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Militaries are often incorrectly portrayed in media. Sometimes it's just a matter of not knowing the minutiae, like which branches use which ranks. Other times, it's a matter of Rule of Cool (or Rule of Funny) — the military is just a backdrop for a character to do something awesome (or hilarious). But actually portraying the military accurately is surprisingly difficult, as each country has its own military with its own service branches, which each have their own ranks, rules, scope, and traditions. That leads to the most common reason for incorrect depictions — they just don't really care enough. Generally, this trope applies to depictions of real-world militaries. But it can also happen in entirely imaginary cultures, if the work establishes one thing and depicts another. You shouldn't see a liberal democracy treat its soldiers more callously than the World War II-era Red Army, or a very hierarchical and repressive culture with very Mildly Military armed forces. As with most Hollywood Style tropes, common media portrayals of the military tend to influence public perception and lead to people believing myths about the military. Some military fanatics will bristle at these incorrect depictions, but most actual current and former members of the military find them more funny than annoying. Indeed, military films festooned with these errors are often more popular with military members than with the general public. Because of this, the only time you'll really see a work make an effort to avert this trope is if it's Backed by the Pentagon — in which case, a real-world military wants to show itself off to the public. See also Hollywood Tactics and Mildly Military. |
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While the Ghost in the Shell: Arise manga follows the established canon of Batou being a Ranger during his JSDF days, it nevertheless makes him a JMSDF Commander,note Also ironically making him outrank his own next CO by a full grade: just remember Motoko's iconic nickname. but the only Ranger unit in the modern JSDF, the Western Army Infantry Regiment, explicitly falls under a JGSDF command, even though its soldiers are essentially Marines. | |
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Jack Ryan Mostly averted in The Hunt for Red October: Tom Clancy got so much about submarine operations right that he was briefly investigated by the Department of Defense to make sure they didn't have any leaks. That said, there are still some mistakes. See also Artistic License – Ships. The main conceit of the "caterpillar" magneto-hydrodynamic drive making the eponymous Red October nearly silent misses that the noisiest thing on a nuclear submarine is the reactor's cooling systems, not the propellers. Soviet submarines were particularly noisy. Diesel-electric submarines such as the Kilo-class are much quieter, but sacrifice speed and underwater endurance. Red October is to be paired with a Lira/Alfa-class attack sub, the Konovalov, for testing the caterpillar drive. The Soviets didn't give individual names to Lira-class boats: they were all given numerical designations beginning with 'K' (e.g. K-63). Clear and Present Danger Tom Clancy messed up with a conversation between an officer and a "Seaman First" in the United States Coast Guard. "Seaman First Class" was a World War II rank, not a contemporary one. In the same book, the Coast Guard cutter Panache has as part of its crew two separate Master Chiefs. For a ship of that size, which would have barely one hundred crew members, one Master Chief would be too many. Justified in that the Coast Guard gave the captain the pick of the litter as far as a strong team of enlisted experts, but still. |
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Clear and Present Danger Tom Clancy messed up with a conversation between an officer and a "Seaman First" in the United States Coast Guard. "Seaman First Class" was a World War II rank, not a contemporary one. In the same book, the Coast Guard cutter Panache has as part of its crew two separate Master Chiefs. For a ship of that size, which would have barely one hundred crew members, one Master Chief would be too many. Justified in that the Coast Guard gave the captain the pick of the litter as far as a strong team of enlisted experts, but still. |
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The Flight Engineer mixes up the entry-level Navy and Marine Corps ranks. Second Lieutenant Cynthia Robbins should be an ensign, and the two Marine pilots assigned to Commander Raeder's command in The Privateer are ensigns when they should be second lieutenants. | |
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Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse: Questionable since it's a callsign, but everyone refers to Yuuya Bridges as "Top Gun" as befitting his status as an Ace Pilot. The Top Gun program is a US Navy outfit where Aviators practice dogfighting tactics against master pilots in Nevada and Southern California. Sounds fitting doesn't it? Unfortunately, Yuuya is in the US Army. Various fanservice incidents would in real life be grounds for a very swift Court Martial for sexual harassment. Trying to peep on your superior officer bathing in a hot spring comes to mind, as does that officer's own superiors making her take part in a swimsuit photoshoot. (The Muv-Luv franchise started as an eroge series.) |
