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Draft Dodging

476 statements
87 feature instances
75 referencing feature instances

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Draft Dodging	label	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging	page	DraftDodging
Draft Dodging	comment	Your country has Conscription, but you don't want to be in the army. You need to Dodge the Draft. A character (Always Male for obvious reasons) who does this might have different reasons, and find different ways to do it, which may or may not work. He is usually poor or middle-class, as the wealthy usually have easier methods to exempt themselves from serving (or if they can't, to get themselves a cushy position away from the frontlines) while avoiding the negative repercussions in the process.
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Draft Dodging / int_1af6126b	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_1af6126b	comment	Hair: Several of these are mentioned / discussed in the musical.
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Draft Dodging / int_1bda074e	comment	Maus: Mentioned — the grandfather of the artist had 16 of his teeth pulled so he wouldn't have to join the army; the artist's father (the protagonist) would willingly ruin his health with a salted herring-only diet and no sleep and coffee during the last three days before the test. (It was the grandfather who insisted that he'd do this. But the artist's father found doing it was so terrible, he preferred to be drafted the second time around.)
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Draft Dodging / int_1c5be7dc	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_1c5be7dc	comment	The Trojan Cycle: Odysseus tries to get out of fighting the Trojan War (having been told by an oracle that he'd be twenty years away from home if he went) by hooking a donkey and an ox to a plow and sowing a field with salt. King Agamemnon's messenger, Palamedes, calls the bluff by placing Odysseus' infant son in front of the plow; Odysseus proves that he's sane by swerving out of the way. He later gets his revenge by framing Palamedes as a traitor, resulting in his death by stoning, according to others by Odysseus and his good friend Diomedes killing him. Achilles' immortal mother knew that he would either die in inglorious old age or not return from Troy, so she unsuccessfully tried to get him out of serving in the Trojan War by hiding among the daughters of king Lykomedes of Skyros dressed as a woman. The deceit was exposed by Odysseus and Achilles was so ashamed of having participated in this deceit that he joined the army against Troy even though he was no former suitor of Helen and therefore not oath-bound. In other words: If she had done nothing, he wouldn't have had to fight and no need to restore his honor? Nice Job Breaking It, Hero, er, side character. Other versions have the prophecy say Achilles' life would be glorious and short or lengthy and dull (not specifying Troy), at which his mother decided to hide him as a woman, knowing the oathmakers wanted to have Achilles' skill with them at Troy. Odysseus, attempting to root out Achilles, presented a variety of items to the daughters, and Achilles picks up a sword, giving Odysseus proof to be suspicious and reveals who Achilles is. Achilles is presented as being eager to fight, and only hides at the behest of his mother.
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Draft Dodging / int_1ca82882	comment	American Graffiti: While it's not stated outright, the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue hints that this was what Curt ended up doing. (As of 1973, he's "a writer living in Canada".)
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Draft Dodging / int_22d87fc9	comment	That '70s Show: Hyde's father mentions he was a "conscientious Canadian" during the Vietnam War.
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Draft Dodging / int_23445d5f	comment	Weeds: Andy's Army Reserve unit is called up for duty in Iraq. He gets a deferment by enrolling in rabbinical school, as theology students qualify for the chaplain corps.
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Draft Dodging / int_24740992	comment	Downplayed by Elvis Presley, who (backed by Paramount studios) requested and got a sixty-day deferment so he could film his fourth movie, which the studio had already spent a large sum on for pre-production; two weeks after filming completed, he reported for his two years of service.
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Draft Dodging / int_250d745	comment	The Curse of the Blue Figurine: In the eleventh book of the series, The Bell, the Book and the Spellbinder, the book's antagonist Jarmyn Thanatos (under the name Jarmyn Nemo, one of his many aliases) is noted to have paid a substitute to join the Union Army in his place in 1862.
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Draft Dodging / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Abe once claimed to have disguised himself as a woman to avoid military service. While in drag, he joined an all-women's baseball team and the masquerade ended when his wig fell during a game. Then again, given how inconsistent the tales about his past usually are, one must wonder if it really happened. (Especially as in at least one episode it was shown he was a Squad Leader of a group of soldiers in World War II and a bonafide War Hero.)
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Draft Dodging / int_272f78f0	comment	Tigerland: Two soldiers about to depart to Vietnam contemplate jumping from a roof to injure themselves and avoid deployment. At the end of the film a soldier deliberately injures another soldier's eye so that he will be discharged.
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Draft Dodging / int_2878062c	comment	Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (by Spike Milligan): Milligan himself discusses and averts this trope. He really did put his back out a day or two before his call-up date, necessitating medical treatment and bedrest. This delayed his arrival with his regiment. As he puts it, claiming you're unfit for military service because you have a bad back rings as true as the lodger, naked in bed with the landlady, claiming the laundry's late.
