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A military (or police) officer wears on their person an improbably large number of medals and other decorations for their age/rank/duration of service. Forms this trope can take include... An officer who has so many medals nailed to their uniform that one would expect them to be a ranking general-grade officer, but they turn out to be only a field- or junior-grade officer. And yes, they earned them all the hard way, fighting for their country. In other words, someone who is Colonel Badass / Majorly Awesome / The Captain that refuses to be promoted off the field, and has the medals as proof of their numerous heroic, badass achievements in combat. If the character in question is an enlisted man, you can guarantee he's a Sergeant Rock with a long and distinguished career. A general who has more medals than many men earn in their lifetime. This is because they're a Four-Star Badass who engaged in numerous major campaigns, surviving each of which would be considered a miracle in and of itself. In other words, this guy has shiny and decorative proof that he is an Old Soldier. A Miles Gloriosus who habitually takes undeserved credit or enjoys the benefits nepotism (daddy arranged easy, high profile postings) can superficially come across as a either of the above. (Frequently, alas, a Glory Hound.) A Phony Veteran who buys "chest candy" at auctions that they never earned and just wants to look impressive. It's not that the person hasn't earned all those medals or that they are fake. It's just that on closer inspection they are for the military equivalent of being Milk Monitor or for ordering other people to do heroic things or for administrative roles. These are often found on The Generalissimo, which likely has something to do with real-life examples sometimes being described in American slang with the not-very-politically-correct term "Mexican General."note Likely in reference to General Santa Anna or President Porfirio Diaz, both who almost always had chests of medals in public appearances. It's not uncommon for examples of 1 and 2 to decline to actually wear all of their ribbons and medals if their particular military allows that to be done (in some cases, they might not be allowed to wear certain ones on their uniform), either out of modesty or because putting on so many medals every day is a pain in the ass. In military lingo, the area on the uniform where medals and ribbons are worn is often referred to as a "fruit salad" or "party salad". See also Bling of War. |
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In The Black Emperor, General Darlton has so many medals (all earned the hard way) that he has to keep them spread across several uniforms and just picks a uniform to wear each day. | |
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In Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, Captain Walker Hoxie's chest is decorated with several rows of ribbons he won for his service in World War II and the Korean War, indicating his one and only calling in life. | |
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Solar Alliance Admiral Grey from Sunrider has quite a few medals covering his uniform, and the game makes it clear that he’s one of the Solar Alliance’s best military minds. His PACT counterpart, Veniczar Kuushana, has a much more modest five medals◊ pinned to her uniform. | |
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While we don't really see them, the Secretary of Defense in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension claims that he has "enough decorations to snap a Christmas tree." | |
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The book Bellmaker in the Redwall series has the character Meldrum Fallowthorn the Magnificent, who would be type 4 or 5, but is actually a Type 2 because he is very capable in combat, as he awards himself a medal after defeating an enemy and his chest is full of medals, though at least one of them (which he uses to assist in breaking out when the characters are thrown in prison by the villain) was given to him by someone else. | |
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Maverick in Top Gun: Maverick is shown at Iceman's funeral with a truly impressive number of medals that cover most of the left side of his uniform for various actions throughout his career, something that is commented on by Admiral Caine earlier on when going through his record. This is in contrast to the more subdued ribbon stack he wore in the original film, which makes sense, since he was likely awarded most of these medals in the various conflicts the United States found itself in in the decades since. | |
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The list of medals and knightly orders in Honor Harrington's full title would make for an impressive fruit salad per se, though they are but the highest awards she's received in her half century of service. | |
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In The Serial Murders, one representative at the Auction of Evil is a General Skinner who has "a chest-spread of medal-ribbons", which Richard notices aren't all from the 20th century (the story is set in The '70s). This doesn't indicate he didn't earn them, though; it indicates he's been in the military longer than humanly possible. | |