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During Major Kusanagi's battle with the tank in Ghost in the Shell (1995), just before the helicopter pilot covering her departs, he says "Over and out" to her. | |
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Ghost in the Shell is well known for being Broad Strokes of any thing military. It's worth noting that Section 9 in most incarnations is not actually a military unit but a special police squad, though Motoko Kusanagi herself is usually a serving JSDF major and Batou a retired Ranger. During Major Kusanagi's battle with the tank in Ghost in the Shell (1995), just before the helicopter pilot covering her departs, he says "Over and out" to her. The Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode "Jungle Cruise" has Section 9 tracking down a serial killer who is implied to be an ex-US Navy SEAL. The dialogue mentions he was a petty officer (an enlisted rank) while his photo shows him wearing a very good officer uniform. While the Ghost in the Shell: Arise manga follows the established canon of Batou being a Ranger during his JSDF days, it nevertheless makes him a JMSDF Commander,note Also ironically making him outrank his own next CO by a full grade: just remember Motoko's iconic nickname. but the only Ranger unit in the modern JSDF, the Western Army Infantry Regiment, explicitly falls under a JGSDF command, even though its soldiers are essentially Marines. |
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For that matter, the military is rarely ever competent in the Marvel Universe at all. S.H.I.E.L.D. doesn't count, as it's a Government Agency of Fiction.note S.H.I.E.L.D. may appear to be an example of this trope, since its most well-known leader is a Colonel, but this is his exit rank from the US Army, not his rank within the organisation. | |
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The Punisher: Born: During his last tour of duty in The Vietnam War, Frank Castle is identified as a "21 year old Captain". The idea of someone so young holding an officer rank of that caliber is quite hard to believe. It turns out that Nick Fury recommended he be promoted to Captain early after Frank proved himself on a mission to kill a North Vietnamese general. | |
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Funky Winkerbean: The saga of Wally Winkerbean saw military protocol and common sense sacrificed to the Rule of Drama: Wally was recalled to a full tour of active duty because he had been discharged one day early and was technically AWOL. note Not only does neither recalls nor AWOL charges work that way, but they simply could've recalled Wally to ready status within eight years of his initial enlistment. A rule Wally should've known about if his recruiter was doing his job During his tour in Afghanistan, Wally's unit was ambushed and he was considered Killed In Action as another body was identified as his. note At this time - during the post-9/11 second Gulf War, the Army simply would not declare a missing soldier KIA without DNA identification or other proof of death. Wally would've/should've been declared Missing In Action without that confirmation. We find out that Wally was actually a Prisoner Of War, held by insurgents for over a decade. note Not impossible, but extremely unlikely His return home was largely ignored outside of his family and friends.note An American soldier held for over a decade as a POW would be an instant celebrity, with every media entity in existence looking for at least an interview. On top of that, his actual return was basically "Get released by insurgents via prisoner swap, fly back to America, get a physical at Walter Reed, get kicked to the curb." note The Veterans Administration would bend over backwards to give someone like Wally all the treatment he needed, for as long as he needed it. And all of this is besides the Diabolus ex Machina effect on his personal life.note Wally and his new bride, Becky, had just adopted an Afghani girl war orphan when Wally was recalled/press ganged. And he was recalled before Becky finds out she's pregnant. When Wally returns, Becky had remarried to comic book shop owner John, his adopted daughter barely remembered him and his son, Wally Jr. didn't know him at all. |
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Monsters vs. Aliens: When Susan becomes a giant, the military comes and shoots her with a giant Tranquillizer Dart. Even ignoring the dart's enormous size, it is not standard procedure for soldiers to use tranquilizer guns. | |
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Wonder Woman: While Steve Trevor's age is left vague there are constant hints and clues that he's not much older than the Holliday Girls—who are all between 19 and 24 years old during WWII—or may even be in the same age range as them, yet was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel before the war was over, apparently skipping right over Major. Due to the lack of continuity in comics at this time this was only in some stories, as in others the highest rank he seemed to reach during the war was Captain. | |
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The Legends of Dune prequels take place tens of thousands of years in the future, which means that the authors were free to create whatever ranks they wish. The idea of a starship commander leading ground troops is still completely ridiculous. | |