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Draft Dodging / int_288232b0	comment	The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers: Fat Freddy gets his notice, and when his poor physical shape and massive drug use don't get him rejected, he sheepishly claims to be gay... and they tell him he can be in General Gaylord's Homosexual Battalion (We're VERY disciplined!). He freaks and bolts out the fire escape.
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Draft Dodging / int_29a0db82	comment	The Good Soldier Å vejk: In this novel, set right before and during World War I, there are a variety of men trying to avoid conscription by appearing ill, resorting to injecting gasoline into their legs and other outlandish methods (all played for comedy). The army has a special "hospital" for malingerers, where they put them on a strict diet, and, among other things, wrap them in wet sheets — even the ones who really have tuberculosis. Subverted by the protagonist, who volunteers, despite suffering from rheumatism so bad that he can't even walk, yet tries to go there on foot, getting completely lost on the way. He meets several draft dodgers during his "anabasis", and can't convince them that he isn't one. He's eventually wheeled to the recruitment office by his charwoman. And then he's promptly sent to the above-mentioned special hospital ward. Later in the book, one-year volunteer Mareknote One-year volunteer — EinjÃ¤hrigfreiwilliger — is his rank in the Austrian military, a designation for a "reserve officer candidate", he was actually drafted. is introduced, who describes his failed attempts to catch rheumatism — he slept in gutters in rain and bathed in icy river — which only hardened him to cold, so he felt perfectly fit after spending the whole night sleeping on snow. He also tried to catch a venereal disease, visiting a brothel daily, but he remained immune. Finally he met a disabled soldier who injected him with something which made him suffer a "real rheumatism" so he can hardly move.
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Draft Dodging / int_2aadfd05	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_2aadfd05	comment	Kate Shugak novels: This is part of the backstory for Bernie Koslowski, who runs The Roadhouse in the Park. He fled to Canada during the Vietnam War to avoid the draft. He kept drifting north and eventually wound up in Alaska. He has an Odd Friendship with Bobby Clarke, a Vietnam vet who lost both legs to a landmine.
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Draft Dodging / int_2b7741f7	comment	American Dreams: Helen uses her travel agent job to help at least one boy escape to Canada, and it's implied she helped others. Had the show continued she would have been arrested for her trouble. The show had also dealt previously with Nathan, member of the Nation of Islam, choosing to serve jail time rather than violate his pacifist beliefs.
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Draft Dodging / int_2df73042	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_2df73042	comment	The Land Mine: Derek's mom suspects her brother, Derek's uncle Ted, did this. According to Derek, when the war began, Ted transferred from being a meat counter in Sainsbury's to working as a storekeeper for a munition's factory, meaning he couldn't be enlisted into the army. It earned him the nickname "The Artful Dodger" from Derek's dad.
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Draft Dodging / int_2f865ae7	comment	Valkyria Chronicles III: Ilmari Gasotto dodged the draft simply because he didn't feel like going. He got drafted into the Nameless for this.
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Draft Dodging / int_30149e39	comment	Stonewall: The Drag Queen is frightened to go to the draft board and say he's gay, so his Straight Gay boyfriend goes in his place. ...in drag.
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Draft Dodging / int_33fdae4d	comment	Mad Men: An episode has Don try to find a way to get his mistress's son out of the Vietnam War draft. The kid used to be exempt because he was in college but lost his exemption due to a stupid anti-war stunt. Unfortunately Don does not have the right connections to accomplish this and it looks like the kid will have to flee to Canada. In the end, one of Don's partners calls in a favour to get the kid into the Air National Guard.
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Draft Dodging / int_3558eaa2	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community: It's mentioned that Pierce moved to Canada to sit out the Vietnam War.
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Draft Dodging / int_361e9686	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_361e9686	comment	Mythos Effect: A turian doctor notices that as the war goes on, there's a rising number of "sports accidents" and other injuries along with teenage pregnancies to either delay or prevent a young turian from going to bootcamp and thus serving in the war against the NEF.
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Draft Dodging / int_3cd90f30	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: Parodied when Buster tries to avoid re-enlistment, coming up with a Hurricane of Excuses to explain why he's medically unfit:
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Draft Dodging / int_455e3038	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: Discussed — Hank's dad, Cotton, lied about his age and enlisted at age 15 so he could fight in World War II and makes fun of Hank by calling him a draft dodger for not serving in the Army. Hank, however, is a subversion — he'd tried to enlist at age 18, but was disqualified due to having a narrow urethra, along with the Vietnam War having been over for some time.
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Draft Dodging / int_48c6734c	comment	Girl, Interrupted: Susanna's friend flees to Canada to avoid being sent to Vietnam. He invites her to come with him, but she declines.