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In the old Looney Tunes short "Little Beau Porky" (1936), set in the French Foreign Legion, the fort commandant has so many medals on his chest they jingle loudly as he walks, and the bars holding them are wider than he is. At the end of the cartoon Porky has a similar collection for defeating the bandit Ali Mode. | |
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The French Ambassador in Of Thee I Sing: | |
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Zigzagged in The Day of the Jackal, as part of his plan to create a disguise as a wounded veteran, Jackal buys a large number of pawned medals. But then he looks up what they all mean and only keeps a subset of them, enough to support the identity he's creating without being so highly decorated as to draw attention to himself. What he ends up keeping declares his cover identity to be a veteran of the North Africa and Normandy campaigns, who was decorated for valor once. | |
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A variant shows up in Animalympics with swimming champ Mark Spritz, a veteran athlete who wears a vast number of Olympic-style gold medals around his neck. Based on a real person, incidentally. | |
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In the first appearance of the Puchuus in Excel♡Saga, they are shown being awarded medals for doing a war dance around Hyatt's comatose body a hundred times. | |
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In The Feast of the Goat, Trujillo the Goat, dictator of the Dominican Republic, had so many medals on his chest that he was nicknamed "Bottlecaps". | |
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In The Death of Stalin, Field Marshal Zhukov's torso is plastered with various medals, of which he's evidently extremely proud. This was actually not all the medals Zhukov was entitlednote and, according to Soviet uniform regulations at the time (as seen here), actually required to wear in Real Life, as he actually wore◊ nearly twice as many. His actor noted in an interview that they were going to put even more on him, but he simply wasn't as broad up top as the real Zhukov and they ran out of room. | |
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The Benny Hill Show: in a sketch about a wheelchair race we see one of the participants pre-race talking with someone, shot from below. He's got a chest full of medals. He crosses his legs, at which time we see he's even got medals on the soles of his shoes. | |
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In The Andy Griffith Show, "A Medal for Opie", Opie has an Imagine Spot about winning a foot race, when receiving his award he already has numerous medals pinned to his shirt, so Andy turns him around and pins it on his back. | |
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Spoofed in Sturmtruppen when two German officers were shown with this... And Musolesi picking which medals he wanted as payment for their poker debts. | |
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Super Time Force's Commander Repeatski has a whole chest of medals, awarded to him for saving the world. | |
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DuckTales (1987): The president of the Banana Republic in "Allowance Day". | |
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The Boomers in Fallout: New Vegas have US military medals, ribbons, and patches from their neck to their ankles. They didn't actually earn any of them, since they're just Gun Nuts who took control of the post-nuclear holocaust Nellis Air Force Base. | |
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In Don't Say Goodbye, Farewell, after a supporting character makes a snide remark about being able to feel the shine on his boots being stripped right off, the narration comments that the party salad of the senior officers entering the lounge "ought to be enough shine for anyone". Characters in other stories similarly comment on Kanril Eleya's party salad, which includes a lot of combat "V"s. In Create Your Own Fate, she observes that the Moabite characters in turn have a lot of decorations but not all the ones they're authorized for, before giving them an impromptu medal ceremony for the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor. | |
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Red Dwarf's series 1 finale "Me2" depicted Rimmer as having earned four medals, which he wears with an exaggerated dress uniform. Surprisingly, each of these medals is a genuine award, though, a lot less surprisingly they're not high honours: | |
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The novel Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo (not to be confused with the comic) is set in a post-colonial African dictatorship inhabited by animals à la Animal Farm. Naturally, a lot of the military leaders show up, and they're described as having "shiny constellations of medals glistening on solid chests". | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: In Komarr the local Chief of ImpSec figured out that Lord Auditor Vorkosigan wasn't just a courier during his military career: In Memory, Miles actually dons all of his medals for the first time. In addition to all the medals he got from his own nation (which include multiple rows worth of Purple Heart equivalents - which does not include every time he was wounded in action, because that happened so many times that after a while Ilyan refused to give him any more), he has the highest possible military honor from Vervain (for saving them from the Cetagandans), Marilac (for saving them from the Cetagandans) — and Cetaganda (for saving them from themselves). People are shocked by the medals because he's a really fragile midget (due to development problems caused by poison while his mother was pregnant with him). Miles is slightly shocked as he's pinning them all into place on his tunic, describing the combined effect as "little short of looney." Miles's first stop with all of the decorations is an audience with the Emperor... at which he picks up another decoration, the chain and seal of an Imperial Auditor, which he needs for his next stop. Averted by Ghem-Admiral Har in Cetaganda, who could have worn "enough medals to sink him should he chance to fall in a river" to a gathering, but instead one-ups the competition by wearing only the ribbon and medallion of the Order of Merit - the same exceptionally high award Miles receives at the end of the book and wears in the above example. |
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In The Lost Fleet: Nearly every Alliance sailor, even very junior ones, wears an impressive collection of awards because they've participated in numerous bloody campaigns. Geary is conspicuous in his lack of decorations (since he spent almost the entirety of the war in stasis). In the follow-up series Beyond the Frontier, when Dauntless first encounters the "Shield of Sol"note actually an uninvited Edgeward force asserting dominance over Old Sol, the Shield High-Commodore-with-special-sauce's solid wall of medals is Geary's confirmation that he's dealing with a peacetime amateur navy. Desjani promptly nicknames the commodore Mister Medals, and Geary snarks that he probably has medals for wearing his other medals correctly. |
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On Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines, Muttley imagines himself this way in "Sky High I.Q." | |
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Stargate SG-1 lead character Colonel Jack O'Neill is shown wearing a fairly impressive rack of commendation strips on his regular dress uniform, all of which he's earned over a military career of several decades. Teammate Captain Samantha Carter has a smaller but still respectable collection.note Using the term "rack" in this case might lead to an unfortunate double entendre. Commanding officer Major General George Hammond has even more. Sam's father General Jacob Carter by contrast has a much smaller party salad, but it includes the Legion of Merit, the United States military's second-highest honor. Over the franchise's long run, O'Neill eventually gets promoted all the way to Lieutenant General and Carter to Brigadier General. They acquire even more medals over this time, although the dress uniforms are rarely seen. Carter's medals become a plot point when she's in Washington to receive the Air Medal and her father (also an Air Force officer) is skeptical about how her work on "deep-space radar telemetry" (the Stargate program's cover story) would earn her a medal reserved for heroic achievements while participating in aerial flight. |
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In Seven Days in May note It's worth mentioning that the amount of real estate on Col. Casey's chest isn't ludicrous, and is a reasonable amount for someone of his rank: | |
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At the start of Mr. Standfast, the third Richard Hannay novel, Hannay (by this point a Four-Star Badass in the regular army as well as a veteran of the British secret service), reflects on his collection of honors: | |
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Lightheartedly mentioned a few times in the X-Wing Series, as when Wes Janson receives (yet another) commendation for valor and his squadmates joke that he could build a fort out of them. One of the local perators is wearing the more traditional Generalissimo-style block of decorations in Starfighters of Adumar, although fitting the culture there he probably earned them, too. | |
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Mass Effect: One of the characters claims that Anderson "could melt all his medals and make a life-sized statue of himself". The presentation and names ("Council Legion of Merit", "Service Star") of the games' achievements suggest that they are actual awards presented to Shepard over the course of the game, which would mean a quite hefty medal case for them, too. |
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In A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script, Finrod's Captain of Rangers does not like wear them or boast about them, but he has received so many battle honours it is speculated they outweigh his hauberk. | |
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In Super Mario Bros. (1993), Koopa's military uniform has tons of medals, as well as spikes. | |
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The Kris Longknife series, Kris, after only 6 years in the military, accumulated essentially every top award for valor in combat issued in human space, including that given by her usual mortal enemies of Greenfeld, and from an alien species she'd literally just met a few days previously (and saved from invasion and extinction). One of the aliens, trying to hang a medal around Kris's neck, snarks she's having difficulty finding a place for it. Earlier in Resolute, she wryly observes that her opposite number from Greenfeld, Hank Peterwald, has more medals than her, but no combat "V"s, whereas all of hers feature a "V" device (The sole exception was a medal awarded for fighting in a specific battle, so there was no reason to have a "V" device, as everyone who earned it did so in combat). | |
