em: The MI seem to have only a handful of weapons — assault rifles, shotguns, grenades, and rocket launchers that shoot miniature tactical nukes.
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Starship Troopers / int_accd97de	type	Actionized Adaptation
Starship Troopers / int_accd97de	comment	Actionized Adaptation: Despite its war theme, the original Starship Troopers novel doesn't actually contain many action scenes. The novel is more of a philosophical or political thought experiment that explores the moral foundations of a hypothetical future government in which people must earn their citizenship and voting rights by serving their society, following those characters who opted for the military. The Bugs are merely a backdrop in the story. The film abandoned much of the novel's social commentary in favor of offering a different kind of commentary by essentially making an action-oriented propaganda film such a society would make.
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Starship Troopers / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Starship Troopers / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Rico's and Dizzy's football chops from their schooldays serve them well during boot camp, and again on Planet P in their respective fights against Tanker Bugs. After Rico sees how Carl can control his pet ferretâ€™s mind, he tells Carl not to do that to him. Carl reassures him cannot control humans â€¦ yet. By the end of the movie, Carl is able to send Rico telepathic messages telling him where Carmen is. (Or maybe he did. Itâ€™s classified.)
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Starship Troopers / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Starship Troopers / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Several happen in rapid succession during the invasion of Klendathu, starting with the MI's reactions to a Leeroy Jenkins getting ripped apart, then another from a girl that falls into a Bug hole does one right before she gets dragged into one, then from the rest of the MI when they see the Bugs swarming out towards them, then another from the Roughnecks on Planet P when they see the giant army of Bugs coming at them, and finally Carmen when she sees that she and Zander are surrounded by Bugs. Her reaction is probably the most telling. Probably the best one was early in the Klendathu raid, when a Fleet ship damaged by the Bug plasma (which was, contrary to expectations, neither random nor light) plows into another ship in orbit, directly in the Rodger Young's path.
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Starship Troopers / int_ad94c7a0	type	Scars are Forever
Starship Troopers / int_ad94c7a0	comment	Scars are Forever: With some exceptions, most adults in the movie have lost one or more limbs, become blind due to burn wounds, or gained some other type of permanent scarring due to their military service.
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Starship Troopers / int_aff29d6f	type	Beauty, Brains and Brawn
Starship Troopers / int_aff29d6f	comment	Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Carmen, Carl and Johnny.
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Starship Troopers / int_b14ce563	type	Pinned to the Wall
Starship Troopers / int_b14ce563	comment	Pinned to the Wall:
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Starship Troopers / int_b1bf5c9b	type	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain
Starship Troopers / int_b1bf5c9b	comment	Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: Except it's nowhere near the thing's head. One propaganda video shows that a Warrior Bug can fight even if one of its limbs have been shot off; shooting the "primary nerve cluster", however, kills it instantly.
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Starship Troopers / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Starship Troopers / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: After Rico turns in his papers to resign out of the Mobile Infantry, his call to his parents at home is suddenly cut short. He then finds out that Buenos Aires was hit by an asteroid lobbed by the Bugs, and asks the commanding officer to withdraw his resignation papers. When the commander refuses, Rico states that his entire family was in Buenos Aires, causing Drill Sergeant Zim to ask Rico if the signature on the papers were his. Rico states that it is, and Zim looks at the commander, who just turns away. He then rips up the paperwork, claiming the signature doesn't look like his, and orders him back into the unit.This was an invocation, as well - Zim was gunning for a demotion so he could go back into the field, and Rico wanted back into the MI. It was a win-win that pleased all three parties, as the commander wouldn't have to listen to Zim's complaints anymore.
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Starship Troopers / int_b1ed0e0c	type	Rank Up
Starship Troopers / int_b1ed0e0c	comment	Rank Up: Rico goes from Private to Lieutenant in the space of about two or three days. In fact, he's only a Sergeant for about five minutes before he's promoted to Lieutenant in order to take command of the Roughnecks. Other characters have fairly meteoric rises through the ranks. Zander is Carmen's flight instructor despite the fact that he seems to have enrolled in the academy mere days before her. Carmen herself is commissioned quite quickly, somewhere around about the time Rico finishes basic training. By the film's end, she's been promoted to (Navy) Captain and has been given her own command. Carl is a Colonel within that timeframe as well, though this seems to be down to both his psychic abilities and the job he was trained for.
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Starship Troopers / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Starship Troopers / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines In spite of the massive amount of ammo expended, you can count on one hand the number of times anyone reloads on-screen. Averted during the battle at the outpost on Planet P in the first movie. One of the MI says he's low on ammunition and another says they're out of ammo. Which for Dizzy is kind of weird for her to run out, as she spent the better part of the assault trying to call for retrieval.
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Starship Troopers / int_b3eecaae	type	Colony Drop
Starship Troopers / int_b3eecaae	comment	Colony Drop: Precisely-aimed meteors were the Weapon of Mass Destruction of the "bugs" in the movie. Although it's ridiculously implausible that the bugs could hurl rocks over light-years of distance on a sane timescale and with any sort of accuracy, an apparently disposable bit of background chatter suggests the rocks were coming from much closer to home. It may have been a natural disaster that the space Nazis used to justify a war against the bugs (or they could have been dropping the rocks themselves).
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Starship Troopers / int_b434558	comment	Video Phone: Johnny Rico is talking to his parents in Buenos Aires when the Bug asteroid hits the city.
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Starship Troopers / int_b475abfb	type	Gut Feeling
Starship Troopers / int_b475abfb	comment	Gut Feeling: When searching for Carmen and Zander inside the cave, Rico tells his comrades that he knows that she is still alive. He cannot explain how he knows though. It's suggested Carl psychically influenced him, which Carl is coy about when called on.
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Starship Troopers / int_b578811d	type	Scary Dogmatic Aliens
Starship Troopers / int_b578811d	comment	Scary Dogmatic Aliens: Both the Bugs and the Humans. The former are a Hive Mind horde of giant Insectoid Aliens, the latter are a prideful militaristic People's Republic of Tyranny. The sides are clearly an analogy for communists vs. fascists IN SPACE!!
