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Generation Kill

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Generation Kill	comment	In 2003, Rolling Stone reporter Evan Wright was embedded in the US Marine Corps' First Recon, for the onset of the War in Iraq. Over the next two months, he would have a firsthand view into the lives of some of the toughest men on the planet on the front lines of the The War on Terror as well as the command decisions that put them where they were. Wright compiled these articles into Generation Kill, which was later made into a seven-part miniseries by David Simon and Ed Burns on HBO.The series and book are notable for their unvarnished depictions of the grunts' culture, including their views on the Marine Corps, the war, and their place in it. Marines espouse a wide variety of irreverent opinions using spectacularly coarse language and often revel in the opportunity to kill for their country. Many also grapple with the complicated moral footing they find themselves on as trained killers fighting a dubiously justified war surrounded by civilians who may or may not be the enemy. The command staff are frequently depicted as too incompetent or preoccupied with earning promotions to fight the war effectively.All of this is a far cry from the noble, patriotic heroes audiences usually expect in American war media. This triggered accusations that Wright's depictions were heavily embellished, but the Marines themselves have backed up their own depictions as mostly accurate.As this pertains to a military operation, expect a lot of military tropes.
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Generation Kill / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Generation Kill / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: This show loves this trope. Brad after Trombley shoots civilians with his okay. In the book, Brad is reduced to tears when he comes face-to-face with the aftermath. Brad again, along with Poke, when a badly targeted airstrike annihilates a hamlet. Brad yet again when Walt accidentally kills a civilian, and Walt immediately after. Ray after Rudy checks him too hard during the football game. Rudy's response is to BSOD even worse. The dazed and confused Marine Colbert encounters outside Nasiriyah apparently suffered one of these after seeing one of his men getting shot in the stomach. He turns down Colbert's offer of help, and wanders off again. Subverted the first time Trombley kills someone. For a second, he looks like he's about to BSOD, but then: In the book only: at the roadblock outside Al Hayy, where the Marines open fire at a car after it fails to stop at the warning shots, two Marines—Sgt. Graves and Cpl. Jeschke—approach the car after it becomes clear it was a civilian vehicle. They find a little girl in the back seat. As Graves reaches out to her, thinking she is merely injured, the top of the girl's head falls off and her brains fall out. Graves, stepping back, almost slips in her brains. He cannot speak for a full minute, and cannot coherently describe the scene afterwards. The show presented this scene in condensed form with less gore, with no one shown going full BSOD.
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Generation Kill / int_153299b4	type	Boisterous Bruiser
Generation Kill / int_153299b4	comment	Boisterous Bruiser: Cpl. Josh Ray Person, constantly yelling about the Marines' battle prowess through the ages. And his own, of course.
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Generation Kill / int_16178c64	type	Gratuitous Spanish
Generation Kill / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish: Actually Portuguese. Sgt. Baptista is a Brazilian immigrant and during times of stress he unconsciously starts radio chattering in his native tongue, which drives the other Marines crazy.
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Generation Kill / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Generation Kill / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Godfather speaks of General Mattis in glowing terms and seems purely motivated to seek his approval.
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Generation Kill / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Generation Kill / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: Lt. Fick, who, ironically, is younger than some of his troops, nonetheless takes on this role of his platoon. He even lies through his teeth to Lt. Col. Ferrando in order to keep his men out of trouble over the incident where Person burnt his face from a faulty espresso machine. It comes to a head in the sixth episode, when "Casey Kasem" goes over Fick's head and orders one of his teams out to check out a possible tank, saying he's "covering" for Fick (while calling his competence into question and accusing him of cowardice behind his back). The Lieutenant is understandably pissed that he's using his men to get to him. In the book, Wright notes that the platoon command seems more like parenting than autocratic control, with Lt. Fick being the father and Gunny Wynn being the mother.
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Generation Kill / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
Generation Kill / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Charlie Company. They have a short scene in one episode, but otherwise they're only mentioned on radio.
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Generation Kill / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Generation Kill / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Encino Man and his lickspittle Casey Kasem, who are depicted as causing quite a few problems for First Recon.
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Generation Kill / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Generation Kill / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: More than a few of the Marines qualify. As Wright points out, not only are these men generally unsurprised by the idea that their leaders might be corrupt or incompetent, but they have grown to expect it, having all grown up in the post-Watergate era. Their motivations for serving range from purely practical (getting out of bad neighborhoods, for example) to more idealistic (trying to make a Crapsack World a slightly better place, or at least prevent it from getting worse). Even the most idealistic member of the battalion, Lieutenant Fick, isn't immune from a growing degree of cynicism while pressing on with his duties.
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Generation Kill / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Generation Kill / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: The Marines start calling Trombley "Whopper Jr", which is a roundabout way of calling him Baby Killernote Whopper Jr —-> Burger King —-> BK —-> Baby Killer. The name is used affectionately.
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Generation Kill / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Generation Kill / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: SgtMaj. Sixta plays a much larger role in the series than in the book. Also, the scene in the show where the off-duty Recon Marines infiltrate a building under guard by other Marines is much more elaborate than in the book, where they simply break down a first-floor window out of view and enter the building.
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Generation Kill / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Generation Kill / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: In the series, Encino Man asks the platoon to "speak freely". He goes through the Marines, who all palm him off or dance around the issues. Then he gets to Doc...
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Generation Kill / int_24f4c82a	type	Semper Fi
Generation Kill / int_24f4c82a	comment	Semper Fi: Although there is an amount of "moto" chest thumping, the series does not use parts of the Marine Corps myth, mocks others, and parodies some. Examples: "Captain America," "Encino Man," "Casey Kasem," and who could forget the genius idea of re-purposing a reconnaissance unit as a light assault unit in light armored Humvees? Also hilariously parodied when the Marines are told to be flexible. One Marine mocks the command, saying, "Yeah, Semper Gumby. Always flexible."
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Generation Kill / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Generation Kill / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Sergeant Major Sixta is reprimanding Pappy about his mustache the second time around, another Marine can be seen goosestepping in the background in a Nazi Salute, to mock Sixta, and to remind Pappy that the 'Hitler 'stache' that he wears falls within the grooming standard. Random marines quoting The Big Lebowski when Encino Man is informed by his Marines that they consider him a woefully incompetent leader. Manimal dropping a box of grenades, followed by a Marine yelling that "This is why we can't have nice things!" Rudy taking a run in full combat gear while Marines cheer him on, urging him to "slay that dragon". After Ray and Rudy's tussle at the football game is broken up, as Ray is walking off, a Marine can be heard telling Rudy "Goddammit Rudy, go to your little quiet place and chant, motherfucker." During Person's unhinged rant about wars being about "lack of pussy", the camera focuses on an incredulous Evan Wright, who can only silently mouth "Wow" at the insanity he is witnessing.