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Halo: The Fall of Reach: After John (the future Master Chief) is wounded in his first combat mission and awarded a Purple Heart, he's quite proud of it and works hard to keep it shiny, until the news of Harvest's devastation at the hands of the Covenant makes him reconsider his priorities. 27 years later, when he's a galactic war hero and has been awarded almost every medal in the UNSC Navy, he's shown walking in with a uniform coated with medals and no longer caring how they look. It's mentioned that he earned every medal the UNSC has to offer except the Prisoner of War medal, since the Covenant have a nasty habit of not taking prisoners. | |
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Two of the bosses in Bionic Commando Rearmed are generals with so many medals that they actually stop bullets, rendering them immune to attacks from the front. You have to either shoot them in the back or throw grenades behind them. | |
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In one early Knights of the Dinner Table story, Brian comes up with the idea of creating medals for gaming achievements. Bob and Dave run with the idea: | |
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Girl Genius: Mechanicsburg Militia Gunner Mitko wears a jacket with thirty-seven badges indicating victorious battles. | |
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In Willie and Joe, the titular GIs proudly bringing a garishly-uniformed prisoner to the MPs, thinking they've captured an Italian general, results in the disappointing revelation that he's actually the local police chief. | |
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In Darksaber, the Imperial warlords Daala gathered together and assassinated all had lots of self-awarded medals. One actually had some medals that could be assembled into a knife (much good that did him). Lightheartedly mentioned a few times in the X-Wing Series, as when Wes Janson receives (yet another) commendation for valor and his squadmates joke that he could build a fort out of them. One of the local perators is wearing the more traditional Generalissimo-style block of decorations in Starfighters of Adumar, although fitting the culture there he probably earned them, too. |
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Journey to Chaos: Eric's civilian boss on Threa wore one of these to his commerical energy company because he still thinks he's in the military. When Tiza complains about the lack of recognition for capturing a criminal mage above her level, Basilard replies that if she wants a chest of medals she should join the Ataidar military. The Dragon's Lair doesn't do that sort of thing; mercenaries are only awarded their wages. |
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By the second book of Theirs Not to Reason Why, Ia has earned so many decorations that the awarding officer can't find room on her uniform for all of them and is forced to just hand them over in their boxes. (This is why the real military uses studs of some kind to signify multiple instances of the same decoration.) | |
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Later in the series, Ultraman Hikari from Ultraman Mebius comes from a similar high ranking as Zoffy, and indeed his chest is similarly adorned with star medals. | |
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NCIS: Gibbs has been awarded numerous medals and citations, however since he doesn't particularly care for them Tony has to keep track of them; he even gave away his Silver Star in one episode. | |
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In a medal ceremony scene at the end of Red Sparrow, all the SVR characters are in full dress uniform, with many medals on the chests of the likes of General Korchnoi and Matron. Inverted with Dominika, who only wears the medal she was just awarded: the Gold Star of the Hero of the Russian Federation. | |
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Xenonauts has this as a gameplay mechanic. Soldiers can be awarded medals for various feats (Killing a certain number of aliens, surviving a certain number of missions, being wounded in action, etc.) and each medal provides bonuses to a soldier's stats. | |
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Once scene in Patton has the camera linger on a bunch of his medals and awards, though as noted below in Real Life he probably had way more medals than that. | |
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Star Trek: when Captain Kirk is being court martialed, as part of his identification process the computer starts reading out a very long list of impressive-sounding medals he's won. The opposing side wants to cut it short because it's taking too long to list his achievements. | |
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The Supreme Custodian in Septimus Heap is depicted as this. | |
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Sengoku in One Piece. It stands out as such since he's one of the few high-ranking Marines who actually wears a uniform and his merits. Justified though, since he's the Fleet Admiral, and surviving for as long as he did in the Marines isn't for sissies. | |