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Starship Troopers / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Starship Troopers / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Shujumi runs straight into the middle of the Arachnids, making it really easy for the Warrior Bugs to tear him to pieces while obstructing the line of fire for his comrades. Katrina panics and breaks formation after two causalities. Predictably, she gets cornered and dragged off by a Bug in a few seconds. The war reporter and his camera crew who decide to stand still to report the evacuation, even as a massive horde of Bugs is tearing their way through the soldiers. Dizzy's death could've easily been avoided if she hadn't stopped to do a celebratory dance in the middle of an evacuation from a Zerg Rush. Or, failing that, if she had run to the Drop Ship instead of happily skipping to it like a schoolgirl. Or even failing that, if she'd kept moving when Rico yelled out her name instead of stopping, turning around, and staring at the Bug. Or if Rico, like an idiot, hadn't torn the jagged Bug arm from her abdomen, or maybe just yelled something helpful like "Drop, so I can shoot the Bug behind you" instead of "Diiiiiiiiizzzzyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy". Humanity in general has elements of this. In the first movie, the Bugs (supposedly) attack Earth by using plasma to send an asteroid from Klendathu all the way to Earth, across three quarters of the galaxy. Something like that would take genius surpassing anything humanity is capable of without a couple trillion dollars worth of supercomputers backing them up. And the Bugs (or at least their leaders) can do those kinds of calculations in their heads. The humans assume that the Bugs are unintelligent, and that their plasma attacks when they try to land will be "random and light". They're neither. Even after the horrible slaughter at Klandathu, there are more than a few humans who insist that the Bugs can't be intelligent. In the words of one pundit, "Frankly, I find the idea of a bug that thinks offensive!" One wonders, do the Bugs find the idea of intelligent monkeys offensive as well? While she doesn't die, Corporal Birdie continues to stop and look back and the emerging Tanker Bug instead of running and gets her arm burnt off by its acidic napalm for her trouble. A very good example of this trope is towards the start, when a news correspondent (embedded with the MI) stops to give an on-camera summary of the action during the attack on Klendathu, only to be slaughtered by a Bug partway through. We later find out that this summary is being given in the middle of a mass retreat. Later on, after seeing what happens to the reporter, his cameraman dies in the exact same way while filming his reporter being cut in half and ignoring Rico's order to leave. General Owen is crushed by a dead flying Bug because, in the time he could have simply moved out of the way of the falling Bugâ€™s way, he instead stands still screaming his head off. Everyone is flabbergasted at this, and Ace is clearly trying very hard not to laugh at this idiotic death.
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Starship Troopers / int_b72938ce	type	Eleventy Zillion
Starship Troopers / int_b72938ce	comment	Eleventy Zillion: When a trooper fails to count how many Bugs are approaching:
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Starship Troopers / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Starship Troopers / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: Rasczak's death. He gets pulled into a pit by a Bug and Rico manages to pull him out, or at least his upper body. Knowing he is a goner, he tosses his rifle to Rico and screams for him to "Do it!", prompting a hesitant Rico to put him out of his misery.
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Starship Troopers / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Starship Troopers / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Watkins empties roughly a hundred rounds into a Bug, even after it's clearly obvious it's dead. Instant Section Eight. Shujumi tries to be one in the Klendathu battle by charging into the middle of the Arachnid horde but ends up quickly torn to pieces.
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Starship Troopers / int_b7c85c86	type	Free-Love Future
Starship Troopers / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: Probably the case in the film, given how everyone regarded the unisex, communal showers as no big deal. In the shower scene it was mentioned that you need a license to reproduce, so perhaps they have mandatory use of contraception.
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Starship Troopers / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Starship Troopers / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Dizzy, after she gets Impaled with Extreme Prejudice, justified, as at least one of the Arachnids talons clearly goes through where the lung is located.
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Starship Troopers / int_b9f472b	type	Storming the Castle
Starship Troopers / int_b9f472b	comment	Storming the Castle: The Arachnids' Zerg Rush assault on the Mormon base.
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Starship Troopers / int_ba44639	type	Killed Offscreen
Starship Troopers / int_ba44639	comment	When Carmen shows up at the spaceport and tells Rico why she's late, she says her dad "helped" her pack and told her he was afraid he'd never see her again. Sure enough, he's right, except HE'S the one who dies thanks to the meteor that lands on Buenos Aires.
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Starship Troopers / int_bb76c854	type	Classified Information
Starship Troopers / int_bb76c854	comment	After Rico sees how Carl can control his pet ferretâ€™s mind, he tells Carl not to do that to him. Carl reassures him cannot control humans â€¦ yet. By the end of the movie, Carl is able to send Rico telepathic messages telling him where Carmen is. (Or maybe he did. Itâ€™s classified.)
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Starship Troopers / int_bba7a	type	CrapSaccharineWorld
Starship Troopers / int_bba7a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The United Citizensâ€™ Federation is a military-led society in which only veterans are citizens, you need an official license to have children, and you can be tried, found guilty, and executed all in one day (on live TV), and that is fighting an endless colonial war across space against an implacable enemy with superior numbers. Yet, this is all presented in a bright, sunny, matter-of-fact way. In the original novel, veterans are veterans of any public service, the film highly implies that it is only military service that counts.
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Starship Troopers / int_bc9ddc86	type	Fictional Flag
Starship Troopers / int_bc9ddc86	comment	Fictional Flag: The United Citizens Federation uses a blue and green flag with a stylized eagle in the middle drawn to resemble a military aircraft. This is a very subversive way of Putting on the Reich, since green and blue are often seen as calming, heroic colors, in contrast to Red and Black Totalitarianism. Eagles have also been used in the heraldry of many empires, from the Romans to the Nazis to the Americans.
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Starship Troopers / int_bcba27a1	type	Putting on the Reich
Starship Troopers / int_bcba27a1	comment	Putting on the Reich: Taken to extremes. Nearly every military uniform has World War II German military and SS paramilitary uniform references. The flag of the Federation has a symbol that closely resembles the Imperial Eagle from WWII Germany. Given the film's send up of militarism and the fact that Verhoeven grew up in the Netherlands during World War II, it's not exacting surprising. But note how they are never portrayed as anything but good, even while saying and doing horrible things — thus reinforcing the film's take on propaganda. Carl's uniform is the worst offender: the peaked cap and black longcoat haven't been seen on an officer since 1945.