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Generation Kill / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Generation Kill / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: While it's the second HBO miniseries about the real exploits of a US military company and actually does a good job of dismantling the image of soldiers created in that show, it's more closely a successor of The Wire. Both feature David Simon and Ed Burns as main writers and explore the same theme of systems breaking down due to the incompetence and ambition of their leaders.
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Generation Kill / int_29ad1d69	type	Facial Dialogue
Generation Kill / int_29ad1d69	comment	Facial Dialogue: Fick and Colbert in "Cradle of Civilization." Colbert keys his mic to reply to Encino Man's radio announcement that they were lost because Colbert took a wrong turn (Encino Man had ordered the turn despite Fick and Colbert's protests). Fick makes eye contact with Colbert and shakes his head silently, and Colbert releases the mic without comment.
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Generation Kill / int_2bc0fc4d	type	Ice-Cream Koan
Generation Kill / int_2bc0fc4d	comment	Ice-Cream Koan: According to the book, Pappy is apparently fond of serving these up whenever asked by a fellow Marine to impart some wisdom, "Don't pet a burning dog" being one of them. This phrase becomes far less confusing for Lt. Fick after the night ambush at the bridge in Al Muwaffaqiyah—the lesson being something along the lines of "if it looks dangerous, it probably is, so don't get near it".
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Generation Kill / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Generation Kill / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: A great many of the Marines have a tendency toward having surprisingly intelligent discourse over the war and society laced with profanity and slang.
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Generation Kill / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Generation Kill / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Zig-zagged with a Hell of a lot Sophisticated as Hell and actually one maybe shouldn't be surprised that an elite unit of the Marines is smarter than the average grunt.
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Generation Kill / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
Generation Kill / int_2f187e89	comment	It Works Better with Bullets: After spending several minutes explaining to Encino Man why they absolutely must not call in an artillery barrage that will inevitably injure, maim or kill the entire platoon, Lt. Fick eventually gives up and walks away to the disbelief of his platoon, who are rather understandably worried about getting hit by friendly artillery fire. Fick reassures them quickly, however:
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Generation Kill / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Generation Kill / int_3036294e	comment	Corporal Holsey, outwardly a Scary Black Man, is seen reading Sun Tzu and is not into "the whole racial thing". He's also seen later making an effort to learn Portuguese from Baptista.
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Generation Kill / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Generation Kill / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Brad Colbert has shades of this trope, usually condemning religion and the desire to have children.
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Generation Kill / int_339c7d93	type	Stay Frosty
Generation Kill / int_339c7d93	comment	Stay Frosty: Colbert's catch phrase, used to remind people to stay attentive. Kocher and Col. Ferrando both quote him once for the same purpose.
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Generation Kill / int_3929e0db	type	You Need to Get Laid
Generation Kill / int_3929e0db	comment	You Need to Get Laid: Cpl. Person blames the entire war on this, claiming that the Iraqis wouldn't need Marines to come in and save them if they just had more sex.
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Generation Kill / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Generation Kill / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: A major theme in the series. Godfather is constantly shown to be far more interested in winning commendations and promotions than in fighting the war in a way that is best for everyone. He considers allied units to be competition and subjects his men to unnecessary risks so that they, and he, will get more glory. This is a continuation of the central theme of The Wire. In the first several episodes, officers constantly harp on the marines' mustaches seemingly at the expense of more pressing matters pertaining to final preparations of going into combat. Sixta states that rigidly enforcing grooming standards helps prevent other, more important standards from slipping. He also later says that it's all part of a Genghis Gambit. After the unit watches in horror as a hamlet of women and children is bombed to powder, Person gripes that the explosions made him ruin the "cookie" he was making from MRE scraps.
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Generation Kill / int_3ebc57ac	type	Going Native
Generation Kill / int_3ebc57ac	comment	Going Native: The culture clash between the writer and the marines is quite wide in the beginning of the series, but as the series goes on, he can be increasingly seen smirking and laughing along with some of their very extreme behavior, showing that he is internalizing their culture.
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Generation Kill / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Generation Kill / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Sgt. Colbert immediately recognizes a "civilian" as a military deserter from his military-style belt.
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Generation Kill / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Generation Kill / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: Sgt. Larry Shawn "Pappy" Patrick, Sgt. Ken Sutherby, and to a lesser extent, Sgt. Brad Colbert, who while he doesn't have the gun, he certainly has the mentality. When Pappy is asked about his kills, he even says that all he felt was "recoil". Fruity Rudy, as a spotter, is one half of Pappy's sniper team. Seeing the two of them do their jobs in the second episode is serious Mood Whiplash from how they've been established as characters so far. Rudy definitely qualifies for this trope, for the spotter in a sniper team is actually the better shot.
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Generation Kill / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Generation Kill / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Half of what the translator, Meesh, says the Iraqis are telling the battalion consists of crap he's just making up—due to orders from above; this mostly consists of "the Iraqis are grateful to be liberated" and such. Fick, Doc Bryan, and others call him out on this, and he admits that he had been instructed to lie. In Episode 1 of the show, Lt. Fick lies through his teeth to Godfather to keep his men from getting in trouble over the malfunctioning portable stove that burnt Person in the face. They had been operating the stove inside a tent in blatant disregard for regulations. Godfather sees through this straight away but goes along with it, snarkily suggesting that Fick write up some of his men for commendation for their efforts. Generally, when Fick tells his men that he is assured that something will happen, the complete opposite happens.
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Generation Kill / int_45de345c	type	The Peter Principle
Generation Kill / int_45de345c	comment	The Peter Principle: It's pointed out in the book that many of 1st Force Recon's officers were composed of logistical staff and experienced NCOs of at highest the rank of Sergeant; as such, the decision to deploy all of 1st Force Recon to Iraq meant that a large group of officers who were highly skilled at technical and administrative positions were suddenly forced into combat ones they were most assuredly not very competent in. Wright made a point not to name names because he felt it was unfair to these officers.