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Draft Dodging / int_50a9ace1	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_50a9ace1	comment	Popeye: Bluto tries this in the 1943 short "Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue", initially pretending to be sick and then to get injured. However, once he and Popeye are attacked by Japanese spies, he changes his mind and enlists.
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Draft Dodging / int_50fc52ad	comment	Sturmtruppen: One arc was based on this and the famous Catch-22 example (see below), with a soldier finding out that the regulations allow to demand discharge for madness... only for the sergeant to dub all his attempts at being proving himself crazy as proof he's an idiot. In the end, he succeeds when he volunteers to dispose of avariated nitroglycerin (much more likely to explode on a whim than normal nitroglycerin, hence the sergeant not actually expecting volunteers and asking him if he was insane when he did)... only for the doctor to point out that, according to the Catch 22 of the regulations, asking to be discharged on grounds of madness is proof you're not crazy, and thus he's stuck with the disposal. He gets the discharge anyway when the fear literally drives him mad, the sergeant delivering it while he's been dragged to the asylum.
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Draft Dodging / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Dead Run", a man who dodged the draft and crossed the border to Canada during the Vietnam War is sent to Hell by the fundamentalist Dispatcher who has recently taken over the Celestial Bureaucracy. In "The Road Less Traveled", Jeff McDowell was drafted in 1971 but went to college in Canada instead of going to Vietnam. His high school girlfriend and future wife Denise went with him. In an Alternate Universe, however, Jeff went to Vietnam and lost both of his legs.
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Draft Dodging / int_54c2ff1e	comment	Famous Taiwanese singer Jay Chou got a medical exemption from the ROC army because of a bad back, which caused a bit of a stir when he later starred in the The Green Hornet as Kato, in which he chiefly performed various martial arts acrobatics. Taiwanese, unlike Koreans, don't take conscription too seriously, so it didn't do much damage to his career.
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Draft Dodging / int_57f8c9bb	comment	Gumball Warrior: Once Bate is given a notice by the army that his wife Ellie was being sent to war, he tries to exploit a ruling about pregnant women not being able to go to war. He lies about Ellie being pregnant to delay the departure notice as much as possible. It doesn't work. And considering what happens after Ellie finally leaves...
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Draft Dodging / int_5ca517dd	comment	"In a Good Causeâ€”"(novelette by Isaac Asimov): Altmayer is jailed on June 17, 2755, because he refused to accept Conscription against the human government of Santanni. He would rather fight against the alien Diaboli.
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Draft Dodging / int_60e46d26	comment	MAD: One issue has a comic satirizing army life. At one point, the protagonist tries to get out of enlisting by pretending to be gay. It doesn't work, because the psychiatrist is gay and sees right through his act.
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Draft Dodging / int_60ff6d80	comment	Although Heart is now associated with the Wilson sisters, the original founders were the brothers Michael and Roger Fisher who decamped to Canada to evade the Vietnam War draft. The Wilson sisters followed them, as they were in relationships with the Fishers. This explains why Heartâ€™s first few records were from Canadian labels. The group returned to the US only after President Carter issued a blanket pardon to all Vietnam War draft evaders.
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Draft Dodging / int_650641c2	comment	The Darwin Awards Web site includes a story of a farmhand who was killed while trying to dodge the draft in WWII. He tried to get a horse to kick him and injure him enough to disqualify him. He succeeded too well and received a lethal injury. Another tale involves a Pole who attempted to get a lion to bite him. It bit off his arm.
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Draft Dodging / int_6517f770	comment	Just Another Band from L.A. by Frank Zappa has a track named "Billy The Mountain", in which Billy the mountain is persecuted for draft evasion. Zappa also recorded "I Don't Want To Get Drafted", a song appearing on "You Are What You Is" (1980) and "The Lost Episodes" (1995).
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Draft Dodging / int_65d07453	comment	Captain America: The First Avenger: Inverted — Steve Rogers gets rejected by the draft board nearly eight times (for a variety of health issues that make it a minor miracle that he'd lived long enough to enlist). They finally let him join the army if he agrees to be part of Dr. Abraham Erskine's experiment... and becomes the super-soldier Captain America as a result.
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Draft Dodging / int_65d5606	comment	Within Lapenko: Shershnyaga tries to evade the draft by pretending to be dead. He does so and even gets to the morgue, but doesn't get drafted anyway because he is a drug addict.
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Draft Dodging / int_6a5cadf7	comment	Foyle's War: An episode features a man with a heart condition who ran a racket where he would turn up at the medical exam of someone who had been called up, claiming to be that person, and fail due to his heart condition, thereby allowing them to avoid conscription.