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Gaunt's Ghosts: Lord General Hechtor Dravere, the Big Bad Wannabe of First and Only, makes a habit of wearing the full complement of his campaign medals at all times, regardless of the occasion. Since his Establishing Character Moment introduces him as an Armchair Military leader par excellence, these are all implied to have been awarded for "leading" campaigns where everybody else did the actual fighting. The background book The Sabbat Worlds Crusade adds that Dravere's old boss, Warmaster Slaydo, called him "The Old Gong" behind his back (and quite possibly to his face). |
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In Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars!, the Air Marshal exemplifies this and is basically in it for the medals. | |
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'Allo 'Allo! has Captain Bertorelli (a type 3) who has three rows of large, showy, medals (and loads of gold braid): | |
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In The Hunt for Red October, Captain Ramius wears ribbons for pretty much every single award handed out by the Soviet Union, though he is rather conspicuously lacking "Hero of the Soviet Union". Given that Ramius is supposed to have created and trained the Soviet nuclear submarine arm pretty much by himself, anything less would be suspicious. | |
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights: When Luca opens his coat to show the Sheriff of Rottingham his archery medals, the sheriff is stunned by the amount of them (and the amount of light they reflect). | |
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In the first Wing Commander game, the player character can end up like this if you are highly successful. This is purely a cosmetic achievement that only impacts an image in the barracks, and rank and commendations have no impact on game abilities or progression. This is discarded in the sequels. | |
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In the Ultra Series, the eldest member of the original Ultra Brothers, Ultraman Zoffy, have star-shaped medals adorned all over his chest surrounding his Colour Timer. Later in the series, Ultraman Hikari from Ultraman Mebius comes from a similar high ranking as Zoffy, and indeed his chest is similarly adorned with star medals. |
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In Starfist when General Alistar Cazombi is first introduced, some of the soldiers are incredulous because the general only has two ribbons on his chest. A more savvy characters points out that they need to look at what the medals are. The first one is the common Rifleman medal every Marine receives after finishing their training. The second one is the highest medal for bravery their nation awards. The general has dozens of other decorations but only wears the two that really matter. | |
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In The Rock, Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel sports a spectacular chest of medals on his Marine dress uniform in the opening scene. It's used to establish his credentials without any exposition; this is a guaranteed war hero who is very good at what he does. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Imperial Guard generals tend to follow this model, with the authenticity of the medals depending on the generals and the regiments involved. Subverted by the Space Marines, whose accolades usually take the form of lists of accomplishments written on parchment and affixed all over their armor rather than concentrated on the chest. Length of service is indicated by forehead studs, one per century. The Living Legend Sly Marbo has received countless medals for his accomplishments and multiple Stars of Terra, but he doesn't keep a single one on him, instead his commanding officer holds onto them for him. |
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In Witches' Legacy 8: Dark Days to Come the leader of the resistance movement against Marcus and Mara has about twenty in a big block. Possibly legitimately earned as he appears to be in his forties or fifties and is a two-star general. | |
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Gaz Dreams of Genie: In the Villain World created by Gaz's first wish where Zim took over Earth, the city streets are lined with billboards featuring him, including one where he's wearing an Irken military dress uniform covered in medals. | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic imageboard Derpibooru gives out little badges for different things such as being an artist, a heavy contributer of high scoring artwork, a donator, and etc. The artist Badumquish has managed to land 19 of themnote The artist badge and all five uploader badges, three of the four "milestone" badges, a badge for having an image hit 1000 upvotes, four badges for monetary donations, one for finding and reporting a security flaw in the site, and numerous "mystery" badges just by being an active member of the site who uses it itself as his home gallery (which is apparently not common). As a result his comments tend to stick out like a sore thumb. | |
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General Krukov in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 has a modest Soviet Officer uniform with one of two medals when we first see him in the prime universe (or for what the term Prime Universe means anymore). By the time he has adjusted to the Alternate Universe where the Soviets are winning the war, he's got tons, on both sides of his chest no less. It's implied that he awarded most of these to himself. | |