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Starship Troopers / int_bd5ddcc4	type	Banister Slide
Starship Troopers / int_bd5ddcc4	comment	Banister Slide: Carmen does one while running to a shuttle.
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Starship Troopers / int_be009bbc	type	Alliterative Name
Starship Troopers / int_be009bbc	comment	Alliterative Name: Rico's assigned unit for most of the movie is Rasczak's Roughnecks. In a Meaningful Echo, this becomes Rico's Roughnecks.
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Starship Troopers / int_be0ad6b7	type	Used to Be a Sweet Kid
Starship Troopers / int_be0ad6b7	comment	Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Over the course of the film Rico goes from a young man on the fence about the morals of his society to a hardened soldier who vehemently supports genocide against the Arachnids.
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Starship Troopers / int_bf298865	type	Alien Autopsy
Starship Troopers / int_bf298865	comment	Alien Autopsy: Early on, we're treated to a biology lesson where Rico, Carmen and the rest of the students dissect and disembowel some Arkellian Sand Beetles.
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Starship Troopers / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Starship Troopers / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: A common phrase used to refer to new recruits is "fresh meat for the grinder". Quite funny, in a horrible sort of way. In the end, Rico's decimated unit receives reinforcements, all of which are teens fresh out of boot camp (eerily reminiscent of World War II footage of the Germans throwing in Child Soldiers by the end of the war). Rico quips that he and his second-in-command Ace (20-year old soldiers) are the "old men" now before proceeding to give the arrivals the exact same speech that the unit commander whom Rico replaced gave when he, Ace, and Dizzy joined the unit.
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Starship Troopers / int_bf72d5e8	type	The Spartan Way
Starship Troopers / int_bf72d5e8	comment	The Spartan Way: Mobile Infantry training, where the Drill Sergeant Nasty breaks a recruit's arm and stabs another one through the hand just to make a point.
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Starship Troopers / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Starship Troopers / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: The three main characters outrun the fireball of a tactical nuke which was only detonated a few seconds before they left the cave full of Bugs. Earlier, Carmen and Zander outfly a fireball with their Escape Pod when their ship falls apart.
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Starship Troopers / int_c1d58ab0	type	Drop Ship
Starship Troopers / int_c1d58ab0	comment	Drop Ship: Appear to basically be shuttles carrying shipping containers for the troops to ride in. A smaller version is used to recover Rico's Roughnecks from the outpost in the first movie.
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Starship Troopers / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Starship Troopers / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Since the movie is a satire of the gung-ho jingoism of the novel, they use the Nazi-like symbolism to portray the humans as an evil invading race by Putting on the Reich, and occasionally showing a propaganda commercial. This is capped by Neil Patrick Harris (at the time, best known for Doogie Howser, M.D.) as a Dr. Mengele Expy. One fan theory is that the humans faked the asteroid attack to justify the invasion. Either that, or used the opportunity provided by the otherwise natural asteroid strike to start a war. Just like the Nazis, the Federation is forced to have child soldiers as well. As the RiffTrax guys put it: "In case you're not getting it yet, all the rest of his lines will be in German." The blending of American stereotypes, Shout Outs, and general tropes with the Nazi symbolism is also meant to convey to the viewer that the filmmakers believe the real-world United States government is exactly this, as confirmed from the DVD commentaries.
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Starship Troopers / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Starship Troopers / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: All three live-action films. The first and third even have commercial breaks.
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Starship Troopers / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
Starship Troopers / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: All the Bugs have green blood except for the Tankers, which bleed orange.
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Starship Troopers / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Starship Troopers / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: How Breckinridge dies during the live firing exercise.
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Starship Troopers / int_c4302351	type	Drop Pod
Starship Troopers / int_c4302351	comment	A more minor example that is easy to miss: In the movie, the soldiers are occasionally referred to as "Cap Troopers". In the book, this referred to the capsules they dropped in, but in the film the nickname becomes orphaned.
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Starship Troopers / int_c4e519dd	type	Little Hero, Big War
Starship Troopers / int_c4e519dd	comment	Little Hero, Big War: Very little. It's questionable whether anything Rico did impacted the overall war effort at all.
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Starship Troopers / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Starship Troopers / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome How did Zim manage to capture the Brain Bug all on his own? We are never told. Izzy and Ace saving Rico on Klendathu when everyone was already retreating from swarms of Arachnids.
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Starship Troopers / int_c6339c44	type	Famous, Famous, Fictional
Starship Troopers / int_c6339c44	comment	Famous, Famous, Fictional: When the film was released, the accompanying website which contained a lot of character bios and historical information listed the Mobile Infantry alongside historically prestigious military units such as The Knights Templar, the Winged Hussars and the Navy SEALs.
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Starship Troopers / int_c65ba3a0	type	Chastity Dagger
Starship Troopers / int_c65ba3a0	comment	Chastity Dagger: Of a sort. Zander passes Carmen a knife right before the Brain Bug penetrates him through the skull and sucks his brains out. Carmen uses the knife to stop the Brain Bug from doing the same thing to her.
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Starship Troopers / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Starship Troopers / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Rasczak's (and later Rico's) battle cry, "C'mon, you apes, do you wanna live forever?" is a shout-out to Real Life U.S. Marine Sgt. Maj. Dan Daly, a two-time Medal of Honor recipient who yelled, â€œCome on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?â€� as he led Marines into the fight at Belleau Wood during World War I. The boot camp sequence is reminiscent of that in Full Metal Jacket, and borrows some of Sgt. Hartman's Drill Sergeant Nasty insults almost word for word: Another Stanley Kubrick homage is the moonbase "Tereshkova" resembling Clavius Base.
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Starship Troopers / int_c7b5445c	type	Cool Starship
Starship Troopers / int_c7b5445c	comment	Probably the best one was early in the Klendathu raid, when a Fleet ship damaged by the Bug plasma (which was, contrary to expectations, neither random nor light) plows into another ship in orbit, directly in the Rodger Young's path.