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Draft Dodging / int_6c2356d2	comment	Gangs of New York: The film follows the build-up to the historical New York City Draft Riots as the major B-Plot of the movie (and the riots themselves eventually interfere with the A-Plot, killing most of the cast as collateral damage). The reason why these riots occurred was that the New York rich paid to be left out of the draft on the Civil War and the poor (including shanghaied immigrants) were unable to do so.
Draft Dodging / int_6c2356d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_6c2356d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Gangs of New York	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_6c2356d2
Draft Dodging / int_6d0308d1	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_6d0308d1	comment	Hearts and Minds (a documentary): One young man has been hiding out from the draft, but ultimately decides, against his mother's advice, to turn himself in and make a public statement.
Draft Dodging / int_6d0308d1	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_6d0308d1	featureConfidence	1.0
Hearts and Minds	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_6d0308d1
Draft Dodging / int_70814599	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: One-shot character Michael, in "1969," gives the time-displaced SG-1 a lift to New York on his way to an unnamed concert (likely Woodstock). During the trip, he and his girlfriend Jenny talk about how he received his draft notice and is considering going to Canada to avoid the war.
Draft Dodging / int_70814599	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_70814599	featureConfidence	1.0
Stargate SG-1	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_70814599
Draft Dodging / int_7460586f	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_7460586f	comment	Archer: Camp Gay Ray Gillette mentions a (straight) friend who pretended to be gay and interested in him to avoid the draft. However, Ray figured out his friend wasn't gay, alerted his draft board and had him sent to Vietnam.
Draft Dodging / int_7460586f	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_7460586f	featureConfidence	1.0
Archer	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_7460586f
Draft Dodging / int_74b4d5bf	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_74b4d5bf	comment	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning: Dean has been drafted to fight in The Vietnam War, but plans to flee to Mexico instead. He ends up regretting it when it turns out facing off against Leatherface is worse than the war, and he and his friends end up dying horribly as a consequence.
Draft Dodging / int_74b4d5bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_74b4d5bf	featureConfidence	1.0
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_74b4d5bf
Draft Dodging / int_78d6f120	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_78d6f120	comment	Destroy All Humans!: In the second game, one of the side missions has you get a draft-dodging hippy to the base so he could serve.
Draft Dodging / int_78d6f120	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_78d6f120	featureConfidence	1.0
Destroy All Humans! (Video Game)	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_78d6f120
Draft Dodging / int_7a4d8a39	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_7a4d8a39	comment	The Things They Carried (by Tim O'Brien, partially based on real events): Played realistically — O'Brien attempts to escape to Canada, waiting in a rented room at a lodge for days to cross the border by canoe. He realizes he doesn't have the courage to do it (how much of the story is actually true is up for debate).
Draft Dodging / int_7a4d8a39	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_7a4d8a39	featureConfidence	1.0
The Things They Carried	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_7a4d8a39
Draft Dodging / int_808b915	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_808b915	comment	A Prayer for Owen Meany: The main character avoids the draft during the Vietnam War by cutting off his index finger. He later leaves for Canada.
Draft Dodging / int_808b915	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_808b915	featureConfidence	1.0
A Prayer for Owen Meany	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_808b915
Draft Dodging / int_810b7744	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_810b7744	comment	Glory Road (by Robert A. Heinlein): The beginning of the novel has an extensive description of various means used to dodge the draft in the United States during the Vietnam War. The protagonist finally chooses to be voluntarily drafted because he has no other viable options.
Draft Dodging / int_810b7744	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_810b7744	featureConfidence	1.0
Glory Road	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_810b7744
Draft Dodging / int_812165e3	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_812165e3	comment	Tropico 4: If the player enacts the Conscription defense edict, the Tropican emigration rate increases as some people leave the country entirely to avoid the draft.
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Draft Dodging / int_812165e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Tropico (Video Game)	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_812165e3
Draft Dodging / int_829b2f67	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_829b2f67	comment	The Sound of Music: In the conclusion, Captain von Trapp and his family escape from Nazi-occupied Austria so that he can avoid serving in the German navy.
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Draft Dodging / int_829b2f67	featureConfidence	1.0
The Sound of Music (Theatre)	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_829b2f67
Draft Dodging / int_830844f6	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_830844f6	comment	Drive, He Said: In the days leading up to his induction physical, Gabriel subjects himself to Sleep Deprivation and takes lots of drugs. When the day comes, he behaves in as disruptive a manner as possible, eventually getting kicked out for brawling with a doctor. Unfortunately for him, the stress ends up driving him insane for real.
Draft Dodging / int_830844f6	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_830844f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Drive, He Said	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_830844f6
Draft Dodging / int_8667f7b0	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_8667f7b0	comment	Dad's Army (a WWII Brit Com): Private Walker (the platoon's Honest John's Dealership) was called up for service but dodged it because of an 'allergy to corned beef'. Unlike Pike's rare blood type, it was strongly implied that this was another of Walker's scams. Variant with Frank Pike, who doesn't want to evade military service, but his medical test reveals a rare blood group. He's excused from active service on the grounds that they'd have nothing to transfuse him with in the event of injury. So he stays in the Home Guard instead.
