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Cultured Warrior
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Many soldiers in fiction are rough, abrasive grunts who wouldn't know a work of poetry if it hit them during an artillery barrage. The Cultured Warrior is somewhat different. He (it's usually a he; if it's a she, she's usually also a Lady of War) knows his history and culture. He'll happily quote Byron or Keats during a battle. Often a Blue Blood, he likes fine wines and opera music and may have gone to a Boarding School. Oftentimes, they simply believe that things like culture are what they are fighting for; without the fine things in life, there is nothing but more war to look forward to. It does not need to be evident at first. This is a common form of Hidden Depths. Can be good or evil. Compare Officer and a Gentleman and Warrior Poet (usually positive), Wicked Cultured (negative), and Cultured Badass (either way). |
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Colonel William Travis in The Alamo is a flawlessly dressed lawyer who uses impeccably proper English but impresses Davy Crockett and his men. For example, he shoots a charging cavalry soldier with a single-shot dueling pistol as the soldier charges him. | |
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The Saga of Arrow-Odd: The viking Hjalmar has set various rules for himself and his warriors, such as not robbing peasants and merchants and to never kidnap women. But the very first rule he lists is that they will not eat uncooked meat, come what will. | |
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Nathan Hale and Alexander Hamilton in The Dreamer. | |
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Hakha from Killzone despite being a Helghan enjoys a bit of poetry and philosophy outside of combat despite growing up being in a Space Nazi country. | |
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In Maiden Rose, several members of the main cast are this, given how many of them are also Blue Blooded. Katsuragi is the one who really flaunts it but he's also more of a Desk Jockey than the others. | |
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Beast of X-Men is like this. His intro in the third film has him hanging by his feet from the ceiling... reading Scientific American. He spends the first half of the film or so in a suit. | |
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For instance, the title character of Usagi Yojimbo is very good at calligraphy and will always justify that this talent is fully in keeping with his calling. | |
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In the Honor Harrington series, several senior Manticoran officers are known not only for their performance in battle, but also their scholarship. Similarly, several of the Mesans are shown to be rather cultured themselves, with one senior operative shown to be a fan of Manticoran classical music. | |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Sgt. Slaughter, a Sergeant Rock if ever there was one, is revealed in the episode "G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece", when a team is transported back in time, to be fluent in Ancient Greek (or at least one of the four dialects used at the time, each of which is very different from modern Greek): | |
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Lord Suffolk from The English Patient: a learned aristocrat who contributes to the war effort by training and leading sappers in defusing Axis bombs. | |
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Wehrmacht officer Friedrich von Hecht has some shades of this in Hornets' Nest. He is extremely well-spoken and urbane compared to his brutish SS colleagues. His uniform is more immaculately kept than the other Germans', and he also wears blue cloth gloves instead of black leather ones. | |
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Robert Leckie in its spiritual sequel, The Pacific is able to quote poetry from memory, has read about the Turkish sack of Smyrna, and actually writes a poem himself in the aftermath of the Battle of Guadalcanal. | |
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Kvothe of The Kingkiller Chronicle attends a magic uiversity, is a skilled craftsman of many magical items, is one of the best musicians in history, and has extensive knowledge of literature, theater, and courtly manners. He's also a talented hand-to-hand fighter who took on a bandit camp nearly single-handed using Blood Magic. | |
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Jet Black from Cowboy Bebop is an interplanetary ex-cop turned Bounty Hunter who reads Enlightenment-era literature, tends bonsai, and is a jazz aficionado. | |
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In the Discworld series, Wee Mad Arthur is growing into this. Having discovered and embraced his Nac Mac Feegle heritage he remains as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than ever while calming his ever-present rage at the world. However, being raised by gnomes means that he has also acquired an appreciation for the finer things in life like a night out at the opera. | |
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Genesis in Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core. He spends half of his screentime quoting poetry, and the other half being a badass. | |