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Starship Troopers / int_c852ac43	type	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
Starship Troopers / int_c852ac43	comment	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: Mostly averted throughout the movie, as women and men train together, fight together, and play sports together. The one time it is hinted at is when Sky Marshall Dienes, who gives a very militaristic speech before the Battle of Klendathu, is replaced by Sky Marshall Meru, who after the defeat at Klendathu says, â€œIn order to defeat the Bug, we must understand the Bug.â€� In the next scene, two pundits debate whether Bugs can be intelligent, with the woman open to the idea and the man completely rejecting it.
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Starship Troopers / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Starship Troopers / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Rasczak punches General Owen in the face hoping to snap him out of his despair mode. When that doesnâ€™t work, he tries to shoot him.
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Starship Troopers / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Starship Troopers / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Practically every battle-scene. Rico's leg gets pinned, but he survives. Dizzy isn't as fortunate.
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Starship Troopers / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Starship Troopers / int_c95d04f2	comment	Consistently averted by the Bugs, who use combined arms tactics, stage ambushes, and effectively use expendable drones to soak up fire.
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Starship Troopers / int_c9869c78	type	I Know Madden Kombat
Starship Troopers / int_c9869c78	comment	I Know Madden Kombat: The movie has the "flip-6-3-hole" play imported from some kind of shiny football. It was not in the original story.
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Starship Troopers / int_c9954979	type	Crippling the Competition
Starship Troopers / int_c9954979	comment	Crippling the Competition: Though the movie isn't a Western, the same philosophy is shown .
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Starship Troopers / int_c9c756a8	type	Child Soldiers
Starship Troopers / int_c9c756a8	comment	Child Soldiers: In a blink-and-you-miss-it scene, we're shown Rico's New Meat. They're all teenagers, some of them look as young as 14 years old. They're not shown again for the rest of the movie, presumably because showing the inevitable outcome wouldn't be acceptable.
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Starship Troopers / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Starship Troopers / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Watkins does this with a tactical grenade/nuke after getting severely injured, to buy time for the remaining survivors to escape and kill as many Bugs as he possibly can.
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Starship Troopers / int_cb1f5db5	type	Feed It a Bomb
Starship Troopers / int_cb1f5db5	comment	Feed It a Bomb: Dizzy makes a Tanker Bug swallow a grenade.
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Starship Troopers / int_cb6178fc	type	Rule #1
Starship Troopers / int_cb6178fc	comment	Rule #1: "This is for all you new people: I only have one rule. Everyone fights. No one quits. You don't do your job, I'll shoot you myself. You get me?"
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Starship Troopers / int_ccab244d	type	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
Starship Troopers / int_ccab244d	comment	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better: Zig-zagged. Early on the rifles used by the Mobile Infantry are only marginally effective against the Bugs, though this is less because the guns are underpowered and more because the Arachnid soldiers Feel No Pain and will keep coming even as their limbs are being shot off. Later it is shown that the same Arachnid soldier Bugs can be put down with a single shot aimed at a specific nerve cluster. The bio-plasma used by the Bugs against the ships orbiting Klendathu is much more destructive.
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Starship Troopers / int_ccf46587	type	Redshirt Army
Starship Troopers / int_ccf46587	comment	Red Shirt Army: The Mobile Infantry in general. Named characters generally only have slightly more Plot Armor than the typical grunt, but it can get ripped to shreds by the Bugs if needed for the drama points.
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Starship Troopers / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Starship Troopers / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: The original film, to its own source material. Mike Stoklasa called it the "anti-Star Trek", in that it offers a much more cynical and fascist view of what the Federation would be like. He specifically compares it to "Arena", the episode where Kirk faces off against a Gorn captain, an enemy who initially seems evil and monstrous, but ultimately shows signs of being a sapient being who just wants to defend his people, causing Kirk to spare his life—Stoklasa argues that the film shows a version of events where Kirk ignores those signs and murders the Gorn anyway.
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Starship Troopers / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Starship Troopers / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: The recruitment officer, lots and lots of MI troops. Rasczak in spades. It's a hint that the armed forces are pretty ineffective.
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Starship Troopers / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Starship Troopers / int_d332bf54	comment	The Mobile Infantry operating without armor or artillery support was actually lampshaded and justified in the novel because the MI-powered armor suits let them provide their own support (making aircraft, tanks, and artillery useless). When the movie eliminated the powered armor, it failed to account for this, making the MI's tactics look very silly. Lampshaded: After the initial attack on Klendathu failed miserably, everyone acknowledged that the MI's tactics were moronic. In later operations they're seen operating with heavy air support.
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Starship Troopers / int_d53fa71	type	Mess on a Plate
Starship Troopers / int_d53fa71	comment	Mess on a Plate: M.I. rations are quite literally slop. Except for one foodstuff that looks to be strawberry mousse, the rest is lumpy, brown sludge.
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Starship Troopers / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Starship Troopers / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: The Mobile Infantry and the Federation Navy apparently don't get along.
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Starship Troopers / int_d5a84e45	type	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
Starship Troopers / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Other than being simply labeled "Bugs" as a Fantastic Slur towards the chitinous alien invaders and their various castes, their official label is "Arachnid". This is confusing as it is never shown if they have any sort of relation to Earth's arthropods despite the superficial resemblance. And even then, they look more like beetles than spiders, especially the Warriors and the Tankers.
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Starship Troopers / int_d6268c2e	type	Shoot Everything That Moves
Starship Troopers / int_d6268c2e	comment	Shoot Everything That Moves: There are a lot of fights like this.
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Starship Troopers / int_d6743235	type	Pheromones
Starship Troopers / int_d6743235	comment	Pheromones: When the replacement soldiers arrive at the outpost, they find everyone dead, the corpses ripped to shreds. The commanding officer, however, is intact except for a hole in his skull where his brains were sucked out. One soldier remarks about the dead officer's odor, and is told that the enemy "bugs" use that scent to mark the man as "important", so that the mooks don't destroy useful intelligence.
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Starship Troopers / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Starship Troopers / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Rico was Filipino in the book; now he's white.