Draft Dodging / int_8667f7b0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Dad's Army	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_8667f7b0
Draft Dodging / int_86f0b01b	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_86f0b01b	comment	To the Heart of the Storm: In this autobiographical graphic novel by Will Eisner, Eisner's father opts not to have his eye put out (by a doctor!) to avoid service in World War I. Instead, he emigrates to America.
Draft Dodging / int_86f0b01b	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_86f0b01b	featureConfidence	1.0
To the Heart of the Storm (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_86f0b01b
Draft Dodging / int_880cfa15	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_880cfa15	comment	Hogan's Heroes: One episode gives the impression of this, with Klink being on the verge of being involuntarily transferred to the Russian Front. Calling on the Heroes (who want him to stay where he is because his replacement might be competent) for help, they put him on an extreme diet, make him sleep outside for a few days, and then not sleep at all for two days in the hopes of getting him declared unfit for front line service. Unfortunately, despite being in terrible shape, Klink does meet the one criteria they care about: he's still breathing.
Draft Dodging / int_880cfa15	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_880cfa15	featureConfidence	1.0
Hogan's Heroes	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_880cfa15
Draft Dodging / int_8c76835f	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_8c76835f	comment	Oddly Enough: In "With His Head Tucked Underneath His Arm", there are people who avoid being drafted into their kingdom's army because they're physically unfit and others who avoid it because they're too frightened, too smart or simply "too loving"; this last category is the most dangerous, because objecting to the war has been made illegal. The protagonist, Brion, fits the last category and fakes being crippled to avoid serving in a war he doesn't believe in, but ends up revealing his true status and is arrested and executed for it.
Draft Dodging / int_8c76835f	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_8c76835f	featureConfidence	1.0
Oddly Enough	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_8c76835f
Draft Dodging / int_8d814070	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_8d814070	comment	MAS*H: Maxwell Klinger is determined to get a Section 8 (insanity) discharge, and is apparently not the first member of his family to attempt it. His most common method is via crossdressing, but tries other methods too, including making up family emergencies (to the point Col. Blake had a drawer full of them), gaining enough weight to count as disabled, and in one episode building a hang-glider to fly his way out. He also faked many ailments that were getting other soldiers discharged, like having fainting spells. His antics become so infamous that Colonel Potter, when he arrives, is completely unphased by Klinger showing up in his office in a dress and bluntly telling him he's seen a number of other cases and won't be falling for this kind of thing. In one episode, he really does lose his hearing, and is most dismayed when, after it returns, Potter informs him that being deaf would have been his ticket out of the Army. Another time he pretends not to believe that he wasn't in the Army or in Korea. He's so convincing that Colonel Potter starts to fill out the discharge form. Even as Potter asks him for details for the form, Klinger pretends not to know Potter was letting him out of the army. Then the colonel asks for his rank and he replies "Corporal", putting an end to this stunt. Another episode has him offered a discharge for being gay, but he takes offense and refuses, on the grounds that it would make him unemployable in the civilian world because he was gay. At one point, Klinger worries he really is going crazy. He gestures towards the dress he was wearing and asks Sidney Freeman, "Would a sane man dress like this?" Another episode featured a soldier, Corporal "Boots" Miller, who really is nuts. He talks to his shoes and socks and conducts man-on-the-street interviews in the mess tent with a ladle. One night on guard duty, he begins shooting at imaginary gliders with his rifle, which disturbs Klinger so much that he says "If they offered me a Section 8 right now, I'd give it to you!"
Draft Dodging / int_8d814070	featureApplicability	1.0
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MAS*H	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_8d814070
Draft Dodging / int_8fbd67b8	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_8fbd67b8	comment	A French Village: There's a non-military example with many young Frenchmen running off to avoid forced labor in Germany which they're conscripted into.
Draft Dodging / int_8fbd67b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_8fbd67b8	featureConfidence	1.0
A French Village	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_8fbd67b8
Draft Dodging / int_99709ae6	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_99709ae6	comment	Motherland: Fort Salem: Witches who do not answer the enlistment call are hunted down by the military and are either killed or imprisoned, the former of which happened to Scylla's parents.
Draft Dodging / int_99709ae6	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_99709ae6	featureConfidence	1.0
Motherland: Fort Salem	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_99709ae6
Draft Dodging / int_a75b496c	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_a75b496c	comment	A Thousand Acres: One of the triggers for the disasters to come (the book is a Whole-Plot Reference to King Lear) is the reappearance of Jess Clark (the Edmund character) after 13 years away in Canada, having fled the country in 1966 to escape Vietnam.