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Generation Kill / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Generation Kill / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: The Marines acknowledge the fact that many of the Iraqi, feyadeen, and foreign troops who do stand and fight them have to be brave and disciplined men.
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Generation Kill / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Generation Kill / int_474a2a5e	comment	Cultural Posturing: A lot of the playful ribbing that goes on between marines is of this sort. We see it a lot between Colbert and Person. Person at one point describes Colbert as an unrepentant Christ-killer for being Jewish. Later, Colbert says that while he was adopted into a millennia-old culture of Talmudic wisdom, Person was born in a trailer to ignorant, inbred white trash. They both chuckle about it. Given Colbert's earlier remarks disparaging all religion, it's unlikely that he's all that precious about his own Jewish background.
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Generation Kill / int_4864031b	type	Informed Attractiveness
Generation Kill / int_4864031b	comment	Informed Attractiveness: People talk about how attractive Rudy Reyes is. In fact, he got a modeling contract.
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Generation Kill / int_4885c04b	type	Road Trip Plot
Generation Kill / int_4885c04b	comment	Road Trip Plot: Discussed. The book compares the humvee Wright rode in to having the dynamic of a family on a road trip, with Colbert the stern father, Person the mother, and Trombley and Wright being the kids messing around in the back seat.
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Generation Kill / int_489f14dd	type	Glamorous Wartime Singer
Generation Kill / int_489f14dd	comment	Glamorous Wartime Singer: Woefully subverted. While Person has dreams of being a rock star, in the miniseries, if they sing, they suck. Played a little more straight with Cpl. Walter Hasser in the book, who apparently has a wonderful country music singing voice (and doesn't like to sing!).
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Generation Kill / int_4ccdcfce	type	Heroic Fatigue
Generation Kill / int_4ccdcfce	comment	Heroic Fatigue: Everyone is running on little to no sleep, but it is especially significant in a couple cases. Person's dependency on Ripped Fuel allows him to drive the Humvee for days on end. It also makes him a manic motor-mouth that drives Colbert crazy but gives Evan Wright plenty of amusing material. We find out it was Lt. Fick himself who authorized Casey Kasem's pointless orders to send sick Marines on patrol, apparently while in a fugue state due to over 72 hours without sleep. Fick looks horrified as he realizes he can't take punitive measures against the Gunnery Sergeant for orders he endorsed; Kasem's evil smirk clearly implies he knew Fick was completely out of it, and took advantage of it.
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Generation Kill / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
Generation Kill / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: Quite a few straight male characters comment on how hot Fruity Rudy is. Which he seems to revel in, even though he has a wife back home. It gets lampshaded at one point when the Marines try to invert it by telling the reporter, "It doesn't make you gay if you think Rudy's hot. We all think he's hot. Jesus, you're beautiful."
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Generation Kill / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Generation Kill / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: When the series changes something from the book, it's either an omission for lack of time and budget, or a way of adapting the same message to the limited time a scene has to make its point. Wright also didn't want people to harass Captain America and Encino Man.
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Generation Kill / int_5c554458	type	Dumb Jock
Generation Kill / int_5c554458	comment	Dumb Jock: Encino Man is a giant, lumbering moron who speaks in nothing but football metaphors, making it painfully clear what his background is. In the final episode, he serves as quarterback for the skins team during the football game and dominates the shirts team.
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Generation Kill / int_5fff364d	type	Combat Medic
Generation Kill / int_5fff364d	comment	Combat Medic: Navy Hospitalman Second Class Robert Timothy "Doc" Bryannote the book mentions that he's a Special Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman and qualified to serve alongside the most elite units in the US military, who fights and saves lives with equal passion.
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Generation Kill / int_607df6c	type	Recruiters Always Lie
Generation Kill / int_607df6c	comment	Recruiters Always Lie: In one of his rants, Ray says that Trombley was told by his recruiting officer that he would get to shoot people, Ray was told he would get to go to Thailand and get all kinds of strange and Colbert joined after seeing the Dress Blues commercial. Ray then notes that Trombley hasn't killed anybody yet, Ray is half a world away from good Thai pussy and Colbert is in a MOPP suit that smells like four days of piss and ballsweat.
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Generation Kill / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Generation Kill / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Person again.
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Generation Kill / int_627f7c90	type	Genghis Gambit
Generation Kill / int_627f7c90	comment	In the first several episodes, officers constantly harp on the marines' mustaches seemingly at the expense of more pressing matters pertaining to final preparations of going into combat. Sixta states that rigidly enforcing grooming standards helps prevent other, more important standards from slipping. He also later says that it's all part of a Genghis Gambit.
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Generation Kill / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Generation Kill / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Sgt. Maj. John "Coward of Khafji" Sixta.
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Generation Kill / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Generation Kill / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Something of a David Simon trademark. The show places a premium on authenticity, resulting in the use of a lot of military slang and jargon. Viewers without a background in the U.S. military must often pick up the meaning of an exchange purely through context.
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Generation Kill / int_6575fd50	type	Do-Anything Soldier
Generation Kill / int_6575fd50	comment	Do-Anything Soldier: Forced upon the battalion. As recon marines, they were trained to move ahead of the main force, working in small teams to gather intelligence. They thought they were being provided with vehicles to help in that regard. Instead, they were utilized as mounted infantry for company and battalion-sized hit-and-run attacks in a feinting maneuver, which they were untrained and unequipped for and had to figure out as they went along.
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Generation Kill / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
Generation Kill / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: In "The Cradle of Civilization", Lt. Fick assures his men that they will be crossing a hostile bridge under cover of darkness. The next shot shows them driving over it in the bright morning sunlight.
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Generation Kill / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Generation Kill / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Lt. Col. Ferrando's callsign is "Godfather", because he sounds like Marlon Brando from the eponymous movie. When Wright (inevitably) asks him about his voice, he explains that he had throat cancernote despite never smoking, chewing tobacco, or anything else that would likely cause cancer, "Guess I'm just lucky.", and had parts of his vocal cords removed during the operation.