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Starship Troopers / int_d7d6ed9a	type	Fictional Sport
Starship Troopers / int_d7d6ed9a	comment	Fictional Sport: The indoors-on-hardwood-with-gymnastics football game.
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Starship Troopers / int_d8068af5	type	Ring World Planet
Starship Troopers / int_d8068af5	comment	Ring World Planet: In a change from the novel, the film has a spaceship docking ring surrounding the entire Earth linked to the surface by space elevators.
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Starship Troopers / int_da3a90a	type	Acid Attack
Starship Troopers / int_da3a90a	comment	Acid Attack: The Tanker Bugs, which take the place of human mechanized armor in the Arachnids' Hive Caste System, are able to secrete a highly corrosive acid from their mouths that melts enemies within seconds.
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Starship Troopers / int_db8b1727	type	Window Love
Starship Troopers / int_db8b1727	comment	Window Love: Dizzy planting a kiss against the glass of Rico's medical tank.
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Starship Troopers / int_db911ee	type	Field Promotion
Starship Troopers / int_db911ee	comment	Rico goes from Private to Lieutenant in the space of about two or three days. In fact, he's only a Sergeant for about five minutes before he's promoted to Lieutenant in order to take command of the Roughnecks.
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Starship Troopers / int_dc0ca62a	type	Public Execution
Starship Troopers / int_dc0ca62a	comment	Public Execution: The regime immediately sentences murderers to death and broadcasts their executions on live television on every channel.
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Starship Troopers / int_dc3df63a	type	Death Notification
Starship Troopers / int_dc3df63a	comment	Death Notification: Rico is initially reported KIA during the disastrous landing on Klendathu, but was actually rescued and brought back to Ticonderoga Station. Played both for drama and laughs when Carmen learns that Rico has died, only for a Gilligan Cut to reveal Dizzy and Ace showing Rico his death certificate and having a good laugh over the typical failings of military bureaucracy.
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Starship Troopers / int_dc3e1299	type	Argentina Is Nazi-Land
Starship Troopers / int_dc3e1299	comment	Argentina Is Nazi-Land: Note the protagonists' homeland, if the movie's other subtle hints towards the true nature of the Federation weren't enough. Verhoeven deliberately sought to imply that a form of ethnic cleansing had occurred there - the town of Buenos Aires sure seems awfully blonde and white.
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Starship Troopers / int_dc664499	type	Gracefully Demoted
Starship Troopers / int_dc664499	comment	Gracefully Demoted: The Drill Sergeant Nasty is shown wanting to fight the Bugs rather than train cadets. There's a minor background moment where a commanding officer tells him there's no way he's fighting the Bugs unless he busts his ass down to private. This turns out to be a Brick Joke, as said character wound up doing just that, and winds up capturing the Brain Bug and possibly turning the tide of the war.
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Starship Troopers / int_dcd29760	type	They Would Cut You Up
Starship Troopers / int_dcd29760	comment	They Would Cut You Up: Arachnid dissection and vivisection occur, particularly pay attention to the captured Brain Bug in the epilogue.
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Starship Troopers / int_ddcc22c3	type	Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age
Starship Troopers / int_ddcc22c3	comment	Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age: In boot camp, Ace complains to Sergeant Zim about having to learn to throw knives when the Federation military has starships armed with nukes. Instead of the detailed lecture on controlled force that Zim gave in the book, here he has Ace put his hand on the knife target and promptly inflicts an Impaled Palm.
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Starship Troopers / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
Starship Troopers / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: Rico ripping the huge spike out of Dizzy's chest after she has been Impaled with Extreme Prejudice.
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Starship Troopers / int_dea5fe1	type	Kubrick Stare
Starship Troopers / int_dea5fe1	comment	Kubrick Stare: Jake Busey is as good as always with this, giving an oddly disturbing one while attempting to play a romantic tune for Rico and Diz.
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Starship Troopers / int_df3b0af7	type	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon
Starship Troopers / int_df3b0af7	comment	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon: The MI's weapons are so ridiculously overpowered that the recoil makes them practically impossible to aim (possibly justified in that it still takes a full magazine to kill one Bug).
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Starship Troopers / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
Starship Troopers / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: Lieutenant Willy in command of the heroes unit during the Battle of Klendathu, who gives a badass Rousing Speech and then gets unceremoniously killed by the first Bug they encounter.
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Starship Troopers / int_e099f0de	type	I Will Only Slow You Down
Starship Troopers / int_e099f0de	comment	I Will Only Slow You Down: During the underground battle between the MI and the Bugs Watkins is injured. He asks the others to give him a nuclear RPG round and leave him behind so he can do a You Shall Not Pass! to the Bugs.
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Starship Troopers / int_e2023325	type	StrawmanPolitical
Starship Troopers / int_e2023325	comment	Strawman Political: Verhoeven intended to express his beliefs about America through this film, as he revealed in the DVD commentaries—thus combining this with Writer on Board below. In said commentaries, Verhoeven equates the U.S. to Nazi Germany and doesn't even blink. It audibly takes his fellow commentator Edward Neumeier off guard. Verhoeven made it clear that the film was based on what he and Neumeier were observing in American politics at the time. (In particular, they were inspired by the climate in Texas during the 1990â€™s under then-Governor George W. Bush.)
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Starship Troopers / int_e22dae0a	type	Pretext for War
Starship Troopers / int_e22dae0a	comment	Pretext for War: The meteor strike that the Federation blames on the bugs is incredibly suspect; there's no stated evidence for it and propelling an asteroid across many light-years at apparently sublight speed makes absolutely no sense. Given the personality of the Federation, it's much more likely that the impact was either a natural disaster or even orchestrated by them, and then credited to the bugs.
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Starship Troopers / int_e234ddbf	type	Escape Pod
Starship Troopers / int_e234ddbf	comment	Earlier, Carmen and Zander outfly a fireball with their Escape Pod when their ship falls apart.