Draft Dodging / int_a75b496c	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_a75b496c	featureConfidence	1.0
A Thousand Acres	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_a75b496c
Draft Dodging / int_a8ed7d48	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_a8ed7d48	comment	Confessions of Felix Krull (by Thomas Mann): Subverted — the character knows that the doctors are very generous in declaring even sick people fit for the army, so he instead fakes being a sick but enthusiastic guy, who plays down his obvious-but-fake maladies. It works.
Draft Dodging / int_a8ed7d48	featureApplicability	-0.3
Draft Dodging / int_a8ed7d48	featureConfidence	1.0
Confessions Of Felix Krull	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_a8ed7d48
Draft Dodging / int_a9a83b90	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_a9a83b90	comment	X-Men 1970: A group of activists hold people hostage to force the authorities to provide an escape vehicle with which flee to Canada and dodge the Vietnam draft.
Draft Dodging / int_a9a83b90	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_a9a83b90	featureConfidence	1.0
X-Men 1970 (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_a9a83b90
Draft Dodging / int_ad29dc16	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_ad29dc16	comment	All in the Family: A Christmas special has one of Mike's friends, a draft dodger living in Canada, coming down to the Bunkers' place after Mike invites him over for Christmas dinner. One of Archie's friends, who lost his son in Vietnam, also comes over... but understands why Mike's friend went to Canada, tells Archie that he doesn't like the war, and would like to have Christmas dinner with the guy. Archie is the one who feels and looks foolish.
Draft Dodging / int_ad29dc16	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_ad29dc16	featureConfidence	1.0
All in the Family	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_ad29dc16
Draft Dodging / int_b27fdd6d	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_b27fdd6d	comment	Catch-22: Attempted, as the clause Catch-22 makes it so that trying to be declared insane to avoid combat is a lose-lose situation — if you are insane, filing the forms to declare yourself insane proves your sanity. You'll be flying combat missions, deal with it.
Draft Dodging / int_b27fdd6d	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_b27fdd6d	featureConfidence	1.0
Catch-22	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_b27fdd6d
Draft Dodging / int_b36d1943	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_b36d1943	comment	MAS*H: The main characters try to help a local boy avoid the draft. They make him take amphetamines to speed up his heartbeat and fake a heart condition. The doctor sees through this and keeps him for further examination, which reveals the fraud.
Draft Dodging / int_b36d1943	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_b36d1943	featureConfidence	1.0
MAS*H	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_b36d1943
Draft Dodging / int_b83c10f7	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_b83c10f7	comment	More American Graffiti: Terry "The Toad" is drafted by the Army as the film begins, and is shipped off to the Vietnam War. The culmination of his story results in him faking his death by entering an outhouse that he subsequently wires to explode, with his comrade playing it up by claiming the VC wired the building when no one was looking. Terry is last seen heading away from his unit, with a cache of supplies given to him by his friend and plans to head to Europe.
Draft Dodging / int_b83c10f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_b83c10f7	featureConfidence	1.0
More American Graffiti	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_b83c10f7
Draft Dodging / int_b9afed9a	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_b9afed9a	comment	Superman & Batman: Generations: Both Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne's sons are offered deferments but refuse, Joel Kent because he feels like he has to prove himself and Bruce Jr. because he doesn't think it's fair to use his father's wealth and status that way. When the Joker kills Dick Grayson (Batman II), BJ takes the deferment because the world needs a Batman.
Draft Dodging / int_b9afed9a	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_b9afed9a	featureConfidence	1.0
Superman & Batman: Generations (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_b9afed9a
Draft Dodging / int_bcdcf629	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_bcdcf629	comment	Transformers: Animated: Prowl is revealed to have tried this in his backstory, simply by avoiding getting drawn into the war, until he was captured by Warpath (who referred to him as a "draft-dodging peacenik") and forcibly brought to the Cyber-Ninja master Yoketron for training.
Draft Dodging / int_bcdcf629	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_bcdcf629	featureConfidence	1.0
Transformers: Animated	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_bcdcf629
Draft Dodging / int_bd953a4	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_bd953a4	comment	Getting Straight: After dropping out of college, Nick converts to Buddhism to avoid being sent to Vietnam. When that doesn't work, he carries a purse and talks with a lisp, but nobody buys it. He comes back from the recruitment center gleefully crowing about how he defeated the draft once and for all... by joining the Marines. He can't wait to serve his country by firing a machine gun from a helicopter. Harry is shocked by his attitude transplant. Nick soon gets rejected by the Marines for being "constitutionally inferior," thereby dodging the draft without trying.