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Ambassador G'Kar is a religious scholar (he is in fact the senior representative of his faith aboard the station, and becomes the senior representative of an entirely new faith later on), in addition to being an opera singer of much-disputed talent. | |
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While he is illiterate, Hadinn from Invincea And The Warriors From Hell favors the finer things and is an enthusiastic player of chess, even taking up wood carving to make his own set. | |
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It's true, Trek does like its heroes cultured. Note that at the beginning of Star Trek: First Contact, Riker (himself a trombonist) walks in on Picard who's listening to an opera. Riker asks if it's Bizet, Picard tells him it's Berlioz. Also, Picard came from a wine-making family, fenced (as in the modern Olympic sport), and played a wind instrument. | |
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Sten of Dragon Age: Origins is a huge warrior who specialises in beating people up with a two-handed sword. He is also keenly interested in art, with paintings as the gifts that earn the most approval from him, and some of the highest approval boosts you get in conversations with him involve raising intelligent challenges to his Qunari philosophy. | |
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Bombergirl has Sister Sepia Belmont, a descendant of the legendary Belmont clan and an ass-kicking nun who wields the ancestral Vampire Killer and a massive Cross Chainsaw, and her hobby is gardening. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sokka's swordsmanship instructor Piandao is quite like this. Really, all of the Order of the White Lotus people are this to some degree, being very old and experienced and belonging to an organization dedicated to preserving balance in the world, and they try to introduce their protégés to this philosophy and lifestyle as well. Piandao is just the most obvious about it. The Legend of Korra gives us borderline example Amon in the first season. He knows his history well enough to draw parallels to Zuko and point out all the wars caused by bending, he maintains an air of dignity and intelligence even under high-stress situations, makes eloquent speeches, and is only violent towards benders. The Legend of Korra also has this for the second season's Big Bad, but it's hard to get into without massive spoilers. The clearest example in Korra, though, is the third season's Big Bad, Zaheer. He's a formidable combatant - fighting him one-on-one generally results in a Curb-Stomp Battle (unless you're the Avatar, or one of Aang's children - ruthless and fiercely dedicated to his goals, and well-versed in Air Nomad history, culture, philosophy, and poetry. |
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City of No End: Asa Janus is both the Captain of the Tunnheld Guard and the author of an acclaimed prose rendition of the Narosek, the national epic of the Depths. | |
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This trope laid the foundation for an interesting conflict in the submarine thriller Crimson Tide. Colonel Badass -like Capt. Ramsey (Gene Hackman) points out that when he joined the Navy, they wanted basically "hard-ass grunts who only knew war" but now they seem to want people like his Executive Officer (Denzel Washington) who are more "cultured". He makes the remark "When I was at the Academy they taught us metallurgy and physics. Not 18th-century philosophy". | |
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Band of Brothers: Unlike many of his enlisted fellows in Easy Company, who are mostly farmboys and street kids, Private Webster was actually college-educated when he enlisted, was a good writer, and knew how to speak German. Robert Leckie in its spiritual sequel, The Pacific is able to quote poetry from memory, has read about the Turkish sack of Smyrna, and actually writes a poem himself in the aftermath of the Battle of Guadalcanal. |
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According to Poker Night at the Inventory, Heavy Weapons Guy has a PhD in Russian literature. Apparently it's more useful than you'd think in his line of work. | |
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Scott Steiner likes to project this image by wearing chain mail, bragging about going to the University of Michigan, and reciting Latin phrases. He then usually shows himself to be a Dumb Jock with Delusions of Eloquence. | |
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Star Trek: Worf is shown to be a cultured warrior even during the early seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation who loves to recite Klingon poetry. In later seasons of The Next Generation and during his time on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Worf is shown to be a dedicated fan of Klingon opera. By the time the third season of Star Trek: Picard takes place in late 2401, Worf has broadened his horizons to include human culture - for example he listens to human opera while performing his Klingon calisthenics and enjoys the bottles of Chateau Picard the Admiral sent his way. | |