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Generation Kill / int_72757e0d	type	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer
Generation Kill / int_72757e0d	comment	"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: The real Evan Wright often says "this really happened" on the DVD commentary tracks during events that seem more fantastical. In fact, they had to tone down some of the more bizarre shit that Captain America did. Yes, he was actually worse than what was portrayed in the mini series. Another notable example of excluding something on account of Reality Is Unrealistic; when Pappy was shot in the foot and reported it by first referring to himself in the third person with his tongue planted firmly in his cheek, Doc Bryan started laughing because it meant he was okay. The laughter part isn't in the mini-series, because Wright was worried the audience wouldn't quite understand why someone would laugh, given the situation. In the book, during the bridge ambush, Colbert calmly sings while coolly opening up in one of the largest ambushes Evan witnessed. note Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot, in case you were wondering. One of the scenes involving an ambush on the Marines' convoy by an Iraqi AA gun was criticized, as the gun being used in such an ambush supposedly should have killed the entire convoy. In fact, the ambush actually happened this way; Nathan Fick's own book One Bullet Away not only corroborated the story, but it even pointed out that the real-life ambush was even more destructive than it was in the series: they were being attacked by an AA gun with high explosive rounds and mortars at the same time. Even so, no Marines were killed and the convoy wasn't seriously damaged.
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Generation Kill / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
Generation Kill / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Wright. As a reporter, it's both his job and his role in the story to have things explained to him.
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Generation Kill / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
Generation Kill / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: Played for laughs by Sgt. Espera. He justifies everything that he does in the Marines by saying that the white man has "gotta rule the world".
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Generation Kill / int_76a08cd6	type	Friend or Foe?
Generation Kill / int_76a08cd6	comment	Friend or Foe?: Garza comes under fire from members of Alpha Company near Baqubah after they mistake him for an Iraqi due to his dark skin color and the general tension of fighting deep in enemy territory. In the show, this incident is elaborated with Garza having appropriated an Iraqi helmet for use.
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Generation Kill / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Generation Kill / int_7815ba15	comment	There is one instance where they seem to avoid using N-Word Privileges. The Marines are drinking coffee and calling it "November Juliet." When the reporter asks what that means, all the Marines look around uncomfortably, and then look toward Holsey, the sole black Marine in that particular group, before Holsey finally flatly says: "Nigger Juice." After a Beat, the whole group cracks up.
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Generation Kill / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Generation Kill / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: Seems to happen to Cpl. John Burris (and some people around him) on a regular basis throughout the invasion. At Nasiriyah, Burris trips on his gun and skins his face, provoking amused laughter from everyone around him. He gets sprayed with sewage when the Humvee he's on drives through the open sewer puddle of Al Gharraf. This series of unfortunate events culminates in Burris's destruction of the Iraqi tank outside Baqubah: he fires an anti-tank missile at the tank's fuel pod, setting off a massive explosion that blows the tank to pieces and knocks him on his back with its blast. When he returns to his team, his dazed smile causes Cpt. Patterson, who had come up to congratulate him, to break out in laughter. Further, one of the pieces of the tank flew hundreds of meters to hit another Marine in the head; while the man's helmet is partially shattered, the man himself only suffers a concussion. These events were not presented in the show.
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Generation Kill / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
Generation Kill / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: Some of the 1st Recon Marines say quite racist things, directly to or in the presence of the individual who should be personally offended. It becomes apparent, however, that all the Marines are so close to each other that they all basically have N-Word Privileges with each other. Might be played straight when the Marines are talking about the Iraqis. There is one instance where they seem to avoid using N-Word Privileges. The Marines are drinking coffee and calling it "November Juliet." When the reporter asks what that means, all the Marines look around uncomfortably, and then look toward Holsey, the sole black Marine in that particular group, before Holsey finally flatly says: "Nigger Juice." After a Beat, the whole group cracks up.
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Generation Kill / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
Generation Kill / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Reyes is very metrosexual and looks like a GQ model, but he's also a very competent soldier and fist fighter.
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Generation Kill / int_7b23aecb	type	Bayonet Ya
Generation Kill / int_7b23aecb	comment	Bayonet Ya: Captain America loves his bayonet, looking for an opportunity to use it and constantly attaching it even when it would serve no useful purpose. He attempts to bayonet a restrained detainee before claiming that he thought the man was attacking a fellow marine. Later, he jabs his bayonet at another restrained detainee purely out of malice.
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Generation Kill / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Generation Kill / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: General Mattis delivers a withering one to Colonel Dowdy:
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Generation Kill / int_7dae20c8	type	Sex Is Good
Generation Kill / int_7dae20c8	comment	Sex Is Good: In the opinion of Marine Person, good sex makes people good.
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Generation Kill / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Generation Kill / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: In the first episode, Bravo Company's tent is blown over by a sandstorm in the middle of the night. Gunny Wynn announces that he needs Marines with sledgehammers, and the Marines leap into action without hesitation, grabbing tools and running out in their underwear to repair the tent in the middle of the storm. Colbert steps outside, takes one quick look at the confused activity, and starts directing Marines and coordinating their efforts to resolve the situation as quickly as possible. We now know that these are men who do not hesitate to act even when surprised, and Colbert can seize control of the most chaotic situations to reestablish order.
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Generation Kill / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Generation Kill / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: According to the book, many of the Marines joined to escape life in street gangs, and tales of alcoholic dads and crackhead moms are quite common. Averted often enough, though, that Wright explicitly says they disprove the stereotype of servicemen all joining as a last resort; Colbert and Fick come from loving, middle-class families, Person's father was absent but he had a relatively good upbringing from his mother, while Reyes and Stafford wanted to challenge themselves.
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Generation Kill / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Generation Kill / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: In the book only, when the Marines encounter an Iraqi tank near Baqubah and bring out an anti-tank missile to disable it (given the lack of available artillery and air support). The "best-case scenario" envisioned before the attack is that the missile, being incapable of penetrating most of the T-72 tank's armor, would be used to attack its treads and stop it from moving. Corporal Burris, assigned to launch the missile, discovers an auxiliary fuel pod on the back of the tank upon getting closer to fire, and aims at it instead, blowing the tank to kingdom come.
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Generation Kill / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Generation Kill / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Sergeant Major Sixta, who deliberately crafts a combination of this and a Jerkass facade to give the Marines someone to direct their anger and frustration toward, in order to keep morale up.
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Generation Kill / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Generation Kill / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: "Danger close," meaning a fire mission (artillery or air strike) called in dangerously close to friendly units. Somehow this was lost on Encino Man and Casey Kasem. Fortunately, when they attempted to call in the fire mission, they used the wrong authorization and grid square coordinates.
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Generation Kill / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Generation Kill / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: They toned down "Captain America"'s antics, because they thought that people would think they were too fake.