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Starship Troopers / int_e34541d	type	One World Order
Starship Troopers / int_e34541d	comment	One World Order: The movie's universe has one government controlling Earth and all colonies. There was a massive war between China and Russia/Europe/America and, after 90 years, a wave of revolts in Europe overthrew the current governments and formed the United Citizens' Federation, then the Americas did the same. Finally, they decided to go to war with China (and anybody who was left) to create the peaceful loving government we know.
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Starship Troopers / int_e3a5d345	type	Fartillery
Starship Troopers / int_e3a5d345	comment	Fartillery: The alien army has a literal fartillery, capable of taking down a large spaceship. It's less farting and more projectile... gobbets of bio-plasma.
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Starship Troopers / int_e460b44e	type	The Radio Dies First
Starship Troopers / int_e460b44e	comment	The Radio Dies First: Due to its communication tower being ripped off by a glancing hit, the Rodger Young is unable to warn Fleet of the Bug meteor hurtling towards Earth.
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Starship Troopers / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Starship Troopers / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: In the novel, Carl is Rico's childhood friend who dies off-screen, the only psychic is an unnamed "sensitive" who makes one brief appearance (and Rico suspects his talent is really just very good hearing), and Jenkins is one of Rico's later squadmates. Also in the novel, Colonel DuBois, Rico's teacher, and Lt. Rasczak are separate characters, but Michael Ironside pulls double duty when the two are combined.
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Starship Troopers / int_e4d5e4c0	type	Five Rounds Rapid
Starship Troopers / int_e4d5e4c0	comment	Five Rounds Rapid: The Mobile Infantry seems to have forgotten everything we've learned about combined arms warfare. The MI's only tactic is to attack in massed numbers using small arms and the occasional nuke. At no point in the movie is there any evidence of artillery or close air support, tanks or armored personnel carriers, special weapons squads with mortars or heavy machine guns. Nor do the ships seem to possess the capability of the orbital equivalent of shore bombardment, despite the fact that one scene has several bombers do a strafing run on the surface (which it's implied they could do at will if they weren't Jerk Asses). We get the barest of a glimpse of such things in a flashforward near the end, where a trooper has what is functionally a grenade launcher. They do use a rocket launcher against two gigantic plasma bugs in the first major battle and later on a 'mini-nuke' against a swarm of Arachnid soldiers emerging from a cave... then never use either weapon again, even when faced with thousands of the things attacking at once.
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Starship Troopers / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Starship Troopers / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: The film is regularly horrifically violent and gruesome, as (yet another) a way of hammering home the fact that War Is Hell, no matter what the characters try and make you believe. The Klendathu Drop Site Massacre is probably the most horrifying scene as the Mobile Infantry are set upon by a horde of Bugs and graphically dismembered en-masse.
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Starship Troopers / int_e57965c6	type	Covered in Mud
Starship Troopers / int_e57965c6	comment	Covered in Mud: At the boot camp's obstacle course, Rico and Ace make a big splash into a pool of mud after Dizzy knocks them off a platform while going down a zip line.
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Starship Troopers / int_e6558beb	type	Artistic License â€“ Space
Starship Troopers / int_e6558beb	comment	When hit with missiles, orbiting space ships do not fall perpendicular to the planet and they especially do not fall down RELATIVE TO THE CAMERA. The third film appeared to get this right with the disabled troop ship following an unpowered decaying orbit rather than dropping like a brick.
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Starship Troopers / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Starship Troopers / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Carmen gets impaled through the shoulder by a Bug talon the diameter of a soda can, picked up and thrown around by it, and yet minutes later is firing a high caliber machinegun, outruns a nuke, and then throws her arms around her friends and skips away smiling. What brave new world is this, that has such painkillers in it?note Painkillers, nothing - that kind of wound would have severed muscles and broken bones. No matter how much pain you don't feel, you can't make a muscle that isn't attached anymore lift your arm. Averted with Rico, who is impaled through the thigh during the initial battle and is out of commission for several days while the Auto Doc patches him up, erroneously reported KIA in the ensuing chaos.
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Starship Troopers / int_e71ef25c	type	Let's Get Out of Here
Starship Troopers / int_e71ef25c	comment	Let's Get Out of Here: Line said by a female soldier during the nocturnal fight on the alien planet.
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Starship Troopers / int_e7c671f3	type	Mildly Military
Starship Troopers / int_e7c671f3	comment	Mildly Military: It's strangely played both ways. Setting aside Hollywood Tactics, on the one hand the Federal Military is extremely strict with almost Spartan-level brutality in boot camp and summary execution by a field officer is threatened for desertion, and the chain of command is absolute. On the other hand the soldiers are severely undisciplined; the first attack dissolves into a confused retreat with only a few casualties, fraternization is encouraged by superiors, they throw a frat party in the middle of enemy territory seemingly without setting up a defense perimeter, and a rookie flight officer isn't even remotely disciplined for almost crashing an interstellar starship into the spaceport because of her arrogant recklessness on her first field mission.
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Starship Troopers / int_e877695	type	Unprocessed Resignation
Starship Troopers / int_e877695	comment	Unprocessed Resignation: While still in boot camp, Johnny Rico resigns from the Mobile Infantry. As he's leaving the camp, the Arachnids drop an asteroid on Buenos Aires. Johnny tries to cancel his resignation, but the commanding officer says that Johhny has already signed the form and it wouldn't be legal. Johnny tells him that his entire family was in Buenos Aires when it was destroyed. Drill Sergeant Zim (with the commanding officer's implicit consent) says that Rico's signature on the resignation papers doesn't look like his and tears up the papers, allowing Johnny to stay in boot camp.
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Starship Troopers / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Starship Troopers / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: In the opposite direction from the source material. In addition to this, Verhoeven used the film to express opinions about the United States political climate whereas the novel did not.
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Starship Troopers / int_ea8c9e21	comment	You Will Know What to Do: A literal Chekhov's Gun is handed out when Rasczak shoots and kills a communication officer that has been captured by a flying bug and then exclaims, "I expect any one of you to do the same for me." Later, Rasczak's legs are torn off by a tunneling bug, and he looks at Rico and says, "Rico... you know what to do!" Rico replies, "Yes sir!", and after a moment's hesitation, shoots him.