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Grand Admiral Thrawn, of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. If it were not for his willingness to lie, cheat, express destructive hints of temper, and even destroy art if it would win him a battle, he might even qualify as an Officer and a Gentleman. (He certainly does in the Outbound Flight prequel.) In Death Star, we've got Nova Stihl, a trooper whose stash of illicit holos are all lectures on philosophy. Also, he's Force-Sensitive. A great deal of the Jedi Order and quite a few Sith Lords would fit well into this trope. Count Dooku for instance was very well known for his cultured nature as a Jedi Master, and even later as a Sith Lord this was maintained in his speech and mannerisms. He was also the hereditary Count of the planet Serenno. |
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Zidane Tribal of Final Fantasy IX: Warrior, thief and actor. Also Kuja, though in his case, it's the "warrior" part that comes as a surprise. | |
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Final Fantasy VI: Cyan Garamonde is not only a mighty swordsman, he's also remarkably gifted at creating hand-made silk flowers and writing poetry. He's rather embarrassed when the party discovers this, though it comes with the territory (he's a walking reference to the Tokugawa era). | |
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In Girl Genius, the Jaegers have a reputation for being not too smart, which is generally true. And then there's Jorgi, whose father wanted to be a philosopher and who taught his children all about "duality and the politics of non-being as related to platonic reality". | |
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Bloody thirsty and ruthless mercenary captain Askeladd in Vinland Saga likes to school fools in history and religion, usually right before he ends their lives in a spectacularly bloody fashion. | |
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One McAuslan story focuses on a quiz show between two British infantry battalions in North Africa just after World War II. The eight contestants, two of them enlisted men, display incredible knowledge of trivia, whether current, historical, literary, or classical, though the contest is ultimately won by the battalion illiterate, who had overheard the answer to the final question years before in a pub. | |
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BattleTech: Most of the Clans have no interest in warriors doing anything not related to fighting, but Clan Ghost Bear has a long tradition of having their warriors practice some form or artistic pursuit as well, such as painting, sculpting, or poetry. Each warrior has a Great Work, a masterpiece they spend their whole lives trying to complete. The warriors of the Draconis Combine, in emulation of the Samurai of ancient Terra, often take up pursuits such as calligraphy or other art. Even their Coordinator, functionally parallel to the Japanese Emperor, is expected to show talents in both art and war—Theodore Kurita was known to be a talented pilot, a masterful strategist, a respected swordsman, and an excellent classical shodo calligrapher. |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: Jagganoth enjoys philosophy, tinkering and collects and composes Aam'ya'ke death poetry, which he can even be persuaded to perform on the right occasion. That is, just before he kills you and burns your world to the ground in his quest to annihilate existence as we know it. | |
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Khan Noonien Singh of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is this too. Even in his exile, he has a copy of Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, and King Lear on his bookshelf. | |
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Discussed in an issue of the Archie Comics where Moose looks to join the military and goes to Mr. Howitzer (a retired drill sergeant turned teacher) for advice. Howitzer tells him to finish high school first and even encourages him to consider post-secondary education, explaining that the modern military has little to no use for uneducated soldiers. | |
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The first thing Rider of Fate/Zero, Alexander, did after his summoning was to visit a library to get an atlas (for planning his world conquest) and a copy of The Iliad, which he likes to read. In fact, he enjoys it so much he'll even have other people read it out loud to him during battle. | |
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In Death Star, we've got Nova Stihl, a trooper whose stash of illicit holos are all lectures on philosophy. Also, he's Force-Sensitive. | |
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Temeraire is extremely well-read for a dragon, and speaks fluent French. | |
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Bait and Switch (STO): Lieutenant Dul'krah, Clan Korekh, security chief of the USS Bajor, competently plays the vodchakh, an instrument similar to a violin. In chapter eight he's managed to adapt for it a Bajoran harp concerto that's apparently already a challenging piece on the instrument it was written for. | |