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Generation Kill / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Generation Kill / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Gentlemen, we just seized an airfield. That was pretty fucking ninja. "Re-Up Time," performed by Josh Ray Person.
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Generation Kill / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Generation Kill / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: Lt. Col. "Godfather" Ferrando at times, sometimes with his surname and sometimes his nickname.
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Generation Kill / int_91cab736	type	Major Injury Underreaction
Generation Kill / int_91cab736	comment	Major Injury Underreaction: Some of the marines who are wounded react very calmly. Such as when Pappy gets shot, he simply calls out that his vehicle has a man down over the radio and says nothing more than "Oh, it's just my foot" when Rudy asks for more information.
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Generation Kill / int_92264449	type	Jabba Table Manners
Generation Kill / int_92264449	comment	Jabba Table Manners: Person is frequently shown making a mess with his food and chewing tobacco.
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Generation Kill / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
Generation Kill / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: Encino Man's woeful attempt at a Rousing Speech ends with him proclaiming: "I'm reminding you of who your enemy is: The enemy."
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Generation Kill / int_96cc4848	type	"Dear John" Letter
Generation Kill / int_96cc4848	comment	"Dear John" Letter: In the series only. Manimal's first in-country communique from his wife? Divorce papers. Naturally, he is less than pleased by this turn of events.
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Generation Kill / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
Generation Kill / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Lance Corporal Harold James Trombley, who joined the Marines specifically to shoot people, showed an unnatural desire to see the results of his kills even from a civilian boy he accidentally shot, and who said that combat was far less nerve-wracking to him than watching game shows at home. At the end of the series, he's the only Marine to watch the montage to its end, having no reaction to the various scenes of horror interspersed with the joshing around. In the new afterward for the novel, Evan Wright specifically talked about how various media outlets leaped to conclusions and believed all the Marines featured were violent thugs, thanks to Trombley and Person's "colorful" quotes.
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Generation Kill / int_9c092ab0	type	Armed Farces
Generation Kill / int_9c092ab0	comment	Armed Farces: Incompetent officers, bizarre rants, idiosyncrasies of military culture, "new tactics" that amount to idiotic tactics and pencilpushers leading combat, and all sorts of other buffoonery are all on display, even if it wasn't meant to be satire.
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Generation Kill / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
Generation Kill / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: Trombley in episode 4. When under fire from a self-propelled AA gun, he calmly spots the distance to the enemy vehicle for air support while bullets land inches away from him. He seems fascinated by the volume of fire that AA gun dishes out and has to be pulled away. Rather than being heroically calm, however, it's implied that Trombley is simply too stupid (or at least detached and dissociated) to feel rational fear. Brad Colbert is called "The Iceman" for a reason. When he realizes that the company is in the killzone for a prepared ambush, he calmly points out that there are men in the trees and opens fire. For the entirety of the ambush, he's singing under his breath.
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Generation Kill / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Generation Kill / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: At one point, Person handed Wright his unused rifle and told him to point it out his window. While the fact that Wright was willing to go along with this earned him some respect, they never asked him to do it again because he pointed the barrel at both Person and Colbert's faces while passing it back, with the safety off. Unfortunately, while this is mentioned in the miniseries, the actual scene is omitted. In an interview, Wright confessed that he wasn't so much concerned about shooting a civilian as he was about causing all the Marines to shoot at something that wasn't a target (his potentially accidental gunshot setting off a full-fire from the rest of the platoon). Apparently he never even kept his finger near the trigger to avoid it. There's also the old man at the end of a refugee column who gets killed when a Marine fires off a 40mm smoke grenade to warn off a passing car, only for the grenade to ricochet off the pavement and into the back of his head so hard it looks worse than a gunshot wound.
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Generation Kill / int_a30a7977	type	Highly-Conspicuous Uniform
Generation Kill / int_a30a7977	comment	Highly-Conspicuous Uniform: The Recon Marines are issued woodland MOPP suits, prompting disbelief and snark since they're fighting in the desert. Only Wright receives a desert MOPP suitnote Fitting to the almost comically large list of logistical fuckups however, Wright's suit is still 2 sizes too small and ends up with a large rip in the groin area.
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Generation Kill / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Generation Kill / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: In-universe, when Colbert comes up with a new option for stopping cars at a roadblock non-lethally, Walt, exhausted beyond reason, kills the driver after the smoke grenade is seemingly ignored (it was actually fired a little behind the car, the driver couldn't have seen it). Colbert immediately flips out, and then immediately flips back.
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Generation Kill / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Generation Kill / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Sergent Rudy Reyes, a.k.a. "Fruity Rudy." He was slated to be played by someone else, but the actor became ill.
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Generation Kill / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Generation Kill / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: In contrast to the hyper-competent shooting of the Marines, the Iraqis can't seem to hit the ground with their hat. Probably explained by the fact that most of the regular army had retreated or deserted, and the fighters the Marines encountered were little more than cannon-fodder.
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Generation Kill / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Generation Kill / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: When Encino Man asks Baptista for his opinion, Baptista gets out of having to offer one by calling him incompetent in a bizarre mixture of Portuguese and heavily-accented English, mixed with dumb-looking grins to look like he's giving him compliments. It works.
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Generation Kill / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Generation Kill / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: Sgt. Sutherby, the sniper, is hearing impaired.
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Generation Kill / int_a7defafd	type	Code Name
Generation Kill / int_a7defafd	comment	Code Name: Done realistically, code names are only at the company level and numbers added on refer to specific groups. For the focal Bravo company it's Hitman, for Alpha it's Assassin, and for the rarely mentioned Charlie, it's Raptor.
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Generation Kill / int_a7e85535	type	Autobiographical Role
Generation Kill / int_a7e85535	comment	Autobiographical Role: In the miniseries, Rudy Reyes wound up playing himself after the original actor had to drop out.
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Generation Kill / int_a861560f	type	The Friend Nobody Likes
Generation Kill / int_a861560f	comment	The Friend Nobody Likes: Delta Company (which consists of reservists) are disliked by the rest of the battalion, including Godfather, who spent most of the invasion ducking Delta on the comms and trying to avoid them. The viewers later gets to see Delta in action and understands why they are disliked.