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Starship Troopers / int_eb04f8d5	comment	Fascist, but Inefficient: Many (very valid) points are made about how idiotically the human race makes war in the film. However, this may very well be the point, given that in Real Life, fascist regimes actually do tend to make war with awesome incompetence due in no small part to seeing their enemy as inherently inferior. That phenomenal arrogance and ignorance, and the consequences of these attitudes on the battlefield, are on full display in the first battle of Klendathu.
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Starship Troopers / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: The insectile aliens (the Bugs) the humans are fighting against. They're also strong and ruthless.
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Starship Troopers / int_ec1ec2dc	comment	Non-Protagonist Resolver: The Brain Bug plot seems set to be resolved by Rico, but after he is distracted by his desire to save Carmen, the Bug is eventually captured by a minor character whose entire arc occurs mostly under the radar.
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Starship Troopers / int_ecc22051	comment	Licensed Pinball Tables: Released by Sega Pinball in 1997. Click here for tropes.
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Starship Troopers / int_eef85d73	comment	People's Republic of Tyranny: The United Citizen Federation, where civil rights are plenty (unless you want to have kids) but political freedoms are virtually nonexistent, murderers are arrested, tried and executed the same day, and the media is a fully interactive Propaganda Machine. It could be said that the United Citizen Federation is de jure a democratic federation, but de facto a stratocratic aristocracy - a nation run by a small handful of military veterans with very few checks and balances on their power, as they have already proven through their service that they can handle power responsibly, or that is the theory anyway.
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Starship Troopers / int_efc1d647	type	Never a Self-Made Woman
Starship Troopers / int_efc1d647	comment	Never a Self-Made Woman: Zigzagged; Dizzy joins the infantry just to be close to Johnny, but Carmen's desire to become a Fleet pilot is entirely her own and motivates Johnny to join the military.
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Starship Troopers / int_f065f2bd	comment	Pompous Political Pundit: The so-called 'Expert' who during one of the propaganda segments shouts down an scientist's claims about Brain Bugs existing.
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Starship Troopers / int_f0b516b	type	Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us
Starship Troopers / int_f0b516b	comment	Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: Both sides see the other as a hideous horde of insane vermin, who hate everything their very genes stand for (humans represent arrogance and infighting, bugs represent obedience and gluttony) and will do anything they can to wipe the other side out.
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Starship Troopers / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
Starship Troopers / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: This cracked article makes an interesting case that Starship Troopers, viewed today without context, could easily be mistaken for a satire on the War on Terror. A militaristic right-wing government, complacent in its own superiority, suffers a devastating disaster that destroys a major population center. They blame a race of far-off aliens on an isolated desert planet that couldn't possibly be responsible, and go to war, egged on by media-saturated with propaganda. They quickly get bogged down in a quagmire. After capturing the leader, and torturing it horribly, they declare victory. Except it was made in 1997.
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Starship Troopers / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Starship Troopers / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The ACTUAL point of the film, even though some audiences, and even a majority of the humans in the film itself, didn't get that.
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Starship Troopers / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Starship Troopers / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Lt. Rasczak snipes one of his own men who has been carried to a distant ridge by a flying Bug and tells his troops, "I'd expect any of you to do the same for me." And of course, Rico has to do so later.
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Starship Troopers / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
Starship Troopers / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: The film opens with the reporter and his cameraman dying by Bug. Not at the same time, either; the cameraman was just that stupid.
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Starship Troopers / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: Inverted. After a series of repulsed colonisation attempts and a direct retaliatory attack on Buenos Aires on Earth, humanity declares all-out war and invades the Bug worlds.
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Starship Troopers / int_f6c3d469	type	Fanservice Extra
Starship Troopers / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: There's a scene portraying a mixed-sex showering at boot camp. All of the minor boot camp trainees are shown half naked in the shower scene, along with the main ones.
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Starship Troopers / int_f7cee9b	type	Last Stand
Starship Troopers / int_f7cee9b	comment	Last Stand: The Roughnecks defense of Whisky Outpost quickly becomes one, pushed back into the compound and running low on ammo against an overwhelming swarm of Bugs. Only to be rescued last minute by Carmen and Zander in a dropship.
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Starship Troopers / int_f7cff22f	type	You Know What to Do
Starship Troopers / int_f7cff22f	comment	You Know What to Do: Rico's sargeant utters this but the movie makes it pretty clear what that means.
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Starship Troopers / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Starship Troopers / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: A subtle one. Rico surges through the ranks, but this isn't because he's especially good, it's because the people above him keep dying. "Come on, do you wanna live forever?"
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Starship Troopers / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Starship Troopers / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: Rico is about to resign from the Mobile Infantry (in fact, he's got his bags packed and is just on his way out) when news hits that Buenos Aires, where his parents lived, has been destroyed by a meteorite sent by the Bugs. He immediately joins back up so he can get revenge.
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Starship Troopers / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
Starship Troopers / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: When hit with missiles, orbiting space ships do not fall perpendicular to the planet and they especially do not fall down RELATIVE TO THE CAMERA. The third film appeared to get this right with the disabled troop ship following an unpowered decaying orbit rather than dropping like a brick. The asteroid Carmen almost misses, unless it was dense as hell, should in no way have enough mass to create such a significant gravitational field, especially enough to counter the ship's own artificial gravity field.
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Starship Troopers / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
Starship Troopers / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: When Rico is revealed to be alive and recovering in a medical ward after the Battle of Klendathu, he shares a laugh with Ace and Dizzy over his Death Certificate, which was issued prematurely in the confusion after the disastrous rout the humans suffered.
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Starship Troopers / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: At the end of the Boot Camp portion of the film, Zim is told that due to his value as a Veteran Instructor, the only way he'll see combat is if he busts himself down to private. Cue the film's climax, where it is revealed that Zim in fact got himself busted down to private and captured the Brain Bug. It may have even been because he decided to rip apart Rico's resignation form in front of everybody else in the office so he could get back to the Infantry.
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Starship Troopers / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Starship Troopers / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Rico's hair is always perfect. Always. Even when he just took off his helmet after marching around a hot desert planet. Carmen sustains a massive explosion to the face when the bridge takes a hit over Klendathu. While Rico's recovering in the bacta tank, Carmen has a tiny cut through her eyebrow which actually serves to enhance her looks.