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Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt received a classical education with the Schola Progenium as a candidate to become a Commissar, and while he tries to lead and identify with his men above all else, his cultured background bleeds through on occasion. The Craftworld Eldar are an entire race of these. Many Eldar artists have experience as Aspect Warriors, and even ones who don't have to serve as Guardians when the Craftworld goes to war (which it does often). Similarly, the 10,000-strong Adeptus Custodes are well versed in politics, history, philosophy, and other fields in addition to being peerless warriors and bodyguards of the Emperor, intended as both His protectors and companions that he could discuss whatever he liked with, something no Astartes would ever be expected to do. |
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Transformers: Animated Prowl is a skilled ninja-bot who takes his time to appreciate nature. There is also Bulkhead, the massive bruiser with a fascination for the works of Picasso. | |
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Plato from Beetle Bailey is the intellectual one, who is well educated about anything in the humanities and sciences. | |
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The girls of Gunslinger Girl are exposed to various amounts of culture and actually take classes on them. We are also shown that Henrietta is actually a skilled violinist, Claes is very well-read and she and Triela are seen discussing Honoré de Balzac and Tosca. On the other hand, all of this culture has little effect on Rico (probably due to her handling) and Angelica can't remember anything anymore. The "cultured" in Henrietta's case was a side effect of a more pragmatic notion, though: if memory serves, Jose ordered her to play violin partly to improve the sensitivity of her fingers, which was lower than expected after the cybernitization surgery. He could, of course, have picked another, less cultural exercise for her, so it wasn't an entirely unexpected side effect, either. Triela, Claes, and Angelica, on the other hand, have had very educated handlers who treated them like their own daughters, hence the culture. | |
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Child of the Storm has a few, though most of them are Cultured Badasses instead. Steve, as per canon, being an accomplished artist. T'Challa, being a well-educated and polished young man who can nonetheless beat the hell out of most anyone he comes up against. Baron Zemo, a lightning-fast, well-educated, and utterly lethal Master Swordsman, fills this role on the villains side. |
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The Unknown Soldier has a deconstruction of this in Major Sarastie. He says intellectual, wise-sounding things, seems like he was pondering of something deep and meaningful, and admires the ethnographic value of the buildings of the occupied areas. However, it's mostly just a front. He's aware of this trope and that he as an officer should try to live up to it. In reality, his thoughts and interests are much more down-to-earth and practical. | |
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Brother Mouzone on The Wire reads Harper's Monthly, The Nation, and other intellectual magazines, in between performing Drug executions. Stringer Bell tries to put on this air, but never quite succeeds. The end of Stringer Bell's character arch leaves this open, (McNulty picks up The Wealth Of Nation in Stringer's apartment) "Who the fuck was I chasing?" | |
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Beast Wars is loaded with these, Dinobot being the most evident example as he's a bloodthirsty raptor with a passion for Shakespeare and history. But Megatron's a good example of Wicked Cultured. There's also the chain-gun wield, flower and science-loving Rhinox. | |
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Chosen Man Harris from Sharpe series is well educated, has a deep knowledge of classical literature, is fluent in several modern and ancient languages, and was even employed as a private teacher before joining the Rifles. He also masks it quite well under his mischievous and hedonistic persona. | |
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Billy Coen from Resident Evil 0, a Marine who's tough as nails, a biting Deadpan Snarker, and is built like the space shuttle, also happens to be damned good at the piano and able to read sheet music. | |
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RWBY: Second Generation: Verse. He falls to the Warrior Poet side, but he does show himself as a writer and artist in the field of battle. | |
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The Legend of Korra gives us borderline example Amon in the first season. He knows his history well enough to draw parallels to Zuko and point out all the wars caused by bending, he maintains an air of dignity and intelligence even under high-stress situations, makes eloquent speeches, and is only violent towards benders. The Legend of Korra also has this for the second season's Big Bad, but it's hard to get into without massive spoilers. | |
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See also Spock, with his Vulcan harp, not to mention all of the human high culture he seems to be an expert in. Like recognizing Johannes Brahms' musical handwriting and Leonardo da Vinci's painting technique on sight (neither of which is necessarily impossible or difficult; it just takes a serious fan)—and that the works he's witnessing weren't on the historical record (again, serious fan). | |