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Generation Kill / int_a863ef67	type	Cultured Warrior
Generation Kill / int_a863ef67	comment	Cultured Warrior: Sgt. Brad "Iceman" Colbert and Sgt. Antonio "Poke" Espera are this to some degree, but Sgt. Rudy Reyes is the unchallenged king of Bravo Company. Corporal Holsey, outwardly a Scary Black Man, is seen reading Sun Tzu and is not into "the whole racial thing". He's also seen later making an effort to learn Portuguese from Baptista. Lt. Fick also qualifies, being a Dartmouth graduate. As he states here, he even took the troops on a field trip to see the ruins of Babylon when there was a lull in their patrol schedule.
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Generation Kill / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Generation Kill / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: In accordance with the theme, these exist but they are not as...elegant as some other examples.
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Generation Kill / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Generation Kill / int_adfd3165	comment	We find out it was Lt. Fick himself who authorized Casey Kasem's pointless orders to send sick Marines on patrol, apparently while in a fugue state due to over 72 hours without sleep. Fick looks horrified as he realizes he can't take punitive measures against the Gunnery Sergeant for orders he endorsed; Kasem's evil smirk clearly implies he knew Fick was completely out of it, and took advantage of it.
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Generation Kill / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Generation Kill / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Wright's style of writing in the book certainly suggests this. Observe:
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Generation Kill / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Generation Kill / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Stay Frosty" for Colbert (albeit only in the show; Evan Wright mentions that all in all, he heard the real Colbert utter this maybe twice). "Screwby" for Stafford. Fick is assured that he does not have a catchphrase. He is assured of this. And what does Godfather think?
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Generation Kill / int_b3d5d61	type	Real-Person Cameo
Generation Kill / int_b3d5d61	comment	Real Person Cameo: According to the commentary on the DVD, in the video the Marines watch at the end, the man briefly seen goofing around with the donkey is the real Brad Colbert.
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Generation Kill / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Generation Kill / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Marines frequently voice the opinion that they should be killing any "hajji" they lay eyes on yet the whole platoon is disgusted when Trombley opens fire on children. But even then, their ire lasts until Trombley's eerie sociopathy comes in handy in a pinch. Then they give him an affectionate nickname referencing his "baby killing" and accept him back into the fold.
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Generation Kill / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Generation Kill / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: At the end of the book. Colbert eventually served as an exchange NCO with the Royal Marines. Fick and some of the other Marines (including Person and Trombley) got out, and some of those would eventually return to Iraq as Private Military Contractors. Some were killed during the Insurgency that followed.
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Generation Kill / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Generation Kill / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: In general, the marines are eager for an opportunity to use their training in real combat. Some specific examples include: Lance Corporal Harold James Trombley only seems to be interested in killing people, even civilians. He later admits that he has an irrational desire to get shot. Cpl. Person gives this memorable rant in response to a child's letter from back home. In episode 6, Colbert talks about his disappointed he is to not have been on a single recon mission, stating that he is a "hunter" by nature. When Godfather assures him that a new mission will be forthcoming, Colbert smiles in anticipation.
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Generation Kill / int_b89ab683	type	Hyper-Competent Sidekick
Generation Kill / int_b89ab683	comment	Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Kocher saves untold numbers of lives by secretly contravening most of the orders of his superior officer, Captain America.
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Generation Kill / int_b8e8fa85	type	Military Alphabet
Generation Kill / int_b8e8fa85	comment	Military Alphabet: If you don't have a basic working understanding of this, the show will destroy your brain. The book, however, is much easier to follow for the non-military. One thing not explained in the miniseries is FPF (when Delta is shooting on a village). Final Protective Fire is only supposed to be used when a Marine position is about to be overrun, and involves setting up a solid wall of ammunition. Hence why the rest of Recon thinks it's hilariously unnecessary.
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Generation Kill / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Generation Kill / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Doc Bryan, who is described as being always angry at something in the book. Not readily apparent in the show since his head is always covered by a bandana.
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Generation Kill / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Generation Kill / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Has Lt. Fick mentioned that you do not fuck with his men?
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Generation Kill / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Generation Kill / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: The recon marines are occasionally shown to be almost frighteningly accurate with their fire. Everyone in the platoon feels sore at Trombley for an incident where he shot a pair of civilians who turned out to be unarmed children. At the same time, they respect Trombley's skill because he only fired a few shots but still managed to hit both of his targets multiple times center mass at over 200 meters from a moving vehicle. In the book, Wright relates his mixed feeling about the shooting; he's dismayed by the child's injury, but admits that when Trombley was on the gun, he couldn't help feeling a little safer. When a marine fires a short burst at a car approaching a roadblock, he manages to strike the driver right through the eye. Colbert is dismayed by his action and a little creeped out by his accuracy.
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Generation Kill / int_bddb820f	type	Must Have Caffeine
Generation Kill / int_bddb820f	comment	Must Have Caffeine: Cpl. Person, whose bizarre behavior is caused solely by a legal stimulant addiction. Careful with that Ripped Fuel, man.
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Generation Kill / int_be991863	type	The Neidermeyer
Generation Kill / int_be991863	comment	The Neidermeyer: First Recon ends up with a few. According to Fick's book, it was because they were never expected to command in the field, but Recon was being used for something completely different than their original purpose. "Captain America", whose activities include hoarding Iraqi fallen goods (particularly carrying a stolen AK with him into combat, which he gets chewed out for at one point), spazzing out on comms about being attacked by every little thing, abusing prisoners, demanding the Marines shoot something or someone at random, shooting at random people when in the convoy, ordering his soldiers to mark a minefield at night, and freaking out at the slightest problem. "Encino Man", whose claim to fame includes attempting to order an artillery fire mission in which his men were right in the way (but failing to do so because he didn't have the right protocols or coordinates), and generally being distressed whenever anyone questions his orders (he actually tries to court-martial a few subordinates after they demanded that he not call in this artillery strike). The book doesn't specifically mention what happened as a result, but Encino Man was eventually removed from duty for another unrelated incident. Lieutenant Fick made Captain at some point between OIF-1 and leaving the Corps, so it's likely that no one took Encino Man or Casey Kasem very seriously in the long run. "Casey Kasem," who as a logistics and appropriations NCO failed to secure enough batteries to run Night-Vision or Heat Sensors or LSA lubricant for heavy machine guns, and seemed to act like a sycophantic suckup to Encino Man. However, "Casey Kasem" later turned his reputation around after the events of the book, when his company commander Captain Brent Morel was injured; he took command of the remaining troops of his platoon and is generally credited for saving their lives.