Draft Dodging / int_bd953a4	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_bd953a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Getting Straight	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_bd953a4
Draft Dodging / int_c26ebc0b	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_c26ebc0b	comment	The dialogue of "Alice's Restaurant" claims that singing this song to the draft board, alone or in groups, will convince the board that you're crazy, gay, and/or part of an organized protest against conscription. Although these days, when Arlo Guthrie sings it live, that bit's been changed to say that singing this song to the draft board, alone or in groups, will prompt the board to make a sarcastic comment about your old-fashioned taste in music. There's a double subversion earlier in the song. When Arlo is called up, he fakes being a murderous lunatic during his psychiatric assessment. It fails — they give him a medal instead. However, he's later rejected when they discover he has a criminal record... for littering.
Draft Dodging / int_c26ebc0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_c26ebc0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Alice's Restaurant (Music)	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_c26ebc0b
Draft Dodging / int_c43d0826	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_c43d0826	comment	The Caine Mutiny: Lt Keith voluntarily signs up for Naval OCS and becomes a Navy officer to avoid being drafted and becoming an Army grunt. During the enlistment process he nearly ends up getting a medical exemption from serving at all over a spinal condition.
Draft Dodging / int_c43d0826	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_c43d0826	featureConfidence	1.0
The Caine Mutiny	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_c43d0826
Draft Dodging / int_c43df4d8	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "Paradise Towers", Pex was called up to fight in the Great Offscreen War, but instead stowed away on the ship carrying the children and old folk to Paradise Towers. He is universally reviled by all of the inhabitants of the Towers.
Draft Dodging / int_c43df4d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_c43df4d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Doctor Who	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_c43df4d8
Draft Dodging / int_c6f7e804	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_c6f7e804	comment	Blake's 7: Vila claims he bribed someone to give him a lower intelligence rating so he wouldn't be drafted as a Federation officer. Avon of course replies that in his case the bribe was unnecessary.
Draft Dodging / int_c6f7e804	featureApplicability	1.0
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Blake's 7	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_c6f7e804
Draft Dodging / int_c75605f9	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_c75605f9	comment	The Great Gatsby: At the beginning of the novel, the narrator Nick Carraway is talking about how he was born into money and mentions that his grandfather was wealthy enough to hire a substitute to serve in the Civil War.
Draft Dodging / int_c75605f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_c75605f9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Great Gatsby	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_c75605f9
Draft Dodging / int_c9afb7d2	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_c9afb7d2	comment	Au revoir les enfants: Joseph points out how Moreau, the exercise instructor and dorm monitor, is making himself scarce when the authorities show up looking for draft dodgers, although it's later suggested that he may be a Resistance fighter or a Jewish refugee in addition to or instead of being a draft dodger.
Draft Dodging / int_c9afb7d2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Au revoir les enfants	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_c9afb7d2
Draft Dodging / int_cac20f89	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_cac20f89	comment	JAG: Several variations of service members trying to get out of the military happen throughout the series, along with a few cases of individuals who really want to join the Navy or Marines but don't qualify (usually because they're too young).
Draft Dodging / int_cac20f89	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_cac20f89	featureConfidence	1.0
JAG	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_cac20f89
Draft Dodging / int_cf3e7a82	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman: The first Bloodsport, Robert DuBois, fled to Canada when drafted into the Vietnam War. His brother Mikey enlisted, pretending to be him, but lost all four limbs in combat. When Robert heard, he went insane with guilt and became obsessed with the war, to the point of delusionally believing he served alongside his brother.
Draft Dodging / int_cf3e7a82	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_cf3e7a82	featureConfidence	1.0
Superman (Franchise)	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_cf3e7a82
Draft Dodging / int_cf91d2ad	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_cf91d2ad	comment	REAMDE: Richard Forthrast's backstory involves him fleeing to Canada to avoid the draft. This earns him the nickname "Dodge," which he doesn't seem to mind. After starting a video game company, he even calls an in-game avatar "Egdod."
Draft Dodging / int_cf91d2ad	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_cf91d2ad	featureConfidence	1.0
REAMDE	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_cf91d2ad
Draft Dodging / int_d148f51d	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_d148f51d	comment	The Looney Tunes Show: In "Semper Lie", Bugs tells a lie to avoid himself from getting in the Army. And Daffy ends up as the one in the service. However, Bugs gets convicted at the end of the episode.
Draft Dodging / int_d148f51d	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_d148f51d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Looney Tunes Show	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_d148f51d
Draft Dodging / int_d2ae793e	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_d2ae793e	comment	Vixen! (1968): Niles is from the USA and moved to Canada to avoid getting drafted into Vietnam and explains he did so because he doesn't feel like risking his life fighting for a country that doesn't treat him fairly on account of the color of his skin. The racist Vixen is unsympathetic and calls him a coward.