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Too many to count in Victoria. To be clear, the author, one William Lind, is a military theorist who wrote the book as much to show his ideas for how leaderless insurgency, clever tactics, light infantry and low-tech conquer all as he did a Take That! against all the forces of liberalism. Some examples include: Live-fire infantry training with offset aim alone preventing casualties, modern warships destroyed with spar torpedoes, Russian T-34s as the ultimate tank design for rear area strikes which are apparently the sole purpose of tanks, antiquated 1950s radar easily spotting stealth bombers, etc. etc. Platoon strength militia units with no logistics or coordination with each other are upheld as vastly superior to existing military, to the point of being called upon to train the actual military. At one point, the protagonist shows his contempt for the established military by sleeping through a briefing containing such useless trivia as local politics, road and weather conditions. Also the hero, John Rumford's, Establishing Character Moment as a young US Marine is interrupting a ceremony honoring the Corps' war dead rather than let a female Marine participate. No woman fought at Iwo Jima, he insists, so no woman has a right to speak the words and honor the dead. In reality, women have been a part of the USMC since 1918, served in combat areas since Vietnam, and as of the story's beginning have been full and equal parts of all save small unit ground combat for over twenty years. There are no male, female, white, black etc. Marines, only Marines. Besides, disrupting a remembrance ceremony is far more disrespectful than any imagined slight. Exactly none of these points come up when his CO chews him out and he gets discharged, only that a congresswoman is hounding him to be inclusive. If anything, his fellow Marines seem to respect his stand on the issue. Crossing over with Artistic License – History, Rumford also asserts that no army that has included female front-line combatants has ever been successful. Hilariously considering the book's above-mentioned idolization of the T-34, the same war that produced said very fine tank also saw the Soviets field female snipers, machine-gunners, tank crew, and combat pilots, the latter including a very famous all-female bomber regiment. In all, ninety women received the Gold Star Medal and the title Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II, most for service in front-line combat. |
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Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): At the end of Chapter 9, Dracula's thoughts on various video games is noted, and calls out Fire Emblem for its portrayal of combat: | |
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The French-language Belgian comic Les Tuniques Bleues (The Bluecoats), set during The American Civil War, occasionally shows American soldiers saluting French-style, or presenting arms in the French way. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: General Ross pretty much embodies the Armies Are Evil Trope in one man. It not only takes Artistic License but a lot of Suspension of Disbelief on the part of Marvel fans to assume the U.S. Air Force wouldn't have court martialed him, reduced him in rank, and sentenced him to life in Leavenworth after the property damage and civilian casualties his obsession with the Hulk has caused. Another issue is that Ross is repeatedly shown sending infantry and tanks after the Hulk (for all the good it does), when he's an Air Force General. He would have no operational control over ground units beyond Air Force Security Forces or Air Force Special Operations personnel, neither of which would have heavy tanks or infantry. He'd have to have these forces placed under his command by the Secretary of Defense (likely over the strenuous objections of the Secretary of the Army and the Army Chief of Staff). Extremely unlikely. Possible if the President backed Ross, but unlikely. |
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The first verse of Brantley Gilbert's song "One Hell of an Amen" refers to a soldier killed in action as "going out 21 guns blazing". A 21-gun salute is done with artillery pieces, not rifles, and is reserved for the funeral of a former or current president. The salute performed at soldiers' funerals is referred to as a three-volley salute and never has 21 shooters involved. It's possible Gilbert decided "21 guns blazing" was better rhythmically. | |
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In The Magicians, it's stated that one of the students at Brakebills was the son of a five-star general. The United States Army hasn't promoted anybody to that rank since 1950, and the last one (Omar Bradley) died in 1981; the book is set post-2000 and though the series operates on the rule of Like Reality, Unless Noted, there's no clear indication that US military history is really that different within the setting. | |