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Generation Kill / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Generation Kill / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: The men of First Recon seem to be this, even accepting the reporter as part of their team. This type of character is usually the Butt-Monkey to the far more badass troops he's around. This is how it starts, but it quickly switches around when he mentions having written for Hustler, and his status in the close-knit group is further cemented when he stays after his first time being shot at instead of leaving immediately thereafter. In the book, Wright notes that he thought everyone hated him as early as Camp Matilda when Marines would start ambushing him around corners and poking him in the side with their knives; when he saw them doing it to each other as a way of passing the time, he realized it meant they were actually starting to like him.
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Generation Kill / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
Generation Kill / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: Meesh is an overweight, nineteen-year old Kuwaiti who wears a Grateful Dead shirt underneath his chemical-and-biological-weapons protection, is a serious dope smoker (even lamenting that he had to leave his weed supply behind before setting off), and happens to be the entire Battalion's translator.
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Generation Kill / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Generation Kill / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: Do not bring Charms candy into any Marine vehicle, or even eat it. It's bad luck. The book mentions an incident when Trombley quickly and surreptitiously eats a bag of Charms candy, telling the reporter not to tell anyone. Nothing bad happens.
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Generation Kill / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Generation Kill / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In-universe. Brad Colbert shares his Iceman nickname with the equally cool-headed, blond and sarcastic pilot Tom Kazansky from Top Gun. For bonus points, the real Colbert admitted in an interview that he joined the Marines because he dreamed of being a pilot, and has a lifelong passion for flying.
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Generation Kill / int_ca85e684	type	Power Trio
Generation Kill / int_ca85e684	comment	Power Trio: First Recon's command staff, consisting of Lt. Col. Ferrando, Sgt. Maj. Sixta, and Maj. Todd Eckloff.
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Generation Kill / int_ca895242	type	Officer and a Gentleman
Generation Kill / int_ca895242	comment	Officer and a Gentleman: Lt. Nathaniel Fick is easily the most put-together officer in First Recon. Captain Bryan Patterson might also qualify.
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Generation Kill / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Generation Kill / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Discussed in the final episode as one of the reasons that Captain America wasn't removed from command even after everything that he did. The chains weren't on him, in case you were wondering.
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Generation Kill / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Generation Kill / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: They rarely show in the book, and only 3 times in the series-one destroyed one in a city, one brief shot of one firing after the night ambush and once when Person is telling Wright how to 'enjoy' a passing tank.
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Generation Kill / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Generation Kill / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: The book and series are supposed to be deconstructing the idea of noble soldiers through real life accounts. At the same time the events and the irreverence of a lot of the characters make it seem a lot lighter than your typical War Is Hell piece.
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Generation Kill / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Generation Kill / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Trombley is frequently called a psychopath even by his fellow hard-charging marines. While his fellow marines are disgusted by him shooting children during an assault, they are also impressed by the accuracy it required and eventually jokingly nickname him Whopper Jr.
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Generation Kill / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Generation Kill / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: The Delta unit of reservists is said to be commanded by a tiny corporal who tied bull horns to the front of his humvee. When we see the man, he's parading arrogantly past the company in his decorated vehicle. Bonus points for the real Napoleon's nickname being "the little corporal."
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Generation Kill / int_d29e7760	type	Southern-Fried Private
Generation Kill / int_d29e7760	comment	Southern-Fried Private: Played straight with Lance Cpl. Harold James Trombley and subverted in Cpl. Josh Ray Person; he seems this way at first due to a big mouth and a Missouri accent, but he only fires his weapon once on-screen and not at anything specific, even going so far as to hand his weapon to the reporter. Somewhat justified in that he's 2-1's driver and thus has his hands literally full most of the time, but is still unarmed when he otherwise should be. He's also the most talented radio technician in all of Bravo Company; see Obfuscating Stupidity above.
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Generation Kill / int_d41832cc	type	Written by the Winners
Generation Kill / int_d41832cc	comment	Written by the Winners: A cynical allusion.
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Generation Kill / int_d54b9eb3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
Generation Kill / int_d54b9eb3	comment	Interservice Rivalry: Or, rather, intraservice rivalry between the frontline combat personnel and the rear echelon personnel (POGs, or "Person Other than a Grunt"). Subverted in the case of Cpl. Carasalez, who while being a rear-echelon mechanic, is well liked by the men in Bravo Company, not the least because he is willing to stick his neck out for his friend Sgt. Kocher—so much so that he volunteered to drive his team's Humvee after the previous driver, Cpl. Darnold, was wounded and had to be casevac-ed out. The Marines often make fun of the Army, saying how they have it easy due to being more well-equipped and well-funded. In one instance, a Marine mistakes an incoming Marine convoy for an army one and remarks that said convoy is returning to the AAFES to get more tampons. In another scene, the Marines are looking to rest in a building after arriving in Baghdad. One Marine from 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment (1/4) tells the Recon Marines that they have occupied the building first and tells them to leave. The Recon Marines, not wanting to admit defeat, break in through the roof instead, and spot a Navy SEAL sniper team on the roof picking off enemies as they do.
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Generation Kill / int_d5c7b415	type	Elites Are More Glamorous
Generation Kill / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: Subverted. First Recon is one of the elite units for the Marine Corps, but the missions they were performing here by tooling around Iraq in Humvees were basic. In the book, it's explained that this was a decision by higher-ups to "confuse" the enemy. The Marines complain about this constantly. Near the end of the series you see what Recon Marines are actually capable of, when they raid an Iraqi office under protection of other Marines and slip unnoticed past a sniper team implied to be part of the spec ops that play this trope straight, all for shits and giggles.
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Generation Kill / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
Generation Kill / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Friendship Moment: Many small ones throughout the series to go along with the abundant examples of Vitriolic Best Buds and Headbutting Heroes in the show. In the first episode, Espera chews out Trombley for wearing the wrong hat (everyone else is wearing knit stocking caps, and he is wearing a brimmed boonie cap). After Trombley is left looking like his puppy just got kicked, Espera pulls a spare out of his pocket and hands it to Trombley to show he's looking out for him. Later on, Person is driving Colbert up the wall with his endless Ripped Fuel-induced conspiracy rants, but in between unhesitatingly hands Colbert a spare can of chewing tobacco when he sees Colbert is out.