Draft Dodging / int_d2ae793e	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_d2ae793e	featureConfidence	1.0
Vixen! (1968)	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_d2ae793e
Draft Dodging / int_d4fe015f	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_d4fe015f	comment	QI: An episode discusses how during WWI, Germans and British propaganda teams bombed each other with leaflets carrying information on how to fake symptoms of tuberculosis so that you can be sent back. Methods including smoking 30 cigarettes per day to get the heart palpitations, raspy voice, and cough; putting toothpaste into your eyes to make them watery and bloodshot, and mixing some smegma into your sputum samples to fool the people doing the biopsy.
Draft Dodging / int_d4fe015f	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_d4fe015f	featureConfidence	1.0
QI	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_d4fe015f
Draft Dodging / int_dd513087	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_dd513087	comment	Draftee Daffy: In this WWII-era Daffy Duck cartoon Daffy is trying to evade "that dope from the draft board". Daffy's approach is simply to run and hide from anyone trying to draft him until the drafts stop. Unfortunately, the person trying to give him the draft card, the aptly named "Little Man from the Draft Board", is about as persistent as Droopy.
Draft Dodging / int_dd513087	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_dd513087	featureConfidence	1.0
Draftee Daffy	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_dd513087
Draft Dodging / int_de6659ec	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_de6659ec	comment	Once Upon a Time: Rumpelstiltskin plays with this — he is drafted and willingly goes to serve, hoping to prove he isn't a coward like his father, but eventually learns from a prophecy that his actions in the war will leave his son fatherless. He thus escapes being sent into battle by breaking his own leg and getting a medical discharge, which his wife deems an act of cowardice; years later, this leads to his being separated from his son, per the prophecy.
Draft Dodging / int_de6659ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Draft Dodging / int_de6659ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Once Upon a Time	hasFeature	Draft Dodging / int_de6659ec
Draft Dodging / int_dee6ab5b	type	Draft Dodging
Draft Dodging / int_dee6ab5b	comment	Serge Storms: In Orange Crush, the Lt Governor of Florida was revealed to have never registered for the draft. To avoid the political fallout of him being seen as a draft dodger (even though there was no war in which the government was actually drafting people to fight in at the time), his handlers arrange for him to join the National Guard, intending to file paperwork claiming that he had an injury that prevented him from serving in the field. Unfortunately, said paperwork had not been filed by the time his unit was called up and sent to Kosovo.
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Draft Dodging / int_e40353d2	comment	Sergeant York: A movie about... well, Sergeant York and how he was a pacifist due to his interpretation of the Bible, and so attempted to resist being drafted. But he gets drafted anyway, as the church he followed was so remote that the draft board couldn't prove it even existed for the purposes of a Conscientious Objector exemption. As a country boy from the Appalachian Mountains, he was extremely effective at killing Germans and became a famous American hero, and the most decorated American soldier of WWI.
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Draft Dodging / int_e5170c7d	comment	When Zachary Beaver Came To Town: Ferris is infamous around town for "accidentally" shooting himself in the leg right before reporting to his draft board during The Korean War.
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Draft Dodging / int_e936047a	comment	Hey Arnold!: Discussed in the Veteran's Day special. While recounting his experiences during The Vietnam War, Gerald's father explains how the war was very unpopular with the American public and several draftees fled to Canada to avoid serving. While he considered doing it himself, he ultimately decided it was his duty as an American citizen to serve whether he agreed with the war or not.
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Draft Dodging / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: Neelix's backstory included this, as seen in "Jetrel". He was afraid to die in the war (though he tried to convince himself he was a conscientious objector) between the Talaxians and the Haakonians, and went into hiding to avoid the Talaxian draft. Then the Haakonians used a WMD on Talax's inhabited moon Rinax, an event that was basically Hiroshima Recycled In Space. Talax surrendered the next day.
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Draft Dodging / int_f1c7abd4	comment	Authors of Our Own Fate: In order to avoid being sent to the frontlines during the War (which ended with him getting paralyzed for several months in the original timeline), Matthew manages to meet General Allen Lothrop, who is a member of the War Economic Board, and gets himself and Thomas jobs as part of the war effort to inspect potential swindlers. Unfortunately, this causes a rift between him and Robert (who thinks War Is Glorious and doesn't realize the horrors that are about to be unleashed in Europe) that leads to Matthew and Robert's daughters leaving Downton Abbey.
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Draft Dodging / int_fa7099e2	comment	Across the Universe (2007) has Max comically opting for "all of the above". He swallows some cotton before he goes in for his physical exam when he is drafted, with the idea that it'll come up as a fuzzy spot on his X-ray. They don't even do an X-ray. Other options suggested are pretending to be a sociopath so he'll flunk a psych screening, claiming to be a pedophile, and eating lots of beets the night before the test so it looks like he's peeing blood. All of the above except going to Canada. He doesn't want to go there at all.
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