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A non-military variant in Up. Russell the Wilderness Explorer wears a sash coated front and back with merit badges. | |
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In JAG this trope is somewhat subverted as the main characters actually have far fewer ribbons (in terms of quantity not quality) than Navy and Marine Corps personnel in real-life similar positions do have. Although few judge advocates has ever earned the Navy Cross (like Chegwidden), a Silver Star and two Distinguished Flying Crosses (like Rabb), or the Bronze Star (like Turner). Fewer still have the SEAL Trident and Bronze Star with Combat V (Chegwidden again). |
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Though not as exaggerated as other examples, General Mikiel from Strider (2014) has around half a dozen medals and two large badges proudly displayed in his chest. | |
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Joaquin in The Book of Life has a chest full of medals as an adult and he will gladly tell you about everyone of them. Which help him hide the most important medal of all: The Medal of Everlasting Life. | |
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In White House Down, General Caulfield's uniform chest is so blinged-out that he's probably bulletproof from the front. Being played by Lance Reddick is pretty much the only thing that keeps him from looking completely ridiculous. | |
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Minister of War Herring in The Great Dictator, after he ran out of space on his chest, they started pinning new medals on his back. | |
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In Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (the sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) the American Military Officer known only as The Chief of the Army. | |
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In M.A.S.K., Miles Mayhem is usually shown in military uniform with either an impressive-looking ribbon or a row of medals. Although he did serve in the military before becoming a terrorist without a cause, the letters page in the UK comic once claimed that he stole the medals, making him a type 4. | |
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The Sky One film adaptation of The Last Dragonslayer has an interesting twist on the trope — pompous King Snodd is the leader of Hereford's military, and he wears a dozen or more medals pinned along the ermine trim of his royal robes. | |
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A Few Good Men shows several characters' ribbon stacks, since they spend a lot of time in formal uniform for the court martial of Dawson and Downey. However, a noticeable aversion is Daniel Kaffee, who wears a single ribbon representing the National Defence Service Medal, which he would have qualified for simply by being in the service during the Gulf War. This serves to highlight his inexperience, as he's noted to have only been a JAG lawyer for less than a year at this point. | |
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RCN: In The Way to Glory, Daniel Leary is said to have enough medals to make an admiral jealous despite being ranked only a lieutenant. These include the Cinnabar Star with cluster, equivalent to being awarded the Medal of Honor twice. | |
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While several of the Kanmusu in Harry and the Shipgirls qualify, it has been joked that the Destroyer Fubuki has so many medals that if she attempted to set sail with all of them on, she would sink. | |
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Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth: In the first game, Quercus Alba is revealed to have a rather impressive one, once he stops pretending to be a harmless, scatterbrained old man and reveals himself as the Big Bad. Notably, he is fond of doing an Aside Glance directly into the camera with the smuggest expression possible while showing off how much his medals sparkle and shine. In the second game, Blaise Debeste, one of only two prosecutors in the series to actually wear his prosecutor's badge instead of keeping it in his pocket (the other being his son Sebastian), apparently decided to make up for everyone else in his profession by wearing about thirty of them at once. It's implied that these are the badges of the prosecutors he took down as part of the Prosecutorial Investigation Committee. His own badge is separated from the rest and pinned to his lapel instead. |
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This is repeated in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Measure of a Man, as part of Picard's goal to show Data is a person. Somewhat interesting, both characters don't have that many awards (Kirk 7, Data 4), the problem comes from the fact that the machine reading them out does so SLOWLY. For your information, images of Kirk and Data's awards (among others) can be found here. |
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In Starship Troopers, Johnny mentions that the boot camp quartermaster and a civilian police officer wear decorations on their uniforms. He says that if he'd known what the quartermaster's ribbons meant at the time he wouldn't have dared backtalked the man (luckily the quartermaster treated recruits kindly) and he immediately treats the cop with respect after quick look at the man's rack. | |
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