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Beetle Bailey has numerous examples. The outdated uniforms, weapons, open-bay style barracks, etc. usually stand out to most, and nowadays Sgt. Snorkel would be NJP'd and removed from command of Beetle's platoon for striking a subordinate, if not outright put in the brig for how severely he beats him. Oddly enough, there have been a few strips where Snorkel is thrown in the brig with his stripes ripped off after he does something really stupid (like wreck General Halftrack's car in a fit of rage) but this only lasts a day at most. Almost everyone calls Beetle by his nickname (Sgt. Snorkel does almost exclusively). While not completely unheard of, it's essentially his first name (he had the nickname prior to the service) and most nicknames a superior would call you would be something you earned in service. Gen. Halftrack and a few of the Lieutenants do occasionally call him Private Bailey, however. While much of this is intentional (it being a humor strip, after all), the anachronisms are mostly due to being a Long Runner. When Beetle signed up for the Army in Korean war times (both in real life and, back then, the strip), the uniforms, equipment, and procedures were a lot more current. |
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Divergence Eve identifies Mauve Shirt Luke Walker in English dialog as a chief petty officer, but his bio in the opening credits gives his rank as sergeant. Every other character uses naval-style ranks, and no, the Japanese words for the ranks aren't the same. | |
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Mostly averted in The Hunt for Red October: Tom Clancy got so much about submarine operations right that he was briefly investigated by the Department of Defense to make sure they didn't have any leaks. That said, there are still some mistakes. See also Artistic License – Ships. The main conceit of the "caterpillar" magneto-hydrodynamic drive making the eponymous Red October nearly silent misses that the noisiest thing on a nuclear submarine is the reactor's cooling systems, not the propellers. Soviet submarines were particularly noisy. Diesel-electric submarines such as the Kilo-class are much quieter, but sacrifice speed and underwater endurance. Red October is to be paired with a Lira/Alfa-class attack sub, the Konovalov, for testing the caterpillar drive. The Soviets didn't give individual names to Lira-class boats: they were all given numerical designations beginning with 'K' (e.g. K-63). |
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Strike Witches: The official subtitles call Mio a Major (an Army/Air Force rank) in the subtitles. It's the right grade, but as a naval officer she should technically be a Lieutenant Commander. They also call Shirley a Lieutenant in episode 5, but since she's an officer in her country's Army, she should technically be a Captain. What makes this error more unusual is that the subtitles correctly referred to her as a First Lieutenant in episode 3 (she was promoted off-screen between the two episodes). The actual dialogue averts this, since the characters use the all-forces rank structure of the Imperial Japanese forces ('shousa' being used to refer to both army majors and navy lieutenant commanders, for instance). To add to the confusion, the Witches in the Joint Fighter Wing hold two ranks: One is for her native country and branch of service she originally is from, which should be addressed by whatever the appropriate title it is for the serving country/branch. And the other is for the League of Nations Air Force (LNAF), which is generally addressed in British Royal Air Force ranks. For example, in a drama CD, Barkhorn states that she is a Shousa (Major) in Karlsland Luftwaffe, but holds the rank of Taii (Captain/Flight Lieutenant) in 501st due to command structure and such. |
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The Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex episode "Jungle Cruise" has Section 9 tracking down a serial killer who is implied to be an ex-US Navy SEAL. The dialogue mentions he was a petty officer (an enlisted rank) while his photo shows him wearing a very good officer uniform. | |
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The dub of Digimon Tamers mentions the Army and National Guard; Japan has neither, officially, instead having a combined version in the form of the "Defense Forces" which, while technically not a military in the same vein as other countries,* Part of Japan's reformed constitution in the aftermath of World War II forbids them from having a military capable of taking offensive actions against other countries; of course, this is easier said than done, as any country that wants to remain even nominally independent needs armed forces for national defense, so Japan explicitly calls them "Defense Forces" to make the distinction clear. serves the purpose of both. The idea of having a separate Army and National Guard exists only in American doctrines. | |
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In the ending credits of the second volume of Hellsing Ultimate, the survivors of the attack on the Hellsing manor salute the dead at their funeral. Despite being a British organization, they use the American salute. An American-style salute given to Seras by the surviving Wild Geese in volume seven may or may not qualify — the Wild Geese are mercenaries, and said soldiers may have been trained to salute according to American traditions long before taking a job in England. | |
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Mostly averted in Marine Corps Yumi, thanks to the experiences of writer and translator Moreno. Happens during the Marine Corp graduation when the Eagle, Globe and Anchor is not depicted properly. This is justified as that symbol is a trademark of the USMC and the authors opt to not use the actual one in the comics. Moreno also points out any flaw in the depiction of the military in the summary below each page. Such as DIs not being as touchy as depicted and etc. |
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