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Generation Kill / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Generation Kill / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Sort of happens to Encino Man and Captain America, the resident Neidermeyers, though in a roundabout sort of way. They were originally intelligence officers assigned to combat leadership positions; they eventually get removed from frontline duty and placed back into desk jobs so that the Marines can get competent officers who are actually good at commanding troops in battle. Inverted with Casey Kasem, who, after the events of the book and the series, was promoted into a leadership position, where he not only excelled, but earned the respect of the men who had once had nothing but disdain for him.
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Generation Kill / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Generation Kill / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": In the series adaptation, Evan Wright is only referred to by nicknames related to his assignment, eg: "Rolling Stone", "Writer", and "Scribe".
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Generation Kill / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Generation Kill / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Subverted; Lilley gets a letter from his wife telling him she's already signed her enlistment papers by the time he's reading it so she can be closer to him. Given the slant towards realism, her letter telling him that is all we see of her, and the other Marines comment that she's more likely to end up being sexually harassed working in a motor pool than by his side in combat.
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Generation Kill / int_db911ee	type	Field Promotion
Generation Kill / int_db911ee	comment	Field Promotion: Colbert eventually receives a combat meritorious promotion (to Staff Sergeant), something that is rarely handed out nowadays, as did one of the Marines in Fick's Humvee (Christeson, from PFC to Lance Corporal).
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Generation Kill / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Generation Kill / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Fick must walk a fine line between pushing back on the idiocy of the brass and falling in line with the chain of command. Godfather actually has a rare moment when a group of his men appeal to him to provide medical support for a civilian wounded by Americans. Seeing that he has a serious moral issue brewing, he calmly explains that his refusal of aid was not motivated by callousness but by a range of practical concerns and limitations that the men do not fully appreciate. He then acquiesces to provide the medical support.
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Generation Kill / int_e061d153	type	Sergeant Rock
Generation Kill / int_e061d153	comment	Sergeant Rock: Too many to count. Obvious choices are Sgt. Brad "Iceman" Colbert, Sgt. Eric Kocher and Sgt. Antonio "Poke" Espera. In the book, Casey Kasem turns out to be a capable leader who "knew his shit", instead of the kiss-ass he was in the initial operations.
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Generation Kill / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Generation Kill / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Most of the Marines have an official or unofficial "battle buddy," whether it's the other half of their sniper team or just their best friend in the platoon.
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Generation Kill / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Generation Kill / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The mild-mannered Fick angrily intimidates and threatens Casey Kasem after realizing that the men has given orders to his men.
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Generation Kill / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
Generation Kill / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Iceman's team is a variant of this. Trombley is the Id, mainly concerned with getting a chance to kill someone (the death instinct) and is starting a family when he gets back home (the life instinct). Colbert is the Ego: As the team leader, everyone goes off of his cues, and he works to keep them focused on the ever-changing and sometimes poorly-defined mission. Person is the Superego, and this is where it gets weird: Instead of being concerned with acting according to social norms and expectations, he makes it a point to highlight where failing to properly develop and apply these norms and expectations has lead to all of the problems they are dealing with on a personal or national level.
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Generation Kill / int_ea6fdefb	type	Casual Danger Dialog
Generation Kill / int_ea6fdefb	comment	Casual Danger Dialog: Played absolutely straight and taken directly from the actual accounts of the Marines under fire. At one point, Person climbs out of his Humvee, calmly walks into enemy fire, and yells for the rest of the convoy to please back the fuck up while bullets whiz over his head. Fick does this soon after when he dives out of his Humvee to run between them all and personally give them directions on how to fix the traffic jam, once it becomes apparent that radio communication is just causing confusion. Listen closely and you'll even hear Gunny Wynn express surprise. Defied on the way to Bagdad, when Person tries to strike up more casual dialogue only to be shushed by Colbert and told to focus.
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Generation Kill / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
Generation Kill / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: "Gentlemen, from now on we're gonna have to earn our stories."
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Generation Kill / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Generation Kill / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Rolling Stone suffers a self-inflicted one when he attempts to donn his too-small chem gear, the elastic crotch strap crushing his nuts badly enough that he can hardly walk, let alone run to cover with the Marines.
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Generation Kill / int_eb6912	type	Pretty Fly for a White Guy
Generation Kill / int_eb6912	comment	Pretty Fly for a White Guy: Stafford.
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Generation Kill / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Generation Kill / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Every time the more reasonable marines try to deal with The Neidermeyers.
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Generation Kill / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Generation Kill / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: An ongoing theme, and only made worse by many of the Marines being unable to see any clear method or goal to their actions.
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Generation Kill / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Generation Kill / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: Bravo 2-1's Humvee, which was missing several key parts like doors and armor. Colbert and Person had to restore it at their own expense. Rudy and Pappy also had to make repairs to Manimal's turret, which could not turn all the way around. According to the book, the issue with missing vehicle components was a somewhat widespread problem in the build-up to the invasion, made worse by the fact that the unit wasn't originally intended to be mechanized at all, and so vehicles had to be scrounged up at the last minute. At one point Godfather jokingly informs his officers that some of them are riding in the same humvees used by the Marines during their march on Tripoli.
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Generation Kill / int_f360fc33	type	Dumbass Has a Point
Generation Kill / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: Character Filibuster Ray exasperates Iceman Colbert with his drug induced rants and theories about the war, but Wright gives him credit.
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Generation Kill / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Generation Kill / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: The fate of Evan Wright's girl-back-home picture, passed around between the lonely Marines for the whole series. Lt. Fick being 'assured' that something will happen by his superiors, followed by the exact opposite happening. Anytime the Marines are performing actual recon, it's shortly ended by the US military blowing it up for one reason or another with the series' largest explosions. Various characters tics, such as Captain America freaking out whenever they're under the slightest bit of danger, Baptista speaking Portuguese into the comms, and Encino Man's incessant football metaphors.
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Generation Kill / int_fbc1a68d	type	Low Clearance
Generation Kill / int_fbc1a68d	comment	Low Clearance: During the book's Action Prologue describing a vehicular assault through a hostile town, the Iraqi soldiers string cables between buildings, hoping to clothesline the roof gunners of the speeding humvees. Bravo 2-1's gunner takes a glancing blow from one of the cables, and quickly shouts to the driver that he's OK. In the series, it's a downed power line in the second episode that snagged the gunner, nearly strangling him. Person realizes just in time and reverses the Humvee enough for the marine to free himself.
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Generation Kill / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
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