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From Airwolf, lead character Stringfellow Hawke plays the cello. | |
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EXTRAPOWER: Attack of Darkforce: Ryo, AKA Gecko Wolf. A cool and suave Henshin Hero who regularly quotes philosophy appropriate to the situation at hand. | |
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Faith of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel is a subversion: while definitely a warrior and often Waxing Lyrical or coming across as a (Pop) Cultured Badass, she is rather Book Dumb, so she'll mess up a famous quote. | |
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Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has O.D, an extremely powerful vampire lord who runs a library in the castle. Being Above Good and Evil, his only interest is gathering knowledge and protecting his library, and so he is polite, helpful, well-spoken, and willing to loan books to anyone who comes asking be they human, demon, friend, or foe. Just don't make the mistake of trying to run off with one of his books. To him that's Beyond Forgiveness and punishable by death, so if you try it he'll introduce you to the "warrior" part of this trope by hurling more at you than the final boss can manage. | |
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In the Aubrey-Maturin series, Captain Jack Aubrey plays the Violin, Stephen Maturin the Cello. Maturin studies Nature and ponders on Evolution before Charles Darwin: Aubrey builds on the astronomy and mathematics he learned to navigate to the extent that the Royal Society sits up and starts paying attention. Both of them are prime exemplars of Officers and Gentlemen. | |
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General Chang, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, is shown to be the smart and sophisticated Klingon, because he tosses out Shakespeare quotes whilst trying to destroy everybody in his path. Star Trek likes to do this in general. Even proudly working-class SCPO Miles O'Brien has various intellectual interests and plays cello at a near-professional level (an informed attribute we never get to witness, but it was his father's dream for him to be a professional musician before a young O'Brien ran off to join Starfleet). Khan Noonien Singh of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is this too. Even in his exile, he has a copy of Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, and King Lear on his bookshelf. It's true, Trek does like its heroes cultured. Note that at the beginning of Star Trek: First Contact, Riker (himself a trombonist) walks in on Picard who's listening to an opera. Riker asks if it's Bizet, Picard tells him it's Berlioz. Also, Picard came from a wine-making family, fenced (as in the modern Olympic sport), and played a wind instrument. Foes as well: A good number of Cardassian officers see themselves as defenders of Cardassian culture and will extol the virtues of their cuisine, arts, family values, etc. ad nauseam. See also Spock, with his Vulcan harp, not to mention all of the human high culture he seems to be an expert in. Like recognizing Johannes Brahms' musical handwriting and Leonardo da Vinci's painting technique on sight (neither of which is necessarily impossible or difficult; it just takes a serious fan)—and that the works he's witnessing weren't on the historical record (again, serious fan). |
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Audiences from the UK can tell William Regal is a working-class man the moment the first word he speaks reaches their ears. Still, he likes to present himself as a most cultured, well-bred Blue Blood to foreign audiences. A most clean wrestler and pride of England. He's not, but the English love him anyway. | |
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Multiple examples from Babylon 5: Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, who was prone to quoting Alfred, Lord Tennyson so often that one of his girlfriends is able to quote it as well just from second-hand exposure. Sinclair's replacement, Captain John Sheridan, is a huge history buff and tends to borrow from various old speeches when making public addresses. Chief Micheal Garibaldi is more of a Pop-Cultured Badass, being a big fan of 20th century Warner Bros. cartoons.note It's worth noting that Babylon 5 was produced by Warner Brothers, making this a Mythology Gag. Ambassador G'Kar is a religious scholar (he is in fact the senior representative of his faith aboard the station, and becomes the senior representative of an entirely new faith later on), in addition to being an opera singer of much-disputed talent. Londo Mollari, much like his archnemesis G'Kar, is an enthusiastic opera singer and fan, as well as a skilled swordsman and pilot. Marcus Cole, a member of the secretive Anla'Shok, can reference Arthurian Legend and William Shakespeare, as well as singing Gilbert and Sullivan songs to pass the time (and annoy his friends). This in addition to his nigh-unmatched talent in melee combat. |
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