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Starship Troopers / int_fec2b522	comment	Happy Ending: Parodied. By the end, Rico has gone from mildly questioning the morals of the society he lives in to believing in the Federation ideology of going all-in on genocidal warfare against the Arachnids, which gives him a really bad case of Genre Blindness. His parents, his mentor figure, and a woman who truly loved him, are all dead. Of his two surviving friends, he will never see either of them the same way again. Despite the new knowledge and technology granted by the capture of the Brain Bug, it is implied that the Federation is still ultimately going to lose the war because it simply lacks the manpower to replace its losses (hence the teenage soldiers seen in Rico's Roughnecks and the persistent call for more people to join up). Despite all this, as the final propaganda reel ends with triumphant music after showing a montage of post-climax developments, "THEY'LL KEEP FIGHTING AND THEY'LL WIN!".
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Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Films of 1995â€“1999 / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	First Installment Wins / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Five Rounds Rapid / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Flesh Versus Steel / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Forgot About His Powers / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Free-Love Future / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Future Food Is Artificial / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Gender Is No Object / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Giant Flyer / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Goal-Oriented Evolution / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Good Thing You Can Heal / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Government Drug Enforcement / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Government-Exploited Crisis / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Gracefully Demoted / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Gravity Sucks / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Guilt-Free Extermination War / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Hand Signals / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Healing Vat / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Hitler Ate Sugar / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Hive Caste System / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Hive Drone / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Hollywood Tactics / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Hopeless War / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Horrifying the Horror / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Hospital Surprise / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Hufflepuff House / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Humans Are Bastards / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Humans Are Morons / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Humans Are Psychic in the Future / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Humans Are White / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	I Cannot Self-Terminate / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	I Know Madden Kombat / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	I Will Only Slow You Down / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	If You Taunt Him, You Will Be Just Like Him / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Impaled Palm / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Improbable Parking Skills / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Inappropriately Close Comrades / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Indecisive Parody / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Indirect Kiss / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Innocent Fanservice Girl / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Insectoid Aliens / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Insert Grenade Here / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Instant Awesome: Just Add Mecha! / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Inter-Service Rivalry / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Interstellar Weapon / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Just Friends / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Kent Brockman News / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Lantern Jaw of Justice / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Last-Second Villain Recovery / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Let's Get Out of Here / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Let's Just Be Friends / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Let's Split Up, Gang! / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Lowered Recruiting Standards / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Major Injury Underreaction / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Mary Suetopia / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Meatgrinder Surgery / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Mercy Kill Arrangement / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Mess on a Plate / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Mildly Military / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Military Maverick / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Monster Threat Expiration / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Mooning / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	More Dakka / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Naked People Are Funny / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Natural Weapon / int_45854dfc
NeilPatrickHarris	seeAlso	Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Never Filled Out Official Paperwork / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Never Processed Your Resignation / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	New Meat / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Newsreel / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	No Guy Wants to Be Chased / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Nominal Hero / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Non-Promotion / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Non-Protagonist Resolver / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Not Distracted by the Sexy / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Not Even Bothering with the Accent / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Not His Sled / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Nuclear Option / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Oblivious Astronomers / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Off with His Head! / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Official Parody / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	One World Order / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Orchestral Bombing / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Outrun the Fireball / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Overranked Soldier / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Paper Tiger / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Parody Commercial / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	People Jars / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	People's Republic of Tyranny / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Pheromones / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Physical Fitness Punishment / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Pin-Pulling Teeth / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Pinned to the Wall / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Planet of Hats / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Plasma Cannon / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Poe's Law / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Population Control / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Post-Injury Desk Job / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Practical Voice-Over / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Pretext for War / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Promoted to Love Interest / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Propaganda Piece / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Public Execution / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Pummeling the Corpse / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Puny Earthlings / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Putting on the Reich / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Rank Up / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Rated M for Manly / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Recruiters Always Lie / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Recycled: The Series / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Redshirt Army / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Redundant Parody / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Resigned in Disgrace / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Ring World Planet / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Rule #1 / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Satire / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Scars are Forever / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Scary Dogmatic Aliens / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Scenery Censor / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Scenery Dissonance / int_45854dfc
ScrewThePooch	seeAlso	Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Screw the War, We're Partying / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	See the Whites of Their Eyes / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Self-Punishment Over Failure / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Sex Signals Death / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Shoot Everything That Moves / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Shoot the Money / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Shooting Gallery / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Shooting the Swarm / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Shower Scene / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Signed Up for the Dental / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Single-Biome Planet / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Gender Inequality / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Slobs Versus Snobs / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	So Happy Together / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Space Marine / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Space Plane / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Space Station / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Standard Human Spaceship / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Standard Sci-Fi Army / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Storming the Beaches / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Strawman News Media / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Stripped to the Bone / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Super Spit / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Tear Up the Contract / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	10-Minute Retirement / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	That's an Order! / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	The Brigadier / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	The Dead Have Names / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	The Federation / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	The Film of the Book / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	The Lad-ette / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	The Role-Playing Game / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	The Spartan Way / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Themed Tattoos / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	They Would Cut You Up / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Third Eye / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	¡Three Amigos! / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Throw-Away Country / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Token Minority / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Trap Is the Only Option / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Underequipped Charge / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Unprocessed Resignation / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Vasquez Always Dies / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Video Phone / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Violence Really Is the Answer / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Vocal Evolution / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Vomit Indiscretion Shot / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	War Comes Home / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	We Will Wear Armor in the Future / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Weasel Mascot / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Well-Trained, but Inexperienced / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Whoosh in Front of the Camera / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Work Hard, Play Hard / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Working Title / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Worst Aid / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	You Are in Command Now / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	You Know What to Do / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	You Will Know What to Do / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	You Would Do the Same for Me / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Zeerust / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	seeAlso	Starship Troopers
Hulks And Horrors (Tabletop Game)	seeAlso	Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Cliché Storm / int_45854dfc
Starship Troopers	hasFeature	Eat Brain for Memories / int_45854dfc

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